What the records say
- When
- 30 Jan 1964
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 10.80° N, 106.70° E
January 1964 South Vietnamese coup
1964 overthrow of Gen. Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam
Before dawn on January 30, 1964, General Nguyễn Khánh ousted the military junta led by General Dương Văn Minh from the leadership of South Vietnam without firing a shot. It came less than three months after Minh's junta had themselves come to power in a bloody coup against then President Ngô Đình Diệm. The coup took less than a few hours.
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