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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.
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]
Michael Ngô Dinh Kha was born in 1856 in Le Thuy in Quảng Bình Province. [1] He was the son of James Ngô Dinh Niem and Ursula Khoa. It was recorded that Ngô Dinh Niem was a mandarin but there are some controversies as Kha had claimed to be a first-generation mandarin.
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.
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ kaːw˧˧ ki˨˩] ⓘ; 8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) [1] [2] was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.
1 January. U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 156,800 while Free World Military Forces (largely Republic of Korea Army) numbered 53,900. [6]: 387 The South Vietnamese government announced that there had been 20 breaches of the New Year's ceasefire resulting in nine South Vietnamese and 16 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)/Vietcong VC killed.
It is estimated that there are around 100 family names in common use, but some are far more common than others. The name Nguyễn was estimated to be the most common (40%) in 2005. [3] The reason the top three names are so common is that people tended to take the family names of emperors, to show loyalty to particular dynasties in history.
Kiến An (Cai Tài Market) Prefecture. Counties: Kiến Hưng; Kiến Hòa; Định Viễn Prefecture. Counties: Vĩnh Bình; Vĩnh Trị; Tuy Biên Prefecture. Counties: Tây Xuyên; Phong Phú; Hà Dương; Hà Âm (Hà Âm county, which is north of Vĩnh Tế Canal, is now part of Takéo province, Cambodia). An Biên Prefecture. Counties ...