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Bombing of Sinuiju
The bombing of Sinuiju was a United States Air Force fire-bombing attack on the North Korean border city of Sinuiju on 8 November 1950, during the Korean War.
Bombing of Tokyo
Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Great Tokyo Air Raid): US firebombing of Japan's capital in 1945. Operation Meetinghouse, March 9-10, 1945, over 300 B-29s burned 16 square miles, killed over 100,000, left 1 million homeless; deadliest air raid in history, exceeding Nagasaki.
Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
Operation Meetinghouse (東京大空襲), the US B-29 firebombing of Tokyo on 9–10 March 1945: 279 bombers dropped 1,665 tons of napalm incendiaries, burning 16 square miles, killing about 100,000, and leaving 1 million homeless in the deadliest single air raid in history.
Bombing of Warsaw in World War II
German air attacks on Warsaw in September 1939, starting 1 September and peaking in the 25 September raid with 560 tons of bombs and about 25,000 dead, ending in the city's capitulation on 28 September 1939.
Bondelswarts Rebellion
The Bondelswarts Rebellion was a May and June 1922 rising by the Bondelswarts, a Nama people of southern South West Africa, against the South African administration, put down with aircraft bombing.
Bondi Beach shooting
Antisemitic terrorist attack of 14 December 2025 at the Chanukah by the Sea event on Bondi Beach, Sydney, in which father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram killed 15 and wounded about 40 before police intervention.
Bondi Junction stabbings
The Bondi Junction stabbings, also known as the Sydney mall attack, were a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney, Australia, on 13 April 2024, killing six people.
Bone War
The Bone War (Perang Bone) was a conflict between the Bugis Kingdom of Bone in South Sulawesi and the Dutch colonial government, fought mainly in 1824 and 1825.
Bonny Civil War
The Bonny Civil War was an 1869 conflict between rival canoe houses that split Bonny, a trading state in the Niger Delta of present-day Nigeria, into two, creating Opobo.
Books of Remembrance (Canada)
Books of Remembrance (Canada): eight memorial volumes on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, recording over 120,000 Canadians who died in military service, from the First World War Book (dedicated 1942) to the War of 1812 Book (2019).
Border Campaign
The Border Campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Biên giới 1950) was a Việt Minh offensive from September to October 1950 in the First Indochina War, destroying the French border garrisons on Route Coloniale 4.
Boshin War (戊辰戦争)
The Boshin War (戊辰戦争), or Boshin Sensō, was the Japanese civil war of 1868 to 1869 in which the new imperial army defeated the Tokugawa shogunate.
Bosnian genocide
Bosnian genocide: judicially established genocide against Bosnian Muslims in the 1992-1995 war, centered on the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 men and boys, confirmed by the ICTY and ICJ.
Bosnian Uprising (1831–1832)
The Bosnian Uprising (1831–1832) was a revolt in Ottoman Bosnia led by Husein-kapetan Gradaščević, the "Dragon of Bosnia", against the sultan's abolishing of the ayan system.
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War (1992-1995), also called the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was fought after Bosnia's independence from Yugoslavia; over 100,000 died, Srebrenica genocide occurred, and the Dayton Agreement ended it.
Bosnian-Herzegovinian uprising
The Bosnian-Herzegovinian uprising (Босанско-херцеговачки устанак) was a revolt of Orthodox Christian peasants against Muslim landowners and Ottoman rule that began in eastern Herzegovina in July 1875.
Boston Marathon bombing
The Boston Marathon bombing: April 15, 2013 pressure cooker bomb attack by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev near the finish line, killing three, injuring hundreds, leading to manhunt, Tsarnaev conviction, death sentence, and appeals.
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre: March 5, 1770 shooting on King Street, Boston, where British soldiers killed five colonists including Crispus Attucks; John Adams defended the soldiers, and Paul Revere's propaganda engraving spread Patriot outrage.
Bou Baghla revolt
The Bou Baghla revolt was an uprising in the Djurdjura mountains of Kabylie, Algeria, led by Chérif Boubaghla against French conquest from 1850 to 1854, with Lalla Fadhma N'Soumeur's support.
Bou Hmara's revolt
Bou Hmara's revolt (1902–1909) was a rebellion in northeastern Morocco led by Jilali Ben Driss Zerhouni, known as Rogui Bou Hmara, who claimed to be the sultan's elder brother.
Bouamama resistance
The Bouamama resistance was an armed uprising led by the Sufi sheikh Bouamama against French colonial rule in southwestern Algeria from 1881 until his death in 1908.
Boudica
Boudica, also known as Boudicca, was the queen of the Iceni tribe in eastern Britain. She led a major revolt against Roman occupation in AD 60 or 61.
Bougainville campaign
The Bougainville campaign, also called Operation Cherryblossom, was a World War II campaign on Bougainville Island, the largest of the Solomon Islands, from 1943 to 1945.
Bougainville conflict
The Bougainville conflict was an armed secessionist war between Papua New Guinea and Bougainville fighters from 1988 to 1998, sparked by grievances over the Panguna copper mine.
Boulkessi attack
The Boulkessi attack was a jihadist assault on the night of 29 to 30 September 2019 against a Malian army camp at Boulkessi, central Mali, killing 25 or more soldiers.
Boworadet rebellion
The Boworadet rebellion (กบฏบวรเดช) was a royalist revolt in Siam led by Prince Boworadet in October 1933 against the post-revolutionary government, which defeated it within two weeks.
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion (义和团运动, 1899–1901) was an anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in northern China led by the Yihetuan martial arts society, ending with an eight-nation intervention, the 55-day legation siege, and the punitive Boxer Protocol.
Boyd massacre
The Boyd massacre, also called the Burning of the Boyd, was the killing of about 70 crew and passengers of the ship Boyd by Māori in New Zealand in 1809.
Bratislava–Brno offensive
Bratislava–Brno offensive (Bratislavsko-brněnská operace): Red Army 2nd Ukrainian Front operation, 25 March–5 May 1945, liberating Bratislava on 4 April and Brno on 26 April 1945.
Bravo Two Zero
Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British SAS patrol inserted into Iraq in January 1991 during the Gulf War; communications failed, three died, four were captured, and Chris Ryan escaped to Syria.