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Born in Biran, Cuba (Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz)
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Graduated from the University of Havana and started/opened a law office
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Ran for election to the Cuban House of Representatives
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Batista seized power, cancelling the election Castro ran for
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Castro led about 120 men in a failed attack on army barracks. He is captured, most of his men killed, and is senteced to fifteen years in prison.
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Castro is released from prison as part of a general amnesty
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Castro got on a ship to east Cuba and was ambushed, retreating into the mountains with 17 other survivors
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Revolutionaries started attacking recruits and winning small battles against Rural Guard patrols
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Bastita stages huge offesive attack to try and end revolution, sending in air force and others
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Fidel Castro overthrows dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and takes power as new Prime Minister
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Nationalised all US businesses from casinos to oil rigs
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Throughout the 60s to the 80s Cuba was supplying military and financial aid to leftist guerilla movements in Latin America and Africa
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Bay of Pigs invasion is launched and fails (first air attack misses target and second was cancelled)
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Late in the year, Castro declares himself Marxist-Leninist
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Cuban Missile crisis occurs over a 13 day stand that ends with Russia removing nuclear weapons from being so close to Florida and with the US removing nuclear weapons from Turkey (under the table) while Cuba was left out of negotiations
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After the Soviet Union fell, who was one of the mai financial supporters of Cuba, the economy became very shaky during the 90s
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After things relatively got back on their feet, Castro briefly gave power to his brother after an intestinal surgery
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Fidel Castro gives the title and power to his younger brother Raul and "retires"
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Cuban and US officials agreed to normalisation between the two countries
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Fidel Castro died on Novemeber 25 at the age of 90 that is confirmed by his brother Raul
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