Oh What A Year!
March 16, Although it will not become public knowledge for more than a year, US ground troops from Charlie Company rampage through the hamlet of My Lai killing more than 500 Vietnamese civilians from infants to the elderly. The massacre continues for three hours until three American fliers intervene, positioning their helicopter between the troops and the fleeing Vietnamese and eventually carrying a handful of wounded to safety. View the BBC Special Report on the incident.
The Sacco chair, also known as a bean bag chair, beanbag chair, or simply a beanbag (“Sacco” is Italian for “bag,…
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September 7, Women’s Liberation groups, joined by members of New York NOW, target the Miss America…
August 20, The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia with over 200,000 Warsaw pact troops, putting an…