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Rafael Trujillo was born in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic
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Wright Brothers fly first motorized airplane
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World War I begins
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Trujillo marries his first wife, Aminta Ledesima and they have two daughters
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Trujillo became a weigher on a sugar plantation.
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Trujillo took the opportunity to train as an officer for the Constabulary Guard, under the U.S. Marines
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Trujillo is named commander in chief of the National Army.
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Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin.
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Trujillo wins the presidential elections and comes to power.
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Trujillo ordered the massacre of thousands of Haitian migrants due to his anti-Haitian prejudice
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Dede, Minerva, and Patria head off to Immaculada Concepcion
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Hilter invades Poland, beginning World War II
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Papa tells the sisters' "fortunes"
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Dede feels as though her future is beginning
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Sinita, Elsa, Lourdes, amd Minerva perform their play for Trujillo, but it goes terribly wrong when Sinita points a bow and arrow at Trujillo.
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Maria Teresa goes to her First Communion.
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Patria's baby dies
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Maria Teresa buries her journal once Hilda is caught in the convent by the police
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Patria unburries her baby and is horrified to find it covered in ants
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Jaimito proposes to Dede and she accepts
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Dede burns the letters from Lio instead of giving them to Minerva
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Minerva finds out that her father has been cheating on their mother with another woman
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Minerva slaps Trujillo during the dance
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Under pressure from the Organization of American States, Trujillo ceded the presidency to his brother, Héctor
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Maria Teresa begins havin the dream about her wedding and seeing her father in his coffin
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Maria Teresa goes to join Minerva at university
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Russia launches Sputnik I.
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Minerva asks Patria to look after Manolito because she will be on the road a lot.
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Nelson and Pedrito are taken by the SIM and the house is burned down
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Minerva and Maria Teresa are taken by the SIM
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Nelson is released and allowed to return to the family
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Pedrito is offered freedom if he divorces Patria but he refuses.
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Trujillo sends agents to assassinate Betancourt in Caracas after he sponsored a plan to remove him
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Trujillo was ambushed on the way home in his car. He was gunned down by seven assassins.
