Nguyen Khanh Biography

Birth of Nguyen Khanh

Graduates from the French Military Academy Saint-Cyr/Coetquidam and is promoted to "Indochine", and Ecole des Troupes Aeroportees (Airborne forces) in France

Graduates from the French Military Academy Saint-Cyr and is promoted to "Indochine" in France

Graduates from Vien Dong (Dap Da) Military Academy and Saint Saumur (France) Military Academy, rank of Lieutenant

Graduates from Vien Dong (Dap Da) Military Academy and Saint Saumur (France) Military Academy, rank of Lieutenant

Appointed Captain and commands first Parachutists Battalion, participating in the Hoa-Binh Operation in Northern Vietnam

Appointed Major in command of the Thirteenth ARVN and subdivision of Can Tho, South Vietnam

Appointed Colonel and commands the First Infantry Division stationed at the 17th Parallel

Commands the IV Corps Tactical Zone and served as General Secretary for National Defence

Commands the IV Corps Tactical Zone and served as General Secretary for National Defence

Appointed Secretary General of the Defence Ministry

Appointed Major General and assigned to Inter-Arms Chief of Staff

Joins General Duong Van Minh and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) generals in a coup against President Ngo Dienh Diem which led to the Presidents death

Appointed Lieutenant General to command I Corps

Appointed President of Southern Vietnam

General Nguyen Van Thieu joins forces with Air Vice Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky in a coup against General Nguyen Khanhs Government that lasted for (260 days) from January 1964-October 1964, with the support of a neutralist coalition

General Nguyen Van Thieu joins forces with Air Vice Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky in a coup against General Nguyen Khanhs Government that lasted for (260 days) from January 1964-October 1964, with the support of a neutralist coalition

General Nguyen Khanh led a coup replacing Duong Van Minh as Prime Minister

General Nguyen Khanh led a coup replacing Duong Van Minh as Prime Minister

Seizes power from Duong Van Minh's military junta

Requests the US Ambassador Henry Lodge to bomb North Vietnam

During the Vietnam War at a rally in Saigon, General Nguyen Khanh made a statement "calling for expanding the war into North Vietnam"

During the Vietnam War at a rally in Saigon, General Nguyen Khanh made a statement "calling for expanding the war into North Vietnam"

General Nguyen Khanh is faced with an attempted coup, rioting and demonstrations in the northern provinces, a massive labor strike in Saigon, and an armed revolt by Montagnards

General Nguyen Khanh is faced with an attempted coup, rioting and demonstrations in the northern provinces, a massive labor strike in Saigon, and an armed revolt by Montagnards

General Nguyen Khanh is faced with an attempted coup, rioting and demonstrations in the northern provinces, a massive labor strike in Saigon, and an armed revolt by Montagnards

General Nguyen Khanh is faced with an attempted coup, rioting and demonstrations in the northern provinces, a massive labor strike in Saigon, and an armed revolt by Montagnards

The South Vietnamese Air Force, under the leadership of Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, crushes a coup plot against General Nguyen Khanh

The South Vietnamese Air Force, under the leadership of Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky, crushes a coup plot against General Nguyen Khanh

The Vietnamese Revolutionary Council elect Phan Khac Suu as Chief of State and the former Mayor of Saigon, Tran Van Huong, as Premier, but General Nguyen Khanh retains real power under the title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces

The Vietnamese Revolutionary Council elect Phan Khac Suu as Chief of State and the former Mayor of Saigon, Tran Van Huong, as Premier, but General Nguyen Khanh retains real power under the title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces

The Vietnamese Revolutionary Council elect Phan Khac Suu as Chief of State and the former Mayor of Saigon, Tran Van Huong, as Premier, but General Nguyen Khanh retains real power under the title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces

The Vietnamese Revolutionary Council elect Phan Khac Suu as Chief of State and the former Mayor of Saigon, Tran Van Huong, as Premier, but General Nguyen Khanh retains real power under the title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces

The Vietnamese Revolutionary Council elect Phan Khac Suu as Chief of State and the former Mayor of Saigon, Tran Van Huong, as Premier, but General Nguyen Khanh retains real power under the title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces

Dissident generals and the Armed Forces Council move against Khanh during South Vietnam's February coup crisis

Khanh travels to Da Lat while trying unsuccessfully to resist the Armed Forces Council's decision to remove him

Khanh accepts the face-saving post of ambassador-at-large after being forced from power by the Armed Forces Council

Appointed Chief of State of the Government of Free Vietnam, an anti-communist organisation located in Little Saigon, Westminster, California

Appointed Chief of State of the Government of Free Vietnam, an anti-communist organisation located in Little Saigon, Westminster, California