The reunification of Vietnam is completed in…
1976 CE
The reunification of Vietnam is completed in 1976.
Saigon is renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
Annexation of East Timor by Indonesia is completed in 1976.
A quarter to one-third of East Timorese, from every ethnic and religious group, have died at the hands of the Indonesian invaders.
A 1976 earthquake and tidal wave causes the deaths of 8,000 people on Mindanao in the Phillipines, temporarily quelling a rebellion by the Muslim majority.
China’s leader, Mao Zedong, and the revered prime minister Shou Enlai both die in 1976.
The radical Gang of Four is removed from power shortly thereafter.
Deng Xiaoping becomes the head of China’s government.
Some historians attribute to the Mao regime some 37,828,000 murders between 1923 and 1976.