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Reunification Day is also known as Day of the Liberation of the South or Ngày Giải phòng miền Nam. This day commemorates the end of the War Against American Oppression, or Chiến tranh chống Mỹ xâm lược, on 30 April 1975, or the beginning of the reunification of South Vietnam and North Vietnam. [2]
Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Thống nhất), also known as Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng), Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng or Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam), or by its official name, Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (Ngày giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) [2] is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the event when the ...
Various names have been applied to these events. The Vietnamese government officially calls it the "Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification" (Vietnamese: Ngày Giải phóng Miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) or "Liberation Day" (Ngày Giải Phóng), but the term "fall of Saigon" is commonly used in Western accounts.
April 30 is also known to many in the Vietnamese diaspora as “Black April,” or the day the North Vietnamese captured the South Vietnamese stronghold of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City ...
The Board of Supervisors will consider moving Jane Fonda Day to April 8 instead of its original proposal of April 30, the day of the fall of Saigon in 1975. Vietnamese groups furious over 'Jane ...
Known in the Vietnamese community as “Black April,” it is a day of remembrance when we honor the sacrifices of some 250,000 South Vietnamese and 60,000 American soldiers who gave everything to ...
With respect to the question of reunification, the non-communist Vietnamese delegation objected strenuously to any division of Vietnam, but lost out when the French accepted the proposal of Viet Minh delegate Phạm Văn Đồng, [6] who proposed that Vietnam eventually be united by elections under the supervision of "local commissions". [7]
On April 30, 1975, Thanh Duong scaled the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. Vietnamese American refugees who witnessed fall of Saigon urge U.S. to accept more Afghans Skip ...