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On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh.After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist protests against longstanding religious ...
v. t. e. Ngô Đình Diệm (/ djɛm / dyem, [2] / ˈjiːəm / YEE-əm or / ziːm / zeem; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ⓘ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from ...
Vietnamese name. Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality is possible, in cases such as divorce, children of a single mother, or if a child didn't want to have the father's surname. The father's family name may be combined ...
t. e. On November 11, 1960, a failed coup attempt against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was led by Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi of the Airborne Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). The rebels launched the coup in response to Diệm's autocratic rule and the negative ...
Nguyễn Thái. Nguyen Thai in Malacautang, 1954. Nguyễn Thái aka Thai Nguyen (born January 30, 1930) is a former South Vietnamese government official who later attacked the regime of President Ngô Đình Diệm for its corruption. He was the first high-ranking government official to speak up against the Ngo family's corruption.
Nguyễn Đình Thi (1924–2003) Kien Nguyen (b. 1967) Nguyễn Nhật Ánh, popular children's author (b. 1955) Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn, Vietnamese Canadian writer (b. 1946) Qui Nguyen, playwright; Huong Keenleyside (born Nguyen Thi Huong in 1971) Nguyễn Thuyên, 13th century official and writer; Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnamese American writer ...
2. Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo (born June 7, 1970) is a Vietnamese businesswoman, and the President and CEO of VietJet Air, [1] President of Sovico Group and Vice President of HDBank. [2] After Phạm Nhật Vượng, she is the second Vietnamese person—as well as the first Southeast Asian woman—to be recognized by Forbes as a USD ...
Madame Nguyễn Thị Định (15 March 1920 – 26 August 1992) was the first female general of the Vietnam People's Army during the Vietnam War and the first female Vice President of Vietnam. Her role in the war was as National Liberation Front deputy commander, and was described as "the most important Southern woman revolutionary in the war ...