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17 events of 717, A to Z.
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- Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union Oct 1941U.S. government aid to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program, first shipped by the end of October 1941.
- Lenin's sealed train 9–16 Apr 1917Lenin's journey from Switzerland across Germany to Petrograd in April 1917, arranged with the German government.
- Leveson Inquiry 2011–2012British public inquiry into the press, set up after the News of the World phone-hacking scandal; its report came in November 2012.
- Lhasa in March 1959 10 Mar 1959Armed clashes in and around Lhasa, called an armed rebellion by the Chinese government and a national uprising by the Dalai Lama's office; the Dalai Lama left Tibet that year.
- Lion Air flight 610 29 Oct 2018Boeing 737 MAX crash into the Java Sea on 29 October 2018: 189 on board, none survived.
- Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope, 2017 18 Apr 2017On 18 April 2017 Georgetown and the Society of Jesus apologised for the 1838 sale, before more than 100 descendants.
- Lloyd’s apology, 2020 18 Jun 2020On 18 June 2020 the Lloyd’s market said it was sorry for its role in the slave trade.
- Lobbying disclosures that name the merger filing fee bill 2021–2022Federal lobbying reports of 2021 and 2022 that list H.R. 3843, the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, among the issues lobbied.
- Los Angeles Times blocks its 2024 endorsement 2024In 2024 owner Patrick Soon-Shiong killed an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris.
- LTL Management bankruptcy over talc claims 2021 – 30 Jan 2023A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary created to hold talc claims filed for bankruptcy in 2021; the Third Circuit ordered it dismissed in 2023.
- Ludlow, 20 April 1914 20 Apr 1914Armed conflict at the Ludlow tent colony of striking Colorado coal miners between the Colorado National Guard and strikers, ending in the burning of the colony.
- Lushan meeting of 1959 Jul 1959Party leadership meeting in July 1959 at which Peng Dehuai criticised the Great Leap Forward and was then condemned.
- Luther at the Wartburg 4 May 1521 – 1 Mar 1522The ten months from May 1521 to March 1522 that Luther spent in hiding at the Wartburg, where he began translating the New Testament.
- Luther before Cajetan at Augsburg Oct 1518The hearing in October 1518 at which Cardinal Cajetan, the pope's legate, questioned Luther at the imperial diet in Augsburg.
- Luxottica buys Bausch & Lomb’s sunglass business (1999) 28 Jun 1999Luxottica paid $640 million in cash for all of Bausch & Lomb’s sunglass lines, including Ray-Ban, completed 28 June 1999.
- Luxottica founded in Agordo (1961) 1961Leonardo Del Vecchio started Luxottica in 1961 in Agordo, a village in the Dolomites.
- L’Oréal buys back 4 per cent of its shares from Nestlé (2021) 7 Dec 2021On 7 December 2021 L’Oréal agreed to buy 22.26 million of its own shares from Nestlé; the French markets regulator waived a duty to bid for the rest.