2013 Event The U.S. launches ta $6 billion money laundering prosecution against Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rican currency-transfer and payment-processing company 1987 Event Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 Event Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize 1984 Event Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire 1979 Event 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed 1977 Event Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 1973 Birthday Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican Model 1964 Event Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools 1950 Event Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House 1946 Event Jesus T. Pinerol becomes 1st native born Puerto Rican governor 1937 Event Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1898 Death Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies 1891 Event Puerto Rican flag adopted
