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| ID Number: | BB37-0103 |
| Description: | 80th Birthday of Ho Chi Minh |
| Country or State: | Cuba |
| Year: | 19 May 1970 |
| Face Value: | 13 ¢ - Cuban centavo |
| Series: | 80th Birthday of Ho Chi Minh |
| Subject/Theme: | Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), President of Medicinal North Viet Nam |
| Perforation: | line 12½ |
| Printing: | Offset lithography |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 39 x 43 mm |
| Catalog Number: | Michel CU 1605 Stamp Number CU 1533 Yvert et Tellier CU 1413 Stanley Gibbons CU 1771 |
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Hồ Chí Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, Bác Hồ, or simply Bác , was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and President from 1945 to 1969. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, he served as Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam. Hồ Chí Minh led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, ending the First Indochina War. He was a key figure in the People's Army of Vietnam and the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was victorious against the United States and the Republic of Vietnam and was reunified with the Republic of South Vietnam in 1976. Saigon, the former capital of South Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor. Ho officially stepped down from power in 1965 due to health problems, and died in 1969. |
