Cuba - Notable Historical Events
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Cuba - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1492-10-28 |
Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain |
1492-11-05 |
Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba |
1519-07-25 |
San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba |
1539-01-14 |
Spain annexes Cuba. |
1628-09-08 |
Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet |
1787-05-17 |
English slave ship Sisters, en route from Africa to Cuba, capsizes killing hundreds |
1800-11-24 |
Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland depart Caracas for Cuba where they met fellow botanist John Fraser |
1829-06-05 |
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. |
1863-03-21 |
Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon |
1868-10-10 |
Cuba revolts for independence against Spain |
1886-10-07 |
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba |
1895-01-31 |
Jose Martí & others leave NYC for invasion of Spanish Cuba |
1896-10-06 |
Jose Rizal was arrested en route to Cuba via Spain and was imprisoned in Barcelona |
1898-04-24 |
Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba |
1898-06-10 |
US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War |
1898-06-11 |
1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War |
1898-06-15 |
US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo, Cuba |
1898-06-24 |
American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba |
1898-07-03 |
US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor, Cuba |
1898-07-17 |
Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba |
1899-01-01 |
Cuba liberated from Spain by US (Natl Day) (US occupies till 1902) |
1899-01-01 |
Spanish rule ends in Cuba. |
1900-11-05 |
Under US military control since the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention |
1901-02-21 |
In Cuba, the constitutional delegates adopt a constitution much like that of the USA |
1901-03-02 |
The United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops. |
1901-06-12 |
In Cuba, the constitutional convention - knowing that the USA will not withdraw its troops until does so - adopts the Platt Amendment as part of its constitution |
1901-12-31 |
In the first election under their new constitution, Cuba elects a Congress and their first president, Tomas Estrada Palma |
1902-05-20 |
Cuba gains independence from Spain |
1902-05-20 |
US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends |
1902-05-20 |
The United States withdraw its troops from Cuba as its first president, Tomas Estrada Palma, is installed |
1902-12-11 |
The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products |
1903-02-23 |
The US and Cuba sign an agreement by which Cuba releases Guantanamo and Bahia Hondo to the US for naval stations |
1904-02-05 |
American occupation of Cuba ends |
1906-02-24 |
Tomas Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba, but Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising |
1906-08-23 |
Cuba's 1st president Tomés Estrada Palma asks for US intervention |
1906-09-28 |
US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909 |
1906-09-29 |
US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma |
1906-10-03 |
US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba |
1908-11-14 |
Liberal candidate Jose Miguel Gomez wins national elections for president in Cuba |
1909-01-28 |
US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time |
1909-02-01 |
US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president; ensuing political instability will bring a threat of US intervention in 1912 |
1911-01-30 |
1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba |
1912-05-31 |
US marines land on Cuba |
1912-06-05 |
US marines invade Cuba (3nd time) |
1914-08-05 |
Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico & Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I |
1916-03-08 |
US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime |
1919-07-04 |
Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard in Cuba for heavyweight championship |
1920-03-08 |
Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations |
1926-10-20 |
Hurricane in Cuba, kills 600 |
1932-11-09 |
Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 |
1939-04-30 |
Tropicana ballet of Havana, Cuba, forms |
1942-08-27 |
Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy |
1949-01-19 |
Cuba recognises Israel. |
1952-03-10 |
Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba |
1953-07-26 |
Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba |
1953-08-01 |
Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba |
1954-11-01 |
General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
1955-11-13 |
1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba |
1956-12-02 |
Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba |
1957-03-13 |
Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba |
1959-01-01 |
Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista flees Cuba for the Dominican Republic |
1959-01-07 |
American gangster Meyer Lansky flees Cuba for the Bahamas due to the Cuban Revolution and rise of Fidel Castro |
1959-02-13 |
Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns |
1959-02-16 |
Fidel Castro names himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista |
1959-04-26 |
Cuba invades Panama |
1960-03-04 |
French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100 |
1960-04-02 |
Cuba buys oil from USSR |
1960-05-08 |
USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations |
1960-06-30 |
US stops sugar import from Cuba |
1960-07-01 |
Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba |
1960-07-22 |
Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories |
1960-09-17 |
Cuba nationalizes US banks |
1960-10-13 |
Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba |
1960-10-19 |
US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba |
1960-10-25 |
Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses |
1960-10-30 |
Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba |
1961-01-03 |
US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
1961-01-05 |
US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
1961-04-30 |
Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize |
1961-05-01 |
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba |
1961-05-01 |
Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba |
1961-07-24 |
Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba |
1961-12-02 |
Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism |
1961-12-23 |
Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies |
1962-01-22 |
The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership. |
1962-02-03 |
President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs |
1962-02-07 |
President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports. |
1962-07-26 |
Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba |
1962-08-29 |
US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba |
1962-10-14 |
US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba |
1962-10-16 |
Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba |
1962-10-22 |
JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba |
1962-10-22 |
JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis |
1962-10-23 |
Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis |
1962-10-24 |
Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins |
1962-10-26 |
JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba |
1962-10-26 |
Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected |
1962-10-27 |
Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba |
1962-10-28 |
Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated |
1962-11-20 |
USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade |
1962-12-21 |
US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive |
1962-12-23 |
Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion |
1963-02-19 |
USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
1963-07-08 |
US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba |
1963-10-04 |
-8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti |
1963-10-09 |
Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000 |
1965-12-01 |
Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began |
1970-07-30 |
-Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas |
1975-08-21 |
US lightens trade embargo against Cuba |
1975-10-23 |
Battle between Cuba & South Africa troops in Angola |
1975-10-26 |
Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball |
1976-02-24 |
Cuba adopts its constitution |
1976-12-02 |
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. |
1977-03-18 |
US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia |
1977-06-03 |
US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations |
1978-07-13 |
Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida |
1981-03-24 |
Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba |
1982-01-23 |
Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date) |
1985-05-20 |
US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti |
1987-08-15 |
US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball |
1987-08-15 |
At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition |
1988-08-07 |
Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty |
1988-08-08 |
Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
1988-09-08 |
Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m |
1989-07-29 |
Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan |
1990-03-27 |
The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime. |
1990-08-06 |
UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
1991-11-21 |
Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba |
1991-11-27 |
Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) |
1992-06-28 |
US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57 |
1993-11-15 |
13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba. |
1994-08-01 |
Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed |
1996-02-24 |
Cuba downs 2 US planes |
1997-05-12 |
Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida |
1997-12-31 |
Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba |
1998-01-21 |
Pope John Paul II visits Cuba |
1998-01-23 |
Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba |
2000-06-28 |
Cuban exile Elián González returns to Cuba following a Supreme Court order. |
2002-05-12 |
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. |
2002-12-08 |
The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba. |
2004-10-25 |
Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8. |
2008-02-24 |
Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. |
2011-04-19 |
Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title. |
2012-10-25 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage |
2013-02-24 |
Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba |
2016-03-01 |
Obama to attend historic baseball game in Cuba |
2016-03-17 |
Obama to Lay Out Vision for Cuba in Historic Havana Speech |
2016-03-20 |
American Firm, Starwood, Signs Deal to Manage Hotels in Cuba |
2016-03-21 |
Obama Lands in Cuba for Historic Visit |
2016-03-21 |
Obama cheered in Havana at start of historic visit to Cuba |
2016-03-22 |
Obama to end Cuba trip with dissident meeting, baseball and hope |
2016-03-22 |
White House says has shared lists of political prisoners with Cuba |
2016-03-26 |
Cuba: Crowds gather for landmark Rolling Stones concert |
2016-03-27 |
Another First for Cuba: A Concert by the Rolling Stones |
2016-05-02 |
US cruise ship travels to Cuba for first time in decades |
2016-09-25 |
China, Cuba agree to deepen ties during PM Li's Havana visit |
2016-11-30 |
Cuba returning Castro's ashes to birthplace of the Revolution |
2016-12-04 |
Cuba to Prohibit Naming of Monuments, Streets After Fidel |
2018-05-20 |
Cuba confirms 110 killed in country's deadliest plane crash since 1989 |
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Cuba - Notable Birthdays
Cuba - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1842-12-22 |
Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet |
1853-01-28 |
Jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician |
1868-06-03 |
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Camagüey Cuba, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever) |
1888-11-19 |
Jose RaulCapablanca, Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27) |
1901-01-16 |
Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59) |
1903-08-14 |
Millard Mitchell, Havana Cuba, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter) |
1908-10-26 |
Aníbal de Mar, ¡Olé... Cuba! |
1910-12-19 |
Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet/novelist |
1913-12-30 |
Nina Nikitina, I Am Cuba |
1914-11-15 |
Jorge Bolet, Havana Cuba, pianist (C'eurties Instituka) |
1917-03-02 |
Desi Arnaz, Santiago Cuba, actor (I Love Lucy) |
1917-12-21 |
Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre) |
1920-02-27 |
Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orchestra leader (Jack Paar Program) |
1922-05-31 |
Denholm Elliott, London, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat) |
1923-10-15 |
Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) |
1926-08-13 |
Fidel Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008) |
1927-10-12 |
Antonia Rey, Havana Cuba, actress (True Colors, Wise Guys) |
1928-05-31 |
Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard) |
1928-07-02 |
Estelita Rodriguez, Cuba, actress (Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose) |
1929-01-10 |
Roberto García York, I Am Cuba |
1929-04-10 |
Barbara Lea, Rebellion in Cuba |
1930-11-25 |
Enrique Oltuski, Cuba: Pictures from the Revolution |
1933-02-15 |
Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan) |
1933-07-18 |
Evgeniy Evtushenko, I Am Cuba |
1934-11-28 |
Carlos Fariñas, I Am Cuba |
1934-12-08 |
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Tell Me Cuba |
1936-01-19 |
Mario Limonta, Barrio Cuba |
1938-07-15 |
Enrique Figuerola Camue, Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1964) |
1939-03-02 |
Sergio Corrieri, I Am Cuba |
1940-11-23 |
Luis Tiant, Cuba, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees) |
1941-05-19 |
Peter Bjarkman, Cuba on Deck? |
1941-07-04 |
Sergio Oliva, Cuba, American body builder (The Myth, IFBB Mr. Olympia, 1967-9), (d. 2012) |
1941-07-18 |
William Delahunt, Tell Me Cuba |
1941-12-14 |
Humberto Solás, Barrio Cuba |
1942-01-29 |
Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38) |
1943-06-24 |
Georg Stanford Brown, Havana Cuba, actor (Terry Webster-Rookies) |
1944-04-27 |
Cuba Gooding, US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool) |
1944-04-27 |
Cuba Gooding, Gedo |
1946-09-02 |
Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor (Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives) |
1947-07-14 |
Assata Shakur, Black and Cuba |
1947-07-28 |
Miguelina Cobian, Santiago Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1947-11-01 |
Rolando Garbey, Oriente Cuba, light MW boxer (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1947-9-14 |
Anna Nicholas, Cuba |
1948-08-30 |
Fred Hampton, Black and Cuba |
1950-02-08 |
Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut |
1950-03-04 |
Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3) |
1950-03-04 |
Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72) |
1950-06-03 |
Marlene Elejarde, Havana Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1950-11-21 |
Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1951-04-15 |
Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality |
1951-08-12 |
Hector Rodriguez, Cuba, lightweight judo (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1951-12-03 |
Danger Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1952-03-29 |
Teofilo Stevenson, Cuba, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80), (d. 2012) |
1952-07-15 |
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Tell Me Cuba |
1952-08-02 |
Angel Herrera, Cuba, FW/LW boxer (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1953-07-11 |
Peter Bergman, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, actor (Eat or Be Eaten) |
1954-09-20 |
Silvio Leonard, Cienguegos Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1980) |
1956-02-15 |
Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara |
1956-03-19 |
Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel |
1956-04-12 |
Andy Garcia, Cuba, actor (Stand & Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die) |
1956-12-02 |
Steven Bauer, Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts) |
1957-03-10 |
Adolfo Horta, Camaguey Cuba, HW boxer (Olympic-silver-1980) |
1957-06-29 |
Maria Conchita Alonso, Cuba, actress (Moscow on the Hudson) |
1957-09-23 |
Tony Fossas, Cuba, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals) |
1957-12-06 |
Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980) |
1958-03-25 |
Maria Caridad Colón, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1958-09-17 |
Daniel Nunez, Cuba, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1959-12-14 |
Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer |
1961-05-09 |
Rene Capo, Pinal del Rio Cuba, half-heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96) |
1963-03-23 |
Ana Quirot, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96) |
1963-05-27 |
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba |
1964-01-28 |
Isabel Moreno, I Am Cuba |
1964-06-06 |
Juan Cuba, Alone in the Dark 7 |
1964-07-02 |
Jose Canseco, Havana Cuba, outfielder (Oak A's, Red Sox, 1988 AL MVP) |
1964-09-24 |
Rafael Palmeiro, Havana Cuba, 1st baseman (Baltimore Orioles) |
1966-07-23 |
Thomas E. Blessing IV, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil |
1967-03-27 |
Elizabeth Schub, Cuba 15 |
1967-04-12 |
Mellow Man Ace, Cuba, spanish rapper/actor (Only the Strong) |
1968-01-02 |
Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) |
1968-01-02 |
Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire |
1968-11-04 |
Osvaldo Fernandez, Holguin Cuba, pitcher (SF Giants) |
1969-05-18 |
Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers) |
1972-01-11 |
Rey Ordonez, Havana Cuba, infielder (NY Mets) |
1972-12-17 |
Ivan Pedroso, Cuba, long jumper (Olympics-4th-92) |
1973-01-18 |
Joe Kehoskie, Cuba on Deck? |
1982-10-09 |
David Yakir, Flying Over Cuba |
Cuba - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1923-03-23 |
Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, Cuba |
1994-03-13 |
Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26) |
Cuba - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1908-11-04 |
Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies |
1962-10-27 |
Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba |
1985-11-11 |
Leopoldo Fernández, ¡Olé... Cuba! |
1996-05-03 |
Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71 |
2000-09-17 |
Nina Nikitina, I Am Cuba |
2005-01-26 |
Roberto García York, I Am Cuba |
2008-02-29 |
Sergio Corrieri, I Am Cuba |
2008-09-17 |
Humberto Solás, Barrio Cuba |
2009-02-15 |
Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931) |
2011-12-26 |
Barbara Lea, Rebellion in Cuba |
2012-10-26 |
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Tell Me Cuba |
2012-12-16 |
Enrique Oltuski, Cuba: Pictures from the Revolution |
2014-02-03 |
Anna Nicholas, Cuba |
2017-03-28 |
Fidel Castro's sister dies in Cuba aged 78 following complications from recent hip surgery |
2017-04-21 |
Cuba Gooding Sr Dead: Cuba Gooding Jr's Dad Dies, Aged 72 |
