International Workers' Day.

2000. Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro delivers a speech for International Workers' Day at the José Martí Revolution Square in Havana. He notes: "Revolution is a sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed; it is full equality and freedom; it is being treated and treating others as human beings; it is emancipating ourselves by ourselves and with our own efforts; it is challenging powerful dominant forces within and outside the social and national sphere; is to defend values in which we believe at the price of any sacrifice; is modesty, selflessness, altruism, solidarity and heroism; is to fight with audacity, intelligence and realism; is to never lie or violate ethical principles; is a deep conviction that there is no force in the world capable of crushing the force of truth and ideas. Revolution is unity, it is independence, it is to fight for our dreams of justice for Cuba and for the world, which is the basis of our patriotism, our socialism and our internationalism".

1961.  Radio Habana Habana Cuba, the first Cuban shortwave radio station with international reach, began broadcasting systematically in Havana.

The programming is broadcast through international broadcasting bands directed to countries in America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and also through the Internet from its Web site.

The station has its studios in the building located at 105 Infanta Street, between 25th and San Francisco Streets, Centro Habana municipality. It shares the building with the nationwide radio station Radio Progreso (La Onda de la Alegría). 

In April 2003, its Web site received the Grand Prize at the XXV Radio Festival, which for the first time is awarded to the Web pages of Cuban Radio Broadcasting.