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2013 Event - The defense ministry of China accuses the United States of increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific region by increasing its military presence and supporting Vietnam, Japan and the Philippines in long-term territorial disputes with the country

2013 Event - China reports it will open the South China Sea's Paracel Islands to tourism before the May Day holiday. Vietnam voices strong opposition this move, as ownership of the Islands is in dispute

2012 Event - Vietnam accuses China of cutting seismic survey cables from territorial waters in the South China, disputed by Vietnam, the Philippines Malaysia, Taiwan, and Brunei

2012 Event - For the first time since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the United States plans to help clean up herbicide Agent Orange from areas in Vietnam

2011 Event - Vietnam re-elects Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung

2011 Event - In Vietnam, hundreds demonstrate against Chinese naval operations in the disputed waters of the South China Sea

2011 Event - In Vietnam, 1,400 members of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam gather to vote for new leaders

2010 Event - Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, celebrates its 1,000-year birthday

2010 Event - The Medal of Honor is awarded for the first time since the Vietnam War; U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta received the medal for his actions during the War in Afghanistan

2010 Event - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal with over 500,000 pilgrims attending from 35 nations including Vietnam, China and India

2007 Event - Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization

1998 Death - J T Walsh, actor (Good Morning Vietnam), dies at 54

1997 Event - Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam

1997 Death - Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies

1997 Death - Bao Dai, ex-monarch, last emporer of Vietnam, dies at 83

1997 Event - 1st U.S. ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam

1996 Death - Nguyen Huu Tho, President of Vietnam (1980-81), dies

1994 Event - President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam

1990 Death - Nguyen Van Tam, Prime Minister of Vietnam 1952 - 1953, dies

1990 Event - U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister

1990 Event - Saddam Hussein warns that U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience

1988 Death - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74

1987 Event - Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America

1984 Event - Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed

1984 Event - Chinese troops invade Vietnam

1982 Event - Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.

1982 Event - Ground-breaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans Memorial

1981 Death - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut, dies in Mig-21 crash at 32

1981 Event - Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial

1980 Event - Vietnam adopts constitution

1979 Event - U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange

1979 Event - China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam

1979 Event - China invades Vietnam

1978 Event - U.S.S.R. and Vietnam sign peace and friendship treaty

1977 Event - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam

1977 Event - Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N.

1977 Event - Vietnam becomes member of U.N.

1977 Event - U.S. restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia

1977 Event - Vietnam hands over MIA to U.S.

1977 Event - President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)

1977 Event - President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders

1976 Event - Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam

1976 Event - Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country

1975 Event - U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N.

1975 Event - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established

1975 Event - President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"

1975 Death - Charles McMahon, Jr., U.S. USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam

1975 Death - Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam

1975 Event - Last South Vietnam president Nguyen Van Thieu resigns after 10 years

1975 Event - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam

1974 Event - President Ford announces conditional amnesty for U.S., Vietnam War deserters

1974 Death - Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59

1973 Event - France recognizes North Vietnam

1973 Event - Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam

1973 Event - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam

1973 Event - U.S. troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution

1973 Event - 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine

1973 Event - Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War

1973 Death - L C William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral

1973 Event - U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft

1973 Event - William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign U.S. - North Vietnam treaty

1973 Event - President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

1973 Event - US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord

1973 Event - President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam

1973 Event - Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris

1972 Event - Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks

1972 Event - U.S. begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam

1972 Event - Henry Kissinger declares "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

1972 Event - U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam

1972 Event - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam

1972 Event - Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam

1972 Event - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam

1971 Event - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam

1971 Birthday - Kim Maher, Saigon Vietnam, U.S. softball infielder, 1996 Olympics gold

1971 Birthday - Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor, Sam-Together We Stand

1971 Event - North Vietnam demands U.S. end aid to South Vietnam

1971 Event - 1st Lt William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre

1970 Event - President Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

1970 Event - 100,000 march in New York supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam

1970 Event - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War

1969 Event - John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War

1969 Event - Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial

1969 Event - 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by U.S. is 1st reported

1969 Event - 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War

1969 Event - 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US

1969 Event - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war

1969 Event - Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam

1969 Birthday - Angela Melini, born in Saigon, Vietnam, playmate, Jun, 1992

1969 Event - U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam

1969 Event - Nixon says 25,000 U.S. troops would leave Vietnam by end of August

1969 Event - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)

1969 Event - U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam

1969 Event - U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970

1969 Birthday - Thang Thanh Nguyen, born in Soc Trang, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1969 Event - Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris

1969 Event - Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam

1968 Event - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

1968 Event - Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam

1968 Event - U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled

1968 Event - North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks

1968 Event - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die

1968 Event - U.S. troops reconquer Hue Vietnam

1968 Event - 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

1968 Event - U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam

1968 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns U.S. bombing of North Vietnam

1968 Event - Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam

1967 Event - 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam

1967 Event - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war

1967 Event - U.S. troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam

1967 Event - Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep

1967 Event - Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon

1967 Event - Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution

1967 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam

1967 Event - 45,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam

1967 Event - 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1967 Event - Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares U.S. aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia

1967 Event - U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War

1967 Event - In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time

1967 Event - U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam

1967 Event - University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam

1967 Death - A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam

1967 Event - U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

1966 Event - USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129

1966 Event - 175 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam

1966 Event - U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1966 Event - U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam

1966 Event - In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time

1966 Event - 300 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam

1966 Event - 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam

1966 Event - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia

1966 Event - 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam

1966 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends

1966 Event - Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

1965 Event - 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C.

1965 Event - ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report

1965 Event - U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam

1965 Event - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing

1965 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam

1965 Event - 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson

1965 Event - South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier

1965 Event - U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam

1965 Event - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam

1965 Event - 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

1965 Event - Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam

1965 Event - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1965 Event - U.S. ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam

1965 Event - 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1965 Event - U.S. begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam

1965 Event - South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh

1964 Event - Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam

1964 Event - U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam

1964 Event - North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin

1964 Event - U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam

1964 Event - General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam

1964 Birthday - Thanh Nguyen, born in Saigon, Vietnam, 141 lbs U.S. weightlifter 1996 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Nhi Lan Le, Vietnam, U.S. fencer-foil 1996 Olympics

1964 Event - Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam

1963 Death - Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam (1955-63), murdered at 62

1963 Event - Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas

1963 Birthday - Phung Vuong, born in Saigon, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1962 Birthday - Dustin Nguyen, born in Saigon, Vietnam, actor, Harry-21 Jump Street

1962 Death - Hanns Eisler, composer (North Vietnam/East German National Anthem), dies at 64

1962 Event - U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy provides U.S. miltary helicopters and crews to South Vietnam

1961 Event - John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

1961 Event - Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to commun attack

1960 Event - Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails

1959 Birthday - Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio, artist, architect of Chinese descent, known for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., sculpture, landscape art

1959 Death - Dale Buisand and Chester Ovnand, 1st Americans killed in Vietnam War

1956 Event - Vietnam promulgates its constitution

1956 Event - Last French troop leave Vietnam

1955 Event - Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as president

1955 Event - President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam

1954 Event - President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem

1954 Event - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

1954 Event - At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam

1954 Event - Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South

1954 Event - Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam

1954 Event - France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union

1954 Event - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam

1954 Event - Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam

1951 Birthday - Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam

1951 Birthday - Eugene H Trinh, Saigon Vietnam, PhD/astronaut, STS-50

1950 Event - Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union

1950 Event - French troops vacate Cla Afraid Vietnam

1950 Event - Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam

1950 Event - U.S. sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

1949 Event - Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France

1949 Birthday - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut

1949 Birthday - Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut

1949 Event - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor

1947 Birthday - Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut, Soyuz 37/36

1946 Event - French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000

1946 Birthday - Oliver Stone, born in New York City, director, Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon

1946 Birthday - Ron Kovic, disabled vietnam vet, Born on 4th of July

1946 Event - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation

1946 Event - Ho Chi Minh elected president of North Vietnam

1945 Event - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)

1945 Event - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

1945 Event - Japan declares Vietnam Independence

1944 Birthday - Marie-France Pisier, Daclat, Vietnam, actress, Scruples, Midnight

1940 Birthday - Nong Duc Manh, born in Na Ri District, Bac Kan province, Vietnam, Vietnamese Politician

1934 Birthday - David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War

1923 Birthday - James Stockdale, Admiral, Vietnam, Ross Perot's 1992 running mate

1923 Birthday - Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president, 1965-75

1914 Birthday - Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War

1914 Birthday - William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era

1913 Birthday - Bo Dai, last emporer of Vietnam

1913 Birthday - Bao Dai, emperor of Annam/Indochina/head of South Vietnam, 1949-55

1908 Birthday - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, 1966-67, ; supported U.S. in Vietnam

1901 Birthday - Ngo Dinh Diem, president/dictator of South Vietnam, 1955-63

1890 Birthday - Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam, 1946, 1969

1789 Event - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long

1788 Event - Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam

1788 Event - Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam

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