Daily Archives for 5 September 2014


September 5: Two Massacres

On 5 September 1969, William Laws Calley, Jr. was charged with six counts of murder for his role in the My Lai Massacre that took place in 16 March 1968. Known in Vietnam as Thảm sát Mỹ Lai, between 347 (U.S. estimate) and 504 (Vietnamese estimate) civilians were killed. Calley would be convicted of murdering […]