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1551: Diego de Mazariegos, companion of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico, is appointed Governor of Cuba and establishes his residence in Havana.
1788: A fire devastates much of the city of New Orleans, then the capital of Spanish Louisiana and now part of the United States.
1963: The United States authorities definitively close the Alcatraz federal prison located in the San Francisco Bay.
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