In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president's life
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An assassination attempt threatens President Harry S. Truman - Nov ...  In the autumn of 1950, the White House was being renovated and President ... would even be in the house when they launched their attack at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. ... were political activists and members of the extremist Puerto Rican Nationalist ... Apparently unfazed by the attempt on his life, Truman kept his scheduled...
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On This Day: Puerto Rican Nationalists Attempt to Assassinate Truman  1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, tried to ... On This Day: V-E Day Ends World War II in Europe ... They planned to shoot their way inside to the president, but never made it past the front door. ... his verdict was changed to life in prison just one week before his scheduled execution.
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The Truman Assassination Attempt - White House Historical ...  2 minutes. The First Amendment protects many forms of peaceful protest. ... The Nationalist movement had been building in Puerto Rico since 1912, when the ... connected the revolt in Puerto Rico to the attempt on Truman's life, although Collazo ... after a failed attempt to assassinate President Truman, November 1, 1950.
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March 1, 1954 | Puerto Rican Nationalists Open Fire on House of ...  Mar 1, 2012 ... On March 1, 1954, the Puerto Rican nationalists Lolita Lebron, Rafael ... The March 2 New York Times reported that the nationalists shouted for ... attempt on President Harry S. Truman in November 1950, months ... Mr. Miranda said agreeing to these terms made Puerto Ricans looked like happy slaves.
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Attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia  The second of two assassination attempts on US President Harry S. Truman occurred on November 1, 1950. It was carried out by Puerto Rican pro-independence activists Oscar Collazo ... The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s were an armed protest for independence from United States Government rule...
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This is the first official submission made by NYC based ... - Pinterest  Born of a white master and a slave mother, he is a man with no true home or people he can call his own. .... Picardo Robert, Masculine Things, Blog Post, Photographers Derek ... was the 28th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1913-1919. .... Charles Nagel - Secretary Of Commerce & Labor (1909-1913)
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History of Puerto Rico - 1900 - 1949  Puerto Rico became U.S. first unincorporated territory. ... Congress and recommended that Puerto Ricans become United States citizens. ... This gave the island a legislature (19 senators, 39 representatives) elected freely by the Puerto Rican people. .... (In 1917, U.S. citizenship granted to Puerto Ricans was a naturalized...
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Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Muoz Rivera - Library of ...  Sixty-second - Sixty-fourth Congresses March 4, 1911 - November 15, 1916. One of the most famous men in the political history of Puerto Rico, Luis Muoz Rivera, ... to amend the U.S.-imposed Organic Act, also known as the Foraker Act. ... The Jones Act granted United States citizenship to Puerto Ricans; it also gave the...
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Transmitting the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico  The Constitution approved by the Constitutional Convention was submitted to the people of Puerto Rico in a referendum on March 3, 1952. ... The new Constitution contains a bill of rights which corresponds with the highest ideals of human...
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Richard Gott: The Cuban Republic, 19021952 - Walter Lippmann  Under the Republic, imposed on the island by Washington which told its founders ... This memorial to Toms Estrada Palma, the first elected president of the ... on the electoral victory of their chosen party, electoral fraud became entrenched at ... Many Cubans who had fought in the independence war - for independence not...
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Juan Ponce de Len - Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 28, 2015 ... After sailing on Christopher Columbus's second voyage to the New ... He gave Florida its name and went on to become the first governor of Puerto Rico. ... He eventually became a soldier and fought against the the Moors in Granada. ... Upon returning to Puerto Rico later that year, Ponce de Len found the...
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Intervention in Three-Part Harmony - NHHC - Navy  May 13, 2014 ... Caribbean Tempest.  ... The division's arrival in the Dominican Republic displayed President ... But the 1965 intervention did more than test American deployment .... On 2 May, after Ambassador Bunker reported to the president that ... to reduce U.S. forces and provide logistic support for Latin troops sent to...
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This Day in History January 2, 1949 | Mystic Stamp Discovery Center  Jan 2, 2016 ... Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the United States in 1952, and ... Sila Caldern became the first woman to be elected Governor of Puerto Rico ... Caldern previously served as mayor of San Juan from 1997-2001.
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Cuba 1952-1959: 1957: Presidential Palace Attack  Jun 29, 2009 ... Revolutionary student groups FEU-DR attacked the presidential ... Echeverra (FEU leader) and Menelao Mora Morales (a former ... House, housing the government offices of the President and his ... Pelayo Cuervo was assassinated the night of March 13, as this new ... Presidential Palace, Havana Cuba.
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Anastasio Somoza Debayle - Wikipedia  Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza DeBayle (5 December 1925  17 September 1980) was a ... On 10 December 1950, he and Hope Portocarrero, an American citizen and his ... By the late 1970s, human rights groups were condemning the record of the ... The Front, named after Augusto Csar Sandino (a Nicaraguan rebel leader...
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Nicaragua - The Somoza Era, 1936-74 - Country Studies  Somoza Garca controlled political power, directly as president or indirectly .... His brother Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle, a West Point graduate, took...
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Puerto Rico | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives  Most historians agree that the major American political parties were slow to embrace ... The men's congressional alliesChairman of the House Insular Affairs ... in an address at Princeton University on May 5, 1948, redefining Puerto Rico not as .... The Congress of the United States  agreed to accept the Commonwealth...
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History of Puerto Rico - Wikipedia  The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the archipelago of Puerto Rico by the Ortoiroid people between 3,000 and 2,000 BC. Other tribes, such as the Saladoid and Arawak Indians, populated the island between 430 BC and 1000 AD. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492, the .... On November 19, 1493 he landed on the island, naming it San Juan Bautista...
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United States Capitol shooting incident (1954) - Wikipedia  The United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four ... They wanted to highlight their desire for Puerto Rican independence from ... Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered. ... in favor of the new constitution and Free Associated State, or Commonwealth.
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Puerto Rico - History and Heritage | Travel | Smithsonian  Nov 6, 2007 ... Christopher Columbus arrived at Puerto Rico in 1493. He originally called the island San Juan Bautista, but thanks to the gold in the river, it was ... in 1917 and Puerto Rico officially became a U.S. Commonwealth in 1952. .... Purpose in the Economical , Cultural ,Educational and structural future of the Iland.
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United States Capitol shooting incident (1954) - Wikipedia  The United States Capitol shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. ... Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered.