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This article covers events in the year 2025 in Cuba. Incumbents ... December 25 – Christmas Day; See also ... Online calendar This page was last edited on ...
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [12] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings, is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence ...
Sebastián de Ocampo circumnavigates Cuba, confirming that it is an island. 1510: Spanish set out from Hispaniola. The conquest of Cuba begins. 1511: The first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar leads a group of settlers in Baracoa. 1512: Indigenous Cuban resistance leader Hatuey is burned at the stake. 1519
From 1969 to 1998, Christmas was a normal working day in Cuba. Official observance of Christmas was reinstated in 1998 after Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba. December 31 New Year's Eve: Fiesta de Fin de Año: New Year's Eve in Cuba is a public holiday where it is a day off for the general population, and schools and most businesses are closed.
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In October 1956, a group of Cuban dissidents, led by Fidel Castro, purchased a yacht called the Granma for US$15,000 from a United States-based Company, Schuylkill Products Inc. [3] The yacht, which carried 82 rebels sailed from the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz on November 25, 1956 and headed for Cuba.
This article covers events in the year 2023 in Cuba. Events ... Cuban radio presenter, co-founder of Radio Havana Cuba. [3] 4 December – Juanita Castro, 90 ...
Autumn events in Cuba (1 P) S. Spring (season) events in Cuba (2 P) W. Winter events in Cuba (1 P) ... This page was last edited on 28 December 2017, at 11:22 (UTC).