Capital Liberation Day in Vietnam
Capital Liberation Day in Vietnam is held on October 10. This event in the first decade of the month October is annual. Help us
The capital city of Hanoi was liberated from the French colonial rule on October 10, 1954. Along with the victory of Dien Bien Phu campaign, the Geneva Agreements on armistice in Indochina was signed. After many days of struggling in the Geneva Conference, agreements on transfering Hanoi to the Vietnamese people were finally signed on September 30th and October 2nd 1954 in the United Armistice Center Committee.
Early in the morning on October 10th, residents of the capital wore classy clothes, bringing flags and potraits of President Ho Chi Minh and standing in queues, divided into groups such as: offices, factories, schools and residences, ect. They went to streets where were announced that the Vietnamese soldiers would come over to welcome them.
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