1926. Carlos Benigno Baliño y López dies in Havana.

The son of a middle-class family, he was able to receive an education. In 1865 he studied architecture at the University of Havana. Around that time he began to publish verses and articles in local newspapers in which he showed his liberal and progressive sentiments. In 1869 he was forced to emigrate to the United States due to the persecution unleashed against him by the Spanish authorities who distrusted his radical and patriotic actions. His journalistic vocation led him to collaborate with different publications, and he also provided his support in the organization of union entities and Masonic lodges in which he made propaganda in favor of the Cuban independence struggle.

He met José Martí when he was making preparations to achieve the resumption of the fight for the independence of Cuba. They became great friends and together they founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party in 1892. Later he continued to work on the creation of revolutionary clubs. After the independence war ended in the 19th century, he returned to Cuba. In Cuban territory, he founded the Socialist Propaganda Club of Havana and helped organize the Partido Obrero, which later managed to convert it into the Partido Obrero Socialista.

Baliño was also in 1925 one of the founders of the Cuban Revolutionary Party and the First Marxist-Leninist Party that existed in Cuba.

His birth took place in the town of Guanajay on February 13, 1848.

2007. Vilma Espín dies in Havana, who stood out as a revolutionary fighter and leader.

She participated in the fight against the Batista dictatorship, first as a clandestine combatant and leader of the July 26 Movement in the province of Oriente and later as a member of the Second Eastern Front "Frank País". After the triumph of the Revolution, as of August 23, 1960, she was the founding President of the Federation of Cuban Women, a responsibility that she carried out fully until her death. Very commendable was her work for achieving full equality for women and for promoting the contribution of women in the development of society, in the defense of the Revolution and in the fulfillment of internationalist missions.

She also first joined the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, established in 1965, and later was a member of its Political Bureau. She was also a Deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power of the Republic of Cuba, since its first legislature in 1976 and a member of the Council of State.

She received multiple decorations, titles and national and international orders, among which the honorary title of Heroine of the Republic of Cuba and the Lenin Prize for Peace stand out.

Her birth took place in the city of Santiago de Cuba on April 7, 1930.