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March 29, 1973

On March 29, 1973, vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. The year's #1 song was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando and Dawn. Bokeem Woodbine, Akon, Charlotta Sörenstam would arrive in the same year.

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1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.

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What happened

On March 29, 1973

  1. 1973 Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.

    1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia

    The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US.

  2. 1973 Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.

    1964–73 covert US military operation in Laos during the Vietnam War

    S. S. Navy Task Force 77 between 5 March 1964 and 29 March 1973, concurrent with the Vietnam War.

Arrivals

Born on March 29, 1973

Marc Overmars 1973– Dutch football player and executive

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Other moments from 1973

The class of 1973

Others born in 1973

Bokeem Woodbine 1973– American actor
Akon 1973– Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
Charlotta Sörenstam 1973– Swedish golfer
Teddy Cobeña 1973– Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
Derrick Brooks 1973– American football player
Haile Gebrselassie 1973– Ethiopian runner

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