1837. Fernando Valdés Aguirre is born in the town of Güines, then province of Havana.

He attended primary school in his hometown. Years later he graduated as a bachelor in Philosophy and Pharmacy, and later in Sciences at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Royal Literary University of Havana.

In his professional work, he was in charge of the direction of the Institute

of Chemical Research of Havana, he founded the Society of Legal Medicine, Legal Chemistry and Toxicology. In 1862 he was admitted as a supernumerary member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. In 1865 he was declared a member of the Royal Economic Society Friends of the Country and he also belonged to the Liceo de La Habana, the Cuban Athenaeum and the El Pilar Society.

In his work as a writer he publishes various printed works related to studies, research, literature, pedagogy, sociology, philosophy and politics.

His death occurred in Key West, United States, on July 20, 1870.

2005. Radeunda Lima, one of the most relevant figures of country music in Cuba, dies in Havana.

In 1935 when she was twelve years old she made her debut on the amateur show The Supreme Court of Art, in which she achieved the Rising Star award. Years later she worked with the vernacular theater group of Enrique Arredondo and in several circus companies with which she toured almost all of Cuba. She achieved popularity since the forties in her presentations together with her brother Raúl de Ella, known as the Mago del Laúd, on radio station programs, especially on Mil Diez and RHC Cadena. Blue.

After the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, she began to participate in the program “Campo Alegre” that was broadcast by Radio Rebelde and “el Guateque del midday” by Radio Cadena Habana. She also gave herself fully to the process of social transformations that were taking place in the country. She participated first in 1960 in the organization and subsequent development of the Federation of Cuban Women and in 1961 in the great literacy campaign that was carried out in Cuban territory to get hundreds of thousands of people out of ignorance.

She was the founder of the television program Palmas y Cañas and collaborated with the amateur movement of the National Association of Small Farmers. She recorded several albums and went on national artistic tours.

For her meritorious work, she received several decorations, such as the Romanesque Cordero Medal and the Antero Regalado Distinction, the distinction for National Culture, and also the Marcos Martí Distinction.

Her birth took place in the town of San Antonio de las Vueltas, municipality of Camajuaní, then province of Las Villas, on August 2, 1923.