Cuban Dictator Fulgencio ...... was deposed by the 26th of July Movement in 1959.
The Rolling Stones recorded their 1973 album '..... Head Soup' in Kingston, Jamaica.
Christopher Columbus discovered the Island of Guanahani, and thus the new world, in the year .....
The port of Santo Domingo was sacked in 1586 by the British ......... Francis Drake.
Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the ........, was born in Charlestown, Nevis.
From 1975 to 1991, up to 500,000 Cuban troops fought in the ....... civil war.
South African Troops halted the Cuban advance on Jamba at the Battle of ..... Cuanavale.
The CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 launched the unsuccessful 'Bay of ....' Invasion in 1961.
...... Khrushchev's attempt to install balistic missiles on Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
The USS ..... exploded in Havana Harbour in 1898.
Theodore Roosevelt became an American hero for defeating the ....... at the Battle of San Juan Hill.
18,000 Cuban troops fought with their Ethiopian allies in the ...... War following an invasion by Somalia.
The Ten Years' War between Spain and Cuban rebels was ended when both sides signed the .... of Zanjón.
The United States, with assistance from the Caribbean Peace Force, invaded Grenada in the year ....
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, an american prison on Cuba, was opened in the year ....
Saint Lucian poet Derek ....... won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
Montserratian writer M. P. Shiel released his most famous novel, The ...... Cloud, in the year 1901.
Barbadian singer Rihanna's single ... became her first US number 1 in 2006.
Puerto Rican Miss World Wilnelia Merced married English television entertainer ..... Forsyth in 1983.
The Argentine Marxist revolutionary ....... 'Che' Guevara earned fame for participating in the Cuban Revolution.
.... Castro took over as Cuban president from his brother Fidel in 2008.
Tobagonian football player Dwight Yorke won the 1999 Champions League with Manchester ......
The .... of Port-au-Prince was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 2010.
Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in .......
The 1993 film .... Runnings was based on the true story of the Jamaica national bobsleigh team.
Toussaint .........., the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution, was deported to France by Napoleon Bonaparte where he died in 1803.
Jean-Pierre Boyer reunited the Republic of Haiti and the ....... of Haiti in 1820.
Alexandre Pétion, President of the Republic of Haiti, gave aid to Venezuelan revolutionary ..... Bolívar in return for him freeing slaves in Latin America.
In 1821 the Republic of Spanish Haiti petioned to join the Republic of ........
Rafael Trujillo instigated the mass murder of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, in what became known as the ....... Massacre, in 1937.
President for Life of Haiti, François Duvalier, modeled his cult of personality on ..... Samedi, one of the Loa of Haitian Vodou.
The first effective ....... for Meningitis B was developed in Cuba.
Brian .... scored the only ever quadruple century in test cricket against England in 2004.
Viv ........ was man of the match in the 1979 Cricket World Cup final.
...... Brathwaite hit four sixes in a row against England to win the 2016 World Twenty20.
......-Ann Fraser-Pryce won gold medals in the 100m in both 2008 and 2012.
Bob Marley released his first album 'The ....... Wailers' in 1965.
Marcus Garvey founded the Black .... Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands, in 1919.
Jamaican ........... Michael Lee-Chin sold AIC Limited to Manulife Financial in 2009.
The Rastafari Movement in Jamaica identified ..... Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah during the 1930s.
The United States bought the ...... West Indies in 1917 for 25 million dollars.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared ..... an independent state in 1804.
The Battle of Sabana Larga in 1856 was the last major clash of the ......... War of Independence
Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole set up a 'British Hotel' for wounded soldiers during the ....... War.
The short lived Kingdom of Haiti used imported soldiers from ....... as the King's Guard.
King Adandozan of Dahomey had two of his children sold into slavery in the West Indies in 1801 by the British after he attempted to get them ....... in England.
The .......... of the West Indies was a short-lived political union that existed from January 1958 to May 1962.
The Republic of ........ was declared in 1969 due to objections to their continuing political subservience to Saint Kitts.
Haitian born ornithologist, John James Audubon, finished printing his most famous book, The ..... of America, in 1838.
V. S. Naipaul's novel, A ..... for Mr Biswas, was published in 1961 to widespread acclaim.
John Coakley Lettsom, the founder of the ....... Society of London, was born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in 1744.
Jennifer Hosten from Grenada became the first black Miss World in the year ....
.... vice president, Jeffrey Webb, was arrested for corruption charges on 27 May 2015.
Robert Jenkins, a british smuggler, had his ... removed by Spanish coast guards leading to war between Great Britain and Spain.
Admiral Sir William Penn and Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army failed to capture Santo Domingo so conquered ....... instead so as not to come home empty handed.
In 1825, ......, with warships at the ready, demanded Haiti compensate it for its loss of slaves and land by paying 150 million Francs.
Canadian and American mercenaries, largely affiliated with white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups, plotted to overthrow the government of Dominica in the year ....
