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Martin Luther King Jr. speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on April 27, 1967. A protest against the Vietnam War in Helsinki in December 1967. January 29 – February 5. Angry Arts Week by the Artists Protest group.
Vietnam War and Kent State Shootings: Non-student protester at Wabash College demonstration. [29] Died later in hospital. May 10, 1970: George Winne Jr. 23 United States: Vietnam War: Student at the University of California, San Diego. Died the following day. [30] June 4, 1970: Thích Nữ Lien Tap: 24 South Vietnam: Buddhist nun [5] [17 ...
The Thái Nguyên uprising (Vietnamese: Khởi nghĩa Thái Nguyên) in 1917 has been described as the "largest and most destructive" anti-French rebellion in Vietnam (then part of French Indochina) between the Pacification of Tonkin in the 1880s and the Nghe-Tinh Revolt of 1930–31. [1] On 30 August 1917, an eclectic band of political ...
The September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt took place before dawn on September 13, 1964, when the ruling military junta of South Vietnam, led by General Nguyễn Khánh, was threatened by a coup attempt headed by Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức, who sent dissident units into the capital Saigon. They captured various key ...
The early 1970s saw multiple protests against American involvement in the Vietnam War, like this one in 1970, the 48-hour Fast for Peace in Rochester.
Arrested. 12,000. The 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., protesting the United States' continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. In all, more than 12,000 people were arrested, in what was the ...
351 killed. 1,358 injured. The Kingdom of Thailand, under the administration of military dictator Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn, took an active role in the Vietnam War. Thailand was the third-largest provider of ground forces to South Vietnam, following the Americans and South Koreans. [1]
Nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970. The nationwide student anti-war strike of 1970 was a massive outpouring of anti-Vietnam War protests that erupted in May of 1970 in response to the expansion of the war into neighboring Cambodia. The strike began on May 1 with walk-outs from college and high school classrooms on nearly 900 campuses ...