March 16, 1968 — Members of the US Army massacre civilians at Mỹ Lai
The Mỹ Lai Massacre is the best known American military atrocity in history. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers...
January 19, 2017
Politics & War
April 4, 1968 — Martin Luther King is assassinated
Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, after years of non-violent struggle for civil rights. By 1967,...
January 14, 2017
August 20, 1968 — The Prague Spring is crushed by the Soviet Army
For eight glorious months in 1968, it appeared that some of the liberalisation that was sweeping the West had taken...
January 4, 2017
October 15, 1968 — Donald Trump is classified 1-Y by the Draft Board
On September 17, 1968, a podiatrist diagnosed Donald Trump, then a 22 year old who was eligible for military service...
January 2, 2017
March 25, 1969 — John and Yoko stage their first Bed-In
After getting married on March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono proceeded to have possibly the strangest honeymoon ever....
December 24, 2016
September 2, 1969 — Hồ Chí Minh dies
The first President of Vietnam, who died on the 24th anniversary of his accession to that role, Ho Chi Minh...
November 9, 2016
January 12, 1970 — The Nigerian civil war ends with Biafra’s surrender
In 1960, Nigeria achieved independence from the British Empire. Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines and in...
October 24, 2016
February 2, 1971 — Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda
Idi Amin was already fairly notorious by 1971. As the commander in chief of Uganda’s armed forces, he had recruited...
September 4, 2016
November 12, 1971 — The story of the My Lai Massacre goes public
The facts of the matter are distressingly simple: United States Army troops, under the immediate command of 2nd Lieutenant William...
May 19, 2016
June 17, 1972 — The Watergate Burglary goes awry
On the morning of June 17, 1972, a young journalist named Bob Woodward was working the court beat in Washington...
May 4, 2016
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