A Revolutionary

Who Is Raúl Castro?

As a young man, Raúl Castro became interested in politics and joined a socialist youth group. In the late 1950s, he participated in the revolution that brought his brother, Fidel Castro, to power, and soon thereafter was appointed head of the armed forces. In the decades that followed, he also served as Cuba’s defense minister and deputy prime minister. Formally named Fidel's successor in 2008, Raúl implemented a variety of social, economic and political reforms, including the restoration of diplomatic ties with the United States, until stepping down from the presidency in 2018. 

First Secretary of the Communist party of Cuba

Raúl Castro succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as president of Cuba in 2008. Previously, he served as the country's defense minister and head of armed forces

Cuban Revolution

In 1953, Raúl aided Fidel in an attempt to unseat the repressive Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, but the two brothers ended up in prison after a failed attack on a military base. When they were eventually pardoned and released in 1955, they fled to Mexico, where they planned their return to Cuba for the following year, when they would try, once again, to overthrow the Batista regime. 

For the next few years, Raúl assisted his brother in many ways, including leading a group of the movement's guerrilla fighters. Finally, in 1959, Batista fled Cuba, and Fidel assumed power. Raúl was soon appointed head of the armed forces and subsequently ordered the execution of 100 of Batista's military officers, among others, earning himself a reputation early on as a hard-line communist.

As Fidel Castro's second in command, Raúl held numerous government posts and played a significant part in the shaping of Cuba's political history. In addition to heading the military, Raúl served as the country's defense minister from 1959 to 2008, during which time he had a key role in the events leading to the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1962 he was appointed deputy prime minister and in 1972 he became first deputy prime minister. He also served as first vice president of the council of the state and the council of ministers, and when the collapse of the Soviet Union led to economic fallout in Cuba, Raúl implemented reforms to help the country recover. 

I am a communist of the Cuban Communist Party, the party never allowed the believers. Now we are allowing that believers also be part. This is an important step.

                                             -Raul Castro

Steve Wozniak

Co-Founder of Apple.Inc

Steve     Woaniak

      

Birth of Steve Woaniak

Steve Wozniak was born and raised in San Jose, California. His father, Jerry Wozniak, was an engineer at Lockheed Corporation.

The name on Wozniak's birth certificate is "Stephen Gary Wozniak", but his mother said he wanted to pronounce it "Stephen", which he uses. Wozniacki mentions his family name in Ukrainian and talks about his Ukrainian and Polish descent.

Stephen Gary Wozniak's Carrer

In 1969, Wozniak returned to the San Francisco Bay Area after being expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for hacking the university's computer system and sending prank messages on it. He re-enrolled at De Anza College in Cupertino before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971. In June 1971, as a self-taught project, Wozniak designed and built his first computer with his friend Bill Fernandez. Predating useful microprocessors, screens, and keyboards, and using a punch card and only 20 TTL chips donated by an acquaintance, they named it "Cream Soda" after their favorite beverage. A newspaper reporter stepped on the power supply cable and blew up the computer, but it served Wozniak as "a good prelude to my thinking 5 years later with the Apple I and Apple II computers". 

Before focusing his attention on Apple, he was employed at Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he designed calculators. It was during this time that he dropped out of UC Berkeley and befriended Steve Jobs.

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