History Single-Line Part 2
Roger of Lauria
- Aragonese naval commander during War of Sicilian Vespers - gouged 300 prisoners' eyes out and left a man with one eye to lead them home after Battle of Les Formigues
Chubut Province
- Argentine region of Patagonia home to Welsh settlement at Y Wladfa
Mo Udall
- Arizona rep. and father of New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall - brother of Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall under JFK and LBJ - wore a glass eye
Battle of Talas (751)
- As-Saffah of Abbasids defeated Xuanzong emperor of Tang - paper was learned by Abbasids after this battle
Dersim Rebellion (1937-38)
- Ataturk suppressed Zaza Kurd uprising under Alevi Seyid Riza
Siegfried Buback
- Attorney General of Germany killed by RAF in drive-by during German Autumn of 1977
Roger East
- Australian journalist killed during Indonesian invasion of East Timor while investigating deaths of Balibo Five - killed on cliff in Dili
Balibo Five (1975)
- Australian journalists killed during Indonesian invasion of East Timor - deaths investigated by Roger East
Battle of Maychew (1936)
- Badoglio poisoned Lake Ashangi, killing tons of Ethiopians - final offensive under Haile Selassie
Treaty of Bassein (1802)
- Baji Rao II of Maratha and Duke of Wellington agreed to peace after Battle of Poona
Wars of Castro (1641-44, 1649)
- Barberinis and Pope Innocent X fought Ranuccio Farnese and Mattias de Medici
Battle of Posada (1330)
- Basarab I of Wallachia defeated Charles I of Hungary
Maximilian II Emanuel
- Bavarian elector that lost at Blenheim and was forced to sign Treaty of Ilbersheim
Battle of Kirkdilim (1391-2)
- Bayezid I lost to Kadi Burhan al-Din during campaign to Anatolia
Battle of Ankara (1402)
- Bayezid I lost to Tamerlane, leading to his death by banging his head against the prison bars
George Harrison
- Beatles guitarist that organized two concerts for awareness of 1971 Bangladesh War at Madison Square Garden
Raoul Vaneigem
- Belgian writer of "The Revolution of Everyday Life" - led Situationist International during May 1968
Battle of Seminara (1495)
- Bernard d'Aubigny defeated Spain and Ferdinand II of Naples - led to Spanish military revolution
Anti-Socialist Law (1878)
- Bismarck banned Social Democrats after assassination attempts on Wilhelm I by Max Hodel and Karl Nobiling (a tin worker and a plumber)
Fred Hampton
- Black Panther killed along with Mark Clark by Chicago police during 1969 raid
Besme
- Bohemian assassin of Gaspard de Coligny in 1572 during St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre - finished job that Charles de Louviers, Lord de Maurevert, started
Jacobite Rising of 1689
- Bonnie Dundee and James VII of Scotland lost to William II of Scotland
Olmstead v. US (1928)
- Brandeis supported right to privacy of Seattle bootlegger in dissent in this case
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (1914)
- Brandeis wrote this against big corporations - published it in Harpers' Weekly
Olmstead v. US (1928)
- Brandeis' dissent in this was invoked at McVeigh's trial; concerned wiretapping of bootlegger in Washington - Taft wrote majority - defendant later campaigned against alcohol as practitioner of Christian Science
Fraser Expedition (1807)
- Britain lost Egypt to Muhammad Ali during Napoleonic Wars
Operation Claret (1964-66)
- British Malaysia sent raids into Indonesian Kalimantan
Miles Lampson
- British ambassador to Egypt and King Farouk - asked to divorce Italian wife after he told Farouk to kick Italian forces out of Egypt
Royalton Raid (1780)
- British and Mohawks raided Vermont Republic - last major Indian raid in New England
Black Week (1899)
- British suffered defeats at Stormberg, Magersfonteine, and Colenso - led to sacking of Redvers "Reverse" Buller
Battle of Philippi (42 BC)
- Brutus and Cassius killed themselves after defeat by Mark Antony and Octavian
Shishman of Vidin
- Bulgar boyar who founded his namesake dynasty - taken over by Nogai Khan of Golden Horde
Krum of Bulgaria
- Bulgar khan that made Nikephoros I's skull into a cup after Pliska - defeated Michael I Rangabe at Versinikia - died while campaigning against Leo V the Armenian
Siege of Adrianople (1912-13)
- Bulgarians Nikola Ivanov and George Vazov worked with Serb Stepa Stepanovic and took Ottoman stronghold during First Balkan War
Ne Win
- Burmese dictator from 1962-88; gave "sword with sword and spear with spear" speech after destroying Rangoon University buildings - changed currency to multiples of 9 and consulted astrologer frequently - overthrown in 8888 Uprising
Peter Lorenz
- CDU candidate for mayor of Berlin captured and later released by RAF - lost to Klaus Schutz
Warren Anderson
- CEO of Union Carbide at the time of Bhopal disaster, which involved leak of methyl isocyanate from Tank 610 - effigy of him was burned following disaster
Lewis Cass Expedition (1820)
- Calhoun authorized this surveying group that included Henry Schoolcraft
South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828)
- Calhoun claimed that a tariff was "unconstitutional, unequal, and oppressive" and made Southerners "serfs"
Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924)
- Calvin Coolidge signed law restricting immigration written by Washington representative and Pennsylvania senator
Laura Secord
- Canadian Paul Revere that walked 20 miles to warn of American attack
Treaty of London (1518)
- Cardinal Wolsey engineered non-aggression pact among European powers against Ottomans
War of the Remences (1462-72)
- Catalan revolt against Ferdinand II of Aragon resolved with Arbitral Decision of Guadalupe in 1486
Garza War (1891-3)
- Catarino Garza violated US-Mexico neutrality in Coahuila against Porfirio Diaz and Frank Wheaton
Edict of Saint-Germaine-en-Laye (1570)
- Catherine de Medici made peace with Huguenots following Battle of Jarnac
Treaty of Nemours (1585)
- Catherine de Medici, Henry III and Duke of Guise created alliance and began War of Three Henries with this agreement
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
- Catholic non-Communist Solidarity PM of Poland - drew "thick line" to excuse Communist crimes
Hissene Habre
- Chad Pres. from 1982-90; took French man Francoise Claustre hostage while leading FROLINAT - had DDS secret police and tortured Rose Lokissim
Battle of Maaten al-Sarra (1987)
- Chad defeated Libya in decisive victory of Toyota War - led by FANT general Hassan Djamous
Battle of Fada (1987)
- Chad's FANT defeated Gaddafi's CDR in Toyota War under Hassan Djamous - Habre received US aid after this
Lelantine War (710-650 BC)
- Chalcis defeated Eretria - only war between Trojan and Persian Wars that involved coalitions/alliances
McCollum v. Illinois Board of Education (1948)
- Champaigne, Illinoi's "released time" for prayers was struck down
Battle of Custoza (1848)
- Charles Albert lost to Radetzky in First Italian War of Independence
Baker v. Carr (1962)
- Charles E. Whittaker was forced to retired b/c of this case - Tom Clark changed his opinion at the last second - Brennan wrote majority opinion
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
- Charles Evan Hughes decided to retry Scottsboro Boys in landmark case
Merlin Incident (1671)
- Charles II declared 3rd Anglo-Dutch War after this, where Dutch didn't properly salute the Royal Yacht
Colloquy of Poissy (1561)
- Charles IX watched Theodore Beza and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine engage in theological debate in leadup to French Wars of Religion
Algiers Expedition (1541)
- Charles V and Andrea Doria failed to take Ottoman port from Sardinian Hasan Agha
Battle of Muhlberg (1547)
- Charles V, HRE defeated John Frederick I of Saxony while he was carried here with gout - he reportedly said "I came, I saw, God conquered"
Historic Eight Documents
- Charu Majumdar outlined Naxalite ideology in West Benal, leading to 1967 Naxalbari Uprising
Riyad us-Saliheen
- Chechen terrorists who ordered Beslan school siege under Shamil Basayev - included sole surviving hostage-taker Nur-Pashi Kulayev
Miguel Kast
- Chicago Boys economist who resigned after implementing 39:1 peso:USD ratio
Arnold Harberger
- Chicago economist who taught Chicago Boys about his namesake triangle
Alexander Haig
- Chief of Staff under Nixon after Haldemann - confirmed as Lieutenant General after Nixon passed over 240 others
Juye Incident (1897)
- Chinese Big Sword Society killed two German Catholic missionaries
Four Pests Campaign (1958-62)
- Chinese campaign against rats, flies, mosquitoes, and mainly sparrows - transitioned to bed bugs instead of sparrows due to environmental effects
Gorgonius of Nicomedia
- Christian martyr killed along with Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus during Diocletian's Great Persecution
Battle of Mount Algidus (458 BC)
- Cincinnatus unexpectedly defeated Aequi under Cloelius Gracchus near Rome
Operation Infinite Reach (1998)
- Clinton ordered strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan after 1998 embassy bombings
Battle of Abritus (257)
- Cniva defeated and killed Decius as Goth leader of Scythian federations
Elias Ammons
- Colorado Governor during Ludlow Massacre, where he employed John Chase and John R. Lawson was the only one convicted
Campbell Case (1924)
- Communist Party newspaper editor incited army to mutiny - led to downfall of Labor govt. of MacDonald after he failed to act in response to this
Battle of Beachy Head (1690)
- Comte de Tourville defeated Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington in Nine Years' War
Kelo v. New London (2005)
- Connecticut city used eminent domain to repurpose land in this case through Takings Clause of 5th Amendment
William Samuel Johnson
- Connecticut senator and third president of Columbia University - lobbied for Vermont in US political circles
Battle of BIzani (1913)
- Constantine of Greece defeated Ottomans in 1st Balkan War, leading to Treaty of London
Pact of Halepa (1878_
- Crete gained autonomy from Ottomans under Abdul Hamid II
Mengli I Giray
- Crimean khan who allied with Ivan III - disproved grandfather of Suleiman I
Battle of Stugna River (1093)
- Cumans defeated Kievan Rus' and Monomakhs under Sviatopolk II
Burebista
- Dacian king of Getae who was assassinated at the same time as Caesar
Yellow Creek Massacre (1774)
- Daniel Greathouse led massacre of Mingos in prelude to Lord Dunmore's War
Operation Hammer (1987)
- Daryl Gates authorized roundup of 50,000 gang members after drive-by killed 8 people
Battle of Lade (494 BC)
- Datis and Persians crushed Ionian Revolt off the coast of Miletus
Sampit Conflict (2001)
- Dayaks and Madurese fought in Kalimantan on Borneo - hundreds of Madurese decapitated
McCarran-Walter Act (1952)
- Democrats from Nevada and Pennsylvania restricted immigration under Truman
Frank Murphy
- Detroit Mayor (1933-35); defeated Frank Fitzgerald to become governor during Flint sit-down Strike - used word "racism" in Supreme Court opinions
Goudi Coup (1910)
- Dimitrios Rallis was replaced with Venizelos after radical "Japanese Group" advocated reform under George I
Mollen Commission (1992)
- Dinkins investigated NYPD corruption, leading to NYPD Commissioner Lee Brown resigning in favor of Raymond Kelly
Bawdy House Riots (1668)
- Dissenters destroyed brothels of Damaris Page and Elizabeth Cresswell after Charles II banned private lay worship
Francisco Ximenez
- Dominican priest who made first known translation of Popol Vuh
Rebellion of Alpujarras (1568-71)
- Don Juan of Austria and Marquis de Mondejar put down Aben Humaya's revolt in Grenada
Edict of 1577
- Don Juan of Austria signed "Perpetual Edict" as governor-general of Habsburg Netherlands
Memorial Day Massacre (1967)
- Dorothy Day-led striking steel workers killed by Chicago Police under Edward Joseph Kelly
Fakhr al-Din II
- Druze priest that united Maronites with Druze after defeat of Yusuf Sayfa - first "man of Lebanon" killed by Murad IV
Battle of Fleurus (1695)
- Duc de Luxembourg defeated Prince of Waldeck in early battle of Nine Years' War
Battle of Malplaquet (1709)
- Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeated Duc de Villars and Duc de Boufflers
Battle of Ramilies (1706)
- Duke of Marlborough defeated Duc de Villeroi, who never commanded an army again
Battle of Oudenarde (1708)
- Duke of Marlborough defeated Louis of Burgundy and Duc de Vendome
Camaret Bay Letter (1694)
- Duke of Marlborough supposedly sent this to Marquis de Vauban during Nine Years' War
Potato Riots (1917)
- Dutch uprising in Amsterdam after Germany built "Wire of Death" fence
Maratha, Santalaris, and Aloda Massacres (1974)
- EOKA-B massacred 126 people during Turkish invasion of Cyprus
The Other Campaign (2005-6)
- EZLN declared from Lacandon Jungle opposition under Rafael Guillen Vicente and Comandante Ramona
Battle of Edgehill (1642)
- Earl of Essex led Roundheads in first pitched battle of English Civil War
Rudolf Bahro
- East German dissident who wrote "The Alternative" and met with Brandt in 1979
Makram Ebeid
- Egyptian Coptic leader of Wafd Party from 1936-42 - attempted to expose Nahas Pasha in "Black Book" detailing corruption
Lavon Affair (1954)
- Egyptian Jews recruited by Israel to bomb places in Egypt - failed covert operation called Operation Susannah
Ibrahim Abdul Atti
- Egyptian army general who claimed to have found the cure for AIDS and Hepatitis C
Abdel Hakim Amer
- Egyptian political leader that was killed after coup against Nasser - part of Free Officers Movement
Football War (1969)
- El Salvador bombed Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa in Honduras, which was led by Oswaldo Lopez Arellano - Anastasio Somoza Debayle aided Honduras and saw last use of piston engine planes
Battle of Segale (1916)
- Empress Zewditu defeated forces of Iyasu V, leading to regency of Haile Selassie
Nicholas Owen
- English Jesuit who built priest holes to escape persecution in Elizabethan England - killed after Gunpowder Plot
Jack Ketch
- English executioner who botched many executions, including Duke of Monmouth's
Michael Ventris
- English linguist who deciphered Linear B with John Chadwick after Emmett Bennett tried earlier
Charles Leslie
- Episcopalian minister who publicized Glencoe Massacre
Battle of Drakenberg (1547)
- Eric II of Brunswick-Luneberg was beat by Schmalkaldic League and he escaped by swimming across Weser River
Hamid Idris Awate
- Eritrean independence leader - succeeded in efforts by Afewerki, who won at Barentu and Massawa
St. George's Night Uprising (1343-45)
- Estonians revolted against Teutonic Knights in mid-14th century
Balcha Safo
- Ethiopian noble who opposed young Haile Selassie - tricked into submitting to Haile Selassie
Alem Bekagne
- Ethiopian prison called "Farewell to the World" that housed Haile Selassie and victims of Yekatit 12 Massacre
Francis Simard
- FLQ member that, with Paul Rose, killed Pierre Laporte by strangling him with religious chain around his neck
Rufus King
- Federalist VP candidate in 1808 and presidential candidate in 1816 with John Howard of Maryland - wrote "Camillus" papers with Hamilton
John E. Howard
- Federalist VP candidate with Rufus King in 1816 - led charge at Cowpens and wounded at Eutaw Springs; Senator from Maryland
1641 Irish Rebellion
- Felim O'Neill rebelled, beginning Eleven Years' War portion of War of Three Kingdoms
Battle of Capo d'Orso (1528)
- Filippino Doria, under French flag, killed gov. of Naples Hugo de Moncada in War of the League of Cognac
Fuller Warren
- Florida governor implicated in corruption by Kefauver Committee - said Kefauver was an "ambition-crazed Caesar"
Banca Romana Scandal (1893)
- Francesco Crispi and Giovanni Giolitti ignored bank irregularities, leading Giolitti's first government's fall
Battle of Diu (1509)
- Francesco de Almeida destroyed Gujarat, Mamluks, and Venice similar to destruction at Lepanto and Trafalgar
Colgrove v. Green (1946)
- Frankfurter said federal govt. had no right to interfere in state legislature appointments in Illinois case - reverted by Baker v. Carr
Michel de L'Hopital
- French chancellor under Charles IX - opposed by Catherine de Medici - resigned after Massacre of Wassy
Zacarias Moussaoui
- French citizen convicted of conspiracy to kill as 20th hijacker in 9/11
Jean Dereze
- French doctor who helped Stephen Giraud in 1793 yellow fever epidemic under Governor Thomas Mifflin
Francois Martin
- French general in Nine Years' War that founded Pondicherry
Jean-Baptiste Kleber
- French general of Revolutionary Wars - killed by Kurdish Solomon El-Halaby in Cairo, who was later impaled
Setif and Guelma Massacre (1945)
- French killed thousands of Algerians during WWII parade
Charles IX of France
- French king from 1560-74; controlled by Catherine of Medici - oversaw St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and failed siege of La Rochelle
Aimable Pelissier
- French marshal who suffocated 760 Algerian tribesmen in Dahra Caves in 1845
Operation Epervier
- French military presence in Chad from 1986-2014
Francois Clicquot
- French organ builder - widow founded champagne house in Reims
Valery Giscard d'Estaing
- French president after Pompidou from 1974-81 - supported by "Call of 43" and overthrew Bokassa - term saw end of "Trente Glorieuses" - threatened not to attend Juan Carlos I's coronation b/c Pinochet was present
Marquis de Louvois
- French war secretary under Louis XIV
Perusine War (41-40 BC)
- Fulvia and Lucius Antonius supported Mark Antony against Octavian in conflict over land
Operation Lamantin (1977-78)
- GIscard d'Estaing tried to help Mauritania's Moktar Ould Daddah against POLISARIO
War of the Knives (1799-1800)
- Gabriel, Comte d'Hedouville encouraged this conflict between Toussaint and Andre Rigaud
Battle of Caudine Forks (321 BC)w
- Gaius Pontius captured Romans and they immediately surrendered - bloodless Samnite victiry
Battle of Bubat (1357)
- Gajah Mada massacred Sundanese forces after failed wedding proposal - led to his dismissal as Majapahit PM
Battle of Baideng (200 BC)
- Gaozu of Han lost to Modu Chanyu of Xiongnu
Battle of Meloria (1284)
- Genoa under Oberto Doria destroyed Pisa under Alberto Morrosino - Pisa lost because they didn't have time to get the archbishop's blessing; featured Ugolino's treachery
Bank of St. George
- Genoese family-run bank - praised by Machiavelli, Hume, and Montesquieu in Spirit of the Laws
Emu War (1932)
- George Pearce and G.P.W. Meredith failed to exterminate pests in Western Australia
Blount Report (1893)
- Georgian politician found John L. Stevens' overthrow of Liliuokalani illegal
Helmut Schmidt
- German Social Democrat Chancellor from 1974-82 - cracked down on RAF with GSG-9 raids - called "unprincipled, avaricious, and heartless" by Menachem Begin
Jurgen Ponto
- German banker of Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt - killed by RAF in 1977's German Autumn
Walter Rathenau
- German foreign minister who signed Treaty of Rapallo with USSR - killed by Organisation Consul's Erwin Kern
Hanns Martin Schleyer
- German industrialist killed in RAF during 1977 German Autumn; body dumped in France
Philip of Swabia
- German king who fought against Welf Dynasty - killed by Bavarian Otto VIII, leading to ascension of Otto IV, HRE
Polar 3
- German plane returning from South Pole mission that was shot down by POLISARIO front over Western Sahara
Benno Ohnesborg
- German student protesting state visit by Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi was killed outside performance of the Magic Flute
South West Africa Campaign (1914-15)
- Germans lost territory to Britain and Portugal in WWI at final battle in Otavi, Namibia
Kiatschou Bay Concession
- Germany gained territory with Qingdao in it
Perceval Doria
- Ghibelline Genoese leader who served Frederick II, HRE and Manfred of Sicily - was also a troubador of the Sicilian School
Ugolino della Gherardesca
- Ghibelline who allied with Guelphs to overthrow Pisa - fled Meloria and was imprisoned at Muda
Battle of Novara (1849)
- Giralomo Ramorino was killed before this battle for treason - Polish Wojcech Chrzanowski under Charles Albert of Sardinia lost to Radetzky
Amboise Conspiracy (1560)
- Godefroy de Barry, seigneur of Le Renaudie attempted to kidnap Francis II, Francis Duke of Guise, and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
Tsar Paul I
- Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller after they sought refuge in Russia
Simeon the Proud
- Grand Prince of Moscow who succeeded Ivan "Moneybags" I - killed during Black Death
Foulques de Vilalret
- Grandmaster of Knights Hospitaller who conquered Rhodes in 1306
11 September 22 Revolution
- Greek Army under Nikolaos Plastiras and Georgios Papandreou overthrew Constantine - executed royals in Trial of the Six
Alexander of Greece
- Greek king from 1917-20 - died from a monkey bite and succeeded by Constantine I - caused scandal by marrying commoner Aspasia Manos
Megali Idea
- Greek nationalist idea that spanned "five seas and two continents" - popularized by Venizelos and Ethniki Eteria
Tarlis Incident (1924)
- Greek soldier killed 17 Bulgarian peasants - led to Politis-Kalfov Protocol with League of Nations
Amadou Diallo
- Guinean immigrant killed by NYPD for pulling out a wallet in 1999 - shot at 41 times and hit 19 times
Forbes Burnham
- Guyanese autocrat from 1964-85 - ordered death of Walter Rodney in bombing
Battle of Largs (1263)
- Haakon Haakonarson of Norway fought Alexander of Dundonald at Firth of Clyde - led to Treaty of Perth
Jan Matthys
- Haarlem baker whose wife Divira was taken by Jan van Leiden - declared Munster "New Jerusalem" - fought against prince-bishop Franz von Waldeck - died w/ 12 "apostles" while fighting
Abner Louima
- Haitian who was anally raped with a broom handle outside nightclub by NYPD
Battle of Nisa (1062)
- Harald Hardrada of Norway defeated Sweyn Estridsson of Denmark
Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
- Harold Godwinson would give up only "seven feet of English land", as Harald Hardrada was taller than most men - fought on Derwent River - Eystein Orre died while attempting to help Harald Hardrada
Sand War (1963)
- Hassan II and Ahmed Ben Bella warred over Tindouf and Bechar - Cuba and Egypt sided with Algeria - ended with first intervention of OAU (future AU)
Aman Mikael Andom
- Head of State following deposition of Haile Selassie and killing of royal family in Black Saturday (Massacre of the Sixty)
Battle of Bushy Run (1763)
- Henry Bouquet defeated Guyasuta and Keekyuscung, lifting siege of Fort Pitt
Philipsburg Proclamation (1779)
- Henry Clinton freed all slaves in the colonies with this during Revolutionary War
Treaty of Washington (1836)
- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft negotiated with Ottawas and Chippewa for Michigan territory
Day of the Barricades (1588)
- Henry, Duke of Guiss protected himself from arrest by Henry III by blocking up city - assisted by Council of Sixteen and Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza
Battle of Nineveh (627)
- Heraclius defeated and killed Rhahzadh of Sassanids - restored boundaries of Eastern Roman Empire
Battle of Kakamas (1915)
- Hermann Ritter of Germany lost to J. van Deventer of South Africa during WWI near Orange River
Battle of Calderon Bridge (1810)
- Hidalgo and Allende lost to Calleja, leading to their capture by Ignacio Elizondo at Wells of Bajan
Battle of Monte de las Cruces (1810)
- Hidalgo called insurrection early after Guanajuato Conspiracy was discovered - agreed to meet with viceroy Calleja after this battle
Grito de Dolores (1810)
- Hidalgo delivered speech after Bernardo Gutierrez went to DC to ask for aid - said "Death to Gachupines" with Ignacio Allende and Juan Aldama by his side - leaders of this also led Conspiracy of Queretaro
Abrams v. US (1919)
- Holmes dissented in this Schenck-like case probably because of Zechariah Chafee's criticisms and because he was friends with the Jews at the center of the case
Privilege, Malice, and Intent
- Holmes said that intent to do harm was vital in libel cases in this Harvard Law Review-published work
Federal Baseball Club v. National League (1922)
- Holmes wrote majority opinion that Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't apply to baseball - revolved around Baltimore baseball teams
Buck v. Bell (1927)
- Holmes wrote majority saying that "three generations of imbeciles are enough" using "felt necessity" - case about compulsory sterilization in Virginia
Simone Veil
- Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz who pushed legalization of abortion in 1975 France under GIscard d'Estaing
Battle of Kororareka (1845)
- Hone Heke sacked modern-day city of Russell in Flagstaff War
Rodney Riots (1968)
- Hugh Shearer banned Guyanese historian from entering Jamaica, leading to riots
Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
- Huguenot leader who died at Jarnac, leading to ascension of Gaspard de Coligny
Massacre of Wassy (1562)
- Huguenots holding church service in a barn were burned down by Francis, Duke of Guise
Heinrich Fink
- Humboldt University professor in Berlin who resigned due to past status as "spitzel" (Stasi informer)
Kincsem
- Hungarian horse that won all 54 races it competed it - park in Budapest is named after her
1980 Damascus Titan Explosion
- ICBM accident in Van Buren County, Arkansas - profiled in Eric Schlosser's Command and Control
Battle of Karameh (1968)
- IDF and Jordan (with PLO) fought in War of Attrition following Six-Day War
Michael Camdessus
- IMF managing director from 1987-2000 - dealt with Asian Financial Crisis of 1997
Mara Buneva
- IMRO agent who killed Serb Velimir Prelic and then killed herself - Bulgarian heroin
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903)
- IMRO declared Krusevo and Strandzha Republics in revolt against Ottomans on Elijah's Day
Ohrid-Debar Uprising (1913)
- IMRO under Petar Chaulev fought against Serb Radomir Putnik over namesake regions
John V. Evans
