By José Pérez – Galdós Ortiz

1873.  Néstor Aranguren is born in Havana.

He was an outstanding Cuban fighter in the 19th century. He turned out to be the Mambi chief most tenaciously pursued by the Spanish forces in areas near Havana. He served as a volunteer escort to Major General Antonio Maceo during his stay in Havana in 1890. 

He was promoted to Colonel on July 26, 1897, when he was only 24 years old. Subsequently for his courage, his constancy and outstanding exercise of the command of forces in the war, he had been proposed for Brigadier of the Liberating Army, but this could not materialize because his death occurred shortly after in an unequal encounter with Spanish forces in the area of Campo Florido, on January 27, 1898.

1980.   The Cuban Association for the Physically and Motor Disabled is founded.

It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with its own legal personality.

This organization groups together paraplegics, quadriplegics, hemiplegics, amputees and other physically and motorically handicapped persons.

Among the objectives of the Association are: to integrate or reintegrate the physically and motor disabled to a socially useful life, with equal rights and opportunities, to ensure that they have access to work and study and that they participate in sports, recreational and cultural activities according to their tastes and preferences.

The Association also works to eliminate architectural barriers so that the disabled have free access to public buildings, theaters, cinemas, sports facilities, residential buildings and hotels.