Celebrated actress Jayne Mansfield was killed instantly on June
29, 1967, when the car in which she is riding struck the rear of a
trailer truck on U.S. Route 90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mansfield had been on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi,
Mississippi, where she had been performing at a local nightclub;
she had a television appearance scheduled the following day.

Comedian, writer and director of “Blazing Saddles,” “The Producers”
and “Young Frankenstein.” He’s 99 years old today.

In the first major offensive ordered for U.S. forces in Vietnam,
3,000 troops of the 173rd Airborne Brigade—in conjunction
with 800 Australian soldiers and a Vietnamese airborne unit—
assault a jungle area known as Viet Cong Zone D, 20 miles
northeast of Saigon.

The operation was called off after three days when it failed to
make any major contact with the enemy. One American was
killed and nine Americans and four Australians were wounded.

The State Department assured the American public that the
operation was in accord with Johnson administration policy
on the role of U.S. troops.