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On July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong passed away at his home in Queens, NY. Two days later, more than 30,000 came to pay their respects to the beloved jazz legend. Louis Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
Revolutionaries reunited: Fidel Castro's ashes spend the night in Che Guevara's mausoleum on their way to his final burial place. Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died and was cremated last Friday. His ashes are being taken on a three-day tour of the Caribbean island. He will be interred in Santiago de Cuba where he declared victory in 1959. Thousands of mourners have lined the route of the 500-mile funeral route.