- Idaho governor from 1977-87 whom Randy Weaver threatened to kill in dispute with Terry Kinnison after being pals with Frank Kumnick
Coeur d'Alene Labor Strike (1892)
- Idaho miners' strike led by George Pettibone and put down by Charles Siringo
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
- Illinois representative and West Virginia Senator expanded role of ICC in telecommunications
1974 Miss Universe Pageant
- Imelda Marcos held this event in Folk Arts Theater, which was built in three months
MacDonald House Bombing (1965)
- Indonesian militants killed 22 bank bombing in Singapore during Konfrontasi
Omme datum optimum (1139)
- Innocent II gave papal protection to Knights Templar and exempted them from taxes/tithes
Hedge schools
- Irish schools for Catholics run by Edmund Ignatius Rice
Larne gun-running (1914)
- Irish under Frederick Crawford and Wilfrid Spender got tons of ammo from German Empire
Donnacona
- Iroquois chief kidnapped by Jacques Cartier to find mythical Kingdom of Saguenay
Battle of Petroe (Hades) (1037)
- Isaac I Komnenos defeated Michael VI Stratiokitos, taking Byzantine throne
Tour de Nesle Affair (1314)
- Isabella of France saw the purses she gave her sisters-in-law in the hands of Philip and Walter of Aunay - exposed them, leading to angry Philip IV
Bandiera Brothers
- Italian nationalists inspired by Mazzini to land at Crotone and take Cosenza - executed by firing squad
Bakar Mockery (1918)
- Italian navy raid led by d'Annunzio in WWI that was militarily irrelevant, but raised Italian morale
Aigues-Mortes Massacre (1893)
- Italian workers in salt pits killed by Frenchmen - no convictions resulted, partly due to confusion over the name "Vernet"
Curragh Incident (1914)
- J.E.B. Seely and John French were pushed out by Asquith after Irish tried to arm Ulster volunteers
Weinsberg Massacre (1525)
- Jack Rohrbach ordered 70 nobles to "run the gauntlet of pikes" in Peasants' War
Fall of Ruad (1302-03)
- Jacques de Molay and Henry II of Jerusalem failed to stop loss of last Crusader outpost
Mulligan Letters (1876)
- James Blaine indicted on railroad fraud with Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad - said "kindly burn this letter"
Battle of Bloody Run (1763)
- James Dalyell and Robert Rogers defeated near Parents' Creek in Detroit during Pontiac's Rebellion
San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre (1984)
- James Huberty killed 21 people in San Diego and was defended by his widow with claims that it was due to overconsumption of monosodium glutamate
Wagon Box Fight (1867)
- James Powell fought Crazy Horse and Red Cloud in Red Cloud's War near Fort Phil Kearney, Wyoming
Maritz Rebellion (1914-15)
- Jan Smuts put down this revolt in South Africa during WWI known as Five Shillings Rebellion
Battle of Kutna Hora (1421)
- Jan Zizka defeated Holy Roman Empire and Hungary with Taborite war wagons after crusade by Martin V
Yui Mitsue
- Japanese General who led Siberian intervention with Baron Ungern and Alexander Kolchak
Homfreyganj Massacre (1944)
- Japanese killed 44 Indian civilians during WWII in Andaman Islands
Battle of Kalka River (1223)
- Jebe and Subotai the Valiant defeated Kiev under Mstislav III
Notes on the State of Virginia
- Jefferson wrote about his state in response to questions from Francois de Babe-Marbois
Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)
- Jehovah's Witnesses refused to salute flag - Frankfurter wrote majority, saying "national unity= national security"; only dissenter was Harlan Stone - later overturned by Jackson's majority in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
Bay View Massacre (1886)
- Jeremiah McClain Rusk put down labor protests violently in Milwaukee
Jean Chatel
- Jesuit and attempted knife assassin of Henry IV of France - had hand melted off and executed in 1594
Treaty of Alcacovas (1479)
- Joanna la Beltraneja and Afonso V gave up to Isabella of Castile, ending War of Castilian Succession
Trier Witch Trials (1587-93)
- Johann von Schonenberg conducted largest witch trial in European history
Battle of Dakar (1940)
- John Cunningham failed to destroy Vichy fleet in Operation Menace in Senegal
Capitulation of Wittenberg (1547)
- John Frederick I of Saxony surrendered city to Charles V and Duke of Alba in Schmalkaldic Wars
Battle of Gonzales (1835)
- John Henry Moore defeated Francisco de Castañeda in first battle of Texas Revolution - cannon was vital to battle, where "Come and Take It" flag started
Treaty of Le Goulet (1200)
- John I and Philip Augustus agreed to terms over Duchy of Normandy
Lwow Oath (1656)
- John II Casimir entrusted Virgin Mary with protection of Poland-Lithuania
Zeebrugge Raid (1918)
- John Jellicoe attempted to block Belgian port of Bruges
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
- John Knox attacked Mary I in this pamphlet
Downing Street Declaration (1993)
- John Major and Taioseach Albert Reynolds agreed to Irish self-determination
Battle of Bug Badsak (1913)
- John Pershing stopped juramentados of Moro Rebellion with Colt .45
Lincoln County War (1878-81)
- John Tunstall and Alexander McSween killed in New Mexico War that included Billy the Kid and Blackwater Massacre
Pound Ridge Massacre (1644)
- John Underhill massacred 500-700 Wappingen Indians in Kieft's War
Treaty of Badajoz (1801)
- John of Portugal and Manuel de Godoy signed Portuguese conciliatory treaty
Hazza' Majali
- Jordanian PM killed in 1960 - bomb blew him up in his office
Battle of El Roble (1813)
- Jose Miguel Carrera won against Spanish after O'Higgins said "Live with honour or die with glory"
Battle of Coyotepe Hill (1912)
- Joseph Pendleton and Smedley Butler defeated Benjamin Zeledon during occupation of Nicaragua
Farnley Wood Plot (1664)
- Joshua Greathead and Thomas Oates tried to overthrow monarchy of Charles II in Leeds
Massacre of Badajoz (1936)
- Juan Yague killed 4,000 prisoners after burning some in a church - admitted it to John Whitaker, saying "what was I gonna do?"
Battle of Argentoratum (Strasbourg) (357)
- Julian the Apostate defeated Chnodomarius of Alemanni - Ammianus Marcellinus fought here
Battle of Samarra (363)
- Julian the Apostate died fighting Merena of Sassanids here - he said "thou has conquered, Galilean"
Blue House Raid (1968)
- KPA 124 sent by Kim Il-Sung to kill Park Chung-Hee - Unit 124 said "no one would look for us in a graveyard"
Battle of Adrianople (1205)
- Kaloyan of Asen Bulgaers defeated Baldwin I of Latin Empire
Revolt of the Three Feudatories (1673-81)
- Kangxi Emperor put down rebellion of Wu Sangui
Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
- Kennedy's majority opinion upheld partial abortion in New Jersey
Old Court- New Court Controversy
- Kentucky General Assembly made new court that conflicted with Governor Joseph Desha
Happy Chandler
- Kentucky governor and senator who accused Alben Barkley of using WPA to campaign for him, leading to Hatch Act - second commissioner of MLB
Stone v. Graham (1980)
- Kentucky schools couldn't post Ten Commandments posters in school - only Rehnquist dissented
Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Khalid Ibn al-Walid defeated Byzantines under Theodore Trithyrius (Heraclius' general) in turning point of Arab-Byzantine wars
Yelu Chucai
- Khitan administrator of Mongol China - advised Genghis to have mercy on people of Northern China
Pavonia Massacre (1643)
- Kieft ordered murder of 120 Lenape with help of Council of Twelve Men in his namesake war
Tancred of Lecce
- King of Sicily who succeeded William II and was known as "monkey king"
Proclamation of Polaneiac (1794)
- Kosciuszko abolished serfdom during uprising and took famous oath
Battle of Versinikia (813)
- Krum of Bulgaria defeated Michael I Rangabe of Byzantines - almost led to a siege of Constantinople
Daryl Gates
- LAPD chief from 1978-92; said "casual drug use is treason" - said "blacks die easier from choking b/c their arteries open slower than normal people"
Edward Davis
- LAPD chief who formed CRASH and supported gay conversion therapy - announced arrest of Manson - recommended "portable gallows" for plane hijackers
Rampart Scandal (1999)
- LAPD's CRASH was corrupt according to officer Rafael Perez - led to fall of LAPD Chief Bernard Parks
Battle of Curzola (1298)
- Lamba Doria (Genoa) defeated Andrea Dandolo (Venice) - Marco Polo was captured here and Andrea Lamba Doria's son died here
Kamal Jumblatt
- Lebanese leader in civil war and father of Druze son, Walid - probably killed by Syrians
Cedar Revolution (2005)
- Lebanese revolution led by March 14 alliance after assassination of Rafik Hariri
Battle of Akroinon (740)
- Leo the Isaurian defeated Arabs under Abdallah al-Battal in turning point of Arab-Byzantine Wars
1st Battle of Bud Dajo (1906)
- Leonard Wood led genocide of 1000 Moros in crater; sparked by insurgent datu Pala
Hassan Uprising (1903-04)
- Leonard Wood sent soldiers to put down Moro Revolt, but namesake took 34 shots to kill w/ kris blade in his mouth
Battle of Yanshi (618)
- Li Mi lost to Wang Shichong, who overthrew last Sui emperor Yang Tang
Charles Bradlaugh
- Liberal MP and atheist who was almost kicked out of Parliament for not taking oath - made long speech about London Matchgirls Strike
William McMahon
- Liberal PM of Australia never elected because of vote of no confidence against John Gorton
Italo-Turkish War (1911-12)
- Libya was center of this conflict; precursor to Balkan Wars - ended with Treaty of Ouchy
Destruction of opium at Humen (1839)
- Lin Zexu destroyed opium at city harbor to start First Opium War
Mansion House Speech (1911)
- Lloyd George said "peace at any price is a humiliation" during Agadir Crisis under Asquith
Charles I of Monaco
- Lord of Monaco and founder of Grimaldi Dynasty - succeeded his father Rainier I and fought at Crecy
Treaty of Paris, or Meaux (1219)
- Louis IX agreed to peace with Raymond VII of Toulouse, ending Albigensian Crusade
War of the Reunions (1683-84)
- Louis XIV gained territory from Charles II of Spain through Truce of Ratisbon in this leadup to the Nine Years' War
Battle of Jarnac (1569)
- Louis, Prince of Condé lost to Sieur de Tavanne in French Religious Wars and died after surrendering - led to ascension of Gaspard de Coligny
Corpus Christi Massacre (1971)
- Luis Echevarria put down protests with Los Halcones after Mexico 68 movement
"Marlboro Marine" photo (2004)
- Luis Sinco took photo of marine James Blake Miller after Battle of Fallujah - shows future sufferer of PTSD
Pig War (1859)
- Lyman Cutlar killed Charles Griffin's pig, leading to famous line - George Pickett said "We'll make a Bunker Hill out of it" - dispute over San Juan Islands - ended by R.L. Baynes - Silas Casey led American forces in this conflict
Peter Ueberroth
- MLB commissioner and organizer of 1984 LA Olympics, which USSR boycotted in favor of "Friendship Games"
Battle of the Downs (1639)
- Maarten Tromp destroyed Spanish fleet of Antonio de Oquendo in Eighty Years' War
Battle of Scheveningen (1653)
- Maarten Tromp died in last naval battle of 1st Anglo-Dutch War - morale was still high b/c of his raised standard
Eigg Massacre (1577)
- MacLeods burned 395 Ranalds in the Cave of Frances during Highland War
Creole Case (1841)
- Madison Washington took over namesake ship and headed to Nassau - occurred during Webster-Ashburton negotiations
1964 Race Riots Singapore
- Malays and Chinese rioted during celebration of Mawlid
London Conference (1938)
- Malcolm MacDonald met with Arabs and Jews to resolve issues - ended with 1939 White Paper of policy
Battle of Apache Pass (1862)
- Mangas Coloradas and Cochise lost to Thomas Roberts' California Column in Arizona
Harvey Weinig
- Manhattan lawyer who helped launder money for Cali Cartel - let go by Clinton in Pardongate
Lisbon Regicide
- Manuel Reis Buica and Alfredo Luis da Costa killed Portugal's Carlos I and his heir Luis Filipe
Boyd Massacre (1809)
- Maori killed and ate 60-70 Europeans in Whangaroa Harbor
Battle of Ohaeawai (1845)
- Maori resisted British with pa fort, which protected them from cannon fire
Malones
- Mapuche cattle raiders who operated near Bio-Bio River
Willhelminer War (882-884)
- Margraves of Austria fought with usurper Aribo with aid of Charles the Fat and Svatopluk I of Moravia
Disaster of Rancagua (1814)
- Mariano Osorio destroyed Patria Vieja under O'Higgins and Juan Jose Carrera
Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
- Maronite patriarch living in Bkerke who follows Phoenicianism
Duc de Tallard
- Marshal of France who lost while reinforcing Ferdinand de Marsin at Blenheim
John W. McCormack
- Massachusetts Rep. and Speaker of the House - member of "Big Four" of FDR
Maaouya Ould Taya
- Mauritanian president from 1984-2005 - freed all prisoners when he came to power - overthrew Ould Haidalla
Pacal the Great
- Mayan ruler of Palenque in 7th century - ruled for 68 years, longest monarchical reign in America
Knapp Commission (1970)
- Mayor Lindsay created this to investigate NYPD corruption due to Serpico's leads - divided cops into "meat eaters" and "grass eaters"
Siege of Leiden (1574)
- Mayor Pieter van der Werff told starving citizens they could eat his arm in siege during Eighty Years' War
Duties of Man
- Mazzini promoted woman's rights in this pamphlet - said "you are men before you are citizens or fathers"
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
- Mexican president who won 1988 election against Cuahtemac Cardenas of FDN - ended ejido system, privatizing land
Jose Maria Morelos
- Mexican priest and independence leader after Hidalgo's death - led Congress of Anahuac in creating Constitution of Apatzingan
Four Days' Battle (1666)
- Michiel de Ruyter defeated George Monck in super long naval battle of 2nd Anglo-Dutch War
Battle of Augusta (1676)
- Michiel de Ruyter died in Franco-Dutch War loss to Abraham Duquesne
Smolensk War (1632-34)
- Mikhail Shein under Michael I failed to capture city in Poland-Lithuania, leading to his execution
Piazza Fontana Bombing (1969)
- Milan bank bombed by Ordine Nuovo's Carlo Digilio; Giuseppe Pinelli and Luigi Calabresi killed b/c of this
Battle of Rovine (1395)
- Mircea the Elder defeated Bayezid I after dressing up as a peace emissary to negotiate
James Eastland
- Mississippi Senator who blocked Voting Rights Act and said Freedom Summer murders were a "hoax" to LBJ
Parchman Farm
- Mississippi prison where Ross Barnett told guards to "break spirits, not bones" of Freedom Riders
Bayan
- Mongol general who completed Mongol conquest of China - Ahmad Fanakati became jealous of this man
Peljidiin Genden
- Mongolian leader purged by Stalin after arriving at Foros - instigated Lkhumbe Affair and promoted Buddhism
Battle of Xiangyang (1267-73)
- Mongols defeated forces of Duzong, who didn't know the outcome of the battle until later - sealed the fate of the Song Dynasty
Battle of Yamen (1279)
- Mongols under Zhang Hongfan finally destroyed and conquered Song Dynasty
Liberation Cell
- Montreal-based FLQ group that demanded $500,000 in gold, rehiring of 450 postal workers, and flights to Cuba or Algeria during October Crisis
Hassan II of Morocco
- Moroccan king of Alaouite Dynasty who oversaw "Years of Lead" - faced 1972 attack on his plane, where he tried to misdirect attackers by saying "the tyrant is dead" - survived 1971 coup attempt sponsored by Libya's Mohamed Medbouh and Mohamed Ababou - seized Spanish Sahara in Green March
Mehdi Ben Barka
- Moroccan political dissident who may have "disappeared" on orders of Hassan II - death profiled by Ronen Benjamin
Paint Creek- Cabin Creek Strike (1912)
- Mother Jones fought against Baldwin-Felts Detectives in West Virginia - similar to Matewan
D'arcy Concession (1901)
- Mozaffar al-Din, Qajar Shah of Persia, gave away oil to namesake British diplomat
Operation Murambatsvina (2005)
- Mugabe forcibly cleared out slums - plan inspired by ideas from Mengistu
Election Eve Speech (1980)
- Muskie spoke from "Cape Elizabeth" to tell voters to cast vote for Dems in midterms
Al-Jabarti
- Muslim historian who wrote about Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and rise of Muhammad Ali
Bologna Train Station Bombing (1980_
- NAR bombed Central Station in Years of Lead during term of Francesco Cossiga - applause after this for President Sandro Pertini, who said "we are facing the most criminal enterprise in Italy"
Zorach v. Clauson (1952)
- NY case involving religion in schools and one hour set aside for prayer
Fiorello La Guardia
- NYC mayor from 1934-45; banned artichokes due to mafia money and read comics over radio in 1939 World's Fair
John P. O'Brien
- NYC mayor in 1933 who, when asked who is police commissioner was, said "I don't know, they haven't told me yet"
Michael Dowd
- NYPD corrupt officer who was involved with the Diaz Mafia
Adrian Schoolcraft
- NYPD officer who exposed corruption through secret recordings, similar to Robert Leuci
Charles Becker
- NYPD officerexecuted for killing Herman Rosenthal in 1915 - arrested Ruby Young, Stephen Crane's hooker
Battle of Magenta (1859)
- Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II defeated Ferenc Gyulay in 2nd Italian War of Independence
Battle of Solferino (1859)
- Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II defeated Franz Josef I where all armies were under personal command of monarchs - broke into 3 different battles at Medole, San Martino, and its namesake location - Red Cross was founded at Castiglione delle Stiviere
Philosophy of the Revolution (book)
- Nasser wrote this book and said he wanted to rule 55 million Arabs, then 224 million Africans, then 420 million Muslims
Lager Sylt
- Nazi concentration camp in Channel Islands run by Karl Tietz, who employed blacks - built by Organisation Todt and Spanish exiles
Wilhelm Kube
- Nazi leader of Belarus assassinated in Operation Blow-Up by maid Yelena Mazanik - compared Jews to "the plague and syphilis"
Pablo Bartholomew
- New Delhi-based photographer who took picture of buried baby girl following Bhopal
Daniel S. Dickinson
- New York Senator that led Hard Hunkers against William Marcy's Soft Hunkers
Lexow Committee (1894)
- New York state senate probe into NYPD corruption - organized after election of mayor William Strong
1960 Ethiopian coup attempt
- Neway brothers attempted coup while Haile Selassie was in Brazil - put down by Abuna Basilios, patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Battle of Marsaglia (1693)
- Nicholas Catinat defeated Victor Amadeus II of Savoy in Nine Years' War
Siege of Szigetvar (1566)
- Nikolai Subic Zrinski made last stand against Suleiman, deterring further Ottoman advance - said by Richelieu to be "the battle that saved civilization"
Battle of Camaret (1694)
- Nine Years' War battle where Marquis de Vauban defeated Thomas Tollemache in his only field command
Sack of Thessalonica (1185)
- Normans of William the Good sacked city under David Komnenos and Eustathius
Kapp Putsch (1920)
- Noske's order to disband Freikorps led to revolt and occupation of Berlin by namesake, Hermann Ehrhardt, and Walther von Luttwitz - featured participation by Ludendorff and Pabst - Weimar army commander Hans von Seeckt refused to fire on coup leaders
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
- O'Connor wrote majority in UMichigan law school affirmative action case
New York v. US (1992)
- O'Connor wrote majority in this case about disposal of nuclear waste
William Stanberry
- Ohio Senator who accused Sam Houston of being part of scam with Robert Rose, leading to him getting beat up with a cane
Carl Albert
- Oklahoma rep. and Speaker of the House - could have made himself acting president through 25th Amendment in Watergate
Battle of Svolder (1000)
- Olaf Tryggvason lost to Sweyn Forkbeard after Einar Thambarskelfir's bow broke
Albanian Subversions
- Operations Valuable and Fiend attempted to free Albania from Communists post-WW2 - used group of exiles called Company 4000
Battle of Heavenfeld (634)
- Oswald of Northumbria defeated and killed Cadwallon ap Cadfan, King of Gwynedd
Battle of Winwaed (655)
- Oswiu of Bernicia (and Northumbria) defeated and killed Penda of Mercia near Cock Beck stream
Synod of Whitby (664)
- Oswiu of Northumbria and Bernicia said he would follow Roman customs of calculating Easter, not Irish ones
Battle of Andernach (939)
- Otto I's forces crushed rebellion of Dukes of Franconia and Lotharingia
Lufthansa Flight 181 (1977)
- PFLP's "Commando Martyr Halima" hijacked planes in support of RAF prisoners - landed in Mogadishu
Casimiro Monteiro
- PIDE agent that killed Humberto Delgado and FRELIMO leader Eduardo Mondlane - tortured Goa independence agitators at Valpoi police station
Pidjiguiti Massacre (1959)
- PIDE massacred striking PAIGC dock-workers in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Eugenia Charles
- PM of Dominica from 1980-95 - first woman lawyer in Dominica and first woman elected in the Americas - served with President Aurelius Marie
Mahmoud al-Nokrashy Pasha
- PM of Egypt killed by Muslim Brotherhood under reign of King Farouk I
Aklilu Hable-Wold
- PM of Ethiopia under Haile Selassie - resigned in favor of Endelkachew Makonnen under pressure from Derg
Antonio di Rudini
- PM of Italy replaced after Giuseppe Mussi was killed during Bava-Beccaris Massacre - succeeded by Luigi Pelloux
Edward Seaga
- PM of Jamaica who supported US invasion of Grenada - succeeded by Michael Marley
Wasfi Tal
- PM of Jordan under King Hussein from 1962-71 - killed by Black September who supposedly drank his blood from the steps of the Cairo Sheraton
Michael J. Savage
- PM of New Zealand at beginning of WWII - criticized peace at Munich, saying it was "too high a price"
George Forbes
- PM of New Zealand from 1930-35 - helped load sheep onto railway wagons from time to time
Julius Chan
- PM of Papua New Guinea who attempted to resolve the Bougainville insurgency through Sandline Affair and Operation Rausim Kwik, leading to resignation
Antonio Maura
- PM replaced after Tragic Week and exile of Alejandro Lerroux - replaced by Segismundo Moret under Alfonso XIII
Abu Daoud
- Palestinian who led Black September and carried out Munich Massacre in 1972
Maurice Grimaud
- Parisian police chief who avoided violence with allies of Mitterand and Pierre Mendes France during May 1968
Germanos I
- Patriarch of Constantinople who resigned after Leo III started iconoclasm - replaced by Anastasios
Bear River Massacre (1863)
- Patrick Edward Connor and Edward McGarry massacred hundreds of Shoshone under Bear Hunter - Chief Sedgwick escaped, as did Pocatello
Sublimis Deus (1537)
- Paul III declared slavery of indigenous Americans - similar to Pastorale officium
Battle of Hatfield Chase (633)
- Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon ap Cadfon defeated and killed Edwin of Northumbria
Battle of Circencester (628)
- Penda of Mercia defeated Gewisse, taking control of Severn Valley
Battle of Maserfield (641-42)
- Penda of Mercia killed and dismembered Oswald of Northumbria here
Jangal Movement (1915-1920)
- Persian rebellion against Qajar Dynasty in Iran led by Soviets and Mirza Kuchik Khan
Salt War (1540)
- Perugia revolted against tax - put down by Pierluigi Farnese and Pope Paul III
Juan Velasco Alvarado
- Peruvian dictator who told Chileans to "stop with the bullshit or tomorrow I shall eat breakfast in Santiago"
Fernando Belaunde
- Peruvian president overthrown by Juan Velasco Alvarado's dictatorship - led "El Manguerazo" protest against state suppression of his candidacy
Victor Haya de la Torre
- Peruvian who founded APRA, rejected Washington and Moscow in famous quote
Madhav Rao I
- Peshwa (chief minister) of Marathas that led Maratha resurrection after Third Battle of Panipat and before capture of Najibabad
Battle of Muret (1213)
- Peter II of Aragon died in loss to Simon IV of Montfort during Albigensian Crusade
Battle of Col de Panissars (1285)
- Peter III of Aragon defeated French forces of Philip III, who later died of dysentery
Ehden Massacre (1978)
- Phalangists killed Maradas and attacked mansion of Suleiman Frangieh in Lebanese Civil War
Battle of Frankenhausen (1525)
- Philip I of Hesse and George of Wettin defeated and killed Muntzer in German Peasants' War
Battle of Verona (249)
- Philip the Arab killed by Decius, according to Zosimus
Battle of Marciano (1554)
- Piero Strozzi and Siena lost to Gian Giacomo Medici, known as "small Medici" or "Medeghino" - Siena became absorbed into Florence after this battle
March of the Iron Will (1936)
- Pietro Badoglio marched on Addis Ababa, leading to Haile Selassie moving to Gore
Charles Siringo
- Pinkerton agent that saved Clarence Darrow from lynching - wrote about fraudulent election of Colorado Governor James Peabody
James McParland
- Pinkerton agent who investigated Jacob McLaughlin and worked for Franklin Gowen in Reading Railroad Strike as "James McKenna"
Steve Christian
- Pitcairn mayor convicted of child rape - similar to Mike Warren in 2010
Vatican I (1869-70)
- Pius IX passed Dei Filius and Pastor Aeternus (papal infallibility) against Filippo Guidi's objections - included Henry Edward Manning and Ignatius von Senestrey - Bernard John McQuaid complained of weather and so did James Roosevelt Bayley of high prices in Rome
Operation Tempest
- Polish Home Army led uprisings across Poland in WW2 - began on "W" Hour
Jan Karski
- Polish exile who told Felix Frankfurter about Holocaust, who said "I can't believe it"
Jan Karski
- Polish messenger at Warsaw Ghetto who reported on conditions near Chlodna Street
Tarnogrod Confederation (1715-16)
- Polish nobility held Silent Sejm against Augustus II the Strong from House of Wettin
Teixeira de Sousa
- Portuguese doctor and advisor to King Manuel II
Miguel Bombarda
- Portuguese doctor killed during 5 October 1910 Revolution
Nuno Alvares Pereira
- Portuguese general and saint who supported John I of Aviz during 1383-85 interregnum
Academic Crisis (1962)
- Portuguese govt. tried to close down university organizations - Caetano resigned from Lisbon professorship in protest and later became part of Salazar's govt.
