When Jose Leonidas Uzcategui Quintero was born on 4 February 1892, in Mucurubá, Rangel, Mérida, Venezuela, his father, José Wenceslao Uzcategui Baptista, was 49 and his mother, Maria Petra Abigail Quintero Erazo, was 24. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Mariá Nieves Albarran Lara. He died in Venezuela.
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An international tribunal in Paris ruled on a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana (Guyana). Britain received most of the claim for the Essequibo region, close to 111,000 square miles. Venezuela was represented by 2 U.S. judges and the chairman of the panel was Russian jurist Frederic de Martens. Venezuela rejected this decision in the 1960s.
Cipriano Castro served as president of Venezuela.
Venezuela was the world's largest exporter of oil.
Basque: Castilianized form (Uzcátegui) of a topographic name ending in -tegi ‘house, workshop of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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