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The first inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson as the 36th President of the United States was held on Friday
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m in Dallas
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, drew the United States more directly into the Vietnam War.
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In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon to ask for an end to the conflict.
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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
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Eight years after being defeated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, Richard Nixon defeats Hubert H. Humphrey and is elected president.
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The Paris Peace Accord was an agreement between the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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In late April 1975, the outskirts of Saigon were reached by the North Vietnamese Army.
