Lex Anteinternet: Indochina

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Monday, April 7, 2025

Monday, April 7, 1975. A meeting in Thailand.

Cambodian Prime Minister Long Boret met with representatives of the Khmer Rouge in Thailand.

Wives of Air Force men stationed in Japan volunteered to assist in Operation Babylift.

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Sunday, April 6, 1975. "Election".

Labels: 1970s, 1975, Communism, North Vietnam

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Tuesday, April 1, 1975. Hurried departures.

The ongoing collapse in South Vietnam was increasingly spreading to neighboring Cambodia, where Neak Leung fell to Khmer Rouge after fierce Cambodian resistance. cutting off a supply route to Phnom Penh from South Vietnam.

Cambodian President Lon Nol went into exile, being succeeded by Saukaum Khoy. He'd spend the rest of his life in Hawaii.

Qui Nhơn in South Vietnam fell to the NVA giving the communists control of half of South Vietnam's landmass.

South Vietnamese Gen.hú departed Nha Trang secretly by helicopter after having previously refused requests from his men to retreat from the city. The American Consul General in Nha Trang, Moncrieff Spear, ordered the evacuation of American personnel from the city, leaving behind about 100 of the consulate's Vietnamese employees and one of the five Marine Security Guards, Sergeant Michael A. McCormick by accident.

McCormick was later able to leave Nha Trang on a CIA Air America helicopter.

The bicentennial "Freedom Train" began its tour of the United States starting with a display in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Monday, March 31, 1975. Resupply and luck.

Labels: 1970s, 1975, 1976, Army, Atomic Energy Commission, Campaign 275, Catholic, Central Highlands Campaign, Christianity, Easter, Education, North Vietnamese Army, religion, South Vietnam, U.S. Navy, Vietnam War

Friday, April 9, 2010

Saturday, April 9, 1910. Transfer of Lourdes.

Under the French confiscatory policy of disestablishment, the shrine at Lourdes was turned over to the local commune. The town council, in turn, turned it's ownership into a trust under the authority of the local Bishop.

Nouhak Phoumsavan, Pathed Lao revolutionary and President of Laos 1992 to 1998; in Ban Phalouka, Mukdahan province, Thailand.

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Saturday, March 26, 1910. The Immigration Act of 1910.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Immigration, law, Louisiana, panoramic, San Antonio Texas

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