Pequot War | ... and sold into slavery in the 17th century, notably in the aftermaths of the | , and King Philip's War, but some are have believed to come from as far aw ... |
Daugavpils Ghetto | ... 1, and was occupied by the Nazis between 1941–44. The Nazis established the | where the town's Jews were forced to live. During the Cold War it was the ... |
World Trade Center bombing | ... international terrorists, possibly the same group that had carried out the | two years earlier. The FBI also thought that a drug cartel might have been ... |
Nalanda | ... was in the same script used in the ancient Buddhist centres of learning in | and Vikramashila. There is also a small Porites stupa in the Museum where ... |
invasion by Indonesia | ... uent internal unrest and fear of the communist Fretilin party encouraged an | , who opposed the concept of an independent East Timor. In 1975, East Timo ... |
shooting rampage at the same airport | ... al Airport in Lod, Israel. The PFLP and the Japanese Red Army carried out a | , killing twenty-four civilians. Israel later claimed that the assassinati ... |
Bloody Sunday | ... the massacre, but admits he wouldn't have granted the people's requests. ( | |
Operation Vistula | ... oviet Union as well as Ukrainians from southern Poland, expelled throughout | in 1947, were settled in the southern part of East Prussia, now the Polish ... |
Mountain Meadows massacre | A controversial issue is the extent of Young's involvement in the | , which took place in Washington County in 1857. Leonard J. Arrington repo ... |
King David Hotel bombing | ... General in Jerusalem, wrote in response to a pro-Irgun commemoration of the | : "We do not think that it is right for an act of terrorism, which led to ... |
Athens Polytechnic uprising | ... United States-backed Regime of the Colonels. The brutal suppression of the | on 17 November 1973 sent shockwaves through the regime, and a counter-coup ... |
Rwandan Genocide | ... recent conflict in what is now the DRC stems from the turmoil following the | of 1994, which then led to the Great Lakes refugee crisis. Within the larg ... |
Operation Blue Star | ... -militancy operations by the Indian security forces. In one such operation, | (June 1984), the Indian Army led by the Sikh General Kuldip Singh Brar for ... |
Raid on Deerfield | ... adien attacks against New England were the Siege of Pemaquid (1696) and the | (1704) |
Greysteel massacre | ... by the group include the Milltown massacre, the Castlerock killings and the | . The UDA/UFF declared a in 1994, although sporadic attacks continued unti ... |
a killing rampage | ... ennedy flew to Bangladesh and delivered a speech at Dhaka University, where | had begun a year earlier |
Taos Revolt | ... 47, Hispanics and American Indians in Taos staged a rebellion, known as the | , in which the newly appointed U.S. Governor, Charles Bent, was killed. Ne ... |
Grand Mosque Seizure | ... up were rushed to assist Saudi forces in Mecca to lead the operation of the | . In 1991 Pakistan got involved with the Gulf War and sent 5,000 troops as ... |
Babi Yar | ... most notorious massacre of Jews in the Soviet Union was at a ravine called | outside Kiev, where 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation on Septe ... |
Battle of the Wabash | ... t. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory. The engagement, known as the | or as St. Clair's Defeat, was the crowning achievement of Blue Jacket's mi ... |
Princes in the Tower | ... uke of York, is unknown. Speculation on the subject has given rise to the " | " mystery |
Battle of Mohács | After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the | in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria became King of Bohemia and the coun ... |
Indian Island | ... native peoples or at least maintain peace. A tragic slaughter took place on | in the spring of 1860, committed by a group of locals, primarily Eureka bu ... |
Tibetan uprising | ... ed to India, following the 14th Dalai Lama in 1959 after the failure of his | . This wave lasted until the 1960s, and another wave followed when Tibet w ... |
Malmedy massacre trial | ... by the same unit on the same day and following days, was the subject of the | , part of the Dachau Trials of 1946. The trials were the focus of some con ... |
Parsley Massacre | ... left in 1934, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo – in an event known as the | – ordered his Army to kill Haitians living on the Dominican side of the bo ... |
