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Petrov Affair
The Petrov Affair: the 1954 defection of Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov in Canberra, the Royal Commission on Espionage, the Petrov Papers, and the ALP split that kept the Menzies coalition in power until 1972.
Phan Bá Vành rebellion
The Phan Bá Vành rebellion (Cuộc nổi dậy Phan Bá Vành) was a peasant uprising against the Nguyễn dynasty in northern Vietnam, from about 1821 to 1827.
Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (Phan Thị Kim Phúc), born 1963, is the Vietnamese-born Canadian woman shown as a child in Nick Ut's 1972 'Napalm Girl' photo, later a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and KIM Foundation founder.
Philip Sheridan
Philip Henry Sheridan was a Union Army general in the American Civil War who led decisive cavalry campaigns in 1864 and commanded the US Army from 1883.
Philippeville massacre
The Philippeville massacre, or insurrection of 20 August 1955, was an FLN-coordinated attack on about forty towns and villages in Constantinois, French Algeria, followed by French reprisals that killed thousands of Algerians.
Philippine Airlines Flight 434
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 (PR434), Manila–Cebu–Tokyo Boeing 747 bombed 11 December 1994 by Ramzi Yousef as a Bojinka plot test; device under seat 26K killed Haruki Ikegami; crew landed at Naha, Okinawa.
Philippine drug war
Philippine drug war: anti-drug campaign launched by Rodrigo Duterte June 30, 2016, featuring Oplan TokHang raids and thousands of killings; now before the ICC as a crimes-against-humanity case and continued under Marcos Jr.
Philippine Executive Commission
The Philippine Executive Commission, in Filipino Komisyong Tagapagpaganap ng Pilipinas, was the interim civil government administering the Japanese-occupied Philippines under Chairman Jorge B. Vargas from 1942 to 1943.
Philippine resistance against Japan
Philippine resistance against Japan: the 1942-1945 Filipino and American guerrilla campaign, also called the Philippine guerrilla movement, fought the Japanese occupation under USAFFE and MacArthur's SWPA; about 250,000 guerrillas aided the 1944-1945 liberation.
Philippine revolts against Spain
The Philippine revolts against Spain were more than 200 uprisings by Filipinos against Spanish colonial rule between 1565 and 1898, driven by tribute, forced labor, and religious persecution.
Philippine Revolution
Philippine Revolution (1896-1898), also called the Tagalog War: armed Filipino uprising against Spanish rule begun when Spain discovered the Katipunan society; led by Bonifacio then Aguinaldo, ending in the June 12, 1898 Kawit independence declaration and U.S. cession via the Treaty of Paris.
Philippine–American War
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902), also called the Philippine Insurrection, was fought between the United States and Emilio Aguinaldo's Filipino revolutionaries after the Treaty of Paris ceded the Philippines to the US, costing about 4,200 American and over 20,000 Filipino combatant lives.
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
The Philippines campaign (1941–1942), also called the Battle or Fall of the Philippines, was Japan's World War II invasion of the Philippine Commonwealth: air strikes on 8 December 1941, landings at Lingayen Gulf, the sieges of Bataan and Corregidor, and Allied surrender by May 1942.
Phoenix Program
Phoenix Program (Phung Hoang), a CIA-backed 1967–1975 South Vietnamese counterinsurgency operation targeting the Viet Cong Infrastructure through neutralization, intelligence lists, interrogation, and Provincial Reconnaissance Units.
Phoney War
Phoney War (Sitzkrieg, la drôle de guerre): the eight-month opening phase of WWII in Western Europe, 3 September 1939 to 10 May 1940, when Britain and France, at war with Germany, fought almost no land war in the West.
Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre
The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre was the killing of about 69 to 74 villagers by South Korean marines in Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam, on 12 February 1968.
Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge, also called Longstreet's Assault, was a failed Confederate infantry assault against the Union center on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
Pig War (1859)
The Pig War (1859) was a U.S.-British standoff over San Juan Island after settler Lyman Cutlar shot a Hudson's Bay Company pig; resolved by 1872 arbitration under Kaiser Wilhelm I in favor of the United States.
Pima Revolt of 1751
The Pima Revolt of 1751 was an O'odham uprising against Spanish missions in Pimería Alta, in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, killing more than 100 people.
Piracy in Heian Japan
Piracy in Heian Japan (794–1185) was the raiding of shipping and estates in the Seto Inland Sea, first recorded in an 838 suppression order, peaking with Fujiwara no Sumitomo's 939–941 rebellion.
Piracy suppression in the Bahamas
Piracy suppression in the Bahamas was the 1718 British campaign, led by governor Woodes Rogers, that ended Nassau's role as the Atlantic's main pirate base.
Pirate attack on Veracruz
The pirate attack on Veracruz, also called the sack of Veracruz, was the May 1683 seizure of New Spain's principal Atlantic port by buccaneers led by Laurens de Graaf.
Pitched battle
Pitched battle (set-piece battle, French bataille rangée): a planned battle fought on preselected ground with forces arranged in advance, both sides committed by choice; first recorded 1600–10; also any fierce large-scale fight.
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Robert Bowers killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill on October 27, 2018, using an AR-15 and handguns; convicted of federal hate crimes and sentenced to death in 2023.
Plains of Abraham
Plains of Abraham (Plaines d'Abraham), a 98-hectare historic urban park in Quebec City named for settler Abraham Martin, site of the 1759 Wolfe-Montcalm battle and Canada's first national historic park, run since 1908 by the National Battlefields Commission.
Planning of the September 11 attacks
Planning of the September 11 attacks ("planes operation"): al Qaeda's multi-year plot, devised by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, approved by Bin Ladin in 1999, trained in Afghanistan, executed September 11, 2001.
Platine War
The Platine War (1851–1852), also called Guerra contra Oribe e Rosas, was the war in which Brazil, Entre Ríos, and Uruguay defeated Rosas of Buenos Aires and his Uruguayan ally Manuel Oribe.
Plymouth shooting
The Plymouth shooting was a 2021 mass shooting in Keyham, Plymouth, England, in which licensed shotgun holder Jake Davison killed five people, wounded two, and killed himself, triggering inquest findings of police licensing failures and UK firearms law reform.
Podujevo massacre
The Podujevo massacre was the killing of 14 Kosovo Albanian civilians, mostly women and children, by the Serb Scorpions paramilitary unit in Podujevo, Kosovo, on 28 March 1999.
Pogrom
A pogrom (Russian: погром, meaning "to wreak havoc") is a violent mob attack marked by murder and looting, historically directed against Jews in the Russian Empire.