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Phan Huỳnh Điểu (11 November 1924, in Đà Nẵng – 29 June 2015 [1]) was a Vietnamese composer. [2] He composed the military anthem vi:Đoàn Vệ quốc quân (1945), and was a recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 2000.
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.
The People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces Arms (Vietnamese: Binh chủng Đặc công, Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam), officially the Special Operation Force Arms or Special Operation Arms, [1] is the elite combat armed service of the People's Army of Vietnam, led by the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army. It is uniquely ...
The Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair (Vietnamese: Phong Trào Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm) was a cultural-political movement in North Vietnam in the late 1950s. [1] [2] Two periodicals were established during that time, Nhân Văn (Vietnamese: [ɲən van], Humanities) and Giai Phẩm (Vietnamese: [zaːj fə᷉m], Masterpieces), many issues of which were published demanding freedom of speech ...
Phan Châu Trinh was born in Tây Lộc village, Hà Đông district, Thăng Bình fu (now is Tam Lộc commune, Phú Ninh district) of Quảng Nam province in 1872.He was the third son of a rich and famous scholar, who joined and became an official in the Cần Vương association of Quảng Nam in 1885.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋʷǐənˀ vān tʰîəwˀ] ⓘ; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975.
On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. [154] The war had devastated Vietnam and killed 966,000 to 3.8 million people. [155] [156] [157] A 1974 US Senate subcommittee estimated nearly 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians were killed or wounded between 1965 and 1974—including 415,000 killed.
In late March, government troops rushed into the fortress, captured Phan Bá Vành and 760 followers while killing 160 rebels. Phan Bá Vành soon died due to wounds, his head was cut off, his body was sliced into pieces and displayed in public. 400 captives were shipped to Hanoi, where they were sentenced to death by the Emperor. [18]