"USS TEXAS departed Brooklyn Navy Yard on January 8, 1931, 3 weeks after my Dad reported onboard for his first duty. Arriving at Guantanamo Bay on Jan 16, 1931, she patrolled the waters between Cuba, Gonaives, Haiti, Panama, and Cristobal, Balboa, Perlas Islands in the Canal Zone, traveling through the Panama Canal on March 23 and after a port call at San Diego, arriving at her home port of San Pedro, CA on April 21, 1931. She traveled a total of 8,708 nautical miles during this deployment."
USS TEXAS (BB-35) in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Credit: C.A. Moss collection
Posted by Ron Moss on the Battleship Texas Foundation Group Facebook page: link
Date: January 16-30, 1931
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Windsor Street, Cuba, New York.
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Fidel Castro gets a boisterous reception in New York, April 21, 1959, four months after he led a revolution that toppled the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
Photo: John Duprey for the NY Daily News
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2024 MLB American League All-Stars Roster
Pitchers
#00 Tyler Anderson (Los Angeles Angels/Las Vegas, Nevada)
#19 Mason Miller (Oakland Athletics/Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)
#29 Tarik Skubal (Detroit Tigers/Kingman, Arizona)
#39 Corbin Burnes (Baltimore Orioles/Bakersfield, California)
#45 Garrett Crochet (Chicago White Sox/Ocean Springs, Mississippi)
#48 Emmanuel Clase (Cleveland Guardians/Río San Juan, DR)
#52 Clay Holmes (New York Yankees/Slocomb, Alabama)
#55 Cole Ragans (Kansas City Royals/Tallahassee, Florida)
#67 Jacob Lugo (Kansas City Royals/Bossier City, Louisiana)
#75 Andrés Muñoz (Seattle Mariners/Los Mochis, Mexico)
#89 Tanner Houck (Boston Red Sox/Collinsville, Illinois)
#93 Kirby Yates (Texas Rangers/Kauai County, Hawaii)
Catchers
#13 Salvador Pérez (Kansas City Royals/Valencia, Venezuela)
#35 Adley Rutschman (Baltimore Orioles/Sherwood, Oregon)
Infielders
#2 Gunnar Henderson (Baltimore Orioles/Selma, Alabama)
#5 Corey Seager (Texas Rangers/Kannapolis, North Carolina)
#6 David Fry (Cleveland Guardians/Grapevine, Texas)
#7 Bobby Witt; Jr. (Kansas City Royals/Colleyville, Texas)
#10 Marcus Semien (Texas Rangers/Berkeley, California)
#11 José Ramírez (Cleveland Guardians/Baní, Dominican Republic)
#12 Jordan Westburg (Baltimore Orioles/New Braunfels, Texas)
#17 Isaac Paredes (Tampa Bay Rays/Hermosillo, Mexico)
#21 Joshua-Douglas Naylor (Cleveland Guardians/Mississauga, ON)
#27 Vladimir Guerrero; Jr. (Toronto Blue Jays/Santiago, DR)
#50 Willi Castro (Minnesota Twins/San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Outfielders
#16 Jarren Duran (Boston Red Sox/Cypress, California)
#22 Juan Soto; Jr. (New York Yankees/Santo Domingo, DR)
#25 Anthony Santander (Baltimore Orioles/Ciudad Agua Blanca, VZ)
#31 Riley Greene (Detroit Tigers/Oviedo, Florida)
#38 Steven Kwan (Cleveland Guardians/Fremont, California)
#44 Yordan Álvarez (Houston Astros/Ciudad Las Tunas, Cuba)
#99 Aaron Judge (New York Yankees/San Joaquin County, CA)
Manager
Bruce Bochy (Texas Rangers/Melbourne, Florida)
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Fidel Castro segura um jornal reportando a descoberta de um plano para matá-lo durante sua visita a Nova York, em 23 de abril de 1959.
Quando questionado sobre o ocorrido Fidel disse:
"Em Cuba eles tinham tanques e aviões, e eles fugiram. Então o que farão aqui? Eu durmo bem e não me preocupo."
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#OTD in 1871 – Thirty Fenian prisoners are released by the British in a general amnesty.
British authorities release over thirty Fenian prisoners including John Devoy and Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. The conditional amnesty of 1871 required those released not to return to Ireland for the term of their respective sentences for treason. Devoy, O’Donovan Rossa and three others: Charles Underwood O’Connell, Henry Mulleda, and John McClure boarded the S.S. Cuba bound for New York where the…
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