1902. Marcelo Pogolotti is born in Havana.

He was the Cuban painter who managed to accumulate the best and richest record of recognition in Europe. During the 1930s he shed his lights among the surrealists and the futurists, the world's artistic avant-garde at that time.

He exhibited for the first time in Havana in 1925 at the Association of Painters and Sculptors. In the company of the outstanding Cuban painter Víctor Manuel García, he participated in the fight against academic painting, seeking its renewal and for the creation of a national art. In 1927 he participated in the Exposition of New Art, a significant event in the cultural activities of the time.

During 1934 and 1935 he exhibited at the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists in Paris and is considered a founding member of the First Group of Social Painters in Europe.

Returning to Cuba in 1939, he participated in numerous personal and collective exhibitions. He presented an exhibition at the University of Havana, called Art in Cuba and his Evolution in the Work of Some Artists, organized by the National Institute of Plastic Arts. He developed an intense work as an essayist, novelist and art critic, he lived both in Mexico and Cuba.

1989. The singer Carlos Puebla dies in Havana.

In the history of Cuban popular music there are notable artists who have been qualified in a unique way, that is the case of Carlos Manuel Puebla Concha, who was recognized as El Cantor del Pueblo. Through more than half a century of prolific creative activity, he left his dreams, aspirations, experiences and achievements of the Cuban people captured in hundreds of songs.

For Carlos Puebla music was life itself. One day when answering what music meant to him, he said that he believed he had been born with a guitar under his arm.

After the triumph of the Revolution, he fundamentally devoted his musical work to reflecting the main facts and events that occurred in Cuba at that time. He was one of the first creators who composed a work dedicated to the revolutionary triumph. He titled it The fun is over, although many identified it as the Comandante Arrived. He was also inspired by the life and work of relevant figures in national history, such as Commanders Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Che Guevara. He was also the author of musical creations of a romantic nature that became very popular in Cuba, such as the one entitled I want to talk to you.

His birth took place in the city of Manzanillo on September 11, 1917.