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During police actions following the first day of the Tet offensive General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, a south Vietnamese security official is captured on film executing a Viet Cong prisoner by American photographer Eddie Adams. This photo is Pulitzer-Prize winning photo.
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Richard Nixon, a republican from California, enters the New Hampshire primary and declares his presidential candidacy.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a sermon at his Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta which will come to be seen as prophetic. His speech contains what amounts to his own eulogy.
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International reporters arrive at the embattled city of Ben Tre in South Vietnam. Peter Arnett, then of the Associated Press, writes a dispatch quoting an unnamed US major as saying, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." The quote runs nationwide the next day in Arnett's report.
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Peggy FlemingPeggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
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US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
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WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
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The US State Department announces the highest US casualty toll of the Vietnam War. The previous week saw 543 Americans killed in action, and 2547 wounded.
