<span>Born: </span><span>May 21, 1527, Valladolid, Spain </span><span> Died: </span><span>September 13, 1598, <span>El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain Fact: </span></span><span>Having been made the Duke of Milan in 1540 and having been observed by his father , his father decided he could be trusted to leave the regency of Spain in young Philip’s hands in 1543, his only words of wisdom to the young prince were “piety, patience, modesty, and distrust”. </span> Major Accomplishment: Philip II's accomplishments<span> originated him as a very well known </span>king<span>. ... His father, Charles V, ceded the duchy of Milan (1540), the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily (1554), the Netherlands (1555), and Spain and its overseas empire (1556) to </span>Philip II<span>.</span><span>
In December 1961, only a few months after the U.S.-sponsored exile invasion at Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro declared himself a Marxist-Leninist, obligating the Soviet Union to protect his new, vulnerable socialist nation.
A. Ninth The Ninth Amendment was introduced to prevent anyone from assuming that the rights enumerated in the bill of rights were the only protected rights by the Constitution.
