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Ernesto "Che" Guevara [b] (14 June 1928 [a] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
Mario Terán Salazar (9 April 1942 – 10 March 2022) was a Bolivian Army warrant officer who executed Che Guevara as a young sergeant in 1967. Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary from Argentina, had played a major role in the Cuban Revolution, in which the 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel Castro, ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and replaced his government with a revolutionary ...
This list of people executed in New York gives the names of some of the people executed in New York, both before and after statehood in the United States (including as New Amsterdam), as well as the person's date of execution, method of execution, and the name of the Governor of New York at the date of execution. 1963 marked the last execution ...
Highlights of this day in history: Guerrilla leader Che Guevara executed in Bolivia; Anthrax-laced letters sent to Capitol Hill; Achille Lauro hijackers surrender; Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace ...
Che Guevara at his basecamp holding a local African infant and standing next to a fellow Afro-Cuban soldier in the Congo during the Congo Crisis, 1965. Che Guevara was committed to ending American imperialism , and he decided to travel to the Congo during its civil war to back the anti-capitalist guerrilla groups.
The piece, which in 2008 was also displayed in New York City's Central Park, [41] portrays a well known Barcelona street performer [42] dressed as Che Guevara. In January 2009, artist Juan Vazquez Martin, who fought alongside Che Guevara during the Cuban Revolution , held an exhibition with 13 of his paintings in Derry , Northern Ireland.
A "person of interest" in the Kenneth fire who was arrested after being caught with a blowtorch near the source of the blaze has been detained by immigration authorities for entering the country ...
October 18, 1967: Venera 4 becomes first man-made object to land on Venus October 9, 1967: Che Guevara executed in Bolivia October 3, 1967: USAF Major Knight reaches Mach 6.72 in jet, still the fastest ever October 26, 1967: Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran holds coronation for himself and his wife. The following events occurred in October 1967: