1889. Enrique Roig San Martín dies in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana.

He was born in the Cuban capital on November 5, 1843. He completed his first studies at the Colegio San Anacleto in Havana.

He was a forerunner of the workers' struggles in Cuba and a promoter of the fundamental ideas of Karl Marx. He is also recognized as the first Cuban dedicated to guiding the proletariat along the path of class struggle. He also preached proletarian internationalism. His internationalist spirit was on display when eight Chicago workers were sentenced to death in the United States. Roig not only dedicated himself to disseminating and denouncing the rigged process but also promoted, through El Productor, a publication created by him, collections in aid of the families of the executed anarchists. In that newspaper Roig also spoke out against racial discrimination and the conditions of inferiority in which Cuban women lived at the time, as well as against gambling, prostitution, abusive taxes and the measures of the colonial authorities that affected the people, although he was not always successful in his proposed solutions to the evils he denounced.

1960. The first graduation of a contingent of young people as teachers is held in Havana after the triumph of the revolution. This allowed them to immediately join various places in Cuba to fight against ignorance.

In the first part of his speech, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro stated: "A group of teachers of great capacity and great prestige... you can collect numerous experiences that have never been collected, and you must draw your conclusions every year and, in addition, , also go through a short course every year, for at least five years mandatory, and then voluntary. And during those five years, after completing the course, to Turquino, so as not to lose the training.

In this way we will be collecting extraordinary experiences that will be not only useful in Cuba, but also to other sister peoples of America”.

1966. Commander in Chief Fidel Castro delivers a speech at the closing of the XII Congress of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba.

He expresses: “This is the third workers' congress that has taken place since the triumph of the Revolution. And the impression we all have is that this event shows the enormous leap in quality that has occurred in the revolutionary consciousness of our workers.”

Fidel also explains: “Still in the early days of the Revolution there was within our working class the influence of a series of political and social criteria that did nothing but reflect the political thinking of the exploiters; even in those early days there were many workers who had not fully acquired a class consciousness; even in those times there were conflicts, divisions, trends that in a certain sense reflected the entire past, especially the most recent past of the life of our country. And that was an inevitable process. “

2013. The prominent journalist and writer Jaime Sarusky Miller died in Havana.

His birth took place in Havana on January 3, 1931. He was a descendant of Jews. He began as a writer and journalist in 1953 when he was a student of Social Sciences at the University of Havana. At the beginning of the fifties, the first stories and articles about him appeared in the newspaper El Sol de Marianao. Later he traveled and worked in England, Spain, Italy and Sweden.

In 1954 he lived in Paris where he continued his university studies at the Sorbonne and took courses in Contemporary French Literature and Sociology of Art taught by prominent teachers.

Upon his return to Cuba, in 1959, he began his professional journalistic work as editor and head of rotogravure for the newspaper Revolución and later worked and collaborated with other publications. At different stages of his life, he served as a professor of Literature and History in high school, as well as being an official of the Ministry of Culture. He gave lectures on various topics at Universities and institutions in various countries.

For his vast work he was awarded the National Prize for Literature and the XX International Book Fair of Havana, held in 2011, was also dedicated to him.