murder in April | ... rite Organization. His death, from his wounds, the following month, and the | of that year of twenty-seven Palestinians and Lebanese travelling on bus f ... |
King David Hotel bombing | ... wish Resistance Movement, the Irgun was asked to speed up the plans for the | of July 22. The hotel was where the documents were located, the base for t ... |
Pequot War | ... 1637 the Montauketts sided for their own protection with the English in the | in Connecticut. In the aftermath the Montauketts were to sell Gardiners Is ... |
Armenian Genocide | ... evastated during World War I by Ottoman troops in the opening phases of the | . The regional administrator, Jevdet Bey, was reported to have said that " ... |
Operation Blue Star | Immediately after | , authorities were unprepared for how quickly extremism spread and gained ... |
Massacre of the Latins | ... sading movement to their own purposes as a form of repayment. Following the | of Constantinople in 1182, the ruling Angelos dynasty had expelled the Ven ... |
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | ... 1 submachine guns, 30 rifles, 50 pistols, and over 400 grenades. During the | in 1943, AK units tried twice to blow up the ghetto wall, carried out hold ... |
Waco incident | ... iately noticed that the bombing took place on the second anniversary of the | . Many initial news stories hypothesized the attack had been undertaken by ... |
Deir Yassin massacre | ... re the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the | , carried out together with Lehi on 9 April 1948 |
Holocaust | ... he media, especially since German law forbids denial or minimization of the | . However, prosecutors said that it was legal to call the bombing a holoca ... |
Rwandan Genocide | Hundreds of thousands of people fled from the | in 1994 into neighboring countries. Thousands of refugees from deteriorati ... |
Black September crisis | ... part of Jordan and wanted it restored to his kingdom. Moreover, during the | of 1970, a near civil war had broken out between the PLO and the Jordanian ... |
Greek genocide | ... lion) had already been driven out by the time the agreement was signed. The | , contemporaneous with the failed Greek Asia Minor Campaign, was part of t ... |
Sack of Magdeburg | ... he became even more forceful leading to infamies by his armies such as the | |
Intelligenzaktion | ... thnic German organisation called Selbstschutz carried out executions during | alongside operational groups of German military and police, in addition to ... |
Chenogne massacre | ... e of the American forces killed German prisoners in retaliation—e.g. in the | , on January 1, 1945 |
Sack of Magdeburg | ... torians directly blame Ferdinand for the large civilian loss of life in the | in 1631: he had instructed Tilly to enforce the edict of Restitution upon ... |
Dakota War of 1862 | ... the promises of the treaty were not kept. The Dakota became angered and the | began in Cottonwood County. In August 1862 the Dakota attacked the German ... |
Indonesia invaded the territory | Nine days later, | declaring it Indonesia's 27th province Timor Timur in 1976. The United Nat ... |
Massacre of Glencoe | ... ng near the Glen Coe valley is quite historic as it is near the site of the | in the 1690s, in which MacDonalds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbe ... |
Black War | ... attacks against British soldiers in Tasmania during the period known as the | , was a Plangermaireener (one of the 3 bands) elder, and in 1835 became th ... |
Wormhoudt massacre | ... taken Wormhout, only ten miles from Dunkirk. They were responsible for the | , when the II Battalion killed 80 British prisoners of war |
Dubingiai | ... ish and Lithuanian civilians in June 1944 in the Glitiškės (Glinciszki) and | (Dubinki) villages |
Rwandan Genocide | ... , the Tutsi army proceeded to round up thousands of Hutu and kill them. The | in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye’s successor Cyprien Ntaryamira, ... |
Hungerford massacre | ... est to be speculative, at worse outright media fabrication, relating to the | and the murder of James Bulger (the 1991 film Child's Play 3 was held up a ... |
Tuscarora War | ... action by James Moore against the Tuscaroras of North Carolina (part of the | begun in 1711), many of them fled north as refugees to join their linguist ... |
North-West Rebellion | Regina attained national prominence in 1885 during the | when troops were mostly able to be transported by train on the CPR from ea ... |
