Martí signed up at the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura de La Habana ( Professional School for Painting and Sculpture of Havana ) in September 1867, known as San Alejandro, to take drawing classes.

Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.

Martí responded with his formula of “ the army, free ; but the country, as a country with all its dignity represented ,” and convinced Maceo of the high probabilities of success if the war was to be prepared carefully.

On December 31, 1997 a Concorde landed in Cuba for the first time, landing at José Martí Airport.

With Senator Byron Dorgan, Wyden offered an unsuccessful amendment to end funding for TV Martí, an anti-Castro broadcasting project of the U. S. government aimed at Cuba.

Balloons have been flown above Key West, Florida to support the TV transmissions of TV Martí, which are directed at Cuba ( the Cuban government jams the signals ).

Born in Havana, Martí began his political activism at an early age.

José Julián Martí Pérez was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, at 41 Paula St., to a Spanish Valencian father, Mariano Martí Navarro, and Leonor Pérez Cabrera, a native of the Canary Islands.

In Spain, Martí, who was 18 at the time, was allowed to continue his studies with the hopes that studying in Spain would renew his loyalty to Spain.

Arriving at the capital he contacted fellow Cuban Carlos Sauvalle, who had been deported to Spain a year before Martí and whose house served as a center of reunions for Cubans in exile.

José Martí was killed in battle against Spanish troops at the Battle of Dos Ríos, near the confluence of the rivers Contramaestre and Cauto, on May 19, 1895.

José Martí Monument at Esposizione Universale Roma, Rome

Radio Martí was established in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, at the urging of Jorge Mas Canosa, with the mission of fighting communism.

On occasion, the medium wave transmitter at 1180 kHz can be heard as far north as Washington, D. C. TV Martí broadcasts daily programs in Spanish via a transmitter affixed to an aerostat balloon located 10, 000 feet ( 3, 048 m ) above Cudjoe Key, Florida.

The following year, he began working at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí.

Martí i Pol was of humble origin and had to quit studying at 14 years, to start working at a factory.

* Martí i Pol at the AELC ( Association of Writers in Catalan Language ), in Catalan, English and Spanish.

According to published reports, Gerena was transported to Mexico, where he boarded a Cubana de Aviación jet at Mexico City International Airport in Mexico City, arriving at José Martí International Airport in Havana.

He completed his three books on Martí ( none of which were published in his lifetime and one of which remains unpublished ), wrote a work on Balzac, and continued to write poems ( notably his Tres poemas del anochecer -- Three Poems at Dusk -- the last work he published in Sur ).

At times in the 1980s, in order to protest the Reagan administration's Cuba policy and its instigation of the anti-Castro Radio Martí program from the Voice of America, Radio Habana Cuba broadcast briefly on mediumwave frequencies at a greatly boosted power allowing the station to be heard on American AM radios and overwhelming local American AM stations broadcasting on that frequency, including clear channel station WHO in Des Moines, Iowa on 1040 kHz.

RHC no longer transmits on medium waves ( see schedule at RHC's Web site ), even though Radio Martí still transmits from the United States to Cuba on 1180 kHz.

* 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.

* May 27 – An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62M airliner strikes power lines in bad weather and crashes 1 km ( 0. 62 mile ) from José Martí International Airport at Havana, Cuba, while on final approach, killing 68 of the 70 people on board and one person on the ground.

** Martí Joan de Galba, Catalan novelist

Martorell was a chivalrous man and suffered an early death due to court intrigue, leading to a colleague, Martí Joan de Galba, finishing the novel.

In November 1920, he was detained together with Salvador Seguí ( known as El Noi del Sucre ), Martí Barrera, Josep Viadiu, and other trade unionists and was deported to the Castell de la Mola in Mahón, on Menorca.

ca: Bandera de l ' Arc de Sant Martí

A CDR in Old Havana on Paseo de Martí facing Parque Central

The counts of Cerdanya were great patrons of abbeys, most famously Saint-Michel de Cuxa ( Catalan: Sant Miquel de Cuixà ), dating back to the 10th century and located in Conflent, and Saint-Martin-du-Canigou ( Catalan: Sant Martí del Canigó ), dedicated by Count Guifred of Cerdanya in 1009.

José Martí International Airport, sometimes known by its former name Rancho-Boyeros Airport, is located southwest of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación, Aerogaviota and Aero Caribbean, and former Latin American hub for Aeroflot Soviet Airlines.

That year, two days prior to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion organized by the CIA with the participation of Cuban exiles, Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft from Brigade 2506 bombarded José Martí Airport and Antonio Maceo Airport in Santiago de Cuba.

Monturiol died in 1885, in Sant Martí de Provençals, now a suburb of Barcelona.

Martí was the elder brother to seven sisters: Leonor, Mariana, Maria de Carmen, Maria de Pilar, Rita Amelia, Antonia and Dolores.

In 1866, Martí entered the Instituto de Segunda Ensañanza where Mendive financed his studies.

On November 27, 1872, the printed matter Dia 27 de Noviembre de 1871 ( 27 November 1871 ) written by Martí and signed by Fermín Valdés Domínguez, and Pedro J. de la Torre circulated Madrid.

At this point, Martí began collaboration with the newspaper El Socialista as leader of the Gran Círculo Obrero ( Great Labour Circle ) organization of liberals and reformists who supported Lerdo de Tejada.

On June 4, La Sociedad Esperanza de Empleados ( Employees ' Hope Society ) designated Martí as delegate to the Congreso Obrero.

On May 10, socialite María García Granados died of lung disease ; her unrequited love for Martí branded her, poignantly, as ' la niña de Guatemala, la que se murió de amor ' ( the Guatemalan girl who died of love ).

In December 1930, at the height of the country's economic and social depression, Farabundo Martí was once again exiled due to his popularity among the nation's poor and rumors of his upcoming nomination for President the following year.

In addition to his role as a soldier and statesman in the Cuban movement for independence, Maceo was an influential political strategist and military planner, and José Martí is among Cuban leaders who were inspired by Maceo.

He also made five presentations in theaters, among them the Martí theater.