Ngô Đình Cẩn
Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
In context
- When
- Saturday, May 9 196462 years ago
- Category
- Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
- Era
- 20th century · 1960s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
At a glance
Dates: From 1964.
Type: human.
What happened
Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
May 9 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
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- 2005Pope Benedict XVI
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- 2018Barisan Nasional
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- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
- 20232023 Pakistani protests
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Also in 1964
- March 14Jack RubyJack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.
- September 13South VietnamSouth Vietnamese generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after being demoted by junta leader Nguyễn Khánh.
- September 13Army of the Republic of VietnamSouth Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
- September 13Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
- September 18Wedding of Constantine II and Princess Anne-MarieThe wedding of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark took place in Athens.
- September 5Hurricane CleoHurricane Cleo dissipated after causing 156 deaths, mainly in Haiti, and causing roughly US$187 million in damages across the Caribbean a…
- October 22Ian FlemingThe first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
- October 22Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.
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When did Ngô Đình Cẩn happen?
May 9 1964 — 62 years ago, on a Saturday.
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