Carbonaria
- Portuguese revolutionaries who participated in Lisbon Regicide on Tagus River in Praca do Comercio
Primavalle Fire (1973)
- Potere Operaio burnt two children of neo-fascist Mario Mattei alive during Years of Lead
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
- President of Bangladesh who called for Six Point Movement at March 7 Speech at Bangabandhar
Oscar Carmona
- President of Portugal from 1926-51 while Salazar was PM
Nicolas Salmeron
- President of Spain who besieged Cartagena during Cantonal Revolt of 1873
Joseph von Radowitz
- Prussian foreign minister and leader of conservatives at Frankfurt Parliament of 1848
Battle of Raphia (217 BC)
- Ptolemy IV defeated Antiochus III with elephants - Theodotus the Aetolian tried to assassinate Ptolemy before this battle
Amelie of Orleans
- Queen of Portugal with King Carlos I and protected future Manuel II with flower bouquet
West German Embassy Siege (1975)
- RAF under name "Kommando Holger Meins" besieged embassy in Stockholm
Battle of Kandalur Salai (10th Century)
- Rajaraja defeated Chera dynasty with Colandia and Sangara ships
Siege of Montsegur (1243)
- Raymond de Pereille and Cathars burned after 9-month siege years after Albigensian Crusade
Siege of St. Andrews Castle (1546-47)
- Regent Arran seized castle after the murder of David Beaton - John Knox was captured and sent to work in French galleys as slave
William Lemke
- Rep. from North Dakota who ran on 1936 Union Party ticket with attorney Thomas O'Brien
Red Terror (1936-39)
- Republicans executed Sacred Heart of Jesus and killed priests with executioner La Pecosa, "the freckled one"
Battle of Flores (1591)
- Richard Grenville, Walter Raleigh's cousin, heroically commanded Revenge here
Oxford Evolution Debate (1860)
- Robert Fitzroy supported Wilberforce here by lifting a Bible and saying that "God was smarter than man" - involved blind economist Henry Fawcett, Joseph Dalton Hooker, lecture by John William Draper, and fainting of Lady Brewster
Battle of Magdala (1868)
- Robert Napier's expedition finally defeated Tewodros II in this siege - Tewodros II committed suicide before his capture with a pistol given to him by Victoria
Abdeen Palace Incident (1942)
- Robert Stone surrounded King Farouk's palace - Farouk was forced to replace Hussein Serry Pasha with Nahas Pasha
Battle of the Counts (1287)
- Roger of Lauria (Aragon) defeated Angevin navy in War of the Sicilian Vespers
Battle of Les Formigues (1285)
- Roger of Lauria broke French fleet in night attack during War of the Sicilian Vespers
Philip Berrigan
- Roman Catholic priest and peace activist that protested Vietnam War and created Plowshares Movement
Magnentius
- Roman usurper who overthrew Constans I in 350, who was said to die in the arms of his grandmother
Lancieri
- Romanian blue-shirted fascists that opposed green-shirted Iron Guard
2nd League of Armed Neutrality
- Russia under Paul I organized economic anti-British alliance - ended at Battle of Copenhagen
Harakat Tahrir
- Sahrawi movement for independence created by Mohammed Bassiri that led Zemla Intifada in 1970
Portella della Ginestra Massacre (1947)
- Salvatore Giuliano opened fire on Communists in Palermo - led to Viterbo Trial
Battle of La Ebonal (1859)
- Samuel Heintzelmann defeated Teodoro Zamora's forces in Cortina War in Texas
Siege of Gaeta (1860)
- Sardinia and Hungary defeated Kingdom of Two Sicilies - final battle between Sardinia and Kingdom of Two Sicilies
Charles Albert
- Sardinian King who made his namesake "Statute" into a constitution - known as "Italian Hamlet" and "Hesitant King"
Bishops' Wars (1639-40)
- Scottish Covenanters under Marquess of Montrose and Alexander Leslie favored Presbyterian control of Scottish churches - ended with Treaty of Ripon after Battle of Newburn
Viscount Dundee
- Scottish Jacobite leader who died in Battle of Killiecrankie despite his victory, ending 1689 rebellion - asked a soldier how the day was, who said good for James, not for you; he didn't care - known as "Bluidy Clavers"
John Logie Baird
- Scottish born inventor of mechanical television
Ole Hanson
- Seattle mayor who put down 1919 Seattle General Strike - resigned after an anarchist bombing "I am tired out and am going fishing"
Bruce Babbitt
- Secretary of Interior under Bill Clinton - implicated for Indian casino permit scandal in Wisconsin called Wampumgate - former Governor of Arizona
Rogers Plan (1969)
- Secretary of State under Nixon proposed end to Six-Day War and War of Attrition through Gunnar Jarring's negotiations and UN Resolution 242
Luke E. Wright
- Secretary of War and Governor-General of Philippines, succeeding Taft in both positions - helped manage Memphis yellow fever epidemic in 1878
Operation Green Sea (1970)
- Sekou Toure invaded by Portugal to capture PAIGC leader Amilcar Cabral
Antiochus IV Epiphanes-
- Seleucid king who supported High Priest Jason and executed Jews, leading to Maccabee Revolt
Scott Lucas
- Senate majority leader who lost his Illinois seat after opposing Kefauver Committee
Nathan Sanford
- Senator from NY and VP of Clay in 1824 - house was later used as insane asylum
Edmund Kean
- Shakespearean English actor and rival of Junius Brutus Booth in Transcontinental Rivalry
Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774)
- Shawnees under Cornstalk agreed to peace in Lord Dunmore's War - followed by Fort Gower Resolves
Battle of Penghu (1683)
- Shi Lang defeated by Kangxi in naval battle, leading to end of Tungning
Battle of Surat (1664)
- Shivaji sacked city under Irayat Khan and Aurangzeb
Washakie
- Shoshone chief and fur trader that took his name from his battle tactic of gourd-rattling - signed Treaties of Fort Laramie and Fort Bridger
Ned Blackhawk
- Shoshone historian at Yale who wrote "Violence over the Land: Indians and Empire in the Early American West"
The Dann Sisters
- Shoshone sisters who are land rights activists - profiled in American Outrage documentary
Old Toby
- Shoshone who guided Lewis and Clark along with Tetoharsky and Twisted Hair - real name meant "furnished white white-man brains"
Battle of Montaperti (1260)
- Sienese Ghibellines defeated Florentine Guelphs with aid of traitor Bocca degli Abati
Siege of Minerve (1210)
- Simon IV of Montfort led forces singing "Te Deum" into city during Albigensian Crusade
Milwaukee Bridge War (1845)
- Solomon Juneau and Byron Kilbourn fought over placement of bridge
James Byrnes
- South Carolina politician and Sec. of State for Truman - outspoken supporter of New Deal and "lynching was necessary"
Sidney and Beatrice Webb
- Soviet supporters who were not shown true effects of Holodomor
Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800)
- Spain returned Louisiana to French in exchange for Tuscany
Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
- Spanish Nationalist leader who warned "immodest women" would be raped and fed castor oil
Bernardino de Mendoza
- Spanish ambassador expelled from England after Throckmorton Plot - ambassador to Henry III of France - sought to eliminate Huguenots in War of Three Henries
Josemaria Escriva
- Spanish priest who founded Opus Dei and wrote The Way
1974 Tamil Conference Incident
- Sri Lankan police killed Tamils at conference under first woman leader in the world Bandanaraike
Boleslaw Bierut
- Stalinist leader of post-WWII Poland - namesake decrees promoted anti-German sentiment - died mysteriously after Secret Speech
Battle of Simbirsk (1670)
- Stepan Razin lost to Prince Baryatinsky, leading to his execution where he told his brother to "shut up, dog!"
Rabulist Riots (1838)
- Stockholm riots following imprisonment of journalist M.J. Crusenstolpe by Charles XIV
Sack of Krakow (1241)
- Subotai sacked Polish city - trumpeter was shot here on Mariacki Hill
Operation Lotus (1975)
- Suharto, supported by Jose Osorio Soares of UDT, invaded East Timor; also called Serajo
Lex Gabinia (67 BC)
- Sulla and Aulus Gabinius allowed Pompey the Great to combat piracy 50 miles off the coast
PGA Tour Inc. v. Martin (2000)
- Supreme Court ruled that there had to be public accommodations for disabled at golf courses
Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg
- Swabian League commander in German Peasants' War; known as "Bauernjorg"
Convention of Moss (1814)
- Sweden and Norway joined under Charles XIII
Treaty of Abo (1743)
- Sweden ceded Karelia to Russia and Tsar Elizabeth after Hats' War
Folke Bernadotte
- Swedish diplomat who negotiated release of prisoners from Theresienstadt and was approached by Himmler for surrender - killed by Lehi and Stern Gang in Israel along with Andre-Pierre Serot
Toggenburg War (1712)
- Swiss civil war that resulted in Protestant victory over Catholic Abbey of St. Gall
Anton Saadeh
- Syrian nationalist handed over to Lebanon by Syrian leader Husni al-Za'im - killed in 1949
Yakub Beg
- Tajik ruler who seized Kashga during Dungan Revolt against Tongzhi Emperor of Qing Dynasty
Battle of Te Ahuahu (1845)
- Tamati Waka Nene destroyed Hone Heke, leading him to come back at Ruapekapeka
Timothy Sullivan
- Tammany Hall leader who names a 1913 gun control act in NYC
Incident at Petrich (1925)
- Theodoros Pangalos and Boris III avoided war after Greek dog ran over the border
First Council of Ephesus (431)
- Theodosius II called this council, which condemned Nestorianism - followed by similar second council here denounced by Pope Leo I as a "robber synod"
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
- Thomas Jefferson's bible that excludes mentions of miracles or supernatural occurences
Popish Plot (1678-81)
- Titus Oates alleged that people chewed silver bullets to make them more dangerous for potential assassination of Charles II - involved burning of papal effigies, which were filled with to mimic the pope's screams in hell
Jovita Carranza
- Treasurer of the US - her signature is on every bill in the US
Sheepeater Indian War (1879)
- Tukudeka Shoshone defeated in last Indian war of Pacific Northwest - began when Shoshone were accused of killing five Chinese miners at Loon Creek
Baling Talks (1956)
- Tunku Abdul Rahman held these to end Malayan Emergency
Turan Gunes
- Turkish foreign minister that began Second Turkish invasion of Cyprus with code words "When Ayse should go on vacation"
Great Fire of Smyrna (1922)
- Turks burned city, according to George Horton and Minnie Mills - relief helped by hunchback Methodist pastor Asa Jennings - Grescovich Report said Greeks started this - preceded by Turks' murder of Bishop Chrysostomos - Aristotle Onassis escaped this event
Tokaj
- UNESCO world heritage site in Hungary that produces Hungarian wine
Edwin Sims
- US District Attorney of Chicago - supported Mann Act, which was also supported by McClure's George Kibbe Turner
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- US ambassador to UN under Ford - said that UNGA 3329 was a "great evil loosed upon the world" along with Chaim Herzog
James Hall III
- US army officer who sold secrets of Project Trojan to Stasi and Soviets
Leamon Hunt
- US diplomat killed by Red Brigades in 1984 - death led to demands by Lebanese militia for US to leave Lebanon
Navassa Island
- US island claimed by Haiti - claimed by US under Buchanan's Guano Islands Act
Harry Dexter White
- US representative at Bretton Woods and underling of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. - posthumously exposed as Communist spy in Venona Project
Stepan Bandera
- Ukrainian nationalist posthumously called Hero of Ukraine by Yushchenko who led pogroms
San Pedro Maritime Strike (1923)
- Upton Sinclair was arrested during this by officer who said "we'll have none of that Constitution stuff" while Sinclair was reading Bill of Rights
Treaty of Yazhelbitsy (1456)
- Vasili II, Grand Prince of Moscow, signed treaty with Archbishop Evfimy II of Novgorod - violated by Ivan III at Shelon
Battle of Suzdal (or Kamenka River) (1445)
- Vasily II of Moscow was taken prisoner by Maxmud of Kazan Khanate
Theriso Revolt (1905)
- Venizelos led revolt in Crete against union with Greece - opposed by high commissioner George I
Maurice Papon
- WWII and Algerian War criminal who sent Bordeaux Jews to Drancy; resigned after disappearance of Ben Barka
Battle of Eniwetok (1944)
- WWII battle on Marshall Islands - preceded by Operation Hailstone on Federated States of Micronesia - site of "thousand-yard stare" of soldier
Debrecen
- WWII capital of Hungary - site of end of Habsburgs in Reformed Great Church - known as "Calvinist Rome"
Nahas Pasha
- Wafd leader who initially opposed Farouk - made Egyptian PM after Abdeen Palace Incident
Capture of Cadiz (1596)
- Walter Raleigh captured port from Duke of Medina-Sidonia and sustained serious leg wound here
Main Plot (1603)
- Walter Raleigh executed for meeting with Lord Cobham, who through this, attempted to put Arabella Stuart on the throne
Operation Typhoon (1941-42)
- Wehrmacht offensive against Zhukov-defended Moscow
Gustav Noske
- Weimar defense minister who ordered the Freikorps disbanded, leading to Kapp Putsch - when asked if the army should fire, he said "Reichswehr does not fire on Reichswehr"
Aneurin Bevan
- Welsh Labor leader who led effort for NHS - led "Bevanites" and resigned under Attlee after welfare funds were used for rearmament
Daily Telegraph Affair (1908)
- Wilhelm II got roasted for saying "you English are mad, mad, mad as March hares"
Battle of the Severn (1655)
- William Fuller and Roger Heamans defeated Catholic MD governor William Stone - occurred after Plundering Time
Treaty of Benevento (1156)
- William I the Bad of Sicily and Pope Adrian IV made peace
Battle of the Boyne (1690)
- William III and Duke of Schomberg, who died, defeated James II, Earl of Tyrconnell, and Duc de Lauzun - losers' retreat almost cut off at Naul - Roughgrange's swampy ravine proved difficult for both sides despite info of Patrick Sarsfield - celebrated on "the Twelfth" by Orange Order
Declaration of Finglas (1690)
- William III pardoned Jacobite soldiers after Boyne, but not the leaders of the rebellion
The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528)
- William Tyndale wrote book and published it in Antwerp - defended divine right of kings under Henry VIII
Gaylord Nelson
- Wisconsin Senator who established Earth Day - had namesake "Pill Hearings" in 1969 over contraceptives
Battle of the Altai Mountains (89 AD)
- Xiongnu lost to Dou Xian of Han under unnamed "Chanyu"
Hanish Islands Dispute (1995)
- Yemen and Eritrea fought over islands in Red Sea - Yemen won out mostly
Battle of Maysalun (1920)
- Yusuf al-Azma under King Faisal of Iraq lost to Mariano Goybet in Franco-Syrian War
Hugh Glass
- abandoned during Arikara War by John S. Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger 300 miles from Fort Kiowa, South Dakota
Ambrogio Spinola
- accepted Surrender of Breda by Justin of Nassau - opposed by Count-Duke of Olivares under Philip IV
Poynings' Law (1494)
- act of Parliament that prohibited Parliament from meeting without approval of Irish Lord Deputy
Exclusion Crisis (1679-81)
- acts that sought to discredit legitimate heir of Charles II, James Duke of York
Rosser Reeves
- advertising executive that helped Eisenhower win 1952 election - inspiration for Don Draper from Mad Men
Roger L'Estrange
- advisor to Charles II who was skeptic of Popish Plot and failed to control press after lapsing of Licensing of Press Act
Albert de Gondi
- advisor to Charles IX and Catherine de Medici who helped plan St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Guillaume de Nogaret
- advisor to King Philip IV the Fair - accompanied Sciarra Colonna to deliver Anagni slap to Boniface VIII
Giulio Alberoni
- advisor to Philip V of Spain - literally kissed the ass of Duc de Vendome - planned Cellamare Conspiracy
Robert Ingersoll
- agnostic who defended Star Route frauders and coined "plumed knight" - friends with Walt Whitman
Mukje Conference (1943)
- agreement between Balli Kombetar and Albanian Communists on how to rule Albania post-WW2
Gentiloni Pact (1913)
- agreement between Giolitti and Catholic Party leader to swing votes to Giolitti in 1913 election
Contract Sejm (1989)
- agreement between Solidarity and government following Round Table Talks that legalized Solidarity
Marrakesh Agreement (1994)
- agreement that established WTO, which developed from GATT
1908 Messina Earthquake
- aid provided by Great White Fleet - survivors on ship Florida crashed into luxury ship Republic - happened during Giolitti's ministry
Agrippa Hull
- aide to Tadeusz Kosciuszko - black person assigned to him during his composition of a polonaise for harpsichord
Getting Word Project
- aims to recover histories of slaves of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello
De Havilland Aircraft Company
- aircraft company of Britain that produced Moth, Mosquito, and Comet models
Oskar Dirlewanger
- alcoholic junkie Nazi sadist who massacred thousands in barn fires in Belarus and Poland
Jude Finisterra
- alias of Andy Bichlbaum, leader of pranksters Yes Men, who said that Dow would take full responsibility for Bhopal by liquidating Union Carbide - was spied on by Stratfor
Massacre of Glencoe (1692)
- all men under 70 ordered killed by Dalrymple, Lord Stair - inquiry called it "slaughter under trust"
Grace Coolidge
- alleged to have affair with Secret Service agent James Haley - son died of blister while playing tennis
Battle of Glen Shiel (1719)
- alliance of Jacobites including Rob Roy los tto Joseph Wightman
Agricultural Wheel
- alliance of farmers founded in 1882 by W.W. Tedford in Arkansas
Kodama Yoshio
- almost killed by porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flying a plane into his house - involved in the Lockheed Scandal
William I the Bad of Sicily
- almost overthrown by Matthew Bonnellus for son Roger IV of Apulia - unfairly profiled by Hugo Falcandus
Greco-Turkish War of 1897
- also called Thirty Days' War - Baron van der Goltz led Turks to victory over Constantine - may have included first airplane shot down
Amilcar Cabral
- also known as Abel Djassi - led resistance to Portugal in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde - killed by Inonencio Kani in Conakry as head of PAIGC
Battle of the Nile (1798)
- also known as Battle of Aboukir Bay - Francois-Paul Brueys lost ships Orient and Goliath after paint and oil caught fire
Tarrafal
- also known as Camp of the Slow Death - used by Salazar as political prison in Cape Verde - used "frigideira" torture method
Yaqui Uprising (1896)
- also known as Nogales Uprising - Sonora (Mexico) and Arizona conflict instigated by Lauro Aguirre against Porfirio Diaz
Royal Baccarat Scandal (1891)
- also known as Tranby Croft affair - Gordon-Cumming resigned after accused of cheating in game with future Edward VII
Liberty Bell Classic (1980)
- alternative Olympics in 1980 held in Philly at Franklin Field
Yu-Shin Constitution (1972)
- amended Korean constitution to allow Park Chung-Hee to rule for life
April Novelization (1989)
- amendments to Polish constitution following Round Table Talks
Luigi Lucheni
- anarchist who killed Elizabeth of Austria while Irma Sztaray watched - originally had wanted to kill Philippe, Duke of Orleans
Pierre Barriere
- another attempted assassin of Henry IV - confessed to Dominican priest and was broken on the wheel
Mansfield Plantation
- antebellum rice plantation in South Carolina in Georgetown County
Young Reformation Movement
- anti-Nazi organization that opposed Reichbishop under Martin Niemoller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
March 1968 (Poland)
- anti-Semitic campaign under Wladyslaw Gomulka following Six-Day War
Siad Barre
- anti-tribal policies led to outlawing of phrase "what's your clan" and changed "Whom do you know" to "What do you know" - overthrown by Aidid and promoted Isaaq genocide with son-in-law's "Morgan Report", also called "Letter of Death"
Bob Dole
- appeared on Senate floor in 2012 to lobby for international expansion of ADA
Reza Shah
- appointed Seyyed Tabatabaee as PM and took title of Sardar Sepah
James Comey
- appointed to investigate Pardongate with Mary Jo White
Makarios III
- archbishop and Greek "father of Cyprus" - wrote angry letters to Phaedon Gizikis
Henry Weismann
- argued for Lochner by saying that bakeries were "well-ventilated" and "sweet-smelling"
Herbert Wechsler
- argued for Times in 1964 case v. Sullivan along with Louis Loeb
Robert Fitzroy
- argued with Darwin over slavery in Bahia, Brazil - called "Hot Coffee" in Darwin's diary - set up mission post called Buttons Land and later committed suicide
Alessandro Cagliostro
- arrested in Affair of the Diamond Necklace along with Nicole Leguay d'Olivia
Three Times Yes Referendum (1946)
- asked Polish citizens about support for people like Wladyslaw Gomulka
Alexandros Schinas
- assassinated George I of Greece near Thessaloniki's White Tower - fell out of a window during police interrogation, similar to Giuseppe Pinelli
Henry, Duke of Guise
- assassinated by Henry III and "Forty-Five" after sleeping with Charlotte Sauve, member of Catherine de Medici's "Flying Squadron"
Leo V the Armenian
- assassinated by Michael the Amorian, who was crowned with chains around his legs
Ibrahim Bare Mainassara
- assassinated in 1999 while president of Niger - succeeded by Daouda Malam Wanke
Frank Kameny
- astronomer fired from Harvard during Lavender Scare - lost in congressional race in DC to Walter Fauntroy
Preparedness Day Bombing (1916)
- attack killing 10 and wounding 40 led to arrest of Thomas Mooney and Warren Billingss
Maarten Tromp
- attacked as a child by Peter Easton - sailed the Aemilia; supposedly "swept" English navy w/ broom tied to his mast
Ira Allen
- attempted to arm French in Quebec in "Olive Branch Affair" and proposed United Columbia
Henri de Rohan
- attempted to break Siege of La Rochelle by attacking army of Charles d'Angouleme, Toiras, and Bassompierre with aid of Benjamin, Duke of Soubise
Bastard of Roussillon
- attempted to defend Elme against French in War of Sicilian Vespers - son of Nuño Sanchez
Rolf Clemens Wagner
- attempted to kill then-Nazi commander Alexander Haig
Giulio Cybo
- attempted to revolt against Andrea Doria with aid of Strozzis, Fieschis, and Paul III
Nathaniel Weare
- attempted to stop NH Gove's Rebellion, which was aided by a trumpeter at Hampton
Federico Krutwig
- author of Vasconia, which was the defining text of Basque separatism and ETA
Stokely Carmichael
- authored Black Power: The Politics of Liberation with Charles V. Hamilton
Willie Sutton
- bank robber who escaped from ESP in Philadelphia - originator of namesake rule for medical students
Chapman Amendment
- banned people with AIDS from handling food - additional provision to ADA
Radikalenerlass (1972)
- banned radicals from serving in government positions in West Germany - form of Berufsverbot
John Robinson
- beat James Otis over the head with a cudgel at a coffee house
Baldassare Castiglione
- began career in Gonzaga court in Mantua - wrote letters from Burgos criticizing Alonso de Valdes and Pope Clement VII
Bava-Beccaris Massacre (1898)
- began due to rising wheat prices from Spanish-American War - Umberto I awarded namesake general after he killed over 300 people in this
Centralia Mine Fire (1962)
- began on May 7, 1962 - theory for this based on Bast Collier Fire - profiled by David Dekok - Mooch Kashner attempted to end this disaster
George Barclay
- began plot to kill William III that was earlier preceded by Fenwick Plot in 1695 (Jacobite)
Tragic Week (1909)
- began when Catalonian cazadores threw sacred hearts into sea - saw unions like Solidaridad Obrera revolt in Barcelona
Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-74)
- began with Merlin Incident, included battles of Solebay and Texel - ended with Treaty of Westminster
William Tagen
- believed that CBS was beaming signals in his head - assaulted Dan Rather in 1986 and said "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
Thomas Knight
- belligerent Attorney General of Alabama during Scottsboro Boys trial, in which only juror that dissented was Irwin "Red" Craig
Teuta of Illyria
- betrayed by general Demetrius and killed herself after entire Roman fleet arrived in 227 BC
Cassion Spiss
- bishop killed by forces of Kinjikitile Ngwale during Maji Maji Revolt
Henry Compton
- bishop of London who helped William III of Orange come to English throne as one of Immortal Seven - carried out namesake Census
Lucy Walter
- black box containing her secret marriage vows with Charles II was alleged to exist - mother of Duke of Monmouth
Doris Miller
- black hero at Pearl Harbor that saved skipper Marvyn Bennison after orders from Claude V. Ricketts
Unit 684
- black ops team almost sent to kill Kim Il-Sung - mutinied on Silmido Island after mission was cancelled
A.C. Jackson
- black physician in Tulsa on "Black Wall Street" during riots - next door to Mabel Little's beauty salon
Kelayres Massacre (1934)
- boss James Bruno sent shooters to a Democratic parade; imprisoned in Philadelphia's ESP
Harry Parkes
- brutally executed by Xianfeng Emperor in Second Opium War - his expedition was preceded by Three Battles at Taku Forts
Pappenheimer family
- brutally executed on accusations of witchcraft and ten-year old son watched brutal torture
El Badi Palace
- built in Marrakesh by Ahmad al-Mansur of Saadi Dynasty after Battle of Alcacer Quibir
Romano Prodi
- called "Il Profesore"; Italian PM from 1996-98 and 2006-08 - led séance with a ouija board to locate Moro during his capture
Battle of Sedgemoor (1685)
- called "last battle on English soil" - Duke of Monmouth and Lord Greg of Warke defeated by Louis de Duras and Duke of Marlborough
Wilhelm Cuno
- called for passive resistance to French occupation of Ruhr Valley during time as Weimar Chancellor
Larry Pratt
- campaign manager to Pat Buchanan in 1996 who resigned after meeting with Richard Butler of Aryan Nations
Port Blair
- capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Bay of Bengal - near Thoothukudin in Tamil Nadu
Stanislas-Marie Maillard
- captain of Bastille volunteers - released Marquis de Sombreuil after his daughter drank blood in order to save him
Frederick Funston
- captured Aguinaldo while posing as prisoner of Macabebe scouts - mocked George F. Hoar's "overheated conscience"
Philip Schuyler
- captured Ethan Allen after attempted assault on Montreal
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
- captured Red Brigade "Friar Machine Gun" - killed by mafia; said "Italy won't survive the introduction of torture"
John Andre
- captured by John Paulding, Isaac Van Wart, and David Williams after talking about "the lower party" - organized Mischianza with John Montresor - execution witnessed by James Thacher
James L. Dozier
- captured by Red Brigades and held for 42 days - made to stare at a light bulb in torture - rescued by NOCS in Padua
Duke of Monmouth
- captured with peas in his pocket b/c he was hungry - supported by Robert Ferguson "the Plotter" and goldsmith Thomas Hayward Dare - wife pawned jewelry to buy ship Helderenberg - landed at Lyme Regis and supported by Daniel Defoe
Hawaii Housing Authority vs. Midkiff (1984)
- case in Hawaii that said land distribution through eminent domain was okay
Nueva Planta Decrees (1707-16)
- centralizing reform of Spanish law under Bourbon Philip V
Monteregian Hills
- chain of hills in Quebec between Laurentian and Appalachian Mountains
Enrico Mattei
- challenged "seven sisters" oil giants with his ENI - became "state within the state" - analogized Italy to the "little cat who tries to lick up a little oil from the bowl when the big dogs aren't looking"
James Houston
- changed vote of Irwin Craig to secure guilty verdict for Scottsboro Boys
John Diefenbaker
- chatted with Wilfrid Laurier while just a paperboy and said "I can't waste any more time on you"
Sir Richard Grenville
- chewed on wine glasses while raiding Azores Island and left 15 men to defend Roanoke - his ship Revenge at Battle of Flores is commemorated in Tennyson poem
Jose Yves Limantour
- cientifico of Diaz that helped Madero come to power
Mast Tree Riot (1734)
- citizens of Fremont, New Hampshire prevented David Dunbar from inspecting fallen lumber
Songea
- city in Tanzania home to Maji Maji Revolt, which involved worshipping of Chimulungu and warriors with millet stalk headbands
Bruneian Civil War (1660-73)
- civil war began with cockfight between Abdul Hakkul Mubin and Muhyiddin
Gustave Whitehead
- claimed to build first flying machine in Bridgeport, CT called "No. 21"
Tariq Aziz
- close advisor to Saddam Hussein and almost killed by Islamic Dawa Party before Iran-Iraq War
Israel Tonge
- co-conspirator with Titus Oates in Popish Plot - misfortunes involved being named London rector days before Great Fire of London
Wallace Fard Muhammad
- co-founder of Nation of Islam - investigated by FBI and called "Turkish Nazi agent"
Pat Buchanan
- coined term "silent majority" for Nixon and was second with Ezola Foster on "butterfly ballot" of Palm Beach County in 2000 election
Adam Czerniakow
- collaborated with Nazis in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - later committed suicide
Butskellism
- collaboration between Hugh Gaitskell of Labour and Rab Butler of Conservatives during 1950s
Charles Baudin
- commanded French troops in Pastry War at Battle of Veracruz and San Juan de Ulua after Monsieur Remontel demanded reparations
William Bainbridge
- commanded USS Constitution during War of 1812 and ran USS Philadelphia aground during First Barbary War
Oryol (ship)
- commanded by David Butler under Tsar Alexis I - captured and destroyed by Stepan Razin
Bernard-Rene de Launay
- commander of Bastille killed after kicking cook named Desnot in the groin - said "Enough! Let me die!"
Anthony Macauliffe
- commander of Bastogne at Battle of the Bulge that replied to Germans with "Nuts!"
Robert Duncanson
- commander who led Glencoe Massacre with Robert Campbell of Glenlyon
Francis Nicholson
- comment about rather seeing the "towne burn down" than be run by a local soldier sparked rumors which led to Leisler's Rebellion
Henrietta Maria
- commissioned Inigo Jones to create Queen's House at Greenwich
Broad Seal War (1838)
- commissions executed and signed by William Pennington gave Whigs victory in New Jersey dispue
Lawrence Keymis
- companion of Sir Walter Raleigh during expeditions with him and his son to find El Dorado in Guiana
Rayko Daskalov
- companion of Stamboliyski who led Vladaya Uprising - killed by IMRO in Prague
Friedrick Reck-Malleczewen
- compared John of Leiden to Hitler in "Bockelson" - killed at Dachau
Igor Markevitch
- composer who may have sheltered killers of Moro in his Florence villa
George Jeffreys
- condemned many in Popish Plot and later condemned Titus Oates - sentenced many in Bloody Assizes
Hans-Joachim Rotsch
- conduced boys' choir in Leipzig - forced out b/c he was exposed as a Stasi informer, or "spitzel"
William Knowland
- considered for 1952 VP of Eisenhower after Nixon's "Checkers" speech - US senator from California with Nixon
German Plot (1918)
- conspiracy alleged by British to be between Sinn Fein and Kaiser to overthrow British - sparked by Joseph Dowling arrest
Arthur D. Little
- consulting firm that concluded negligence was impossible and that sabotage was only possibility in aftermath of Bhopal disaster
Maximinus II
- continued Diocletian's persecutions after oracle of Apollo described "just men"that hindered Apollo's sight
Christopher Butler
- convert to Catholicism and bishop of Westminster who proposed Dei Verbum at Vatican II
Vicente de Valverde
- converted Atahualpa to Christianity for lesser punishment at execution - first resident bishop in South America
St. Columba
- converted Picts and Irish from base at Iona and converted King Bridei after opening gates of Inverness
John Bitty
- convicted under Mann Act and involved in Supreme Court case that said "words must exist for some practical purpose"
Schenectady Massacre (1690)
- convinced Albany Convention to submit to Leisler after 60 settlers were killed by French and Mohawks
Killing Time (1680-88)
- covenanters under James Renwick and Richard Cameron fought Privy Council of Scotland
Alfred Rosenberg
- created "Positive Christianity" in Nazi Germany, which tried to produce "People's Testament" and "Fifth Gospel"
Samuel Pierpont Morgan
- created Great Aerodrome (prototype of airplane) - used Charles H. Manly as test pilot, who fell into Potomac River
Clement Metezeau
- created sea wall around La Rochelle after Pompeo Targone failed
Chemie Grumenthal
- created thalidomide, which was vigorously opposed by Frances Kelsey
Trop v. Dulles (1958)
- criminal activity can't revoke citizenship in 8th Amendment case - Frankfurter dissented
William Bedloe
- criminal and informer in Popish Plot along with Titus Oates
Charles "Chinese" Gordon
- criticized massacre of Taiping rebels at Suzhou - armed himself only with rattan cane - commanded Hyson and broke wooden stakes in the sea
Flight over Vienna (1918)
- d'Annunzio led La Serenissima squadron to drop propaganda leaflets saying "Destiny Turns"
Impresa di Fiume (1919)
- d'Annunzio led veterans of Isonzo and took the city in Croatia - called "advance-guard deserters" by F.T. Marinetti
Canuck Letter (1972)
- dashed Muskie's 1972 election hopes - speech after this featured his tears, which he said were "melted snowflakes"
Glasser v. US (1942)
- dealt with Assistance of Counsel and Impartial Jury clauses of 6th Amendment - Frankfurter dissented, along with Stone
Philip I, Count of Flanders
- death led Philip II to leave 3rd Crusade with Peter II of Courtenay, a future Latin emperor
Richmond Turner
- decided not to send Husband Kimmel information on Pearl Harbor - lost to Gunichi Mikawa at Savo Island in Guadalcanal
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US (1964)
- decided with Katzenbach v. McClung - Tom Clark wrote a majority saying that establishment was subject to interstate commerce
Battle of Sentinum (295 BC)
- decisive battle of Third Samnite War - Egnatius killed, leading to Samnite surrender at Aquilonia
Battle of Aughrim (1691)
- decisive battle of Williamite War in Ireland - victory for Godert de Ginkell
Henry Dunant
- declared "All are Brothers" after A Memory of Solferino; last words were "Where has Humanity gone" - befriended Maria Feodorovna and Bertha von Suttner; founded Thursday Association - received Nobel Peace Prize with Friedric Passy
UN General Assembly Resolution 3329
- declared "Zionism is racism" after Arafat's "Olive Branch" speech - repealed by UNGA 4686
Simeon I the Great
- defeated Leo Phocas at Achelous - died when Romanos I Lekapenos beheaded a statue of him - died after losing to Croat King Tomislav
Ghazi Malik
- defeated Mongols at Battle of Amroha as Tughluq Delhi Sultan - died after falling from wooden platform, according to Ibn Battuta
Violeta Chamorro
- defeated Ortega in 1990 Nicaraguan elections as head of La Prensa newspaper
George Deukmejian
- defeated Tom Bradley in CA governor race - served from 1983-91 and kicked out Rose Bird, judge appointed by Jerry Brown
Drest X
- defeated by Kenneth I in 848, leading to his ascension and founding of Kingdom of Alba and capital at Scone
K.P. Candeth
- defeated forces of Portugal's M.A. Vassalo de Silva in Operation Vijay with help of Sagat Singh
Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952)
- defendant wanted to "stop encroachment of Negro" in Chicago - Frankfurter wrote majority opinion attacking hate speech
Henry Gladwin
- defended Fort Detroit in Pontiac's Rebellion and unsuccessfully reinforced by Abraham Cuyler at Point Pelee
Ines de Suarez
- defended Santiago from Mapuche in 1541 - mistress of Pedro de Valdivia, who served at Battle of Las Salinas
Gabriele D'Annunzio
- defenestrated during March on Rome; used castor oil and Achilles' cries of "Eia, eia, eia! Alala!" from Iliad
Louis-Mathieu Mole
- demanded large sum of money during Pastry War as French PM
Lord Moyne, Walter Guinness
- denied "blood for trucks" offer of Eichmann - killed by Lehi (Stern Gang) in Cairo
David Joris
- denounced Munster as Anabaptist leader, but didn't follow Menno Simons in making new sect
Lansana Conte
- denounced failed attack on his motorcade, saying God didn't want him to die yet - successor to Ahmad Sekou Toure
Mihnea II Turcitul
- deposed Petru II Cercel - converted to Islam, leading to nickname "turned-turk" - opposed by usurper and Lombard physician Rosso
Otto IV, HRE
- deposed by Frederick II Hohenstaufen after losing at Bouvines; only German king of Welf Dynasty
Patrick Breen
- described fate of Donner-Reed party following Fort Bridger in his diary
Richard Morris Hunt
- designed Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC and Newport summer cottages for Vanderbilts
Frederick Law Olmsted
- designed Stanford and chair of 1st Yosemite Commission - worked with Calvert Vaux on Central Park
Black Rubric
- details why Protestants kneel during Communion and is found at the back of Book of Common Prayer
Frank Geyer
- detective who found Pitezel children, exposing H.H. Holmes
Svatopluk I of Moravia
- dethroned Rastislav and ruled Great Moravian Empire - sometimes portrayed as Slovak national hero
Joseph Bazalgette
- developed London sewer system, after Great Stink, preventing large cholera epidemics
Alexaner Turney Stewart
- developed department store in NYC, similar to John Wanamaker in Philadelphia and Joseph Horne in Pittsburgh
Prodesis
- development project by both EU and Zapatistas in Chiapas
Gnassingbe Eyadema
- dictator of Togo from 1967-2005 - survived 1974 plane crash due to super human abilities - made wristwatches with flashing portraits of him, comic books about himself, and made date of failed coup a holiday called "Feast of Victory Over Forces of Evil"
Carl von Donop
- didn't help Johann Rall at Trenton and instead spent Christmas with "beautiful young widow" Betsy Ross
Ulrich von Jungingen
- died at Grunwald while leading Teutonic Knights, which were founded in 1191 at Siege of Acre
Archibald Rowe
- died commanding Royal Scots Fusiliers at Blenheim on Nebel River
Jose Sanjurjo
- died due to plane crash after saying he needed to wear proper clothes as the "caudillo of Spain"
Oruc Reis
- died fighting Charles V after capturing Tlemcen - former Algiers sultain woh lost an arm
Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter
- died in Beer Hall Putsch trying to overthrow Kahr, Seisser, and Lossow in Munich - was called "irreplaceable" in Mein Kampf
Germanicus
- died in Egypt under Tiberius, who may have ordered Piso to kill this person with black magic
Potti Sreeramulu
- died in hunger strike agitating for Andhra Pradesh's creation as a state
William Baffin
- died in raid under Shah Abbas I at Fort Queizome while serving in BEIC
John Reith
- directed "Regional Scheme" while leading BBC after 1923 Sykes Committee
Frank Bowe
- disabilities rights activist who is known as "Father of Section 504"
Christian X
- disabled after falling off of his horse, Jubilee - dismissed Carl Zahle after Schleswig Question, causing Easter Crisis of 1920
National Schism (1910-22)
- disagreement between Venizelos and Constantine - Venizelos wanted to join Entente in WWI, saying "One cannot kick against geography" in reference to naval blockade - ended in Noemvriana armed confrontation in Athens - led to WWI battle of Skra-di-Legen
Perry Anderson
- discussed Ernst Haas' analysis of ECSC in book The New Old World
Jack Lang
- dismissed by New South Wales governor Philip Game in 1932 constitutional crisis
Charles Elliot
- dismissed from Nemesis ship during First Opium War by Lord Palmerston - later consul general to Republic of Texas
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- dissent in Lochner mentioned "prohibition of lotteries" and that the "Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics"
Fred Vinson
- dissented against Truman in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer - oversaw Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
Million Man March (1995)
- divided into Early Morning Glory, Sankofa, Affirmation/Responsibility, Atonement and Reconciliation
Matthew Carey
- documented 1793 yellow fever epidemic and blamed blacks for it - recalled help of Joseph Innskeep and Dr. Adam Kuhn
Sebastian Lotzer
- drew up Twelve Articles and Memmingen Articles while serving in Baltringer Haufen in Peasants' War
Giulio Gavotti
- dropped first bomb out of airplane and first night mission in history during Italo-Turkish War - similar to Carlo Piazza, who flew first aerial recon mission
Margaret Court
- easily beat by Bobby Riggs in "Mother's Day Massacre"
Raymond Barre
- economist who succeeded Chirac as PM under Giscard D'Estaing - created strict economic policy, his namesake "plan"
Alice Lyle
- elderly woman executed after Monmouth Rebellion in Bloody Assizes of George Jeffreys
John M. Thurston
- elected to Nebraska senate seat despite William Jennings Bryan winning most of popular vote
Mandinka/Wassoulou Empire
- empire founded by Sekou Toure's grandfather, Samori Toure, in Guinea after fall of Mali's Toucouleur Empire
Armistice of Villafranca (1859)
- ended 2nd Italian War of Independence after Solferino
Treaty of Limerick (1691)
- ended Jacobite fight with William in Williamite War of Ireland
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
- ended Lochner era after similar Washington case Adkins v. Children's Hospital - Charles Evans Hughes wrote majority
Treaty of Rastatt (1714)
- ended War of Spanish Succession between France and Austria; similar to Treaty of Baden between France and HRE
Treaty of San Francisco (1952)
- ended allied occupation of Japan and began namesake system of US-Japan relations
Empress Irene of Athens
- ended iconoclasm with 787 Council of Nicaea - succeeded by finance minister Nikephoros I
Pompeo Colonna
- enemy of Clement VII who led peasant forces in Sack of Rome; felt sorry and sheltered 500 nuns
