The failure at that time of the Puerto Rican bishops to control the votes of their people added a ring of good sense to Father Weigel's theological argument.

* 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican actress

* 1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican poet ( d. 1880 )

* 1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1984 – Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress

* 1947 – José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist ( d. 1918 )

* 1976 – Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1944 – Antonia Novello, Puerto Rican physician, 14th Surgeon General of the United States

* 1972 – Raul Casanova, Puerto Rican baseball player

There was an additional republican secessionist process in the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia, a Cantonal republican uprising in Murcia and Andalucía, and a constant political tug of war between the Antillean Criollo Spaniards ( Cuban and Puerto Rican ) abolitionists and slavers.

The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.

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.

Upon the American INvasion of Puerto Rico, 10 US dollars were needed to buy 1 Puerto Rican peso.

* 1973 – Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican singer, model and actress

* 1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor

* 1956 – Mark Lutz, Puerto Rican actor

* 1974 – Millie Corretjer, Puerto Rican singer and actress

* 1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 2003 – Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer ( b. 1944 )

Following the evacuation of U. S. Marines in 1925, another violent conflict between liberals and conservatives known as the Constitutionalist War took place in 1926, when Liberal soldiers in the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabezas revolted against Conservative President Adolfo Díaz, recently installed as a result of United States pressure following a coup.

In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War Puerto Ricans were the most decorated Hispanic soldiers and in some cases they were the first to die in combat.

On 17 April 1797, Abercromby, with a force of 7, 000-13, 000 men, which included German mercenary soldiers and Royal Marines and a 60 to 64 ship armada, invaded the island of Puerto Rico.

Vieques was periodically settled by the British, but on each occasion they were driven off by Spanish soldiers from nearby Puerto Rico.

During Spanish rule Spanish soldiers were sent to Cayey, whose cool weather resembled that of Spain, when assigned to Puerto Rico while they acclimated to the tropical weather.

Subsequently, both Spanish and Puerto Rican soldiers and volunteers disengaged and Puerto Rico was annexed by the United States.

Mangold and Penycate claimed that the tunnel rats were almost exclusively White or Hispanic soldiers, and the majority of American Latinos were Puerto Rican or Mexican American.

During this visit to Washington D. C. Gonzalez was also involved in a meeting with Rudy Giuliani and a visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in order to visit Puerto Rican soldiers that were injured in the Iraq War.

Shorty after Sandino returned to Nicaragua, the Constitutionalist War began when Liberal soldiers in the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabezas revolted against Conservative President Adolfo Díaz, recently installed as a result of United States pressure following a coup.

In ¡ Los Soldados Son Así !, he tells about many anecdotes, jokes, and stories of the Boricua ( Puerto Rican ) soldiers, covering the period from when the ancient regiment from Puerto Rico was organized ( which today is the 65 Infantry ) up to the Second World War.

Ribas-Dominicci's name is engraved in " El Monumento de la Recordación " ( Monument of Remembrance ), dedicated to Puerto Rico's fallen soldiers and situated in front of the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

His name is also inscribed in " El Monumento de la Recordación " ( Monument of Remembrance ), dedicated to Puerto Rico's fallen soldiers and situated in front of the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Capt. Eurípides Rubio's name is inscribed in " El Monumento de la Recordación " ( Monument of Remembrance ), dedicated to Puerto Rico's fallen soldiers and situated in front of the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Santiago-Colón's name is also inscribed in " El Monumento de la Recordación " ( Monument of Remembrance ), dedicated to Puerto Rico's fallen soldiers and situated in front of the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

General Nelson Miles and other soldiers on horseback in Puerto Rico.

Some 20, 000 Puerto Rican soldiers were sent to World War I.

In August 2002, a MC-130H airplane carrying seven Puerto Rican National Guard soldiers crashed in the town of Caguas, while en route from Roosevelt Roads to Rafael Hernández Airport in Aguadilla.

Her name along with the others who have perished in Afghanistan and Iraq, was engraved in " El Monumento de la Recordación " ( Monument of Remembrance ), dedicated to Puerto Rico's fallen soldiers and situated in front of the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico

You must attach a statement to your return, if you take advantage of this automatic extension, showing that you were in Alaska or were outside the United States or Puerto Rico on April 15 or other due date.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

In 2004 there were only 17 attacks against the Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, down from 170 in 2001.

It is associated more recently with sightings of an allegedly unknown animal in Puerto Rico ( where these sightings were first reported ), Mexico, and the United States, especially in the latter's Latin American communities.

A few months later, in August, an eyewitness, Madelyne Tolentino, reported seeing the creature in the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas, when as many as 150 farm animals and pets were reportedly killed.

Puerto Rican comedian and entrepreneur Silverio Pérez is credited with coining the term chupacabras soon after the first incidents were reported in the press.

Shortly after the first reported incidents in Puerto Rico, other animal deaths were reported in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Brazil, United States, and Mexico.

Radford revealed that Tolentino " believed that the creatures and events she saw in Species were actually happening in reality in Puerto Rico at the time ," and therefore concludes that " the most important chupacabra description cannot be trusted.

Following the apparent success of the cane toad in eating the beetles threatening the sugarcane plantations of Puerto Rico, and the fruitful introductions into Hawaii and the Philippines, there was a strong push for the cane toad to be released in Australia to negate the pests that were ravaging the Queensland cane fields.

While it was able to establish itself on some islands, such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, other introductions, such as in Cuba before 1900 and in 1946, and on the islands of Dominica and Grand Cayman, were unsuccessful.

By 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made the program available nationwide ; by 2012, CERT programs were offered in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The settlements of La Yaguana, and Bayaja, on the west and north coasts respectively of modern day Haiti were burned, as were the settlements of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata on the north coast and San Juan de la Maguana in the south western area of the modern day Dominican Republic.

* In March 2009, some EDS employees, based in the USA and Puerto Rico, were informed that their salaries would be cut 10 % during the April 2009 pay periods, albeit with no reduction to drop a salary below $ 40, 000 a year.

Many original freestyle artists, and DJs such as Jellybean, Tony Torres, Raul Soto and Roman Ricardo, were of Puerto Rican ancestry, which was one reason for the style's popularity among Latino Americans and Italian Americans, especially in the New York City area.

Cuba gained its independence and Spain lost its remaining New World colony, Puerto Rico, which together with Guam and the Philippines were ceded to the United States for 20 million dollars.

They were not, however, able to expand their control beyond Puerto Caballos and Trujillo, thanks to determined Miskito resistance.

This Nicaragua-assisted invasion by Honduran exiles strongly displeased the United States government, which concluded that Zelaya wanted to dominate the entire Central American region, and the government dispatched marines to Puerto Cortes to protect the banana trade ; US naval units were also sent to Honduras and were able to successfully defend Bonilla's last defense position at Amapala in the Gulfo de Fonseca.

A census of 1899 revealed that northern Honduras had been exporting bananas for several years and that over 1, 000 people in the region between Puerto Cortes and La Ceiba ( and inland as far as San Pedro Sula ) were tending bananas, most of them small holders.

Puerto Ricans of Irish descent were also instrumental in the development of the island's tobacco industry.