Fidel Castro

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Fidel Castro is born on August 13 1926
  • Castro

    In 1953 Castro toke his army against Fulgencio Batista, he failed and was sent to prison at Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
  • Leaving Prison

    Castro at his trial was set free as he headed straight to Mexico in 1955
  • Castros Troops

    Castro his brother and Argentine Ernesto "Che" along with 81 other board a yathe names "Granma" and set off for the mountains to start a guerrila war
  • Batista Flees

    When this news came to Batista he immediately fleed to Dominican Republic to escape any conflict
  • Castro Returns

    Castro returns to Havana starts to politically change Cuba by launching agrarian reform and nationalizing most foreign and local businesses
  • Castro Becomes Prime minister

    Castro finally is named prime Minister of Cuba
  • Invasion

    The US attempts to invade Cuba and take down Castro but he counters it with his own troops and sends them off to fight in Bay of Pigs
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Soviets had a nuclear warhead in their possession preventing any interaction between Moscow and Washington due to fear of nuclear war
  • First Rocket to the Moon

    President Kennedy starts an exposition to send two astronauts to the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Walden, they successfully landed there space craft in 1969
  • Obama as President

    Barack Obama is sworn in to being the 44th US president
  • Medicine for Cancer

    In 2009, medicine was achieved to make a new medicine to slow the affect of cancerous cells reproducing
  • Boston Marathon Bombing

    During the Boston Marathon as runners were passing the end line a bomb was set off and killed and injured many people.
  • Tornado Outbreak

    On May 15th 2013 a dangerous outbreak of tornadoes destroyed towns and cities in Texas with many people being hurt or killed
  • ISIS

    a terrorist group named isis terrorizes the middle eastern area and has taken american hostages and asked for ransom
  • Death

    Fidel Castro passes away in 2016