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1968Jul, 8

Désiré Mérchez

Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)
Désiré Alfred Mérchez (August 16, 1882 – July 8, 1968) was a male French swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lille and died in Nice.In 1900 he won the bronze medal with the French team in the 200 metre team swimming. He also participated in the 1000 metre freestyle event but was eliminated in the first round.

As a member of the French water polo team Pupilles de Neptune de Lille #2 he won a second bronze medal at the same Olympics.

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    Tet Offensive

    Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
  • 31Jan

    Tet Offensive

    Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
  • 29Apr

    Counterculture of the 1960s

    The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
  • 14Oct

    U.S. Marine Corps

    Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
  • 20Oct

    Jacqueline Kennedy

    Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy marries Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.