Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh was born on May 19, 1890 in a small straw hut in the town of Kim lien, in Nghe. Ho was born under the name of Nguyen Van Thanh. His father was involved in the revolution to push the French out of Indo China. After Ho's mother die in jail for stealing weapons from a French barracks and Ho’s sister Thanh was jailed for a similar Crime. Ho's father gave him and his …

…Ho began to have heart problems. On September 3, 1969 at 9:47 A.M., Ho Chi Minh died of a heart attack at the age of seventy-nine. People in Vietnam thought of Ho as their greatest hero. His body was laid at the spot where he gave his Independence Speech in 1946. 10,000 people came to see him one last time, all wearing black bands to remember his death. The city of Saigon was later named Ho Chi Minh City.