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98 unusual facts about Havana


10803 Caléyo

It is named after Jose M. Caléyo, a jazz musician from Havana, Cuba, who was inspired after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki.

1979 in Afghanistan

Taraki leaves for Havana, Cuba, to represent Afghanistan at the sixth summit conference of nonaligned nations, leaving the government in the hands of Amin.

Adolfo Pichardo

Adolfo Pichardo (Havana, October 1939) is a Cuban pianist, conductor, arranger, and composer.

Aldo Rafael Forte

Aldo Rafael Forte (b. Havana, Cuba, 1953 ) is a renowned American composer of Cuban descent .

Alonso Brito

Alonso Brito (born 1950) is a Latin, alternative, salsa singer, songwriter born in Havana, Cuba.

Arkadi Maslow

On 20 November 1941, Maslow was found dead on a street in Havana.

Asuncion Lavrin

Asunción Lavrin (born 1935, Havana, Cuba) is an award-winning historian and author with more than 100 publications on topics of gender and women's studies in colonial and contemporary Latin America and religion and spirituality in Colonial Mexico.

Bonnie Bramlett

In 1979, Bonnie Bramlett travelled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival that took place between 2–4 March, alongside Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Weather Report, Mike Finnegan, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel, plus an array of Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.

Camillo Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Candriano

Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, January 10, 1882 – Havana, September 5, 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella.

Carl David Tolmé Runge

He spent the first few years of his life in Havana, where his father Julius Runge was the Danish consul.

Charles DeForest Fredricks

During the latter half of the decade he operated a studio in Havana.

Charles Warren Currier

In Rome, on July 6, 1913, he was consecrated by Cardinal Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M., and assisted by Domenico Serafini, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia Pieria, and Donato Sbarretti, Titular Archbishop of Efeso, Bishop Emeritus of Havana.

Colony Sports Club

Following the end of syndicate gambling operations in Havana by the Castro government in 1959, Lansky sought to expand his operations elsewhere.

Conjunto Chappottin

Conjunto Chappottín is a Cuban Son band from Havana under the direction of the trumpet player, arranger and musical director Jesus Angel Chappotín Coto and the percussionist and singer Miguel Cuni jr..

Cuban rock

A bronze statue of John Lennon has been placed in a Havana park.

Cyril of Barcelona

He failed to restore ecclesiastical discipline, and displeased both Charles III and Trespalacios, Bishop of Havana, to whose care the mission was committed since 1787.

Dania Virgen García

She is a native Cuban, having been born in the capital city, Havana.

Daniel D. Badger

Badger's Architectural Iron Works sent prefabricated cast-iron elements as far afield as Havana and Cairo.

Daniela Nuțu-Gajić

She scored 8.5/13 and finished equal third, with Pia Cramling and Nana Ioseliani, in the Interzonal in Havana 1985, but Cramling won the play-off matches and qualified into the Candidates Tournament ahead of her.

Duvier del Dago Fernandez

Passionate with drawings, Duvier del Dago Fernandez entered the art school of Trinidad, before graduating from the prestigious Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana.

Edward S. Bragg

He was appointed consul general in Havana, Cuba in May, 1902, and in Hong Kong, then a British crown colony, in September, 1902, serving from 1903 to 1906.

Enrique Jorrín

At an early age, his family moved to the El Cerro neighborhood of Havana, where Jorrín was to live for the rest of his life.

Ernesto Oroza


Oroza was co-founder (1999) of Laboratory Maldeojo (with Fabian Martinez and Nelson Rossell), member until 2004 (Havana, Cuba) and co-founder (1995) of Ordo Amoris Cabinet (with Diango Hernandez, Juan Bernal, Abel Francis), member until 1996 (Havana, Cuba)

Eusebio Leal

Eusebio Leal Spengler, (born 11 September 1942, in Havana, Cuba), is the Havana City Historian, director of the restoration program of Old Havana and its historical center, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Deputy to the National Assembly of the Popular Power in the IV, V and VI Legislature, Ambassador of Good Will of the United Nations, the University of Havana and has his masters in Latin American, Caribbean, and Cuban Studies.

Francisco Centelles

Juan Francisco Centelles Aizpurúa (born January 26, 1961 in Playa, Ciudad de la Habana) is a retired male high jumper from Cuba.

Geles Cabrera

She studied in the San Carlos Academy in her native city and in the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba.

George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle

General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle KG PC (London, 8 April 1724 – 13 October 1772), styled Viscount Bury until 1754, was a British soldier nobleman best known for his capture of Havana in 1762 during the Seven Years' War.

After a difficult siege, wherein the troops suffered heavily from yellow fever, Havana Morro Castle was taken and Havana fell into British hands.

Glenda Leon

She has also studied Classical Ballet and Philology at the University of Havana, where she got a BA in Art History.

Havana, Arkansas

Arkansas Scenic State Highway 309 leads from Havana to the top of Mount Magazine, home of Arkansas's newest State Park, and the highest peak in Arkansas.

Herlinda Sanchez Laurel

Her collective shows have been in Mexico and abroad, with foreign shows sponsored by the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes and various Mexican embassies in North America, Europe and Asia, along with biennales such as the first Bienal de Artes Plásticas de América Latina y el Caribe in Havana and the Bienal Rufino Tamayo.

History of Havana

Later, they emigrated towards Miramar, and today, evermore to the west, they have settled in Siboney.

Throughout the century, Havana was enriched by the construction of additional cultural facilities, such as the Tacon Teatre, one of the most luxurious in the world, the Artistic and Literary Liceo (Lyceum) and the theater Coliseo (Colosseum).

History of slavery in Louisiana

At the end of the trial 23 slaves were hanged, 31 slaves received a sentence of flogging and hard labour and the three white men were deported, with two being sentenced to six years forced labour in Havana.

Hostosian National Independence Movement

The MINH also operates various "Puerto Rico Missions", of which the most important is located in Havana, Cuba.

Isabel Gomez-Bassols

Isabel Gomez-Bassols was born in a Havana hospital on December 17, 1943 of a Cuban mother; Maria Gomez-Bassols and a Galician born father; Manuel Alvarez.

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (born October 18, 1936 in Jagüey Grande, Matanzas, Cuba) is the Latin Rite Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Havana and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Jake Bern

Also, he has acted in many theatrical productions world-wide, including the Apollo Theater in New York City, Theatro Nacional in Havana, Cuba, and Campus Jussieu in Paris, France.

Jane Delgado

Delgado was born in Havana, Cuba and immigrated with her mother, father, and sister to Brooklyn, New York in 1955.

Jean Jules Linden

A mere six months later, in September 1837, the same trio left Le Havre and reached Havana in December.

Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier

In 1925, Forestier moved to Havana for five years to collaborate with architects and landscape designers.

Jesús Alonso Fernández

Jesús Alonso Fernández, better known as Chus Alonso (born April 24, 1917 in Havana, Cuba - died August 9, 1979 in Madrid, Spain) was a Cuban-born, naturalized Spanish association football player.

John E. Leonard

He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Havana, Cuba, while vacationing with several other Washington leaders on March 15, 1878.

José Domínguez Rodríguez

Bishop José Maximino Eusebio Domínguez y Rodríguez (29 May 1915 in Havana, Cuba - 11 December 1986 in Matanzas, Cuba) was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas (1961–1987) and Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Havana (1960–1961).

José Luis Cuevas

These include honorary doctorates from Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (1984), the Universidad Veracruzana (2004), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2007) and the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Casa de las Américas in Havana (2008).

Juan Carlos Bersague

He took a degree in Choral Conducting at the renomed Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte (National Academy of Arts Instructors) and at the Centro Nacional de la Enseñanza Artística (National Center for Artistic Teaching), both in Havana, with Mtros.

Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti

Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti (born November 18, 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban film director.

Karen Klinger

Klinger competed for the United States at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, where she was a member of the women's quad that won a gold medal.

