? Manuel L. Ponte
? An Azorean In Mid America
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1900 - E?a de Queiroz, one of the greatest Portuguese authors of the 19th Century, dies in Paris at age 55.
1903 - Edward VII (England) and Alfonso XIII (Spain) visit Portugal.
?? 1904 - Visit of King Carlos and Queen Maria Am?lia to the Azores.
1906 -Ngugunhane, the African king from most of today's Mozambique who opposed the Portuguese dominance of his land, dies in exile in the Azores.
1906 - Jo?o Franco's dictatorship, with royal support, eliminates political parties.
1906 - British ultimatum threatening Portugal over African territories equally claimed by both nations.
1907 - Students and faculty at Coimbra University go on protest strike. Rest of the country soon follows.
? 1908 - King Carlos and son Luiz assassinated in Lisbon's Terreiro do Pa?o. The throne is assumed by king's other son, Manuel II.
?? 1910 - 5th of October Revolution implants a new republic. Manuel II abdicates ending 770 years of Portuguese monarchs. Azoreans, Te?filo de Braga and Manuel Arriaga, eventually become first and second presidents of the new republic.
? 1911 - First Portuguese Republican constitution created. Amongst its primary provisions was the separation of Church and State.
1915 - General Pimenta de Castro formed new government. It lasted 4 months until Afonso Costa took over.
1915 - Holy Sacrament Feast, the largest Portuguese religious feast in the United States, is born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, thanks to the efforts of three Madeiran immigrants.
1916 - Portugal enters World War I. Over 2,000 Portuguese die in the conflict.
1917 - (May 13th) Three shepherd children, Francisco, Jacinta, and L?cia claim that the Virgin Mary appeared to them at F?tima.
1917 - Sid?nio Pais leads a military coup in opposition to Portugal's participation in the war.
? 1918 - (December 14) Sid?nio Pais assassinated. Democracy returns.
1919 - Salazar and three colleagues suspended from teaching for insinuating Monarchist ideas to their students.
1922 - Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first trans-oceanic air trip between Lisbon and Brazil. Trip took three months.
? 1925 - First Portuguese radio broadcasts emitted in Lisbon.
? 1926 - Ant?nio Jos? de Almeida only president to complete his term between 1918 and 1926.
? 1927 - Dr. Ant?nio Egas Moniz performs the world's first human cerebral angiography.
1928 - General Gomes da Costa leads another coup and implants a military dictatorship.
? 1928 - General Ant?nio Oscar Carmona is installed as presidente and choses Ant?nio Oliveira Salazar, an economics professor, as Finance Minister.
1930 - Founding of Salazar's National Union Party.
? 1931 - Birth of Manuel Luiz da Ponte Rezendes (Manuel L. Ponte).CLICK
1932 - King Manuel II dies in England. His body brought back to Portugal for burial.
? 1933 - Consolidation of Salazar in the government after five years of power building. Introduction of ?stado Novo" constitution.
1935 - Fernando Pessoa, possibly the greatest Portuguese poet of the century, dies in Lisbon at age 47.
1935 - A?oriano Oriental, the oldest Portuguese-language newspaper in the world, celebrates 100 years.
1936 - Birth of green-shirted Mocidade Portuguesa and Legi?o Portuguese, the first a movement incorporating youths whose primary duty was their obedience to Salazar, the second a vountary type of Home Guard.
? 1937 - Failed attempt on Salazar's life.
? 1938 - Salazar recognizes the Franco-inspired Spanish government as the legitimate Spanish government.
1939 - Signing of the Iberian Pact with Franco's government.
? 1940 - Portuguese World Exposition is held in Lisbon. Accord (Concordata) signed with the Vatican renewing considerable ties with the Catholic Church.
1940 - Salazar government denounces Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, one of Portugal's greatest painters, and denies her citizenship.
1943 - Allies allowed in the Azores (Terceira Island Air Base)
? 1945 - Democratic Unity Movement created.
? 1945 - American air base at Santa Maria (Azores) gives birth to first Portuguese commercial airline, SATA.
1946 - (March 14) - Birth of TAP, which eventually became TAP (Air Portugal)
? 1948 - Americans installed at Lajes (Terceira), Azores, air base.
1949 _ Ant?nio Egas Moniz becomes the first Portuguese Nobel Prize winner (Medicine)
1949 - Portugal is one of the founders of NATO.
1950 - India proposes the return of Portuguese enclaves to that country/ Proposal rejected by Salazar.
1951 - Death of President Carmona. Another general, Craveiro Lopes, is the new president.
? 1955 - Portugal is admitted to the United Nations.
1957 - Submarine volcanic eruption in the Azores increases the size of Fayal (Faial) at its western end and the Capelinhos Islets.
1957 - Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Portugal and are received by Salazar.? 1957 - First television transmissions under the responsibility of the Portuguese Broadcasting Network (RDP).
1958 - General Humberto Delgado organizes political opposition against Salazar in presidential elections.
? 1959 - SS Santa Maria highjacked on the high seas by opposition political group. Colonial War starts in Angola. Failed military revolt at Beja.
1960 - Jaime Cortes?o, one of Portugal's most distinguished historians and Salazar critic, dies.
1960 - Portuguese National Statistics Institute declares that populations of Angola and Mozambique are as follows: Angola, 4,830,449; Mozambrique, 6,603,553.
1961 - Portuguese enclaves in India (Goa, Dam?o, and Diu) are seized by Nehru's Indian government.
