1789 — George Washington takes the oath of office at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, becoming the first President of the United States.
1803 — The United States completes the Louisiana Purchase from France for 15 million, more than doubling U.S. territory.
1900 — Hawaii (Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) becomes a territory of the United States, Congress approved the Hawaiian Organic Act which organized the territory.
1975 — Fall of Saigon: Communist forces seize Saigon, marking the end of the Vietnam War (and South Vietnam’s surrender). This caused the collapse of South Vietnam to communism and the evacuation of thousands of civilians and U.S. personnel, and ended the Vietnam War. The aftermath ushered in a transition period under the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam until the formal reunification in 1976.
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