Satinath Sarangi
- engineer and activist who founded Sambhavna Trust after Bhopal
Holcroft Blood
- engineer and artillery commander under Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim and Ramilies - son of man who tried to steal crown jewels from Tower of London
Aldo Moro
- engineered "historic compromise" alliance with PCI and Berlinguer - faced Vajont Dam Disaster - signed Osimo Treaty with Tito - nicknamed "Antelope Cobbler" in Lockheed scandal papers
Robert Moses
- engineered infrastructure of NYC as Parks Commissioner under La Guardia and Governor Herbert Lehman
Frank Hamilton Cushing
- entered observational study of Zuni, whose houses ended up being Cibola
Theodor von Hassel
- enthusiastic elephant hunter and defeated rebels in Maji Maji Revolt with machine guns, showing that the "maji" was a lie
Pocatello
- escaped Bear River Massacre and hoped that converting to Mormonism would provide safety - forced onto Fort Hall Reservation
Shivaji
- escaped from Aurangzeb in Agra in wooden baskets - agreed to Treaty of Purandar - defeated Afzal Khan and attacked Surat
Andreas Baader
- escaped prison with help of Gundrun Ensslin, killing a librarian in the process of a fake book deal - killed himself on "death night" at Stammheim Prison
Janos Thurzo
- established Common Hungarian Trade with Jakob Fugger, who loaned lots of money to Albrecht von Brandenburg
Jules Ferry Laws (1881)
- established secularism in schools in French Third Republic; known as laicite
Mirra Afassa
- established utopian community in Pondicherry
Cabinda
- exclave of Angola that fights for independence under FLEC - given to Portugal in 1885 Treaty of Simulambuco
Stepan Razin
- executed at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow - subject of symphonic poem by Alexander Glazunov
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- executed at Flossenburg - wrote The Cost of Discipleship about Sermon on the Mount in 1937
Four Crowned Martyrs
- executed by Diocletian, leading to porphyry not being able to be worked with by Romans
Mstislav III of Kiev
- executed by suffocation after being placed under wooden platform on which Mongols feasted and danced after Battle of Kalka River
Tito Livio Burattini
- explored pyramid of Giza with John Greaves - invited to court of Wladyslaw IV to demonstrate aircraft that flew a cat
Alvaro de Mendana
- explorer who discovered Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Guadalcanal
John Edvard Lundstrom
- exported safe, red phosphorus matches to Bryant and May after matchgirls strike
Samuel Leibowitz
- exposed Victoria Price for lying as defence of Scottsboro Boys - built model train to recreate rope
Augustin Bea
- extended olive branch to Jews like Abraham Joshua Heschel with Nostra aetate at Vatican II
Charles the Bald
- faced rebellion by son named Carloman - succeeded father Louis the Pious
Hot Autumn (1969)
- factory strikes in Northern Italy began Years of Lead, in which Milanese policeman Antonio Annarumma died
Banco Ambrosiano Scandal (1983)
- failed Italian bank with ties to Vatican, Solidarity, Contras, and funded France in Falklands - led by Roberto Calvi
Golpe Borghese (1970)
- failed Italian coup attempt against Giuseppe Saragat - called Operation Tora Tora and led by WWII navy commander called "Black Prince"
Mission Moratorium
- failed Propositions I and F intended to block housing changes for low income people in San Francisco
Battle of Mayi (133 BC)
- failed ambush by Han Wudi against Xiongnu under Shanyu
Jean-Jacques Susini
- failed an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle at Mont Faron in Toulon - former OAS member
Grenelle Agreements (1968)
- failed attempt to placate strikers during May 1968 by Georges Pompidou
Baling Talks (1956)
- failed talks between Tunku Abdul Rahman, Chin Peng, and David Marshall to end Malayan Emergency
Francisco Madero
- failed to handle rebellions of Bernardo Reyes, Pascual Orozco, and Felix Diaz - wrote spiritual manuals under pseudonyms "Arjuna" and "Bhima" - opposed by Plan of Ayala and proposed Plan of San Luis Potosi
John Wilkins
- failed to provide reinforcements at Devil's Hole Massacre
Nizhny Novgorod Fair
- fair at Makaryev Monastery founded to compete with trade fair at Kazan
Call of Cochin (1978)
- famous speech by Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac denouncing "party of foreigners" - delivered while Chirac was in hospital for car accident
Richard Godfrey
- farmer who guided a failed attack by Duke of Monmouth at Sedgemoor
Vlad II Dracul the Dragon
- father of Vlad the Impaler and Radu the Handsome - sent troops to help John Hunyadi at Varna
Pompeius Strabo
- father to Pompey the Great - led Roman forces in Social War, which led to Lex Julia
Histiaeus
- father-in-law of Aristagoras who sent him the message to revolt tattooed on a slave's head
Mignons
- favorites of Henry III of France who fought Horatii-Curatii-style duel with representatives of Duke of Guise
Wawel Dragon
- fed a poisoned lamb by Krakus, leading to the founding of Krakow
John Keenan
- federal judge that ruled Union Carbide had to provide millions in relief after Bhopal disaster
Herod Antipas
- fell from power due to Caligula and Agrippa's plotting - exiled to Lugdunum
Black Saturday (1952)
- fire in Cairo sparked by British killing of 50 Egyptian policeman, which many felt abrogated 1936 security treaty
Earl of Winchelsea
- fired bullets into air in duel with Duke of Wellington over Catholic emancipation
James Jabara
- first American jet ace in history - died after daughter crashed car in 1966
Joseph Lyons
- first Australian PM from Tasmania - labor leader who died of a heart attack in office in 1945
Alban of Verulamium
- first British Christian martyr who performed miracles at execution - killed during Diocletian's Great Persecution, along with Procopius of Scythopolis
Harald Bluetooth
- first Christian king of Denmark; son of Gorm the Old - deposed by Sweyn Forkbeard
Fort St. George
- first English fort in India located in Madras, Tamil Nadu in 1644
Thomas Chittenden
- first Governor of Vermont Republic and of Vermont as a state - succeeded as country leader by Moses Robinson
Max Delvalle
- first Jewish president in Western Hemisphere - uncle to future Panamanian president Eric Arturo
Tomislav
- first King of Croatia - attended councils of Split along with Michael of Zahumjle - crowned by John X, who fought with Gregory of Nin in Councils of Split
Moktar Ould Daddah
- first Mauritanian president from 1960-78 - overthrown by Mustafa Ould Saleh after he couldn't control POLISARIO
Vere Bird
- first PM of Antigua and barbuda - his son was Lester Bryant Bird, who succeeded him in 1994 - supported Operation Urgent Fury
Riad al-Solf
- first PM of Lebanonn - created National Pact, resolving religious conflict - killed at Amman airport by Syrian nationalists
Kennedy Simmonds
- first PM of St. Kitts and Nevis - hailed as "father of the nation"
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
- first PM under Pompidou - replaced b/c his "New Society" program was too progressive - replaced by Pierre Messmer
Emil Seidel
- first Socialist mayor of major city - employed Carl Sandburg as private secretary and succeeded by Gerhard Bading
Walnut Street Jail
- first US penitentiary designed by Robert Smith in Philadelphia; first prison to use "separate system"
Battle of Savo Island (1943)
- first battle near Iron Bottom Sound in Guadalcanal - known as Battle of Five Sitting Ducks to veterans
James Webster Smith
- first black cadet at West Point - was brutally bullied and hazed by U.S. Grant's son, Frederick
Marcus Foster
- first black superintendent of Oakland schools - killed by SLA members Joe Remiro and Russ Little for attempting to create student ID system
Twelve Articles (1525)
- first draft of human rights after Romans in Continental Europe - abolished Todfall tax and began German Peasants' War
Thomas Buchanan
- first governor of Liberia - third largest city is named after him
Masinissa
- first king of Numidia and defected to Rome, participating at Bagbrades and Zama - married Sophonisba, who killed herself to avoid humiliation in a triumph
Jean-Francois Roberval
- first lieutenant general of New France and employed Cartier as chief navigator
Al Azhar University
- first madrasa founded in 10th century Cairo
Battle of Nocera (1132)
- first major defeat for Roger II of Sicily to Count Ranulf of Alife
Harlem Race Riot (1935)
- first modern race riot in that mostly property was destroyed - started when black Puerto Rican boy was beaten for stealing a knife
Kunstkamera
- first museum in Russia - created by Peter and included really weird stuff, like teeth and deformed babies
John Oxenham
- first non-Spaniard to cross Isthmus of Panama - received assistance from native Cimarrones in expedition
David McReynolds
- first openly gay candidate for president on Socialist ticket in 1980
Fred Karger
- first openly gay presidential candidate on major party in 2012 for Republicans
Leonard Matlovich
- first openly gay service member in Air Force
Nate Champion
- first person killed in Johnson County War - ally of William "Red" Angus and fought against Frank Wolcott in Powder River County, Wyoming
Cornelius Gallus
- first prefect of Egypt under Augustus - erected monument to himself in Philae after subduing revolt in Thebes, leading him to fall out of favor and commit suicide
Calder v. British Columbia (1973)
- first time that Canada recognized that First Nations owned property prior to colonization
Ryszard Siwiec
- first to self-immolate in protest of Czechoslovakia's invasion
Choshu Five
- five Japanese students that studied at University College London in 1863 - included Ito Hirobumi and rail baron Inoue Masaru
Robert von Greim
- flew Hitler to Berlin when Kapp Putsch was happening - succeeded Goering as Luftwaffe commander
Natalia Lopukhina
- flogged by Tsar Elizabeth and sent to Siberia - daughter of sister to Anna Mons, Peter's lover
Joseph C. McConell
- flying ace during Korean War - used his F-86 Sabre to shoot down MiG-15s - top scoring American jet ace
Edict of Amboise (1563)
- followed Edict of St. Germaine - Catherine de Medici tried to make peace after Massacre of Wassy
Lyngiades Massacre (1943)
- followed Komneno Massacre in Nazi-occupied Greece, where 317 were killed - 92 civilians killed
Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC)
- followed by peace of Titus Quinctius Flaminius, who defeated Philip V of Macedom - surrender by raising Macedon sarissas was ignored here
1970 Polish Strikes
- followed by similar 1971 Lodz Strikes about food prices - led to Edward Gierek replacing Gomulka
EDSA II (2001)
- following 1997 Asian financial crisis, Joseph Estrada was forced out in favor of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Philippines
Charles XIII
- forced Frederick VI of Denmark to sign Treaty of Kiel and began construction of Gota Canal
Merga Bien
- forced to confess that her child was the devil's child during Fulda Witch Trials from 1603-05
Kurapaty
- forest outside Minsk where thousands were executed by NKVD
Carl A. Schenck
- forester for Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate and founder of first practical forestry school at Biltmore
Pope Alexander III
- forgave Henry II for murder of Becket and held Third Council of the Lateran - quarreled with Antipope Victor IV and recognized Afonso I as Portuguese King
Indemnity and Oblivion Act (1660)
- forgave criminals in English Civil War and people who participated in regicide of Charles I
Symmachean Forgeries
- forged documents about Pope Sylvester I, who supposedly cured Constantine I of leprosy
Lewis Lawes
- formed prison football team at Sing Sing while warden - previously worked at Auburn Prison
Henry Waxman
- former Democratic California rep. who called for inquiry into Bhopal disaster
William O'Dwyer
- former NYC mayor who resigned as ambassador to Mexico b/c of Kefauver Committee
Peter MacDonald
- former Navajo leader imprisoned for corruption - released by Bill Clinton during Pardongate
Charles XIV John
- former Prince of Pontecorvo and implicated in Rennes plot to overthrow Napoleon - founded Bernadotte Dynasty in Sweden
Virgil H. Goode Jr.
- former Virginia representative who objected to Keith Ellison's Quran confirmation
Raymond Gorel
- former cashier of OAS - known as Cimeterre and killed by Jean-Jacques Susini
Klaus "Wowi" Wowereit
- former gay mayor of Berlin - succeeded by Michael Muller
Mustafa Badreddine
- former leader of Hezbollah named after Ali's sword - killed by bombing in Damascus in 2016
Rocky Anderson
- former mayor of Salt Lake City that was Justice Party candidate in 2012 - SUPER progressive
Harry Orchard
- former union worker whose real name was Albert Horsley - killed Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg
Drava River
- forms much of Croatia-Hungary border - tributary of the Danube
Charles Sheldon
- formulated "What Would Jesus Do?" in Kansas sermons in Topeka, 1896 - wrote In His Steps as Congregationalist
Suomenlinna
- fortress in Helsinki located on Finnish Fennoscandia
Basus War (494-534)
- forty year war between two Arabic tribes over the death of a camel
Apache
- fought Jicarilla War, Chiricahua War, Yavapai War, Victorio's War, and Buffalo Hunter's War
Monk Eastman
- fought against Five Points Gang and Paul Kelly while leading his own gang - put "bird seller" on his taxes
Charles John Napier
- fought aided Portugal in Liberal Wars under pseudonym "Carlos de Ponza" and won 1833 Battle of Cape St. Vincent
Daniel Wells
- fought alongside Lot Smith and George Smith in Utah War on side of Mormons
Daniel O'Connell
- fought for rights of Catholics and killed John D'Esterre in duel - funded his efforts with one penny-per-month dues
Charles James Napier
- fought in Peninsular War and declared "I have sinned" after capturing Sind
Battle of Preveza (1538)
- fought near Actium; Andrea Doria and Ferrante Gonzaga got destroyed by Hayreddin Barbarossa
Kaiser Wilhelm I
- fought over military budget with Landtag - arbitrated Pig War dispute and loved Elisa Radziwill
Jugurtha
- fought succession war with brother Adherba and Hempsal in Numidia - called Rome a "city for sale" highlighting corruption
William Beresford
- fouhgt alongside Duke of Wellington in Peninsular War and helped Britain invade Rio de la Plata
Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960)
- found that racist electoral district in Tuskegee, AL violated 15th Amendment - majority opinion written by Frankfurter
Arthur Tappan
- founded American Anti-Slavery Society with Lloyd Garrison - supported construction of Oberlin College
George Merrick
- founded Coral Gables in Florida, site of future University of Miami - supported by William Jennings Bryan
Peter Minuit
- founded Fort Christina and New Sweden in Delaware - died in hurricane on his way to St. Christopher
Samuel Warren
- founded Nutter McClennen and Fish firm with Brandeis - wrote "Right to Privacy" with Brandeis in Harvard Law Review
Jacob Best
- founded Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee, which competed with Joseph Schlitz
Katherine Vockins
- founded Rehabilitation through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Prison
W. Tate Brady
- founded Tulsa and participated in Tulsa Outrage of 1917 and Tulsa Race Riot - former KKK member and found oil at Red Fork and Glenpool
Radio Caroline
- founded by Irish Rohan O'Rahilly and competed with BBC - operated from Mi Amigo ship in 1960s
Fort Lisa
- founded by Spanish fur trader who married into Omaha people - Sacagawea died here in 1812 in North Dakota
Sulu Sultanate
- founded by explorer Sharif ul-Hashim and given to Spain in Madrid Protocol of 1885
George Thiel
- founded detective agency that competed with Pinkerton and Mooney and Boland
Conrad N. Hilton
- founded hotel chains started at The Mobley in Cisco, TX - gives out largest humanitarian prize in the world in his name
Ulugh Beg
- founded madrasas in Samarkand and Bukhara - succeeded Shah Rukh and commissioned star table of Zij-i-Sultani
Joseph Sheely
- founded meatpacking plant in Omaha, leading to South Omaha being "Magic City"
Ulrike Meinhof
- founded member of RAH - may have hung herself in Stammheim Prison - said "if one car is burned, it's a crime; if a hundred cars are burned, its a political action"
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
- founder of Falange who wrote poetry, like "The Prophecy of Magellan" and "Toast" - called "El Ausente" or "the missing one" by Francoist Spain
Hugues de Payens
- founder of Knights Templar - established Latin Rule as their code with Bernard of Clairvaux
Raden Wijaya
- founder of Majapahit Empire and defeated Yuan invasion of Java
William D. Pelley
- founder of Nazi pro-fascist Silver Legion of America after publishing "Seven Minutes in Eternity"
Abdullah Ocalan
- founder of PKK arrested by Turkish intelligence agency (MIT) - was sole prisoner on Imreli Island
Ken Arok
- founder of Singhasari empire in Eastern Java who defeated Tunggul Ametong to marry Ken Dedes
Velupillai Prabhakaran
- founder of Tamil Tigers - killed "traitor" mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah, in 1975
Pierre Fauchard
- founder of modern dentistry during Louis XV's reign - wrote "The Surgeon Dentist" in 1728
Isidor Fish
- friend of Bruno Hauptmann that received box of gold certificates
Antonio Pulli
- friend of King Farouk I who used to tell him "whoore stories" and bring him mistresses
Tim Mara
- funded Sing Sing Black Sheep football team with Alabama Pitts as starting QB - founded Giants
Li Shimin
- future Tang Taizong who defeated Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong at Hulao, leading to Tang Dynasty
Mario Cuomo
- gave "Tale of Two Cities" Speech, which criticized Reagan's "city on a hill" at 1984 DNC in San Francisco - told votes to vote for him, not "the homo" Ed Koch - got nickname "Hamlet on the Hudson" after 1992 primary
Richard Pace
- gave a sermon at Field of Cloth of Gold - interrupted by flying dragon/salamander/firework overhead
Monnet Plan
- gave coal and steel from Ruhr and Saarland to de Gaulle - led to formation of ECSC
George I of Greece
- gave way to Goudi coup - lost 1897 war to Turkey in thirty days, and called it Unfortunate War - assassinated by Alexandros Schinas in Thessaloniki
Walter Jenkins
- gay aide to LBJ found in YMCA bathroom
Carlito Dimahilig
- geodetic engineer that attempted to assassinate Imelda Marcos in 1972
Raymond II, Count of Tripoli
- gifted Krak des Chevaliers (studied by Lawrence of Arabia) to Knights Hospitaller
Philippe de Poincy
- governed Saint Bartelemy and sold it to French West India Company - descendants are part of Les Actors acting troupe on St. Kitts
Powell Clayton
- governor of Arkansas during Brooks-Baxter War - first US ambassador to Mexico under McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt
William Sulzer
- governor of NY in 1913; impeached by Tammany forces of Charles Francis Murphy and Frawley Committee
John Kerr
- governor-general of Australia who dismissed Gough Whitlam and put in Liberal Malcolm Fraser
May 1968
- graffiti-ed slogans during this event include "it is forbidden to forbid" and "I'm a Marxist of the Groucho tendency"
Thomas Munson
- grape horticulturist based in Denison, TX - monograph illustrated by William Henry Prestele
Mukti Bahini
- guerrilla resistance group in Bangladesh that resisted Yahya Khan - supported Awami League, which moved to Calcutta
Otto Ballerstedt
- had earlier conflict with Hitler in Bavaria that led to his jailing for a month
Maio of Bari
- had many diplomatic successes while serving William I of Sicily as "great admiral" - killed by Matthew Bonnellus for supposedly planning a kingdom takeover
Farah Pahlavi
- had most valuable art collection outside of US - wife of Shah Pahlavi
Wojciech Jaruzelski
- had snow blindness so he wore dark sunglasses - created Polish military junta in 1981 to put down Solidarity
Jacob Leisler
- had theological dispute with Nicholas van Rensselaer - bought land from John Pell for Huguenots - once captured by Moorish pirates - opposed by Nicholas Bayard, Stephanus can Cortlandt, and Frederick Philipse - posthumously pardoned by Earl of Bellomont
Kintpuash
- hanged for killing Edward Canby and Eleazer Thomas in Modoc War - also called Captain Jack
Roberto Calvi
- head of Banco Ambrosiano known as "God's Banker" - fled to London and hung himself following scandal
Paul Winzer
- head of Gestapo who helped set up Francoist concentration camps with Camilo Alonso Vega
Margaret Brent
- heir to Leonard Calvert's estate, who said "take all, spend all" - Maryland woman who became first US female lawyer
Mortimer Planno
- helped Haile Selassie land in Jamaica - witnessed Selassie's chihuahua Lulu roar like a lion
Emile Combes
- helped pass 1905 secularism law in French Third Republic as leader of Bloc des gauches
Justin Whitlock Dart Jr.
