The Brinks Hotel bombing occurred in Saigon on December 24, 1964, during the Vietnam War. Two Viet Cong operatives detonated a car bomb under the hotel, which housed United States Army officers. The explosion killed two Americans and injured approximately 60 other people. The Viet Cong commanders had two objectives: to demonstrate their ability to strike in South Vietnam should the United States decide to launch air raids against North Vietnam, and to show the South Vietnamese that the Americans could not be relied upon for protection. The bombing prompted debate within United States president Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. Most of his advisers favored retaliatory bombing of North Vietnam and the introduction of American combat troops, while Johnson preferred the existing strategy of training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam to protect South Vietnam from the Viet Cong. In the end, Johnson decided not to take retaliatory action.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brinks_Hotel_bombing> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1777: An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island, the largest coral atoll in the world. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiritimati> 1814: The United Kingdom and the United States signed a peace treaty in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Ghent> 1987: About 20,000 protesters marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Forsyth_County_protests> 1999: Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: snow: 1. (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes; also, the falling of such flakes; and the accumulation of them on the ground or on objects as a white layer. 2. (countable) An instance of the falling of snow (sense 1); a snowfall; also, a snowstorm. 3. (countable) A period of time when snow falls; a winter. 4. (countable) An accumulation or spread of snow. 5. Something resembling snow (sense 1) in appearance or colour. 6. (countable, cooking) A dish or component of a dish resembling snow, especially one made by whipping egg whites until creamy. 7. (uncountable) 8. The white colour of snow. snow: 9. (figurative) Clusters of white flowers. 10. (figurative) The moving pattern of random dots seen on a radar or television screen, etc., when no transmission signal is being received or when there is interference. 11. (figurative) Sea foam; sea spray. 12. (figurative) Also in the plural: white hair on an (older) person's head. 13. (figurative, poetic) White marble. 14. (figurative, slang) Money, especially silver coins. 15. (figurative, slang, dated) White linen which has been washed. 16. (chemistry) A substance other than water resembling snow when frozen; specifically, frozen carbon dioxide. 17. (marine biology) Clipping of marine snow (“sinking organic detritus in the ocean”). 18. (originally US, slang) Cocaine; also (less frequently), heroin or morphine. 19. (intransitive, impersonal) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere. 20. (also figurative) Of a thing: to fall like snow. 21. (transitive) 22. To cause (something) to fall like snow. 23. To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow. 24. (figurative) 25. To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair. 26. (originally US, slang) To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery. 27. (poker) To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards. 28. (US, slang, chiefly passive voice) To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug. [...] <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snow> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time. --Fritz Leiber <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
