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1833
First issue of “El Pasatiempo” magazine.
07 de Diciembre de 1833
His director was Antonio E. Ferrer. It published translations, anecdotes, poems, works on political situation in Spain, stories, criticisms, and other materials. Among its collaborators were: Francisco Iturrondo, Ignacio Valdés Machuca, Manuel González del Valle, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido).
1851
Pianist José Manuel Jiménez was born.
07 de Diciembre de 1851
He was born on December 7th, 1851 in Trinidad and died in Hamburg in 1917. He began his musical studies with his father José Julián Jiménez, violinist and composer. Being very young he went to Europe, where he studied piano with Reineke and Moscheles in the Conservatory of Leipzig. Later he went to Paris, where Marmontel took care of him. He got in contact with Wagner y Liszt, who praised him as a pianist. He was known, as Lico. He performed successful recitals all over Europe. In 1879 he returned to Cuba, where he performed different concerts. He settled in Cienfuegos where he worked as professor of piano. In 1890 he went to Germany and settled in Hamburg, where he was professor of the Conservatory. He was the first Cuban composer who cultivated the lied genre. Author of: Estudio sinfónico, Elegía, Solitude, Murmullo del céfiro, Rapsodia cubana and Valse Caprice, and some piano compositions.
1866
Writer Gaspar Cisneros Betancourt died.
07 de Diciembre de 1866
He was born in Camagüey in April 29th, 1803 and died in December 7th, 1866. He studied in Cuba and in the United States. He got closely related to José Antonio Saco with whom he kept correspondence. He developed in Cuba a wide labor of social and economic increasement, as well the creation of schools and the railroad track from Nuevitas to Puerto Príncipe. He outstood for his folkloric articles. In 1848 he settled the newspaper La Verdad ("The Truth") in New York, which had anexionist ideas. He collaborated in El Farral, from Camagüey; Gaceta de Puerto Príncipe and El Siglo, from Havana. Among his works are: "Ideas sobre la incorporación de Cuba en los Estados Unidos, en contraposición a las que ha publicado D. José Antonio Saco".
1896
Fall of General Antonio Maceo.
07 de Diciembre de 1896
A monument complex, which contains the remains of General Lieutenant Antonio Maceo and his assistant Panchito Gómez Toro who died fighting for the independence of Cuba on December 7, 1896, is located in the property El Cacahual, near Santiago de las Vegas.
The fall of both men took place in the area of San Pedro, in the current municipality of Bauta, but their bodies were secretely buried in El Cacahual.
A monument was erected there, and it was later changed.
In the wide flat of El Cacahual many parades and other activities of the Cuban people have been made as a homage to the General and outstanding patriot who stood out for his intelligence and bravery in battle and for the importance of his political convictions and revolutionary intransigence.
Because of its historical significance El Cacahual was declared National Monument.
1905
Professor José María Izaguirre died.
07 de Diciembre de 1905
He was born in Bayamo on April 25th, 1828 and died on December 7th, 1905. Together with Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Francisco Vicente Aguilera he took part in the 1868 Yara Uprising. At the end of 1874 he settled in Guatemala where he founded and directed the Escuela Normal. He collaborated intensivelly with El Faro Industrial newspaper. He assisted José Martí in his propaganda labour abroad, in favour of the Cuban Revolution.
1908
First issue of El Ensayo magazine.
07 de Diciembre de 1908
Published by first time on December 7th, 1908 in Havana, fortnightly, and directed by Manuel Costa, José M.Chacón Calvo and Julio Hernández Miyares. Scientific-literary illustrated magazine. Organ of the students of the Instituto de La Habana (Havana High School). It contained poems, stories, literary criticisms, biographical profiles and other works. Fermín Valdés Domínguez, Isidro García, Aurelio Silvera, among others, collaborated in it.
1944
Singer Farah María García was born.
07 de Diciembre de 1944
She was born on December 7th, 1944, and studied in the School for Arts Instructors. She joined the Meme Solís quartet, and from 1969 she began singing as soloist, in radio, television and theater. She has performed several Cuban traditional and modern song recitals. She has toured along different countries. In 1977 she won a Prize in Sopot Song Festival (Bulgaria). At present she is settled in Spain.
1990
Storyteller, poet, playwright and essay writer Reinaldo Arenas died.
07 de Diciembre de 1990
He was born in July 16th, 1943 and died in December 7th, 1990. He studied elementary school in Holguín city, and, still a teenager he wrote novels such as Adiós mundo cruel and Qué dura es la vida. In 1962 he moved to Havana to study Planning in the University of Havana. About these years he began writing poetry.
In 1963 he started working in the “José Martí” National Library and wrote his novel Celestino antes del alba, winner of a mention in the 1965 UNEAC Contest, and which definite version should be published in the 1980´s under the title of Cantando en el pozo. In that very contest he won mentions in novel and story with El mundo alucinante and Con los ojos cerrados, respectively. With the former he got the First Prize conferred by Le Monde to the best foreign novel published in France in 1968. Some time later he worked in the Cuban Institute of Book and finally in the UNEAC (National Association of Cuban Artists and Writers) where he worked as editor of Unión and La Gaceta de Cuba magazines. Besides he collaborated with Casa de las Américas, El Caimán Barbudo, Mensajes, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, El Cuento (Mexico), among others.
In 1980 he emigrated to the United States of America where he delivered classes and lectures in the Universities of Cornell, Columbia, Florida, Harvard and Yale. He joined the publishing staff of Linden Lane Magazine, Caribbean Review, Noticias de Arte and Unveiling Cuba magazines. In 1983 he settled the literary magazine Mariel, collaborated in Escandalar, El Gato Tuerto, Término, and got the Cintas and Guggenheim scholarships among others.
He visited several European and Latin American countries in which he delivered lectures.
From 1980 to 1983 he took part in the films: En sus propias palabras, La otra Cuba and Conducta impropia. In 1986 his play Persecución was premiered. His novel El portero, originally published in French in 1988, he was finalist on the Award of International Medicine. He killed himself in his apartment of New York where he has settled shortly after his arrival to the United States of America.
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