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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940 [1] – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and member of the NLF (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by ARVN forces while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.
Lien Chan and the Kuomintang touring the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, People's Republic of China.The Pan-Blue coalition visited mainland China in 2005.. The 2005 Pan-Blue visits to mainland China were a series of visits by delegations of the Kuomintang [note 1] (KMT) and their allied Pan-Blue Coalition to mainland China.
Thần Trụ Trời or Ông Trụ Trời (lit. "Pillar of Heaven"), with some versions calling him Khổng Lồ ( lit. "The Giant"), is the first god in some traditions of Vietnamese mythology , being the one who created the world by building pillars to separate heaven and earth.
The Republic of Korea sent the original masters of taekwondo to introduce this Korean martial art across the world. The original masters of taekwondo is a group of twelve South Korean martial art masters assembled by the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) in the early 1960s to promote the newly established art of taekwondo.
The Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars (or Khoekhoe–Dutch Wars) refers to a series of armed conflicts that took place in the latter half of the 17th century in what was then known as the Cape of Good Hope, in the area of present-day Cape Town, South Africa, fought primarily between Dutch colonisers, who came mostly from the Dutch Republic (today the Netherlands and Belgium) and the local African people ...
[10] [11] Finally, on 7 February 2017, Somdet Amborn Ambaro was appointed by King Rama X to serve as the next Supreme Patriarch out of five names given to him by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Cha. [12] The appointment ceremony was held on 12 February at Wat Phra Kaew, Grand Palace. [13]
The Koh Tao murders involved the deaths of two British tourists in Thailand in 2014. On 15 September, the bodies of Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found on Sairee Beach on the island of Koh Tao, between 4 and 5 am, a few hours after their deaths. Both victims had been hit several times on the head; Witheridge had been raped, and Miller ...