bombing of the King David Hotel | Two of the operations for which the Irgun is best known are the | in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre, carried out tog ... |
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | ... d his personal experience (he was in Walsingham's house in Paris during the | ), Sidney was a keenly militant Protestant. In the 1570s, he had persuaded ... |
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | The | was the Jewish insurgency that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto from 19 Apri ... |
Ratcliff Highway murders | In 1811, the horrific | took place nearby at The Highway and Wapping Lane. accessed 21 January 200 |
Princes in the Tower | ... in the 16th century, as it was believed to be the site of the murder of the | . Between 1339 and 1341, a gatehouse was built into the curtain wall betwe ... |
Holocaust | ... uropean Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the | . According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ... |
Le Paradis massacre | ... e time another unit from the Totenkopf, the 14 Company, was involved in the | , where 99 men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment were machinegu ... |
Massacre of Vassy | ... was overtaken by events, as it was not formally registered until after the | on 1 March 1562, which triggered the first of the French Wars of Religion |
Armenian Genocide | ... Armenian and Caucasian Tatar (nowadays Azerbaijanis) population. After the | , many refugees from Western Armenia (nowadays Turkey, then Ottoman Empire ... |
1993 World Trade Center bombing | ... "Reflecting Absence" honors the victims of the September 11 attacks and the | . The memorial, designed by Peter Walker and Israeli-American architect Mi ... |
Black September | ... o British subjects abroad, such as the advice to evacuate Jordan during the | incidents of September 1970. These facilities were privatised in 1997 as M ... |
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | ... a week of the assassination of Henry, stilling Protestant fears of another | . The subsidies had been reduced by degrees, as Henry gained more secure c ... |
Great Kantō Earthquake | ... again in the emergency crisis "earthquake cabinet" (1923–24) following the | . He showed leadership in the restoration of Tokyo which had been heavily ... |
1993 World Trade Center bombing | ... en undertaken by Islamic terrorists, such as those who had masterminded the | . Some responded to these reports by attacking Muslims and people of Arab ... |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army | ... timated at less than 100,000. In 1943–1944, Ukrainian nationalists (OUN and | ) massacred tens of thousands of Poles in Volhynia and Galicia |
St Jean Bosco massacre | ... ver the military. The September 1988 Haitian coup d'état followed after the | brought to the fore the increasing prominence of former Tontons Macoutes, ... |
1860 massacre | In a coordinated | , significant numbers of Wiyot people were killed at several locations in ... |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | ... as shocked to witness the government's massacre of unarmed civilians at the | . He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled "China Won't Eve ... |
attacked Jews in the area | ... g in seven Arabs killed, and dozens injured. In response, some Arab workers | , killing 41. This sparked a Haganah response in Balad al-Sheykh, which re ... |
Peterloo Massacre | ... a general disease in our society". He also opposed an enquiry into the 1819 | in which eleven protesters were killed at a political rally demanding refo ... |
Bloody Sunday | ... ate peace so he could concentrate on internal matters after the disaster of | on January 22, 1905 |
Greek genocide | ... of the distinctive Pontic dialect came to Greece from Asia Minor after the | and constitute a sizable group |
Galician slaughter | ... citing the villagers against noble-dominated insurgent units; it led to the | , a violent anti-feudal rebellion, beyond the intended scope of the provoc ... |
Maillé | ... SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, | , Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne; the Soviet village of Kortelisy ... |
Srebrenica massacre | ... afe areas for Muslim populations of eastern Bosnia but in cases such as the | , the peacekeeping troops failed to protect the safe areas resulting in th ... |
Armenian Genocide | ... ital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia as thousands of survivors of the | settled in the area. The city expanded rapidly during the 20th century as ... |
