1910. Fermín Valdés Domínguez dies in Havana.

His friendship with José Martí began when they were fellow students at the San Anacleto school in Havana. The relationship between the two developed and was maintained over time. He studied medicine and later practiced that profession.

When Martí was in exile in Spain, starting in 1871, after having suffered political imprisonment and forced labor, and was also ill and, of course, away from his family, Fermín helped him in a remarkable way.

The friendship and brotherhood that united José Martí and Fermín Valdés Domínguez can be identified as the symbol of the relationship that was established between two human beings in which solidarity and fraternity prevailed. Precisely the great union and affinity between the two would be highlighted in the letters that Martí wrote to Fermín in which he used to describe him as: Dearest Fermín, My great Fermín, Ferminón, Fermín del Alma, Hermanote.

His birth took place in Havana on July 10, 1853.

1930. Armando Hart is born in Havana.

Since he was a student at the University of Havana, he joined the Orthodox Youth, a youth organization of the Cuban People's Party. When the coup d'état occurred on March 10, 1952, as a member of the Federation of University Students, he signed a public denunciation and actively participated in the student struggle in defense of respect for democratic principles.

In 1952 he graduated as a lawyer. Years later he was one of the founders of the July 26 Movement in Santiago de Cuba. He actively participated in the popular uprising of November 30, 1956 in that city.

After the triumph of the Revolution he was appointed Minister of Education of Cuba, a position he held until 1965. He directed the Literacy Campaign in 1961, known as the largest and most effective carried out in Latin America. He was elected in 1965 a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and its Political Bureau. He served as Minister of Culture from the constitution of that body in 1976 until 1997.

Since 1998, when the Office of the Martí Program was created, he directed it until his death