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1888
World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca was born.
09 de Noviembre de 1888
Capablanca, this great Cuban figure associated with chess, was born in Havana on November 19, 1888 and died on March 9, 1942. He was watching a chess match in New York at that moment.
He is the only Cuban to ever win the World Chess Champion title. He won it in 1921 in the Hasting tournament held in Havana.
He maintained his title until 1927 when he lost the tournament to the grandmaster Alekhine, who never gave Capablanca the possibility to a return game.
Capablanca continues being a motivation source for those who feel great passion in Cuba for this sport intimately related with the development of intelligence.
1908
Writer Francisco R. Argilagos died.
09 de Noviembre de 1908
He was born on September 4th, 1838 and died in Oriente on November 9th, de 1908). He studied in France, where he graduated as bachelor (1955) and as surgeon and oculist (1860). After some year of practice he joined the Liberator Army of Cuba in 1868. In 1869 was captured by the Spanish Army. He moved to Dominican Republic in 1874. When the war restarted in 1895, he was captured again by the Spanish and depoted to Spain. Later he went to Colombia, where he exerted until 1898. In 1900 he arrived to cuba an was appointed director of Santiago de Cuba Civilian Hospital. He was member of foreing medical institutions.
1913
Clarinetist and professor Juan Jorge Junco was born.
09 de Noviembre de 1913
He was born in November 9th, 1913 and died in August 24th, 2001. His musical education began when he was eighth years old. He studied solfeggio, theory and clarinet with his uncle Abelardo Junco, besides, he studied with maestro Pedro Graces. In 1924 he joined the Cienfuegos Explorers Band, from which he would become soloist next year. Some time later he would play in popular orchestras, and in 1929 he became soloist of the Banda Municipal de Cienfuegos (Cienfuegos Municipal Band). In 1933 he moved to Havana and joined several orchestras from the capital, as soloist clarinet, included the Philarmonic. Since 1960 he became soloist of the National Symphonic Orchestra, and in 1971 he settled the group Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time), conducted by Maestro Manuel Duchesne Cuzán. He also worked continuously as professor.
National Culture Award, 1981.
National Award on Artistic Teaching, 2000.
1965
Outstanding painter and Cuban caricaturist Eduardo Abela passed away.
09 de Noviembre de 1965
Outstanding painter and Cuban caricaturist Eduardo Abela, who was a representative figure of the new painting in Cuba, passed away on November 9, 1965 in Havana.
As a caricaturist, he was the creator of a character known as “El Bobo” (The Fool), which he used to denounce the existent evils during the republican years in Cuba.
About this character, its creator said that he was guided by the very people’s reactions to his cartoons.
Abela’s El Bobo is in the history of humor in Cuba.
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