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Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
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Dominican political protestors, assassinated in 1960
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Leader of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961
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