Neutralist Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma ordered the Royal Lao Army to lay down their arms and cease further resistance as the Pathet Lao took Savannakhet.
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 1975. Americans out of Laos.
The US and Laos reached an agreement which included that all Americans were to leave Laos,by June 30, 1975.
The nation was not yet fully controlled by the Pathet Lao.
Falling like dominoes.
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Monday, May 26, 1975. Memorial Day.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Friday, May 23, 1975. Leaving Laos.
Most American employees of the U.S Embassy in Laos were ordered to evacuate.
The U.S. has an embassy in Laos presently. In fact, the countries never severed diplomatic relations and normalized them in 1992.
The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 was signed into law by President Ford. The act provided for resettlement of South Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees into the United States. In 1975 it would be amended to include include refugees from Laos.
A military government was appointed to govern Lebanon.
Former President of the Teamsters Union Dave Beck was pardoned by President Ford.
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Thursday, May 15, 1975. The Raid on Koh Tang.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Wednesday, May 14, 1975. Hmong evacuation.
Thousands of Hmong soldiers and officers and their families who had assisted the CIA during the Laotian Civil War, reported to the Long Chieng airbase in Laos for air evacuation. Only two cargo planes were assigned the duty, but they managed to take out 2,500 Hmong.
This brings back up the discussion here earlier of Ma Yang, a Hmong was deported by the U.S. to Laos even though she only speaks English and has lived in the US since she was eight months old. As far as I know, nothing has yet been done to address her plight.
Today is Hmong American Day in the United States, which is set on this day in recognition of the evacuation and ultimately that a population of the Hmong Diaspora relocated to the U.S. The largest population of Hmong live in China, which is actually where the ethnic group originates, with Vietnam having the second largest population.
Dalton Trumbo was presented an Academy Award for his 1956 script for The Brave Ones, which had been earlier awarded under a pseudonym due to Trumbo then being blacklisted.
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Dalton and Cleo Trumbo at a 1947 House Committee on UnAmerican Affairs hearing.
Trumbo actually was a Communist and pretty up front about it. 1973's Papillon was his last screenplay to be produced prior to his death in 1976.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 1975. Breakthrough at Long Tieng.
Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese troops broke through the defense lines of the Hmong army headquartered in Long Tieng, Laos, "the most secret place on earth." From that location, the Hmong has opposed the Pathet Lao and NVA.
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Jerry Daniels of the CIA organized an air evacuation of Vang Pao and about 2,000 Hmong, mostly soldiers and their families to Thailand.
Daniels is an interesting character who stayed on in Thailand after the conclusion of the Indochinese wars. He was claimed to to have died in 1982 due to asphyxiation from a water heater gas leak, but his casket was sealed with instructions not to open it. After his funeral in Montana, which was widely attended by Hmong refugees, various members of the Hmong community have claimed to have seen him in Indochina or the US.
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Monday, May 12, 1975. The Mayaguez taken.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Friday, May 9, 1975. The Hmong Genocide.
Kaho Xane Pathet Lao, the official newspaper of the Lao People's Party, (the Communist Party) announced: that the nation's Hmong people "must be exterminated down to the root of the tribe" because their soldiers had assisted the United States in fighting the Communists.
Two days later the genocide would begin.
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Thursday, May 8, 1975. The last to get out.
Monday, May 5, 2025
Monday, May 5, 1975. Dominos. And now Laos.
The Social Security Administration announced for the very first time that it's retirement and disability program was in debt; and that its $46 billion reserve would be drained by 1983. Notably, President Nixon had extended Medicare, which originally did not apply to everyone, to everyone 62 years of age or older during his Administration.
Television broadcasting began in South Africa.
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Royal Lao General Vang Pao, a Hmong highlander, was ordered by the Prime Minister of Laos to cease resistance to the Pathet Lao.
He resigned instead.
It's almost like the Domino Theory was correct.
Before serving in in the Royal Lao Army, he has served with the French starting during World War Two. He immigrated to the United States where he died in 2011.
101 former RVNAF aircraft at U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield were loaded aboard the USS Midway which evacuated 27 A-37s, 3 CH-47s, 25 F-5Es and 45 UH-1Hs.
A further 41 aircraft were flown to the U.S. 54 aircraft were transferred to the Thai Government, these comprised: 1 A-37, 17 C-47s, 1 F-5B, 12 O-1s, 14 U-17s and 9 UH-1Hs.
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Sunday, May 4, 1975. 1,000,000 runs.
Labels: 1970s, 1975, baseball, Cambodia, Cambodian–Vietnamese War, Khemr Rouge, South Vietnam, Sports, Vietnam
Monday, June 3, 2024
Monday, June 3, 1974. Leaving Laos.
The last U.S. military advisors in Laos, only three in number, left the country.
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Sunday, June 2, 1974. The Forest Brothers.
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.
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