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ON THIS DAY

IN HISTORY
ACROSS
1 Hand makeup
6 Lower in esteem
11 Tennis star
Chris
12 Like some messages
13 Smooth
transition
14 Breaks, perhaps
15 Zoo resident
17 Mamie’s mate
18 Toddy base
19 Small falcon
22 Notice
23 Tub user
24 Right now
25 Polish city
27 Match part
30 Innocence
31 French article
32 Flamenco cry
33 Juice choice
35 Tourist stop
38 Filer’s worry
39 Game setting
40 Witch
41 Bookish, perhaps
42 Raring to go
DOWN
1 French film awards
2 Broad way
3 Ruling group
4 Oil container
5 It might be T-shaped
6 Play division
7 Frilly wrap
8 Look up to
9 Harry Potter’s
position in Quidditch
10 Collectible car
16 Results in
20 Belmont, e.g.
21 Quaker’s pronoun
24 Hebrew letter
25 In abundance
26 Would-be loser
27 Bright solar illusion
28 Diesel invention
29 Wobble
30 “—is an island”
34 Mystique
36 Purpose
37 Place down
(February 16, 1959)
Power in Cuba Seized by Fidel Castro
After defeating the forces of dictator General Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba this day in 1959 and transformed the island country into the Western Hemisphere’s first communist state.
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