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Nguyễn Nhật Ánh was born in 1955 in Quảng Nam province, Vietnam. At an early age, he attended Tiểu La, Trần Cao Vân and Phan Chu Trinh schools. In 1973, he moved to Sài Gòn to pursue a teaching career. After graduating from Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogical University, he was a teacher and a member of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth ...
Vietnam at that time was ruled nominally by the 300-year-old Lê dynasty, but real power rested in the Trịnh lords in the north and the Nguyễn lords in the south. While the Trịnh and the Nguyễn were fighting against each other, the Tây Sơn rebels overthrew both the Nguyễn and then the Trịnh over the span of a decade. Nguyễn Du ...
In 1782, the Tay Son army defeated the Nguyen lord at Can Gio gate, as a loyal follower of Nguyen lord, he supported Lord Nguyen Phuc Anh and fled to Ba Giong (Dinh Tuong). From 1784 to 1785, he followed Lord Nguyen to Siam twice to ask for help. From 1787 to 1789, Nguyen Van Thoai had merit in recapturing Gia Dinh citadel, so he was ordained ...
Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 [1] – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and member of the NLF (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by ARVN forces while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.
Marriage of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and Nguyễn Thị Mai Anh (1951) In 1951, Thiệu married Nguyễn Thị Mai Anh, the daughter of a wealthy herbal medicine practitioner from the Mekong Delta. She was a Roman Catholic, and Thiệu converted to Catholicism in 1958. Critics claimed that he did so in order to improve his prospects of rising up ...
Nguyễn Huệ, as depicted on the South Vietnamese 200 đồng banknote. Emperor Quang Trung statue at Bộc Temple. Nguyễn Huệ was regarded as the national savior of Vietnam and one of the most popular figures in the country. [37] Nguyễn Huệ was deified in Vietnamese culture, Bộc Temple (Chùa Bộc) in Hanoi was a temple to him.
It is a common misconception that this Nguyen Van Bay was the pilot who attacked the USS Oklahoma City on April 19, 1972. Rather, it was a different Nguyen Van Bay, or Bay B, who was downed and killed in Thanh Hoa province on May 6 the same year. [21] In 1971 Bay B and his fellow pilot Le Xuan Di were trained in anti-ship warfare by a Cuban ...
Nguyễn Văn Linh was born in Hưng Yên on 1 July 1915. His original name was Nguyễn Văn Cúc, he would later adopt Nguyễn Văn Linh as his nom de guerre. At age 14, Linh became involved in the underground communist movement against French colonial rule, joining the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. In 1930 at the age of sixteen, Linh ...