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Guillermo Portela
Guillermo Portela y Möller (born November 1, 1886–1958) was a lawyer, law professor and member of the Pentarchy of 1933. Early History Guillermo Portela was born in La Habana, Cuba. He was the head of a law firm in Havana and professor of Criminal Law at the University of Havana. Politics In the early 1930s, Portela spent two years in prison for defending student opponents of deposed President Gerardo Machado. He was hospitalized for two months following his release. The university professor sought recovery in Hendersonville, North Carolina, during the winter of 1932 and stayed there for five months and a few weeks during the summer. With the fall of the Machado regime in 1933, he made his way back to Cuba. Pentarchy of 1933 As one of the five members of the Executive Commission of the Provisional Government of Cuba appointed on September 5, 1933, Portela served alongside José Irisarri, Porfirio Franca, Ramón Grau, and Sergio Carbó. The position of Minister of Justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Grau
Ramón Grau San Martín (; 13 September 1881 – 28 July 1969) was a Cuban physician who served as President of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1948. He was the last president (other than Carlos Manuel Piedra who was interim president for one day) born during Spanish rule. He is sometimes called Raymond Grau San Martin in English. Background His parents were Francisco Grau Vinals and Pilar San Martin y del Collado. Grau's father, a rich tobacco grower, wanted Ramón to continue in his footsteps, but Ramón himself wanted to be a doctor. He studied at the University of Havana and graduated in 1908 with a Doctor of Medicine degree, then expatriated to Europe in order to expand his medical knowledge. He returned to Cuba in 1921 and became a professor of physiology at the University of Havana. In the 1920s, he was involved with the student protests against then-President Gerardo Machado, and was jailed in 1931. Upon his release he was exiled from Cuba, temporarily migra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite to form the United Arab Republic. * February 2 – The ''Falcons'' aerobatic team of the Pakistan Air Force led by Wg Cdr Zafar Masud (air commodore), Mitty Masud set a World record loop, world record performing a 16 aircraft diamon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Births
Events January * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). February * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Revolutionaries
Cuban or Cubans may refer to: Related to Cuba * of or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Culture of Cuba * Cuban cigar * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * * Kuban (other) * List of Cubans * Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Boys, a British music act * Cuban eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver * Cuban Missile Crisis * Cubane Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon compound with the Chemical formula, formula . It consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube (geometry), cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substanc ..., a synthetic hyd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orquesta Casino De La Playa
Orquesta Casino de la Playa, founded in 1937 in Havana, Cuba, was a band that bridged Cuban popular music and the sound of American Jazz Big Bands. It was led by tres player Arsenio Rodríguez, and launched the career of many important musicians in Cuban music. The group took its name from the name of the casino where they worked. In 1948, it relocated to Mexico City. History In the middle of 1937, RCA Victor made a variety of recordings in Havana with more than 20 groups with different formats. The Orquesta Casino de la Playa recorded six numbers, and among this songs they performed a version of Arsenio Rodríguez' " Bruca maniguá". With this recording, they began their growth in and outside of Cuba. Between 1937 and 1939, the band recorded over 60 songs and made several tours all along América. In 1941, the director of the orchestra Anselmo Sacasas and the singer Miguelito Valdés abandoned the band and traveled to the United States to develop their own projects. Sacasas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Junta
A military junta () is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term ''Junta (governing body), junta'' means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the Junta (Peninsular War), national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Peninsular War, Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808.Junta ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (last updated 1998). The term is now used to refer to an authoritarian form of government characterized by oligarchic military dictatorship, as distinguished from other categories of authoritarian rule, specifically Strongman (politics), strongman (autocratic military dictatorships); machine (oligarchic party dictatorships); and bossism (autocratic party dictatorships). A junta often comes to power as a result of a coup d'état. The junta may either formally take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Carbó
Sergio Carbó (born 1891 - April 18, 1971) was a prominent Conservative journalist and leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, Cuban Revolutionary party. Early history Sergio Carbó was born in the La Habana Province of Cuba. Journalism Sergio Carbó was the founder and the editor-in-chief of ''La Semana'', a weekly political commentary journal, in 1925. He started ''Zig-Zag'' in 1938 which was later re-established in Miami in 1960. From 1941 to 1960, he was the owner and director of the daily Havana newspaper ''Prensa Libre (Cuba), Prensa Libre''. Carbó had been detained in the political prison at La Cabaña, La Cabaña Fortress in January 1931, for publishing content in his newspaper, ''La Semana'', that the government found objectionable prior to his eventual release in February 1931. Rise to power Revolutionary expedition In May 1931, Carbó and Carlos Hevia equipped and led an expeditionary force from the United States which landed in Gíbara, a small community in the Ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porfirio Franca
Porfirio Franca y Álvarez de la Campa (18781950) was a Cuban Conservative business man, banker and a member of the Pentarchy of 1933. Early history Porfirio Franca was born in Havana, Cuba in 1878. In 1902, Franca was founding member of the Vedado Tennis Club in Vedado which he presided over for 15 years. He managed the local Havana branch of the National City Bank of New York and was director of the Central Bank of Cuba, Banco Nacional de Cuba.Benjamin, J. R. (1977). The United States and Cuba: Hegemony and Dependent Development, 1880–1934. United States: University of Pittsburgh Press. In 1923, the International Olympic Committee, International Olympic Committee (IOC) elected Porfirio Franca, who held the Cuban seat until 1938. He was instrumental in staging the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana. Politics After Gerardo Machado was deposed on August 12, 1933, Franca declined to accept an offer as the Secretary of the Treasury under the incoming Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Habana, Cuba
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Irisarri
José Miguel Irisarri y Gamio (born 1895 - 1968) was a lawyer and a member of the Pentarchy of 1933. Biography Early life José Miguel Irisarri y Gamio was born in Abreus, Santa Clara Province (now Cienfuegos Province), Spanish Cuba, on August 31, 1895. He completed his early studies in Spain. From 1923 to 1924, he participated in the Veterans' And Patriots' Movement led by Carlos García Vélez in opposition to the Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso administration. He was educated as a lawyer. On January 17, 1930, he participated in a debate at the Havana Bar Association. Politics Irisarri was an early member of the Directorio Estudiantil Universitario () established at the University of Havana. For rejecting the presidency of a Gerardo Machado electoral district, he was imprisoned for two years in Castillo del Príncipe on the Isle of Pines. He went into exile in May 1931 and returned to Cuba amid the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada presidency. During this period, Sumner Welles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
