However, the couple were not married long, divorcing after Phu had an affair with another woman.

Extensive testing for dioxin contamination has been conducted at the former US airbases in Da Nang, Phu Cat and Bien Hoa.

When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

Units of the legion were also involved in the defence of Dien Bien Phu and lost a large number of men in the battle.

* 1954: French Empire begins to be dismantled after suffering defeat at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.

Hydrofoil lines using the Russian-built Meteor type also connect Hai Phong, Ha Long and Mong Cai in North Vietnam, Phan Thiet and Phu Quy Island and between Rach Gia and Phu Quoc Island in the South.

* In Indochina the French government was facing the Viet Minh communist rebels and lost its Indochinese colonies during the First Indochina War in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Air supply failed to prevent the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the Vietnamese in 1954 but proved crucial in maintaining the American base at Khe Sanh in 1968.

During the Vietnam War the battles of Dien Bien Phu ( 1954 ) and Khe Sanh ( 1968 ) possessed siege-like characteristics.

At Dien Bien Phu, the French were unable to use air power to overcome the siege and were defeated.

Around 700 AD, Tai people who did not come under Chinese influence settled in what is now Dien Bien Phu in modern Vietnam according to the Khun Borom legend.

The region consists mainly of the dry Khorat Plateau which in some parts is extremely flat, and a few low but rugged and rocky hills, the Phu Phan Mountains.

After their defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 France granted independence to the nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

* December 19 – Viet Minh forces begin a war against French occupying forces in Vietnam, succeeding in 1954 with France's surrender at Dien Bien Phu.

* November 29 – French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu.

* March 13 – French troops begin the battle against the Viet Minh in Dien Bien Phu.

* March 23 – In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu.

* March 29 – A C-47 transport with the French nurse Genevieve de Galard on board is wrecked on the runway at Dien Bien Phu.

The North hoped it would prove to be America's Dien Bien Phu, attempting to break the American public's desire to continue the war.

* Tran Phu deposes Duong Nhat Le as King of Vietnam.

* Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.

Character Lieutenant Duroc ( Patrick Chauvel ) accounts his battles as Normandie-Niemen Free French fighter in Pierre Schoendoerffer's 1992 movie Dien Bien Phu.

* Four individuals were radio-collared in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary from April 2000 to February 2003.

He arrived in Indochina after the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu, which had been lost by France and which prompted prime minister Pierre Mendès France to put an end to the war at the Geneva Conference.

Fighting lasted until May 1954, when the Viet Minh won the decisive victory against French forces at the gruelling Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

** Phra Aphai Mani by Sunthorn Phu ( 1821 or 1823 – 1845 )

) The variety from Vietnam is generally called nước mắm ( well known by brand names including nước mắm Phú Quốc ( Phu Quoc ) and nước mắm Phan Thiết ( Phan Thiet ).

* Phu Thai, spoken by about half a million around Nakhon Phanom Province, and 300, 000 more in Laos and Vietnam ( 2006 ).

A native governor ( Tong Doc or Tuan Phu ), assisted by a native staff, administered each of the provinces into which the country was divided, and native officials of lower rank governed the areas into which these provinces were subdivided.

Paya Kam Fu, son of Saen Phu, moved the capital to Chiang Saen in 1334, only to be returned to Chiang Mai by his son Pa Yu.

The saucer-shaped plateau is divided by a range of hills called the Phu Phan mountains into two basins: the northern Sakhon Nakhon Basin, and the southern Khorat Basin.

The other strike, moving from Dien Bien Phu and aimed downriver at Luang Prabang, was thwarted by oncoming monsoons and dogged resistance by the French.

By dawn, most of the attacks within the city center had been eliminated, but severe fighting between Viet Cong and allied forces erupted in the Chinese neighborhood of Cholon around the Phu Tho racetrack, southwest of the city center, which was being utilized as a staging area and command and control center by the North Vietnamese.

In an interview taped in May 2004, General Marcel Bigeard ( 6th BPC ) argues that " one of the deepest mistakes done by the French during the war was the propaganda telling you are fighting for Freedom, you are fighting against Communism ", hence the sacrifice of volunteers during the climactic battle of Dien Bien Phu.

The Da Nang, Bien Hoa and Phu Cat Air bases are still heavily contaminated with dioxin from the herbicides and have been placed on a priority list for containment and clean-up by the Vietnamese government.

When French forces were defeated by the Vietnamese Communists at Dien Bien Phu in June 1954, the government of < span lang =" fr "> Joseph Laniel </ span > resigned, and < span lang =" fr "> Mendès France </ span > formed a government.

A similar strategy would be used by the French in Indochina years later at Dien Bien Phu.

A former monk and Phu Mi Bun in the Ubon Ratchathani area headed a millenarian sect inspired by his predictions of ' apocalyptic ' vision.

The most notable works of Thai literature are a version of the Ramayana, a Hindu religious epic, called the Ramakien, written in part by Kings Rama I and Rama II, and the poetry of Sunthorn Phu.

After the French withdrawal following the defeat of Dien Bien Phu, Trinquier's maquis was left behind and hunted down by Ho Chi Minh's forces.

In 1986, the 200th anniversary of his birth, Phu was honored by UNESCO as a great world poet.

Geneviève de Galard ( born 13 April 1925 ) is a French nurse who was dubbed l ' ange de Dien Bien Phu (" the Angel of Dien Bien Phu ") during the French war in Indochina by the press in Hanoi, although in the camp she was known simply as Geneviève.

It was presented to her by the commander of Dien Bien Phu, General de Castries.

The soundtrack for war docudrama by Pierre Schoendoerffer, Diên Biên Phu ( 1992 ), was one of the late notable works.

At the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, CAT supplied the French garrison by parachuting troops and supplies with covert USAF C-119 inscribed with French Air Force insignia.

On 30 March 1977, the Council of the Government ( now the cabinet ) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by Decision 391-CP / QĐ upgraded Nha Trang to city status, a county-level city under the administration of Phu Khanh Province ( a province created by merger of now Phú Yên Province and Khánh Hòa Province ).