Adding posts to a static page

I have looked all over this site for an answer I can use. That being said there seems to be a lot of solutions, but I am such a novice at this that most of it goes over my head……

I want to add recent posts to my static home page. under the section that says “Upcoming Events”

Someone on one of the forums suggested using the following code information.:
“The easiest way to do this is adding to your static page a get_posts call.
Here’s one example of a minimal Loop of that kind :

<?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&category=1');
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
 ?>
 <?php the_title(); ?>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>"

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The problem is I dont know where to put this code to show up on my page where I want it.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Thank you.

Richard