2019 in Cuba
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Events
January
- January 2 – The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution was celebrated in the capital of Havana.[1]
- January 27 – A rare EF4 tornado makes landfall in Havana, killing at least three and causing severe damage.[2]
February
- February 24 – The 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum took place.[3]
March
- March 24–27 – President Díaz-Canel hosted the Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall to the capital as the first members of the British royal family to visit the island.[4][5]
April
- April 10 – The new Constitution of Cuba came into force.
December
- December 21 – Manuel Marrero Cruz assumes office as the 19th Prime Minister of Cuba, becoming the first person to hold the office after the post was reestablished by the 2019 Constitution.[6]
Deaths
- January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, vice president of the Council of Ministers (b. 1923)
- January 14 – Bernardo Benes, Jewish civic leader (b. 1934)
- February 20 – Chelo Alonso, actress (b. 1933)
- July 20 – Roberto Fernández Retamar, poet (b. 1930)
- July 26 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, cardinal (b. 1936)[7]
- April 21 – Amelia Vargas, actress and dancer (b. 1928)
- August 26 – Isabel Toledo, Cuban-American fashion designer (b. 1960)
- September 9 – Dulce García, Olympic javelin thrower (b. 1968)
- October 17 – Alicia Alonso, ballerina (b. 1920)
- November 20 – Bertha Díaz, Olympic sprinter (b. 1936)
- December 5 – Faure Chomón, politician (b. 1929)
- December 29 – Harry Villegas, communist revolutionary (b. 1940)
References
- ↑ "Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro's communist revolution". aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "Cuba tornado: Three killed and more than 170 injured in Havana as deadly cyclone hits capital". The Independent. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ↑ Legon, Elio Delgado (2018-07-23). "Cuba's Reformed Constitution, a Democratic and Participatory Process". Havana Times. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "Charles and Camilla make history in Cuba". BBC News. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "prensa-latina.cu/index.php?o=rn&id=264156&SEO=carlos-de-gales-y-camila-de-cornualles-rinden-homenaje-a-jose-marti". prensa-latina.cu (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "Cuba names tourism minister to be first PM since 1976". AP NEWS. 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ↑ Muere líder de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba, cardenal Ortega, clave en acercamiento con EEUU Archived 2019-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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