The Kalinago or Caribs of St Kitts were massacred and exterminated by French and English colonists working together in the year ....
The Caribbean ..... Indians played a ball game known as Batéy.
Puerto Rican Chief Agüeybaná II drowned Diego Salcedo in the year .... to prove that the Spanish were mortal and not gods.
The Kalinago Chief Kairouane and his last followers threw themselves off a ..... in Grenada rather than surrender to the French army.
After defeating them in two wars, the British rounded up the St. Vincent Black Caribs and deported them to ...... in present day Honduras.
Tacky, the leader of a slave rebellion in Jamaica, was killed by a ...... (the descendant of runaway slaves) from Scot's Hall.
Old Nanny .... was a village in the Blue Mountains of Portland Parish, north-eastern Jamaica, used as a stronghold for Maroons (escaped slaves) led by Queen Nanny.
A general strike of slaves in Jamaica led by ....... Minister Samuel Sharpe was brutally suppressed by British forces in 1832. Slavery was abolished 2 years later.
Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg and first King of ......, attempted to settle Peter Island in 1689.
Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland and .........., founded a colony in Tobago in 1654 which was abandoned in 1689.
In 1784 the French Island of Saint Barthélemy was sold to ......, the French bought it back in 1878.
The American Rebels captured Nassau in the Crown Colony of the ......., in 1776.
William Sayle and the Eleutheran ........... attempted and failed to form a puritan democratic state in the Bahamas.
The .......... Antilles were completely dissolved in 2010. Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten became countries and Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba became special municipalities.
The traditional Jamaican folk song 'The Banana Boat Song' was recorded by Harry ......... in 1956 and became a hit.
Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica, became the first democratically elected ...... head of government in the Americas in 1980.
Dance pioneer Julia Edward, the first lady of ....., bought a Trinidadian dance contest to international fame while working in Hollywood in the 1950s.
Rodrigo de Jerez became the first European ...... after the Lucayan presented him with dry leaves that spread a peculiar fragrance.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy bought 1,200 H. Upmann brand Cuban ..... and then, on their arrival, imposed a trade embargo on Cuba.
Guadeloupean Footballer ...... Thuram won the FIFA World Cup with France in 1998.
Dominican pitcher Pedro Martínez produced seven shutout innings in game 3 of the World Series to help the Boston ... Sox win their first championship in 86 years.
During the ...... Occupation of Cuba, baseball player José Méndez pitched 25 consecutive scoreless innings against visiting major and minor league teams.
Trinidadian singer Billy Ocean won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his song '........ Queen (No More Love on the Run)'.
The French slave ship, La Concorde de Nantes, was captured by Pirates near Martinique and renamed the '..... Anne's Revenge' by it's new captain, Blackbeard.
The French Privateer François le Clerc was nicknamed Pie de Palo because he only had one ...
English pirate Mark Read escaped hanging in 1720 by pleading the belly, that is revealing he was ........
The Tri-National Anti-Piracy Alliance of ....., Denmark and the USA captured Roberto Cofresí, the last of the West India pirates, in 1825.
Buccaneer Jacquotte Delahaye was known as 'back from the .... red' due to her striking red hair.
133 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard and killed by the crew of the slave ship .... in 1781 as the ship approached Jamaica. British law would uphold this as legal in court.
The forcible transportation of Irish rebels to Barbados by Oliver Cromwell led to the creation of a poor white underclass, later nicknamed the ...... by the Island's population.
The Knights Hospitaller of ..... bought the Islands of Saint Christopher, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Croix from France in 1651.
Over 1,000 French Huguenots were transported to .......... from 1686 to early 1688 to serve as indentured servants.
Trinidadian calypsonian Lord Melody wrote the popular song '..... & Scandal' for the movie 'I Walked with a Zombie' in 1943.
Ackee and saltfish is a traditional Jamaican dish made with a ..... first imported to the Caribbean from Ghana in the early 18th century.
The alcoholic beverage Rum was first distilled by plantation ...... on Barbados.
Bahamian Actor, ..... Poitier, became the first black man to win an Oscar in 1964.
The ..... James Bond film, Dr. No, was filmed partly in Jamaica in 1962.
Jamaican teenager Millie Small's ska cover version of the Cadillacs' 'My Girl ........' was a major hit in 1964.
During the American Civil War, the Bahamas got a huge boost economically by trading with ........ runners from the Confederate States of America.
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States is an inter-governmental organisation with seven member states that was created in 1981, with the ...... of Basseterre.
In 1628 Dutch Admiral Piet Hein captured a spanish ........ fleet off Cuba. He suffered no casualities and earned 11,509,524 guilders.
In 1718 ..... Rogers was made Governor of the Bahamas and ordered to clear out the Pirates' Republic at Nassau.
The last confirmed sighting of the now extinct Caribbean .... seal was in 1952.
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