Cuban President Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba in the early morning of January 1, 1959, as Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces gained control during the Cuban Revolution and flies to the Dominican Republic with his chief military aides. Leaving behind a junta which the rebels refused to recognize. His eldest son and over 50 other military leaders also left on a plane to Jacksonville, Florida.
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