February 13, 1967
Carrying huge photos of Vietnamese children who had been victims of Napalm (a flammable defoliant used extensively in the war there), 2,500 members of the group Women Strike for Peace stormed the Pentagon, demanding to see “the generals who send our sons to Vietnam.” When Pentagon guards locked the main entrance doors, the women took off their shoes and banged on the doors with their heels. They were eventually allowed inside, but Defense Secretary Robert McNamara would not meet with them.
February 13, 1991
Two precision-guided missiles destroyed the Amiriyah subterranean bunker in Baghdad, which was being used as an air-raid shelter by 408 Iraqi civilians during the first Gulf War, making it the single most lethal incident for non-combatants in modern air warfare. The U.S. had detected signals coming from the bunker and thought it was a military command and control center.
