Events: D
25 events of 717, A to Z.
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- Day of thanksgiving in Massachusetts churches, 1637 15 Jun 1637Day of thanksgiving kept in all the Massachusetts Bay churches on 15 June 1637 for the victory over the Pequot and other mercies, by Winthrop’s journal.
- Death of Frank Olson 19–28 Nov 1953Death of an Army scientist in New York City on 28 November 1953, after a CIA officer gave him LSD without his knowledge.
- Death of Moctezuma Jun 1520Moctezuma died in Spanish hands in late June 1520. Cortés and Bernal Díaz say his own people wounded him; accounts that MacNutt reports from the Mexican side say the Spaniards killed him.
- Death of Roberto Calvi 18 Jun 1982Roberto Calvi found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge, London, 18 June 1982.
- Deir Yassin, April 1948 9 Apr 1948Attack of 9 April 1948 by Irgun and Lehi fighters on Deir Yassin, before the State of Israel existed. The U.S. consul reported 250 killed; Benny Morris puts the dead at 100 to 110.
- Delaware Supreme Court ruling on Musk’s 2018 Tesla pay award, 19 December 2025 19 Dec 2025On 19 December 2025 the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery’s rescission of the 2018 award and awarded the plaintiff $1 in nominal damages; it did not decide the liability question.
- Deportation from Erzurum, July 1915 Jul 1915A deportation convoy of about 500 families that left Erzurum in July 1915, as one survivor described it to a Berlin jury in 1921.
- Deportation of the Balkars (1944) 8–9 Mar 1944The Balkars were deported from the Kabardino-Balkar republic from 8 March 1944.
- Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) 23 Feb 1944 – Mar 1944On 23 February 1944 the NKVD began moving the Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus to Kazakhstan.
- Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (1944) 18–20 May 1944On 18-20 May 1944 the NKVD moved the Crimean Tatars from Crimea to Uzbekistan and the Urals.
- Deportation of the Kalmyks (1943) 27 Dec 1943 – Dec 1943The Kalmyk republic was abolished on 27 December 1943 and the Kalmyks were deported to Siberia from the next day.
- Deportation of the Karachays (1943) 2 Nov 1943 – Nov 1943The Karachays were deported from 2 November 1943.
- Deportation of the Koreans of the Soviet Far East (1937) 21 Aug 1937 – Oct 1937In the autumn of 1937 virtually all Koreans of the Soviet Far East were moved to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks (1944) 14 Nov 1944On 14 November 1944 the Meskhetian Turks were moved out of southern Georgia.
- Deportation of the Volga Germans (1941) 28 Aug 1941 – Sep 1941In August and September 1941 the Germans of the Volga region were moved to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and their republic was dissolved.
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 1915–1916From 1915 the Ottoman government deported most of its Armenian subjects, and its officials, soldiers and irregulars killed very many, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says. The U.S. House and Senate, President Biden, the Museum and the International Association of Genocide Scholars call it genocide; Turkey's government rejects the word and the plan it implies.
- Deportations from Harput, June 1915 Jun 1915Arrests and night deportations of Armenian men and teachers at Harput in June 1915, reported by the U.S. consul.
- Destruction of the MKULTRA records Jan 1973January 1973 destruction of most of the CIA's MKULTRA files.
- Disbanding of the Strategic and Policy Forum, 16 August 2017 16 Aug 2017On 16 August 2017 the forum’s members agreed to dissolve it, and President Trump tweeted that he was ending it and the Manufacturing Council.
- Dissolution of the East India Company 1874The Act of 1873 provided for the dissolution of the Company.
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union 25–26 Dec 1991The end of the USSR in December 1991: Gorbachev resigned on 25 December and the Union ceased to exist on 26 December.
- Division of the ransom Jul 1533In July 1533 the gold and silver at Cajamarca was melted, weighed and shared out; the Crown took its fifth.
- Doctors’ Plot 13 Jan 1953 – 3 Apr 1953Soviet case announced on 13 January 1953 against doctors accused of murdering Soviet leaders; the charges were withdrawn on 3 April 1953.
- Doha agreement, 2020 29 Feb 2020The agreement signed in Doha on 29 February 2020 between the United States and the Taliban.
- Dominion v. Fox News 18 Apr 2023Dominion's defamation suit over Fox's coverage of the 2020 election; settled for $787.5 million on 18 April 2023.