- He is enrolled at the famous Colegio de Belén in Havana, a school also run by the Jesuit order; this is where he graduates from high school.
Chronology
- For the third time he is registered in the Cueto Civil Registry Office in Oriente province in Folio 279, Volume No. 16.
- He takes part in the Scientific-Pedagogic Debate at the Colegio de Belén and makes a speech on the relationship between official and private education in the U.S., France, England, Spain, Holland, Turkey, Germany, Russia and Cuba.
- His parents Ángel Castro and Lina Ruz make official their union of many years in a discrete and simple marriage ceremony before Dr. Amador Ramírez Sigas, the municipal judge and official in charge of the Cueto Civil Registry Office.
- Fidel graduates from the Colegio de Belén as a Bachelor of Arts. In the school yearbook his professors write “Fidel Castro always excelled in all the subjects that were related to arts and letters…He was a true athlete, earning admiration and affection from all. He shall be entering Law and we have no doubts that he shall be writing brilliant entries in the volume of his life. Fidel is highly capable and has the soul of an artist.”
- While on vacation in Santiago de Cuba he reads in the newspapers the shocking news of the United States launching an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. He would never forget the profound shock that event caused him.
- Fidel enrols at the University of Havana in the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences.
- He officially enrolls in the University of Havana for the Doctorate Degree of Law and Public Accountancy. His academic record is No. 1308. He lived on Calle Quinta No. 8, between 2 and 4 streets, La Sierra neighborhood.
- The principal of the High School Institute No. 2 of Vedado, Dr. Ambrosio Aguilar Hernández, certifies the Diploma of High School Graduate and issues Fidel the supporting diploma.
- El Mundo newspaper announces Fidel Castro will be the main speaker at the ceremony for Students Day on November 17. The headline reads: “Delegate Fidel Castro to Speak on International Students Day.”
- He is the main speaker at the Ceremony for International Students Day at the Law School of the University of Havana.
- Fidel gives a speech at the Ceremony for the 75th Anniversary of the Execution of the Eight Students of Medicine. His words were later published in the Avance Criollo newspaper. His words savagely attack the government of the time. He says: “this government is worse than the previous ones; it has killed the faith of an entire people.”