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Day	Year	Historical dates of Cuba in the month of May
1	1961	Nationalization of private schools. Inauguration of Radio Havana-Cuba Radio Station.
2	1959	Commander in Chief Fidel Castro attended the 21’s meeting.
3	1960	Arrival to Sierra Maestra Mountain Range of the first voluntary teachers.
5	1895	Meeting of Jose Marti, Maximo Gomez and Antonio Maceo in La Mejorana.
7	1797	Birth in Bayamo of Jose Antonio Saco.
	1839	Jose Maria Heredia died in Mexico.
	1870	Patriot Domingo Goicuria garroted to death.
8	1796	Introduction in Cuba of sugar cane, under the name of Otahiti or Tahiti.
	1935	Murder of Antonio Guiteras Holmes in El Morrillo, Matanzas.
	1967	Cuban revolutionary Antonio Briones Montoto killed in Venezuelan seashore.
10	1869	Guaimaro burned.
11	1873	Major General Ignacio Agramonte killed in the fields of Jimaguayu.
15	1795	Foundation of San Antonio Abad or San Antonio de los Baños.
	1955	Fidel and his comrades in arms in the attack to Moncada Garrison released from prison.
	1956	Assassination of young revolutionary Ruben Aldama.
16	1938	Opening edition of newspaper “HOY.”
	1961	Foundation of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP).
17	1959	The Land Reform Act enacted from “La Plata”, Sierra Maestra.
	1962	Foundation of the Institute of History.
19	1895	Death in Dos Rios of Apostle Jose Marti.
20	1902	Inauguration of the rogue Republic, under Tomas Estrada Palma’s presidency.
	1912	Beginning of the so-called “War of the Colored Independents.” The rebels were horrible massacred.
22	1765	Birth of economist Francisco de Arango y Parreño.
	1903	Signing of Cuba-USA Permanent Treaty. The Yankees imposed and enforced the Platt Amendment for many years, until 1934.
23	1866	Birth of academician Tranquilino Sandalio de Noda.
24	1957	Landing of expeditionaries aboard the boat “Corinthia.”
25	1848	Attempted annexation of Cuba by James K. Polk.
26	1964	Inauguration of the “Felipe Poey” Museum of Natural History at the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
28	1957	Victory of the rebels against the tyranny forces in the battle of El Uvero. The expeditionaries of the boat “Corinthia” were slaughtered in Cabonico.
29	1586	Pirate Francis Drake sails in sight of Havana Port.
	1934	Platt Amendment repealed.
31	1898	US Navy shelled Santiago de Cuba City and interfered in the Spanish-Cuban War.
	Note:	International Mother’s Day is celebrated the second Sunday of this month.
		(Translated by: Pedro A. Fanego)