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Curacao


1994 Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao

1991 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies

1973 Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit, Curacao, 1997

1969 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao

1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao

1965 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao

1951 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao

1943 Selly Fernandes, Curacao poet, Winking with Selly

1943 Elmer R. Wilsoe, Island mayor, Curacao

1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338

1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao

1936 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao

1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms

1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)

1924 Julian B Coco, Curacao guitarist/bassist, Utrecht Symphony Orchestra

1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto

1920 Lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Curacao painter

1918 Nilda Pinto, NM Geerdink-Jesurun P, Curacao writer, Nanzi

1918 Oil refinery on Curacao opens

1918 King Oil/Shell refinery on Curacao officially opens

1917 Wilhelmus C Wijen, Broeder Pius, social worker, Curacao

1916 Hipolito M Ocalia, born in Curacao, landscape painter

1915 May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curacao, sculptor

1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)

1902 Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian, Monuments of Curacao

1898 Marie J Hugenholtz, Doctor Grandi, surgeon on Curacao

1891 Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer

1889 Maria Realino, Frederikus Janssen, teacher, Botany of Curacao

1887 Rudolf F. W. Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer

1887 Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist

1885 Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder, Red Cross of Curacao

1884 Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian/Justice of Curacao

1880 Rudolf T Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer

1877 David Mendes Chumaceiro, born in Curacao, poet, Crisalidas

1869 Maria Radulphus, inspector on Curacao, Radulphus College

1867 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated

1863 Johannes P Boskaljon, Curacao composer and conductor

1861 Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist

1860 Oscar L Helfrich, Dutch governor, Curacao

1853 Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter

1849 John Godden, English explorer, Curacao

1837 David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao

1831 Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer

1817 Curacao prohibits use of white paint due to fierce sunlight

1807 Curacao is taken by English, until March, 1816

1804 British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao

1800 Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England

1800 Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803)

1796 Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao, christen slaves

1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday

1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao

1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned

1795 Curacao slaves opponents returns to St. Christopher

1795 Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves

1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange

1782 Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet

1771 Paul R Cantzlaar, government of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies

1750 Slave uprising on Curacao

1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao

1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao

1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao

1634 Johan van Walbeecks ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curacao

1499 Alonso dhe Ojeda discovers Curacao Island


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