During Paris honoring French hero of American Revolution, U.S. Lou Gehrig of New York Yankees delivered his in which he called himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.. 1947. ..…

The orchestra was founded by Ho Chi Minh,and it plays most of its concerts in the Opera House, a diminutive copy of the Paris Opera. In 1945, our ally Ho, from a balcony overlooking the large square and flanked by an American Major and a British Colonel, declared Vietnam independent. ..…