Kelvis Ochoa

After having moved to Havana in 1992 and formed a rock band called Cuatro Gatos (Four Cats), Kelvis Ochoa’s big break came when he met two Cuban musicians : Gema Corredera and Pável Urkiza.

At the age of 3 his parents moved to Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth") where he grew up, situated about 100 kilometers south of the Havana, Cuba shore.

Kit Bakke

Bakke went to Havana, Cuba, for eight days in July 1969 to meet with the members of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Provisional Revolutionary Government to discuss the opposition movements going on in the United States.

Leo Brouwer

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939 in Havana) is a Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist.

Leon Trotsky Museum, Mexico City

According to some later reports, he eventually died of cancer in Havana .

Leonel Maciel

His work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte in Havana, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Managua, Nicaragua, the Modern Art Museum in Reijkiavik and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst

Other museums and institutions bearing the name Ludwig are located in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Koblenz, Cologne, Oberhausen, Saarlouis, Beijing, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Havana.

Luigi Arditi

Arditi conducted opera throughout Italy and in 1846 found himself conducting as far afield as Havana, Cuba.

Luis Cruz Azaceta

As a teenager, he witnessed many acts of violence on the streets of Havana: bombs in stores, cinemas and theaters; shoot-outs, arrests and torture of citizens by Batista secret police.

Luis Enrique Camejo

From 1982 to 1986, Luis Enrique Camejo attended the lessons of the Pinar del Río School of Art, before entering the National Art School in Havana from 1986 to 1990.

Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt

He received his episcopal consecration on February 24, 1942 from Archbishop Giorgio Caruana, with Archbishop Manuel Zubizarreta y Unamunsaga, OCD, and Bishop Eduardo Martínez y Dalmau, CP, serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Havana.

On December 28, 1941, Arteaga was appointed Archbishop of Havana and thus Primate of the Church in Cuba by Pope Pius XII.

He served as Archbishop of Havana from 1941 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Persecuted by the Communist regime of Fidel Castro, the Primate took refuge in the Argentine embassy and the Cuban nunciature from 1961 to 1962, when he was hospitalized at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Havana.

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María Luisa Reid

Her work has appeared in collective exhibitions in France, Spain, Japan and Cuba with the most important of these being 300 Latino-americans dans l’espace in Paris, the IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mujeres en el Arte in Alcalá de Henares, Spain and the Viva la vida Frida in Havana.

Mariblanca Sabas Alomá

After her return to Havana, she worked on a regular basis for the Carteles.

Martín de Mayorga

He greatly reinforced Havana, took extra precautions at Veracruz, and sent an expedition under Bernardo de Gálvez to Florida to aid the English colonists in their revolution against England.

Matias Perez

He was carried away with the ever increasing popularity of aerostatic aircraft, and became a balloon pilot, ascending at least three times before he disappeared while attempting an aerostatic flight from Havana's Plaza de Marte (today, Parque Central) on June 28, 1856.

Maurice Halperin

Disenchanted with communism in the Soviet Union, Halperin accepted Guevara's invitation to come to Havana in 1962.

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

Miguel Coyula

Miguel Coyula Aquino (born March 31, 1977 in Havana) is a Cuban filmmaker and writer.

Millard Mitchell

Born in Havana, Mitchell appeared as a bit player in eight films between 1931 and 1936.

Moses Cohen Henriques

The Dutch didn't take prisoners: they gave the Spanish crews ample supplies for a march to Havana.

Moses Mescheloff

Denied entry into Havana, Cuba, the ship sought sanctuary in the United States by docking in Miami.

National Revolutionary Militias

The militias have their origins in a ceremony celebrated in front of the Presidential Palace (presently the Museum of the Revolution) in Havana on 22 March 1959.

Nelson De La Nuez

Nelson De La Nuez was born in Havana, Cuba and came to the US at age seven and was raised in Glendale, CA.

