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369th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an African American New York National Guard regiment that fought in France in World War I.
4 February 1961 Luanda uprising
The 4 February 1961 Luanda uprising was a series of armed attacks on prisons and police in Luanda, Angola, marking the start of the anti-colonial struggle against Portuguese rule.
49th Street Elementary School shooting
The 49th Street Elementary School shooting was a 1984 sniper attack in Los Angeles in which Tyrone Mitchell killed a 10-year-old girl and wounded about a dozen.
7 July 2005 London bombings
The 7 July 2005 London bombings (7/7): four British Islamist suicide bombers attacked three Underground trains and a bus, killing 52 and injuring over 770; ISC reviews examined missed intelligence on Khan and Tanweer.
8 April 2026 Israeli attacks on Lebanon
8 April 2026 Israeli attacks on Lebanon: over 100 IDF airstrikes in 10 minutes on Beirut, the Beqaa, and the south, hours after the US-Iran ceasefire, killing over 300, the war's deadliest day, operation Eternal Darkness.
9/11 Commission
The 9/11 Commission (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) was a bipartisan panel created by P.L. 107-306 in 2002, chaired by Thomas Kean, whose 2004 report led to the DNI and NCTC under IRTPA 2004.
9/11 Commission Report
The 9/11 Commission Report (2004) is the final report of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, chaired by Thomas Kean, finding failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management before the September 11 attacks.
9/11 conspiracy theories
9/11 conspiracy theories, also called truther claims, allege hidden orchestration of the September 11, 2001 attacks by the US government or Israel. The 9/11 Commission (2004) and NIST (2005, 2008) debunked them, yet belief persists and Carlson and AI content now amplify them.
A-A line
The A-A line (Arkhangelsk-Astrakhan line) was Nazi Germany's planned 1,600-mile objective line for Operation Barbarossa in 1941, marking the intended limit of the advance and the basis for four planned Reich commissariats; German forces never reached it.
A. P. Hill
A. P. Hill (1825-1865), 'Little Powell,' Confederate lieutenant general commanding the Third Corps of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia; his forced march saved Lee at Antietam; killed at Petersburg a week before Appomattox.
AB-Aktion
AB-Aktion (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion, Extraordinary Pacification Action) was a Nazi German campaign of arrests and mass executions of Polish intellectuals in occupied Poland, mainly from May to July 1940.
Aba Women's War
The Aba Women's War, or Ogu Umunwanyi, was a 1929 anticolonial protest in southeastern Nigeria in which thousands of Igbo and Ibibio women resisted colonial taxation.
Abd al-Qadir's resistance
Abd al-Qadir's resistance (عبد القادر الجزائري) was Emir Abd al-Qadir's 15-year campaign against the French conquest of Algeria, 1832 to 1847, ending in his surrender.
Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee
The 1978 abduction of South Korean director Shin Sang-ok (신상옥) and actress Choi Eun-hee (최은희) by North Korean agents on Kim Jong-il's orders; eight years of forced filmmaking including Pulgasari, ending in their 1986 Vienna escape.
Abdul Ghani Baradar (عبدالغنی برادر)
Abdul Ghani Baradar (عبدالغنی برادر), Taliban co-founder and deputy to Mullah Omar, UN-listed since 2001 (TAi.024), arrested in Karachi 2010, signed the 2020 Doha Agreement, and serves as Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs since September 2021.
Abdulaziz al-Omari
Abdulaziz al-Omari (عبدالعزيز العمري) was a Saudi al Qaeda muscle hijacker on American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11; educated imam from Asir Province who flew from Portland, Maine with Mohamed Atta.
Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan (Apo), founder and leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), imprisoned on İmralı since 1999; his February 2025 call led the PKK to announce dissolution, ending armed struggle begun in 1984.
Abimael Guzmán
Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, alias Presidente Gonzalo, Peruvian philosophy professor who founded the Maoist Shining Path (PCP-SL) in 1970, launched its people's war in 1980, was captured in Lima in September 1992, and died in prison in 2021.
Able Archer 83
Able Archer 83, a NATO nuclear-release command post exercise held 7–11 November 1983 during Autumn Forge 83, prompted Soviet nuclear alert measures amid fears of a first strike; historians debate how close it came to war.
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday (1819–1893) was a Union Civil War general who aimed the first gun in defense of Fort Sumter and led the I Corps on the first day of Gettysburg; the Mills Commission's 1907 claim that he invented baseball in Cooperstown in 1839 is a debunked myth.
Abolition of the army in Costa Rica
The abolition of the Costa Rican military was decreed by José Figueres Ferrer on 1 December 1948 and entrenched in Article 12 of the 1949 Constitution, which prohibits a standing army.
Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address
Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1865 at the U.S. Capitol, is the ~703-word Civil War speech naming slavery as the war's cause, invoking God and scripture, and closing with 'With malice toward none; with charity for all.'
Abscam
Abscam was an FBI sting (1978–1980) using a fake Arab sheik and Abdul Enterprises to offer bribes, convicting one senator, six congressmen, and others; it prompted the 1981 undercover guidelines.
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse: human rights violations by US Army and CIA personnel at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003-2004, exposed by CBS photos on April 28, 2004, investigated by Taguba, Fay/Jones, and Schlesinger, with 11 soldier convictions and a 2024 $42 million CACI verdict.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (أبو مصعب الزرقاوي)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (أبو مصعب الزرقاوي), born Ahmad Fadil Nazzal al-Khalayla in Jordan in 1966, founded Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, led al-Qa'ida in Iraq from 2004, pioneered anti-Shia sectarian bombing and beheading tactics, and was killed by a US airstrike on June 7, 2006; his organization became the Islamic State.
Abu Nidal
Abu Nidal (Sabri Khalil al-Banna, 1937-2002) was a Palestinian militant who founded the Abu Nidal Organization after splitting from the PLO in 1974, attacking Rome and Vienna airports in 1985 and dying in Baghdad in 2002.
Abu Nidal Organization (منظمة أبو نضال)
Abu Nidal Organization (منظمة أبو نضال), also Fatah Revolutionary Council, Black September: Palestinian terrorist group founded 1974 by Sabri al-Banna after splitting from the PLO; attacked in 20 countries, almost 900 killed or injured; ended with Abu Nidal's 2002 death in Baghdad.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (أبو عمر البغدادي)
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (أبو عمر البغدادي), real name Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, was the first emir of the Islamic State of Iraq (2006–2010), distinct from successor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; he led ISI during the surge and Awakening and was killed near Tikrit in April 2010.
Abu Sayyaf
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG, al Harakat al Islamiyya): Islamist militant group founded in the early 1990s by Abdurajak Janjalani in the Sulu archipelago and Basilan, Philippines; known for kidnappings for ransom, beheadings, and bombings, with Al-Qaida, Jemaah Islamiyah, and later ISIS ties, now largely dismantled.
Abubakar Shekau
Abubakar Shekau, alias Darul Tawheed, was the leader of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram from 2009 until his death in May 2021, when he reportedly detonated his suicide vest during a clash with rivals.