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Trujillo was born on this date in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.
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The Russains and Japenese start a war.
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Trujillo joins a gang and is arrested for forging a check.
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife were assassinated starting world war I
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Trujillo joined the national police. The Domiican police were trained by the U.S. Marines.
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Trujillo rises in the ranks to second in command of the guard.
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Trujillo became the commander in chief of the national police in June 1925.
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Trujillo became president by winning ninty five percent of the vote, but he was the only candidate.
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Spain became a republic overthrowing Alfonso XIII.
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A treaty was signed between the Haitian president and Trujillo ending the dispute between them.
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Twenty thousand Haitains were killed by Trujillo. This event is known as El Corte
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Trujillo chose a puppet successor to take his place as president.
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Minerva goes to school with Patria for the first time.
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Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Trujillo ran for president and won again.
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Dede recalls when her family was all still together and her Papa was telling their fortunes.
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Minerva and a group of her friends do a play for Trujillo on his birthday. This was a prize performance for having the best play in the school.
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Maria Teresa recieves a little Diary from Minerva on her first communion.
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Maria Teresa is called to the office at her school and is asked about Minerva sneaking out of school.
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Patria marry's Pedrito three days before her seventeenth birthday.
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Patria lost a child and didn't return to live with her family until August
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this is the day that Lio walks into the store with his cousin and meets Minerva and Dede.
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Dede marry's Jaimito and moves to the capital.
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Minerva stumbles on her father's second family.
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Minerva was invited to a dance for Trujillo she confronts him when he makes bad advances towards her.
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Maria Teresa goes to her father's funeral and sees his other family there.
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First atomic submarine luanched. It's name is Nautilus.
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Maria Teresa graduates from Inmaculada and goes to university with Minerva in the capital.
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Patria discovers she is pregnant and decides to name her son Rual Ernesto.
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Patria and the women of her church go on a retreat in an area that gets bombed by the Cuban army.
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All the Mirabal sister's husbands were arrested accept Dede's.
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Mate and Minerva were arrested leaving Patria, thier mother, and Dede left.
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Patria gets a note from Mate and sends her a care package to prison.
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Patria talks to a captain of the SIM and gets a pardon for her son Nelson.
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A woman born in the Dominican comes to interview Dede about her sisters.
