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January 6: A South Vietnamese policeman in Tan Chu, Kien Phong Province, was shot and killed while members of his family looked on. January 7: An explosion destroyed a school and health station in Hồng Ngự District, Kien Phong Province. January 8: In An Xuyên Province, VC threw a grenade into the house of a hamlet chief.
Meanwhile, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Joint General Staff commander General Cao Văn Viên ordered two companies of the 33rd Ranger Battalion to join Task Force Gibler and ordered the 38th Ranger Battalion operating west of Saigon to advance on the Racetrack from the west. [1]: 344–5
One of three principal People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) infiltration routes, corridor 1-A crossed the Cambodian frontier near the border between Kien Phong and Kiến Tường Provinces, traversed the maze of canals through the Plain of Reeds and ended in the watery wasteland called the Tri Phap (known as Base Area 470 by Allied intelligence) where those provinces join Dinh Tuong Province.
The following year, the Statistics Office created a new census category, "Nguoi Viet goc Hoa" (Vietnamese people of Chinese origin), whereby Vietnamese citizens of Chinese heritage were identified as such in all official documents. [154] No further major measures were implemented to integrate or assimilate the Chinese after 1964. [155]
The folk hero was a popular subject for poets, such as Cao Bá Quát who wrote an epic poem to Thánh Gióng in the 19th century. [6] Today Thánh Gióng features with other legendary figures such as Kinh Dương Vương , Âu Cơ , Sơn Tinh – Thủy Tinh , in elementary school texts.
The Văn Thân Movement (Nôm: 風潮文紳; quốc ngữ: Phong trào Văn Thân) was a popular movement led by non-governmental scholars in 19th century central Vietnam. Their motto was "Demolish the Westerners; kill the heretics" (i.e. Christians) ( Chinese characters : 平西杀左; quốc ngữ: "Bình Tây sát tả") in order to preserve ...
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979; r. 968–979), real name allegedly Đinh Hoàn (丁 桓), [1] was the founding emperor of the short-lived Đinh dynasty of Vietnam, after declaring its independence from the Chinese Southern Han dynasty. He was a significant figure in the establishment of Vietnamese independence and political unity in the 10th century.
Nguyễn Chí Thiện (27 February 1939 – 2 October 2012) was a North Vietnamese dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist regimes of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam, [1] before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.