2019 in Cuba
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Events in the year 2019 in Cuba.
Incumbents
Events
January
- January 2 – The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution was celebrated in the capital of Havana.[1]
- January 27 – A rare EF4 tornado makes landfall in Havana, killing at least three and causing severe damage.[2]
February
- February 24 – The 2019 Cuban constitutional referendum took place.[3]
March
- March 24–27 – President Díaz-Canel hosted the Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall to the capital as the first members of the British royal family to visit the island.[4][5]
April
- April 10 – The new Constitution of Cuba came into force.
December
- December 21 – Manuel Marrero Cruz assumes office as the 19th Prime Minister of Cuba, becoming the first person to hold the office after the post was reestablished by the 2019 Constitution.[6]
Deaths
- January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, vice president of the Council of Ministers (b. 1923)
- January 14 – Bernardo Benes, Jewish civic leader (b. 1934)
- February 20 – Chelo Alonso, actress (b. 1933)
- July 20 – Roberto Fernández Retamar, poet (b. 1930)
- July 26 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, cardinal (b. 1936)[7]
- April 21 – Amelia Vargas, actress and dancer (b. 1928)
- August 26 – Isabel Toledo, Cuban-American fashion designer (b. 1960)
- September 9 – Dulce García, Olympic javelin thrower (b. 1968)
- October 17 – Alicia Alonso, ballerina (b. 1920)
- November 20 – Bertha Díaz, Olympic sprinter (b. 1936)
- December 5 – Faure Chomón, politician (b. 1929)
- December 29 – Harry Villegas, communist revolutionary (b. 1940)
References
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