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2009 Event - Cuban and Venezuelan leaders sign over $3.2 billion worth of trade and cooperation agreements
2001 Death - Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer 1997 Death - Roberto Goizueta, Cuban Businessman 1994 Death - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies 1994 Death - Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74 1993 Birthday - Elian Gonzalez, Cuban Celebrity 1992 Event - Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die 1992 Death - Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies 1992 Death - Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies 1992 Death - La Lupe, Cuban singer, dies of a heart attack in the Bronx at 53 1980 Event - Cuban government closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla" 1980 Event - Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station 1980 Death - Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75 1980 Death - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist 1977 Death - Anais Nin, Cuban/American writer (Delta of Venus), dies at 73 1976 Death - Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65 1967 Birthday - Javier Sotomayor, Cuban jumper, world record 1989 1967 Death - [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies 1963 Death - Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (Malaguena), dies at 67 1963 Event - Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow 1962 Event - John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled 1962 Event - Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases 1962 Event - Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" 1962 Event - Cuban missile crisis began as John F. Kennedy becomes aware of missiles in Cuba 1961 Event - 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro 1959 Event - Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution 1959 Event - U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government 1959 Event - Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees 1958 Birthday - Mark Cuban, American Businessman 1958 Event - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels 1958 Event - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1957 Event - Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising 1951 Birthday - Ned Sublette, born in Lubbock, Texas, composer, musician, musicologist, producer, guitarist, studied classical guitar with Emilio Pujol, composition with Kenneth Gaburo, Cuban music scholar, known for mixing country-western, afro-Caribbean salsa, cumbia, rumba music styles 1942 Death - Jose R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53 1940 Death - Alfonso Hernandez Cata, Cuban author (El parage), dies 1933 Death - Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/vice-president, dies at 84 1933 Event - Coup on Cuban president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista 1933 Event - Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup 1932 Birthday - Roberto Goizueta, Cuban Businessman 1929 Death - Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28 1928 Birthday - Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer 1928 Birthday - Estelita Rodriguez, born in Cuba, actress, Cuban Fireball, Havana Rose 1927 Event - Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie 1908 Birthday - Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer 1905 Death - Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuban/French sonnet poet, dies at 62 1905 Death - Maximo Gomez, Cuban general, dies at 68 1904 Birthday - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist 1903 Event - Cuban state of Guantanamo leased to USA 1902 Birthday - Nicolas Guillen, Cuban poet, Motivos de son 1898 Event - U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors 1895 Death - Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies 1895 Event - Cuban war for independence begins 1890 Event - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City 1875 Event - US-Spanish relations decline in wake of Cuban rebellion 1872 Death - Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), dies at 66 1849 Birthday - Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist 1844 Death - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, "Placido", Cuban poet, dies at 35 1809 Birthday - Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, Placido, Cuban poet |
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