Around 2/3 of women experience shortness of breath as a part of a normal pregnancy. Neurological conditions such as spinal cord injury, phrenic nerve injuries, Guillain-Barre syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy can all cause an individual to experience shortness of breath.
On August 2, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox exchanged shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the Maddox and another destroyer reported once again coming under fire.
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident. As a result of the Geneva Accords of 1956, the nation of Vietnam was officially partitioned along the seventeenth parallel into the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the pro-west Vietnamese government in the south.