Przebraże Defence | ... Polish villages, leading to the formation of Polish self-defence units (ex. | ) and fights between Armia Krajowa and OUN. The Germans encouraged both si ... |
1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary | In 1957, disillusioned by the | , Calvino left the Italian Communist Party. In his letter of resignation p ... |
Damour | ... ar camp in east Beirut. The PLO and LNM retaliated by attacking the town of | , a Phalangist stronghold. Over 330 people were killed and many more wound ... |
Pequot War | ... n the colonists and the natives meant that clashes were inevitable, and the | was the first major conflict the colony engaged in. Winthrop sat on the co ... |
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ... tter. He thought he had learned an important lesson from the failing of the | , believing the Kremlin would allow him a free hand in pursuing domestic r ... |
including her elite | ... eir lives". In Poland, which had suffered the loss of six million citizens, | and almost an entire Jewish population due to the Holocaust and the concep ... |
operation | ... nside the temple. She was killed on 31 October 1984 in retaliation for this | by her bodyguards |
Ponary massacre | ... lice, who had already murdered hundreds of Polish civilians since 1941 (see | ) |
Babi Yar | ... n the Wannsee Villa on January 20, 1942. It occurred very shortly after the | massacre was carried out and the conference was chaired by Reinhard Heydri ... |
Holocaust | ... father is a photographer who had emigrated from Hungary, a survivor of the | . She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The H ... |
Operation Tannenberg | ... pen were reactivated and sent into Poland to exterminate the Polish elite ( | , AB-Aktion), so that there would be no leadership to form a resistance to ... |
Deir Yassin massacre | The | was carried out in a village west of Jerusalem that had signed a non-belli ... |
Midsomer Murders | ... s for The Day the Earth Stood Still and as the theme tune for the ITV drama | . Theremins are also used in concert music (especially avant-garde and 20t ... |
Princes in the Tower | ... n for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV, one of the | . The series follows the exploits of Richard IV's unfavoured second son Ed ... |
Kent State shootings | ... ring the early 1970s. One of the best-known anti-war demonstrations was the | . In 1970, university students were protesting the war and the draft. Riot ... |
Kent State shootings | ... t appearance in print, as it happened, occurred during the same week as the | . Groovy remained with the strip, off and on until his death in 1984 (at t ... |
Malmedy massacre trial | ... Magritte, René - Maingain, Olivier - Maldegem - Malle - Malmedy massacre - | - Man Bites Dog - Manifesto for Walloon culture - Manneken Pis - Marollen ... |
Marzabotto massacre | ... was involved in the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre in August 1944, and the | between September and October 1944 |
Holocaust | ... cuments the heritage of the American Western frontier. With remnants of the | and artifacts relevant to Judaism, the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art ... |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | The death of pro-reform official Hu Yaobang helped to spark the | , during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking ... |
Columbine High School massacre | ... ed to publish the story "Shoot", about high school shootings, following the | , despite the fact it had been written and submitted prior to the event. T ... |
Battle of Mohács | With the death of King Louis II of Bohemia at the | , Silesia was inherited by Ferdinand I, placing Opole under the sovereignt ... |
Nanking Massacre | ... Japanese nationalists, the continued dispute over Japan's atrocities in the | , and the resurgence of nationalism and militarism in Japan |
Operation Blue Star | ... ce. She was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for ordering | |
Chenogne massacre | ... ght." A possible example of a related large massacre against Germans is the | . At the Saar river the 90th Infantry Division "murdered Waffen-SS prisone ... |
Soviet invasion of Hungary | ... Party. He left the party in 1956, with many other intellectuals, after the | when one of his reports was rejected |
Midsomer Murders | ... lled by Mata Hairi. The seventh episode of the 2007 season of the TV series | , "They Seek Him Here", centers around a shooting of a remake of The Scarl ... |
