When Juan Montes de Oca was born on 7 September 1925, in Cuba, his father, Victor Montes de Oca, was 37 and his mother, Cristina Gemenez, was 36. He died on 3 June 2006, at the age of 80.
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Fidel Castro leads a Communist revolution. The rebel army overthrows President Fulgencio Batista.
United States breaks diplomatic relations with Havana. All U.S. businesses in Cuba are nationalized without compensation.
The Bay of Pigs. United States sponsors an abortive invasion by Cuban exiles. Castro proclaims Cuba a communist state and allies the country with the U.S.S.R.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jesus, Manuel, Jorge, Luis, Francisco, Miguel, Carlos, Alfredo, Ramon, Raul. Portuguese Joaquim.
Spanish (also Montés); Portuguese (also Montês): topographic name for a mountain dweller, from the plural form of Monte ‘mountain’ or from the adjective Spanish montés, Portuguese montês ‘of the mountain’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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