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Ngô Đình Diệm
Ngô Đình Diệm 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 from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état.
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politics · President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 · politician · also Ngô Đình Diệm, Ngo Dinh Diem, Diệm
Born 3 January 1901 · Died 2 November 1963 · Q192502
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
VietNamNet: 'Liên minh sai lầm' - Góc nhìn khác về mối quan hệ giữa Ngô Đình Diệm và Mỹ
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2023· 1 entry
SBS: Tròn 60 năm ngày Tổng thống Ngô Đình Diệm bị sát hại
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2021· 1 entry
BBC: 58 năm nhìn lại ngày 1/11/1963 và suy nghĩ về ông Ngô Đình Diệm
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2018· 2 entries
SBS: Lễ tưởng niệm cố Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm và ý kiến từ Hòa Thượng Thích Quảng Ba
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SBS: Ngo Dinh Diem’s assassination memorial day organized by VCA faces dissent
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2017· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Vietnam dictator Ngo Dinh Diem was first foreign leader to visit Canberra
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2016· 1 entry
VietNamNet: Ngôi nhà cổ Ngô Đình Diệm 2 lần đòi mua không bán
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2008· 1 entry
BBC: Một cách hiểu về Ngô Đình Diệm
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1983· 1 entry
The Vietnamese government closed the cemetery, and ordered all remains to be exhumed and removed
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1965· 1 entry
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1963· 5 entries
Died 1963-11-02.
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North Vietnam was suffering its worst drought in a generation
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Diệm's government entered into secret negotiations with communist North Vietnam, partly because of the economic difficulties of the North
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Diệm's favoritism towards Catholics and persecution of practitioners of Buddhism in Vietnam led to the Buddhist crisis
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“JFK's Memoir Dictation On The Assassination Of Diem”
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1962· 3 entries
When India voted for a report criticizing the communists for supporting the invasion of South Vietnam, that Diệm eventually reviewed his opinions toward India
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Established the Strategic Hamlet Program as the cornerstone of his counterinsurgency effort
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The cornerstone of Diệm's counterinsurgency effort – the Strategic Hamlet Program (Vietnamese: Ấp Chiến lược), "the last and most ambitious of Diệm's government's nation building schemes", was implemented, calling for th
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1960· 1 entry
The plotters of the 1963 coup knew how to gain broad support from other ARVN officer corps
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1959· 1 entry
With the amount of US$49 million (equivalent to US$514 million in 2023)
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1957· 1 entry
The University of Saigon (1956), the University of Huế (1957), and the University of Dalat (1957)
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1956· 3 entries
“Message on the occasion of the Promulgation of the Constitution.”
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Diem added that democracy had to foster a feeling of community and mutual responsibility, arguing that respect for democracy lays in "decency in social relations", thus defining Vietnamese democracy as inherently communi
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After the "Anti-Communist Denunciation Campaign", Diệm issued Ordinance No
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1955· 2 entries
Diệm wrote that "democracy is primarily a state of mind, a way of living that respects the human person, both with regard to ourselves and with regard to others" and that "more than any other form of government, democrac
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Career landmark: President of South Vietnam (1955–1963).
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1954· 2 entries
And the struggle with the Bình Xuyên in 1955
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The political turmoil prevented him from taking further measures
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1951· 1 entry
Diệm flew to the United States to seek the support of government officials but he was not successful in winning US support for Vietnamese anti-communists
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1950· 1 entry
The Việt Minh lost patience and sentenced him to death in absentia, and the French refused to protect him
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1947· 1 entry
Became the founder and chief of the National Union Bloc (Khối Quốc Gia Liên Hiệp) and then folded it into the Vietnam National Rally (Việt Nam Quốc Gia Liên Hiệp), which united non-communist Vietnamese nationalists
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1945· 1 entry
After the coup against French colonial rule, the Japanese offered Diệm the post of prime minister in the Empire of Vietnam under Bảo Đại, which they organized on leaving the country
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1943· 1 entry
Diệm's Japanese friends helped him to contact Prince Cường Để, an anti-colonial activist, who was in exile in Japan
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1933· 1 entry
With the ascension of Bảo Đại to the throne, Diệm accepted Bảo Đại's invitation to be his interior minister following lobbying by Nguyễn Hữu Bài
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1930· 1 entry
And 1931, he helped the French suppress the first peasant revolts organized by the communists
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1929· 1 entry
Was promoted to the governorship of Bình Thuận Province and was known for his work ethic
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1925· 1 entry
First encountered communists distributing propaganda while riding horseback through the region near Quảng Trị
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1921· 1 entry
Diệm followed in the footsteps of his eldest brother, Ngô Đình Khôi, joining the civil service in Thừa Thiên as a junior official
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1918· 1 entry
Enrolled at the prestigious School of Public Administration and Law in Hanoi, a French school that prepared young Vietnamese to serve in the colonial administration
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1907· 1 entry
After the ouster of emperor Thành Thái, Khả resigned his appointments, withdrew from the imperial court, and became a farmer in the countryside
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1901· 3 entries
Born 1901-01-03.
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In Huế, Annam, French Indochina, now in Central Vietnam
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Ngô Đình Diệm was born in 1901 in Huế, Annam, French Indochina, now in Central Vietnam.
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1880· 1 entry
While Diệm's father, Ngô Đình Khả (1850–1925), was studying in British Malaya, an anti-Catholic riot led by the Văn Thân almost wiped out the Ngô-Đình clan
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