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| x The death of John Lennon |
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The death of John Lennon | Mark David Chapman | The Catcher in the Rye |
John Lennon was an English rock musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism. He was shot to death by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building...
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| x Oklahoma City bombing |
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Oklahoma City bombing | Timothy McVeigh | Waco Siege |
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred on April 19, 1995 when American militia movement sympathizer Timothy McVeigh, with the assistance of Terry Nichols, destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was the...
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| x Iraq War |
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Iraq War | George W. Bush | Human rights in Saddam's Iraq |
The Iraq War, also known as the Occupation of Iraq or Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 19, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States and the United...
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| Condoleezza Rice | Iraq and weapons of mass destruction | ||||
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| x Easter Rising |
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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic. It was...
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| x Haifa Oil Refinery massacre |
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre refers to an incident that took place on December 30, 1947. After operatives of the Zionist paramilitary, the Irgun, threw a number of grenades at a crowd of 100 Arab day labourers who had gathered outside the main gate...
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| x Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway |
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The Sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the Japanese media as the Subway Sarin Incident (地下鉄サリン事件, Chikatetsu Sarin Jiken), was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of Aum Shinrikyo on March 20, 1995.
In five...
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| x Assassination of Waldemar Milewicz |
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Waldemar Milewicz (August 20, 1956 in Dobre Miasto – May 7, 2004 in Latifiya) was a Polish journalist and war correspondent who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Iraq. On May 7, 2004, the car he was returning from Baghdad to the Polish base Camp...
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| x Drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur |
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At approximately 11:15 p.m. Sep 7, 1996, a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac with an unknown number of occupants pulled up to the sedan's right side, rolled down one of the windows, and rapidly fired twelve to thirteen shots at Shakur. He was...
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| x Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act |
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Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act | Reagan assassination attempt |
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Pub.L. 103-159, 107 Stat. 1536) was an Act of the United States Congress that, for the first time, instituted federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States.
It was signed into law by...
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| x Nepalese royal massacre |
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The Nepalese royal massacre occurred on Friday, June 1, 2001, at the Narayanhity Royal Palace, the then-residence of the Nepalese monarchy, when Crown Prince Dipendra allegedly shot and killed several members of his family. As a result of the...
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| x Virginia Tech massacre |
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Virginia Tech massacre | Seung-Hui Cho | Columbine High School massacre |
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. In two separate attacks, approximately two...
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| x Trial of the thirty | Anarchism |
The Trial of the Thirty (French: Procès des trente) was a show trial in 1894 in Paris, France, aimed at legitimizing the lois scélérates passed in 1893-1894 against the anarchist movement and restricting press freedom by proving the existence of an...
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| x Tragic Week |
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Anarchism |
Tragic Week (in Catalan la Setmana Tràgica, in Spanish la Semana Trágica) (July 25 – August 2, 1909) is the name used for a series of bloody confrontations between the army and the working classes of Barcelona and other cities of Catalonia, backed...
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| x Third Russian Revolution | Anarchism |
The Left SR uprising or Left SR revolt was a coup and other assassinations and uprisings against the Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1918. The revolt started on 6 July 1918 and was aimed at restarting the war with Germany. It...
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| x WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity |
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Anarchism |
Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 (nicknamed "N30" on similar lines to J18 and similar mobilizations), when...
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| x Amakasu Incident |
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Anarchism |
The Amakasu Incident occurred on September 16, 1923, in the chaos immediately following the Great Kantō earthquake. Fearing that anarchists would take advantage of the disaster to overthrow the government, a squad of military police led by...
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| x Anarchist Catalonia |
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Anarchism |
Anarchist Catalonia (July 21, 1936–February 10, 1939) was the self-proclaimed stateless territory and anarchist society in part of the territory of modern Catalonia (Spain) during the Spanish Civil War.
In 1936, the main anarchist movement, CNT-FAI,...
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| x Anarchist Exclusion Act |
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Anarchism |
The Anarchist Exclusion Act refers to two different acts passed by the United States Congress intended to keep immigrants that subscribed to anarchist ideas from entering the country.
The first Anarchist Exclusion Act (officially listed as An Act To...
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| x Anarchy in Somalia |
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Anarchism |
Somalia, from 1991 to 2006, is cited as a real-world example of a stateless society and legal system. Since the fall of Siad Barre's government in January 1991 , there has been no permanent national government in Somalia until the current...
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| x Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations |
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Anarchism |
The Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations occurred on the 1st to the 4th of May, 1986 in Melbourne, Australia.
