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32 events of 717, A to Z.

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  • Bad Harzburg rally of 11 October 1931 11 Oct 1931Meeting of right-wing parties and leagues, later called the Harzburg Front.
  • Baghdad Conference of 1960 10–14 Sep 1960The meeting of 10 to 14 September 1960 at which five countries founded OPEC.
  • Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers 15 Sep 2008Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy early on 15 September 2008.
  • Bankruptcy of New Century Financial Apr 2007The subprime lender New Century Financial collapsed in April 2007.
  • Baselga's unreported industry ties, 2018 Sep–Dec 2018Report by ProPublica and The New York Times that a leading cancer doctor left industry ties out of dozens of journal articles. He resigned from Memorial Sloan Kettering; a cancer-research society later found the omissions inadvertent and asked him to leave a journal post.
  • Battle of Plassey 1757Battle in 1757 in which the East India Company's force, with Mir Jafar, defeated the Nawab of Bengal.
  • Bay of Pigs invasion 17 Apr 1961Landing at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba on 17 April 1961 by Cuban exiles backed by the CIA, thwarted by Cuban troops.
  • Belgium takes over the Congo (1908) 15 Nov 1908Belgium's parliament adopted the treaty of annexation and the colonial law in 1908; Belgium assumed sovereignty on 15 November 1908.
  • Belgium’s withdrawal from UNAMIR, April 1994 12 Apr 1994After ten of its soldiers were killed, Belgium withdrew its contingent and urged the Security Council to withdraw the whole force.
  • Belinda’s petition, 1783 1783In 1783 a woman named Belinda asked the Massachusetts legislature for a small portion of the estate of Isaac Royall, her former master.
  • Belovezha Accords 8 Dec 1991The agreement of 8 December 1991 in which Russia, Ukraine and Belarus declared the Soviet Union dissolved and founded the Commonwealth of Independent States.
  • Bengal famine of 1770 1770Famine in Bengal in 1770; the number of deaths is estimated, not counted, and the estimates differ widely.
  • Berlin Conference (1884-85) 15 Nov 1884 – 26 Feb 1885Conference of fourteen states in Berlin, 15 November 1884 to 26 February 1885, that ended with the General Act on the Congo basin and West Africa.
  • Bernstein v. Ford 1923–1927Libel suit by the journalist Herman Bernstein against Henry Ford, filed 1923 and settled in 1927.
  • Bhopal gas leak 2–3 Dec 1984Leak of methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide India Ltd. pesticide plant in Bhopal on the night of 2 to 3 December 1984.
  • Bhopal suits sent to India, 1986 to 1987 May 1986 – Jan 1987A New York judge dismissed the American Bhopal suits so they could be tried in India; the appeals court affirmed with changes in January 1987.
  • Biden's statement of 24 April 2021 24 Apr 2021President Biden's Armenian Remembrance Day statement used the word genocide; Turkey's foreign ministry rejected it the same day.
  • Bikini resettlement and second removal, 1968 to 1978 1968 – Sep 1978The U.S. promised the Bikinians a return in 1968; some families went back, and in September 1978 the people on the atoll were moved out again.
  • Bin Laden’s return to Afghanistan 19 May 1996Osama bin Laden left Sudan on 19 May 1996 and flew to Jalalabad.
  • Bisesero, 27 to 30 June 1994 27–30 Jun 1994French troops found Tutsi refugees in the Bisesero hills on 27 June and returned three days later.
  • Black Beyond Data report on Lloyd’s, 2023 8 Nov 2023Research on Lloyd’s ledgers, published on 8 November 2023, and Lloyd’s answer.
  • Boston Tea Party 16 Dec 1773Night of 16 December 1773 when three cargoes of tea were emptied into the sea at Boston.
  • Botswana's diamond economy 1969 –What diamond mining has meant for Botswana's revenue and growth, and the downturn of 2024.
  • Break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Sep 1971Burglary in Los Angeles in September 1971 by the White House Plumbers, looking for records on Daniel Ellsberg.
  • British embassy to the Qianlong court, 1793 1793A mission sent by King George III to the Chinese emperor in 1793 asking for trade privileges.
  • British pressure on Iran, 1951 Sep 1951 –Britain’s embargo on shipments to Iran from September 1951, and a proposal to occupy Abadan that Washington opposed.
  • Brown’s response to the slavery report, 2007 Feb 2007In February 2007 Brown pledged a revised history, a research center, a memorial and a $10 million endowment for Providence schools; it made no apology.
  • Brussels Geographic Conference (1876) 12 Sep 1876Conference of geographers opened by King Leopold II in the royal palace at Brussels on 12 September 1876.
  • Buckley v. Valeo 30 Jan 1976U.S. Supreme Court case of 30 January 1976 on the 1974 campaign finance law.
  • Bundestag resolution of 2 June 2016 2 Jun 2016Germany's parliament adopted a motion calling the destruction of the Armenians in 1915 and 1916 a genocide and acknowledging the German Empire's share of the guilt.
  • Burning of the Bhopal plant’s waste, 2025 Jan–Jun 2025Waste from the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal was trucked to Pithampur in January 2025 and burned there; an official said 337 tons had been burned by 30 June, with the ash and residue still to be buried.
  • Bush speech in Cincinnati, 7 October 2002 7 Oct 2002Speech by President Bush on Iraq; a line on uranium from Africa was taken out of its draft after the CIA objected.