* August 24 – A group of armed Cuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel in Havana from a speedboat.

Already, Fidel Castro was known as, and addressed as, the commander-in-chief of Cuban armed forces, with a nominal base at ' Point One ' in Havana.

However, since he knew that Pensacola was strongly defended, and armed with powerful cannons, he again requested large-scale naval support from Havana.

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.

A billboard in Havana promoting the ongoing socialist revolution

Prior to the Cuban revolution of 1959, there were regular ferry and airplane services between Key West and Havana.

On October 3, 1965, Ben Barka declared in a press conference prior to the Havana conference that the " two currents of the world revolution would be represented there: the current born with the October Revolution and the national liberation revolutions ' currents.

With his newfound wealth, LaRue invested in many failed business ventures including casinos in Havana, just prior to the revolution, and Las Vegas.

Filming was done in Cuba, and ended just the day before Fidel Castro entered Havana and declared the victory of the revolution.

The final part shows how Mariano, a typical farmer, ends up joining the rebels in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, ultimately leading to triumphal march into Havana to proclaim the revolution.

" Hemingway put the manuscript in a safe-deposit box in Havana, although after the 1959 Cuban revolution he feared the manuscript lost.

Despite this, and even as Castro's rebels began to overthrow Havana two years later, Trafficante was heard to insist that the revolution was, " a temporary storm " that would " blow over.

Abel and his sister Haydee let revolutionaries like Fidel Castro use their tiny two-room apartment on the corner of O and 25th streets in Havana to plan the revolution.

After the Cuban revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro in 1959, Grau retired to his home in Havana, where he died on July 28, 1969.

After the Cuban revolution of early 1959, Hemingway was on good terms with the Cuban government, and even officially presented a trophy in Havana in the summer of 1960 to Castro, for winning a sport fishing contest named for Hemingway.

The three original DeCastro Sisters — Peggy, Cherie and Babette — were raised in Havana in a family mansion that was seized by Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution and is now used as the Chinese Embassy.

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.

Mérida has one of the largest centro historico districts in the Americas ( surpassed only by Mexico City and Havana, Cuba ).

If there were sharp contradictions in Cuban society under the Autenticos, the circumstances differed only in degree from the complexities and dynamics encountered in free societies everywhere ( how often did Cubans compare Havana with Chicago?

In the early days of the post-Revolution era, Union City boasted the nation's largest Cuban population, second only to Miami, Florida, leading to the nickname " Havana on the Hudson ".

Pop success wasn't forthcoming however, with singles " Sister Havana " and " Positive Bleeding " receiving only limited airplay.

Their only live performance was on 3 March 1979 at the Havana Jam Festival ( 2 – 4 March 1979 ) in Cuba, part of a US State Department sponsored visit to Cuba.

They only played one concert, at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Cuba on 3 March 1979, as part of the Havana Jam festival.

While the aim was to produce a series to distribute to the entirety of Latin America, the company halted production after six months due to unforeseen production difficulties ( At the time, Mexican television programming was scarce and often improvised, unlike the American-influenced Cuban market, apart from the fact that Mexican broadcasters weren't interested in foreign production ) and market considerations ( Until 1960, most South American countries did not have television services or supermarkets — by 1953, the only ones in the region were located in Havana -).

Pauline and Hemingway divorced in 1939, and Hemingway only occasionally visited while returning from Havana until his suicide in 1961.

In the late 1990s, there were only 12 Cat Fanciers ' Association-registered Havana Brown catteries and under 130 unaltered cats.

Shared with the Tribune Co., their Havana newsroom is the only permanent presence of any South Florida newspaper.

He lives in the world of pre-Castro Havana, and the Cuban Revolution only appears as a secondary plot.

Chef Garcia not only created the culinary programs but also oversees the kitchens at a number of his properties throughout New York City including Calle Ocho, the Copacabana Supper Club, the VIP food service at the Copacabana Nightclub, Barrio, Havana Café, Havana Room, Open Book Café at the Brooklyn Public Library, Cabana Bar and Rooftop 760.

Tactically, she was initially invaluable to Guevara's guerrillas because she used radio equipment hidden in a compartment behind the wall in her apartment to not only send coded messages to Fidel Castro in Havana ; but to Guevara's guerrillas in the field by posing as a radiohost giving encoded relationship advice to fictitious lovelorn couples.

The city of Havana recognized his influence in the project to remodel the city's historical district ( similar to Alegría's work in Old San Juan ) by honoring him with a plaque, which, while he was alive, was the only monument honoring a living Puerto Rican in the entire city.

