Ho Chi Minh was born on 19 May 1890 in Kim Liên. A Vietnamese communist revolutionary, Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Cung and spent decades abroad, working in France, the Soviet Union and China, before leading the movement for Vietnamese independence from French rule. He founded the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the Viet Minh in 1941, and in September 1945 he declared Vietnam's independence. He led the resistance in the First Indochina War, which ended with the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, after which he became the president of North Vietnam. He guided the north during the Vietnam War but died before the country's reunification, and Saigon was later renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honour.
Before and after
- 29 January 1890Birth of Boris Pasternak
- 4 March 1890Construction of Forth Bridge
- 9 March 1890Birth of Vyacheslav Molotov
- 31 March 1890Birth of William Lawrence Bragg
- 19 May 1890Birth of Ho Chi Minh
- 29 July 1890Death of Vincent van Gogh
- 20 August 1890Birth of H. P. Lovecraft
- 15 September 1890Birth of Agatha Christie
- 25 September 1890Establishment of Sequoia National Park
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