By: José Pérez-Galdós Ortiz

1889. Rosario Guillaume Pérez is born in Havana, outstanding teacher and fighter for women's rights in Cuba.

Descendant of a family of liberal ideas and justice, from an early age she was linked to labor sectors and participated in social struggles in different sectors of workers. Affectionately called Charito by her peers, her first political activities were aimed at defending women's rights. In 1922 she joined the university reform movement led by Julio Antonio Mella as a female leader.

After the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, she founded the National Revolutionary Militias and the following year the Federation of Cuban Women and the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution. She was also a member of the ranks of the Cuban Communist Party.  For her meritorious work she was awarded several decorations, among others, the José Martí Order and the Ana Betancourt Order.

He died in Havana on December 10, 1975.

1922.  Brigadier General of the Liberation Army Juan Emilio de la Caridad Núñez Rodríguez died in Havana.  He was one of the officers of that military hierarchy who accompanied Major General Máximo Gómez in his historic entrance to Havana on February 24, 1899.

After the conclusion of the war, in the first elections of the Republic, he was elected Governor of Havana, where he remained until April 8, 1908. On October 22, 1911 he occupied the presidency of the National Association of Veterans of the Liberation Army.