Today in history: Toward the end of the Vietnam War, US Ambassador Bunker resigns

1973: Ellsworth Bunker resigns as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam. Read about Bunker's role in the Vietnam War on HistoryNet.com.

1864: Union forces advancing in Arkansas repulsed an attack by Confederate Brig. Gen. Thomas P. Dockery in the Skirmish at Mount Elba.

Also today in history, in the U.S. and elsewhere:

1603: Less than four years after succeeding Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, in command of English forces in Ireland, James Blount, Eighth Baron Mountjoy, compelled Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to sign the Treaty of Mellifont, bringing the Nine Years War to an end. O'Neill reportedly wept when he learned that the English monarch against whom he had rebelled, Queen Elizabeth I, had died just six days earlier.

1865: The Battle of Five Forks began in Virginia. To read more about The Battle of Five Forks, visit HistoryNet.com.

1941: Brig. Gen. Erwin Rommel launched what he called a "reconnaissance in force" in North Africa that turned into an all-out counteroffensive.  To read more about General Rommel in North Africa, visit HistoryNet.com.

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