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The Greensboro massacre was a deadly confrontation which occurred on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, US, when members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party (ANP) shot and killed five participants in a "Death to the Klan" march which was organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP).
Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theatre five days after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the American Civil War.Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate sympathizer, was allowed into the president's box where he waited at the back until the audience laughed, hoping it would mask the sound of his gun.
The Kyiv Seven (Ukrainian: Київська сімка, romanized: Kyyivska simka), [1] also referred to as the Magnificent Seven (Ukrainian: прекрасна сімка, romanized: prekrasna simka), [2] and the Kyiv Clan (Ukrainian: Київський клан, romanized: Kyyivskyi klan) [3] were two interrelated economic and political groups in Ukraine during the 1990s and early 2000s.
The duo won a landslide victory in 2022, but not even halfway through their term the alliance is disintegrating as Duterte-Carpio faces calls for her impeachment for alleged corruption, which she ...
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre [1] [2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.
Elbert Howard, founding member of the party and first editor of its newspaper, The Black Panther. [31] Ericka Huggins, longtime party leader, professor of sociology. [14] John Huggins Los Angeles chapter leader. Killed in 1969. [18] Bobby Hutton, first party recruit, treasurer; killed by police in 1968. [32] George Jackson, author and prison ...
Mangudadatu was challenging Datu Unsay mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., son of the incumbent Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. and member of one of Mindanao's leading Muslim political clans, [6] in the forthcoming Maguindanao gubernatorial election, [7] part of the national elections in 2010. Those killed included Mangudadatu's wife, his two ...
The Ortega political clan is believed to be the Philippines' political family with the longest unbroken political rule, ruling over the province of La Union for over a century. [79] The current progenitor of the Ortega political dynasty is former governor Manuel "Manoling" Ortega, who served as Governor of the province from 2007 to 2016.