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1787
Priest, patriot, pedagogue and essayist Félix Varela y Morales was born.
20 de Noviembre de 1787
Son of a Spanish mlitary man. In 1806 he graduated as Bachelor in Theology and took the habits. He received the subdeaconship in 1809 and the deaconship 1810. That year he graduated as Licentiate in Theology. In 1811 he presented to an opposiont contest for the Chair of Latin and Rethorics as well as to the one of Philosophy in the San Carlos Seminar. After very hard and brilliant works he achieved this and could exert it thanks to an special authorization granted by Bishop Espada, Also in 1811 he took his religious habits. From then and until 1816 he carried out an intense work as religious speaker.
According to a testimony by Josè de la Luz y Cabalero, despite mastering Latin as his native tongue, he renewed the teaching system introducing Spanish in his classes and books, in which he left scolasticism away, imposed by eclectic philosophy and introduced experimentation in the study of sciences. On these years hes speeches were published in the Diario del Gobierno, El Observador Habanero and Memorias de la Real Sociedad Económica de La Habana. Around 1822 he presented a project asking for the independence of Spanish America and wrote a memoire which made evident the necessity of finishing with the black slavery in the Island of Cuba, according to the needs of the slave owners, but he did not produce this document to the Court.
In 1823 he voted for Regency, so when absolutism was imposed again in Spain he had to shelter in Gibraltar. Shortly afterward he was sentenced to death penalty. In December 17th, 1823 he he arived to the United States of America, where he was forced to live the rest of his life. During those years he carried out a fruitful journalistic and essay writing labour. He entered in the Cuban history as Fèlix Varela: The man who taught us to thnk in Cuban.
1848
First issue of El Álbum Cubano.
20 de Noviembre de 1848
First and only issue of El Album Cubano appeared in November 20th, 1848, because it is officially censored. Newspaper of literature, sciences and arts, dedicated to the Count of Alcoy by Leonardo J. Bravo y Soria. It had daily custom articles, Lord Byron´s translations and other poetries, reproductions of texts by José María Heredia and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido).
1848
Journalist Diego Vicente Tejera was born.
20 de Noviembre de 1848
He was born on November 20th, 1848 and died on November 6th, 1903. Founder of "La Abeja Recreativa" ("The Recreative Bee") in Spain and of "La Verdad" ("The Truth") in New York, publishing he directed. When the Ten Years War was over he returned to Cuba, and published "El Almendares", daily newspaper dedicated to women, and the "Revista Habanera".
He was editor of La América and El Avisador Cubano, in New York. Close friend of José Martí and a collaborator of Patria. He also collaborated in El Porvenir, Revista de Cayo Hueso and others publishings on exile. He returned in 1898 and published Victoria a weekly magazine.
1920
Composer Humberto Suárez was born.
20 de Noviembre de 1920
He was born in Havana, on November 20th, 1920.
Pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. He began studying piano at the age of nine with his mother, and later with a professors from Pinar del Río, because he lived his teens in that western province. He participated in radio programs, as pianist. Back to the capital, he graduated as Doctor in Civil Laws in the University of Havana and exerted his profession. In 1940 he joined the Cosmopolita Orchestra, later conducted by him, as pianist . Composer of the songs: “Ahora”, “Yo no sé qué pasa contigo”, “Sombras y más sombras”, “Atardecer”, and its most well-known: “Con mi corazón te espero”.
In 1960 he settled in Puerto Rico, where his musical live went on.
1991
Actor and entertainer Germán Pinelli died.
20 de Noviembre de 1991
He was born on December 15th, 1907 in Obsipo and San Ignacio Streets, in front of the former Instituto de La Habana. His real surname was Piniella. Being a child he learned to play piano and guitar. He played with the Orquesta Palau. He studied singing and repetoire. He made theatre with his sister Sol, who was his teacher. Speaker by excellence, radio and television, entertainer, artist of the four media: movie, theatre, radio and television. Varieté singer and pianist.
Master of Masters. For many long years he inmortalized the character of Eufrates del Valle, from the San Nicolás del Peladero, a TV humoristic program. This character was taken to a film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in his film Los sobrevivientes (“Survivors”).
Once Germán Pinelli expressed “I have reached that, to make laugh and to make cry". Many people thinks that this is histrionism. Sometimes, when one makes laugh, one is crying inside himself. Occasionally a tear that does not run into concretion you may turn into a smile for the rest. So, sometimes pain provokes smiling and smile provokes weeping”.
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