Preparations to celebrate the centenary of the formation of the first known anarchist organisation in Australia commenced in August...
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| x Barcelona May Days | Anarchism |
Barcelona May Days (Els Fets de Maig in Catalan, Los Hechos de Mayo or "May Events" in Spanish) were a period of civil violence in Catalonia, between May 3 and May 8, 1937, when factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged each...
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| x Carnival Against Capitalism |
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Anarchism |
The Global Carnival Against Capital took place on Friday, June 18, 1999. It was an international day of protest timed to coincide with the 25th G8 Summit in Köln, Germany. The carnival was inspired by the 1980s Stop the City protests and the Global...
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| x Haymarket affair |
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Anarchism |
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) was a disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago, and began as a rally in support of striking workers. An unknown person threw...
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| x High Treason Incident | Anarchism |
The High Treason Incident (大逆事件, Taigyaku Jiken), also known as the Kotoku Incident (幸徳事件, Kōtoku Jiken), was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, and the execution of 12...
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| x International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam | Anarchism |
The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam took place from 24 August to 31 August 1907. It gathered delegates from 14 different countries, among which important figures of the anarchist movement, including Errico Malatesta, Luigi Fabbri,...
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| x Kate Sharpley Library | Anarchism |
The Kate Sharpley Library (or KSL) is a library dedicated to anarchist texts and history. Started in 1979 and reorganized in 1991, it currently holds around ten thousand English language volumes, pamphlets and periodicals. The library has texts in...
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| x Kronstadt rebellion |
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Anarchism |
The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors, soldiers and civilians led by Stepan Petrichenko against the government of the early Russian SFSR in March 1921 during a period of left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks....
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| x Manifesto of the Sixteen |
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Anarchism |
The Manifesto of the Sixteen (French: Manifeste des seize), or Proclamation of the Sixteen, was a document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers...
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| x Paris Commune |
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Anarchism |
The Paris Commune (French: La Commune de Paris) was a government that briefly ruled Paris, from March 28 (more formally, from March 26) to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and socialists had taken place, and it is hailed...
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| x Spanish Revolution |
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Anarchism |
The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and more broadly socialist organizational principles throughout...
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| x Bombing of Dresden in World War II |
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The Bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF) between 13 February and 15 February 1945 remains one of the most controversial Allied actions of the Second World War. In four raids, 1,300 heavy...
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| x Bombing of Tokyo in World War II |
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The bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces took place at several times during the Pacific campaigns of World War II and included the most destructive bombing raid in history.
The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle Raid of 18 April...
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| x Bristol Blitz |
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Bristol was the fifth most heavily bombed British city of World War II. The presence of the Bristol Harbour and the Bristol Aeroplane Company made it a target for bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe who were able to trace a course up River Avon...
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| x Belfast Blitz |
The Belfast Blitz was an event that occurred on the night of Easter Tuesday, 15 April 1941. Two hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attacked the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. One thousand people died as a result of the bombing...
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| x Bombing of Kassel in World War II |
The Kassel World War II bombings were a set of Allied strategic bombing attacks. The fire of the most severe air raid burned for seven days, at least 10,000 people died, 150,000 inhabitants were bombed-out, and the city center was 95% destroyed. The...
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| x Area bombardment during World War II |
Area Bombing during World War II was unlike anything the world had previously witnessed. The strategic bombing campaigns conducted by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, United States and Empire of Japan used conventional weapon, incendiaries, and...
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| x Bombing of Berlin |
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Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during World War II. It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, and by the USAAF Eighth Air Force between 1942 and 1945, as part of the Allied campaign of...
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| x Bombing of Chongqing |
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The bombing of Chongqing (Traditional Chinese: 重慶大轟炸, Simplified Chinese: 重庆大轰炸, Japanese: 重慶爆撃, from 18 February 1938 to 23 August 1943) was part of an Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service terror bombing...
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| x Bombing of Cologne in World War II |
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The City of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, including 31 times by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Air raid alarms went off in the winter/spring of 1940 as enemy bombers passed overhead. However, the first...
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| x The Second Great Fire of London |
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The night of 29 December/30 December 1940 was one of the most destructive air raids of the London Blitz, destroying many Livery Halls and gutting the medieval Great Hall of the City's Guildhall.
This night was quickly dubbed The Second Great Fire of...
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| x Bombings of Heilbronn in World War II |
During World War II, the German city of Heilbronn was bombed many times by both the British and the Americans. The largest attack occurred on 4 December 1944, but there were many previous attacks targeted at Heilbronn that were almost as damaging....
