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1499 |
Alonso de Ojeda, a Columbus Spanish lieutenant, and Amerigo Vespucci landed at Curacao. Links: Curacao 
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1940 Jul |
Jan Zwartendijk, a Dutch diplomat, and Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat, worked together to save some 2,000 thousand Polish Jews, who had fled to Lithuania by issuing them visas for Japan, China and the Dutch colonies in South America. Zwartendijk wrote out the so called Curacao visas, while Sugihara issued the transit visas weeks after the Red Army entered the Baltic state. The Sugihara family was later captured by the Russians and placed in a concentration camp for 1½ years. None of the refugees actually arrived in Curacao, but many of them reached free countries or ended up in Shanghai where they survived the war. Links: Japan, Poland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Jews, Curacao
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1954 Dec 15 |
With the proclamation of the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles attained equal status with the Netherlands proper and Suriname in the overarching Kingdom of the Netherlands. Links: Netherlands, Suriname, Antilles, Curacao
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1954 |
The 5 islands of the Netherlands Antilles were federated. These included Bonaire, Curacao, St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. Links: Netherlands, Antilles, Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius
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1969 May 30 |
Refinery workers on Curacao set fires in Willemstad. Marines from the Netherlands restored order. Links: Netherlands, Curacao
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2004 Apr 5 |
The governing coalition of Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean territory, collapsed over allegations that the justice minister gave favors to a political donor convicted of corruption. Links: Netherlands, Curacao
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2005 Aug 28 |
West Oahu of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, won the Little League World Series title with a 7-6 win over the defending champions from Willemstad, Curacao. Links: USA, Baseball, Curacao, Hawaii
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2006 Jan 27 |
Five Caribbean islands held their last parliamentary elections as members of a unified Netherlands Antilles. Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius have set a target date of July 1, 2007 for breaking off to form their own governments. Links: Netherlands, Antilles, Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius
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2007 Sep 3 |
Hurricane Felix, having passed the Dutch islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire with little damage, rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm and churned toward Central America, where forecasters said it could arrive as a "potentially catastrophic" storm. Links: Aruba, Curacao, Hurricane, Bonaire
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2009 Sep 25 |
On the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao James Hogan (49), a US diplomat, was reported missing by his wife. On Oct 1 authorities confirmed that DNA on bloody clothes found along Baya Beach matched with Hogan. Curacao, the headquarters of the Netherlands Antilles government, lies about 40 miles (65km) off Venezuela's coast. Links: Netherlands, Antilles, Curacao
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2010 Oct 10 |
Curacao, St Maarten, Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius were scheduled to go their own ways. The former Dutch Caribbean colonies of Curacao and St. Maarten became autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in a change of constitutional status dissolving the Netherlands Antilles. Links: Netherlands, Curacao, St. Maarten, Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius
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2011 Jul 22 |
In Curacao Moustapha Khalesa (20), a Dubai-born Canadian citizen, stabbed 24-year-old Kan Mei Chan of the US to death in a medical university dorm as she rushed to help a professor who Khalesa had also stabbed. Links: Murder, Curacao
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2012 Aug 27 |
Curacao conservationists and residents said an extensive fuel spill has fouled a stretch of shoreline and oiled pink flamingos and other wildlife in a nature preserve on the tiny Dutch Caribbean island. Links: Oil, Environment, Curacao
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2012 Nov 30 |
In Curacao masked men in jackets emblazoned with the word "police" boarded a fishing boat and stole 70 gold bars worth an estimated $11.5 million. The captain and three crew members were from Guyana. Links: Curacao, Robbery, Gold
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2017 Jul 21 |
An appeals court in the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao upheld the sentence of a former prime minister found guilty of corruption. Gerrit Schotte was appointed prime minister in 2010 and was ousted in August 2012 after his governing coalition lost its majority. Links: Curacao
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2018 Jan 5 |
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the shutdown of all air and maritime traffic with the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire for the next 72 hours. He accused island leaders of being complicit in the illegal trafficking of goods and resources. Links: Venezuela, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire
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2018 Jan 9 |
Venezuelan officials extended the ban on air and maritime ties with Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire, three nearby Dutch Caribbean islands, citing smuggling claims. Links: Venezuela, Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire
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2018 Jan 9 |
A boat carrying roughly 30 migrants left Venezuela for Curacao. Early the next day four bodies washed up on the shore of Curacao. Venezuelan authorities later confirmed 16 survivors from the shipwreck with ten people still missing. Links: Venezuela, Tragedy, Curacao
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2019 Feb 23 |
Venezuelan opposition supporters rallied in Curacao's port as the island's government indicated it may allow their humanitarian aid shipment to sail. Pres. Maduro has ordered the country's sea border with Curacao to be closed to block the aid. Links: Venezuela, Curacao
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2019 May 4 |
Authorities in Curacao boarded the Freewinds ship that arrived in the Dutch Caribbean island under quarantine, to start vaccinating people to prevent a measles outbreak. Links: Microbiology, Curacao
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2019 Sep 24 |
The US Treasury targeted four additional maritime companies and tankers they own or operate for transporting Venezuelan oil to Cuba in violation of sanctions. Links: Venezuela, USA, Oil, Curacao
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2019 Oct 5 |
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast today that Russia will find ways to help Cuba secure supplies of oil and petroleum products. Links: Russia, Oil, Curacao
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2022 Jun 19 |
State-owned Refineria di Kòrsou said Curacao will begin negotiations with a seven-company consortium to take over management of the Caribbean island's oil refinery and storage terminal. Links: Curacao
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