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Date of birth
Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1962 in Oriente Province, Cuba. (Tyle, 393) -
Jesuit School
At the age of about 6, Castro began to study in Jesuit schools in Oriente and Havana, Cuba. He was a amazing student. He was very anti-social and did not want to talk to other people. The subjects he was most interested in were History, Spanish, and Agriculture. (Tyle, 393) -
Law School
Castro went to a law school at the University of Havana. He joined an activist group and a gang called the Union Insurreccional Revolucionaria. There were many times when Castro was defeated in student elections, so he never became a well known student leader. (Tyle, 393) -
Castros Group
On July 26, 1953 Castro gathered a group of people to help him invade the Moncada military barracks in Oriente Province. This attack caused him to be arrested and sentenced 15 years in prison. (Tyle, 394) -
Released by an Amnesty
In 1955 Castro was released from prison by a government pardon. He ended up in Mexico city, Mexico were he planned the 26th of July movement in which he planed to take power away from Batista. (Tyle, 394) -
Castro and his July 26th Movement assumed power
On January 1, 1959, Castro took over power and took hold over Cuba. (Tyle, 395) -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began when Castro aligned with the communists and the soviets to try to install nuclear missiles in Cuba but United State spy's took pictures and the missiles were taken down. (Tyle, 395) -
Castro's United States visit
Beginning in the 1990's Cuba and the United States were getting friendlier and Fidel Castro visited the United States to bring back Cuban Exiles to their home land. (Tyle, 396) -
Castro celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday
On August 13, 2001, Castro celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. (Tyle, 396) -
Castro Died
Fidel Castro pass away on November 25, 2016, at the age of 90 from old age, in Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba. (biography.com)
