Hồ Chí Minh's Birthday in Vietnam Date in the current year: May 19, 2024

Hồ Chí Minh was born on May 19, 1890. In 1911 he started working on a ship and left the country. He traveled to the USA, where he lived in New York and Boston, and then to Great Britain. Starting from 1919 Minh lived in Paris, France, where he joined a group of the Vietnamese nationalists. Following World War I, the group petitioned for the recognition of the civil rights of the Vietnamese people in French Indochina.

In 1920 Minh joined the Socialist Party of France, but he managed to become a political leader only in the Soviet Union, where he studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.

Hồ Chí Minh returned to Vietnam in 1941 to lead the Viet Minh independence movement. He issued the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945, which led to the independence of Vietnam. Minh became its first prime minister and later the president. He headed North Vietnam till his death in 1969.