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The English weakened Spanish power in the area by supplying their Creek Indian allies with firearms and urging them to raid the Timucuan and Apalachee client-tribes of the Spanish. The English attacked St. Augustine, burning the city and its cathedral to the ground several times, while the citizens hid behind the walls of the Castillo de San ...
The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.; South Point School was founded in Kolkata, India.
February 28 – For the first time in Latin music history, a Grammy Award is presented to the genre. Eddie Palmieri wins the Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards for Sun of Latin Music. [19] April 17 – Billboard tracks sales of LP's in Puerto Rico for the first time. [20]
Year Name Country/ territory Film Status Milestone / Notes 2002: Beatrice De Alba Mexico: Frida: Won First Hispanic and Latino makeup artist to be nominated for and win Best Makeup. Born in California to Mexican-born parents. Shared with John E. Jackson.
The Annual Register was created in 1758 by the publishers James and Robert Dodsley.On 24 April 1758 the Dodsley brothers signed a contract with Edmund Burke (1729–97) to write and edit the material for The Annual Register, which was conceived as an annual publication which would review the history, politics and literature of the day.
By the 1980s, The Council on Interracial Books for Children found that non-Latino authors, who wrote most Chicano books at the time, upheld white racial biases in their books [7] and usually exoticized Latin America. [8] After this report, more Latino authors started to emerge, coinciding with a rise in the Latino population in the United States.
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1974 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.