Harry S. Truman died at age 88.
220 American aircraft hit targets over North Vietnam over a fifteen-minute period. A missile assembly facility together with airbases and radar installations were destroyed.
Truman was the last U.S. President who did not hold a university degree. He had a fairly difficult early life, in no small part due to the economic conditions that prevailed in Missouri and his humble beginnings. His service in World War One, which he entered through the Missouri National Guard and in which he became an officer, started his rise to later office. Indeed, in no small way, the Missouri artilleryman of World War One would not have become President but for that experience.
This set the stage, combined with airstrikes over the next three days, for a return by North Vietnam to the Paris Peace Talks.
The Soviets changed the name of nine cities in Siberia that had been seized by Imperial Russia from China in the 1860. The prior names, the Soviets thought, sounded too Chinese.
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