Historical clue formulations

• Starting point of Diana Nyad's 2013 swim to Florida — 2026-04-12
• Island north of Jamaica — 2025-04-22
• Island country sometimes called "El Cocodrilo" for its shape — 2024-05-26
• Starting point for a record-setting swim in 2023's "Nyad" — 2024-04-16
• Home to the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, which measures just 2.25" — 2023-03-25
• Hemingway's home for over 20 years — 2023-03-12
• Isla de la Juventud locale — 2023-01-19
• Actor Gooding Jr. — 2022-10-24
• Havana is its capital — 2022-03-21
• Home of the 62-Down hummingbird, the world's smallest bird — 2021-12-09
• Bay of Pigs locale — 2020-08-10
• Home to the Bay of Pigs — 2020-04-22
• Havana's home — 2020-04-06
• Havana's home — 2019-08-12
• Olympic powerhouse in boxing — 2019-08-04
• Target of the U.S.-backed Radio Martí — 2019-02-27
• Where Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" — 2018-05-20
• 1962 Organization of American States expellee — 2017-05-05
• Country with which the U.S. re-established diplomatic relations in 2015 — 2017-02-14
• Historic 2016 Obama destination — 2017-01-11
• Guantánamo Bay locale — 2015-12-01
• Homeland of many Miamians — 2015-03-04
• Island sometimes called El Cocodrilo — 2014-08-15
• Country with the most all-time medals in Olympic baseball — 2014-07-27
• Home to Morro Castle — 2013-07-06
• 1950s coup site — 2012-09-30
• Locale of Guantánamo Bay — 2012-01-24
• Destination of many 1960s-'70s airplane hijackings — 2010-08-24
• International baseball powerhouse — 2008-08-10
• Bay of Pigs locale — 2008-01-08
• It's south of Florida — 2006-04-24
• San Juan Hill site — 2003-07-30
• Castro's country — 2003-05-05
• Havana's home — 2003-04-28
• Embargoed land — 2002-03-14
• Bay of Pigs location — 2001-12-18
• Where many Miamians were born — 2001-10-29
• Santiago de ___ — 2001-09-28
• Embargoed country — 2000-03-02
• Home of 49-Across — 1996-05-01
• Sierra Maestra country — 1994-09-01
• Where the conga originated — 1994-05-15
• Actor Gooding — 1993-12-28