The following is a
timeline of the
history of the
city
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of
Hialeah,
Florida, USA.
20th century
* 1921 - Hialeah founded with the first plan drawn up and the town named.
* 1924
** Miami-Hialeah
Florida East Coast Railway
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Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a pr ...
line and Miami River Canal Swing Bridge
built.
** Hialeah Women's Club opens
town library
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an or ...
.
* 1925
** Hialeah
incorporated.
**
Hialeah Park Race Track built for horse racing.
** Hialeah Chamber of Commerce established.
* 1926
** Hurricane.
**
Hialeah Seaboard Air Line Railway Station built.
* 1927 - Hialeah-Miami Springs Vertical Lift
Bridge opens.
* 1944 - ''Home News'' begins publication.
* 1948 - Town of
Hialeah Gardens incorporated near Hialeah.
* 1958 -
City of Hialeah Public Library
The City of Hialeah Public Library is a system of public libraries in Hialeah, FL. The Hialeah Public Library has one central library, John F. Kennedy Library, and five neighborhood e-libraries.
History
In 1924, the Hialeah Woman's Club
...
building opens.
* 1961 -
M.A. Milam Elementary School established.
* 1969 - ''El Sol de Hialeah''
newspaper begins publication.
* 1970 - ''El Día''
newspaper begins publication.
* 1971 -
Westfield Westland shopping mall in business.
* 1973
**
KC and the Sunshine Band
KC and the Sunshine Band is an American disco and funk band that was founded in 1973 in Hialeah, Florida. Their best-known songs include the hits "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "K ...
(musical group) formed.
**
TK Records and Colonial Twin cinema
in business.
* 1974 - Santería
Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye (CLBA) is a Santería church in Hialeah, Florida. The church practices Cuba's Santería or Lucumí tradition / Regla de Ocha.
CLBA was founded and incorporated in 1974 by Oba Ernesto Pichardo and his associates. In the ...
established.
* 1979 - Citrus Health Network founded.
* 1980
**
Miami Dade College Hialeah campus established.
** Apollo North cinema in business.
* 1981 -
Raúl L. Martínez
Raúl L. Martínez (born March 6, 1949, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) is a former mayor of Hialeah, Florida, United States. He is a Democrat and was mayor for 24 years, first elected in 1981 and was the Democratic congressional candidate for Flo ...
becomes mayor.
* 1982 - ''El Hispano''
newspaper begins publication.
* 1985
**
Hialeah station (Metrorail) and
Okeechobee station (Metrorail) open.
** ''El Condado News'' begins publication.
* 1987 - ''Mi Casa''
newspaper begins publication.
** Christian Gomez is born.
* 1989
** Tri-Rail commuter rail
Miami Airport station
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opens.
** Carmike cinema in business.
* 1990
** April: Mayor Martínez indicted for racketeering and suspended from office.
**
Population: 188,004.
* 1993
** U.S. Supreme Court decides animal sacrifice-related ''
Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
''Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah'', 508 U.S. 520 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an ordinance passed in Hialeah, Florida, forbidding the "unnecessar killing of "an animal in a public ...
'' in favor of freedom of religion (over city public health regulation).
**
Carrie P. Meek
Carrie Mae Pittman Meek (April 29, 1926November 28, 2021) was the United States Representative for Florida's 17th congressional district, from 1993 to 2003. Having been elected in the September 1992 primary with no general election opponent, she ...
becomes
U.S. representative
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for
27th congressional district.
* 1999
**
Telemundo television headquarters relocated to Hialeah.
** City website online (approximate date).
* 2000 - 75th anniversary of city founding.
21st century
* 2005 -
Julio Robaina becomes mayor.
* 2008 -
Westland Hialeah High School
Westland Hialeah High School is a four-year public high school located at 4000 West 18th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida, United States, a suburb of Miami. The school is a part of Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Its principal is Giovanna Handal.
As ...
and
City of Hialeah Educational Academy open.
* 2010 -
Population: 224,669.
* 2011
** May:
Carlos Hernández becomes acting mayor.
** November:
Hialeah mayoral election, 2011 held.
* 2013
** January:
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen becomes
U.S. representative
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for Florida's newly created
27th congressional district.
** July:
Shooting at Todel Apartments.
* 2014 -
Aldi grocery chain opens store in Hileah.
* 2015
** Miami Watersports Complex opens.
** Population: 237,082 (estimate).
* 2021:
Shooting.
See also
*
Hialeah history
*
List of mayors of Hialeah, Florida
Hialeah ( ; ) is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. With a population of 223,109 as of the 2020 census, Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in Florida. It is the second largest city by population in the Miami metropolitan area, whi ...
*
Timelines
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Timelines can use any suitable scale representi ...
of other
cities in the
South Florida
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area of Florida:
Boca Raton
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,
Fort Lauderdale,
Hollywood
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* Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California
* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
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Places United States
* Hollywood District (disambiguation)
* Hollywood, ...
,
Miami,
Miami Beach
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,
West Palm Beach
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