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The September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt took place before dawn on September 13, 1964, when the ruling military junta of South Vietnam, led by General Nguyễn Khánh, was threatened by a coup attempt headed by Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức, who sent dissident units into the capital Saigon. They captured various key ...
Dương Văn Minh ( Vietnamese: [jɨəŋ van miŋ̟] ⓘ; 16 February 1916 – 6 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm. In 1963, he became chief of a military junta after leading ...
Vũ Thu Minh (born September 22, 1977) [ 1] often known simply as Thu Minh, is a Vietnamese pop -singer. She is famous for pop ballads and dance-pop music and is referred to as the "Queen of Dance-pop in Vietnam". Thu Minh is also called "Vietnam's Celine Dion " and "The wind chime of Vietnamese music" due to her famous and rare soprano C or ...
Minh Mạng ( Hanoi: [mïŋ˧ maːŋ˧˨ʔ]) or Minh Mệnh ( Hanoi: [mïŋ˧ məjŋ̟˧˨ʔ], chữ Hán: 明 命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven "; [ 1] 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu) was the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 14 February 1820 ...
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
Viet Minh. The Việt Minh ( Vietnamese: [vîət mīŋ̟] ⓘ; abbreviated from Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh, [ 1] chữ Hán: 越南獨立同盟; French: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam, lit. 'League for the Independence of Vietnam') was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941. Also ...
Emma Frederickson. August 15, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Newly Decoded Tablet Warns, 'A King Will Die'HomoCosmicos - Getty Images. Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 ...
Lê Văn Viễn. Major General Lê Văn Viễn ( Vietnamese: [le vaŋ vǐəŋˀ]; 1904–1972), also known as Bảy Viễn ("Viễn the Seventh"), was the leader of the Bình Xuyên, a powerful Vietnamese criminal enterprise decreed by the Head of State, Bảo Đại, as an independent army within the Vietnamese National Army ( Quân đội ...