Contemporary era · 1963
1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état
On November 1, 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) were deposed by a group of CIA-backed Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with Diệm's handling of the Buddhist crisis and the North Vietnamese-Viet Cong (VC) threat to South Vietnam.
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- When
- 1 Nov 1963
- Where
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Era
- Contemporary
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