1 |
1851 |
Execution of Narciso Lopez in La Punta. |
2 |
1960 |
The People’s General Assembly adopted the First Havana Declaration. |
4 |
1640 |
The pirate known as “Peg Leg” reached the outskirts of Havana. |
|
1899 |
Foundation in Havana of the General League of Cuban Workers. |
5 |
1957 |
Uprising in Cienfuegos and capture of Cayo Loco. It was savagely suppressed by the tyranny. |
11 |
1844 |
Birth of poet Jose Joaquin Palma, author of Guatemala national anthem. |
12 |
1919 |
Spanish steamboat “Valbanera” sank close to Havana Port. |
13 |
1895 |
Jimaguayu Constituent Assembly. |
14 |
1959 |
Columbia military fortress handed over to the Ministry of Education. |
16 |
1895 |
Signing of Jimaguayu Constitution. |
17 |
1896 |
Maceo reached Guane. |
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1958 |
The tyranny murdered Lydia Doce and Clodomira Ferrals. |
19 |
1837 |
Birth of Benito Viñes, a scientist that discovered the Laws of Hurricane Circulation and Motion across the Caribbean Sea. |
21 |
1953 |
Beginning of the trial against the heroic attackers of Moncada Garrison. |
23 |
1728 |
Foundation and establishment of Havana University. |
26 |
1879 |
Death of Jose Antonio Saco, reformist writer and poet. |
|
1960 |
Fidel Castro’s trascendental speech at the United Nations. |
27 |
1958 |
Murder of militia captain Fernando Alfonso Torice (Morua) in Hatuey street, Arroyo Apolo. |
28 |
1852 |
Cuban patriot Eduardo Facciolo Alba was garroted to death. He was the typographer of “La Voz del Pueblo Cubano.” (The Voice of Cuban People) |
29 |
1906 |
Second US military occupation in Cuba, under Mr. Magoon’s command. |
30 |
1930 |
Murder of university student Rafael Trejo by tyrant Gerardo Machado’s agents. |
