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Fidel Castro is born on August 13, 1926 in the Oriente Province in southeast Cuba.
Fidel castro biography timeline with paragraphs
He is one of seven children born to Angel Castro, a successful sugar planter, and Lina Ruz González, a maid who later marries Angel. Fidel grows up in wealthy circumstances and attends private Jesuit schools.
After proving himself as an athlete in high school, Castro begins law school at the University of Havana in 1945. There he becomes interested in politics, particularly nationalism, socialism, and anti-imperialism, and he becomes involved in the violent gang culture of the university.
In June 1947, Castro learns that Dominican exiles are planning to overthrow the military junta of Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, a U.S. ally, in the Dominican Republic. He joins the invasion force of around 1,200 troops, but the e