August 18th, 1965

Vietnam War: Operation Starlite beginsUnited States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war. event on August 18, 1965.

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Events around August 18, 1965

August 20th, 1965

Death

Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (born in 1939)