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Vietnam - 1960

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Jan 17 - VC offensive in Mekong Delta

Feb 13 - France conducts 1st nuclear test

Mar 17 - Anti-Castro exile Army formed by CIA

May 1 - Soviet Union shoots down U.S. U-2 aircraft

May 6 - President signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

May 7 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes USSR President

May 13 - Special Forces teams arrives in S. Vietnam

Aug 9 - Government in Laos overthrown

Nov 8 - Kennedy elected President

Nov 12 - Coup in South Vietnam fails

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