Kent State shootings | ... ecame a partisan political organization following the Spock case. After the | in 1970, ACLU leaders took another step towards politics by passing a reso ... |
Indian Creek massacre | ... not directly related to Black Hawk's objectives. One such incident was the | . In the spring of 1832, Potawatomis living along Indian Creek were upset ... |
Battle of Mohács | In 1526, following the | , in which Ferdinand's brother-in-law Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemi ... |
Council House Fight | ... ries of conflicts between the Texas Rangers and the Comanches, known as the | and the Battle of Plum Creek, finally pushed the Comanches westward, mostl ... |
Battle of Mohács | ... es against Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire in the disastrous | . During the retreat, the nineteen-year-old king died in a marsh. As Louis ... |
Holocaust | ... 5, Hitchcock served as "treatment advisor" (in effect, a film editor) for a | documentary produced by the British Army. The film, which recorded the lib ... |
Wonderland murders | ... the end of his life, Holmes attracted notoriety for his involvement in the | in 1981, and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS |
Wola massacre | ... d almost non-stop atrocities during this period, in particular the four-day | |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army | | (UPA) of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist force and the political a ... |
Mudan Incident of 1871 | In the | , an Okinawan ship was wrecked on the southern tip of Taiwan and 54 crewme ... |
Princes in the Tower | ... arm. Other ghosts include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole, and the | . In January 1816, a sentry on guard outside the Jewel House claimed to ha ... |
Malmedy massacre trial | In what came to be called the " | ", which concerned all of the war crimes attributed to Kampfgruppe Peiper ... |
Princes in the Tower | ... medieval period. In the late 15th century the castle was the prison of the | . Under the Tudors, the Tower became used less as a royal residence, and d ... |
Coastal Road massacre | ... inst Israel grew during the late 1970s. One of the most severe—known as the | —occurred on 11 March 1978. A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters lande ... |
Armenian Genocide | ... Armenian Martyrs Monument at Bicknell Park commemorating the victims of the | by the Ottoman Turks is the only such monument on public property in the w ... |
Ardeatine massacre | ... several atrocities against Italian civilians in occupied zones, such as the | and the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre. On June 4, 1944, the German occupa ... |
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | ... defining characteristic of the time, illustrated at its most intense in the | of August 1572, when the Roman Catholic party annihilated between 30,000 a ... |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army | ... inst atrocities committed by non-German military organizations, such as the | and the Lithuanian Security Police. Due to its ties with the Polish govern ... |
Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre | ... e atrocities it committed than its fighting ability: it was involved in the | in August 1944, and the Marzabotto massacre between September and October ... |
Constantinople Pogrom | ... after the 1923 exchange, has now dwindled to a few thousand, after the 1955 | and other state sponsored violence and discrimination. This effectively en ... |
1983 Beirut barracks bombing | ... d President Reagan for pulling out the troops too late; in the interim, the | killed hundreds. McCain won re-election to the House easily in 1984, and g ... |
Greysteel massacre | ... wo Protestants were killed and nineteen wounded in what became known as the | . The UFF claimed the attack was in retaliation to the IRA's Shankill Road ... |
North-West Rebellion | ... imself. It was the single worst multiple killing of RCMP officers since the | . One of the four Mounties killed had been on the job for only 17 days. Th ... |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | ... onsiders a potential threat to "social stability", as was the case with the | . The Communist Party has had mixed success in controlling information: a ... |
two sons | ... ile his grandfather and another brother were executed for treason. Edward's | were imprisoned and disappeared (presumed killed) within a year of Edward' ... |
