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Timeline of Hialeah, Florida

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The following is a timeline of the history of the cityofHialeah, Florida, USA.

20th century[edit]

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1921 - Hialeah founded with the first plan drawn up and the town named.^[1]
1924
- Miami-Hialeah Florida East Coast Railway line^[2] and Miami River Canal Swing Bridge^[3] built.
- Hialeah Women's Club opens town library.
1925
- Hialeah incorporated.^[4]
- Hialeah Park Race Track built for horse racing.^[5]
- Hialeah Chamber of Commerce established.^[6]
1926
- Hurricane.^[7]
- Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station built.
1927 - Hialeah-Miami Springs Vertical Lift Bridge opens.^[3]
1944 - Home News begins publication.^[8]
1948 - Town of Hialeah Gardens incorporated near Hialeah.
1958 - City of Hialeah Public Library building opens.
1961 - M.A. Milam Elementary School established.
1969 - El Sol de Hialeah newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1970 - El Día newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1971 - Westfield Westland shopping mall in business.
1973
- KC and the Sunshine Band (musical group) formed.^[9]
- TK Records and Colonial Twin cinema^[10] in business.
1974 - Santería Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye established.
1979 - Citrus Health Network founded.^[11]
1980
- Miami Dade College Hialeah campus established.
- Apollo North cinema in business.^[10]
1981 - Raúl L. Martínez becomes mayor.
1982 - El Hispano newspaper begins publication.^[8]
1985
- Hialeah station (Metrorail) and Okeechobee station (Metrorail) open.
- El Condado News begins publication.^[8]
1987 - Mi Casa newspaper begins publication.^[8]
- Christian Gomez is born.
1989
- Tri-Rail commuter rail Miami Airport station opens.
- Carmike cinema in business.^[10]
1990
- April: Mayor Martínez indicted for racketeering and suspended from office.^[12]^[13]
- Population: 188,004.^[14]
1993
- U.S. Supreme Court decides animal sacrifice-related Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah in favor of freedom of religion (over city public health regulation).^[15]
- Carrie P. Meek becomes U.S. representative for 27th congressional district.^[16]
1999
- Telemundo television headquarters relocated to Hialeah.
- City website online (approximate date).^[17]^[18]
2000 - 75th anniversary of city founding.^[5]

21st century[edit]

2005 - Julio Robaina becomes mayor.
2008 - Westland Hialeah High School and City of Hialeah Educational Academy^[11] open.
2010 - Population: 224,669.^[19]^[20]
2011
- May: Carlos Hernández becomes acting mayor.
- November: Hialeah mayoral election, 2011 held.
2013
- January: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes U.S. representative for Florida's newly created 27th congressional district.^[21]
- July: Shooting at Todel Apartments.
2014 - Aldi grocery chain opens store in Hileah.^[22]
2015
- Miami Watersports Complex opens.^[23]
- Population: 237,082 (estimate).^[24]
2021: Shooting.

References[edit]

^ Federal Writers’ Project 1941, p. 180.

^ Bramson 2008.

^ ^a ^b Historic Highway Bridges of Florida (PDF), Florida Department of Transportation, 2012

^ Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-28{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

^ ^a ^b "History Of Hialeah". City of Hialeah. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ Hialeah Public Libraries. "Hialeah History Collection". City of Hialeah. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ Hellmann 2006.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ James Stuart Olson, ed. (1999). Historical Dictionary of the 1970s. USA: Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-30543-6.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Movie Theaters in Hialeah, FL". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ ^a ^b Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei, ed. (9 May 2013). "Hialeah, Florida". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ "Mayor and a Councilman Are Indicted in Hialeah", New York Times, April 4, 1990

^ "Hialeah Mayor Guilty Of Selling His Influence", New York Times, March 27, 1991

^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998

^ M.F. Mikula; et al., eds. (1999), Great American Court Cases, Gale

^ "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1993–1994. hdl:2027/uc1.l0072691827 – via HathiTrust.

^ "City of Hialeah, Florida Official Web Site". Archived from the original on March 2, 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.

^ Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Florida". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC 40169021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.

^ "Hialeah city, Florida". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Hialeah", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles

^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington DC. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

^ "ALDI opening second Hialeah store on July 10", Miami Herald, July 2, 2014

^ "New watersports complex opens in Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah", Miami Herald, March 28, 2015

^ Joe Germuska (ed.). "Hialeah, FL". Censusreporter.org. USA. Retrieved May 3, 2017.

Bibliography[edit]

Federal Writers’ Project (1941). "Chronology". Planning Your Vacation in Florida Miami and Dade County. American Guide Series. Northport, NY: Bacon, Percy & Daggett. ISBN 9780404579074.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)

Peter D. Klingman (1974). "Ernest Graham and the Hialeah Charter Fight of 1937" (PDF). Tequesta. 34. Historical Association of Southern Florida. ISSN 0363-3705 – via Florida International University.