Vietnam War · Vietnamese
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Enero
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1963 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1962 Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission and first American helicopter assault in the war, takes place.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1973 Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War, Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bình and Biên Hòa.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
312 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
Febrero
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration into the country.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: The Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre occurs, allegedly by South Korean troops.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1957 Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese forces led by Ngô Quang Trưởng recapture the citadel of Hué.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1962 Vietnam War: Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from South Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
Marzo
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
82 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1949 President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
102 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1975 Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.
171 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1973 The Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
262 hechos ·
nacimiento · 1914 William Westmoreland, American general, commander during the Vietnam War (died 2005)
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1970 South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
293 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1973 Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1973 Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
acontecimiento · 1971 My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
302 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
Abril
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1975 Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
51 hecho ·
nacimiento · 1923 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (died 2001)
61 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
72 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1971 Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1934 The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1975 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1975 Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
283 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
acontecimiento · 1975 General Cao Văn Viên, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closes in on victory.
293 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an attempt to cut off supplies to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. This happens after the Bombing of Tan Son Nhut Air Base.
acontecimiento · 1975 Vietnam War: The North Vietnamese Army completes its capture of all parts of South Vietnam-held Trường Sa Islands.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1975 Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
Mayo
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: A student anti-war strike erupts in response to U.S. and South Vietnamese forces attacking Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1955 Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1959 The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
231 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1934 The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
272 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1 más ese día
nacimiento · 1923 Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
Junio
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured in a photograph moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1971 Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
Julio
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1976 End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1966 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1966 A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
191 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province, Cái Bè, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children).
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
251 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
292 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
Agosto
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1961 Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 e of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
111 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1973 Vietnam War: The US Air Force bombing of Cambodia ends.
162 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1966 Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
182 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1966 Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
291 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
Septiembre
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1945 Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
52 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thừa Thiên–Huế Province.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1969 Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
71 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
291 hecho ·
fallecimiento · 2001 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, South Vietnamese military officer and politician, 2nd President of South Vietnam (born 1923)
Octubre
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1971 South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
91 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1966 Vietnam War: the Republic of Korea Army commits the Binh Tai Massacre.
121 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
161 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
232 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), in conjunction with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, launches an operation seeking to destroy Communist forces during the siege of Plei Me.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.
311 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
Noviembre
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
31 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
41 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: The United States turns over control of the air base at Bình Thủy in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
81 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
92 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1965 A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
101 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
113 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1993 A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
2 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
122 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1971 Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
141 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins. This is the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
151 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
172 hechos ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1 más ese día
acontecimiento · 1970 Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1961 Vietnam War: United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1969 Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
211 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1968 Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
271 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1965 Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
281 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
291 hecho ·
fallecimiento · 2023 Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state (born 1923)
301 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
Diciembre
11 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
21 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1962 Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
51 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
131 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1974 In the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese forces launch their 1975 Spring Offensive (to 30 April 1975), which results in the final capitulation of South Vietnam.
181 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
201 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1960 Vietnam War: The National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, popularly known as the Viet Cong, is formally established in Tân Lập village, present day Tây Ninh province.
221 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1944 World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indochina, now Vietnam.
241 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1964 Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
261 hecho ·
acontecimiento · 1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
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