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1846
Poet Manuel Zequeira y Arango died.
19 de Abril de 1846
He was born in Havana in August 28th, 1764 and died in April 19th, 1846. Offspring from a wealthy family. In 1774 he began studying in the San Carlos Seminar where he was classmate and friend of Félix Varela. Close linked to Don Luis de las Casas goverment and to the Patriotic Society. He travelled to Santo Domingo where took part in the combats of La Matric and Yacsí. In 1800 he is appointed editor of the "Papel Periódico", which brought about a polemic with Buenaventura Pascual Ferrer, who ran for the same position. In 1813 he was appointed to the New Kingdom of Granada serving general Francisco Montalvo y Ambulodi. In 1821 he ranked as Colonel of Militia in Matanzas and there his earliest symptoms of insanity appeared. Author of Elogios fúnebres del excelentísimo señor D. Luis de las Casas y Aragorri, Oda a la Piña, Batalla Naval de Cortés en la Laguna, Exclamación poética, (poems), among others, colaborated in El Aviso de La Habana, El Criticón de La Habana, El Mensajero político, económico y literario de La Havana, El Noticioso Mercantil, El Observador Habanero y La Lira de Apolo.
1868
First issue of El País newspaper.
19 de Abril de 1868
Political, literary, economical, agricultural and mercantile newspaper, directed by Francisco Javier Cisneros. Its first issue was printed in Havana in April 19th, 1868. Sucessor of La Opinión. Among its collaborators are: Luis Victoriano Betancourt, Julia Pérez Montes de Oca, Mercedes Matamoros etc. Its last issue dates back to December 22nd, 1868.
1871
Intellectual Miguel Jerónimo Gutiérrez died
19 de Abril de 1871
He was born in June 15th, 1822, in las Villas and died in April 19th, 1871. Miguel Jerónimo Gutiérrez was a deep patriotic feelings intellectual who defended his revolutionary ideals as speaker, president of the Junta Revolucionaria of Las Villas province, member of the Asamblea Constituyente de Guáimaro and Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Cuba in Arms. He published poems in El Eco and in La Alborada, in which he was editor. He is included in the anthology Los poetas de la guerra, whose prologue was written by José Martí and published in New York. He was public accountant in his hometown, and, besides he entertained political-literary conversaziones, and collaborated in almost all publishings.
1914
Poet, essayist, literary crític and historian Ángel Gaztelu Gorriti was born.
19 de Abril de 1914
He was born on April 19th, 1914 in Puente de La Reina, Navarra and died in Miami, U.S.A., on October 30th, 2003. In 1927 he emigrated with his family to Cuba, where completed his ecclesiastical career in the San Carlos y San Ambrosio Seminar, where he became a priest in 1938. In 1932 he met José Lezama Lima and in 1933 to Guy Pérez - Cisneros, decissive facts in his literary formation. In 1936 he met the Andalucian poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, who published his poems in his Anthology of Cuban poetry. He sistematically collaborated with the magazines: Verbum, Espuela de Plata, Nadie Parecía (founded by him together with José Lezama Lima), and, finally Orígenes.
In 1940 the Cuban ecclesiastical authorities appointed him to the parish of Nuestra Señora de la Merced (Our Lady of the Mercy), in Bauta. Engaged in succesive and laborious construction works, linked to the most advanced artisitic and literary circles from his times, to a magazine like Orígenes and sent to a church in Havana outskirts, he was unsatisfied with humble construction works, but he invited the most dared visual artist from those year to make the stained-glass church windows and paint the walls of the temple, among them the sculptor Lozano and the painters: Mariano Rodríguez and René Portocarrero. Just finished these reforms and placed such valuable artworks, Carteles magazine, in one of its issues, dedicated its central pages to cover a wide information and description of the afore mentioned labours. Besides, cultural sessions which gathered intellectuals, writers, visual artists were held in his church. Those sessions were one of the most important artistic groups in Cuban culture and in them, as well as in the group publishings Father Gaztelú texts were printed. In 1984, he settled in Miami where he became parish priest of San Juan Bosco Church.
Poet, essayist, literary crític and historian. Among his works are: Poemas, Gradual de laúdes and Poemario.
1967
Composer and guitarist José Banderas died
19 de Abril de 1967
He was born in Santiago de Cuba in March 19th, 1891 and died in April 19th, 1967. He outstands as interpreter of Cuban Trova music, together with Gabriel Rubio, Juan Limonta and José Figarola. He worked as carpenter. From his youth he suffered from nervous breakdown, so he was secluded in the Mazorra Psiquiatric Hospital, from where he left in better conditions, some time later. He was professor of the extraordinary guitarist Vicente González Rubiera, Guyún. He composed the songs: "Boca roja", "La sirena", "Volvió mi corazón", "Sabrás que por ti", "La cima" and "María".
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