On this day: 02/05
1917, Birthday of Van Tien Dung, a Vietnamese general in the People’s Army of Vietnam, who planned and commanded the Ho Chi Minh Campaign, the final PAVN offensive that collapsed South Vietnamese defenses and captured Saigon in 1975.
On this day: 01/05
Le Premier Mai: Le Muguet Porte Bonheur
1 May – the Lilly of the Valley brings happiness!
Le Premier Mai is La Fête du Muguet in France.
The tradition on this day is to give friends and loved ones a little bouquet of muguet, Lilly-of-the-Valley, for wishes of happiness and to celebrate the arrival of spring.
Hoai-Tuong Nguyen wishes happiness for all his readers and friends!
On this day: 30/04
1975. Liberation Day – the final liberation of southern Viet Nam and the reunification of all Viet Nam at 11H30 April 30, 1975.
Tank 390 (left, butt against the gates) - Bui Quang Than (arrow) - Tank 843 (right, stucked) (Photo:Francoise Demulder)
On this day: 29/04
1429 – Joan of Arc (Jean d’Arc) arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans from England:

Jean d'arc - Liberation of Orléans from England
On this day: 28/04
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist

Dennis Tito, the world's first space tourist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Tito
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On this day: 27/04
1791. Birthday of Samuel Morse the father of Morse Code
(Tips for memorizing: 218 years ago, 1 years after birthday of “Le Marseillaise”, 1792)
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On this day: 26/04
1963. Birthday of Jet Li (Lý Liên Kiệt), the hero Master “Wong Fei Hung” (Hoàng Phi Hùng).
(Tips for memorizing: 46 years ago, the same age with my uncle)
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On this day: 25/04
1792. “La Marseillaise” is a song written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg.
(Tips for memorizing: 217 years ago, 3 years after French Revolution, 1789)

1953. James D. Watson and Francis Crick suggested the first accurate model of DNA structure in the journal Nature.
(Tips for memorizing: 56 years ago, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat, 1954)

Briefly:
- French Revolution (1789) >> “La Marseillaise” : 3 years
- ADN >> Dien Bien Phu (1954): 1 years







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