MADRID, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The cameras kept rolling as the Civil Guard officer in a tricorn hat strode into the chamber of Spain's parliament brandishing a pistol at 6:23 p.m. on February 23, 1981, then ordered its lawmakers to be silent and get on the floor.
Moments later he was joined by more rebel Civil Guards holding machine guns. As shots were fired in the air, the lawmakers crouched in terror behind their seats.
