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Livonian War
The Livonian War (1558–1583), also called the War of Livonia, was a war begun by Ivan IV of Russia for control of Livonia, ending with Russia losing all its Baltic conquests.
Lod Airport massacre
The Lod Airport massacre was a 30 May 1972 terrorist attack at Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion), Tel Aviv, by three Japanese Red Army gunmen acting for the PFLP, who killed about 25-26 people, many Puerto Rican pilgrims.
Lombok expedition
The Lombok expedition (Dutch: Lombok-expeditie) was an 1894 Dutch colonial campaign in which the KNIL conquered the kingdom of Lombok, ending Balinese rule and seizing its royal treasury.
Lomé Peace Agreement
The Lomé Peace Agreement was a treaty signed in Lomé, Togo, on 7 July 1999 between Sierra Leone's government and RUF rebels to end the civil war.
Lon Nol (លន់ នល់)
Lon Nol, also known as Marshal Lon Nol, was a Cambodian general and politician whose 1970 coup deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk and replaced the monarchy with the Khmer Republic.
Long Campaign
The Long Campaign (hosszú hadjárat), also called the Balkan campaign, was a 1443–1444 crusading expedition against the Ottoman Empire led by King Władysław III and János Hunyadi.
Long March (长征)
Long March (长征), the 1934–1936 strategic withdrawal of four Chinese Red Army formations from southern bases to northern Shaanxi, covering 65,000+ li across 14 provinces, marked by the Xiangjiang defeat, Zunyi Conference, and 1936 Huining reunion.
Long Walk of the Navajo
Long Walk of the Navajo (Hweeldi): 1863-1868 forced removal of about 9,000 Diné to Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ended by the June 1, 1868 treaty returning them home.
Lord Kitchener Wants You
Lord Kitchener Wants You: 1914 British recruitment image by Alfred Leete, first a London Opinion cover, showing the Secretary of State for War pointing at the viewer; prototype of Flagg's Uncle Sam poster.
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, also called the Kony rebellion, is Joseph Kony's 1987 rebellion against Uganda's government, marked by child abduction, Sudanese backing, displacement across DRC, CAR, and South Sudan, and ICC charges against Kony.
Lost Battalion (World War I)
The Lost Battalion was a force of roughly 550 men of the U.S. 77th Division under Major Charles Whittlesey, surrounded in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.
Lost Boys of Sudan
The Lost Boys of Sudan are southern Sudanese children, mostly boys, orphaned or separated by the 1987-2005 civil war, who trekked to Ethiopia and Kenya's Kakuma camp and about 3,600 of whom resettled in the United States from 2000.
Luby's shooting
Luby's shooting (Luby's massacre): October 16, 1991 mass shooting at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, where George Jo Hennard drove his truck inside and killed 23, wounded 27; deadliest single-gunman U.S. shooting at the time.
Ludlow Massacre
The Ludlow Massacre (April 20, 1914) was the killing of 21 striking Colorado coal miners and family members, including 11 children, by Colorado National Guardsmen aligned with Colorado Fuel and Iron, during the UMWA's 1913-14 coalfield strike.
Lusaka Protocol
The Lusaka Protocol is a peace agreement signed in Lusaka, Zambia, on 20 November 1994 by Angola's government and UNITA, aiming to end the Angolan Civil War.
Luso-Kongo War of 1669–1670
The Luso-Kongo War of 1669–1670 was the final armed confrontation between Portugal's Angolan colony and the Kingdom of Kongo. Soyo's army crushed a joint Portuguese and Kongolese invasion at Kitombo in 1670.
Luweero Triangle
The Luweero Triangle, also spelled Luwero Triangle, is an area of central Uganda north of Kampala where Yoweri Museveni's guerrillas fought the government from 1981 to 1986.
Luxor massacre
Luxor massacre: 17 November 1997 attack by al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya gunmen on tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut, Luxor, Egypt; 58 to 71 killed, attackers died in a police gun battle, and the attack spurred the group's renunciation of violence.
Lviv pogroms (1941)
The Lviv pogroms of 1941 were two waves of anti-Jewish violence in Lviv, then Lwów, Poland, after German capture in June 1941, killing roughly 4,000 Jews.
Lviv–Sandomierz Offensive
The Lviv–Sandomierz Offensive was a Red Army offensive fought from 13 July to 29 August 1944, in which Marshal Ivan Konev's forces liberated western Ukraine and seized a Vistula bridgehead at Sandomierz.
Lwów Uprising
The Lwów Uprising (powstanie lwowskie) was a July 1944 Polish Home Army action against German occupation forces in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine, part of Operation Tempest, ending in Soviet arrests.
Lý Thái Tổ's campaign against Champa
The 1044 invasion of Champa, attributed by Vietnamese sources to Emperor Lý Thái Tông rather than Lý Thái Tổ, was the first large-scale Lý-dynasty attack on Champa.
Lý–Champa War (1069)
The Lý–Champa War of 1069 was a war in which Đại Việt's Emperor Lý Thánh Tông invaded Champa, captured King Rudravarman III, and gained three ceded provinces.
M23 rebellion
The M23 rebellion is an insurgency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, launched in 2012 by army deserters and named for the 23 March 2009 peace accord.
Maccabean Revolt
The Maccabean Revolt, also known as the Hasmonean Revolt (מרד החשמונאים), was a Judean rebellion against the Seleucid Empire beginning in 167 BCE, led by Mattathias and his five sons.
MacDonald House bombing
The MacDonald House bombing was a terrorist attack on 10 March 1965, when two Indonesian marine commandos bombed MacDonald House in Singapore, killing 3 and injuring 33, the deadliest attack of Konfrontasi.
Macedonian front
Macedonian front, or Salonika front, WWI theatre in northern Greece and the southern Balkans, 1915-1918; opened by the Allied landing at Salonika to aid Serbia, marked by malaria, the 1918 Dobro Polje breakthrough, and Bulgaria's armistice.
Macedonian Struggle
The Macedonian Struggle (Greek: Makedonikos Agonas) was an armed conflict fought mainly between Greek and Bulgarian guerrilla bands in Ottoman Macedonia from 1904 to 1908, seeking the allegiance of local inhabitants.
Madiun Affair
The Madiun Affair was an armed conflict of September to December 1948 in Madiun, East Java, where communist forces proclaimed a Soviet-style republic that the Republican army crushed within months.
Maersk Alabama hijacking
The Maersk Alabama hijacking (April 8-12, 2009): Somali pirates boarded the U.S.-flagged container ship off Somalia, first U.S.-flag seizure since the 1820s; crew kept the ship, SEAL snipers rescued Captain Richard Phillips.