The storm dropped 14.4 inches of snow on Saginaw from April 2-3, 1975, and was the city's worst April snowstorm and eighth-heaviest snowfall ever recorded, the National Weather Service reports.

The Vietnam War came to an end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and ...

In April 1975, San Francisco’s Presidio served not only as a military base but as an impromptu crossroads where infants and children airlifted out of South Vietnam were cared for and then sent to ...

In the early morning of April 30, 1975, the only U.S. military service members who remained in Vietnam were several dozen Marines on the ground in Saigon. They were waiting to get out themselves. A ...

Courtesy of the Benedictine Sisters of Mt. Angel Archive In April 1975, over 160 Vietnamese refugees fleeing Saigon found a temporary home in the Mount Angel Oktoberfest building. Christine Rausch has ...

The final 24 hours of the Vietnam War were no less ugly than all the years that preceded them. “You never know how things are going to end,” says Rory Kennedy, director of the film “Last Days in ...

In April 1975, the North Vietnamese Army was closing in on Saigon. Premieres 4/28 on PBS. In 1973, U.S. troops had begun to withdraw from Vietnam after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the ...

In late April 1975, landscape workers prepared gardens in front of the Eiffel Tower replica at Kings Dominion. The theme park opened days later on May 3. Opening day brought in 20,000 visitors and $55 ...

On April 30, 1975, the world watched with disbelief and sorrow as Saigon fell to the advancing North Vietnamese army. In mere hours, the Republic of Vietnam — South Vietnam — ceased to exist.