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"Polish death camp" controversy
The "Polish death camp" controversy concerns the misleading phrase for Nazi German camps in occupied Poland, its origins, Polish diplomatic responses, the 2018 Holocaust Law, and related court cases.
13 Hours (book)
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi (2014), by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team, recounts the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack from six US security contractors' perspective, including the disputed CIA stand-down order.
13 July 2024 al-Mawasi attack
13 July 2024 al-Mawasi attack: Israeli airstrikes on a designated safe zone near al-Nas Junction, west of Khan Younis, targeting Mohammed Deif and Rafa Salama; Gaza health authorities reported 90 dead, Airwars up to 150 civilians killed.
13 May incident
The 13 May incident, Peristiwa 13 Mei or 五一三事件, was the 1969 racial riot in Kuala Lumpur after Malaysia's general election, causing 196 official deaths, emergency rule under MAGERAN, and the New Economic Policy.
13 Vendémiaire
13 Vendémiaire (5 October 1795), royalist Paris insurrection against the National Convention's Two-thirds Law, crushed by Napoleon Bonaparte's grapeshot near Saint-Roch; about 300 rebels killed, launching his career.
14th of June Movement
The 14th of June Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Revolucionario 14 de Junio, or 14J) was a clandestine left-wing Dominican movement, founded in 1960 to oppose Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship.
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), also called the Galicia Division or Halychyna, was a Waffen-SS division of mostly Ukrainian volunteers formed 28 April 1943, implicated in the Huta Pieniacka massacre, renamed the 1st Ukrainian Division in 1945.
1522 Santo Domingo slave revolt
The 1522 Santo Domingo slave revolt, an uprising of enslaved Africans on Diego Colón's Hispaniola sugar estate in 1521, was the first documented slave rebellion in the Americas.
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
16th Street Baptist Church bombing: KKK dynamite attack in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, killing Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collins; three Klansmen were later convicted.
1733 slave insurrection on St. John
The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John began on November 23, 1733, when enslaved Akwamu Africans seized the Danish fort at Coral Bay and held the island for months.
1804 Haiti massacre
The 1804 Haiti massacre was the killing of most of Haiti's remaining white French population, ordered by Jean-Jacques Dessalines in early 1804 after Haiti declared independence from France.
1838 Mormon War
The 1838 Mormon War, also called the Missouri Mormon War, was a conflict in Missouri between Latter-day Saints and other settlers, ending in their expulsion.
1842 retreat from Kabul
The 1842 retreat from Kabul, known as Elphinstone's retreat, was the destruction of a British and East India Company column that withdrew from Kabul to Jalalabad in mid-January 1842.
1843 Revolution
The 1843 Revolution was the movement that overthrew Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer after 25 years in power, producing the Constitution of 1843 and the presidency of Charles Rivière Hérard.
1872 Cavite mutiny
1872 Cavite mutiny: a failed January 1872 rising by native artillery troops and marines at Fort San Felipe and the Cavite naval arsenal, whose repression led to the Gomburza executions.
1878 New Caledonian uprising
The 1878 New Caledonian uprising was a large Kanak revolt against French colonial rule in New Caledonia, launched in June 1878 and led by Grand Chief Ataï.
1907 Romanian peasants' revolt
The 1907 Romanian peasants' revolt (Răscoala din 1907) was a countrywide peasant uprising against exploitative land leases, begun at Flămânzi in February 1907 and crushed by the army by April.
1911 Revolution
The 1911 Revolution (Xinhai Geming, 辛亥革命) was the nationwide movement that overthrew the Qing dynasty and founded the Republic of China, ending over 2,000 years of autocracy.
1912 Fez riots
The 1912 Fez riots were three days of mutiny and massacre in Fez, Morocco, beginning 17 April 1912 after the Treaty of Fez established the French protectorate.
1912 Lawrence textile strike
The 1912 Lawrence textile strike, or Bread and Roses strike, was a nine-week IWW-led walkout of about 25,000 immigrant mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, triggered by wage cuts after a 54-hour law, ending March 14, 1912 with a 15 percent raise.
1918 Central Powers occupation of Ukraine
1918 Central Powers occupation of Ukraine: German and Austro-Hungarian occupation under the Brest-Litovsk treaty, 450,000 troops, Skoropadsky's Hetmanate coup, grain requisition, ended December 1918.
1924 Chilean coup d'état
The 1924 Chilean coup d'état was a September military intervention in which young officers forced Congress to pass social laws, then deposed President Arturo Alessandri and installed a junta.
1925 Ecuadorian coup d'état
The 1925 Ecuadorian coup d'état was a bloodless military uprising on 9 July 1925 that overthrew President Gonzalo S. Córdova and began the Revolución Juliana.
1927 Chilean coup d'état
The 1927 Chilean coup d'état was the takeover by which Colonel Carlos Ibáñez del Campo forced President Emiliano Figueroa from office and won an uncontested election to begin his 1927–1931 dictatorship.
1929 Hebron massacre
1929 Hebron massacre: killing of 64–69 Jews of Hebron's centuries-old community on 23–24 August 1929 during the 1929 Palestine riots, sparked by rumors Jews were seizing Muslim holy places, ending Jewish presence until 1967.
1932 Chilean coup d'état
The 1932 Chilean coup d'état was a civic-military uprising on 4 June 1932 that overthrew President Juan Esteban Montero and proclaimed the Socialist Republic of Chile.
1932 Mongolian uprising
The 1932 Mongolian uprising, or Khuvsgul Uprising, was an armed popular revolt against Soviet-directed left-course policies in Mongolia, suppressed by November 1932 with Soviet military assistance.
1932 Peruvian Aprista uprising
The 1932 Peruvian Aprista uprising was an armed revolt in which APRA militants seized Trujillo, Peru, on July 7, 1932, and were defeated in days.
1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, or Great Arab Revolt, was a Palestinian Arab uprising against British rule and Jewish immigration, launched with a six-month general strike, prompting the Peel partition plan and ending with British suppression and the 1939 White Paper.
1937 Trinidad and Tobago labour riots
The Butler riots were strikes and unrest that began in Trinidad's oilfields on 19 June 1937 when police tried to arrest labor leader Tubal Uriah Butler at Fyzabad.