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Events on Saturday 6 August 1960 1
1960Cuba nationalizes US-owned businessesHavana seizes American oil, sugar and utility firmsCuba's revolutionary government nationalizes American-owned oil refineries, sugar mills and other enterprises without compensation. The move sharply escalates hostility between Havana and Washington in the months before the Bay of Pigs invasion.