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2000 — November: President of the United States, Bill Clinton, made historic visit to Vietnam. He was the first U.S. leader ever to officially visit Hanoi. 2001 — Trang Tien Plaza (shopping center) in business. 2002 — National Archives Center #3 opens. [13] 2003 Mỹ Đình National Stadium opens in Từ Liêm District.
In 1980, cosmonaut Phạm Tuân became the first Vietnamese person and the first Asian to go into space, traveling on the Soviet Soyuz 37 to service the Salyut 6 space station. During the early 1980s, a number of overseas Vietnamese organisations were created with the aim of overthrowing the newly unified government through armed struggle once ...
During the Vietnam War between North and South (1955–1975), Hanoi and North Vietnam were attacked by the United States and South Vietnamese Air Forces. Following the end of the war with the fall of Saigon, Hanoi became the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam when North and South Vietnam were reunited on 2 July 1976. [64]
Hanoi: 1945–1976: Vietnam, later North Vietnam: Democratic Republic of Vietnam: Presidential Palace: Hanoi: Saigon: 1945-1954: French Occupation: Indochinese Federation: Governor-General Palace: Ho Chi Minh City: 1946–1949: Cochinchina (under French Occupation) Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina: Gia Long Palace: 1949–1955: South Vietnam
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
By Francesco Guarascio, Khanh Vu and Minh Nguyen. HANOI (Reuters) - The leaders of China and Vietnam hailed as "strategic" on Wednesday their decision to strengthen ties and be part of a community ...
Po Binasuor annihilated the Vietnamese invaders in 1377, ransacked Hanoi in 1371, 1378, 1379, and 1383, nearly had united all Vietnam for the first time by the 1380s. [111] During a naval battle in early 1390, the Cham conqueror however was killed by Vietnamese firearm units, thus ending the short-lived rising period of the Cham kingdom. [ 112 ]
Lê Duẩn became the de facto leader of the Party even though Hồ remained its chairman and continued to influence North Vietnam's governance. In 1964, Hồ's health began to fail and Lê Duẩn, as his trusted underling, more visibly took on day-to-day decision-making responsibilities. [ 56 ]