Sunday, May 19, 2024

Ho Chi Minh's Birth Anniversary


Ho Chi Minh, born on 19 May 1890, in Hoang Tru, Vietnam, French Indochina, was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor, the Viet-Minh (1941), and president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). As the leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for nearly three decades, Ho was one of the prime movers of the post-World War II anti-colonial movement in Asia and one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century.

Inauguration of Ludhiana Clock Tower in 1906

  The Victoria Memorial Clock Tower of Ludhiana was inaugurated on October 18, 1906 by the then Lieutenant Governor of the state of Punjab,...