Given the question: Facts: - caption: congressman miranda -lrb- right -rrb- robert garcia -lrb- left -rrb- with rafael cancel - party: puerto rican nationalist party - birth date: 18 july 1930 - name: rafael cancel miranda - movement: puerto rican independence - footnotes: cancel alcatraz '' miranda was the only nationalist jailed in '' - image: robert garcia visiting rafael cancel miranda.jpg - birth place: mayaguez , puerto rico - religion: roman catholicism Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rafael cancel miranda .
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rafael cancel miranda -lrb- born july 18 , 1930 -rrb- is a political activist , member of the puerto rican nationalist party and an advocate of puerto rican independence .on march 1 , 1954 , miranda together with fellow nationalists lolita lebron , andres figueroa cordero , and irving flores rodriguez entered the united states capitol building armed with automatic pistols and fired 30 shots .five congressmen were hit , however all the representatives survived and cancel miranda , along with the other three members of his group were immediately arrested .cancel miranda was the only nationalist out of the four to have been jailed in alcatraz federal penitentiary , a federal bureau of prisons federal prison .