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US stages 6-day demonstration of mil strength, Okinawa; 17 Asian nations send observers; Adm Stump comments
US mil experts minimize cuts; say USSR has missile sites, Czech
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 28 -- The Navy launched a Vanguard satellite last night from Cape Canaveral, Fla., but early today was uncertain if it had been hurled into orbit.
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1958Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.[†]
The Cuban Revolution was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and consolidated power. Among those who opposed the coup was Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer, who initially tried to challenge the takeover through legal means in the Cuban courts. When these efforts failed, Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led an armed assault on the Moncada Barracks, a Cuban military post, on 26 July 1953.
In 1958, the world population was approximately 2,911,249,671 people[†]