Early Years. Ada Lovelace, born as Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of the famous poet Lord George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron's marriage to Ada's mother, Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, was not a happy one. Lady Byron separated from her husband only weeks after their daughter was born.
Obama makes travel to Cuba easier and lifts financial restrictions on Havana. A cabdriver in a classic American car passes a billboard that reads in Spanish, Long live free Cuba, in Havana on March 14.
John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro. The United States embargo against Cuba (in Cuba called el bloqueo, the blockade) is a commercial, economic, and financial embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba. An embargo was first imposed by the United States on sale of arms to Cuba on March 14, 1958, during the Fulgencio Batista regime.