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41st year  -  N° 27                 Tuesday, 27 January 2026         Antwerpen		
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Monday 19th of October 1964
62 years, 8 months and 21 days ago




Việt Cộng National Liberation Front patriot Nguyễn Văn Trỗi is executed by the firing squad at the age of 24 in Chí Hòa Prison, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area, Vietnam.


Văn Trỗi tried to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and future ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964. Văn Trỗi's last words were "I have committed no sin. It is the Americans who have sinned."