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• G7 restrictions on Russian diamonds 6 Dec 2023G7 leaders' agreement of 6 December 2023 to restrict imports of non-industrial Russian diamonds from 1 January 2024.
• Game Stopped? hearing 18 Feb 2021Virtual hearing of the House Committee on Financial Services on the January 2021 trading in GameStop and other stocks, with six witnesses.
• GameStop short squeeze 8 Jan 2021 – 5 Feb 2021GameStop's share price rose about 2,700% between 8 and 28 January 2021, then fell more than 86% by early February. The episode is widely called a short squeeze.
• GAO reports on the Federal Reserve, 2011 21 Jul 2011 – 19 Oct 2011In July and October 2011 the GAO reported on the Fed's emergency lending and on Reserve Bank governance.
• Gathering in Kuala Lumpur, January 2000 5–8 Jan 2000The CIA watched Khalid al-Mihdhar and other men gather in Kuala Lumpur.
• Gaza ceasefire of October 2025 10 Oct 2025 –Ceasefire announced on 10 October 2025 under a Comprehensive Plan, endorsed by Security Council Resolution 2803.
• Gaza war 7 Oct 2023 –War in Gaza that followed the 7 October 2023 attack.
• General Motors and Opel, 1939–1941 1939–1941GM’s German subsidiary Opel in the first years of the war, and the dispute over how much control GM kept.
• Generic drug scandal 1988–1993The federal probe of the generic drug industry that began in Baltimore in the late 1980s; it led to prosecutions of FDA employees and drug company executives.
• Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda Apr–Jul 1994About 100 days of mass killing in Rwanda from April to July 1994, which the Rwanda Tribunal found to be genocide.
• German invasion of Belgium 4 Aug 1914German troops entered Belgium in August 1914, after Belgium refused them free passage.
• Glasnost 1985–1991Gorbachev's policy of openness in public information and debate, from the mid-1980s.
• Google's garage office Sep 1998 – Feb 1999Google's first office, a garage in Menlo Park owned by Susan Wojcicki, used from September 1998 to February 1999.
• Grant of the Diwani of Bengal, 1765 1765The Delhi emperor's grant, in 1765, to the East India Company of the administration of the revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
• Grassley inquiry into physician payments, 2007-2008 2007 – Dec 2008Senate inquiry that asked universities and drug companies for records of payments to doctors, and led to reviews at Harvard and Emory.
• Great Chinese Famine 1958–1962Famine in China in the years of the Great Leap Forward, dated 1958 to 1962 in the titles of Yang Jisheng's and Dikötter's books; the death toll is disputed.
• Great Leap Forward 1958–1962The Party's campaign from 1958 for rapid growth, together with the rural people's communes.
• Great Recession Dec 2007 – Jun 2009The U.S. recession from December 2007 to June 2009.
• Great Swamp Fight Dec 1675Attack of December 1675 by about 1,000 English colonists on the Narragansett winter settlement in Rhode Island.
• Gregson v Gilbert 22 May 1783The owners of the Zong sued their underwriters for the value of the captives thrown overboard; King’s Bench ordered a new trial on 22 May 1783.
• GU272 referendum and reconciliation fund, 2019–21 2019–2021Georgetown students voted in 2019 for a fee for descendants; the university did not adopt it and announced a $400,000 reconciliation fund.
• Guatemala after the coup, 1954 and after 1954–1960Castillo Armas’s government canceled land reform and banned parties and unions; police arrested peasants on land granted under Decree 900.
• Guatemala’s agrarian reform, 1952 17 Jun 1952Decree 900 of 17 June 1952 let the government redistribute idle land over 223 acres, paid for in 25-year bonds at declared tax value.
• Guatemala’s armed conflict 1962–1996The armed confrontation in Guatemala from the 1960s to 1996, which the Commission for Historical Clarification said killed or disappeared over 200,000 people.
• Gulf of Tonkin incidents 2–5 Aug 1964One clash with North Vietnamese boats on 2 August 1964, and a second attack reported on 4 August that an NSA historian concluded did not happen.