Lý Tự Trọng

[3] On 9 February 1931, during a rally in Le Grand Park in Saigon, celebrating the anniversary of the Yên Bái uprising, Trọng used a firearm to shoot at anti-Communist French secret police.

Trọng was arrested 10 days later in the town of Khám lớn Cần Thơ, about 160 kilometres (100 mi) south-west of Saigon.

He was brought back to Saigon, hastily tried by French officials, sentenced to death on 20 November 1931, and executed the next day.

[5] The execution of Trọng sparked strong feelings of anger amongst Communists all over Vietnam toward the French leadership.

The street includes the former US AID building, famous as one of the locations of the helicopter evacuation U.S government employees during the Fall of Saigon in 1975.