massacre | ... he Tel al-Zaatar camp fell to the Christians after a six-month siege, and a | followed in which thousands of Palestinians were killed. Arafat and Abu Ji ... |
Waco Siege | ... Investigation (FBI) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the | —a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which ... |
My Lai Massacre | ... to limit further increases in US troop numbers in Vietnam. When news of the | broke, Westmoreland resisted pressure from the Nixon administration for a ... |
1929 Hebron massacre | ... ish tenants, with a few dozen within the city around the synagogues. In the | , Arab rioters slaughtered some 64 to 67 Jewish men, women and children an ... |
Harrying of the North | In the | , William the Conqueror's brutal conquest and subjugation of the North of ... |
the fate of the Jewish population | ... e information he gathered proved crucial in convincing Western Allies about | . In 1942, AK sent Jan Karski on a secret mission to personally carry the ... |
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | ... against the Nazis in occupied Europe. The largest of these revolts was the | where an armed underground organization fought, comprising Betar, Hatzohar ... |
Holocaust | During the | , Betar members revolted numerous times against the Nazis in occupied Euro ... |
Hungarian Uprising | ... oviet communist regime in the Eastern Bloc, which had quelled both the 1956 | and the 1968 Prague Spring with Soviet-led invasions |
Waco Siege | During the | , the FBI and ATF conducted psychological operations on the men, women and ... |
Operation Vistula | ... d, resettling the remaining 150,000 to the former German territories during | . Most of the Italians were expelled from post war Yugoslavia In Czechoslo ... |
Jallianwala Bagh massacre | ... d to British attacks on demonstrators, culminating on 13 April 1919, in the | (also known as the Amritsar Massacre) in Amritsar, Punjab. The British mil ... |
Armenian Genocide | ... er Armenian communities that were destroyed by the Ottoman Turks during the | . The districts of Arabkir, Malatya-Sebastia and Nork Marash, for example, ... |
Holocaust | ... ral banks of occupied countries. 581,000 francs of "Melmer" gold taken from | victims in eastern Europe was sold to Swiss banks. In total, trade between ... |
Tulle murders | ... ere ordered north to the landing beaches and on 9 June were involved in the | , where 99 men were murdered. The next day they reached Oradour-sur-Glane ... |
Columbine massacre | ... Is Your Time" (about Cassie Bernall, one of the students killed during the | ). In the music video for this song, the beginning shows a real video of B ... |
Waco Siege | ... deral government and angered by what he perceived as its mishandling of the | (1993) and the Ruby Ridge incident (1992), McVeigh timed his attack to coi ... |
Chenogne massacre | ... f Quaregnon - Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne - Château d'Enghien (Belgium) - | - Chief of Defence (Belgium) - Chiro - Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD ... |
Thielbek | ... and 1,770 gliders sent across the river. On 3 May 1945, the Cap Arcona, the | and the Deutschland were sunk in four separate attacks by RAF Hawker Typho ... |
Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre | ... Italian civilians in occupied zones, such as the Ardeatine massacre and the | . On June 4, 1944, the German occupation of Rome came to an end as the All ... |
AB-Aktion | ... and sent into Poland to exterminate the Polish elite (Operation Tannenberg, | ), so that there would be no leadership to form a resistance to German occ ... |
Distomo massacre | ... duties and anti-partisan operations. On 10 June they became involved in the | , when over a period of two hours they went door to door and massacred Gre ... |
Malmedy massacre trial | The end of the war saw a number of war crime trials, including the | . The counts of indictment related to the massacre of more than 300 Americ ... |
Siege of Cawnpore | ... ary disasters (the First Anglo-Afghan War, Charge of the Light Brigade, the | , Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Isandlwana), always coming out w ... |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 | ... Western nations suffered for a time following the military crackdown on the | , although in recent years China has improved its diplomatic links with th ... |
Glitiškės | ... ted in the massacres of Polish and Lithuanian civilians in June 1944 in the | (Glinciszki) and Dubingiai (Dubinki) villages |
