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Events in Vietnamese History

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The Fall of Saigon

1975-04-29 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war

South Vietnamese civilians scramble to board a CIA helicopter during the evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon

1975-04-30 North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, ending the Vietnam War

End of Vietnam Era

1975-05-07 US President Gerald Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

1975-06-06 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1975-08-11 US vetoes proposed admission of North & South Vietnam to UN
1976-04-25 Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1976-07-02 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
1976-07-20 Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.

Carter Pardons Draft Evaders

1977-01-21 US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

1977-03-18 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
1977-03-18 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1977-07-18 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN
1977-09-20 Vietnam & Djibouti ask for membership in UN
1977-12-31 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
1978-11-03 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979-01-07 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
1979-01-08 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh
1979-02-17 China invades Vietnam, marking the start of the Sino-Vietnamese War
1979-03-08 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam

Agent Orange in Vietnam

1979-11-24 Senate report proves US troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic chemical defoliant Agent Orange

American C-123 spraying chemical defoliant, Agent Orange, on a dense Vietnamese jungle

1980-07-23 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
1980-12-18 Vietnam adopts constitution
1981-02-05 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with the enemy during the Vietnam War
1981-06-06 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1982-03-26 Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982-11-13 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War
1984-04-11 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984-11-09 Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed
1987-01-09 Chinese Vietnamese border fights, 1,500 killed
1987-08-01 Nurse Mary R. Stout is chosen as chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
1988-01-21 US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989-09-26 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
1989-12-29 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.

Event of Interest

1990-09-25 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience

Iraqi President and Dictator Saddam Hussein

1990-09-29 US Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
1992-04-15 The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Vietnam Trade Embargo Lifts

1994-02-03 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

1997-05-09 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
1997-09-03 A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1997-11-02 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
2000-11-16 Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War
2002-10-29 Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1,500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
2009-09-26 Typhoon Ketsana (2009) hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
2012-09-10 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
2013-10-12 15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory in Vietnam
2014-02-24 7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
2015-01-03 18 people are killed after the Norwegian cargo ship MS Bulk Jupiter sinks off the coast of Vietnam
2015-03-06 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
2017-11-05 Typhoon Damrey strikes Vietnam's south-central coast killing at least 27, leaving others missing
2018-06-11 More than 100 people arrested in Vietnam, after protests against special economic zones at the People's Committee Headquarters in Binh Thuan province and elsewhere

Summit of Interest

2019-02-27 Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam

Supreme Leader and Dictator of North Korea Kim Jong-un

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality Donald Trump

2019-10-23 Lorry containing 39 bodies of Vietnamese nationals found in Essex, England, man arrested for people smuggling and murder
2020-10-20 Vietnam suffers its worst floods in decades with over 100 people killed according to the Red Cross
2020-10-28 Typhoon Molave strikes Vietnam triggering heavy rain and landslides, leaving more than 60 people dead
2022-04-29 World's longest glassed-bottomed bridge, the Bach Long (White Dragon), 632m long, opens in Moc Chau Island mountain park and resort, Vietnam [1]
2022-04-30 Bach Long Bridge, the world's longest glass-bottom bridge at 632m opens in Moc Chau Island mountain park, Vietnam [1]
2022-09-06 Fire in a karaoke bar near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam kills at least 32 [1]
2023-04-25 Record April temperatures continue across Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, as Myanmar city of Theinzayet registers record 43C (109.4F) [1]
2023-07-21 2,000 year old stone slab, used to grind spices, unearthed in Óc Eo, south Vietnam, is earliest evidence of curry in Southeast Asia (still smells of nutmeg) [1]