He scored Canada's first and only goal from a header in a 1-0 win against Cuba in Havana, during the opening match of the semi-final round of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Led Nassau 1959 ( Shelby DNF Mechanical ), Porsche RSK 2 Liter winner ( Bonnier ), GT winner Porsche Carerra ( Cuevas ); 1960 1, 000 km Buenos Aires ( Gurney / Gregory DNF Mechanical and accident ); Argentine GP ( Gregory Behra-Porsche ); Havana GP for Sports Cars – 8 car entre, winning overall Moss Maserati, 2 Liter Gregory Porsche RSK, GT Corvette Jeffords, under 2 liter GT Cuevas Porsche Carerra ; Sebring 12 hour, largest team entry ever of 8 cars, 3 Mazeratis ( Gurney / Moss led 8 hours DNF Mechanical ), 2 Porsche Carerras ( under 2 liter GT winner and 2nd OA GT Sheppard / Dungan ), 2 Corvettes Jeffords / Weustoff / Gamble ( Gamble drove 12 hours solo – only one of two known to have done this – earned press notice as “ iron man Gamble ”).

Within a few years, Trafficante owned or held stakes in both The Tropicana and The Sans Souci ( the only casinos which been operating in Havana for several years prior to 1955 ).

Rosie Ruiz Vivas ( born 1953, Havana, Cuba ) is a Cuban American who achieved notoriety when she was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped after it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.

His next postings were results of the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, as he was named Bishop of Havana in 1900, serving only briefly, before the Holy See named him Apostolic Delegate Extraordinary to settle an urgent matter in the Philippines.

The cities are Chicago and Havana, which are both immediately open for ' TAKE A RIDE ' mode, Las Vegas, which can only be accessed once missions are complete for the first two cities, and Rio de Janeiro, only accessible after completing the Las Vegas missions.

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.

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.

The Cuban government in partnership with French company Pernod Ricard, sells its Havana Club internationally, except for the United States and its territories.

Facing increased competition in the rum market from the now international brand Havana Club, the company concluded that it was important for sales to associate its rum with Cuba.

In 1762, Havana was briefly occupied by Great Britain, before being returned to Spain in exchange for Florida.

On 18 July 2007 it was reported that Cuba will receive 100 urban buses from Belarus before years end, destined for use in Havana.

One account claims that the drink ( Spanish for Free Cuba ) was invented in Havana, Cuba around 1901 / 1902.

In another move, which would destroy Hispaniola's sugar industry, in 1561 Havana, more strategically located in relation to the Gulf Stream, was selected as the designated stopping point for the merchant flotas, which had a royal monopoly on commerce with the Americas.

Plans were developed for the Davis government to flee to Havana, Cuba.

Former President Uribe has criticized Santos for seeking peace " at any cost " and rejected the idea of holding talks .< Ref > http :// www. aljazeera. com / news / americas / 2012 / 08 / 20128280155953340. html </ ref > Telesur reported that FARC and the Colombian government had signed a preliminary agreement in Havana the same day.

The first round of the talks will take place in Oslo on 5 October and then return to Havana < Ref name =" BBC peace "> for approximately six months of talks before culminating in Colombia.

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

Ten days after the battleship Maine exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, the Secretary left for a massage, and Roosevelt became Acting Secretary for four hours.

* February 15 – Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor, Cuba, for then-unknown reasons, killing 266 men.

* October 18 – The first flight of Pan American Airways takes off from Key West, Florida, bound for Havana, Cuba.

* A Cuban Skirmish for Rice by Isbel Diaz Torres, Havana Times, June 16, 2010

New names for cigars include " Jules ", " Havana ", " Vitole " and " Puro ".

* July 24 – A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under General Don Juan Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain.

France ceded French Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to its ally Spain in compensation for Spain's loss to Britain of Florida ( which Spain had ceded to Britain in exchange for the return of Havana, Cuba ).

Rogers sent four of his ships to Havana to assure the Spanish governor that Rogers was suppressing piracy in the Bahamas and to trade for supplies.

However, caoba, as the Spanish called the wood, was principally reserved for ship building, and it was declared a royal monopoly at Havana in 1622.

Cast of an American cabaret A Little Tribute Westward with Helena Mattsson and Wild Side Story # Additional showings 2002 – 2004 | Patrik Hont do " Havana for a Night " at the Blue Moon Bar in Stockholm in 2003.

Soon after the ceremony, Anthony departs for Havana to save Bonnyfeather's fortune.