Nora Chegodayeva

She served in the intelligence on the Volkhov Front and later organized a women's sniper training course that would become famous after its later reorganization as the Central Women's Sniper School, but was recalled from this position soon after in order to assist the Soviet diplomatic service in Havana with her fluent Spanish when the Soviet Union first established diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1943.

Palacio de los Capitanes Generales

Located on the eastern side of the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana it is home to the Museum of the City of Havana (Museo de la Ciudad).

Pan-American Federation of Labor

The organization was virtually disintegrated in 1930, ahead of the 6th conference to be held in Havana, Cuba.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

This experience assured him of the strategic importance of the Bahama Channel and the position of Havana as the key port to rendezvous the annual Flota of treasure galleons.

Philip Barton Key

He was kept as prisoner for a month in Havana, Cuba, before being paroled and sent to New York City until the end of the war.

Rafael Quintero

Sturgis flew a CIA plane over Havana dropping thousands of pamphlets urging the Cuban people to overthrow the Castro regime on October 21, 1959 as part of Artime's operations.

Raul Paz

a renowned arts academy in Havana : violin, musical theory, wind instruments, singing, counterpoint, and conducting.

René Peña

René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez is a Cuban artist specializing in photography, and exposed his pictures in different exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain and in the US (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New-York).

Born in Havana in 1957, René Peña graduated from the University of Havana with a specialization in English.

Rufus Keppel, 10th Earl of Albemarle

The Earl of Albemarle married Sally Claire Tadayon, a sculptor of Danish and Persian ancestry, in 2001 in Havana, Cuba.

Salvador Fernández Beltrán

He later served as General Secretary of the Inter-American Advisory Committee, assisting in the creation of the InterAmerican Scout Office, the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, founded and maintained with headquarters in Havana from 1946 to 1960.

Shyamlal Yadav

He attended 68th (1981) & 69th (1982) conferences held in Havana & Rome respectively.

Socialist Party of Chile

The Socialist Party's Secretary General, Carlos Altamirano, managed to escape from Chile, appearing in Havana on January 1, 1974, during the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

St. Francis Barracks

The Franciscan monks lived at the monastery until the British took possession of Florida in exchange for occupied Havana which they seized from the Spanish in the French and Indian War, in which Spain was an ally of the French.

Street people

Examples of well-known street people are José María López Lledín who lived a public life on the streets of Havana during the 1950s, Mr. Butch of Boston, Leslie Cochran of Austin, Juan of Seattle, or Louis Thomas Hardin ("Moondog") who was a street musician, inventor, and later homeless person in the 1940s through to 1970s in New York City.

Sunchado cannons

The Americans also captured a number of sunchado howitzers in Cuba, including four at the Santa Clara Battery outside Havana.

Tania Bruguera

She is the founder and director of Arte de Conducta (behavior art), the first performance studies program in Latin America, which is hosted by Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana.

Televisión Serrana

Castillo was a television producer in Havana, Cuba from The Cuban National Broadcasting Channel (ICRT).

Teodoro Mauri

In June 1927 he moved to Havana where he signed a one year contract with the Club Juventud Asturiana.

Theodore Achilles

In 1932, he began a career in government as the U.S. Vice Consul in Havana.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Born in Havana on December 11, 1928, Gutiérrez was raised in an affluent, politically progressive family.

United Kingdom and the American Civil War

They slipped out of Charleston, South Carolina, on a blockade runner at the beginning of October and went via the British Bahamas to Spanish Havana, where they took passage for England on the British mail steamer Trent.

Yalil Guerra

Yalil Guerra (born in Havana, Cuba, April 27, 1973) is a Cuban composer and guitarist.


1999 Centrobasket

This page shows the results of the 1999 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 1999 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Havana, Cuba from May 4 to May 9, 1999.

Air Atlanta Icelandic

1997 saw the arrival of contracts with airlines such as Britannia Airways and Iberia, which would use an Air Atlanta Icelandic plane for its routes from Barajas International Airport in Madrid to José Martí International Airport in Havana and to other points in the Caribbean.

