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13 unusual facts about Tampico


An American Life

The book is composed of 748 pages, describing Reagan's life from his birth in Tampico, Illinois, to his acting career, marriages, entrance into politics, years as Governor of California, loss in the 1976 Republican primary, and finally his years as President of the United States.

Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez

On August 13, 1968 Symanski was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Tampico and would remain at the Tampico diocese until 1987.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston, Brownsville, Tampico and Mexico City.

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.

Escuis

Escuis is a range of flavor soft drinks produced since 1912 in Tampico, Tamaulipas by Grupo Tampico, one of the first Coca-Cola bottling groups in Mexico.

Eugenio Siller

Santiago Siller Rodríguez (born on April 5, 1981 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, singer, and model who is best known for starring in popular novelas Rebelde, Código Postal, Al Diablo con los Guapos, Mi Pecado, Aurora and Una Maid en Manhattan.

Gulf Coast Lines

Yoakum's planned extensions of the GCL from Brownsville to Tampico and Mexico City, as well as from Baton Rouge to Memphis, never materialized.

Jesús Santa Cruz

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

Joseph M. Reeves

Joseph Mason Reeves was born on November 20, 1872 in the village of Tampico, Illinois.

Julio Gómez González

Julio Enrique Gómez González (born August 13, 1994 in Tampico, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican footballer who plays for C.D. Guadalajara on loan from Pachuca, in the Liga Bancomer MX.

Marcos Leonel Posadas

Marcos Leonel Posadas Segura (born October 8, 1938, Tampico) is a Mexican politician.

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Tampico

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Tampico Campus (in Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Tampico) commonly shortened as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Tampico or ITESM Campus Tampico, is a campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education private university system in the city of Tampico, Mexico.

Rosa María Ojeda

After overcoming these events during her childhood, Ojeda competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico, held in Tampico, Tamaulipas on September 2, 2006, where she beat 30 other contestants to win the title, as well as obtain the right to represent her country in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant.


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.

Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Throughout the larger cities of Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, and Tampico and smaller cities of Ciudad Mante and Valle Hermoso are UAT campuses that offer undergraduate studies.

Burton E. Grossman

Burton Edward Grossman (died November 12, 1999) was a Mexican-American international businessman, health and education promoter, who served as chairman and CEO of Grupo Continental, a holding company established in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1964, that owns and operates 46 corporations dealing with soft drinks, sugar refining, mineral water, cooling systems, plastics, an mainly bottling factories for The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico.

Disappearance and displacement of Mario Segura

At the time of his abduction, Segura was the Internet portal director for "El Sol del Sur Tampico", and he maintained the "Timely Alert" (Alerta Opurtuna) blog, which tracked drug-related violence and crime in the newspaper's coverage in the municipalities of Altamira, Madero, Ciudad Mante, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa.

First Battle of Topolobampo

A running battle ensued; Tampico did not stop to fire until after passing Shell Point; once on the other side, she opened fire with her two 4 inch guns and one 6-pounder at Guerrero.

Gene Roland

He worked briefly with Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder and then rejoined Kenton in 1945, this time as a trombonist and writer (he arranged the hit "Tampico").

General Francisco Javier Mina International Airport

It handles national and international air traffic of the metropolitan area of Tampico, Ciudad Madero and Altamira.

Giuseppe Avezzana

Left in command at Tampico by General Montezuma, who went to stir up the revolutionists elsewhere, he maneuvred so successfully with a small force that they captured three times their number of government troops at Ciudad Victoria, with artillery and supplies.

Graham Building

The Birthplace of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Graham Building, Tampico, Illinois

Istle

Istle (also spelt ixtle) or tampico fiber is the general name for a hard plant fiber obtained from a number of Mexican plants, chiefly species of Agave and Yucca.

Laura Flores

Her first acting opportunity came during a musical presentation in Tampico, where a producer offered her a role in the telenovela El combate, starring Ignacio López Tarso.

Moral diplomacy

In April of 1914, Mexican officials in Tampico arrested a few American sailors who blundered into a prohibited area, and Wilson used the incident to justify ordering the U.S. Navy to occupy the port city of Veracruz.

Tampico México Temple

Thomas S. Monson, of the LDS Church's First Presidency gave the dedicatory prayer for the Tampico Mexico Temple on May 20, 2000.

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.

William Buckley

William Frank Buckley, Sr. (1881–1958), lawyer in Tampico, Mexico (father of William F. Buckley, Jr.)