After a deserter from the First Vietcong Regiment had revealed that an attack was imminent against the U.S. base at Chu Lai, the Marines launch Operation Starlite in the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province.

On August 15th, 1895, a monumental chapter in naval history was written as the U.S.S. Texas, the first American steel-hulled battleship, was commissioned.