· Geneva, Switzerland (international)

Geneva Conference on Indochinese Refugees

history

With boat-people arrivals peaking near 56,000 a month, a UN conference in Geneva won pledges to more than double Western resettlement; the US led in accepting hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees.

Communities
  • Vietnamese American
  • Cambodian
  • Lao
Topics
  • refugees
Regions
  • Southeast Asian

Sources

Also on July 20

history

Death of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee, the San Francisco-born Chinese American martial artist and actor who reshaped global perceptions of Asian Americans in film, died July 20, 1973, in Hong Kong at age 32.