Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1973 · Event
The prize for the Paris Peace Accords causes uproar; two committee members resign and Le Duc Tho refuses to share it while the war goes on.
On these timelines: The Vietnam War, Cold War, Master, USA
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- Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (1963)
- North Vietnam's final offensive (1975)
- The Ho Chi Minh trail (1959)
- US ground war begins at Da Nang (1965)
- Cronkite calls the war a stalemate (1968)
- Operation Ranch Hand sprays Agent Orange (1962)
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- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
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