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unusual facts about San Fernando, Tamaulipas



1958 Atlantic hurricane season

On June 14, a tropical depression formed about halfway between the Yucatán Peninsula and Tamaulipas.

1995 Zapatista Crisis

On February 9, 1995, in a televised special Presidential broadcast, President Ernesto Zedillo announced Subcomandante Marcos to be one Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, born June 19, 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas to Spanish immigrants.

2003 Atlantic hurricane season

It continued quickly across the body of water, and made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as a hurricane on August 17.

Alejo Mabanag

Alejo R. Mabanag (born July 14, 1886 – ?) was a Filipino politician born in San Fernando, La Union, to Liberato Mabanag of Calamanugan, Cagayan and Manuela Ragojo of Bangar, La Union.

Alfredo Flores Tadiar

He was appointed as trial judge at the first level court of San Juan, La Union (1959–1968) and later promoted to the Provincial Capital Court of San Fernando, La Union (1968–1976).

Banquete, Texas

Banquete was named for a four-day feast honoring the completion of a road linking San Patricio, Texas with Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Benjamin McCulloch

He and his brother, Henry, subsequently took part in the failed Somervell expedition and both escaped very shortly before most of the Texans were captured at Mier, Mexico in Tamaulipas, December 25, 1842.

Bird colony

In 1978, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, researchers counted 22 breeding colonies of White-winged Doves with a collective population size of more than eight million birds.

Carolina Morán

Morán, who stands 5'10" (1.78 m) tall, competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico, held in Tampico, Tamaulipas on September 2, 2006 and obtained the title of Miss Mexico World after placing second to Rosa María Ojeda of the state of Sinaloa.

Charles Stillman

He was involved in cotton brokerage and real estate in addition to silver mines in Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Deportivo Neza

The club played from 1978 to 1982 in the first division before the club was sold and moved to Tamaulipas and remained Correcaminos UAT.

Donald Ramsamooj

Donald Ramsamooj (born 5 July 1932, San Fernando, Trinidad, died 23 May 1993, Toronto, Canada) was a professional Cricketer who spent his career between Trinidad and Northamptonshire.

Donna, Texas

An international bridge across the Rio Grande is being constructed to link Donna to the city of Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a city with a population of approximately 150,000.

Drymaeus serperastrus

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.

Duval County, Texas

The important colonists came from Mier, Tamaulipas - and Anglos later respected their descendants as the old Mexican families.

Edward A. Clampitt

He was survived by his parents, living in Los Angeles, and his wife, Margaret M. Clampitt, and two daughters, Leah and Barbara, as well as a brother, L.A. Clampitt of San Fernando, and two sisters, Mrs. A.P. McBride of Independence, Kansas, and Mrs. R. Raskin of Los Angeles.

El Diario de Nuevo Laredo

El Diario de Nuevo Laredo (The Nuevo Laredo Daily) is a Spanish language newspaper published in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Ferdinand III of Castile

Places such as San Fernando, La Union, San Fernando, Pampanga, and the San Fernando de Dilao Church in Paco, Manila in the Philippines, and in California, San Fernando City and the San Fernando Valley, were named for him and placed under his patronage.

Fernando H. Ocampo

Born August 7, 1897, in San Fernando, Pampanga, he was the son of Dr. Basilio Ocampo and Leoncia Hizon.

George Hughley

Hughley, a 20-year Police Department veteran from San Fernando, California, was riding his motorcycle when he was struck from the rear by a car on the Foothill Freeway near Angeles Crest Highway.

Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa

He was captured on April 30, 2009 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas along with his wife and his bodyguard, Miguel Angel Reyes Grajales.

Ítalo Piaggi

Lieutenant-Colonel Ítalo Ángel Piaggi (17 March 1935; San Fernando, Argentina – 31 July 2012, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine Army commander who was involved in the Battle of Goose Green in the Falklands War.

Javier O. Huerta

Huerta was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his mother and younger brother, crossing the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) in 1981.

Jesús de Cárdenas

The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

Jesús Santa Cruz

Jesús Alberto Santa Cruz Mares (born March 25, 1986 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Mexican football goalkeeper.

Jlloyd Samuel

Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, Samuel attended St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath through the 1990s where he was a valuable member of the school football teams as well as the London Schoolboys teams.

Limonium

Limonium carolinianum (Carolina Sea-lavender; eastern North America, Newfoundland to Bermuda, Florida and Tamaulipas; syn. L. angustatum, L. nashii)

Lucio Muñoz

In 1949, Muñoz enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Cádiz, where he obtained a degree in Fine Arts.

Manuel Duran Moreno

After graduation, instead of beginning a business career, he began preparation for the vocation of the priesthood, entering Our Queen of Angels Seminary in San Fernando, California.

Octaviano Tenorio

When he was fifteen years old, he and his parents joined the LDS Church while they were living in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.

Oilfields Workers' Trade Union

The first meetings were held in Fyzabad, and the first official headquarters were established on Coffee Street, San Fernando.

Óscar Malherbe de León

The drugs were supplied by the Rodriguez Orihuela brothers of the Cali Cartel and arrived in clandestine runaways in San Fernando and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Saint Benedict's College

Benedict's College is a secondary school located in La Romaine, Trinidad and Tobago.

San Fernando, California

San Fernando is located in the 39th District of the California State Assembly and is represented by Democrat Raul Bocanegra.

San Fernando, Tamaulipas

Cherokee syllabary founder Sequoyah fell ill and died here in August of 1843 while searching for a band of tribal members who migrated to Mexico prior to the American Revolution.

Sinukwan Festival

The Sinukwan Festival relives the Kapampangan spirit with a week-long calendar of cultural revivals capped by a grand street-dance parade in the streets of San Fernando, with towns outdoing each other to the tune of “Atin Cu Pung Singsing.”

Spanish missions in the Americas

Between 1687 and 1700 several missions were founded in Trinidad, but only four survived as Amerindian villages throughout the eighteenth century - La Anuncíata de Nazaret de Savana Grande (modern Princes Town), Purísima Concepción de María Santísima de Guayri (modern San Fernando), Santa Ana de Savaneta (modern Savonetta), Nuestra Señora de Montserrate (probably modern Mayo).

Television in Trinidad and Tobago

Advance Community Television Station (ACTS25) A religious community station serving the city of San Fernando.

Thyrsostoma

Sneddon's famed moth museum is based just outside San Fernando.

Transportation in Metro Manila

Railways extend from this terminal north to San Fernando in Pampanga and south to Legazpi in Albay, though only the southern railway is currently in operation.

Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

In addition to its main offices at 23A Chacon Street, Port of Spain, the paper maintains satellite bureaux in Chaguanas and San Fernando, Trinidad, and Scarborough, Tobago.

Western Gulf coastal grasslands

Rancho Nuevo beach in Tamaulipas is the only nesting site in the world for the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) while other herpetofauna of the ecoregion include Río Grande Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides) and Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis).

XHTAM

XHTAM-TV 17 Reynosa-Matamoros, Tamaulipas, an affiliate of Canal de las Estrellas network

XHTAM-FM 96.1 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, a simulcast of XETAM-AM 640


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