Timeline Saturday 2 November 1963

Events on Saturday 2 November 1963 1

• 1963 Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem South Vietnamese president killed in a military coup South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Nhu were captured and killed by army officers during a coup that the United States had tacitly encouraged. The coup ended Diem's increasingly unpopular rule and plunged South Vietnam into political instability. It came three weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy.