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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." 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
The crossroads is now mainly remembered for the memorial to ten young unmarried girls aged 17–22 who were youth volunteers helping with logistics at the T-junction. At noon on 24 July 1968, on the 15th day of bombing, a bomb fell very close to the mouth of the tunnel where the 10 girls were hiding killing them all.
Typhoon Yinxing, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Marce, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines before later affecting Vietnam in early November 2024. It was the third tropical cyclone in a series to impact the Philippines, following Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Kong-rey a few days earlier, and Typhoons Toraji ...
Apr 17 – 20: Operation Yell [1] 1st Battalion, 1st Marines and 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines search and destroy operation: Quảng Nam Province: Apr 17 – May 1: Operation Virginia [1] [5]: 140–3 1st Battalion, 1st Marines search and destroy and reconnaissance in force operation: vicinity of Khe Sanh Special Forces camp, Quảng Trị ...
This operation, re-christened Proud Deep Alpha was the biggest attack and deepest penetration of North Vietnam since the end of Operation Rolling Thunder in November 1968. [ 1 ] : 32 [ 2 ] : 30 It has been argued that the operation was timed for the Christmas holiday period to preempt any anti-war protests on university campuses.
Twenty U.S. jets attacked six antiaircraft positions in North Vietnam. One VPAF MiG-17 was shot down after five MiGs engaged three U.S. aircraft near Quang Lang Air Base. [4]: 393 6-31 March. Operation Strength II was an RLA offensive designed to draw PAVN forces away from besieging Long Tieng. The operation failed to divert PAVN forces.
On the night of 1 November, as Gia Long Palace was besieged, VC radio in South Vietnam had urged the Vietnamese people and ARVN loyalists to resist the coup. However, the generals' quick and successful coup prevented any joint action. Within a week of the coup, the VC had regained its direction and launched more than one thousand attacks.