Video: 'The Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence'

(Saturday, September 2, 1945; just after 2:00 p.m.) — Ho Chi Minh declared the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the country’s independence from France during a public meeting in front of thousands of people at what is now Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi.

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