Today in History

Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.

North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.

President Richard Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.

The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.

U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.

U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do.

Jane Campion, New Zealand film director (The Piano, A Portrait of a Lady).

Annie Dillard, writer (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek).

The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.

Willie Nelson, country singer.

The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.

The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.

Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens), actress.

Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands.