There was US support behind the group that assassinated Trujillo.

Henry Dearborn ran communications between the opposition group and the CIA during the assassination attempt and its build up.

The assassins had a spy in Trujillo's garage so they knew when they could catch him on the road alone.

Rafael started his brutal attacks when the oldest daughter was only six years old.

There parents were farmers and shop owners

Trujillo captured them before but released them because he thought the women deserved a "leniency"

He was attacked by a big group of people who wanted reforms.

After Trujillo left, the Dominican Republic trended more towards democracy.

The U.S. made a heavy request for Trujillo to stop the killing.

Trujillo took control when the oldest, Patria, was only six.

Minerva rejected Trujillo at his party that they were invited to, in retaliation he arrested the Mirabals and seized their property.

the Mirables death solidified the movement and Trujillos reign was quickly ended afterwards when he was assassinated.

The Mirabal sisters were kidnapped at gun point and beaten to death.

Minerva and her husband were the resistance leaders.

Dede Mirabal survived the regime and raised her sisters children.

Their parents managed a coffee mill and general store.

The mirabal sisters joined the resistance in 1949

They helped form the 14th of June movement

The sisters parents, were arrested, when Minerva decided to ignore the dictator's request to dance with him.

Minerva attended and graduated from law school, becoming one of the first women in the country to receive a law degree.

The armed men tried to cover up the sisters death as a car accident, by putting them back in the car and pushing it off a cliff.

Trujillo entered the Dominican army in 1918 and was trained by the US Marines during the US occupation of the country.

Trujillo seized power in the military revolt against Pres. Horacio Vásquez in 1930.

He was nicknamed El Jefe (The Boss.

Before the real story came out, they were supposedly killed in an "automobile accident.

The sisters grew up in the town of Ojo de Agua, where their parents owned and operated a farm, a general store, and a coffee mill.

They helped form the 14th of June Movement, which caused Trujillo to start arresting many, including their husbands, who were on their way to visit and were brutally murdered.

Baseball was introduced to the Dominican Republic in the late 19th century.

The first documented game happened on September 25, 1886, between two Cuban teams.

The professional league called LIDOM was established in 1955, which marked a huge milestone for baseball in the Dominican Republic.

Baseball was introduced to the Dominicans in the 19th century

The first recorded game in the Dominican Republic was on September 25, 1886

The baseball professional league in the Dominican Republic is called Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana

He was the third child out of 11 children and they lived in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic.

After Six years in presidency he renamed the capital Cuidad Trujillo in his honor, along with thousands of other streets, monuments and landmarks throughout the country.

During the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic from 1916 to 1924, Trujillo joined the Constabulary Guard and was trained by U.S. Marines.

The three sisters were named Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa. Also known as the butterfly sisters.

They engaged in resistance activities against Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship, which led to their brutal deaths.

On January 6, 1959, at a small gathering to celebrate the new year, the sisters and their husbands decided to create a nationwide anti-Trujillo movement. By the end of 1959, the sisters’ movement had acquired a formal structure.

Since November 1999, every 25th of November has been called International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in memory of the sisters.

The Hermanas Mirabal Foundation, founded on November 12, 1992, to immortalize “Las Mariposas, created the Hermanas Mirabal Museum on December 8, 1994.

 Dedé, the last survivor of the Mirabal sisters, wrote her first and only book, entitled “Living in the Garden,” published on August 25, 2009.

Minerva had to dance with Trujillo at the San Cristóbal. After she left him standing on the dance foor her, and her mom was taken to have an interview with the Trujillos.

The Minerva was supposed to have women's jobs after highschool such as cooking and cleaning. But one sister went to law school and influenced more girls to also go to law school witch stated protests between men and women.

Minerva was denied her second year at law school by Trujillo for first disobeying his rules and by causeing comotion with others. So she couldnt go back to school unless she wrote a speech praising Trujillo

He only received an elementary education.

Some of the 7 assassins were his own armed troops.

The punishment for killing 20,000 Haitians was that he had to pay $525,000 to the Haitian government.