Czechoslovakia Intervention. 1968. Russian troops end Dubcek reform policies. Warsaw Pact maintains right to intervene anywhere Socialism is threatened.

D-Day. June 6, 1944. Normandy Landing.

Damon and Pythias. Syracuse true friends. Damon pledged his life for Pythias’, awaiting execution.

Dan. Jacob and Bilhah’s son. Founded one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Danaïdes. 50 daughters of Danaus. 49 condemed to fill sieves for murdering their husbands. Hypermestra.

Dandolo, Enrico. c1108-1205. Blind Venice Doge. Captured Constantinople 1204.

Danelaw. 878-955. NE England under Viking occupation and the laws in effect.

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

Darius III. Last Persian King, 335-330BC. Beaten by Alexander the Great.

Darnley, Lord. 1545-67. 2nd husband of Mary Queen of Scots. Assassinated.

Darrow, Clarence. 1857-1938. US defense lawyer for Leopold and Loeb, Scopes, Debs.

Darwinism. Evolution by heredity, variety (mutation), and natural selection.

Daugherty, Harry. 1860-1941. US attorney general. Acquitted in Teapot Dome scandal.

Daumesnil, Gen. (Peg Leg). Defender of Vincennes, 1814. “Give me back my leg, and I’ll give you Vincennes.”

Daumier, Honore. 1808-79. French Realist painter and engraver. Political caricaturist.

David I. 1084-1153. King of Scotland 1124-. Introduced feudalism to Scotland.

David II. 1324-71. Scottish King 1329-. Son of Robert the Bruce. Invaded England 1346. Imprisoned 1346-57.

Davis, John. 1550-1605. British explorer, Davis Strait 1585, Falkland Is. 1592. Invented backstaff quadrant 1594.

Dawes Act. 1887. US law granting citizenship and land rights to individual Indians.

De Mille, Cecil B. 1881-1959. US. First US Feature film. Squaw Man 1913. Ten Commandments 1923, 1956. Epics.

De Soto, Hernando. 1500-42. Spanish explorer. First across Mississippi.

De-Stalinization. 1956. Soviet denunciation of Stalin’s regime and policies.

De Valéra, Eamon. 1882-1975. US/Irish mathematician. Led Easter Uprising. Led Sinn Fein, 1917-26. Founded Fianna Fáil 1926. Prime Minister of Irish Free State, 1931~59. President 59-73.

Decalogue. Ten Commandments.

Declaration of the Rights of Man. 1789. Rights of Man, Declaration.

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