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The tower at Six Flags in Vallejo People watching a show at Six Flags in Vallejo, California Discovery Kingdom, seen from the parking lot. On January 17, 2007, the park announced its new name: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. [20] The new name reflects the image of an animal park, a thrill-ride park, and a marine park.
18 March – The president of the United States John F. Kennedy began a three-day visit to Costa Rica to meet with the presidents of Central America to promote his Alliance for Progress programme to resist the influence of communism, from Cuba and the Soviet Union, by providing American economic aid to promote economic development and political ...
Portal:Costa Rica/Did you know/5 ...that John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias' 1987 Nobel Peace Prize edit Did you know 6
Interim president. Former vice-president of Teodoro Picado Michalski. (31b) José Figueres Ferrer (1906–1990) 8 May 1948 8 November 1949 Social Democratic: De facto: Came to power in the Civil War. Returned power to elected president after re-organizing the government. 31: Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891–1973) 8 November 1949 8 November 1953 ...
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General elections were held in Costa Rica on 6 February 1966. [1] José Joaquín Trejos Fernández of the National Unification Party won the presidential election, whilst the National Liberation Party won the parliamentary election. Voter turnout was 81%. [2] These were very divisive elections as they had only two candidates. [3]
The Johnson Doctrine, enunciated by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson after the United States' intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when the object is the establishment of a "Communist dictatorship". [1]
The elections for constituent deputies of 1917 of Costa Rica were held on April 1 of that year at the same time as the presidential elections convened by the de facto president Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados. [3] These elections were held in order to legitimize the regime that was imposed after the coup d'état on January 27 of that same year.