April 30 marks the day when Southern Vietnam fell to the Northern Vietnamese army, thus "reunifying" the entire country. Famous pictures of this day include the Northern Viet Cong army tank crashing through the gate of the government palace in Saigon and thus ending the war. (pictured left)
To read more about what happened the day before, take a look at the story of one of the the Saigonese who escaped on the famous US military helicopter that departed from a rooftop along with desperate Vietnamese dangling from it.
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