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Events on Friday 7 May 1954 1
1954Fall of Dien Bien PhuViet Minh victory ends French rule in IndochinaViet Minh forces under General Vo Nguyen Giap overran the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu after a 56-day siege. The defeat ended French colonial control of Indochina and led directly to the Geneva Conference. It marked one of the first major military defeats of a European colonial power by a Southeast Asian independence movement.