In 1968, the My Lai Massacre took place during the Vietnam War as U.S. troops commanded by Lieutenant William L. Calley Jr. carried out the killings of unarmed men, women and children.
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Former first lady Pat Nixon (1912)
Comedian-director Jerry Lewis (1926)
Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci (1940)
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"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."
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E.B. White, American author and humorist (1899-1985)