October 18

Zeng Xueming was a Chinese midwife who married Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese leader. She married Ho in October 1926 as a Catholic from Guangzhou. They shared a home until April 1927, when Ho fled China in the aftermath of an anti-communist coup. Ho returned to Vietnam in 1940 to lead the communist rebels against the French colonial authorities, the pro-Communist Viet Minh. In 1954, he was elected President of North Vietnam. Despite several attempts by both Zeng and Ho to reestablish contact, the couple was never reunited.
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