Events in the life of Fidel Castro:
Aug. 13, 1926: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is born in the village of Biran in eastern Cuba, to a prosperous Spanish immigrant, Angel Maria Bautista Castro Arguiz, and the servant he had taken as a mistress, Lina Ruz.
1948: Castro marries philosophy student Mirta Diaz-Balart.
1950-1952: Castro earns his law degree from the University of Havana and practices law with a college friend for two years before deciding to run for a parliamentary seat as an Orthodox Party candidate.
March 10, 1952: Fulgencio Batista, a former president and presidential candidate in the 1952 election, overthrows President Carlos Prio Socarras, sets up a provisional government and announces the cancellation of the presidential election set for June 1.
July 27, 1957: One hundred rebels, led by Castro, attack and capture an army station in Oriente Province near their Sierra Maestra mountain hideout. The unit had been assigned to "exterminate" the rebel forces.