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| x Bombing of Darmstadt in World War II |
Darmstadt was bombed a number of times during World War II. The most devastating air raid on Darmstadt occurred on the night of 11/12 September 1944 when No. 5 Group the Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed the city.
On the night of 23/24 September 1943...
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| x Bombing of Duisburg in World War II |
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Duisburg was bombed a number of times by the Allies during World War II. The most devastating air raids on Duisburg occurred during October 1944 when the city was bombed by the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Duisburg was a major logistical centre in the...
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| x Cardiff Blitz |
During World War II, Cardiff, Wales Cardiff Docks was one of the biggest ports in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest and busiest coal exporting ports in the World. Consequently it was heavily bombed by the Nazi German Luftwaffe due to its...
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| x Coventry Blitz |
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The Coventry blitz (blitz: from the German word blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen (help·info)) was a series of bombing raids that took place in the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during World War II by the Nazi...
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| x The Destruction of Dresden |
The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 non-fiction book which describes the February 1945 bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book is based on a series of 37 articles written on the strategic bombing during World War II by David Irving called Wie...
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| x Bombing of Kobe in World War II |
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On March 17, 1945, 331 American B-29 bombers launched a firebombing attack against the city of Kobe, Japan. Of the city's residents, 8,841 were confirmed to have been killed in the resulting firestorms, which destroyed an area of three square miles...
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| x Bombing of Hamburg in World War II |
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The Allied Bombing of Hamburg during World War II (September 1939-April 1945) included numerous strategic bombing missions and diversion/nuisance raids. As a large port and industrial center, Hamburg's shipyards, U-boat pens, and the Hamburg-Harburg...
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| x Doolittle Raid |
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The Doolittle Raid, 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike a Japanese home island (Honshū) during World War II. It demonstrated that Japan itself was vulnerable to Allied air attack and provided an expedient means for U...
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| x 2006 Qana airstrike |
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The 2006 Qana airstrike (also known as the 2006 Qana massacre or Second Qana massacre) was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on a three-story building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese village of Qana on July 30,...
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| x 2006 Shiyyah airstrike |
The Chyah Airstrike or the Chyah massacre was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on the Shiyyah suburb in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 7, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War. Two missiles fired from an IDF bomber destroyed three...
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| x 2006 al-Qaa airstrike |
The 2006 Qaa airstrike was an attack by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on a building in the area of al-Qaa around 10 kilometers (six miles) from Hermel in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon on 4 August 2006. The attack took place during the 2006 Lebanon War....
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| x Damadola airstrike |
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On 13 January 2006 the Central Intelligence Agency fired missiles into the Pakistani village of Damadola (Urdu: ڈمہ ڈولا) in the Bajaur (Urdu: باجوڑ ) tribal area, about seven kilometres (4.5 miles) from the Afghan border, killing at least 18 people...
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| x 2006 Ghaziyeh airstrikes |
The 2006 Ghaziyeh airstrikes were two sequential attacks by the Israel Air Force (IAF) on the city of Ghaziyeh in Lebanon on August 7, and August 8, 2006. The attacks took place during the 2006 Lebanon War. In the first attack on August 7, the IAF...
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| x Operation Orchard |
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Operation Orchard was an Israeli airstrike on a target in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria carried out just after midnight (local time) on September 6, 2007. The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) later declared that American...
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| x Ain es Saheb airstrike |
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The Ain es Saheb airstrike occurred on October 5, 2003 and was the first overt Israeli military operation in Syria since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
In response to the suicide bombing in Haifa 12 hours earlier by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, four...
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| x Operation El Dorado Canyon |
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The United States bombing of Libya (code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon) comprised the joint United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps air-strikes against Libya on April 15, 1986.
After years of occasional skirmishes with Libya over Libyan...
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| x Gora Prai airstrike |
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The Gora Prai airstrike was an airstrike by the United States that resulted in the deaths of 11 paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and 8 Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas. The attack is reported to have taken place...
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| x Attack on Panzer Group West's headquarters at La Caine |
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The Attack on Panzer Group West's headquarters at La Caine in Normandy was a successful airstrike by the RAF's Second Tactical Air Force against the headquarters of Panzer Group West. The raid took place on 10 June 1944 and knocked out German...
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| x Azizabad airstrike |
The Azizabad airstrike took place on Friday 22 August 2008 in the village of Azizabad which is located in Shindand district, Herat Province, Afghanistan. It is estimated that between 70 and 90 civilians were killed during the attack and a number of...
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