? 1962 - Students organize nationally against the government.
? 1964 - According to UNESCO figures Portugal's percentage of school-age people attending school represents only 47% of that sector of the population.
1965 - Professor Dr. M?rio de Azevedo Gomes, one of Salazar's leading opposionists, and a former Agriculture Minsiter in previous administrations, dies.
1965 - General Humberto Delgado supposedly invited to a political meeting in Oliven?a is assassinated by the Portuguese Secret Police (PIDE).
? 1966 - Salazar Bridge (Now Ponte 25 de Abril) inaugurated crossing the Tejo River.
? 1966 - Portugal finishes 3rd in Soccer's World Cup. Portugal's Eus?bio's is the tournament's top scorer.
? 1968 - Salazar has a stroke. Marcello Caetano is appointed new Prime Minister.
? 1969 - After considerable pressure from Azorean Americans, Portugal finally abolishes requirement that Americans must apply for visa from the Secret Police (PIDE) - in Portuguese - in order to visit the Azores.
? 1973 - Guin?-Bissau declares unilateral independence. Portuguese officers reunite to try to bring down the government.
? 1974 - 25th of April Revolt. "The Carnation Revolution". General Ant?nio Sp?nola becomes new president. Followed by Costa Gomes.
? 1974 - (Sept. 14) - Portugal recognizes independence of Guin?-Bissau.
? 1975 - Official liberation of African colonies. East Timor occupied by Indonesia against local popular will.
? 1975- (July) - Cape Verde's independence formally recognized.
? 1975 - First democratic elections to new Constituent Assembly.
1976 - First parliamentary elections under the new democratic constitution.
1976 - General Ant?nio Ramalho Eanes (as a political neutral) elected as President under the new constitution. On the same day (June 27) voters in the Azores and Madeira elected their respectives governments to their General Assemblies.
1979 - Agostinho Neto, first Angolan president, dies.
1979 - Francis M. Rogers publishes ATLANTIC ISLANDERS OF THE AZORES AND MADEIRAS.
? 1979 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becomes Portugal's Prime Minister. First woman ever to hold post in Iberian Peninsula
1980 - S? Carneiro becomes Prime Minister.
1980 - (December) Political leader, S? Carneiro, dies in airplane "accident".
1980 - Carlos Lopes wins Olympic Marathon in Los Angeles. Rosa Mota finishes 3rd amongst women and wins bronze medal.
1981 - Pinto Balsem?o nominated new Prime Minister.
1982 - New Portuguese Constitution with communist-oriented language removed from previous document.
1984 - Rosa Mota wins Women Olympics Marathon at Seoul, Korea. 1985 - Portugal's great runner, Carlos Lopes, sets World Marathon record at age 42.
1986 - Portugal is admitted to EEC.
1986 - Political leader, and former Salazar nemesis, M?rio Soares, is elected president, succeeding democratically-elected General Ramalho Eanes.
? 1987 - F. C. Porto wins Soccer's Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo defeating South America's champion.
1987 - Rosa Mota is first Portuguese woman ever to win the classical Boston Marathon, the oldest in America. She repeats in 1988 and 1990.
? 1988 - Historic commercial and cultural area of Chiado (Lisbon) destroyed by arsonist's fire.
??? 1991 - Lisbon - Porto super highway completed connecting the two largest Portuguese cities.
? 1992 - First commercial and private television broadcasts.
1995 - Pope John Paul II visits the Azores.
? 1996 - Jorge Sampaio defeats former Prime Minister Cavaco Silva in presidential election.
1997 - S. L. Benfica, a soccer team that for decades had a policy of not hiring non-Portuguese citizens as players, shows up for a game without a single Portuguese player on its squad.
1998 - Expo '98, the world's last World's Fair of the century held at Lisbon. Vasco da Gama Bridge is inaugurated to supplement the previously-built 25 of April Bridge.
? 1998 - Jos? Saramago wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
? 1999 - After the many efforts by Portugal on behalf of its former colony, East Timor, a referendum is held on that island overwhelmingly approving independence from Indonesia after 24 years.
1999 - C.D. Santa Clara is first Azorean soccer team ever to qualify for Portuguese Soccer League First Division.
1999 - Am?lia Rodrigues, the greatest exponent of the FADO ever produced in Portugal, dies.
? 1999 - Last Portuguese colony, Macau, is returned to China.
? 2000 - Portugal assumes the rotating Presidency of the EEC.
?? 2000 - C. D. Santa Clara is first Azorean Soccer Team to fall from Portuguese Soccer First Division.
? 2000 - President Bill Clinton of the United States is first American President to visit Portugal in the 21st Century.? 2000 - Deportivo "La Coru?a", a Spanish Soccer Club, after almost 100 years of existence finally wins the Championship of the First Division, in spite of the valiant efforts of the Barcelona F. C., where the Portuguese, Lu?s Figo (who is judged by some as the best European soccer player at the moment), stars. It's interesting to note that an Azorean, Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes (Pauleta), was instrumental in helping the Deportivo in its quest.?
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Little did Jane know as she posed for the phoos on the left with her sister Mary Beth that someday in January. 2006 shed accompany me to Lisbon, Fatima, Setubal, and S. Miguel. There was a time around her high school graduation when she would laugh heartily about her grandfathers obsession with Radio Station WJFD-FM, New Bedford. After this particular trip that she took with me, she suddenly realized that my fathers attention to that radio station was rather routinary, for she knew now how important and dear it is for one to keep in touch with the memory of ones homeland.