- helped pass ADA along with Patrisha Wright - known as "Godfather of ADA"
R.W. Scott McLeod
- helped purge gays from government with McCarthy in Lavender Scare - helped push Exec. Order 10450 through
Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus
- hero of Samnite Wars who was a 5-time consul
Puncak Jaya
- highest mountain in Oceania - located on Indonesia's part of New Guinea
John H. Manny
- hired Edwin Stanton and Abraham Lincoln in lawsuit against Cyrus McCormick
Felix Frankfurter
- hired first black law clerk William Thaddeus Coleman - rejected Ruth Bader Ginsburg b/c of her gender - founded ACLU
Emperor Decius
- his Christian persecutions led to "seven sleepers" hiding in a cave in Ephesus
John Trudell
- his Shoshone wife and kids died in mysterious fire in Duck Valley Reservation in Nevada - led AIM in the 1970s and was the spokesperson during their Alcatraz occupation
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
- his armies revolted in Sack of Rome after he was supposedly shot by Cellini with an arquebus
William Prosser
- his article on tort law while Berkeley professor inspired by Brandeis' "Right to Privacy"
Giannetto Berardi
- his death led to Amerigo Vespucci, executor of his estate, to sponsor Columbus' second voyage
The Players (NYC)
- home to Edwin Booth, who hung picture of John Wilkes Booth in his suite here
Pitcairn Islands
- home to Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands - capital is Adamstown - home to sexual assault trials in 2004
Marikina City
- home to Imelda Marcos' shoes in museum, who ran with Vicente Magsaysay in 1992
Enrico Berlinguer
- honest PCI leader who broke with Soviets - led "historic compromise" with Moro - met with PCF's George Marchais and Spain's PCE leader Santiago Carrillo
Diet of Speyer (1570)
- imperial diet under Maximilian II that restricted printing and business of Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar
Philip of Dreux, Bishop of Beauvais
- imprisoned by Richard I - smacked William Longespee on the head at Bouvines
Dan Rostenkowski
- imprisoned for mail fraud - former Rep. from Illinois - pardoned in Pardongate
Abraham Serfaty
- incarcerated under Hassan II and Moroccan Years of Lead, during which Tazmamart Prison was used
War of the Stray Dog (1925)
- incident at Petrich between Greece under Theodoros Pargalos and Bulgaria under Boris III and Alexander Tsankov
Ottoman-Venetian Wars
- included Cretan War (of Candia) and Morean War
Thomas Dangerfield
- informer in Popish Plot subplot called Mealtub Plot involving documents found in bathtub of Elizabeth Cellier - died from cane hit to the brain
Stephen Dugdale
- informer in Popish Plot that testified in front of Judge William Scroggs, who sentenced William Staley
Thomas Walcott
- informer of Rye House Plot, along with main informer Josiah Keeling - hanged for his involvement
Lucien B. Smith
- initial inventor of barbed wire along with Michael Kelly, which improved upon Osage orange
Pisistratus
- intentionally wounded himself and blamed it on political opponents - started building Temple of Zeus and gained fame in Megara
Francisco Leon de la Barra
- interim president of Mexico before Madero, who was first head of state to fly in a plane
Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897)
- interpreted liberty in 14th Amendment to mean economic liberty - precedent for Lochner
James Creelman
- interviewed Porfirio Diaz for Pearson's Magazine in 1910
Leo III the Isaurian
- introduced Ecloga law code - defeated Arab siege of Constantinople by Caliph Suleyman with aid of troops from Tervel of Bulgaria
Emilio de Bono
- invaded Abyssinia for Italy from "northern front" of Eritrea
Jang Yeong-sil
- invented Cheugugi rain gauge and water gauge under Sejong the Great in Joseon Dynasty
Hofstadter Committee (1931)
- investigated NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker for corruption and forced his resignation - Vivian Gordon testified about NYPD arresting random girls as prostitutes
Peel Commission (1936)
- investigated causes of unrest in Mandatory Palestine - followed by Woodhead Commission after general strike
Kefauver Committee (1951)
- investigated mafia men like Frank Costello and Bugsy Siegel - included Virginia Hill, Siegel's girlfriend, yelling and screaming
Christopher Commission (1991)
- investigation into beating of Rodney King - named after future Sec. of State under Clinton; followed by Webster Commission
Operation Yewtree
- investigation of sexual assault of BBC personality Jimmy Savile
Henry Gresbeck
- invited Lutheran forces into Munster, betraying rebellion and leading to death of Bernhard Krechting through torture
Resistance Conspiracy
- involved members of Weather Underground involved with 1983 Senate Bombing - Linda Sue Evans and Susan Rosenberg of this group were pardoned by Clinton in Pardongate
Fitz-John Winthrop
- jailed by Leisler after leading failed expedition to Montreal - imprisonment was protested by Connecticut governor Robert Treat
Samuel Pepys
- jailed in Popish Plot for 6 weeks, which he later recorded in his diary
Catherine I of Russia
- jealous of Peter I's mistress Anna Mons - initially captured at Siege of Marienburg while serving as a maid
Edmond Jouhad
- joined OAS after failed Algiers Putsch of 1961, where Pierre Brillant was killed
Daniel Berrigan
- joined by Howard Zinn in trip to Hanoi to free first American POWs from North Vietnam
Siahkal Incident (1971)
- jungle guerrilla begins guerrilla era in Iran with attack on police post
Ulugh Muhammad
- khan of Golden Horde who founded Khanate of Kazan with aid of Vytautas the Great
Titus Oates
- kicked out of school for not paying a tailor - accused teacher of sodomy to get his position - later accused of sodomy in Tangier himself
Jacques Cartier
- killed 1000 great auks at Island of the Birds - Breton explorer that mapped Gulf and river of St. Lawrence
Vlado Chernozemski
- killed Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou in Marseilles; IMRO agent
Otoya Yamaguchi
- killed Inejiro Asanoma, Japanese socialist, on live TV - hung himself and wrote "seven loves for my country" in toothpaste and water - inspired Oe novels Seventeen and The Death of a Political Youth
Roger II of Sicily
- killed Jaquintus of Bari for rebelling - proclaimed king by Antipope Anacletus in Treaty of Mignano - laws codified in Assizes of Ariano
Lord Frederick Cavendish
- killed along with Thomas Henry Burke by Invincibles after Kilmainham Treaty in Phoenix Park Murders
Donald Campbell
- killed and cannibalized during Siege of Fort Detroit in Pontiac's Rebellion
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
- killed as President of Somalia - leading to rise of Siad Barre - succeeded Aden Daar
Tsar Peter III
- killed before he could start war with Denmark as Duke of Holstein-Gottorp
Alexios IV Angelos
- killed by Alexios V Doukas - uncle (Alexios III) blinded Isaac II Angelos and this man tried to fight off 1204 sack of Constantinople
Ito Hirobumi
- killed by An Jung-eun in Harbin at meeting with Vladimir Kokovtsov - organized Rikken Seiyukai party
Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma
- killed by Andrea Doria for killing his nephew Gianettino in Fieschi Conspiracy
Francis, Duke of Guise
- killed by Huguenot assassin Jean de Poltrot de Mere - perpetrated Massacre of Vassy
King Abdullah I of Jordan
- killed by Mustafa Shukri Ashu in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem - Hussein was saved by a silver medal, which deflected a bullet during this man's assassination
Duke of Enghien
- killed by Napoleon I after apparent conspiracy, leading Tsar Alexander I to enter the war - Talleyrand said that this man's death was "worse than a crime; it was a blunder"
Pierre of Castelnau
- killed by an agent of Raymond of Toulouse, sparking Albigensian Crusade
Wild Bill Hickok
- killed in Deadwood by Jack McCall with dead man's hand - Sheriff of Hays, Kansas according to his biographer Joseph G. Rosa
Oppius Sabinus
- killed in Moesia while fighting Dacians under Domitian in his disastrous campaign
William J. Fetterman
- killed in Wyoming by Crazy Horse - claimed that with 80 soldiers, he could ride through Sioux Nation
Lon Horiuchi
- killed people at Waco and Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge - charged by Weaver attorney Gerry Spence
Shah Abbas I
- killed son after he stole a boar kill from him on a hunt - quelled Georgian uprising at Kartli and Kakheti
Paracuellos Massacre (1936)
- killing of 5,000 prisoners by Republicans during Siege of Madrid - George Henny's plane was shot down for trying to report on this
Charles VIII
- king of France called the "affable" - died after hitting his head on a door at Chateau d'Amboise
King Alakeshvara
- king of Kotte captured by Zheng He following short 1410 war - succeeded by Parakramabrahu VI
Syphax
- king of Masaesyli who allied with Carthage and fought with Masinissa over Sophonisba - captured after Bagbrades
Alfonso XII
- king of Spain that overthrew First Spanish Republic with aid of Arsenio Martinez Campos and Antonio Canovas
Cleomenes I
- king of Sparta that helped Cleisthenes of Alcmaeonidae family after bribery of oracle of Delphi
Jacob Marenga
- known as "Black Napoleon" - led rebellion against Germans that ended at Battle of Rooysvlei
Gerard Thom
- known as "Blessed" - founded Knights Hospitaller among merchants in Amalfi
Dolores Ibarruri
- known as "La Pasionaria" and said "No Pasaran!" at Battle of Madrid in Spanish Civil War - said dog Hoxha "bites the hand that feeds him"
Petru Cercel
- known as "Peter Earring" - openly gay prince of Wallachia who lobbied for Western support and was killed by Mihnea II Turcitul
Nell Gwynn
- known as "pretty, witty" by Samuel Pepys - inspired Florimel in Dryden's The Maiden Queen (Secret Love) - reassured a crowd by saying "Be silent, good people, I'm the Protestant *****"
Zheng He
- known as Ma He as child and when asked by Fu Youde where Mongol pretender was, said he jumped into the lake
Battle of Mers-el-Kebir (1940)
- known as Operation Catapult - Britain destroyed much of Vichy fleet
David Hamilton Jackson
- labor rights advocate in Virgin Islands for Denmark - petitioned Christian X for free press
St. Croix Labor Riot (1878)
- laborers rose up in Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) under Queens of Fireburn, like Mathilda McBean
Shell Crisis of 1915
- lack of artillery equipment was attacked by Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe - Asquith fell from power b/c of this
Baker v. Morton (1871)
- land dispute in Omaha under Chief Justice Chase - Clifford wrote unanimous opinion
Onion River Land Company
- land grant company created by Ethan, Ira, Heman, and Zimri Allen
Ellis Act
- landlords can evict residential tenants despite California's required housing laws - passed after Nash v. City of Santa Monica
Georg Frundsberg
- landsknecht leader who promised to hang Pope Clement VII with a golden rope - fought many wars under Charles V and his troops sacked Rome after he died
Battle of Nicopolis (1396)
- large crusader army under Sigismund, HRE tried to save Ivan Shishman but was destroyed by Sigismund I
British Indian Ocean Territory
- largest island is Diego Garcia and capital is at Camp Justice - expelled Iloi people (Chagossians) from 1968-75
Lake Saimaa
- largest lake in Finland - namesake of ringed seal species
Lake Mistassini
- largest lake in Quebec - fed by Rupert River near Lake Troilus
Sundarbans
- largest mangrove forest in the world near Calcutta and Bangladesh on Bay of Bengal
Lake Heviz
- largest thermal lake in the world located in Hungary
Battle of the Ogaden (1936)
- last Ethiopian army defeated by Italians after bombing of Harar, an open city
William III of Sicily
- last Norman king of Sicily - overthrown by Constance and Henry VI in 1194
Emperor Mo of Jin
- last emperor of Jin Dynasty and shortest-reigning Chinese monarch - ruled for less than one day after suicide of Aizong
Constantine VI
- last fully recognized Roman Emperor - deposed, blinded, and imprisoned by his own mother Irene of Athens
Margaritus of Brindisi
- last great admiral of Sicily under William the II the Good of Sicily of Hauteville Dynasty
Dafydd ap Gruffyd
- last independent ruler of Wales - hanged, drawn, and quartered by Edward I
Perseus of Macedon
- last king of Antigonid Dynasty - lost to Lucius Aemilius Paulus at Pydna b/c Companion Cavalry stayed back
Kertanegara
- last ruler of Singhasari Kingdom - overthrown by Jayakatwang of Kediri in 1292 - cut Mongol envoy's ears off, prompting invasion by Kublai Khan
Peter Fossett
- last surviving Monticello slave who gave an interview in 1898
Ominous Decade (1823-33)
- last ten years of reign of Ferdinand VII of Spain
Jean Bastien-Thiry
- last to be executed by firing squad after attempted assassination of de Gaulle
Oliver Plunkett
- last victim of Popish Plot - mentioned as "blessed" in Pinter's The Birthday Party
Bachir Gemayel
- leader in Lebanese Civil War killed in bombing by Habib Tanious Shartouni
Florian Geyer
- leader of Black Company in German Peasants' War - etched "neither cross nor crown" in his sword
Osama Askar
- leader of Egyptian army with Ahmed Wasfi under Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi
Nicholas Brathwaite
- leader of Grenada after 1983 Operation Urgent Fury - appointed by Governor-General Paul Scoon
Joseph Rutherford
- leader of Jehovah's Witnesses Watch Tower Society in PA - argued on behalf of Carleton Nichols in Minersville v. Gobitis
Hone Heke
- leader of Maori in Flagstaff War - almost raided Kororareka because a woman called him "a pig's head"
Heinrich Krechting
- leader of Munster Rebellion who was allowed to escape, unlike his brother Bernhard
Licio Gelli
- leader of P2 Lodge who was convicted in Banco Ambrosiano Scandal - suspected to be involved in Moro's death
Palmiro Togliatti
- leader of PCI from 1927-64; led Salerno Turn - wounded in 1948 assassination attempt by Antonio Pollante - developed theory of "polycentrism"
Indalecio Prieto
- leader of PSOE who pleaded with Republicans to "not imitate" rebel atrocities
Jose Limantour
- leader of Porfirio Diaz's cientificos, which included VP Ramon Corral and Bernardo Reyes
Papius Mutilus
- leader of Samnite group along with Quintus Poppaedius Silo's Marsic group in Social War
Haywood Patterson
- leader of Scottsboro Boys - falsely accused of rape by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates
Skunkha
- leader of pointed-hat Scythians - captured by Darius I and displayed on Behistun Inscription
Charles Borromeo
- leading figure of Counter-Reformation from Milan at Council of Trent
Maurice Debate (1918)
- leading general called out War Cabinet, leading to weak attacks by Asquith on Lloyd George's government
Isaac Brock
- led "Upper Canada" during war of 1812 - collaborated with "Wellington of Indians" Tecumseh - died at Queenston Heights and said "push on, don't mind me"
Jack Cade
- led 1450 rebellion against Henry VI in England - captured after fight with Alexander Iden
Alice Paul
- led 1913 Woman's Suffrage Procession, which included Inez Mulholland on a white horse
Haile Selassie
- led 1916 coup against Lij Yasu - lived in exile in Bath at Fairfield House - celebrated in Grounation Day and annexed Kingdom of Jimma
Teofilo Brago
- led 5 October 1910 revolution in Rossio Square against King Manuel II
Billy Snedden
- led Australian Liberals and said "while we didn't win, we didn't lose either" - died while having sex with his son's ex-girlfriend
Frank Hassett
- led Australian forces at Korean War Battle of Maryang San
Aleksandar Stamboliyski
- led Bulgaria with aid of Orange Guard - signed Treaty of Nis, leading to overthrow by Alexander Tsankov - killed by IMRO and his hand that signed the Treaty of Nis was cut off; head was sent to Sofia in a biscuit box
Fred Larue
- led CREEP with John Mitchell and Jeb S. Magruder - exposed by Judy Hoback Miller and Maurice Stans
Roger de Flor
- led Catalan Company mercenaries for Andronikos II Palaiologos to fight Turks
Aslan Maskhadov
- led Chechnya in two wars with Russia - killed by FSB in 2005
Stokely Carmichael
- led Columbia Heights riot in DC after death of MLK
Benjamin Tallmadge
- led Culper Ring and exposed John Andre after taking him from John Jameson
Chun Doo-Hwan
- led December 12 coup and May 17 coup after Park Chung-Hee's death and put down May 18 Gwangju Democratic Movement - killed hundreds in Gwangju during Operation Splendid Holiday
Fidel Sanchez Hernandez
- led El Salvador and supported FENAGH in Football War - had his oil deposits at Cutuco bombed by Honduras
Charles de Lannoy
- led Holy Roman Empire and Spain at Battle of Pavia where he captured Francis I, forcing Louise of Savoy to be regent
Antonio Salandra
- led Italy into WWI with foreign minister Sidney Sonnino; joined Triple Entente after declaring "sacred egoism"
Hans Frank
- led Polish "General Government" under Nazis - said "not enough paper" in regards to posters of dead poles
Mengistu Haile Mariam
- led Qey Shibir by smashing bottles of blood - worsened Ethiopian famine - military junta leader in Ethiopia under Derg
Milton Cato
- led St. Vincent and the Grenadines as first independence-era PM - succeeded by NDP leader James Mitchell
Erich Mielke
- led Stasi from 1957-89 - killed Berlin policemen Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck in 1931 while member of Communists
Phibun
- led Thailand in WWII and faced Army General Staff Coup, Palace Rebellion, and Boworadet Rebellion; overthrew Rama VII in 1932 - made Thai cultural mandates and promoted ramwong decree of native dancing - sent his children to Zhou Enlai as wards and led Silent Coup with Coup Group - escaped capture on a warship by simply swimming away in 1951; led Khana Ratsadon
Tula Rigaud
- led a 1795 slave revolt against Dutch in Curacao alongside Bastian Karpata and Louis Mercier
IMRO
- led by Hristo Tatarchev, Todor Alexandrov, and Ivan Mihailev - killed Stamboliyski and Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Commandos Z (OAS)
- led by Jean-Marcel Zagame with Commandos Delta leader Roger Degueldre
TPLF
- led by Meles Zenawi - movement from Tigray in Ethiopia that created camouflaged "green schools" for peasants - allied with Elemo Qiltu and Oromo
General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt)
- led by Zakaria Mohieddine under Nasser - intelligence agency of Egypt
Spanish Miracle (1959-74)
- led by members of Opus Dei and led to creation of SEAT 600 automobile
Gaspard de Coligny
- led expedition to Fort Caroline in Florida - almost killed by Charles de Louivers, Lord of Maurevert and definitely killed by Besme
William Henry Ashley
- led his namesake "hundred", including Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger, leading to Rocky Mountain Fur Company
Tamati Waka Nene
- led loyalist Maori in Flagstaff War against Hone Heke, who once flew US flag on his ships
Hiram Bingham I
- led missionary efforts to Hawaii - his grandson discovered Macchu Picchu
Sheikh Said
- led namesake rebellion in 1925 with former Ottoman soldiers (hamidiye) - supported by Kurds and opposed by Ataturk
Gyorgy Dosza
- led peasant revolt against King Vladislas II of Hungary
Cola di Rienzi
- led popular revolt in Rome in mid-14th century against Stefano Colonna
Barros Sierra
- led protest at UNAM and led Silent March after assault on Vocational School #5 and CNH National Strike Council (Tlatelolco Massacre)
John Coode
- led rebellion against Lord Baltimore after Glorious Revolution - succeeded by Nehemiah Blakiston
Josias Fendall
- led rebellion in MD against Lord Baltimore - supported by John Coode in 1660
Nicholas Zannekin
- led revolts of peasants in Flanders in 1325-28 - defeated and killed at Cassel by French
Art Roderick
- led task force at Ruby Ridge w/ Bill Degan who was killed by Sammy Weaver and Kevin Harris - killed dog "Striker"
Battle of Pydna (168 BC)
- led to ascendancy of Rome in Third Macedonian War - ended Antigonid Dynasty with capture of Perseus
Mann Act
- led to charges against Jack Johnson, Chuck Berry, and Charlie Chaplin - led to wives blackmailing husbands, like in Caminetti v. US - sponsored by Illinois Rep. under Taft - called "White-Slave Traffic Act"
Santa Anna
- left Hacienda of Xalapa to fight in Pastry War - leg was struck by grapeshot and amputated
Clarendon Code (1661-65)
- legal statutes that established Anglicanism as sole religion and ended toleration of dissenting religions
Wu Qi
- legalist who adhered to strict discipline - servant to King Dao of Chu during Warring States Period - chose banner over sword to raise soldiers' morale
Kefauver Harris Amendment (1962)
- legislation requiring disclosure of side effects - co-sponsored by Tennessee Senator and Arkansas Representative
Battle of Montgisard (1177)
- leper Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Knights Templar destroyed Saladin
McMahon-Hussein Correspondence (1915-16)
- letters between British and Sharif of Mecca that conflicted with later Sykes-Picot
Eleftherios Venizelos
- liberal Greek statesman who dominated early 20th century politics of Greece - declared Thessaloniki must be saved "at all costs" during Balkan Wars
Temple of Artemis
- located in Ephesus - burned down night that Alexander was born - not rebuilt by Alexander, who offered to construct it
Aland Islands
- located in Gulf of Bothnia - Swedish territory with capital at Mariehamm - dispute with Finland arbitrated by League of Nations
Onesilus of Salamis
- locked brother out of the city, taking throne of Salamis for himself - fought Amathus in the Ionian Revolt - skull became a beehive
Cecil Andrus
- longest serving Idaho Governor - served as Sec. of Interior under Carter
Charles Francis Murphy
- longest serving head of Tammany Hall - brought up Jimmy Walker and Al Smith - succeeded Richard Croker
Robert L. Moran
- lost Board of Aldermen of NYC position to La Guardia, who defeated this man and Mike Kelly
Ed Koch
- lost NY Governor election to Cuomo b/c he said Albany was "sterile" in Playboy interview - shut down gay baths during AIDS epidemic - hung out with Bess Myerson - told the NY Giants they could parade in Moonachie after Super Bowl win
Dionysius of Phocaea
- lost with Ionian fleet at Lade against Persian Datis - overworked his men, saying they would have to work a "few laborious days for victory" - fled later and became a pirate
Martin Waldseemuller
- made 1507 map with America in it - joined by Matthias Ringmann on Universalis Cosmographia
William Skelly
- made Spartan Aircraft Company and organized International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa
Gajah Mada
- made Sumpah Palapa oath about spices as Mahapatih after maybe killing Jayanegra
Amerigo Vespucci
- made chief of navigation in Spain under Ferdinand II of Aragon - wrote Mundus Novus letter to Lorenzo de Medici detailing South America
Juan de la Cosa
- made earliest world map with Americas on it - owner of Columbus' ship Santa Maria
Reginald of Boulogne
- made last stand at Bouvines with 7-- knights in schiltrom ring - captured after the battle
Titus Quinctius Flaminius
- made peace in Second Macedonian War with Philip V of Macedon at Isthmian Games after Cynoscephalae
Lumen Gentium
- magnified authority of church and duty of individual - written by Marie Rosaire Gagnebet at Vatican II
Oscar Tschirky
- maitre'd of Delmonico's in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel - developed Waldorf salad and eggs benedict
Twenty-Seven Points
- manifesto of Falangism created by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
Marguerite de la Rocque
- marooned on Isle of Demons in Canada by Roberval after having sex with another officer
Anne of Kiev
- married Henry I of France and served as regent to Philip I of France
Gian Galeazzo Sforza
- married Isabella of Naples - killed by Ludovico of "immoderate coitus" apparently
Betsy Ross
- married Joseph Ashburn and John Claypoole - visited by Robert Morris Jr. and George Washington
Elizabeth Throckmorton
- married Walter Raleigh, who was rival of Robert Devereux
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- married half-Ojibwa Jane Johnston - later married Mary Howard, who published Black Gauntlet, a response to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Thomas Pickering
- martyr in Popish Plot along with William Ireland, John Grove, and Edward Colman
Operation Combat Fox (1968)
- massive show of force organized after seizure of USS Pueblo in 1968 by North Korea
Muhammad VII of Grenada
- may have died while playing extremely long game of chess with Yusuf III
Monte dei Paschi di Siena
- maybe world's oldest bank along with Berenberg Bank - originated with "mount of piety" in 1472
Johannes Junius
- mayor of Bamberg and victim of 17th century Bamberg witch trials - wrote letter to daughter Veronica
Jean Guiton
- mayor of La Rochelle during 1627 siege who said his people should stab him with the knife he stuck in the granite table if he should surrender - gave up after failed relief efforts led by Earl of Denbigh and Earl of Lindsey
Matthew Clarkson
- mayor of Philadelphia during 1793 yellow fever epidemic
Mit Brennender Sorge (1937)
- means "with burning concern" - Pius XI issued this encyclical that attacks Nazis and "mad prophet"
Pope Stephen III
- mediated quarrels between Carloman and Charlemagne and held Lateran Council of 769
Cherie Blair
- member of Booth family - married to Tony Blair
Edmund Berry Godfrey
- member of Peyton Gang and magistrate mysteriously murdered on Primrose Hill during Popish Plot - may have been killed by Miles Prance
Ainnurruvar
- merchant guild in Chola Dynasty - similar to Veera-Balanjas of Five Hundred Lords of Ayyavolu
Jean-Paul Sartre
- met Andreas Baader in prison, who he described as a "twat"
Donner-Reed Party
- met Miwok Indians after traveling through Hastings Cutoff and Humboldt River in Nevada
Trasformismo
- method of flexible governance in Italy that alienated extreme left and right - used first by Agostino Depretis and later more effectively by Giolitti
WSPU
- militant suffragette group that "rushed" the House of Commons in 1908 and were led by Norah Elam, also known as Norah Dacre Fox
Seyni Kountche
- military dictator of Niger from 1974-87 supported by future president Mamadou Tandja
Ruben Jaramillo
- militia leader killed by Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos - Fuentes wrote an article about him
Rene Levesque
- minister of Quebec and future premier that founded Parti Quebecois
Gabrielle d'Estrees
- mistress and confidante of Henry IV of France who persuaded him to convert to Catholicism
Giuditta Sidoli
- mistress of Giuseppe Mazzini - operated salon in Turin and had child with Mazzini named Joseph Demosthene Adolphe Aristide
Caroline Lacroix
- mistress of Leopold II of Belgium nicknamed "Baroness Vaughan" - married him secretly
Duchess of Portsmouth
- mistress to Charles II affectionately called "Fubbs", which names a ship in the English navy
Francoise Scarron
- mistress to Louis XIV of France - opposed Bossuet and Madame Guyon's support of Quietism
Frank COstello
- mobster whose slot machines were destroyed by La Guardia - said he'd "paid my taxes" when asked what he did for his country during Kefauver hearings
George Pompidou
- modernized Paris, developing Arianespace and TGV; died suddenly in 1974 of lymphoma suddenly - PM of France from 1964-74
Kirti Gompa
- monastery in Tibet that is site of recent self-immolations
Raoul Salan
- most decorated French soldier - founded OAS and later pardoned by Mitterand in 1982
George of Antioch
- most important official under Roger II of Sicily - first "great admiral" of Sicily, and followed by Philip of Mahdia
Katharina Kepler
- mother of famous astronomer convicted of witchcraft and later released in Wurttemburg
Bakony Mountains
- mountain range north of Lake Balaton, which is fed by Zala River in Hungary
Briggs' Plan (1950)
- moved Chinese Malaysians to "New Villages" after atrocities like Batang Kali Massacre (Britain's My Lai)
Share our Wealth
- movement started by Huey Long and continued by Gerald L.K. Smith of America First in Michigan
Lijar
- municipality in Andalusia that had a bloodless 100 year war with France from 1883 to 1983
