- His trip around Oriente province continued.
Chronology
- Fidel tours the province of Oriente accompanied by Celia Sánchez and officers of the Rebel Army.
- Fidel has a meeting with INRA officials to agree upon development plans for the Agrarian Reform throughout the country.
- Fidel makes the closing speech at the Twenty-fourth National Council of the Revolutionary CTC.
- Fidel gives a speech at the ceremony inaugurating the school year at the Ciudad Escolar Libertad and he hands over the Columbia Military Headquarters to the Minister of Education Armando Hart so that it may be transformed into a school.
- At the Presidential Palace, Fidel receives members of the Rebel Army who had been wounded in the liberation war and who had received special rehabilitation treatments in Boston.
- Fidel appears on the Meet the Press TV programme to explain changes in the tax law and informs about law 550 of the 15th of September.
- At the headquarters of Revolución newspaper, he signs a cheque for one million pesos to promote tourism. This amount enters the funds for the National Administration of Public Beaches and Tourist Attraction.
- Fidel inspects the mechanical and foundry workshops of the military industry department, at the former Armoury of the tyranny’s Army.
- Fidel attends the play-off series during which the Cuban team wins over Richmond at the Cerro Stadium in Havana.
- Fidel meets with the owners of solares (tenements) and promises that the project and documents handed over for the measures they had proposed to ensure the strict fulfilment of urban bylaws will be analyzed.
- During a tour of the province of Matanzas, Fidel inspects many of the Revolutionary Government’s works projects. He is accompanied by the American writer Waldo Frank, having pleasant chats with him.
- Fidel tours the Isle of Pines accompanied by the American writer Waldo Frank to show him the public works undertaken in the region.
- He appears on the Economic Commentary programme on Channel 4 of CMBF-TV and he clears up several points in the economic programme of the Revolutionary Government.