| Day | Year | Historical dates of Cuba in the month of June |
| 1 | 1834 | Inauguration of the authoritarian government of Miguel Tacon. |
| 2 | 1912 | Death in Buenos Aires of Cuban fiddler Claudio Jose Brindis de Salas. |
| 3 | 1805 | Foundation of the village of Mariel. |
| 6 | 1762 | Arrival of British fleet to Havana. |
| 1961 | Foundation of the Ministry of Interior. |
| 7 | 1762 | British troops landed at Cojimar. |
| 1812 | Birth of the father of Cuban bibliography, Antonio Bachiller y Morales. |
| 9 | 1955 | Revolutionary Jorge Agostini murdered by the tyranny. |
| 10 | 1896 | Victory of the Mambi (Liberation) Army in the battle of Saratoga. |
| 11 | 1798 | Revolt of slaves in the department of Puerto Principe (Camagüey). |
| 12 | 1766 | An earthquake caused heavy damages in Santiago de Cuba. |
| 1901 | The United States imposed the Platt Amendment to Cuba. |
| 13 | 1910 | Death of Fermin Valdes Dominguez, Jose Marti’s best friend. |
| 14 | 1845 | Birth of Major General Antonio Maceo. In a historical coincidence, the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter, Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, was born the same day in 1928. |
| 1907 | Death of patriot Bartolome Maso. |
| 15 | 1958 | Tyrant Batista’s thugs murdered the Giralt sisters. |
| 1966 | Death of poet Manuel Navarro Luna. |
| 16 | 1959 | Foundation of Prensa Latina News Agency. |
| 17 | 1905 | Death of Major General Maximo Gomez. |
| 18 | 1617 | Sugar production increased in Santiago de Cuba. |
| 1926 | Death of the pioneer of Cuban Marxist movement Carlos Baliño, symbol of the direct link between the Cuban Revolutionary Party and the first Cuban Communist Party. This patriot was a founder of both. |
| 1959 | Commander Ernesto Che Guevara is acclaimed Great Liberator of the Oppressed in the United Arab Republic, where he had arrived two days before. |
| 1960 | Che Guevara’s conference in TV program Cuba Avanza, where he tackled the working class’ stance and concerns on the industrialization of the country. |
| 19 | 1896 | The Liberation Army fought the battle of Lomas de Tapia. |
| 1907 | Death in Havana of Mrs. Leonor Perez, Jose Marti’s mother. |
| 20 | 1819 | Birth in Matanzas of writer Antonio Guiteras y Font, who made a free verse translation of the first 4 books of Eneida, which was highly acclaimed by Cuban and foreign critics. |
| 1874 | Maximo Gomez, Commander in Chief of the Liberation Army handed over the command of the First Division of Camagüey to brigadier Henry Reeve, The Englishman. This internationalist warrior, born in the United States, fell in battle for the Cuban cause in the summer of 1876. With dexterity and boldness, he led his troops across the former Las Villas Province and stopped only a few miles from Matanzas. |
| 1898 | US Navy besieged Santiago de Cuba harbor. |
| 1959 | In light of the increasing terrorist actions, the Revolutionary Government established the death penalty for counterrevolutionary crimes. |
| 1959 | During his official visit to the United Arab Republic (today Egypt and Syria) Commander Ernesto Che Guevara went to the city of Alexandria. He visited the Port Said monument to the martyrs of the British-French-Israeli invasion in 1956. |
| 21 | 1791 | Great storms devastate the Western region. |
| 1845 | Morro lighthouse in Havana completed. |
| 1959 | Commander in Chief Fidel Castro spoke to the peasants in the eastern region of Baracoa and exhorted them to organize armed patrols. He said: “I would like to know if they would dare going to those mountains to fight against our peasants, where they know every brook, every river, every plain, every trail, every cliff and every stone.” In the afternoon, he spoke to a crowd at the “Leoncio Vidal” Park in Santa Clara, where he said: “The Cuban people can quote those seraphic lines: “If we die, what is life? We already considered it lost as we bravely shook the slave’s yoke off.” |
| 22 | 1862 | Death of educator and philosopher Jose de la Luz y Caballero. |
| 1898 | Yankee troops landed in Daiquiri, Oriente. |
| 23 | 1817 | Suppression of tobacco factories. |
| 1821 | Birth in Bayamo of patriot Francisco Vicente Aguilera, one of the organizers of the 1868 war. |
| 1861 | Inauguration of Cuban railroad first stretch, from Havana to Bejucal. |
| 1958 | Murder of revolutionary Eduardo Garcia Lavandero. |
| 1959 | Fidel appeared in Camagüey TV station to explain why the INRA (National Institute of Land Reform) had confiscated cattle farms larger than 1 340 hectares in that province, in light of the conspiracies to hinder the development of the Land Reform. The Commander in Chief warned: “Under the Revolution’s government, they will no longer have their way. Their selfish interests will not prevail over the nation’s best interests anymore.” |
