Che Guevara was an Argentine-born physician, Marxist revolutionary,
politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a
young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled "rough" throughout Latin
America, bringing him into direct contact with the poverty in which
many people lived. Through these experiences he became convinced that
only revolution could remedy the region's economic inequality, leading
him to study Marxism and become involved in Guatemala's social
revolution under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Sometime later,
Guevara became a member of Fidel Castro's paramilitary 26th of July
Movement that seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various
important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles
and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara
left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in
the Congo-Kinshasa and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a
CIA-organized military operation. Guevara died at the hands of the
Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9 1967.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1812:
The United States declared war against Great Britain, officially
beginning the War of 1812.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812)
1815:
Napoléon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of
Waterloo.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo)
1858:
Charles Darwin received a manuscript by Alfred Russel Wallace
on evolution, which prompted him to publish his theory.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace)
1873:
Woman suffrage activist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting
to vote in the 1872 U.S. presidential election.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony)
1979:
The SALT II treaty was signed by the United States and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SALT_II)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Will you still need me,Will you still feed me,When I'm sixty-four?~
Paul McCartney
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney)