Minister Truong Minh Tuan

Events in 1960 and 23-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Truong Minh Tuan

• American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, shot down over Russia (May 1).
• Khrushchev kills Paris summit conference because of U-2 (May 16).
• Top Nazi murderer of Jews, Adolf Eichmann, captured by Israelis in Argentina (May 23)—executed in Israel in 1962.
• Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.
• Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo) gain independence.
• There are 900 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War

Birthday Truong Minh Tuan (23-9) in history

• Day 23-9 year 1779: Navy Captain John Paul Jones declared, "I haven't started fighting yet!" on board the American warship Bonhomme Richard in the battle against the British warrior Serapis.
• Day 23-9 year 1806: Explorers Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after a three-year journey to the Pacific Northwest.
• Day 23-9 year 1846: German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.
• Day 23-9 year 1939: Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London.
• Day 23-9 year 1952: Vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered his "Checkers speech" rebutting charges of improper campaign financing.
• Day 23-9 year 1973: Former Argentine president Juan Perón returned to power.
• Day 23-9 year 2011: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas officially requests a bid for statehood at the UN Security Council.