Princes in the Tower | ... ffectively ended at Tewkesbury in 1471, Richard III's alleged murder of the | , coupled with his invalidation by Act of Parliament, subsequently repeale ... |
Hungarian Revolution | c.The Soviet leadership, which had previously ordered the | and the Prague Spring crushed, now became worried about the demoralization ... |
Battle of Wyoming | The Wyoming Monument marks the gravesite of victims of the July 1778 | . The battle was named for the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, of which th ... |
Armenian Genocide | ... ast majority of their populations. Armenians immigrated to France after the | of 1915. The majority of immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s came from south ... |
Battle of Mohács | ... om of Hungary adopted Protestantism during the 16th century. After the 1526 | the Hungarian people were disillusioned by the ability of the government t ... |
Appin Murder | ... mes of the Glens - who has been arrested and charged with complicity in the | . David makes a statement to a lawyer, and goes on to meet Lord Prestongra ... |
tragic slaughter | ... litary officials to assist the native peoples or at least maintain peace. A | took place on Indian Island in the spring of 1860, committed by a group of ... |
Hello Kitty murder | In 1999, a brutal murder known as the | took place in Hong Kong. The popular name of the case derives from the fac ... |
Operation Vistula | ... iet Union), and to the new territories in northern and western Poland under | . Because of the changing borders and of mass movements of people of vario ... |
Ochota massacre | ... Polish civilians were killed by the RONA SS men during the events known as | ; many victims were also raped. In following weeks, the RONA unit was move ... |
Moscow theater hostage crisis | ... derivative), as a precursor to an assault on Chechen terrorists, ending the | . All 42 of the terrorists and 120 of the hostages were killed during the ... |
General elections in November | ... 1987, a new constitution was overwhelmingly approved by Haiti's population. | were aborted after dozens of inhabitants were shot in the capital by soldi ... |
Armenian Genocide | The event known as the | is considered by some to have been a population transfer |
Great Kantō Earthquake | His death came immediately before the | of 1923, and therefore Japan was without a prime minister during that disa ... |
Eric Hainstock | ... the school, was killed in the attack after a recently expelled 9th grader, | , fired a handgun at him. A janitor had already taken a shotgun away from ... |
Indian massacre of 1622 | ... ring the "starving time" in 1609 and the Anglo-Powhatan Wars, including the | , which fostered the colonists' negative view of all tribes. By 1624, only ... |
Bar Kokhba revolt | ... on bar Kokhba (died A.D. 135) was the Jewish leader of what is known as the | against the Roman Empire in 132 CE, establishing an independent Jewish sta ... |
Bloody Sunday | ... ion in Northern Ireland continued to deteriorate during Lynch's first term. | (30 January 1972), saw the killing of 14 unarmed civilians by British para ... |
Princes in the Tower | Shortly after the death of Edward IV in 1483, the notorious murder of the | is traditionally believed to have taken place. The incident is one of the ... |
Bloody Sunday | ... quad's activities peaked with the killing of 14 British agents in Dublin on | in 1920 |
Oradour-sur-Glane | ... in the Tulle murders, where 99 men were murdered. The next day they reached | and massacred 642 French civilians |
Cleveland School massacre | ... e event received national news coverage and is sometimes referred to as the | |
Dunmore's War | Blue Jacket participated in | and the American Revolutionary War (allied with the British), always attem ... |
Operation Vistula | ... oluntarily (between 1944 and 1945). The second event occurred in 1947 under | |
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | ... eing liquidated by the Nazi SS units, in 1943 the city was the scene of the | . The eliminations of the ghettos took place in Polish cities and uprising ... |
1923 Great Kantō earthquake | ... imed his design could withstand earthquakes with twice the intensity of the | or typhoons with wind speeds of up to |
228 Incident | ... f China (CPC) in September 1946, apparently briefly. He participated in the | during this time. According to Wu Ketai, who inducted Lee into the Communi ... |
New York Draft Riots | ... esentment against Lincoln's war policies, culminating in the three-day long | of July 1863, one of the worst incidents of civil disorder in American his ... |