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** Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
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** Cable 243: In the wake of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the Kennedy administration orders the US Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in South Vietnam, opening the way towards a coup against Diem.
** and Loi
** Liow Tiong Lai 廖中莱 ( Dabu, Guangdong ; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Liau Tsung Loi ), Health Minister, Malaysia, 2008 -
** Wai Loi Tsuen ( 圍內村 )
** and Pagoda
** The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a Buddhist pagoda in Yangon, Burma that is plated in solid gold.
** Cornus alternifolia ( Swida alternifolia ; Pagoda Dogwood or Alternate-leaf Dogwood ).
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** Mingala Man Aung Pagoda
** Ratana Man Aung Pagoda
** Sakya Man Aung Pagoda
** Lawka Man Aung Pagoda
** Zina Man Aung Pagoda
** and raids
** In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
** The " Big Week " begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).
** Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
** The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.
** U. S. troops swept into the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi and joined Iraqi police and National Guardsmen in raids in Baqouba.
** Royal Air Force Bomber Command has lost 3, 448 aircraft – about 1, 600 of them to German night fighters – and about 20, 000 aircrewmen on night raids since the beginning of World War II.
** 60 U. S. Army Air Forces bombers are lost in raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt.
** Bomber Command begins a series of small night raids against German ammunition dumps in forests in northern France.
** Through raids of this night, Bomber Command aircraft have flown about 144, 500 sorties since the beginning of World War II, 90 percent of them at night.
** In one of the largest U. S. Army Air Forces raids to date, 663 Eighth Air Force bombers escorted by 592 fighters strike aviation industry targets at Braunschweig, Halberstadt, Oschersleben, and Osnabruck, Germany, encountering heavy opposition in the form of an estimated 500 German fighters and losing 60 bombers and five fighters.
** German raids of 15, 43, and 52 aircraft strike Allied ships off Anzio, damaging an American destroyer and minesweeper and sinking a British hospital ship.
** German raids of 30 and 47 fighter-bombers attack Allied ships off Anzio with guided bombs, sinking the British light cruiser HMS Spartan and a Liberty ship and badly damaging a salvage tug.
** Since December 1, 1943, American daylight combat air patrols over the Gilbert Islands have been so effective that 34 of the 35 Japanese raids that get through to attack Tarawa Atoll and Butaritari strike at night.
** Task Force 58 aircraft complete their two days of strikes against Truk, starting in the early morning hours with the first carrier-based night bombing attack in U. S. Navy history, a raid by 12 TBF-1C Avengers, which demonstrates the value of such raids by scoring 13 direct bomb hits and seven near misses on Japanese ships in the harbor.
** A large number of guerrillas would be sent out inside Bangladesh to carry out raids and ambushes ;
** Rally raid-Tatra trucks are very successful in rally raids, notably in Dakar where Karel Loprais achieved 6 times victory with T815.
** 50, 000 victims of the air raids.
** May – October: 400 New Mexicans under Manuel Antonio Chaves form a militia and raid Navajo land, followed by independent raids by citizens for captives.
** A Muslim force raids into Galicia.
** A Muslim force raids into Galicia.
** raids on distribution offices to get food coupons or various documents such as Ausweise or on birth registry offices to get rid of information about Jews and others the Nazis paid special attention to
** and Army
** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands
** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )
** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )
** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )
** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )
** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen
** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.
** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.
** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.
** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).
** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )
** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.
** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.
** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )
** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )
** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.
** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.
** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.
** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army
** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )
** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.
** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).
** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )
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