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The following day, the Vietnam News Agency acknowledged the news that Giáp had died and announced a national funeral. There was an immediate outpouring of grief in the country, and many people regarded Giáp as the second-most important figure of Vietnam's 20th-century history, after Ho Chi Minh . [ 1 ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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American obituary for WWI death Traditional street obituary notes in Bulgaria. An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2]
Rebecca Cheptegei, a long-distance runner from Uganda who competed in the women's marathon at the recent Summer Olympics in Paris, has died days after being doused in gasoline and then set on fire ...
When they got home, Thiệu's condition had worsened. [200] He died on 29 September 2001, aged 78, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, after he collapsed and was put on a respirator due to a stroke which he suffered at his Foxborough home. [7] [8] His funeral was held on 6 October 2001, in Newton, Massachusetts. He was cremated ...
Authorities in Boston have charged a woman with murder in connection with the death of an attorney found on a houseboat in a marina over the weekend.
The crowd that lined the funeral route that passed through Manila, Makati, Pasay, and Parañaque was estimated to be between 100,000 and 500,000 people. [ citation needed ] When the cortege reached Manila Memorial, Aquino was given full military honors , with a two-star general acting as military host and eight, one-star generals as pallbearers .