Fidel Castro
1926–2016 · Person
Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew Batista in 1959 and ruled Cuba as Prime Minister and then President for nearly five decades. Defining figure of Cold War Latin America.
On these timelines: Latin America, Master, People
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- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
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- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
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