1941 Odessa Massacre
- murder of Jews in Transnistria region by Romanians that included Bogdanovka concentration camp
Nart Sagas
- mythology of North Caucasus peoples, including Circassians
Tom Yum Goong Crisis (1997)
- name for Thai incarnation of 1997 Financial Crisis - improperly managed by PM Chavalit Yongchaiyudh
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
- named "nitrogen" and added sugar to wines in namesake process
Flour Bluff
- named for activities of smugglers near Corpus Christi and Oso Bay - blockaded by US ship Levi Woodbury
Bascon Affair (1861)
- namesake American general provoked Cochise into war by killing his nephews and brothers in Arizona
Holmes' Bonfire (1666)
- namesake English general burned 140 Dutch merchant ships in 2nd Anglo-Dutch War - avenged by de Ruyter's raid on the Medway
Pride's Purge (1648)
- namesake and Lord Gray of Groby created Rump Parliament and sorted people into houses called Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
Markovic Affair (1968)
- namesake bodyguard of Alain Delon was found dead, along with George Pompidou's wife's nudes in scandal
Napier Affair (1834)
- namesake general was about to bomb Chinese forts on Pearl River, but he fell ill with typhus
Malet Coup (1812)
- namesake led coup against Napoleon with Pierre-Augustin Hulin and Lazare Carnot, father to famous scientist
Gove's Rebellion (1683)
- namesake rebelled in New Hampshire against Governor Edward Cranfield after drinking with friends - many were sentenced by Richard Waldon
Blaine Amendment
- namesake sponsor proposed this legislation to stop funding schools of religious affiliation
Benjamin Chavis Jr
- national director of the Million Man March in 1995, which competed with Day of Absence
Guillermo Reynaldo Cortez
- national hero in El Salvador because he killed himself grounding a plane to save civilians in Football War
Jose Calvo Sotelo
- nationalist finance minister under Miguel Primo de Rivera - his assassination, which was sparked by the murder of policeman Jose Castillo, sparked the military coup that started the Spanish Civil War
Tirpitz Plan
- naval power plan under Wilhelm II that sparked arms race with Britain - based on "Risk Theory"
Crittenden Report (1957)
- naval report prepared by Clyde Hoey (NC Senator) about homosexuals in Navy during Lavender Scare
Amaravati
- new capital of Andhra Pradesh after formation of Telangana, which took Hyderabad
Smithsonian Agreement (1971)
- new currencies pegged to dollar - followed 1944 negotiations at Bretton Woods conference
Washington Globe
- newspaper founded by Francis Preston Blair Sr, whose son founded Washington Union newspaper in support of Samuel Tilden
Kinjikitile Ngwale
- nicknamed "Bokero" after being possessed by snake spirit Hongo - Tanzanian national hero
Roger Clinton
- nicknamed "Headache" by Secret Service - granted pardon by Clinton after DUI and cocaine possession in Pardongate
Louis VIII
- nicknamed "the Lion" - won at Roche-au-Moine against John I and almost became King of England
1961 Goldsboro B-52 Crash
- nuclear accident over North Carolina - profiled in Eric Schlosser's Command and Control
Thomas Livingston
- obeyed orders of Dalrymple and ordered John Hill to carry out Glencoe with Hamilton while being quartered with the MacDonalds
Dean Rusk
- offered to resign under LBJ b/c daughter would marry black guy; told de Gaulle "can we bring back bodies from France too?" when he told America to told soldiers back
Waite Phillips
- oilman in Tulsa that donated to Philbrook Art Museum, Philmont Ranch in New Mexico, and USC
Fuggerei
- oldest social housing complex still in use in Augsburg, Bavaria
Dresden Codex
- oldest surviving book from Americas - Mayan book made from amate and folded accordion-style
Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby
- one of Immortal Seven - accused of treachery in Popish Plot - advisor to Charles II
N.E. Balaram
- one of founding members of Communism in Kerala - Malayalam literary critic
Fuegia Basket
- one of many "civilized savages" captured at Tierra del Fuego by Robert Fitzroy - brothers were Jemmy Button, York Minster, and Boat Memory
Riccardo Zanella
- only elected president of Free State of Fiume, which was created by Treaty of Rapallo
Franklin Buchanan
- only full Confederate admiral of the navy - commanded CSS Virginia and lost to Farragut at Mobile Bay
Aaron Mitchell
- only man executed during Reagan's governorship - shouted "I am Jesus Christ!" in gas chamber
Pieter Heyn
- only person to capture Spanish silver fleet - helped Maarten Tromp start naval service
Lex Ogulnia (300 BC)
- opened various priesthoods to plebeians - led to rise of Tiberius Coruncanius
Annise Parker
- openly gay mayor of Houston - succeeded by Sylvester Turner
Richard Mentor Johnson
- openly married slave Julia Chinn and campaigned on slogan "Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh"
Benjamin Freedman
- opposed Anna Rosenberg's nomination to be assistant to Secretary of Defense b/c of anti-Semitism
Strom Thurmond
- opposed Barnwell Ring as Governor and confronted Sue Logue after murders - arrested people who lynched Willie Earle while Governor
Marcel Lefebvre
- opposed Vatican II's Dignitatis humanae, which said Church supported religious liberty
Synod of Dahlem (1934)
- opposed by Confessing Church - created German Evangelical Church for Nazis under Ludwig Muller
Balfour Declaration (1917)
- opposed by Jewish Edwin Montagu - previous drafts included those by Milner and Amery
Charles Calvert
- opposed by sermons of priest John Yeo in Newfoundland - married Mary Darnall and told Henry Darnall to protect Maryland against Coode
Henry Loeb
- opposed demands of striking sanitation workers in 1968 as mayor of Memphis
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
- ordered crackdown in Tlatelolco Massacre as President of Mexico
Waldemar Pabst
- ordered deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht during Spartacist uprising - participated in Kapp Putsch
Than Shwe
- ordered execution of 59 civilians on Christie Island and said orders came from "Aba Gyi" (Great Father)
Geoffrey Hornby
- ordered peaceful handover of San Juan Islands during Pig War
Charles Moyer
- organized Copper County Strike in Michigan - extradited from Colorado with Bill Haywood for murder of Frank Steunenberg
Hampton Roads Conference (1865)
- organized by Francis Preston Blair Sr, who delivered messages between Davis and Lincoln
Teme Sejko
- organized coup against Hoxha - involved Koci Tashko, which was misspelled in Russian correspondences for the word "period" (punctuation mark)
Arthur Millspaugh
- organized finances of Reza Shah in Iran
Synod of Estinnes (743)
- origin of pretzel - council under Carloman and St. Boniface
Artaphernes
- original funder of Aristagoras - told Histiaeus that he "stitched the shoe" for Aristagoras' revolt
ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna)
- originally called ATA, which means duck in Basque - killed Jose Pardines and Meliton Manzanas in revenge for death of Txabi Etxebarrieta
Bloody Christmas (1963)
- outbreak of violence on holiday after Zurich Agreement
Miguel Primo de Rivera
- outlawed CNT and created 27 corporations to run the economy - created failed "Patriotic Union" party and ended turno pacifico
Emminger Reform (1924)
- outlawed full juries and made trials a mix of judges and juries - implemented before Georg Neihardt gave Hitler a light sentencing after Beer Hall Putsch
Edmund Bacon
- overseer of 140 slaves in nail factory at Monticello
Rafiq Hariri
- owned construction company that helped in aftermath of Beirut bombing - future PM of Lebanon from 92-98 and 02-04, when he was assassinated
Loyd Jowers
- owner of Jim's Grill in Lorraine Motel that claimed Police Chief Earl Clark killed MLK
Coffin Handbills
- pamphlets attacking Andrew Jackson in 1828 - refuted with accusing J.Q. Adams of being tsar's pimp and gambling
Pandulf Verraccio
- papal legate under Innocent III who was awarded Norwich by King John
Marc Rich
- pardoned by Clinton in Pardongate - imprisoned for huge tax evasion and indicted by Rudy Giuliani - involved in Iraq "Oil-For-Food" Program and founder of Glencoe - released due to his wife's donations to Clinton's campaign
Port Campbell National Park
- park in Victoria, Australia that contains the Twelve Apostles rocks
Freedom and Justice Party
- party of Mohammed Morsi - joined with Ayman Noura's Revolution Tomorrow to form Democratic Alliance for Egypt
Bernard Rothmann
- pastor in Munster converted by Jan Matthys (baker from Haarlem) - "theological voice" of Munster
Baron Hunsdon
- patron of Lord Chamberlain's Men - cousin of Elizabeth I and helped put down 1569 Rising of the North
Richard Strange
- patron of Titus Oates while he studied under Jesuits
Kathiawar
- peninsula in Gujarat that borders the Gulf of Kutch and the Chir Batti, a ghost light
Marconi Scandal (1912)
- people in Asquith's cabinet got big money from radio company
Greek Town Riot (1909)
- people rioted in Omaha after policeman Edward Lowry was shot by someone of a specific ethnic group
Biennio Rosso (1919-20)
- period of political violence in Italy under Giolitti - sparked by ideas of Antonio Gramsci
Devil's Hole Massacre (1763)
- perpetrated by Cornplanter and "Farmer's Brother" against George Campbell, William Fraser, and John Stedman
George Wakeman
- physician to Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II; accused in Popish plot
Chen Zuyi
- pirate and ruler of Palembang who was defeated in Zheng He's first voyage and executed in Nanjing in 1407
Richard Ingle
- pirate who terrorized Chesapeake settlements during the Plundering Time
NY Times Co v. Sullivan (1964)
- plaintiff and AL gov. John Patterson objected ot "Heed Their Rising Voices" article in this case - Brennan wrote majority
Rye House Plot (1682)
- planned attack on Charles II and James, Duke of York, after horse races - Locke fled to the Netherlands as a result
Pontcallec Conspiracy (1718-20)
- plot sparked by anti-tax movement in Brittany - sympathizers of Cellamare Conspiracy tried to depose Philippe II, Duke of Orleans in favor of Philip V of Spain as regent to Louis XV - ended in executions at Nantes
High Treason Incident (1910)
- plot to assassinate Meiji Emperor that led to repressive Peace Preservation Laws in 1925
James Kennally
- plotted to steal Lincoln's corpse and ransom it to free a friend in prison
Brixton Riot (1981)
- police in London brutalized black protesters in London - investigated by Scarman Commission
Zealots of Thessalonica
- political group of Byzantines that opposed John Kantakouzenos
Evin Prison
- political prison for dissidents used by SAVAK - called "University" due to large number of incarcerated intellectuals
Carlos Arias Navarro
- politician under Franco - called "Butcher of Malaga" for signing tons of death warrants during war
Henry Frank
- politician woh said La Guardia was an anti-Semite - led to challenge of debating entirely in the "Yiddish language", which this man declined
Davis v. Beason (1890)
- polygamy was declared a felony and not free exercise under Melville Fuller court
Clement V
- pope from 1305-14; moved papacy to Avignon - suppressed Knights Templar with bull Faciens Misericordiam
Eugene III
- pope who declared 2nd Crusade and supported Wendish Crusade with Divina Dispensatione
Fasci Siciliani (1889-94)
- popular socialist movement in Sicily under Crispi and Giolitti - ended in death of 92 peasants in Palermo
Marshall Sahlins
- popularized "teach-in" protest of Vietnam War at University of Michigan with Arnold Kaufman - professor of anthropology
San Remo Conference (1920)
- post-Versailles conference that determined fate of Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia
Black Wednesday (1992)
- pound failed due to massive shorting by George Soros' Quantum Fund
Joseph Cannon
- powerful Speaker of the House from Illinois overthrown by George Norris - first person on TIME magazine cover
Robert Bourassa
- premier of Quebec that supported War Measures Act with mayor Montreal Jean Drapeau
Tash Rabat
- preserved caravanserai in Kyrgyzstan with gypsum mortar sealing joints near Lake Chatyr-Kul and Torugart Pass
John Silber
- president of Boston University from 1996-2002 - clashed several times with Howard Zinn
John Kufuor
- president of Ghana from 2001-2009 - succeeded by John Atta Mills
Abdou Diouf
- president of Senegal from 1980-2000 - succeeded by Abdoulaye Wade
Manuel Azaña
- president of Spain at outbreak of war in 1936 - said all convents in Spain weren't worth "one life"
Sylvanus Olympio
- president of Togo assassinated in coup led by Gnassingbe Eyadema, which led to Grunitzky government later overthrown in 1967
Flamen
- priest assigned to one of fifteen cults of Rome - major ones were Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus
Vlad VI the Drowned
- prince of Wallachia who rode horse into Dambovita River after getting drunk at a feast
War of the Eight Princes (291-306)
- princes of Jin Dynasty fought over regency to retarded Emperor Hui
Thomas Mott Osborne
- prison reformer at Sing Sing while warden there - supervised executions in "Old Sparky"
Black Hundreds
- pro-Romanov forces that shut down Odessa's Prosvita Society
Nikos Sampson
- pro-enosis leader of Cyprus that overthrew Makarios III - succeeded briefly by Glafkos Clerides
Francis Townsend
- promulgated namesake plan for old people in Long Beach Press Telegram with Robert Earl Clements
Roger Sherman
- proposed 3/5 compromise with James Wilson and Connecticut Compromise - signed 4 great state papers of US
John B. Anderson
- proposed 50% gas tax and 50% cut in Social Security taxes; Illinois Sen. who ran with Wisconsin governor Patrick Lucey in 1980 - ran against televangelist Don Lyon in Senate race - reformed OH early voting in namesake v. Celebezze
Charles M. Fickert
- prosecuted Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings for Preparedness Day bombing - those two were later pardoned by CA governor Culbert Olson
Tobacco Protest (1890)
- protest in Iran against Qajar Dynasty' Nasir al-Din Shah's concession of a specific good to Britain
Polish October (1950)
- protests in Poznan led to Wladyslaw Gomulka taking power successfully from Stalinists
Eusebio Kino
- proved that California was not an island through overland expedition
Anthony Benezet
- pseudonym for Benjamin Rush detailing how blacks were naturally immune to yellow fever
Ramon George Sneyd
- pseudonym of James Earl Ray when fleeing from London to Brussels
Battle of Anchem (1930_
- psychological warfare used by Haile Selassie to defeat Gugsa Welle and Zewditu
Humberto Delgado
- pulled British NATO general's ear hair as a joke - said "Obviously, I'll sack him!" about Salazar - killed by PIDE's Monteiro
William Tryon
- put bounty on Ethan Allen's head after exchanging death threats with him - defeated Regulators with help of Hugh Waddell
Gustav von Gotzen
- put down Maji Maji Revolt at Mahenge after clashes at Limale and Samanga - ordered 1905 famine to end revolt
Pope Alexander III
- quarreled with Antipope Victor IV - recognized Alfonso I as the King of Portugal in Manifestus Probatum
Amanirenas
- queen of Kush defeated by Petronius in Egypt - one-eyed woman referred to as Kandake or Candace
John E. Rankin
- racist Mississippi rep. who lowered payments after Port Chicago Disaster b/c victims were black - refused to sit next to Adam Clayton Powell and called Paul Robeson a n*gger after 1949 Peekskill Riots near Yonkers
Batenburgers
- radical Anabaptists that continued violence of Munster Rebellion
Valerie Solanas
- radical feminist who wrote play Up Your Ass and starred in Warhol film I, A Man before trying to kill him
Demetrio Vallejo
- railroad union activist arrested by Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos
National Democratic Party
- ran John M. Palmer (IL) and Simon Bolivar Buckner to oppose William Jennings Bryan in 1896
Sheridan Downey
- ran as Lieutenant Governor with Upton Sinclair in 1934 - promoted his EPIC platform against Frank Merriam and George J. Hatfield
Ed Clark
- ran on Libertarian ticket with David Koch in 1980 with surprisingly progressive views
William Crawford
- ran with Nathaniel Macon in 1824 - killed allies of Georgia representative John Clark in duel
Good Old Cause
- reasons why Roundheads chose to fight in New Model Army
Knights' Revolt (1522-23)
- rebellion led by Franz von Sickingen against HRE - inspired German Peasants' War
Zapatista Uprising (1994)
- rebellion of EZLN ended with San Andres Accords - Riordan Roett pushed for Mexico to end this
1936-39 Arab Revolt
- rebellion sparked by killing of Syrian preacher Izz ad-Din al-Qassam and Amin al-Husseini's call for a general strike
Thomas McKean
- received letter from Jefferson about "abominable slanders" including gunboats in Georgia cornfields
Piero Soderini
- recipient of letter from Amerigo Vespucci detailing his four voyages - gonfaloniere of Florence
Lady Sarah Wilson
- recruited to cover Siege of Mafeking, making her first female war correspondent in history
Thomas Eddy
- reformed prison practices and was first director of old "Newgate" Prison in New York - proposed Erie Canal with aid of State Senator Jonas Platt
Frederick William IV
- refused German unified throne at Frankfurt Parliament because he felt he had to be chosen by electors of Holy Roman Empire
Bernice Bishop
- refused offer to lead Hawaii after Kamehameha V, leading to election of Lunalilo
Sam Rayburn
- refused political payments, promoted Route 66, and hosted secret "Board of Education" meetings - wasn't a fan of FDR Jr.
Dagestan
- region of Russia with capital at Makhachkhala - home to Shariat Jamaat terrorists
Berne Convention (1906)
- regulated manufacturing of matches, banning white phosphorus
Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917
- relief efforts helped by Maurice Sarrail - city was rebuilt by Ernest Hebrard
Hermann von Hanneken
- replaced Erich Ludke as Nazi Commander in Denmark after Telegram Crisis
Gerald Templer
- replaced Henry Gurney in Malayan Emergency after his killing - began "hearts and minds" campaign with Malaysians
White Paper Defense
- report authored by Dean Acheson describing "loss of China" - attacked for his failure in "The Attack of the Primitives"
F.T. Marinetti
- reported on Balkan Wars and wrote poem about Siege of Adrianople called Zang Tumb Tumb
Michael Buerk
- reported on Ethiopian famine on October 3, 1984, leading to Live Aid
Malcolm Muggeridge
- reported on Holodomor and put reports in bag with rival Gareth Jones - brought Mother Teresa to prominence
James T. Callender
- reported on Jefferson's children with Sally Hemings, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston
Julia May Courtney
- reported on Ludlow Massacre in journal Mother Earth and on deaths of infants and Louis Tikas
Theodore Frelinghuysen
- represented New Jersey as Senator and "Christian Statesman" - ran with Clay in 1844
Code of Leke
- repressive code for women's activities in Albania - said woman was a "sack"; repealed by Hoxha
Republic of Karelia
- republic of Prussia with capital at Petrozavodsk and led by Artur Panfenchikov
Lord Killanin
- resigned before 1980 Moscow Olympics, which US boycotted - replaced by Juan Antonio Samaranch
Peter Thorneycroft
- resigned from MacMillan's cabinet due to increased government expenditures - handled Sunda Straits Crisis with Sukarno
Dan Rather
- resigned in Killian Documents controversy after helping Mary Mapes get forged documents about George W. Bush's Air Force Service
Melville Fuller
- resolved border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela - wrote majority in E.C. Knight case and Leisy v. Hardin
Barmen Declaration (1934)
- response to Deutsche German movement written by Karl Barth and Pfarrernotbund
Page Act (1875)
- restricted Asian and Chinese immigration - first restrictive immigration law - sponsored by California Representative
Dillingham Commission (1911)
- restricted immigration, leading to first quotas in 1921 - led by Vermont Senator
Thomas Duncombe
- revealed that while Mazzini was in exile in Britain, the government was opening and reading his mail
Harelle
- revolt in France during Hundred Years' War - followed by Maillotin Revolt six days later
Cantonal Revolt (1873)
- revolt in favor of dividing Spain into autonomous regions - led by Catalan Francesc Pi i Margall, who translated works of Pierre-Auguste Proudhon
Stephen I, Count of Sancerre
- revolted against Philip Augustus with Brabancon mercenaries - defeated by Confreres de la Paix
Heraclius
- revolted against Phocas; created Monothelitism to placate Monophysites - married his niece, Martina
Antal Nagy de Buda
- revolted in Transylvania against Kingdom of Hungary in 1437 due to George Lepes' increased tithes
Irmandiño Revolts
- revolts in 15th century Galicia - commemoration of this is largest role playing event in the world
Mehmet Shehu
- right-hand man to Hoxha for 40 years that killed himself in 1981; declared a traitor after his death
Stephen Milligan
- rising star of Conservative Party in 1990s - died of autoerotic asphyxiation with orange in mouth and with black stockings on
Cooum River
- river in Chennai that flows into Bay of Bengal
Peter Pett
- roasted by Marvell for saying ship models and drawings were more valuable than real ships after Raid on the Medway
Caesar Rodney
- rode to Delaware to break tie on Declaration of Independence - President of Delaware
Prince Pozorovsky
- ruled Astrakhan and killed during Stepan Razin's revolt - leading to Razin's election as gosudar
Parantaka I
- ruled Chola for 48 years and annexed Pandya Dynasty's capital of Madurai
Ruvuma River
- runs on Tanzania-Mozambique border and runs along Kionga Triangle in Mozambique
Louis Farrakhan
- said "God puts you in the ovens forever" - called "Judaism" a gutter religion and said Hitler was a "great man"
Michael "Ozzie" Myers
- said "money talks and bullshit walks" when found out in Abscam scandal - Philadelphia politician expelled from Congress
Wilfrid Laurier
- said "the twentieth century belongs to Canada" - created Canadian Navy with Naval Bill of 1910
Jeff Flake
- said Trump was Stalinesque in Fake News Awards - sponsored stupid "No Fly, No Buy" bill - warned against "new normal" when saying he wouldn't seek re-election
Bob Dole
- said if you added up victims of Democrat wars, it would fill the city of Detroit in VP debate with Mondale in 1976 - influenced by meeting with Armenian Genocide survivor and orthopedist Hampar Kelikian after WW2 injuries
Nell Gwyn
- said she was the "Protestant whoore" when she was confused with Duchess of Portsmouth - originally an orange seller under Mary Meggs
Joshua Hett Smith
- sailed Benedict Arnold to the Vulture to meet John Andre near Stony Point
Baehr v. Miike (1993)
- same-sex marriage case in Hawaii that led to 1996 Defense of Marriage Act
Bessus
- satrap of Bactria who assassinated Darius III and later killed by Alexander for his actions
Menno Simons
- saw murder at Munster and chose different path of Anabaptism with Obbe and Dirk Philips
Mickey Free
- scout captured by Apaches as a child while known as Felix Ward
Tom Adams
- second PM of Barbados - succeeded Errol "Dipper" Barrow - took part in Operation Urgent Fury
Battle of Rignano (1137)
- second defeat of Roger II of Sicily to Ranulf of Alife
Enneakrounos
- second most important water source of Athens behind Kalliroe Cistern - built by Pisistratus
Leon Jaworski
- second special prosecutor in Watergate after Cox was fired for rejecting Stennis Compromise
Ingeborg of Denmark
- second wife of Philip Augustus, who he locked up and tried to divorce
John Lambert
- second-in-command to Cromwell at Worcester - promulgated Instrument of Government - defeated by George Monck and Restoration movement, leading to his imprisonment
Chinon Parchment (1308)
- secret document stating that Clement V secretly absolved all Knights Templar for their sins
Sigurimi
- secret police of Hoxha; tortured victims with sounds of car engines telling them they would take them away
Juan de Escobedo
- secretary of Don Juan of Austria that was killed after discovering affair between Antonio Perez and Ana de Mondoza
William FitzRalph
- seneschal of Normandy under Henry II and Richard I - Philip II attempted to convince him that Vexin was his territory
Brancaleone Doria
- served Peter IV of Aragon, who arrested him for taking Giudicate of Arborea - almost conquered all of Sardinia
Simon Doria
- served Philip Augustus at Third Crusade Siege of Acre - led Genoese fleet at Siege of Damietta in 5th Crusade
Jack Kemp
- served as HUD secretary under H.W. Bush - campaign picture with Dole in '96 was overshadowed by picture of Mars in TIME - discussed spitting of Orioles' Roberto Alomar in VP debate with Gore
Edmund Muskie
- served as Sec. of State during Iran hostage crisis - went into coma after falling down stairs while Mayor of Waterville
Meletus
- set forth trial of Socrates in league with two other accusers Antylus and Lycon
Malmaison Constitution (1802)
- set laws for Napoleonic puppet state in Switzerland, Helvetic Republic
Julian the Apostate
- set up Chalcedon Tribunal to deal with corruption - wrote satire of himself called Misopogon, or "Beard Hater"
Oran Massacre (1962)
- seven katiba regiments of FLN killed hundreds after burning of Algiers Library by OAS
Adler von Lubeck
- ship built by Hansa that was converted to freight after Treaty of Stettin
Struma Disaster (1942)
- ship carrying Jewish refugees from Romania to Palestine was sunk by Soviet torpedo
Paknam Incident (1893)
- ships Jean-Baptiste Say, Inconstant, and Comete were fired on by Siam in Franco-Siamese War
Edict of Saint-Germain (1562)
- short-lived peace sponsored by Catherine de Medici - quickly broken by Duke of Guise at Wassy
Alberto Lleras Camargo
- short-lived president of Colombia who helped end La Violencia
Erfurt Union (1850)
- short-lived union of German states excluding Austria - ended by Punctation of Olmutz
Pedro Lascurain
- shortest presidency in the world after Madero's assassination
Jean Parisot de Valette
- shot Turkish heads out of cannons in Great Siege of Malta in 1565
John Wesley Hardin
- shot a man for snoring in Kansas - led to confrontation with Wild Bill Hickok in Abilene, Kansas
Geraldo Rivera
- shot at by Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge and led to Operation Northern Exposure
Andreas Bauriedl
- shot on the stomach and bled out on Nazi flag - led to "Blood Flag" nickname - killed in Beer Hall Putsch
Nicolae Titulescu
- shouted "to the door with the savages!" when Haile Selassie showed up to League of Nations
Adlai Stevenson II
- showed down-to-earth personality with hole in his shoe during 1952 election
Francis II of France
- sickly king of France and husband of Mary, Queen of Scots - succeeded Henry II and died in 1560, succeeded by Charles IX
Henry Sloughter
- signed death warrant for Leisler while drunk - told to kill Leisler by Richard Ingoldesby, who convinced Leisler to surrender peacefully
Eight Trigrams Uprising (1813)
- similar to earlier White Lotus Rebellion - carried out against Jiaqing Emperor
Gemma La Guardia Gluck
- sister of NYC mayor who was sent to Ravensbruck during WW2 with daughter Yolanda
New Bedford
- site of Massachusetts whaling industry - site of Nathan and Mary Johnson's boardinghouse for runaway slaves
Tenaru River
- site of WWII Battle of Alligator Creek near Guadalcanal
Gulf of Fonseca
- site of border dispute after Football War
Shark Island
- site of concentration camp during Herero and Namaqua genocide - located in Namibian city named after Adolf Luderitz
Yucca Mountain
- site of nuclear waste facility in Nevada
Santiago de Compostela
- site of pilgrimage for St. James the Great in Spain - first apostle to be martyred
Dalarna, Sweden
- site of revolt of miners in 1434 against Eric of Pomerania
Anahuac Disturbances (1832-35)
- skirmishes started by William B. Travis and Frank Johnson, and precipitated Texas Revolution
Zong Massacre (1781)
- slavers threw 130 slaves overboard near Jamaica b/c of lack of drinking water; rained later that day
Filippo Turati
- socialist leader and friend of Giolitti - failed to control Mussolini while he led Avanti!
