The Cuban Revolution ends: Colonel Fulgencio Batista, military dictator of Cuba, flees for the Dominican Republic, leaving the nation under the control of communist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

       [restored 9/24/2022]

Subsequent Events:

2/3/1962                   11/21/1973

References:

“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 1 January 2011, News:3.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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