Cold War: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a> leads an unsuccessful attack on the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncada_Barracks" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moncada Barracks">Moncada Barracks</a>, thus beginning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" id="mwAT0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a>. The movement took the name of the date: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement" id="mwAT4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="26th of July Movement">26th of July Movement</a>