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Jose Maria Sison
Jose Maria Sison (Joma, Amado Guerrero), 1939–2022, Filipino revolutionary who founded the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1968 and the New People's Army in 1969, wrote Philippine Society and Revolution, was imprisoned under Marcos, and led NDFP peace talks from exile in Utrecht.
Jose P. Laurel
Jose P. Laurel (1891-1959), Filipino jurist and politician, president of the Japanese-sponsored Second Philippine Republic 1943-1945, later senator, founder of Lyceum of the Philippines, amnestied collaborator, recognized as president under Macapagal.
Josef Kramer
Josef Kramer (1906-1945), German SS-Hauptsturmführer and camp commandant known as the Beast of Belsen; commanded Natzweiler-Struthof, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen; executed after the 1945 Belsen Trial.
Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele, also known as Dr. Mengele, was a German physician and SS captain at Auschwitz-Birkenau who conducted lethal experiments on prisoners and fled justice for 34 years.
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph E. Johnston (1807–1891), Confederate general, highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to join the South; commanded at Bull Run, Seven Pines, Vicksburg, and Atlanta, surrendered to Sherman in 1865.
Joseph Hooker
Joseph Hooker, nicknamed "Fighting Joe," was a Union major general in the American Civil War who commanded the Army of the Potomac from January to June 1863, losing the Battle of Chancellorsville to Robert E. Lee.
Joseph Joffre
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre (1852–1931), French marshal and commander-in-chief; won the Battle of the Marne, September 1914; created Plan XVII; removed in December 1916; Académie française 1918.
Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony (born 1961) is the Ugandan founder and leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, wanted by the ICC since 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity; charges were confirmed in absentia in November 2025 while he remains at large.
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), "Fighting Joe," Confederate cavalry commander of the Army of Tennessee, later Democratic congressman from Alabama and Union major general in the Spanish-American War.
Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914), Bowdoin professor, Union brevet major general commanding the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, Medal of Honor recipient, four-term governor of Maine, and Bowdoin president.
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877), Argentine caudillo and Federalist governor of Buenos Aires 1829–1832 and 1835–1852, leader of the Argentine Confederation; ruled with authoritarian-populist methods, defeated at Caseros in 1852, died in English exile.
Jubal Early
Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), Confederate lieutenant general and lawyer, led the Second Corps and the Army of the Valley, raided to Washington's outskirts in 1864, then founded the Southern Historical Society and shaped the Lost Cause.
Jubaland crisis
The Jubaland crisis is an ongoing dispute between Somalia's federal government and the Jubaland regional state, begun in 2013 and centered on control of Kismayo and its port.
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher (1885–1946), Nazi Gauleiter of Franconia and founder of the antisemitic weekly Der Stürmer, organizer of the 1933 anti-Jewish boycott; convicted of crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946.
July 2016 Dhaka attack
July 2016 Dhaka attack, or Holey Artisan Bakery attack: Islamist gunmen took hostages at a Gulshan café on 1 July 2016, killing 20 hostages and 2 police; army Operation Thunderbolt rescued 13; IS claimed it, Bangladesh blamed Neo-JMB.
July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes
July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, or Tovuz clashes: 12–16 July 2020 border fighting in Azerbaijan's Tovuz and Armenia's Tavush regions, deadliest since 2016, killing at least 16 soldiers including Major General Polad Hashimov, precursor to the 2020 Karabakh war.
July 2026 Balochistan attacks
July 2026 Balochistan attacks: wave of BLA-led insurgent violence in Pakistan's Balochistan province, including the Jiwani coast guard bombing and Ziarat police post massacre, killing 42 in early July and prompting Operation Shaban.
July massacre
July Massacre (জুলাই গণহত্যা): killings of protesters in Bangladesh's July-August 2024 quota-reform uprising; up to 1,400 estimated dead, mostly shot by security forces, ending Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule.
July Putsch
The July Putsch (German: Juliputsch) was a failed coup attempt by Austrian National Socialists on 25 July 1934, in which SS men seized the Vienna Chancellery and murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß.
July Revolt of 1927
The July Revolt of 1927, also called the Justizpalast fire, was a workers' uprising in Vienna on 15 July 1927 in which 89 people died.
Junaid Khan's uprising
Junaid Khan's uprising was a series of armed revolts led by the Turkmen chief Junaid Khan in the Khanate of Khiva from 1914 until his defeat in 1926.
June 2025 Los Angeles protests against mass deportation
June 2025 Los Angeles protests against mass deportation: demonstrations beginning June 6, 2025, after ICE workplace raids; Trump federalized 4,000-plus California National Guard troops and 700 Marines over Gov. Newsom's objection, the first such activation without a governor's request since 1965, leading to litigation, No Kings protests, and force findings.
June Rebellion
June Rebellion, or Paris Uprising of 1832 (Insurrection républicaine de juin 1832): two-day republican insurrection in Paris, 5–6 June 1832, sparked by General Lamarque's funeral, crushed by troops; about 350 dead; later the setting of Les Misérables.
June Revolution
The June Revolution (Revolucioni i Qershorit) was the armed Albanian movement of June 1924 that overthrew Ahmet Zogu's government and brought Fan Noli to power as prime minister.
June Uprising in Lithuania
The June Uprising (Lithuanian: Birželio sukilimas) was an armed anti-Soviet rebellion in Lithuania that began on 22 June 1941; insurgents seized Kaunas and Vilnius and formed a Provisional Government that Nazi Germany refused to recognize.
Juno Beach
Juno Beach was the Canadian-assigned Normandy landing zone of D-Day, 6 June 1944, assaulted by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division; about 21,000 troops landed for over 1,150 casualties and the deepest Allied advance that day.
Jürgen Stroop
Jürgen Stroop (born Joseph Stroop, 1895–1952) was the SS and Police Leader who commanded the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, compiled the Stroop Report used at Nuremberg, and was executed in Warsaw in 1952.
K-5 Plan
The K5 Plan, also called the K5 Belt or K5 Project, was a Cambodian border-defense program with Vietnam that mined and fortified the Thai border from 1984.
K'iche'–Kaqchikel wars
The K'iche'–Kaqchikel wars were sustained conflicts between the K'iche' and Kaqchikel Maya kingdoms of highland Guatemala, running from the Kaqchikel break with K'iche' rule around 1470 until both fell to the Spanish in 1530.
Kabyle resistance
Kabyle resistance is the armed and cultural opposition of the Kabyle people of northern Algeria to French conquest and rule, from 1844 through the 1871 insurrection.