Operation Babylift concluded.
Congressional staff members, Richard Moose and Charles Miessner, back from South Vietnam released a report stating that "no one including the Vietnamese military believes that more aid could reverse the flow of events."
Their report further stated that evacuation of Americans from Saigon was being resisted by Ambassador Graham Martin and other senior officials.
The cover of Time featured a crying Vietnamese child and the words "Collapse in Viet Nam".
Soviet power lifter Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Widely admired all over the globe, he died at age 69 of heart problems, something not all that uncommon for the very bulky.
The Federal Election Commission commenced operating.
Sikkim voted to merge into India.
Actor Fredric March passed away at age 77. He acted for many years, but is best recalled by me for his role in The Best Years Of Our Lives.
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