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• A 60 Minutes segment is pulled 21 Dec 2025CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on a prison in El Salvador from the 21 December 2025 broadcast; it aired on 18 January 2026.
• Abramoff investigation 3 Jan 2006 – 4 Sep 2008Federal investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty on 3 January 2006; by 2008 it had produced thirteen guilty pleas.
• Accutane lawsuits in New Jersey 2005 – 1 Aug 2018Mass-tort suits against Roche over Accutane in New Jersey; many claimed bowel disease rather than birth defects. The record opened here covers the bowel-disease suits.
• Acoustic analysis of the Dallas police recording 1978–2005The House committee’s 1978 acoustic study of a Dallas police radio recording of 22 November 1963, and the National Research Council’s 1982 review of it.
• Admission of Holocaust survivors to Palestine, 1945–1947 1945–1947The dispute among Britain, the U.S. and Zionist leaders over letting survivors of Nazi persecution enter Palestine.
• Adoption of Rule 13f-2 (short position reporting) 13 Oct 2023 – 8 Dec 2025On 13 October 2023 the SEC adopted a rule making large investment managers report short positions each month; in 2025 it delayed compliance to 2028.
• Aetna’s apology, 2000 9 Mar 2000On 9 March 2000 Aetna said it regretted having insured the lives of slaves in the 1850s, and declined further action.
• Agent Orange Act of 1991 6 Feb 1991Law of 6 February 1991 that presumed three diseases service-connected for Vietnam veterans and had the National Academy of Sciences review the evidence.
• Agreement of 1621 between Plymouth and the Pokanoket 22 Mar 1621Agreement of 22 March 1621 between Ousamequin (Massasoit) and Plymouth’s governor John Carver.
• Al-Manar broadcast of 17 September 2001 17 Sep 2001First known broadcast of a false claim, that 4,000 Israelis who worked at the World Trade Center did not show up on 11 September, which the U.S. State Department calls spurious.
• Alabama convict-lease system 1875–1928Arrangement under which Alabama leased state and county prisoners to coal operators, 1875–1928.
• Alaska Airlines flight 1282 5 Jan 2024In-flight separation of a door plug on a Boeing 737-9 after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, on 5 January 2024; no one died.
• Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930 8 May 1929 – 9 Jan 1930Two contracts: to design the first Soviet tractor plant (8 May 1929) and to act as consulting architects for Soviet industrial construction (9 January 1930).
• Alleged plan to deport Soviet Jews, 1953 1953Alleged plan to deport Soviet Jews to Siberia, Kazakhstan and the Arctic North in 1953; historians disagree about whether it existed.
• Allied warning of 24 May 1915 24 May 1915Britain, France and Russia told the Ottoman government they would hold its members and agents personally responsible for massacres of Armenians.
• American debt to France 1778–1795The money France lent the United States between 1778 and 1782, and the dispute and settlement over repaying it, to 1795.
• Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta 1 Jul 2021Supreme Court case of 2021 on whether California could require charities to hand over donor lists.
• Amherst and Bouquet on smallpox, July 1763 Jul 1763Letters in which General Amherst and Colonel Bouquet discussed sending smallpox to the Indian nations around Fort Pitt.
• Apollo 1 fire 27 Jan 1967Cabin fire during a ground test on 27 January 1967 that killed three astronauts.
• Apollo 11 16–24 Jul 1969First crewed landing on the Moon, in July 1969.
• Apollo 13 11–17 Apr 1970Moon mission aborted in April 1970 after an explosion; the crew came home safely.
• Apollo 17 7–19 Dec 1972Last crewed Moon landing, in December 1972.
• Apollo 8 21–27 Dec 1968First crewed flight to the Moon, in December 1968.
• Apollo program 1961–1972NASA program that landed people on the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
• Arab oil ministers’ meeting in Kuwait, 1973 17 Oct 1973The meeting at which Arab oil producers announced a cut in output on 17 October 1973.
• Arab strike and revolt, 1936–1939 1936–1939General strike and armed revolt that began in April 1936 and led Britain to send the Peel Commission.
• Armed resistance at Van, 1915 Apr 1915 – 18 May 1915An armed group in Van rose against the Ottoman garrison in April 1915 and held the city until Russian troops arrived on 18 May; the Ottoman government took it as proof of Armenian disloyalty.
• Arrest and release of Warren Anderson, December 1984 7 Dec 1984Warren Anderson, Keshub Mahindra and V. P. Gokhale were arrested in Bhopal on 7 December 1984 and bailed; Anderson left for New Delhi.
• Arrests of 24 April 1915 24 Apr 1915Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian community leaders in Constantinople; Armenians commemorate the day as the start of the deportations and killings.
• Arrival of exiles from Portugal in Amsterdam c. 1593–1598Arrival in Amsterdam, from about 1593, of people fleeing Portugal; the oldest surviving city record dates from 1598. A refuge with limits.
• Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States 31 May 2005Supreme Court decision of 31 May 2005 reversing the firm’s 2002 conviction because of the jury instructions.
• Arusha peace agreement, 1993 Aug 1993Peace agreement between Rwanda’s government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, signed at Arusha in August 1993.
• Asharshylyk (Kazakh famine of 1930–33) 1930–1934The famine in Soviet Kazakhstan that began in the winter of 1930 and killed about 1.5 million people by most Western estimates.
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 28 Jun 1914Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
• Assassination of John F. Kennedy 22 Nov 1963The shooting of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, on 22 November 1963.
• Assassination of Talaat Pasha 15 Mar 1921Soghomon Tehlirian shot Talaat Pasha dead in Berlin on 15 March 1921.
• Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin 4 Nov 1995Prime Minister Rabin was shot in Tel Aviv on 4 November 1995; the Shamgar Commission reported on 28 March 1996.
• Assembly of Notables of 1787 22 Feb 1787 – May 1787Advisory assembly of nobles, clergy and officials that Louis XVI called in 1787 to back his finance minister's reforms.
• Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee hearing on fuel supply, May 2026 5 May 2026Hearing at which Borenstein testified that the “mystery gasoline surcharge” had widened.
• Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca 16 Nov 1532On 16 November 1532 Pizarro seized Atahualpa in the plaza of Cajamarca and his men opened fire. Xerez says two thousand were killed and that no Indian raised arms against a Spaniard.
• Atomic bombing of Hiroshima 6 Aug 1945The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
• Atomic bombing of Nagasaki 9 Aug 1945The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.
• Attack on Mistick Fort 26 May 1637Dawn attack of 26 May 1637 by English forces with Native allies on a Pequot fortified village, which the English set on fire.
• Attack on the Washita River camp 27 Nov 1868Attack of 27 November 1868 by Custer’s 7th Cavalry on a Cheyenne camp in Indian Territory.
• Attacks of 11 September 2001 11 Sep 2001Al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, hijacked four airliners: three struck the two towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed in a field at Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 9/11 Commission counted 2,973 dead.
• August 1991 coup attempt 19–21 Aug 1991The failed attempt by hard-line Communist officials to remove Gorbachev, 19–21 August 1991.