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2016: Cuban political leader Fidel Castro, who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphereand became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America, died at age 90. [ Discover six interesting facts about Fidel Castro.]

2005: Irish-born football (soccer) player George Best, who was one of the premier forwards in the game's history and an iconic figure of “Swinging London” during the 1960s, died in London. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about football (soccer).]

2002: In London the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap celebrated its 50th anniversary with a royal gala, having opened on November 25, 1952, and this performance being its 20,807th. [Test your knowledge of women writers of England.]

1975: Suriname gained its independence from the Netherlands.

1942: Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer chose Los Alamos, New Mexico, as the site of Project Y, which developed the first atomic bomb. [ Learn about the deadliest weapons in history.]

1936: Germany and Japan formed the Anti-Comintern Pact against the Soviet Union.