On this day, April 29

1975 -- South Vietnam: The last US troops flee. Seeing the 'light at the end of the tunnel', there is a mad scramble as the last American troops gracefully fall all over themselves in withdrawing from Vietnam. U. S. Navy evacuates U.S. personnel & a select few South Vietnamese refugees. The last American combat death in Vietnam occurs. South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh surrenders. Tomorrow, April 30, 1975, at 8:35 am, the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon.