Saigon

Eventos (11)

• 1859

  2/17 — Cochinchina Campaign: The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that was manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon and other regions of southern Viet Nam.

• 1962

  2/27 — Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.

• 1963

  6/11 — El monje budista Thích Quảng Đức se quema a sí mismo con gasolina en una intersección concurrida de Saigón para protestar por la falta de libertad religiosa en Vietnam del Sur.

• 1964

  5/2 — Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.

• 1968

  1/31 — Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.

• 1972

  10/22 — Guerra de Vietnam: En Saigón, Henry Kissinger y el Presidente vietnamita del Sur Nguyễn Văn Thiệu se reunen para discutir un alto al fuego propuesto que había sido trabajado entre estadounidenses y norvietnamitas en París.

• 1975

  3/10 — En la Guerra de Vietnam: Campaña de Ho Chi Minh: Las tropas vietnamitas atacan Ban Mê Thuột en el Sur en su camino hacia la captura de Saigón en el último empuje por la victoria sobre Vietnam del Sur.

• 1975

  4/4 — A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.

• 1975

  4/25 — As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

• 1975

  4/29 — Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.

• 1975

  4/30 — Caída de Saigón: las fuerzas comunistas toman el control de Saigón. La Guerra de Vietnam termina formalmente con la rendición incondicional del presidente vietnamita del Sur, Dương Văn Minh.