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Havana and April
* Ten thousand Cubans stormed the Peruvian embassy in Havana seeking political asylum on 6 April 1980.
That post office was moved to the hamlet of Havana on April 18, 1860, which was two miles southeast of Oakleys present location.
" Earlier, on 12 September 1731, Rear Admiral Stewart had written to the Governor of Havana to complain of the " violence and villainies " of a Guarda Costa commander named Fandino who, " about the 20th April last sailed out of your harbor in one of those Guarda Costas, and met a ship of this island bound for England ; and after using the captain in a most barbarous inhuman manner, taking all his money, cutting off one of his ears, plundering him of those necessaries which were to carry the ship safe home ...".
Contained within the Admiralty records files with the 1731 correspondence from Jamaica was a List of British Merchant ships taken or plundered by the Spaniards compiled in 1737, listing 52 ships, among them, Rebecca, Robert Jenkins, Jamaica to London, boarded and plundered near the Havana, 9 April 1731.
Nevertheless, days before the invasion, multiple acts of sabotage were carried out, such as the El Encanto fire, an arson attack in a department store in Havana on 13 April, that killed one shop worker.
On 15 April 1961, at about 06: 00 Cuba local time, eight Douglas B-26B Invader bombers in three groups simultaneously attacked three Cuban airfields at San Antonio de los Baños and at Ciudad Libertad ( formerly named Campo Columbia ), both near Havana, plus the Antonio Maceo International Airport at Santiago de Cuba.
On 15 April, the national police, led by Efigenio Ameijeiras, started the process of arresting thousands of suspected anti-revolutionary individuals, and detaining them in provisional locations such as the Karl Marx Theatre, the moat of Fortaleza de la Cabana and the Principe Castle all in Havana, and the baseball park in Matanzas.
Tiarks married in Hamburg on 18 November 1899 Emmie ( Emmy ) Marie Franziska Brödermann of Hamburg, Germany ( 15 February 1875-27 July 1943 ), daughter of Eduard Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 27 February 1842-Hamburg, 28 February 1904 ), merchant, and wife ( Hamburg, 3 May 1872 ) Ramona Luisa Clara Ignacia Störzel ( Grabow, 2 June 1852-Hamburg, 24 June 1939 ); paternal granddaughter of Carl Matthias Brödermann ( Hamburg, 28 April 1789-Eimsbüttel, 10 June 1854 ), a merchant, married firstly in Havana on 16 March 1828 Anna Oom ( Lisbon, 1 September 1787-Hamburg, 28 February 1837 ), and second wife ( Hamburg, 18 December 1838 ) Marianne Kunhardt ( Hamburg, 10 March 1815-Eimsbüttel, 23 February 1882 ) and maternal granddaughter of Heinrich Eduard Störzel ( Grabow, 26 September 1819-Hamburg, 2 April 1885 ) and wife ( Durango, Mexico, 15 December 1847 ) María Ramona Redo Balmaseda ( Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, 14 October 1830-Brannenburg, 23 October 1914 ); and great-granddaughter of Johann Hinrich Brödermann, Bürger and shipbroker, and wife Anna Senglemann, Georg Wilhelm Kunhardt and wife Anna Maria Schultz and Diego Redo and wife María Francisca Balmaseda.
* 5 April — Jess Willard, the latest " Great White Hope ", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th round knockout in sweltering heat at Havana, Cuba.
In the political atmosphere in the U. S. growing out of the Cuban struggle for independence, and following on the February 15, 1898 sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor President William McKinley, on 11 April 1898, asked the Congress,
The program aired over Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and, beginning on April 27, CMQ-TV in Havana, Cuba.
Alfredo de Zayas y Alfonso ( February 21, 1861, Havana, Cuba – April 11, 1934, Havana, Cuba ), usually known as Alfredo de Zayas under Spanish naming customs and also known as Alfredo Zayas, was a Cuban lawyer, poet and political figure.
* April 18 – Two Soviet Navy Tupolev Tu-20 ( NATO reporting name " BEAR D ") reconnaissance / missile-targeting aircraft land at José Martí International Airport outside Havana, Cuba, the first time that any variant of the BEAR has landed outside the Soviet Bloc.
* On April 20, 2008, Cubana de Aviacion flight 201, bound for Havana, had to return to Las Americas, after reporting two of four engines were out of service, and one was on fire.
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Felipe Pérez Roque stated on April 9, 2003, that " The Varela Project is part of a strategy of subversion against Cuba that has been conceived, financed, and directed from abroad with the active participation of the U. S. Interests Section in Havana.
On April 5, 1915 in front of a huge crowd at the new Oriental Park Racetrack in Havana, Cuba, in the 26th round he knocked out champion Jack Johnson to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.
Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven ( April 13, 1865 in Havana, Cuba-August 24, 1951 in Havana, Cuba ) was a Cuban lawyer, professor of Public and Private International Law, Senator to the Cuban Congress, politician and two-time Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague ( 1922 – 1944 ).
On December 1, 1875, Sternberg was promoted major, and in April 1879, he was ordered to Washington, D. C., and detailed with the 1880 Havana Yellow Fever Commission.
In April 2000, she was arrested on felony charges for " throwing deadly missiles " at police during protests in Miami's " Little Havana ," at the height of the Elián González affair.
Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles ( 17 April 1756 Paris – 9 January 1804 Havana ) was the second son of Philippe, duc de Mouchy, and a member of Mouchy branch of the famous Noailles family of the French aristocracy.
Eliseo Castillo ( born April 29, 1975 in Havana, Cuba ) is a professional boxer.

