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Pan Am Flight 841 was a commercial passenger flight of a Boeing 747 from San Francisco, California to Saigon, South Vietnam which was hijacked over the South China Sea on 2 July 1972, ostensibly as an act of protest concerning United States involvement in the Vietnam War as well as the expulsion from the U.S. of the South Vietnamese hijacker, a ...
Viễn Đông Daily News (Vietnamese: Nhật báo Viễn Đông, lit. 'Far East Daily News') is one of the three largest Vietnamese-language newspapers published seven days a week by Vietnamese overseas. [1] Founded in 1993, its headquarters is situated in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, California.
Việt Báo was founded in 1992 by two former South Vietnamese writers, novelist Nhã Ca and poet Trần Dạ Từ. It was originally titled Việt Báo Kinh Tế (Vietnamese Economic News) and based in Westminster, California. It published weekly until 1995, when it began publishing daily.
Avelo Airline will begin offering twice-weekly flights between the Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco and the Bay Area’s Charles M. Schultz Airport in Sonoma County, Calif. The service begins May 1 and ...
November 22 – While U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses fly their heaviest raids of the Vietnam War at the time during the day, [138] a North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile hits a B-52 over North Vietnam near Vinh; its crew manages to fly it to Thailand before ejecting. It is the first time in history that a B-52 has been lost to enemy ...
Pacific Air Lines was a local service carrier on the West Coast of the United States that began scheduled passenger flights in the mid-1940s under the name Southwest Airways. The company linked small cities in California with larger cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Some Republican lawmakers in California, including a number of Vietnamese Americans, have come together in opposition to Jane Fonda Day. Why some conservative Vietnamese Americans are angry about ...
June 18 – To reduce the chances of Viet Cong forces slipping away from large South Vietnamese ground units by fleeing operations areas in small groups, U.S. Marine Corps helicopters operating in South Vietnam begin to use the "Eagle Flight" tactic, in which Marine transport helicopters circle contested areas and drop off South Vietnamese ...