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March 10, 1952
On March 10, 1952, fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba. Simon Cowell, Louka Katseli, Gerald Early would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · March 10, 1952
Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.
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The year in brief
1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.
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On March 10, 1952
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1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba. President of Cuba (1940–1944; 1952–1959)
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.
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Other moments from 1952
- April 11 Bolivian National Revolution: Rebels take over Palacio Quemado.
- April 11 Pan Am Flight 526A ditches near San Juan-Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after experiencing an engine failure, killing 52 people.
- April 15 First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
- April 21 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
- April 28 Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in order to campaign in the 1952 United States presidential election.
- April 28 The Treaty of San Francisco comes into effect, restoring Japanese sovereignty and ending its state of war with most of the Allies of World War II.
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