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Revolutionary man
Doctor
Born on 14/6/1928
at Rosario (Argentina)
Deceased on 8/10/1967
at La Higuera (Bolivia)
Author
BIOBBLE NEWS
Date created 5/3/2009
Last updated on 5/3/2009
| 14 June 1928 | Earhart first women to fly across Atlantic |
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Ernesto is born in Argentina to a well off family. His father, of Hispanic-Irish origins, is an Architect and his mother is the descendent of a rich Argentinean family.
| May 1930 | Gandhi Leads Revolt in India |
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Ernesto becomes ill. The doctors diagnose him with Asthma problems and fragile health, which makes the Guevara family settle in Alta Gracia in the Cordoba province, where the air is drier.
| 31 December 1931 | Empire State Building completed |
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Ernesto’s sister Celia is born, at San Isidro, a district of Buenos Aires where the Guevara family lives.
| 18 May 1932 | Russian famine |
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His brother Roberto is born.
| 1934 | Night of Long Knives |
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The family settles at the Chiquita Villa where his youngest sister is born.
| March 1942 | Nuclear Chain Reaction |
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Ernesto goes to the national college Déan Funes where he becomes friends with the brothers Granado and Ferrer.
| May 1943 | Battle of Kursk |
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Juan Martin is born, his youngest brother.
| 1946 | Atomic Test At Bikini Atoll |
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The family moves to Buenos Aires. Ana Isabel, his grandmother, passes away due to an illness, and Ernesto, who had looked after her for seventeen days, decides to study medicine.
| 1947 | The microwave oven is invented |
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Changed because of his ever-fragile constitution, Ernesto launches into his medical studies. While the student anti-Peronist protests wail, Ernesto meets ‘Aunty’, Berta gilda Infante, who is a member of the communist youth. They become friends and she introduces him to Marxist texts.
| October 1950 | Communist Chinese forces invade Tibet |
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Ernesto leaves to discover Latin America, passing through Peru, Chile, and Colombia. He is deeply affected by the social misery and decides, following the example of the poet and political man, José Marti, to link his destiny with “the poorest people in the world”.
| December 1951 |
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Ernesto leaves again, this time by motorbike accompanied by his friend Alberto Grandos, to really discover South America. In order to feed themselves and pay for their temperamental Norton 500cc, they take on many small jobs along the way.
| August 1952 | King George VI Dies, Elizabeth crowned Queen |
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Ernesto takes up his medical studies again.
| 11 April 1953 | Playboy magazine hits newsstands |
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The University of Buenos Aires awards him the title Doctor of Medicine and Surgery.
| July 1953 |
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Ernesto and Carlos Ferrer ‘Calica’ meet in Bolivia where they observe the social changes brought about by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, who has just come to power. They travel along Peru, the equator, Panama, and Costa Rica where they meet the Cubans, Calixto Garcia and Severino Rosell, then onto Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador and finally Guatemala.
| August 1953 |
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Ernesto makes friends with Hilda Gadea Ontalia, an economist and ex member of the APRA (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana) and with Nico Lopez, a Cuban revolutionary, who names him after his surname ‘Che’.
| October 1953 |
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Ernesto Che Guevara presides as the doctor for the worker’s unions and plays an active role in the internal politics of Guatemala, by supporting the democratic and revolutionary government of Jacob Arbenz.
| September 1954 | Segregation Ruled Illegal |
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The intervention by the USA and the CIA brings down Arbenz’s government and Che has to leave Guatemala for Mexico, where he works as a photographer and as a doctor.
| October 1954 |
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Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez join him.
| October 1954 |
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Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez join him.
| 28 August 1955 | James Dean dies |
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Ernesto Che Guevara marries Hilda, who will give him a daughter in 56, Hilda Guevara Gadea.
| October 1955 |
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Living at Maria Antonia Gonzales’ house, as a Cuban exiled to Mexico, Che Guevara meets Raoul and Fidel Castro, who explain to him their reasons behind their fight against the dictator Batista. The two men discuss all kinds of subjects for more than ten hours. From that day on, Che becomes a member of the Revolutionary circle.
