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Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published, 1973
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Calhoun resigns vice presidency, 1832
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Denzel Washington born, 1954
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Carry Nation attacks a Kansas saloon, 1900
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Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia, 1856
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Central Red Army defeats New York Rangers at MSG, 1975
Vietnam War
South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia, 1964
Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks, 1972
World War I
Woodrow Wilson is born, 1856
World War II
Request made for creation of construction battalions, 1941

Vietnam War

Dec 28, 1964:

South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia

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South Vietnamese troops retake Binh Gia in a costly battle. The Viet Cong launched a major offensive on December 4 and took the village of Binh Gia, 40 miles southeast of Saigon. The South Vietnamese forces recaptured the village, but only after an eight-hour battle and three battalions of reinforcements were brought in on helicopters. The operation continued into the first week of January. Losses included an estimated 200 South Vietnamese and five U.S. advisors killed, plus 300 more South Vietnamese wounded or missing. Battles such this, in which the South Vietnamese suffered such heavy losses at the hands of the Viet Cong, convinced President Lyndon B. Johnson that the South Vietnamese could not defeat the communist without the commitment of U.S. ground troops to the war.

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This Week in History, Dec 28 - Jan 3

Dec 28, 1964
South Vietnamese win costly battle at Binh Gia
Dec 28, 1972
Hanoi announces return to the Paris peace talks
Dec 29, 1962
Saigon announces success of strategic hamlet program
Dec 29, 1966
Johnson Administration responds to Harrison Salisbury's charges
Dec 30, 1970
U.S. Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese
Dec 30, 1972
Negotiations to resume in Paris
Dec 31, 1968
Bloodiest year of the war ends
Dec 31, 1971
U.S. annual casualty figures down
Dec 31, 1972
U.S. and communist negotiators prepare to return to the Paris talks
Jan 01, 1966
1st Marine Division advance elements arrive
Jan 01, 1967
Operation Sam Houston begins
Jan 02, 1963
Viet Cong are successful at Ap Bac
Jan 02, 1967
U.S. planes down seven enemy planes
Jan 03, 1965
Antigovernment demonstrators clash with police
Jan 03, 1968
McCarthy announces his presidential candidacy

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