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1890
Writer Juan Jerez Villareal was born
18 de Junio de 1890
He was born in June 18th, 1890 in Bayamo, Oriente, and became a bachelor in that former province. He graduated in the Pennsylvania State Normal School and in the Northwestern University of Chicago (U.S.A.). He travelled along different countries. He collaborated in El Cubano Libre, El Pensil, El Renacimiento, all from Santiago de Cuba, and in Havana publishings El FÃgaro, Bohemia, El PaÃs, Diario de la Marina, Revista Avance. Besides he collaborated in Proa (Buenos Aires, Argentine), in Revista das Academia do Brasil, and in others. He was one of the founders of Orto, from Manzanillo. He was president of the Club Atenas, member of the Junta de Gobierno de la Asociación de Escritores y Artistas Americanos and member of the Instituto Nacional de Prevención y Reformas Sociales. In 1960 he won the Award of the Academy of History of Cuba by his book Oriente (bibliografÃa de una provincia). Some years later he went to live abroad.
1926
Journalist Carlos Baliño died
18 de Junio de 1926
He was born in February 13th, 1848 and died in June 18th, 1926 in Havana. At the age of 21 he emigrated to the United States of America where his friendship with José Martà began.
Baliño was among the founders of the Cuban Recolutionary Party in 1892. Once the Hispanic-Cuban-American War was over, he returned to Cuba, oustanding by his anianexionist positions. He was one of those Cubans who sided the 1905 Russian Revolution, and was closely linked to the settlement of the Partido Obrero Socialista, (Socialist Working Party), previously named Partido Obrero de Cuba (Worker´s Party of Cuba) (1904). In October 14th, 1921 he published a solidarity manifesto with the Soviet People. On those years he met Julio Antonio Mella, with whom he played a decissive role in the creation of Communist Groups during 1923.
In the second fortnight of August 1925, when the Congress of Communist Groups was on session, it was settled the first Communist Party of Cuba, whose founders were inmediate and fiercely represised by the recent governmet of Gerardo Machado y Morales. Mella, pursued was forced to leave the; José Miguel Pérez (general secretary of that Party) was banished to the Cannary Islands.
1951
Writer Antonio L. Valverde Maruri died
18 de Junio de 1951
He was born in Havana in May 23rd, 1867 and died in June 18th, 1951. He made all his studies in Havana, in whose University he graduated in Civil and Canonic Laws in 1892. He practised as lawyer and notary. He was professor of Bussiness and Professoral Law, by opposition, of History of Commerce in the School of Commerce of Havana. In the 1900 to 1901 contest he won the Award of the School of Lawyers of Havana on behalf of his study on international public law entitled: La Intervención.
His memoire Right of Family was awarded in the Floral Games of the Havana Atheneum in 1908. In 1916 he attended the American Congress Bibliography and History, held in Buenos Aires and Tucumán, in which he produced his work Los grandes imperios de Perú y México. He was Chief Editor of La Gaceta Musical. He collaborated in the Revista del Foro, Diario de la Marina, Heraldo de Cuba, El FÃgaro, La Reforma Social, Revista Bimestre Cubana, Archipiélago, Revista de La Habana.
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