This day in history, March 16: My Lai massacre takes place during the Vietnam War

One 12 months in the past: A gunman killed eight individuals, principally girls of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area therapeutic massage parlors in an assault that despatched terror by means of the Asian-American group, which had more and more been focused in the course of the pandemic; the white gunman, Robert Lengthy, advised police that the assault was not racially motivated, and that he had a “intercourse dependancy.” (Lengthy was sentenced to life in jail after pleading responsible in 4 of the deaths.) A declassified intelligence evaluation discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin had licensed affect operations to assist Donald Trump within the 2020 presidential election; the evaluation discovered broad efforts by each the Kremlin and Iran to form the end result of the race, however no proof that any international actor had truly disrupted the voting course of.