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Ngo Dinh Diem

Vietnamese political leader
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Ngo Dinh Diem (born January 3, 1901, Quang Binh province, northern Vietnamā€”died November 2, 1963, Cho Lon, South Vietnam [now in Vietnam]) was a Vietnamese political leader who served as president, with dictatorial powers, of what was then South Vietnam, from 1955 until his assassination. Diem was born into one of the noble families of Vietnam. His ancestors in the 17th century had been among the first Vietnamese converts to Roman Catholicism. He was on...

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