Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth Prime Minister of Vietnam

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is a Vietnamese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on 27 June 2006, having been nominated by his predecessor, Phan Văn Khải, who retired from office. At a party congress held in January 2011, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was ranked 3rd in the hierarchy of the Communist Party of Vietnam, after President Trương Tấn Sang. Following the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was not able to maintain his post in the party and stepped down from his position as Prime Minister on 7 April 2016.

Born

1949

November 17

Died

Living

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1940s

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1949 Born

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887 Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.
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1292 John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1405 Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu.

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The world in 1949

When Nguyễn arrived

april 1 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
april 1 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
april 18 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations.
april 20 Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.

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Angelika Machinek 1956–2006 German glider pilot (died 2006) Daniel Scott 1963– American novelist and short story writer East Bay Ray 1948– American guitarist Kimya Dawson 1972– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Lee Strasberg 1901–1982 American actor and director (born 1901) Lev Vygotsky 1896–1934 Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (born 1896) Sarah Harding 1981–2021 English singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021) Sophie Marceau 1966– French actress, director, and screenwriter Walter Terence Stace 1886–1967 English-American epistemologist, philosopher, and academic (born 1886)

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Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Alla Pugacheva 1949– Russian singer-songwriter and actress Anna Wintour 1949– English-American journalist Beth Grant 1949– American actress Billy Joel 1949– American singer-songwriter and pianist Carlos the Jackal 1949– Venezuelan terrorist David A. Cherry 1949– American artist and illustrator Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1949– French economist, lawyer, and politician, French Minister of Finance Don Baylor 1949–2017 American baseball player (born 1949)

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