Ngo Dinh Diem
(1901–1963), first president of the first Republic of Vietnam. Born of a well-known Catholic family of central Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced N-go Dinh Ziem) pursued a Western...
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Ngo Dinh Diem (1901-1963) was South Vietnam's first premier and president. Leader of South Vietnam after the 1954 partition, he initially provided inspiring leadership but later became dictatorial whe...
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Oct 19 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on Oct. 26 since 1900: 1905 - Revolutionary Russian workers in St. Petersburg
formed the first Soviet, or workers' assemb...
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Oct 25 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 1 since 1900: 1914 - Five German cruisers sank the British ships Good Hope
and Monmouth at the Battle of Coro...
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Today is Monday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2007. There are 203 days left in the year.Today's Highlights in History:On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declarati...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE MISLEADING VIETNAM ANALOGY (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
With rhetoric that would stir any patriot but logic that should
persuade ...
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A Japanese businessman who played a role in Japan's war
reparation projects in South Vietnam quoted a Vietnamese Cabinet
member as saying that that country ''can be purchased with Japan's
wa...
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War On Terror: Democrats arrogantly tell Iraq's elected government to oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but those poised to replace him are worse. Imagine a Mideast version of the disastrous 196...
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Journalism: The posthumous publication of his book on the Korean War is confirming David Halberstam's place in the left-leaning media establishment's lexicon of saints. The truth about him is a lot...
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With the Vietnam War escalating in 1965, South Vietnamese Prime
Minister Phan Huy Quat asked the Japanese government to tell Japanese
reporters not to write articles he saw as helping Viet Co...
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A foreign correspondent for The New York Times who has reported from more than 50 countries, Stephen Kinzer has met the enemy—and it is U.S. The invasion of Iraq, he claims, was not an aberra...
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A foreign correspondent for The New York Times who has reported from more than 50 countries, Stephen Kinzer has met the enemy—and it is U.S. The invasion of Iraq, he claims, was not an aberra...
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem
RPT-Reuters historical calendar - October 26
