Month-long preparations for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war culminated on Wednesday, April 30, the date in 1975 that communist North Vietnam took over Saigon, then-capital of South Vietnam and renamed to Ho Chi Minh City.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War, a significant event when North Vietnamese troops took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon.
The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of a Vietnam divided into the communist North and U.S.-allied South.