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The History of Guantanamo Bay



In 1898 the US Marines first landed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…


In 1903 President Roosevelt signed the original lease agreement with Cuba for Naval Base Guantanamo Bay…


In 1904 an appropriation of $385,500 was made for emergency repair installation at Guantanamo Bay…


In 1906 Roosevelt sent troops to Cuba to crush a revolt…


In 1913 the Naval Station was officially opened…


In 1918, $14,000 was appropriated for dwellings for keepers and improvements at Guantanamo Bay…


In 1938 Hepburn Board visits Guantanamo Bay and makes recommendations for expansion…


In 1939 station started receiving water from the Yateras River via a new pipeline…


In 1940-1941 a contract was signed with Frederick Snare Corp to begin construction program for expansion of the station and Naval “Operating Base” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was established…


In 1950 the U.S. Supreme Court rules that nonresident enemy aliens have “no access to our courts in wartime” …


In 1959 Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba …


In 1964 Castro’s government in Havana cuts off water supplies to Guantanamo Bay …


In 1993 U.S. detention of HIV-positive refugees at Guantanamo Bay is declared unconstitutional …


In 1999 U.S. Marines disarm all land mines surrounding Guantanamo Bay …


In 2002 Bush Administration established Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp…


In 2003 a new Guantanamo Bay Standard Operating Procedure Manual is put into effect…


In 2005 federal judge Joyce Hens Green ruled that Combatant Status Review Tribunals were unconstitutional…


In 2006 George W Bush signs a law suspending the right of habeas corpus to persons determined by U.S. determined to be an “enemy of the United States” …


In 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene vs. Bush …


In 2009 President Obama sigsn executive order that Guantanamo Detention Camp would close within a year…


In 2011 Obama signs the 2011 Defense Authorization Bill…

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