Alfredo Petit-Vergel

He started his studies at El Buen Pastor Seminary in Havana and then finished his religious studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Anne Aghion

In 1996, her first documentary Se le movió el piso: A portrait of Managua won the Coral Award for "Best Non-Latin American Documentary on Latin America" at the Havana Film Festival in Havana, Cuba.

CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory

In his memoir, Bound by Honor, Bill Bonanno, son of New York Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno, disclosed that several Mafia families had long-standing ties with the anti-Castro Cubans through the Havana casinos operated by the Mafia before the Cuban Revolution.

DeDee Nathan

LeShundra "DeDee" Nathan (born April 20, 1968 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a retired heptathlete from the United States, who won the gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.

E. K. Jett

He served on the U.S. delegation to numerous international radio conferences, including the 1937 Inter-American Radio Conference in Havana, at which the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement was negotiated.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II

His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Maryland–July 22, 1883 in Havana, Cuba and buried on July 22, 1898 in Arlington National Cemetery), married Mary Mercer Thompson (January 22, 1831 Virginia–July 15, 1894 San Antonio, Texas) on October 14, 1854.

Fredda Acker

Notably, newspaper stories from Havana indicate that the All-American girls drew larger crowds for their exhibition games at Estadio Latinoamericano than did the Dodgers.

Frei Betto

The prize was awarded on 28 January in Havana, Cuba, at the Third International Conference on World Balance, being held to mark the 160th anniversary of José Martí’s birth.

Handball at the 1991 Pan American Games

The Men's Handball Tournament at the 1991 Pan American Games was held from August 5 to August 12, 1991 in Havana, Cuba.

José Ardévol

He was a professor in Cuba from 1936 to 1951, teaching in universities in Havana and Oriente.

José Rodríguez Fuster

His pieces can be found in collections at the Center for Cuban Studies, New York; the Museo de la Cerámica, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana; and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.

Julieta Campos

Born in Havana, she moved to Mexico in the 1950s after marrying diplomat Enrique González Pedrero.

Julio Bécquer

Julio Bécquer Villegas (born December 20, 1931, in Havana, Cuba) is a retired professional baseball player who played 7 seasons for the Washington Senators, Los Angeles Angels, and Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball.

Lisandro Otero

Graduating with degrees of Journalism and Philosophy and Letters in 1954 at the Havana University, he also studied at The Sorbonne in Paris.

Manela Bustamante

Manela Bustamante, born Manuela Bustamante (Havana, Cuba, November 14, 1924 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 12, 2005)

Preludio a Colón

It was recorded on Columbia Records in 1933 by Ángel Reyes, principal violinist of the Thirteenth Sound Group of Havana.

Robert Wilson Shufeldt

After a school education in the United States and Havana, he joined as a Captain's clerk on the US Gunboat USS Proteus which was under the command of his father.

Rosa Tavarez

Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Sony Ericsson W910i

The W910i is available in six different colors which have been advertised as "Hearty Red", "Noble Black", "Havana Bronze", "Prime Silver", "Lipstick Pink" and "Silky White".

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

After admonishing his butler Jamison (Eric Blore) for conning money and adding a rare Cuban stamp to his coveted collection, former jewel looter and current detective Michael Lanyard (Warren William, also known as the Lone Wolf, flies back to Miami from Havana.

The Masses Against the Classes

They were to play in Havana in February 2001 to a sold-out Karl Marx theatre with Fidel Castro in the audience, whom they met when he arrived just thirty minutes before they were due to play.

Walter Nicks

Forming a small company, "El Ballet Negro de Walter Nicks," in Mexico, he performed at the Insurgentes Theatre in Mexico City in a production starring Cantinflas; at the Sans Souci in Havana; on television in the Dominican Republic, and at the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan.

Yusa

Then, attending the Amadeo Roldán Music Conservatory, she chose to concentrate on a particular type of Cuban guitar called the tres and started performing in Havana’s bars and clubs.