- Presenting and discussing the report on prospects for industrial and agricultural development at a meeting to plan the national economic development strategies for the forthcoming year, held at the Payret Theatre.
Chronology
- Delivering a speech at closing of the Forth National Meeting of the Rebel Youth Association, at the Payret Theatre.
- He presides over the National Conference of Cuban Doctors, where he spoke in detail about the precarious health situation of the Cuban people, the insufficient medical care they were given in 1958 and the efforts being made by the Revolutionary Government to enhance healthcare. He said: “Doctors work to improve the quality of life and health”.
- Delivering a speech at the inauguration of the “Sierra Maestra” Farmer’s School, located in Havana’s Calvario neighbourhood, where a great number of people coming from rural areas all over the country receive revolutionary instruction.
- Fidel delivers a speech in the Parque Central of the municipality of Melena del Sur, the first territory in Havana to eradicate illiteracy.
- Delivering an address at the closing of the National Meeting of Volunteer Councils of the National Institute of Sports and Recreation (INDER), held at the Ciudad Deportiva.
- He delivers a speech at the graduation of 3,000 women from rural areas who graduated in cutting and sewing, in the Chaplin Theatre.
- At the closure of the 11th CTC National Congress he makes public the murder of Manuel Ascunse Doménech and Pedro Lantigua.
- He goes to Luyanó to offer his condolences to the family of literacy campaign martyr Manuel Ascunce Doménech.
- Signing Law No.988 to combat terrorism and counterrevolution.
- Appearing on national TV to inaugurate the 9th cycle of the Popular University program, where he makes reference to the United Party of the Socialist Revolution and its Marxist basis and ideology.
- Making a speech at the graduation of 800 secondary school teachers at the Chaplin Theatre.
- Delivering a speech at the graduation of 8,000 women graduates in agricultural studies, held at the Chaplin Theatre.