Havana and 19
Flown cover autographed by pilot Cy Caldwell and carried from Key West, Florida | Key West, FL, to Havana, Cuba, on the first contract air mail flight operated by Pan American Airways, Oct 19, 1927
* Order of the Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class ( Russian Orthodox Church, 19 October 2008 )-For the contribution to strengthening inter-religious cooperation in connection with the consecration of the church of Our Lady of Kazan in Havana
Pan Am's first flight took off on October 19, 1927, from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, in a hired Fairchild FC-2 floatplane being delivered to West Indian Aerial Express in the Dominican Republic.
He won at Havana 1967 with a powerful 15 / 19, ahead of a strong group which included Mark Taimanov, Smyslov, Polugaevsky, Gligoric, and Miroslav Filip.
* Havana: The Music of the Cricket by Sheila Burns, The Guardian, May 19, 2009
Lydia Cabrera ( Havana, Cuba, May 20, 1899 – Miami, Florida, September 19, 1991 ) was a Cuban anthropologist and poet.
* U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Willard L. Beaulac ( from Havana ) 19 – 20 June 1952
On 29 September 1850, in Madrid he married his first cousin Antonia Domínguez y Borrell, Guevara y Lemus, 2nd Countess of San Antonio ( Havana, Baptized on 19 March 1831-?
Despite her efforts, however, Maff and Whitmer defeated the Havana Pitbulls for the ROH Tag Team Championship on February 19, 2005.
Whitmer and Lopez captured the ROH Tag Team Championship for a second time at the third ROH anniversary show on February 19, 2005 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, defeating the Havana Pitbulls.
In Havana, power was turned off at noon on September 19 to protect transformers, this also led to the disruption of natural gas lines.

Havana and .
The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.
A Havana radio broadcast identified the Americans as Howard Anderson and August Jack McNair.
The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.
The broadcast said Anderson, a Seattle ex-marine and Havana businessman, and McNair, of Miami, were condemned on charges of smuggling arms to Cuban rebels.
Anderson operated three Havana automobile service stations and was commander of the Havana American Legion post before it disbanded since the start of Fidel Castro's regime.
McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.
Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.
But last week's pirates, like the Cuban-American who recently hijacked an Eastern Airlines Electra ( Newsweek, Aug. 7 ), wanted to go to Havana.
Other FBI men, talking with the pilot from the tower, conspired with him to delay the proposed flight to Havana.
Havana was filled with an excitement which you could see in the brightness of men's eyes and hear in the pitch of their voices.
Rumors flew from lip to lip that Fidel Castro was on his way to Havana, coming from the mountains where he had fought Batista for five years.
I was full of hope as Fidel Castro came into Havana.
Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.
* 1989 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
On March 3, 1923, in Havana, Cuba, Nin married her first husband, Hugh Parker Guiler ( 1898 – 1985 ), a banker and artist, later known as " Ian Hugo " when he became a maker of experimental films in the late 1940s.
They captured a boat carrying 120 barrels of flour out of Havana, and shortly thereafter took 100 barrels of wine from a sloop out of Bermuda.
The Bacardi Building ( Havana ) | Bacardi Building in Havana, Cuba.
In 1930 Schueg opened the art deco Bacardi building in Havana and the third generation of the Bacardí family was entering the business.
The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in the US, which was created by the José Arechebala company which was confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution.
The Havana Club trademark had been registered by the Cuban government in the United States without permission of the rightful owners.
The main brand of rum in Cuba is called Havana Club, a formerly private company nationalized by the government.
Havana Club was not a Bacardi brand, though Bacardi later bought the brand from the original owners, the Arechabala family, who had it seized from them by the Revolutionary Government without compensation.

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