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Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.
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1955–58 armed rebellion against the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro
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Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967)
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Cuban political organization
The 26 July Movement was a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization and later a political party led by Fidel Castro. The movement's name commemorates the failed 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, part of an attempt to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Invasion of Cuba done by a single yacht in the Cuban revolution
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