<human>:  What year did Idi Amin become president of Uganda?
<bot>: Idi Amin became president of Uganda in 1971. He was a military leader who seized power in a coup d'etat and ruled Uganda for the next 24 years. During his rule, he was responsible for the deaths of more than 300,000 people. He was deposed in 1979 and died in exile in Saudi Arabia in 2003.