The front page of the Deseret News on July 26, 1953. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. The front page of the Deseret News on July 26, 1953, offered some hope. But on that same newspaper page, a wire story told how a young Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. The Day of Revolution, as it is called in Cuba today, took six years to complete before the 32-year-old Castro toppled the anti-Communist Batista government and took control.