On this day in 1954, the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, was signed in Washington, D.C.
On this day in 1961, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
On this day in 1976, Fidel Castro became President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
On this day in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.