In the biggest air battle in Southeast Asia in three years, U.S. jets battle five North Vietnamese MiGs and shoot one down 170 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone. The 86 U.S. air raids over North Vietnam in the first two months of this year equaled the total for all of 1971.
Also on This Day
- Lead Story
- Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, 1876
- American Revolution
- Five letters pass between Abigail and John Adams, 1777
- Automotive
- Janet Guthrie, first female Indy 500 driver, born, 1938
- Civil War
- Yankees clash with Rebels at the Battle of Pea Ridge, 1862
- Cold War
- Soviet Union denies Klaus Fuchs served as its spy, 1950
- Crime
- Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial, 2002
- Disaster
- Cyclone Bola hits New Zealand, 1988
- General Interest
- Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland, 1936
- Bangladesh's first democratic leader, 1973
- Stanley Kubrick dies, 1999
- Hollywood
- Writers Guild of America strike begins, 1988
- Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar, 2010
- Literary
- "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" is published, 1923
- Music
- Pearl Bailey and Richard Nixon serenade a White House audience, 1974
- Old West
- Kansas quarantines Texas cattle, 1885
- Presidential
- Carter meets with Yitzhak Rabin, 1977
- Sports
- Mike Tyson unifies titles, 1987
- Vietnam War
- U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war, 1966
- Republic of Korea forces operation launch, 1967
- Jets engage in aerial combat, 1972
- World War I
- Finland signs treaty with Germany, 1918
- World War II
- British forces arrive in Greece, 1941
Mar 7, 1972:
Jets engage in aerial combat
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This Week in History, Mar 7 - Mar 13
- Mar 07, 1966
- U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war
- Mar 07, 1967
- Republic of Korea forces operation launch
- Mar 07, 1972
- Jets engage in aerial combat
- Mar 08, 1965
- U.S. Marines land at Da Nang
- Mar 08, 1975
- Thieu orders force withdrawal
- Mar 09, 1965
- Marines continue to land at Da Nang
- Mar 09, 1970
- Marines hand over control of I Corps region
- Mar 10, 1970
- Army captain charged with My Lai war crimes
- Mar 10, 1975
- Communists surround Ban Me Thuot
- Mar 11, 1967
- Heavy battle rages during Operation Junction City
- Mar 12, 1968
- McCarthy does well in the Democratic primary
- Mar 12, 1972
- Australians withdraw from South Vietnam
- Mar 13, 1954
- Viet Minh attack French garrison
- Mar 13, 1975
- Ban Me Thuot falls
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