When Pedro Emilio Castro Argota was born in 1913, in Cuba, his father, Ángel María Bautista Castro y Argiz, was 38 and his mother, María Luisa Argota y Reyes, was 36. He died in 1992, in Havana, Cuba, at the age of 79.
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Socialist Party is founded. The Party would eventually form the basis of the Communist Party.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Jorge, Miguel, Francisco, Mario, Pedro, Raul. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Wenceslao, Armanda, Fernandes.
Galician, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name from castro ‘castle, fortress’ (from Latin castrum ‘fort, Roman walled city’), or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word. See also De Castro .
Italian and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who lived by a fortification, from castro ‘fortification’ (see 1 above) or a habitational name for someone from the town of Castro, the center of a Duchy in Lazio (destroyed after its occupation by Papal military forces in 1649). Compare Lo Castro .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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