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TET Offensive
Launched by the North Vietnamese along with Viet Cong, was a massive offensive against South Vietnam -
Mr Scully's Birthday
Has the most interesting history room at Westford Academy -
My Lai Massacre
One of the most horrific acts of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. When most civilians, women, children and old men from My Lai were brutally murdered by a company of Ameican soilders. -
LBJ's announcement to not seek re-election
LBJ did not want to be re-elected -
MLK assasination
MLK was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesee. He was there to support a sanitation strike led by black sanitation workers and to begin organizing for the Poor People's Campaign to bring about economic justice to poor Americans. -
RFK assasination
RFK was shot by Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan after providing a moving speech for the Democratic nomination for the 1968 presidential election -
Protests at the Chicago Democratic Convention
People against the Chicago Democratic Convention were disciplined with police brutality. Over 100 protesters were sent to the hospital and upward of 200 were arrested -
Black Power Olympic protest
After the 200-meter race at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, turned African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos from track-and-field stars into the center of a roiling controversy over their raised-fist salute, a symbol of black power and the human rights movement at large. -
Nixon election victory
Richard Nixon won the presidential election by obtaining 301 electoral votes to Humphrey's 191 and Wallace's 46 -
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Apollo 8 orbiting the moon
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first to reach the Moon, orbit it, and return.