| April 1956 | First Trans- Atlantic Telephone Cable |
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Ernesto, who is following Cuban revolutionary training in Mexico, is arrested. Not long after his release, he separates from Hilda and reveals his revolutionary activities to his parents.
| 2 December 1956 |
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Che disembarks with 80 men to Cuba and settles the guerrilla revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra. Che shows that he is an excellent fighter in the anti-Batista cause.
| 1958 | Explorer I Launched |
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Che creates Radio Rebelde, the revolutionary radio station. He actively fights in Sierra Maestra, then in the Sierra del Escambray, and finally, in the Santa Clara battle, which will be decisive for the Revolutionary movement.
| January 1959 | Alaska and Hawaii Admitted to the Union |
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On the third Che arrives at Havana, followed by the victorious entry of Fidel on the 8th. His parents, who he has not seen him for six years come to Cuba, followed by Hilda and their daughter who come to live in Havana.
| 1 January 1959 |
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Cuba is liberated and Batista is exiled.
| 9 February 1959 |
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The government gives Cuban citizenship to Che for his services.
| 2 June 1959 |
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Ernesto Che Guevara marries Aleida March Torres, who he met a year earlier. He officially works for the Cuban government, who regularly sends him on assignments. He is sent to Egypt, Soudan, India, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylan, Japan, Morocco, Yugoslavia and to Spain. He takes on the duties of the Head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, of the Head of Industry and Agrarian Reform, then at the end of November, President of the National Bank of Cuba.
| 3 January 1961 | Y. Gagarin 1st man in space |
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The USA ends diplomatic relations with Cuba. Not long after, Che is appointed Minister of Industry and a member of the leading assembly.
| 3 January 1961 |
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The USA ends diplomatic relations with Cuba. Not long after, Che is appointed Minister of Industry and a member of the leading assembly.
| 17 April 1961 |
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1,500 mercenaries armed by the CIA try to embark on the Giron beach in the Bay of Pigs. Three days later they are halted by the Revolutionary army.
| 4 August 1961 |
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Che, at the head of the Cuban delegation during the Amériques de Punta del Este conference, is welcomed by thousands of people who chant, “Long live the Cuban Revolution”.
| 20 May 1962 | first American to orbit Earth |
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His son Camilo is born named in honour of his friend Camilo Cienfuegos.
| October 1962 |
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During the ‘October Crisis’ Che commands the troops of Pinar del Rio.
| 14 June 1963 | President Kennedy Assassinated |
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His daughter Celia is born.
| 19 March 1964 | The Beatles In America |
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His son Omar Perez is born, the son from his relationship with Lidia Rosa Lopez. During this year Che represents Cuba at the UN conference for business and development at Geneva. As the head of the Cuban delegation he also goes to France, Algeria, Czechoslovakia and the USSR for the 47th Anniversary of the October Revolution and to New York for the General Assembly of the UN.
| 1965 | Great Blackout |
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At the start of the year, Che travels to China, Mali, the Congo, Guinea, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt and Algeria again. On his way back, he asks to be discharged of his responsibilities, in order to retake charge of the army for the people of the world.
| October 1965 |
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Che is in the Congo when he learns of the death of his mother.
| 3 November 1966 | First Direct Dial Phones |
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He secretly enters Bolivia under the name of Adolfo Mena Gonzalez in order to found the National Liberation Army of Bolivia.
| 8 October 1967 | Che Guevera Killed in Bolivia |
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After having been injured and arrested by the Bolivian army, he is executed at 1: 10 in the village school of Higuera.
| 18 October 1967 |
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At the Place de la Révolution, Fidel Castro announces before half a million Cuban people: "You have physically disappeared, but your image and your ideas stay and will stay present in us, because those people will never kill them with bullets”.
| 1980 | 8-year Iran-Iraq War begins |
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Che continues his official visits with the economic mission of Cuba, in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, the FRG and the Popular Republic of China. The USA enacts a commercial embargo on Cuba.