On This Day - July 26, A Shot of History

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1953 – 26th of July Movement: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frg19Box9ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_iXh_iwrwA

1956 – The Suez Crisis begins: Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy_yl2pU0u4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vslsS-Uu5x4

1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castillo_Armas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwPPMgy2fyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMh9g9w-RM

1943 – Mick Jagger is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz5uWBl_35o

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet