This Day in History: 1890-05-19
(May 19, 1890)
Ho Chi Minh was born in Hoang Tru, Vietnam, French Indochina, and was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor, the Viet Minh (1941), as well as the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 1945 to 1969.