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The fall of Saigon [9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam on 30 April 1975. This decisive event led to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government and the evacuation of thousands of U.S. personnel and South Vietnamese civilians, and marked the end of the Vietnam War .
In 1970, the districts of Quảng Xuyên and Cần Giờ were added.In February 1976, parts of the provinces of Biên Hòa, Bình Dương, Đô Thành Sài Gòn and Hậu Nghĩa were annexed to Gia Định and it was renamed to Sài Gòn-Gia Định. After the capture of Saigon on 30 April 1975, the province of Gia Định (initially without ...
However, North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled South Vietnam became two UN observers in 1975. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Kuwait was the last country to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with the Republic of South Vietnam on 22 and 24 January 1976, before North and South Vietnam were eventually reunited on 2 July 1976.
On 8 April 1975, Nguyễn Thanh Trung, a pilot of the South Vietnamese air force and an undetected communist spy flew an F-5E aircraft from Biên Hòa Air Base to bomb the palace but caused no significant damage. At 10:45 on 30 April 1975, a tank of the North Vietnamese army bulldozed through the main gate, effectively ending the Vietnam War.
1955–1975 Republic of Vietnam (Việt Nam Cộng Hòa). Fought in the Vietnam War (or Second Indochina War; 1959–1975) against the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi. Ngô Đình Diệm (1955–1963). Once highly lauded by America, he was ousted and assassinated in a US-backed coup in November 1963.
Vietnam Television (Vietnamese: Đài Truyền-hình Việtnam, [1] [2] abbreviated THVN [3]), sometimes also unofficially known as the National Television (Đài Truyền-hình Quốc-gia [1]), Saigon Television (Đài Truyền-hình Sàigòn [1]) or Channel 9 (Đài số 9, THVN9), was one of two national television broadcasters in South Vietnam from February 7, 1966, until just before the ...
Before losing the North to communists, on 4 June 1954, France recognized full independence of the State of Vietnam within the French Union. [6] Ngô Đình Diệm, a former mandarin with a strong Catholic and Confucian background, was selected as Premier of the State of Vietnam by Bảo Đại. While Diệm was trying to settle the differences ...
One of his paternal uncles, Nguyễn Tấn Thành, was a Communist, and took a vital role in converting Hạnh into a communist sympathizer. Hạnh did well in maths and was also a good learner of French. He finished his highschool study in the Collège de My Tho (now is the Nguyễn Đình Chiểu High School in Mỹ Tho City).