September 10

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Lead Story
First drunk driving arrest, 1897
American Revolution
Nathan Hale volunteers to spy behind British lines, 1776
Automotive
Londoner George Smith gets caught driving drunk, 1897
Civil War
North and South fight indecisive battle at Carnifex Ferry, 1861
Cold War
Hungary allows East Germans refugees to leave, 1989
Crime
Crime boss Salvatore Maranazano is murdered, 1931
Serial-killing couple meets, 1977
Disaster
Jets collide over Zagreb, 1976
General Interest
Smith to lead Jamestown, 1608
The Battle of Lake Erie, 1813
The guillotine falls silent, 1977
Guernica returned to Spain, 1981
Hollywood
Halle Berry wins Emmy for Dandridge, 2000
Literary
Stephen Jay Gould is born, 1941
Music
Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is released as a single, 1991
Old West
Tensions grow in Tombstone, Arizona, after a stage coach robbery, 1881
Presidential
Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the U.S., 1833
Sports
Rod Laver wins Grand Slam, 1962
Vietnam War
President Kennedy gets mixed signals, 1963
President Johnson sends signal to both North and South Vietnamese, 1964
World War I
New York City parade honors World War I veterans, 1919
World War II
British War Cabinet reacts to the Blitz in kind, 1940

Vietnam War

Sep 10, 1964:

President Johnson sends signal to both North and South Vietnamese

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Following the Tonkin Gulf incidents, in which North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers, and the subsequent passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution empowering him to react to armed attacks, President Lyndon Johnson authorizes a series of measures "to assist morale in South Vietnam and show the Communists [in North Vietnam] we still mean business." These measures included covert action such as the resumption of the DeSoto intelligence patrols and South Vietnamese coastal raids to harass the North Vietnamese. Premier Souvanna Phouma of Laos was also asked to allow the South Vietnamese to make air and ground raids into southeastern Laos, along with air strikes by Laotian planes and U.S. armed aerial reconnaissance to cut off the North Vietnamese infiltration along the route that became known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Eventually, U.S. warplanes would drop over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos as part of Operations Steel Tiger and Tiger Hound between 1965 and 1973.

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This Week in History, Sep 10 - Sep 16

Sep 10, 1963
President Kennedy gets mixed signals
Sep 10, 1964
President Johnson sends signal to both North and South Vietnamese
Sep 11, 1965
1st Cavalry Division arrives in country
Sep 11, 1968
Heavy fighting rages in Tay Ninh
Sep 12, 1959
Situation deteriorates in South Vietnam
Sep 12, 1972
U.S. intelligence agencies report 100,000 troops in the South
Sep 13, 1945
British troops arrive to disarm the Japanese
Sep 13, 1964
Attempted coup against Khanh government fails
Sep 13, 1968
Large operation begins in the DMZ
Sep 14, 1965
South Vietnamese forces and U.S. advisers conduct parachute assault
Sep 14, 1966
Operation Attleboro is launched in War Zone C
Sep 15, 1964
NLF calls for general military offensive
Sep 15, 1972
South Vietnamese forces retake Quang Tri City
Sep 16, 1960
U.S. Ambassador in Saigon warns that situation is worsening
Sep 16, 1969
Nixon announces the withdrawal of a further 35,000 troops from Vietnam

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