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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 ...
An Account of the Voyages first page, 1773. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from ...
President Richard Nixon paying his last tributes to his predecessor, former president Johnson in 1973 Johnson's grave Johnson recorded an hour-long television interview with newsman Walter Cronkite at his ranch on January 12, 1973, in which he discussed his legacy, particularly about the civil rights movement.
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 ...
After Tinoco was forced to resign in 1919 and the temporary president Juan Bautista Quirós Segura ceded power to interim president Francisco Aguilar Barquero, Acosta was invited to return to Costa Rica. [16] He became a candidate for president on 8 September 1919, when the Constitutional Party selected him as their representative. Elected with ...
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 First Costa Rican Republic is the name given to the historical period between the proclamation of the Republic of Costa Rica in the 1848 reformed Constitution and the official decree by then President José María Castro Madriz on 31 August 1848 and the Costa Rican Civil War of 1948 which ended with the enactment of the current 1949 Constitution on 7 November 1949 starting the Second Costa ...