Complex sentence: It suddenly weakened to a Category 2 hurricane just before making landfall near Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba that evening, making it striking on the same day and within the same area as the 1932 Cuba Hurricane did 76 years earlier.
Split into simpler sentences: It suddenly weakened to a Category 2 hurricane just before making landfall near Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba that evening. Paloma stuck the same area on the same day, and around the same time that the 1932 Cuba Hurricane did 76 years earlier.