October 4

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Lead Story
Sputnik launched, 1957
American Revolution
Both sides battered at Germantown, 1777
Automotive
Blues singer Bessie Smith, killed in Mississippi car wreck, is buried, 1937
Civil War
Lincoln watches a balloon ascension, 1861
Cold War
Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, 1957
Crime
Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges, 1988
Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA, 2011
Disaster
Plane crashes into apartment building, 1992
General Interest
The Battle of Germantown, 1777
Pope visits U.S., 1965
White House siege ends in Moscow, 1993
Hollywood
Beverly Hills, 90210 debuts, 1990
Literary
Anne Rice is born, 1941
Music
Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose, 1970
Old West
Frederic Remington is born in Canton, New York, 1861
Presidential
Rutherford B. Hayes is born, 1822
Work begins on Mount Rushmore, 1927
Sports
So-called Brooklyn bums win their first World Series, 1955
Vietnam War
Johnson orders the commencement of Oplan 34A raids, 1964
Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War, 1966
World War I
Germany telegraphs President Wilson seeking armistice , 1918
World War II
Heinrich Himmler encourages his SS group leaders, 1943
Ike warns of the risk of "shell shock", 1944

Vietnam War

Oct 4, 1966:

Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War

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Pope Paul VI addresses 150,000 people in St. Peter's Square in Rome and calls for an end to the war in Vietnam through negotiations. Although the Pope's address had no impact on the Johnson administration and its policies in Southeast Asia, his comments were indicative of the mounting antiwar sentiment that was growing both at home and overseas.

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This Week in History, Oct 4 - Oct 10

Oct 04, 1964
Johnson orders the commencement of Oplan 34A raids
Oct 04, 1966
Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War
Oct 05, 1963
South Vietnamese generals plan coup
Oct 05, 1964
President Johnson under fire from his own party
Oct 06, 1967
U.S. jets strike targets in North Vietnam
Oct 06, 1970
South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia
Oct 07, 1969
Wheeler announces progress in the Vietnamization effort
Oct 07, 1970
Nixon announces a new peace proposal
Oct 08, 1968
U.S. and South Vietnamese navies commence Operation Sealords
Oct 08, 1970
Communists reject Nixon's peace proposal
Oct 08, 1972
Possible breakthrough at Paris peace talks
Oct 09, 1969
The National Guard breaks up protests at home
Oct 09, 1970
Khmer Republic proclaimed in Cambodia.
Oct 10, 1965
1st Cavalry Division commences operations
Oct 10, 1969
U.S. Navy transfers vessels to South Vietnamese

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