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FILM SCREENING | SOY CUBA

As part of its weekly Thursday Film Series, APKASS in collaboration with ASSA, PACSAA, IFRA (University of Ibadan) & LIBRA-TV in its fourth week presents SOY CUBA

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Soy Cuba (I am Cuba) is an amazing Soviet/Cuban propaganda film from 1964, directed by Mikhail Kalazatov. It was made to celebrate the Cuban revolution. The Cubans didn’t like it because they thought it misrepresented their revolution (it did). The Soviets thought it made pre-Revolutionary decadence look rather too attractive (it did). So it remained virtually unseen for decades until its rediscovery in the 1900s by enthusiasts including Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

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This day in #history 24/02

FEBRUARY 24TH

1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style
(Gregorian) calendar

1821 – Mexico gains independence from Spain

1895 – Cuban war for independence begins

1918 – Estonia declares independence from
Russia

1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.

1924 – Greek parliament proclaims republic

1924 – Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

1945 – Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-
Germany
1945 – Manila freed from Japanese

1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is
killed in Parliament after reading a decree .

1948 – Communist Party seizes complete control
of Czechoslovakia

1949 – Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement

1966 – Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of
Ghana

1971 – Algeria nationalizes French oil companies

1974 – Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh

1976 – Cuba adopts its constitution

1981 – Britain’s Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer

1996 – The last occurrence of February 24 as a
leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church .

1997 – Deng Xiaoping, leader of China , cremated (died Feb 19th)

1997 – South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp

2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal –
Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the
country in a state of emergency in attempt to
subdue a possible military coup.

2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of
Cuba after nearly fifty years.

2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery
(OV -103 ) .

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1304 – Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer
(Travels in Asia & Africa)

1934 – Bingu wa Mutharika, Thyolo , Nyasaland
(Malawi ), Malawi President ( 2004- 2012) , ( d. 2012 )

1955 – Steve Jobs, San Francisco, California ,
American computer entrepreneur and co- founder
of Apple ( d. 2011)