A People's Calendar (aPC) is an open-source project that seeks to promote the worldwide history of working class movements and liberation struggles in the form of a searchable "On This Day" style calendar.
On this day in 1968, the My Lai Massacre took place when U.S. troops in the Vietnamese Sơn Tịnh District massacred and raped hundreds of unarmed civilians, including women, children, and infants. The war crime was suppressed by the U.S. govt.
Image: When Haeberle's (the photographer's) group made it to the edge of the village, other soldiers had already been interrogating Vietnamese citizens. Haeberle testified he did not see what happened to this man and children. [pbs.org]