On June 5, 1911, from Nha Rong Wharf, Nguyen Tat Thanh set foot on a journey abroad in the ship Admiral Latouche Treville to France, beginning his journey for national salvation (Photo: Archive)

Young Young man Nguyen Tat Thanh served as a kitchen helper at Carlton Hotel, the UK in 1913 (Photo: Archive)

After a long and hard journey through many countries, including France, the UK and the US, Nguyen Ai Quoc made his way back to France in 1919 and stayed at No. 6 Villa des Gobelins (arrondissement 13, Paris). Here, he directly involved in the overseas Vietnamese and French workers’ movements and changed his name to Nguyen Ai Quoc. In 1919, Nguyen Ai Quoc put forward an eight-point list of demands of the Vietnamese people in front of the Versailles Conference (Photo: Archive)

Nguyen Ai Quoc read the first draft of theses on national and colonial issues written by V.I. Lenin in June, 1920 and published in L’Humanité newspaper, an organ of the French Socialist Party, on July 16-17, 1920. The headline of the article relating to the colonial issue immediately attracted Nguyen Ai Quoc’s attention. In Photo: No. 9, Impasse Compoint, Quarter 17, Paris, where Nguyen Ai Quoc lived while in France (Photo: Archive)

Nguyen Ai Quoc went to the Soviet Union from France in June, 1923, where he participated in the fourth and the fifth Congress of the Communist International. He lived from late 1923 to early 1924 at Lux hotel, No. 10 Tverskaya (Photo: Archive)

Comrade Nguyen Ai Quoc delivers speech at the fifth Communist International Congress in Moscow (June 17-July 8, 1924) in his capacity as a delegate of the Communist Party of France (Photo: Archive)

Nguyen Ai Quoc (first row, first left) and participants at the fifth Communist International Congress in Moscow, June 17 – July 8, 1924 (Photo: Archive)

 The book entitled ‘French Colonisation on Trial,’ which research on the nature of colonialism roused and encouraged colonised peoples to rise up to liberate themselves, was published in French language in Imprekor newspaper in 1925 for the first time (Photo: Archive)

The book Duong Kach Menh (Revolutionary Path) includes lectures by Nguyen Ai Quoc at training courses for staff of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League, held in Guangzhou, China, between 1925 and 1927 (Photo: Archive)

Nguyen Ai Quoc adopted the alias “Thau Chin” while living in Thailand in 1928-1929 (Photo: Archive)

Victorial Gaol in Hong Kong, where Nguyen Ai Quoc (then Tong Van So) was imprisoned for nearly 20 months, June 6, 1931 – January 22, 1933 while he was in Hong Kong (Photo: Archive)

A house where Uncle Ho conducted political training courses in China, December 1940 (Photo: Archive)

In January 28, 1941, Ho Chi Minh returned to Pac Bo, Cao Bang province from China to begin Viet Nam’s revolution, which eventually liberated the nation (Photo: Archive)

In August 1942, Ho Chi Minh came to China to search for an international alliance coordinating anti- fascist actions on the Indochina battlefield. He was arrested by the Jiang Jieshi authorities and jailed in Guangxi prisons. During 13 months of imprisonment, he wrote the work Nguc Trung Nhat Ky (Prison Diary) consisting of 134 poems in Chinese (Photo: VNA)

Hanoians went on a march and occupied the Residential Palace of the Tonkin Governor, now the State Guest House, on August 19, 1945 (Photo: Archive)