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1938 Yellow River flood
1938 Yellow River flood (花園口決堤事件, Huayuankou dike breach): man-made flood created by China's Nationalist army in June 1938 to halt the Japanese advance; lasted until 1947, killed roughly 800,000–900,000 and displaced nearly 4 million.
1939–40 Winter Offensive
The 1939–40 Winter Offensive (冬季攻勢) was a major Chinese counter-offensive against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, launched across ten war zones from November 1939 to April 1940.
1941 Odessa massacre
The 1941 Odessa massacre was the mass killing of Odesa's Jewish population by Romanian forces in late 1941 as reprisal for an explosion at a military headquarters.
1944 Bulgarian coup d'état
The 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, known in Bulgarian as Devetoseptemvriyski prevrat, was the takeover of Bulgaria by the communist-led Fatherland Front on 9 September 1944.
1947 Gilgit rebellion
The 1947 Gilgit rebellion: the Gilgit Scouts under Major William Brown overthrew Dogra rule on 31 October–1 November 1947, bringing Gilgit, Hunza, and Nagar under Pakistan.
1947 Jammu massacres
1947 Jammu massacres, also called the Jammu massacre or Jammu genocide: mass killings and expulsion of Muslims in Jammu province, Jammu and Kashmir, October-November 1947, by Dogra state forces with Hindu and Sikh militias; death estimates 20,000-237,000.
1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, first phase of the 1948 Palestine war, from the UN partition resolution of 29 November 1947 to 15 May 1948; two stages, Plan D, and the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians, the Nakba.
1948 Accra riots
The 1948 Accra riots were five days of rioting in the Gold Coast capital, beginning on 28 February 1948 after police shot three unarmed ex-servicemen marching to the Governor.
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also called the First Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Jewish and Arab forces in Palestine, ending in Israeli victory and the Nakba.
1948 Palestine war
1948 Palestine war, also called the War of Independence or Nakba, fought from the November 1947 UN partition resolution to the July 1949 armistices; Israel defeated five Arab armies, took 77 percent of mandate Palestine, and about 700,000-750,000 Palestinians were displaced.
1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight
The 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), displaced about 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947-1949 war; Israel blocked their mass return from June 1948, creating the Palestinian refugee issue.
1948 Peruvian coup d'état
The 1948 Peruvian coup d'état was the October seizure of power by General Manuel Odría, who overthrew President Bustamante y Rivero and ruled Peru as dictator until 1956.
1949 Armistice Agreements
Four General Armistice Agreements, the Rhodes Agreements, signed February–July 1949 between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, ending the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and drawing the Green Line armistice lines that lasted until 1967.
1950 Haitian coup d'état
The 1950 Haitian coup d'état was the army's May 10, 1950, overthrow of President Dumarsais Estimé after he tried to extend his term, leading to Paul Magloire's election.
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Operation PBSUCCESS: CIA covert operation that overthrew elected president Jacobo Arbenz on June 27, 1954, installed Castillo Armas, followed Decree 900 land reform, $3 million budget, and preceded Guatemala's civil war.
1956 Georgian demonstrations
The 1956 Georgian demonstrations were mass protests in the Georgian SSR in March 1956, triggered by Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin and crushed by Soviet troops on 9–10 March.
1957 Algerian general strike
The 1957 Algerian general strike, known in French as the grève des huit jours, was an eight-day strike called by the FLN during the Algerian War from 28 January to 4 February 1957.
1958 Grozny riots
The 1958 Grozny riots were mass anti-Chechen disturbances in Grozny in late August 1958, sparked by the killing of a Russian resident and suppressed by troops.
1958 Lebanon crisis
1958 Lebanon crisis: civil conflict triggered by Camille Chamoun's bid for a second term amid pan-Arabism and the UAR; ended by Fuad Chehab's election and the U.S. Operation Blue Bat landing of about 14,000 troops.
1959 Tibetan uprising
The 1959 Tibetan uprising (Lhasa Incident) began 10 March 1959 when crowds protected the Dalai Lama from suspected detention; the PLA crushed it, he fled to India 17–31 March, and about 80,000 Tibetans followed into exile.
1962 Burmese coup d'état
The 1962 Burmese coup d'état was the seizure of power in Burma by General Ne Win on 2 March 1962, overthrowing Prime Minister U Nu's elected government.
1963 Dominican coup d'état
The 1963 Dominican coup d'état was the bloodless military overthrow of President Juan Bosch on 25 September 1963, seven months into his term as the first freely elected president since 1924.
1963 Syrian coup d'état
The 1963 Syrian coup d'état, also called the 8 March Revolution, saw a coalition of Ba'athist and unionist officers seize power in Syria on 8 March 1963, beginning Ba'athist rule.
1963 Togolese coup d'état
The 1963 Togolese coup d'état was the military overthrow of Togo's government on 13 January 1963, in which soldiers assassinated its first president, Sylvanus Olympio.
1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
The 1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War, also called the First Ogaden War, was a short war between Ethiopia and the Somali Republic in January and February 1964 over the Ogaden region.
1964 Panama Canal Zone riots
The 1964 Panama Canal Zone riots were four days of clashes between Panamanian demonstrators and US forces, killed 21 or 22 Panamanians and 4 US soldiers.
1964 Tanzanian army mutiny
The 1964 Tanzanian army mutiny was a revolt by soldiers of the Tanganyika Rifles over pay and promotion, ended when British troops disarmed the mutineers on January 25, 1964.
1965 Sargodha airstrike
Six Indian Air Force counter-air raids on PAF's principal Sargodha base complex on 7 September 1965: 33 sorties, five IAF aircraft lost, disputed Alam and Devayya claims, Yaum-e-Fiza'ya.
1966 Ghanaian coup d'état
The 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état overthrew President Kwame Nkrumah's government on 24 February 1966 while he was traveling in Asia, replacing it with the National Liberation Council.
1966 Nigerian counter-coup
The 1966 Nigerian counter-coup was a July 1966 military takeover by northern officers that killed Head of State Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi and brought Yakubu Gowon to power.