Chronology

Appearance on CMQ-TV to comment on an article published in El Crisol (The Melting Pot) newspaper.
Meeting with the National Cuban Bank Association to exchange views on financial issues relating to Cuban banks.
Speech delivered at the Special Assembly Summary Session of the Cuban Telephone Company employees to support the new phone rates and confiscation of the company that used to be American property. CTC (Cuban Workers’ Trade Union) Theater in Havana.

Speech delivered at a popular reaffirmation ceremony held in Martí Park in Guanabacoa borough, where Fidel, while examining the unemployment issue, said: “Unemployment and public servants’ anguish are over.”
Meeting with industrialist Julio Blanco Herrera, owner of “La Tropical” and organizer of José Martí Agrarian Column.
Opening of exhibition of caricatures published in newspapers and magazines during Batista seven-year dictatorship. The exhibition was sponsored by the Comic Writers’ Hall.

Meeting with Captain Juan M. Castiñeiras, Revolutionary Navy Chief of Staff, to discuss the extension of existing beaches and fitting others out for the people’s enjoyment.
Meeting with heads of the Journalists’ College in the Account Court building.
A visitto the Cuban Agricultural and Industrial Development Bank (BANFAIC, Spanish acronym), together with Revolutionary Laws Minister Osvaldo Dorticós, where they met with Justo Carrillo, the Bank’s Director.

Address at a workers and garage attendants’ demonstration opposite the Presidential Palace.

Speech delivered at a mass demonstration held on Michelsen Avenue, in Santiago de Cuba, where Fidel announced: “…Like the Agrarian Reform, there will be a full Urban Reform.”

The first stones of the houses that would be built for the people in La Habana del Este borough were laid by Fidel as part of the development program undertaken by the recently created National Savings and Housing Institute (INAV, Spanish acronym).

Tribute paid to student leader José Antonio Echevarría, on the second anniversary of his falling in combat against Batista dictatorship, at Cárdenas Cemetery in Matanzas, where his mortal remains lie. Fidel delivered a speech before his tomb.
Speech delivered at the ceremony on the 2nd Anniversary of the attack on the Presidential Palace by the Revolutionary Directory forces. The ceremony was held at the Presidential Palace.
When the ceremony at the Presidential Palace was over, Fidel walked a few blocks and took a bus to the University of Havana Stadium, where he gave the closing speech at a ceremony held to pay tribute to combatants who fell in action on March 13, 1957.

Meeting with the University Council of Marta Abreu Central University of Las Villas. Opening of the General Library in which Fidel delivered a speech.

Speech delivered at the Cuban Civic Institutions Joint Committee Plenary Session held in the National Medical College Auditorium.
A visitto Ciénaga de Zapata (Zapata Swamp), during which Fidel inspected the conditions in the region and gave advice on development plans.
Meeting at the Presidential Palace with Clark H. Galloway, a journalist from U.S. News and World Report journal.

Meeting with railroad workers in Havana Train Station where he announced a wage increase for this sector.
Inspection of José Martí Agrarian Column that was being setting up in “La Tropical” Stadium.
Reply sent to the FBI with regard to gangsterism and drugs in the country.
Receipt of 50 thousand Cuban pesos donated by a Lonja del Comercio de Cuba (Cuban Stock Exchange) commission, as a contribution to the Agrarian Reform.

A visitto a Japanese Floating Industrial Exhibition on board “Atlas Maru” steamship in Havana port.
Handing over of 100 thousand Cuban pesos for the Agrarian Reform in Camagüey, on behalf of the Revolutionary Government, in a ceremony held in the town hall Secretariat.

Speech delivered in front of the Presidential Palace during the first mass parade and demonstration to support revolutionary laws. In his address, Fidel exposed the provocative and pro-imperialist nature of José Figueres, former President of Costa Rica, who had given a speech at that same demonstration.