On this day

16th February 1959: Communist revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba at the age of 32. The Cuban newspaper ‘Revolution’ claims "now the government, the
revolution and the people will take the same path." Relations between Cuba and the USA would become increasingly hostile from 1960, and the Cuban alliance with the USSR led to the Cuban
Missile Crisis of 1962. Castro became President in 1976, before resigning from office in 2008.