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Uncle HO (Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen That Thanh, Nguyen Ai Quoc, Henri Tchen, C.M. Hoo)

   
May 19, 1890  
kimlien018.jpg (856116 bytes) Nguyen That Thanh (Ho Chi Minh) was born in the small village of Kim lien near Vinh, Nghe An Province.
    
1911 Ho Chi Minh leaves Vietnam on a French ship for Great Britain. In London he worked as a cook in the Carlton Hotel. He became a member of the "Overseas Workers' Association", an anti colonial movement (supporting Irish Independence as well). After London he spent a short time in New York. During the First World War he went to Paris in France. 
    
1920  
hofrance_1920.jpg (131625 bytes) Ho Chi Minh ( as Nguyen Ai Quoc, i.e Nguyen the Patriot) addressed the 18th congress of the French Socialist Party in Tours.
    
1922  
hocommie_1922.jpg (80474 bytes) Ho Chi Minh's membership card of the Communist Party of France. He was using the name of "Henri Tchen".
     
November 11, 1924  
hoguangzhou001.jpg (77455 bytes) Ho Chi Minh arrived in Guangzhou (Canton), China. Here he started to train Vietnamese revolutionary cadres in a house at Wen Ming street.
  

1925

Ho Chi Minh founded The Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League (Viet Nam Cach Menh Thanh Nien Dong Chi Ho) in Guangzhou, China.
     
1930 Ho Chi Minh merges three groups of revolutionaries into the Vietnamese Communist Party (Dang Cong San Viet Nam) in Hongkong, later renamed the Indochinese Communist Party (Dang Cong San Dong Duong). 
     
1930-1931 Nghe Tinh Uprising. During this uprising revolutionary committees took control of parts of Nghe Anh and Ha Tinh provinces. After a brutal wave of terror the French reestablished control in these provinces.
  
1931 The French general governor of Indochina signed a decree to sentence Ho Chi Minh to death.
     
August 29, 1942 Ho Chi Minh was arrested by the Nationalist authority in Guangxi province in China.
     
September 10, 1943 Ho Chi Minh was freed from prison.
     
September 2, 1945  
On Ba Dinh Square, President Ho Chi Minh pronounced The Declaration of Independence, solemnly stating to the Vietnamese people and the entire world that the Democratic Republic of Vietnam came into being.
   
September 7 and 8, 1962.  
uncleho030_press1962.jpg (29158 bytes) Uncle Ho spoke to the third press conference.
     
August 2, 1969 Uncle Ho saw his last movie "Ballad of The Soldier".
     
September 2, 1969  
After 79 springs Ho Chi Minh passed away.