Antipater I the Idumaean
- son killed Alexander and Aristobulus - founded Herodian dynasty and rescued Julius Caesar in Alexandria
Caeso
- son of Cincinnatus convicted of obstructing tribune of the plebeians - led to heavy fine paid by his father
Arthur Vandenberg Jr.
- son of Michigan who resigned from Eisenhower's staff b/c he was gay
Pharnaces II of Pontus
- son of Mithridates the Great - lost to Julius Caesar at Battle of Zela, where he said "veni, vidi, vici"
Louis I of Spain
- son of Philip V of Spain who succeeded him after abdication; served 10 months and died of smallpox
James Rudolph Garfield
- son of assassinated president and Secretary of Interior under Teddy Roosevelt
Henry Ireton
- son-in-law of Cromwell and died of plague at Siege of Limerick - captured at Battle of Naseby
Jacob Milborne
- son-in-law of Leisler who was killed with him - sent by Leisler to subjugate Albany
Francisco Coronado
- sought to find Quivira in Kansas, but only found squash
Rashtrakuta Dynasty
- southern Indian dynasty that was led by Dantidurga - defeated Chola Empire
"The Opportunity in the Law" Speech
- speech by Louis Brandeis that argued for mandatory pro bono work and more independent law firms
Tom Harkin
- sponsored ADA in 1990 - Iowa Senator who delivered speech at signing in sign language
Gunter Guillaume
- spy under Erich Honecker in Brandt's cabinet - wrote "Die Assuage" (The Statement)
Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter
- started Campaigns, Inc. which revolutionized politics - worked for Frank Merriam and prevented Upton Sinclair from winning 1934 California gubernatorial election
Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994)
- started by John Major in response to briberies by Mohammed al-Fayed
Willem Kieft
- started namesake war against Lenape aided by his second in command, David de Vries - died in Princess Amelia shipwreck
Battle of Coire na Creiche (1601)
- started when Margaret MacLeod was sent to her brother with one eye on a one-eyed horse with a one-eyed servant and a one-eyed dog
Eastmain River
- starts in Quebec and flows into James Bay portion of Hudson Bay
Henrician Articles (1573)
- stated law of Poland after election of Valois king to throne
John H. Reagan
- stole US post office and became Postmaster General of Confederacy - removed Reconstruction Governor of Texas Edmund J. Davis; known as "Old Cincinnatus"
Rudi Dutschke
- student activist in Germany inspired by Benno Ohnesborg - eventually killed by Josef Bachmann after years of suffering from his gunshot wound - advocated "long march through the institutions of power"
Maximilian II, HRE
- succeeded Ferdinand I in 1562 and was nephew of Charles V
Ramiz Alia
- succeeded Hoxha in 1985 after he had a heart attack and died
Jan van Leiden
- succeeded Jan Matthys as leader of Munster - tortured at St. Lambert's Church - took Matthys' wife Divira as queen after legalizing polygamy; previously known as Johan Bockelson - went into naked trance for 3 days
Damaso Berenguer
- succeeded Miguel Primo de Rivera - known as dictablanda to Primo de Rivera's dictadura
Idris Alooma
- succeeded Queen Aissa in Kanem-Bornu - life chronicled by Ibn Fartuwa - received diplomats at Ngazargama
Miguel Diaz-Canel
- succeeded Raul Castro as President of Cuba on April 18
Tom Bradley
- succeeded Sam Yorty as LA Mayor, of which he is longest-serving holder - faced Rodney King riots and namesake "effect"
Boris III of Bulgaria
- succeeded Simeon II of Bulgaria after abdication - helped Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) save Jews in Holocaust
Bayezid II
- successor of Mehmet II who evacuated Jews from Spain after Alhambra Decree and settled them in Ottoman Empire
Thomas Young
- suggested name of Vermont after illegally inoculating Ethan Allen
Ismail Ascari
- suicide bomber at Beirut Barracks 1983, where Eddie DiFranco was killed and Danny Wheeler survived
Virgil Blossom
- superintendent of Little Rock ISD during Little Rock Nine - supported NAACP's Daisy Bates and involved Cooper v. Aaron
Carians
- supported Aristagoras and fought with backs to the Marsyas River to prevent retreat - killed Daurises in ambush at Pedasus
Joe Garagiola Sr
- supported Gerald Ford in 1976 election with TV ads of them hanging out together
Francisco de Miranda
- supported by Rufus King in expedition to Venezuela with Moses Smith and William Stephens Smith
Thomas Hayward Dare
- supporter of Duke of Monmouth who was killed in a duel by Andrew Fletcher over who should ride the best horse
Francisco Largo Caballero
- supposed "Spanish Lenin" who resigned in favor of Juan Negrin
Red Army Faction
- supposedly disbanded in 1998 note sent to Reuters - members include neo-Nazi Horst Mahler
Decebalus
- supposedly hid treasure under Sargetia River before committing suicide in 106 - succeeded Scorilo
Thomas Hickey
- supposedly involved in plot to kill Washington with New York City mayor David Matthews - first American person to be executed for treason
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
- supposedly learned about outcome of Waterloo in advance with carrier pigeons
Michel Viger
- suspected FLQ member who harbored members in his barns during October Crisis
Council of Piacenza (1095)
- synod held by Urban II during investiture controversy
Radom Confederation (1767)
- szlachta led by Nicolas Repnin fought for Golden Liberty - made peace with Stanislaw II Poniatowski
Shahu I
- taken prisoner as 5th Chhatrapati of Maratha Empire - fought succession war with aunt Tarabai
John Major (philosopher)
- taught John Knox, who married Marjorie Bowes and employed Richard Bannatyne as his secretary
Kemp-Roth Tax Cuts (1981)
- tax cuts led by NY rep/former football player and Delaware Rep.
Yasak
- tax on Siberian indigenous peoples for fur
George Calvert
- thanked George Villiers for promotion under James I with large diamond, which he returned - traveled to Avalon (Newfoundland), where he was badmouthed by Erasmus Stourton
King of Sparta
- this title was held by two rulers every time known as Archagetai - one was from Agiad line and other from Eurypontid line
War of Three Henries (977-978)
- three German princes revolted against Holy Roman Emperor Otto II
John Compton
- three-time PM of St. Lucia - led United Workers Party and supported Operation Urgent Fury
Doris Duke
- tobacco heiress that posted bail for Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi after racketeering charges
Megabates
- told Naxos of Aristagoras' pending invasion after he fell out with him
Harry Emerson Fosdick
- told Ruby Bates to go back and tell the truth in Scottsboro Boys trials
Mengistu Haile Mariam
- told those who called him "Barias" (slave) to "stoop and grind corn" - used Kebeles to impose "wasted bullet" tax in Qey Shibir
Koxinga
- took Fort Zeelandia from Dutch Frederick Coyett and died in fit of madness when soldiers didn't kill his son for banging a wet nurse
David Kirke
- took over Newfoundland from Calvert family under Charles I - succeeded by John Treworgie
Bernard Coard
- took power in Grenada for three days after Bishop's death before being overthrown by Hudson Austin - member of New Jewel Movement
Barbara Palmer
- tore down Nonsuch Castle to pay for gambling debts and targeted by "The Poor-Whoore's Petition" after Bawdy House Riots
Bernhard Knipperdolling
- tortured and killed in metal cages near St. Lambert's Church - former mayor of Munster
Alexander Stamboliyski
- tortured by IMRO after June 9, 1923 coup - IMRO cut off his hand that signed Treaty of Nis and put his head in a box of biscuits
Saratov
- town near Volga where one can learn Stepan Razin's "secret" of class warfare
John Bagot Glubb
- trained and commanded Transjordan's Arab Legion under Abdullah and Hussein
Alonso de Ojeda
- traveled with Vespucci, who named Venezuela after houses of Wayuu people, which reminded him of Venice
Nassau Agreement (1962)
- treaty that ended US-UK dispute between JFK and Harold MacMillan about "Skybolt Crisis"
Bloody Assizes (1685)
- trials under Judge Jeffreys of 1400 people at Taunton; killed many and deported 800 to West Indies - fictionalized in Captain Blood by Sabatini
Hooghly River
- tributary of Ganges in West Bengal that flows into Bay of Bengal
Mohammed Oufkir
- tried to lead 1972 coup attempt against Hassan II - killed during Morocco's "years of lead"
Syrphax
- tyrant of Ephesus stoned to death along with his son Pelagon by Alexander - led city founded by Androclus
"Cotton Ed" Smith
- uber-racist senator from South Carolina - left 1936 DNC after seeing black priest - chewed tobacco in the Senate and proclaimed "white supremacy"
Ferdinand von Richthofen
- uncle of the Red Baron - named the Silk Road
Cary's Rebellion (1711)
- uprising in North Carolina against Governor Edward Hyde by Quakers
Twinkie Defense
- used by Dan White in killing George Moscone and Harvey Milk
Sing Sing Prison
- used silence-facilitated "Auburn System" - founded by Elam Lynds; last person killed here was Eddie Lee Mays
Lucius Domitius Domitianus
- usurper in Egypt (Alexandria) - tripping of Diocletian's horse saved him and city from total destruction
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)
- victims include Petrus Ramus and Claude Goudimel - Francis Walsingham barely escaped this
Great Plague of London (1665-66)
- viewed by Robert Hooke, who also wrote Micrographia - led to increased consumption of tobacco because of rumor that sellers of it did not get sick
Harold G. Hoffman
- visited Bruno Hauptmann and was convinced of greater conspiracy - New Jersey governor from 1935-38
Cedomilj Mijatovic
- visited US on speaking tour with Emmeline Pankhurst when she gave "Freedom or Death" speech in Hartford, CT
John Caradja
- voivode of Wallachia who made Caragea law code and combatted plague by burying sick people alive
James Whistler
- was awarded one farthing in libel suit against John Ruskin regarding Nocturne in Black and Gold
Anikey Stroganov
- was granted land after Yermak's conquest of Siberia along Kama and Chusovaya Rivers
Franz Matt
- was not in Beer Hall in Munich with the rest of his Weimar associates - was meeting with Archbishop of Munich and future Pius XII - mobilized Sigmund von Imhoff and Jakob van Danner to put down putsch
Inga Falls
- waterfall on Congo River along with Boyoma Falls (Wageria Falls)
Nikolaus Storch
- weaver and preacher in Saxony - leader of Zwickau Prophets who worked closely with Thomas Muntzer
Cape Alava
- westernmost point on contiguous US - located with Cape Flattery (northwesternmost point) on Olympic Peninsula in Washington
Spurius Maelius
- wheat dealer whose ambitions led Cincinnatus to take up position of dictator in 439 BC
Yuk Young-Soo
- wife of Park Chung-Hee killed at Seoul Theater by Mun Se-Gwang, a Zainichi Korean
Alexander of Pherae
- won 364 BC battle over Pelopidas of Thebes at Cynoscephalae as leader of Thessaly - later lost to Epaminondas, who avenged Pelopidas
Philippe I, Duke of Orleans
- won Battle of Cassel in 1677 against William III of Orange - openly gay brother of Louis XIV
Yaqub al-Mansur
- won at Alarcos over Alfonso VIII - built Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakesh - Almohad caliph
Olympia Battalion
- wore white gloves to distinguish themselves in Plaza de las Tres Culturas during Tlatelolco Massacre, where Oriana Fallaci was wounded
Bobby Riggs
- wore yellow "Sugar Daddy" jacket and was given piglet by Billie Jean King at Astrodome
John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair
- worked with Earl of Breadalbane to get concession from MacDonalds and Glengarry for 12000 pounds - led to Glencoe Massacre
Sir Robert Shirley
- worked with brothers to modernize army of Shah Abbas I and fight with Ottomans
London Matchgirls Strike (1888)
- workers went on strike led by Annie Besant and supported by Bradlaugh regarding effects of white phosphorus
Hercule de Roha, Duke of Montbazon
- wounded by Ravaillac during assassination of Henry IV
Howard Zinn
- wrestled with John K. Fairbank for microphone at meeting of American Historical Association - wrote A People's History of the United States praising socialism and progressive movements
Martin Niemoller
- wrote "First they came..." and wrote Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt about Holocaust on behalf of church
Theodore Weld
- wrote "Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses" about slavery after leaving Lane Seminary school to be abolitionist
Jose Vasconcelos
- wrote "The Anti-Reelectionist", which was sponsored by Madero - wrote about "cosmic race" (La Raza) and was minister of education under Obregon
Francesco Guicciardini
- wrote "The History of Italy" - averted attack on Florence, leading to Sack of Rome
William Allen White
- wrote "What's the matter with Kansas" in 1896 in Emporia Gazette - supported Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies in WWII
Algernon Sidney
- wrote Discourses Concerning Government - friend of Locke; implicated and killed for Rye House Plot
Carl von Clausewitz
- wrote about "remarkable trinity of motives" and "culminating point" in On War after Jena-Auerstadt
Robert Conquest
- wrote about Holodomor in The Harvest of Sorrow
Arthur Koestler
- wrote about seeing effects of Holodomor in The God that Failed, a book with essays by ex-Communists like Richard Wright and Andre Gide
Michael Kazin
- wrote biography of William Jennings Bryan called A Godly Hero
Carmine Pecorelli
- wrote column "shame on you, clowns!" to Christian Democrats after Moro's death - said P2 Lodge influenced Andreotti to not take action
Rajkumar Keswani
- wrote investigative pieces on Bhopal pre-disaster - said Bhopal "was on the edge of a volcano"
Junius Brutus Booth
- wrote letter to Andrew Jackson threatening murder unless he pardoned two pirates - said it was a "joke"
H.H. Asquith
- wrote letters to mistress Venetia Stanley - won 1920 Paisley by-election - called "Squiffy" for his alcoholism
Rufus Peckham
- wrote that "scope of police power has been reached and passed" in Lochner, which overturned Holder v. Hardy
First Earl of Clarendon
- wrote the History of the Rebellion about English Civil War while Lord Chancellor to Charles II
Mercy Otis Warren
- wrote under pen name "A Columbian Patriot" and wrote first history of US by a woman
Brunei Revolt (1962)
- A.M. Azahari failed to overthrow Oman Ali Saifuddien III; included Limbang Raid by rebel TNKU, where hostages sang "She'll be Coming Round the Mountain" so they would be found
Communist Insurgency in Sarawak (1962-90)
- Abdul Rahman Ya'kub ended long revolt in his province with peace accords with NKCB (ethnically Chinese)
Battle of Toro (1476)
- Afonso V of Portugal fought Ferdinand II of Aragon in War of Castilian Succession - led to Ferdinand's victory after Isabella of Castile claimed success
First Battle of Mantinea (418 BC)
- Agis II and Sparta defeated Laches of Argos during Archidamian part of Peloponnesian War
Morgan Report (1894)
- Alabama Senator exonerated John L. Stevens and led to Turpie Resolution by Indiana Senator
Bibb Graves
- Alabama governor from 1927-31 and 1935-39 who was member of KKK and pardoned some Scottsboro Boys
Koci Xoxe
- Albanian and pro-Yugoslavia politician executed by Hoxha - forced Nako Spiru to commit suicide
Charter of Carnaro
- Alceste de Ambris and d'Annunzio wrote this law for Fiume, which had 9 corporations with a tenth one called "heroes" and "supermen"
Kocgiri Uprising (1921)
- Alevi Kurd uprising brutally repressed by Nureddin Pasha, who was defended by Ataturk
Banda Mustafaj
- Alex, Billy, Fred, and Dino, a group of Albanian exiles, attempted to kill Hoxha in 1982 with funding from Leka, son of King Zog
Battle of Pandosia (331 BC)
- Alexander I of Epirus lost to and was killed by Lucanians
Radomir Rebellion (1918)
- Alexander Protogerov crushed Stamboliyski's revolt, but not before Tsar Ferdinand fled on a train
Battle of Demetritzes (1185)
- Alexios Branas under Isaac II Angelos defeated Normans under William the Good
Battle of Kalavrye (1078)
- Alexios Komnenos put down rebellion of Dyrrhacium governor Nikephoros Bryennios
Saltville Massacre (1864)
- Alfred E. Jackson killed hundreds of blacks under Stephen Burbridge in Virginia
Simon Girty
- American Irish colonial that joined Seneca - defeated by Richard Mentor Johnson's mother at Bryan Station, Kentucky
William N. Oatis
- American journalist imprisoned by Czechoslovakia on charges of espionage - released in 1953
Steve Pieczenik
- American terrorism expert who tried, along with Carlos the Jackal, to negotiate for Moro
Melchior Rink
- Anabaptist leader accused by Lutherans of starting German Peasants' War
Melchior Hoffman
- Anabaptist prophet who believed Strasbourg was "New Jerusalem"
Cellular Jail (Kala Pani)
- Andaman Islands political prison under British in Bay of Bengal
Battle of Point Pleasant (1774)
- Andrew Lewis defeated Chief Cornstalk in Lord Dunmore's War with help from George Matthews
Massacre of the Latins (1183)
- Andronikos Komnenos ordered massacre in Constantinople, ending with papal legate's head being dragged on the tail of a dog
Battle of Coutras (1587)
- Anne de Joyeuse killed and destroyed by Henry of Navarre in first battle of War of Three Henries
Wendish Crusade (1147)
- Anselm of Havelberg led Henry the Lion and Albert the Bear against pagan Slavs under Niklot
Nicanor the Elephant
- Antigonid general who commanded wing of Macedon army under Philip V at Cynoscephalae in 197 BC - overrun by 20 elephant and 20 maniple charge
Kelso Cochrane
- Antiguan immigrant murdered in London in 1959 - led to racially-focused Garvey Commission
Treaty of Triparadisus (321 BC)
- Antipater made himself leader of Macedon in place of disabled Philip III Arrhidaeus
Battle of Crannon (322 BC)
- Antipater of Macedon defeated Greeks under Leosthenes in Lamian War
Cellamare Conspiracy (1718)
- Antonio del Guidice and Giulio Alberoni tried to make Philip V regent of Louis XV instead of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans
First Battle of Dragoon Springs (1862)
- Apache under Cochise killed Sam Ford and defeated genocidal Confederate John Baylor in Arizona
Wola Massacre (1944)
- 40-50,000 people killed during Operation Tempest by Oskar Dirlewanger and Bronislav Kaminski
Acteal Massacre (1997)
- 45 members of pro-EZLN Las Abejas (The Bees) killed by "Red Mask" paramilitaries
1920 Nebi Musa Riots
- Arab-Jew violence involving later "Grand Mufti" Amin al-Husseini - occurred during Franco-Syrian War
Battle of Leuthen (1757)
- 7 Years' War battle where Frederick the Great defeat Charles Alexander of Lorraine and Leopold Joseph von Daun - Prussian army song "Now Thank we All our God" after this battle and Frederick II asked if he could get "a night's lodging" with the defeated Austrians
USS Pueblo (1968)
- 83 ship members captured by North Korea during Vietnam War - Lloyd Bucher was tortured and said "we pee on the DPRK"
Black Friday (1978)
- 89 protesters killed in Jaleh Square - reported on by Michel Foucault
Robert W. Service
- "Bard of the Yukon" who worked for Toronto Star in WWI and Balkan Wars
Hyperakroi
- "Hillsmen" faction led by Peisistratus - opposed political factions Paraloi and Pediakoi
John Marie Durst
- "Paul Revere of Texas"; veteran of New Orleans - children tutored by John H. Reagan
Notting Hill race riots (1958)
- "Teddy Boys" led riots in London against West Indians after attack on Majbratt Morrison
Cheddi Jagan
- "father of Guyana" - son of Indian immigrants and President of Guyana, succeeding Desmond Hoyte
George Cayley
- "father of aviation" and first person to understand underlying forces of flight
Sonderbund War (1847)
- "separate alliance" caused civil war in Switzerland
Markus Wolf
- #2 of Stasi under Mielke who controlled foreign intelligence operations
Daniel Webster Hoan
- 14-year Socialist mayor of Milwaukee - made first public busing in US and first public housing project in Garden Homes
The Description de l'Egypte
- 160 French "savants" accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and created encyclopedia based on it
Thomas Biddle
- 1812 war hero and brother of Nicholas - killed in duel with Spencer Pettis, a Missouri Congressman
Straperlo
- 1930s Spanish scheme to control roulette wheel with a button that led to Spanish Civil War
Emperor Taizong of Song
- 2nd Song Emperor - conquered Northern Han, ending Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period