| 1961 | In the first round of conferences to train the Ministry of Industries staff in the drafting of economic plans, Commander Ernesto Guevara said “…a new age of Cuban history has begun. In general terms, the task of demolishing the structure of the previous government is over and we must begin revolutionary creation.” He stressed that: “… a revolution cannot consolidate and move on unless it builds upon its economic achievements.” |
| 24 | 1806 | Birth in Santiago de Cuba of scholar Juan Bautista Sagarra y Blez. He founded the Patriotic Society of his hometown and wrote several works on economy and agriculture. |
| 1821 | Death in the battle of Carabobo, Colombia, of Jose Manuel Cedeño. The internationalist fighter from Bayamo reached the rank of General in Simon Bolivar’s armies. |
| 1845 | Birth of Jesus Rabi, a patriot that fought side by side with Antonio Maceo, whose real name was Jesus Sablon Moreno. |
| 1898 | US troops landed in Siboney. An outrageous incident happened. When the Yankees occupied Demetrio Castillo Duany’s headquarters, they lowered the Cuban flag and hoisted US flag. |
| 1959 | During his stay in the United Arab Republic (today’s Egypt) Commander Ernesto Guevara met Salah Salem, an outstanding personality of the nationalist movement of that country. Che explained to his host that US News Agencies conspired to distort the truth of world events and prevent the peoples from knowing each other. |
| 1960 | Fidel said on radio and TV that US political decisions were more prone to err than to draw lessons from history. They seemed to cling to their mistakes and be willing to die with them. The Commander in Chief remarked that US rulers had more to loose than the Cuban Revolution, because moral defeats cannot be measured in dollars. Fidel stressed that the Revolution would move on, in spite of all the aggressions and then the moral defeat of US policies will be even greater. |
| 1979 | Santiago de Cuba is proclaimed National Monument. |
| 25 | 1524 | Death in Santiago de Cuba of Spanish conqueror Diego Velazquez. |
| 1653 | Beginning of slave trade in the Island. |
| 26 | 1958 | Death of Granma expeditionary Pedro Soto Alba in the assault to Moa Garrison. |
| 27 | 1760 | Havana Royal Trade Company decreed absolute monopoly on tobacco trade. |
| 28 | 1515 | Foundation of Santiago de Cuba. |
| 1844 | Poet Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Placido) executed by a fire squad. |
| 1960 | The revolutionary government confiscated the assets in Cuba of TEXACO Oil Company. |
| 29 | 1856 | Flight in a balloon of Matias Perez, the so-called “King of the Sunshades.” |
| 1960 | Expropriation of US Oil Refinery TEXACO, because it refused to comply with the Revolutionary Government’s order of refining State fuel. The order had been signed the night before by the Prime Minister through Resolution 188. |
| 1912 | Birth in en Cienfuegos of singer Paulina Alvarez, the Empress of Danzonete. |
| 1961 | US Government banned the sales of salad and cooking oils and fat, which Cuba regularly bought from that country. |
| 1971 | Commander in Chief Fidel Castro inaugurated the “June 14” boarding high school. It was the first to open in today’s Island of Youth. |
| 1977 | The Executive Committee of the Council of Ministers founded the Center of “Jose Marti” Studies. |
| 30 | 1840 | Birth in Havana of academician and song-writer Lorenzo Carriazo. |
| 1889 | Birth in San Antonio de los Baños of Emilio Rodríguez Lara, one of the founders of the first Cuban Communist Party and the Cuban Workers National Confederation (CNOC in Spanish). |
| 1957 | Murder in Santiago de Cuba of revolutionary underground fighters Josue Pais, Floro Vistel and Salvador Pascual. |
| 1960 | A US Navy carrier sailed the waters off Santiago de Cuba Morro Castle. Two fighters from the carrier provocatively overflew the bay and the former US Oil Refinery TEXACO. That industry had been expropriated the day before when it refused to comply with the order of the Revolutionary Government to refine for the State. That night, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro signed two resolutions with the same demand for Oil Refineries ESSO (US) and Shell (British). |
| 1960 | The Revolutionary Government authorized one million pesos for the victims of an earthquake in Chile. |
| 1974 | Beginning in Matanzas of first trial elections for the local bodies of People’s Power. The system was subsequently enacted in the rest of the country. |
| Note: | Father’s Day celebrated the third Sunday of this month. |
| | (Translated by: Pedro A. Fanego) |
