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1878
Writer and poet Regino E Boti was born.
18 de Febrero de 1878
He was born in Guantánamo, former Oriente province, in February 18th, 1878. He studied elementary school in his hometown. Between 1895 and 1898 he lived in Barcelona, sent there by his family in order to carry on studies. In 1900 was appointed internal assistant of a boys school in Guantánamo, and later he became its principal. He worked as auxiliar of administratorship in a sugar mill in Dominican Republic (1902-1904). He laboured teaching in public schools since 1906, when he was declared jobless.
In 1907 was co-founder, del Partido Conservador Nacional, (National Conservative Party) in Guantánamo becoming its president some years later (1920-1922). From 1907 to 1908 he worked as professor in private schools and directed the Municipal Night School. For several years he was in charge of the secretaryship of the Electoral Municipal Board in Guantánamo (1908-1917). In 1911 he graduated as public teacher. In 1913 he got the title of Bachelor and that very year he was President of the Society of Lectures of Guantánamo. He graduted as Doctor in Civil Laws in the University of Havana (1917) and later he received the title of Public Notary (1918). He carried on the la notarial career and became grammar and lierature professor in the Guantánamo High School.
He was appointed delegate to the Second American of Intellectual Cooperation (1941). In 1942 he graduated as Doctor in Philoosophy and Letters in the University of Havana. He directed El Resumen (The Review), and was collaborator in Oriente, El Pensil, Oriente Literario, Renacimiento, El Cubano Libre, Orto, Luz, El Estudiante, Cuba y América, El Tiempo, Cuba Contemporánea, Revista de Avance, Letras, El Fígaro, Bohemia, La Ilustración, Universal, Diario de la Marina, Revista Bimestre Cubana, El Mundo. He was also correspondent member of the Academy of History of Cuba, of the Cuban Academy of Language ad of the Hispano American Academy of Sciences and Arts of Cádiz.
He dedicated to the study of metrics and published unknown works by Rubén Darío. He compiled Cuban popular chants gathered in La lira cubana (4th edition. Guantánamo, La Imperial Publishing House, 1919). Together with José Manuel Poveda and Agustín Acosta he join to the form "el trío" of poets who created the first lyrical renaissance in the Republic.
1901
Writer Félix Pita Rodríguez was born.
18 de Febrero de 1901
He was born in Bejucal, Havana on February, 18, 1901. He studied elementary school in the public school of his hometown. Between 1926 and 1927 he travelled through México and Guatemala, where he worked as assistant of a peddler who sold bijouteries and miracle tonics. He collaborated with the literary magazine of the Diario de la Marina. He published poems. After the triumph of the Revolution, (1959), he was jury of the Casa de las Américas, UNEAC, 26 de Julio, David and MININT literary contests. He was President of literature department of the UNEAC (Natioal Association of Cuban Writers and Artists).A film on his story San Abdul de Montecallado, was made in Mexico. He has translated several Vietnamese literature texts from french. His stories, essays and critical works have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, Polish Vietnamese Czech, Albanese, Chinese, Russian Bulgarian and Hungarian. National Award on Literature in 1985. He died in Havana, on October 19, 1990.
1945
Writeress Olga Alonso was born
18 de Febrero de 1945
She was born in San Miguel del Padrón, Havana, in February 18th , 1945, and died in Fomento, Las Villas, in March 4th, 1964. She studied High School in the School of Commerce of El Vedado (Havana). In April 16th, 1961 she began studying in the School for Arts Instructors, where she carried on numerous activities. She graduated as First Student on Theatre in September 1963. In November of that year she is sent to work in the Mártires de Fomento farm, where she works as Instructor of Regional Theatre and created the Vladimiro Maiakovski, Folklore, Chaplin, Ismaelillos, Pantomimas amateur groups, composed by children and adults.
1953
Third Cuban TV Channel: Channel 2, Telemundo CMBA-TV, is settled.
18 de Febrero de 1953
Third Cuban TV Channel: Channel 2, Telemundo CMBA-TV, is settled in February 18th, 1953. The TV News program which spread Fulgencio Batista stamped in January 1st, 1959 was El Mundo en TV, live broadcasted and directed by Carlos Lechuga, and from the very dawn that Channel 2 spread the great news, it wrote its most beautiful history including moments such as Fidel Castro arrival to Santa Clara.
In 1960 the Channel was nationalized and merged with Channel 4, taking the name of Televisión Revolución and, some time later, it was settled in CH-TV, the young telecenter which so much gives to Cuban TV, and recently has become in the official site of Canal Educativo, at the service of people´s culture as part of the Battle of Ideas, taking on by the Cuban people.
2001
Day of the Art Instructor
18 de Febrero de 2001
The Day of the Art Instructor, commemorating Olga Alonso´s birthday is celebrated every February 18th. when the labour by those in charge of the important mission of teaching and participating in human being formation, guiding their artistic aptitudes to start a battle with true weapons of ideas is acknowledged. Where brigades in charge of taking art to rural zones and hard to be reached localities.
The Program of Schools of Art Instructors was officially inaugurated in February 18th, 2001 in the “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” school in Villa Clara, after having been working for six months. Since that year the constructive projects of this enterprise has been perfected. and its capacity amounts to 16 200 students.
Im the speech delivered by the President of the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, in the graduation of the first course of Schools of Art Instructors, held in the Ernesto Che Guevara Square, Santa Clara, in October 20th, 2004, he stated that this program would be implemented. “It is fair to outstand that many professors, artists and intellectuals have joined the effort to be part of the group of professors of the Art Schools: they have enrichened the study plans and have achieved that what was vanished, would reborn even stronger as part of the colossal battle for a whole general culture in our people.
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