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1817
Writer and Physician Ramón Zambrana Valdés was born.
09 de Julio de 1817
He was born in July 9th, 1817 and died in March 18th, 1866. He studied High School in the Royal Seminar of Havana. In 1836 he became Bachelor in Arts. In those years he has writen unedited poems. In 1845 he became Licentiate in Medicine, and in 1847 Doctor in Medicine and Surgery (he was the first graduated from this career in the University of Havana). He was one of the settlers and Secretary of the Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana. He joined several institutions, being among them the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Real Junta de Fomentos and the Artistic and Literary Lyceum.
He was editor and settler of Repertorio Médico Habanero, Repertorio Económico de Medicina Farmacia y Ciencias Naturales, La Gaceta Médica de La Habana, El Kaleidoscopio and Revista del Pueblo, among others.
He collaborated in Flores del Siglo, El Artista, El Almendares, Aguinaldo Habanero, Revista de La Habana, Guirnalda Cubana, Semanario Cubano, El RocÃo, La Floresta Cubana, El Cesto de Flores, La Piragua, Cuba Literaria and La Idea.
He wrote plays and articles on medicine. Among his collaboration works are La Novena de la Madre del Amor hermoso tutelar de la Corte de MarÃa (Havana 1848), in prose and verse, composed together with Leopoldo Turla, and La Colombiana (1866), epic poem written with Luisa Pérez. He compiled the poem antologies: La Flor de Mayo, dedicated to the Virgin of the Tropics, edited together with Juan M. de San Pedro (Havana, Imp. De R. Oliva, 1838) and Cuatro laúdes (Havana, Est. Tip. La Cubana, 1853), with José G. Roldán, Rafael M. Mendive and Felipe L. Briñas.
1934
Pianist Antonio Torroella passed away.
09 de Julio de 1934
He was born in Matanzas in May 17th, 1856 and died in Havana, in July 9th, 1934. Aka "PapaÃto". In the early XX Century he introduced the piano in the Charanga a la francesa musical ensemble, in Havana. One of the earliest and most significative cultivators of danzón in the musical environment of the aforementioned city. He composed some danzones, waltzes and dances. He was director of a popular Charanga which played in Havana since the early XX Century.
1984
The first Biennial of Plastic Arts of Havana finished.
09 de Julio de 1984
The first Biennial of Plastic Arts of Havana, which was held in Havana under the auspices of the "Wifredo Lam" Cultural Center finished on July 9, 1984. That biennial lasted 48 days.
The works were exposed in the National Museum and at the Pabellón Cuba. More than 183 thousand people saw the works of engraving, painting, photographs. In total, more than two thousand works, by 850 artists from 22 countries, were shown.
The prize of popularity of the first biennial of Havana was granted to the work Historia de un caballo azul (Story of a blue horse) by Ecuadorian Endara Crown, who graduated in art in the Central University of Ecuador.
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