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Events on Saturday 16 March 1968 2
1968My Lai MassacreUS soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civiliansMembers of a US Army company killed several hundred unarmed civilians, including women, children and the elderly, in the hamlet of My Lai. The killings were covered up for over a year before being exposed by journalist Seymour Hersh. The massacre became a defining atrocity of the Vietnam War and fueled anti-war sentiment in the United States.
1968Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay reaches number oneFirst posthumous number oneThe first posthumous number one single in US chart history.