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May 24, 2024 · It occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning on May 31, 1921, and lasting for two days. The massacre left somewhere between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed Tulsa’s prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood, known as “ Black Wall Street .”. More than 1,400 homes and businesses were burned, and nearly 10,000 ...
3 days ago · The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. [4] [5] During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias.
May 8, 2024 · Nanjing Massacre, mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanjing, China, in December 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II. Casualty estimates for the massacre range from 100,000 to more than 300,000.
May 13, 2024 · prisoner of war. Katyn Massacre, mass execution of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union during World War II. The discovery of the massacre precipitated the severance of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile in London. After Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union concluded their Nonaggression Pact of ...
May 16, 2024 · The Sand Creek Massacre was a surprise attack by about 675 U.S. troops under Colonel John M. Chivington upon a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory in November 1864. More than 230 Native Americans were massacred. The incident was a chief cause of the Arapaho-Cheyenne war that followed.
1 day ago · For the day following the 2011 Norway attacks, The Sun produced an early edition blaming the massacre on al-Qaeda on its front page. Later the perpetrator was revealed to be Anders Behring Breivik, a far-right terrorist from Norway.
6 days ago · However, this move was accompanied by comments from Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Eide about the need for a thorough investigation into UNRWA personnel’s involvement in the Oct. 7 massacre. Norway has made attempts to host hostage negotiations and is a significant contributor to the Palestinian Authority.
