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Events on Saturday 29 September 2001 1
1923 – 2001Nguyen Van Thieu (1923-2001)Died 29 September 2001, aged 78Thieu was president of South Vietnam from 1967 until days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, when he resigned and left the country. His government relied heavily on American support and was widely accused of corruption. He spent his last decades in exile in Britain and the United States.