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Events on Sunday 2 December 1956 1
1956Granma lands in CubaCastro's rebels land in Cuba to launch revolutionFidel Castro, Che Guevara, and about 80 other rebels landed in Cuba aboard the yacht Granma to launch an armed uprising against the government of Fulgencio Batista. Most of the landing party was killed or captured shortly after coming ashore. The survivors regrouped in the Sierra Maestra mountains to begin a guerrilla campaign that would topple Batista in 1959.