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Paul Cejas School of Architecture Building 2003, Tri-Rail storage yard On July 28 1896 the incorporation meeting to make Miami a city took place the right to vote was restricted to all men who resided in Miami or Dade County Joseph A McDonald Flagler's chief of construction on the Royal Palm Hotel was elected chairman of the meeting After ensuring that enough voters were present the motion was made to incorporate and organize a city government under the corporate name of "The City of Miami" with the boundaries as proposed John B Reilly who headed Flagler's Fort Dallas land company was the first elected mayor. Hard Rock Stadium home of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and plays host to the Miami Hurricanes See also: List of notable crossings of the Atlantic Ocean! In 2012 75% of the population lived within 10 miles (16 km) of the coastline, Demographics of student body, 2.4 1980s and 1990s Tamarac Hurricanes pose a severe threat each year during June 1 to November 30 hurricane season particularly from August to October Florida is the most hurricane-prone state with subtropical or tropical water on a lengthy coastline Of the category 4 or higher storms that have struck the United States 83% have either hit Florida or Texas. Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it the arrival of the railroad and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly soon created a population boom New towns such as Moore Haven Clewiston and Belle Glade sprouted like the crops Sugarcane became the primary crop grown in South Florida Miami experienced a second real estate boom that earned a developer in Coral Gables $150 million Undeveloped land north of Miami sold for $30,600 an acre in 1925 Miami newspapers published editions weighing over 7 pounds (3.2 kg) most of it in real estate advertising Waterfront property was the most highly valued Mangrove trees were cut down and replaced with palm trees to improve the view Acres of South Florida slash pine were cleared Some of the pine was for lumber but most of the pine forests in Dade County were cleared for development, Sandalfoot Cove In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation. Plans are currently underway for a 1,700-student preparatory school in Brickell at 1742 SW 2nd Avenue named "Brickell Preparatory Academy" Other private schools in Downtown are:, Glen Ridge Maidique was the second longest-serving research university president in the nation Now President Emeritus he currently serves as the Alvah H Chapman Jr Eminent Scholar Chair in Leadership and Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Professor of Management at FIU.

! 3.1 2010 U.S Census Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education Bilingual education is offered in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese M-DCPS is the only school district in Florida to offer bilingual education in Mandarin, Cross-national cooperation and agreements have increased (17.3) 67.7 Swiss International Air Lines Zurich. . Florida has 131 public airports Florida's seven large hub and medium hub airports as classified by the FAA are the following:, Pineland Closure of the Atlantic! Miami Herald's Silver Knight award winners Concourse J at Miami International Airport Villa Vizcaya a popular tourist attraction. This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), Fort Dallas built in 1836, Following the 1959 Cuban revolution that unseated Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power most Cubans who were living in Miami returned to Cuba Soon after however many middle class and upper class Cubans moved to Florida en masse with few possessions Some Miamians were upset about this especially the African Americans who believed that the Cuban workers were taking their jobs.[citation needed] in addition the school systems struggled to educate the thousands of Spanish-speaking Cuban children Many Miamians fearing that the Cold War would become World War III left the city while others started building bomb shelters and stocking up on food and bottled water Many of Miami's Cuban refugees realized for the first time that it would be a long time before they would get back to Cuba in 1965 alone 100,000 Cubans packed into the twice daily "freedom flights" from Havana to Miami Most of the exiles settled into the Riverside neighborhood which began to take on the new name of "Little Havana" This area emerged as a predominantly Spanish-speaking community and Spanish speakers elsewhere in the city could conduct most of their daily business in their native tongue By the end of the 1960s more than four hundred thousand Cuban refugees were living in Dade County.