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• Kennedy’s reported remark about splintering the CIA 25 Apr 1966A line attributed to President Kennedy: that he wanted “to splinter the C.I.A. in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” The earliest printing traced is The New York Times of 25 April 1966, which says he said it to an unnamed official.
• Killing of HuascarHuascar was put to death while a prisoner; Pedro Pizarro and Salcamayhua both say Atahualpa ordered it.
• Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald 24 Nov 1963Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police headquarters at 11:21 a.m. on 24 November 1963.
• Killing of ten Belgian peacekeepers, 7 April 1994 7 Apr 1994Ten Belgian UN paratroopers sent to guard Prime Minister Uwilingiyimana were disarmed by Rwandan soldiers at Camp Kigali and killed.
• Killings in Taba commune, 19 April 1994 19 Apr 1994Killings in Taba commune and nearby Musambira on 19 April 1994, for which the Rwanda Tribunal convicted the mayor of Taba, Jean-Paul Akayesu.
• Killings of civilians by RPF soldiers, 1994 Apr–Sep 1994Killings of unarmed civilians by soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Front during and after its 1994 advance, documented by Human Rights Watch and the UN.
• Killings on the Zong, 1781 29 Nov 1781 – Dec 1781In November and December 1781 the crew of the slave ship Zong threw captive people into the sea off Jamaica, or drove them to leap; Burnard counts 132.
• Kimberley diamond rush 1871 –Rush of diggers to the diamond hills at De Beers farm and Kimberley, from 1871.
• King Felipe VI on the conquest, 2026 16 Mar 2026On 16 March 2026 the King of Spain said, in an informal talk with Mexico's ambassador at a museum in Madrid, that the laws meant to protect the Indians had not been kept and that there had been much abuse; Mexico's president called it a gesture, not all she had wanted.
• King Philippe's letter to the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2020) 30 Jun 2020On 30 June 2020, the 60th anniversary of independence, the Belgian king wrote to Congo's president and expressed his regrets.
• King Philip’s War 1675–1678War of 1675 and after between New England colonies and Wampanoag, Narragansett and other nations.
• Kodaikanal mercury case 2001 – Mar 2016Fifteen-year dispute over mercury exposure at the Kodaikanal thermometer factory, settled in March 2016.
• KPMG’s use of PCAOB inspection dataSenior people at KPMG’s U.S. firm obtained confidential PCAOB lists of planned inspections and used them to revise audit work; settled with the SEC in 2019.
• Krupp Trial 8 Dec 1947 – 31 Jul 1948The third U.S. industrialist trial at Nuremberg (Case 10); judgment on 31 July 1948.