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• Hair relaxer lawsuits Oct 2022 –More than 12,000 suits by women and families, consolidated in a federal court in Chicago, over chemical hair relaxers and cancer.
• Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, June 2007 Jun 2007Hamas routed Fatah forces and took control of Gaza, per the VOA report.
• Hanging of 38 Dakota men at Mankato 26 Dec 1862Execution of 38 Dakota men on 26 December 1862, after Lincoln reviewed 303 death sentences.
• Harrington v. Purdue Pharma (2024) 27 Jun 2024Supreme Court ruling of 27 June 2024, 5 to 4, that bankruptcy courts cannot release non-debtors from claims without the claimants’ consent.
• Harvard’s report on slavery and the president’s response, 2022 26 Apr 2022On 26 April 2022 Harvard’s committee reported; President Bacow accepted its recommendations, wrote of moral responsibility, and made no apology; the Corporation authorized $100 million.
• Harvest feast of 1621 1621Three days of feasting at Plymouth in autumn 1621, with Ousamequin and about ninety men; later called the First Thanksgiving.
• Hazmi and Mihdhar in California, 2000 15 Jan 2000 – Jun 2000Two of the future hijackers lived in Los Angeles and San Diego in 2000.
• Herzl's evidence to the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration 7 Jul 1902Theodor Herzl gave evidence in London on 7 July 1902, as his diary dates it.
• Hitler appointed Chancellor 30 Jan 1933President Hindenburg made Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933.
• Hitler’s interview with a Detroit News reporter, 1931 1931Interview in Munich in which, Bridge Michigan reports, Hitler called Henry Ford his inspiration.
• Hitler’s speech to the Düsseldorf Industry Club 26 Jan 1932Hitler spoke to some 650 members of the Industry Club at the Park Hotel in Düsseldorf on 26 January 1932; many accounts give 27 January.
• Holodomor 1932–1933The famine of 1932–33 in Soviet Ukraine, whose toll scholars put between 2.6 and 5 million (demographic estimates).
• Homestead lockout and battle 1 Jul 1892 – Nov 1892Lockout at the Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead works in 1892, with a battle on 6 July between strikers and 300 Pinkerton guards.
• House Ethics Committee dismissal of three late-report referrals, July 2022 29 Jul 2022On 29 July 2022 the House Committee on Ethics unanimously dismissed referrals from the Office of Congressional Ethics about late periodic transaction reports by Representatives Pat Fallon, Chris Jacobs and Thomas Suozzi.
• House Financial Services majority staff report on the meme stock event 24 Jun 2022Report of the majority staff of the House Committee on Financial Services, released 24 June 2022 after a 16-month investigation of the January 2021 trading in GameStop and other stocks.
• House hearing on credit rating agencies, 22 October 2008 22 Oct 2008The House Oversight Committee questioned the heads of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch under oath, a month after Lehman Brothers failed.
• House hearing on the SACKLER Act (2021) 8 Jun 2021Oversight Committee hearing of 8 June 2021 on a bill to bar bankruptcy releases for people who have not filed.
• House hearing on tobacco, 14 April 1994 14 Apr 1994Hearing before a House subcommittee at which the heads of several cigarette makers testified under oath about nicotine.
• House hearing with Boeing’s chief executive (30 October 2019) 30 Oct 2019Hearing of the House Transportation Committee, with families of the dead present, at which Dennis Muilenburg testified.
• House of Commons inquiry into Clive, 1772-73 1772–1773The Commons' examination of Robert Clive's dealings in Bengal, which ended in resolutions on his services.
• House of Commons motions on Xinjiang, 2021 22 Feb 2021 – 22 Apr 2021A motion in the House of Commons of Canada (22 February 2021, 266 to 0) and a non-binding motion in the UK House of Commons (22 April 2021), each from one chamber and neither a ruling by a court or a decision of the government.
• House Oversight hearing on Purdue and the Sacklers (2020) 17 Dec 2020Hearing on 17 December 2020 at which David and Kathe Sackler and Purdue’s chief executive testified.
• House vote on the Federal Reserve Transparency Act 25 Jul 2012On 25 July 2012 the House passed H.R. 459, which would have required more comprehensive GAO audits of the Federal Reserve.
• House vote on the Stop Insider Trading Act, July 2026 22 Jul 2026On 22 July 2026 the House passed H.R. 7008, which would bar members, spouses and dependent children from buying new individual stocks, by 232 to 198.
• How Kazakhstan names its famine 1992 –The question of whether Kazakhstan's famine of 1930–33 should be called genocide, what historians say, and what the state has said.