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1883
Poet Hilarión Cabrisas was born
09 de Mayo de 1883
He was born in Havana in May 9th, 1883 and died in April 9th, 1939. He studied elementary school in Barcelona. He graduated as Bachelor in the Institute of Matanzas. For some time he worked with the dramatic company Enrique Borrás. Back to Matanzas, he took part in the converzasione known as Areópago bohemio held in the ground floor of the Provincial Palace.
He began as journalist in La Nueva Aurora, in Matanzas and later he worked in La Correspondencia, in Cienfuegos. In 1917 he moved to Havana. He worked in El DÃa as Chief of Staff and also collaborated in Diario de la Marina, Heraldo de Cuba and El FÃgaro. He was member of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, of the Circle of Fine Arts, from whose Section of Literature he was president at the moment of his death; of the Association of American Writers and of the Press Association from where he was Secretary. His script for the opera Doreya, with music by Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes and premiered at the National Theatre of Havana in February 7th 1918 was awarded in the In the Bracale Contest of that year.
1907
Writer Francisco Sellén died
09 de Mayo de 1907
He was born on October 10, 1838 and died in Havana on May 9th 1907. Being a child he travelled to Spain, where he initiated his studies. He colaborated in Floresta Cubana, El Correo Habanero, El Tiempo, Cuba Literaria, and others .He settled El Heraldo Cubano, Spanish-English bilingual newspaper together with his brother Antonio. He joined the Reformist Party together with Rafael MarÃa de Mendive, Anselmo Suárez y Romero, Armas y Céspedes, etc. He is banished to Spain and later moved to New York. His name is in the poetic collection Arpas Amigas. He assisted José Martà in the settling of the Cuban Revolutionary Party. Translater of German. He granted his library to the National Library of Cuba He made use of the pseudonym Almaviva.
1920
The Revolutionary Celia Sánchez Manduley was born.
09 de Mayo de 1920
Celia Sánchez Manduley, an outstanding and at the same time very simple woman whose life and work earned her the epithet of the most beautiful and autochthonous flower of the Cuban Revolution, was born on May 9, 1920 in Media Luna, in the eastern part of Cuba.
She contributed notablly to the development of the struggle for national liberation. She was the first woman to join to the Rebel Army in the eastern mountains.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Celia became one of the dearest and most prestigious leaders.
At every moment she was characterized by her simplicity, her great relationship with the people and her deep love for the Revolution to which she devoted entirely until her death in January 1980.
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