TODAY IN HISTORY

2016: Fidel Castro, who led his rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Sovietstyle communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, died at age 90.

1915: A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, was founded by William Joseph Simmons.