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Dakota–Ojibwe War
Dakota–Ojibwe War: the long intertribal conflict between the Dakota (Eastern Sioux) and Ojibwe over hunting grounds and fur-trade access, erupting in the late 1730s, driving the Santee from central and northern Minnesota, and ending by the mid-1800s under settler-colonial pressure.
Dapchi schoolgirls abduction
The Dapchi schoolgirls abduction was the mass kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls from their college in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria, on 19 February 2018 by Boko Haram's ISWAP faction.
Daraa insurgency
Daraa insurgency: armed campaign by former rebels in Syria's Daraa governorate after the 2018 Russian-brokered reconciliation deals, marked by assassinations, the 2020 Muzayrib attack, the 2021 siege, and reactivation after Assad's fall.
Darayya massacre
The Darayya massacre was the killing of hundreds of residents of Darayya (داريا), southwest of Damascus, by Syrian government forces and shabiha militias, 20-27 August 2012, with documented tolls from 208 to over 700 deaths, followed by a deadly siege.
Darfur
Darfur (دار فور, land of the Fur) is a western Sudanese region of about 250,000 km², former independent sultanate, site of the 2003 Janjaweed atrocities, ICC case, and the 2023– SAF–RSF war and El Fasher siege.
Darfur campaign
Darfur campaign: the Rapid Support Forces' 2023–present drive to control Sudan's five Darfur states, including the El Geneina massacres, the 18-month siege, famine, and October 2025 capture of El Fasher.
Darfur genocide (2023–present)
The Darfur genocide is an ethnically targeted campaign of mass killing and displacement in western Sudan. The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias are the primary perpetrators.
David Headley (داؤد سید گیلانی)
David Coleman Headley (Daood Sayed Gilani, داؤد سید گیلانی), American LeT operative and former DEA informant who scouted Mumbai targets for the 2008 attacks, plotted against Jyllands-Posten, pleaded guilty in 2010, and is serving 35 years.
David Kaczynski
David Kaczynski is an American social worker and anti-death penalty activist who identified his brother Ted as the Unabomber in 1996, then led New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty from 2001 to 2012 and wrote the memoir Every Last Tie.
David McBride (whistleblower)
David McBride, Australian Army lawyer who leaked classified Afghanistan war-crimes documents to the ABC in 2017, prompting The Afghan Files; sentenced in 2024 to five years eight months and paroled 13 August 2026, the only person convicted over the allegations.
Dawes Plan
Dawes Plan (1924): U.S.-chaired restructuring of German WWI reparations after the Ruhr occupation and hyperinflation, with an 800-million-gold-mark loan, rising annuities, and Ruhr evacuation; replaced by the Young Plan in 1930.
Dawson's Field hijackings
The Dawson's Field hijackings were coordinated PFLP seizures of four airliners in September 1970; over 450 hostages were held at a disused Jordanian airstrip, and the crisis ignited Jordan's Black September civil war.
Day of Thirst
The Day of Thirst (Yawm al-aṭash) is the name given to the defeat of an Umayyad army by the Türgesh and Soghdians in Transoxiana in 724.
Dayton Agreement
Dayton Agreement (General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dayton Peace Agreement): peace treaty initialed 21 November 1995 at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and signed in Paris 14 December 1995, ending the 1992-95 Bosnian war and creating a two-entity, ethnically power-sharing Bosnian state.
Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill
Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill: the British statesman died 24 January 1965 aged 90 and received Operation Hope Not, a state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral on 30 January 1965, then burial at Bladon.
Death flights
Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) were executions used by Argentina's military dictatorship, in which sedated detainees were thrown from planes between 1976 and 1983.
Death march
Death march: forced marches of Nazi concentration camp prisoners and Allied POWs in 1944–1945, also called death marches; largest from Auschwitz and Stutthof; about 250,000 deaths per Blatman.
Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS founder and self-proclaimed caliph, killed October 26, 2019, when he detonated a suicide vest during a US Delta Force raid on his compound in Barisha, Idlib, Syria; ISIS confirmed the death and named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi successor.
Death of Adolf Hitler
Death of Adolf Hitler: the Nazi dictator's suicide by gunshot on April 30, 1945 in the Berlin Führerbunker beside his wife Eva Braun, one day after their marriage, the burning of the bodies, Dönitz's succession, and the forensic identification of his remains.
Death of Alan Kurdi
Alan Kurdi (initially reported as Aylan), three-year-old Syrian Kurdish refugee who drowned 2 September 2015 off Bodrum, Turkey; photographed by Nilüfer Demir, his image went viral and briefly shifted refugee policy and media framing.
Death of Blair Peach
Death of Blair Peach: New Zealand-born teacher and anti-fascist activist, 33, killed by a head blow at the 23 April 1979 Southall anti-National Front demonstration; 2010 Cass report concluded a Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group officer struck the fatal blow; no one was prosecuted.
Death of James Cook
Captain James Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay on the island of Hawaiʻi on 14 February 1779, in a confrontation with indigenous Hawaiians during his third Pacific voyage.
Death of James Yoo
Death of James Yoo: Arlington, Virginia homeowner, 56, who died December 4, 2023 when his duplex exploded during a police standoff; ruled a deliberate gasoline detonation, no terrorism ties. Distinct from Mukilteo businessman James Jae Yoo (died 2026).
Death of Jon Egging
Death of Jon Egging: Red Arrows pilot Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging (Red 4), 33, killed 20 August 2011 when Hawk T1 XX179 crashed near Bournemouth Airport after a display; Service Inquiry found G-induced impairment (A-LOC).
Death of Jonas Savimbi
The death of Jonas Savimbi was the killing of the UNITA founder by Angolan government forces in battle on 22 February 2002, leading to a ceasefire within six weeks.
Death of Mitrice Richardson
Death of Mitrice Richardson: unsolved 2009 death of a 24-year-old released at night from the Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff's station; remains found 2010 in Dark Canyon; cause undetermined, case open.
Death of Nicola Bulley
Death of Nicola Bulley: 45-year-old Lancashire woman missing 27 January 2023 in St Michael's on Wyre, found dead in the River Wyre 19 February; inquest ruled accidental drowning; case prompted a 143-page College of Policing review.
Death of Pablo Escobar
Death of Pablo Escobar: the Medellín Cartel leader, killed 2 December 1993 by Colombia's Bloque de Búsqueda on a Los Olivos rooftop after a 17-month manhunt; suicide claim by family disputed by forensics.
Death of the Prince Imperial
The death of the Prince Imperial was the killing of Napoléon Eugène Bonaparte, only son of Napoleon III, in a Zulu ambush on 1 June 1879 while serving with the British Army.
Death of Yohana Rodríguez
The death of Yohana Rodríguez Sierra was the killing of a 45-year-old Colombian street vendor by projectiles from a US strike near her home in El Hatillo, Venezuela, in January 2026.