Ho Chi Minh City Hall, 1902 - 1908
Also known as Ho Chi Minh Square
This building was originally known as Hotel de Ville during the French Colonial Period, then converted into a city hall.
The French nicknamed Saigon as the Pearl of the far East. Chinese migrants called it Cho Lon @ Big Market. The Communist government eventually renamed Saigon as Ho Chi Minh.
Ho Chi Minh
Original names: Nguyen Sinh Cung, Nguyen Tat Thanh or Nguyen Ai Quoc
Leader of the Vietnamese nationalist movement for almost 3 decades
President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Declared independence from the French rule
(Ho Chi Minh died of a heart attack in 1969)
Led Vietnam to its unification in 1976
~ The day after the battle ended, on 1 May, veteran Australian journalist Denis Warner reported that "When the North Vietnamese marched into Saigon yesterday, they were led by a man who wasn't there"
(The Sun News-Pictorial 1975)
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