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  2. Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro - Wikipedia

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    Cremation date. 26 November 2016. Interment date. 4 December 2016. Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Council of State, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 ( CST) on the evening of 25 November 2016, at the age of 90. His brother, the then-President of the State Council and then-First Secretary ...

  3. Murder of Elisa Izquierdo - Wikipedia

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    Murder of Elisa Izquierdo. / 40.6956; -73.8761. Elisa Izquierdo (February 11, 1989 – November 22, 1995) [3] was a six-year-old Puerto Rican – Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse ...

  4. Celia Cruz - Wikipedia

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    Barbaro Records. RMM. Sony Discos. Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname " La Guarachera de Cuba ".

  5. Juanita Castro - Wikipedia

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    Juanita Castro. Juana de la Caridad " Juanita " Castro Ruz ( / ˈkæstroʊ / KASS-troh, Latin American Spanish: [ˈxwana ðe la kaɾiˈða (ð) xwaˈnita ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 6 May 1933 – 4 December 2023) was a Cuban-American activist and writer, as well as the sister of Fidel and Raúl, both former presidents of Cuba, and Ramón, a key figure ...

  6. Cuba City, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    FIPS code. 55-17950 [6] GNIS feature ID. 1563606 [3] Website. cubacity .org. Cuba City is a city partially in both Grant County and Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,086 at the 2010 census. Of this, 1,877 were in Grant County, and 209 were in Lafayette County.

  7. Robert F. Williams - Wikipedia

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    Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and ...

  8. Cuba Gooding Sr. - Wikipedia

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    Cuba Gooding Sr. Cuba Mark Gooding (April 27, 1944 – April 20, 2017) was an American singer. He was the most successful lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, replacing former lead singer Donald McPherson who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1971. According to Billboard, as the lead vocalist he scored five top 10 hits, most notably ...

  9. Michael O'Riordan - Wikipedia

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    O'Riordan's funeral at Glasnevin Crematorium was attended by over a thousand mourners. Following a wake the previous night at Finglas Rd, hundreds turned up outside the house of his son Manus and traffic ground to a halt as family, friends and comrades – many of whom were waving the red flag of the Communist Party of Ireland – escorted O ...