Já Marília cruel… – Basílio da Gama Julho 31, 2006

Já Marília cruel, me não maltrata
saber que usas comigo de cautelas,
qu’inda te espero ver por causa delas,
arrependida de ter sido ingrata

Com o tempo, que tudo desbarata,
teus olhos deixarão de ser estrelas;
verás murchar no rosto as faces belas
e as tranças d´oiro converter-se em prata.

Pois se sabes que a tua formosura
por força há de sofrer da idade os danos,
por que me negas hoje esta ventura?

Guarda para seu tempo os desenganos;
gozemo-nos agora, enquanto dura,
já que dura tão pouco a flor dos anos.

José Basílio da Gama (nasceu em São José do Rio das Mortes [depois São José del Rei, hoje Tiradentes], Minas Gerais, em 22 de Jul de 1740; m. em Lisboa, em 31 de Jul de 1795).

Callas without words Julho 31, 2006

Callas without words Julho 31, 2006

On this day in History – Jul 31 Julho 31, 2006

• 0780 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781)
• 1009 – Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV
• 1099 – El Cid, dies (b. 1044). Spanish warrior.
• 1108 – King Philip I of France dies
• 1396 – William Courtenay, dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1396 – Philip III of Burgundy, was born (d. 1467). Duke of Burgundy
• 1423 – Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant – The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
• 1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
• 1508 – Na’od, dies killed in battle. Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1547 – King Francis I of France dies (b. 1494)
• 1556 – Ignatius Loyola dies in Rome (b. 1491). Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
• 1667 – The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
• 1726 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli dies (b. 1695). Swiss mathematician.
• 1750 – D. João V de Portugal dies. King of Portugal
• 1784 – Denis Diderot dies (b. 1713). French philosopher and encylopedist
• 1790 – First US patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins.
• 1795 – Basílio da Gama dies in Lisbon (b. 22 Jul 1740 in São José do Rio das Mortes, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Poet.
• 1803 – John Ericsson was born (d. 1889). Swedish inventor and engineer.
• 1811 - Miguel Hidalgo dies. Mexican national heroe.
• 1816 – George Henry Thomas was born (d. 1870). American general.
• 1818 – Nikolay Novikov dies. Russian writer
• 1856 – Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.
• 1865 – Nascimento de Afonso de Bragança, Duque do Porto.
• 1872 – Ângelo de Lima (Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima) was born in Oporto (d. 14 Ago 1921). Portuguese poet.
• 1873 - Augusto César Ferreira Gil was born at Lordelo do Ouro, Oporto (d. 26 Feb 1929). Portuguese poet.
• 1875 – Andrew Johnson dies (b. 1808). 17th President of the United States
• 1884 – Friedrich Robert Helmert was born (d. 15 Jun 1917). German geodesist and an important writer on the theory of errors.
• 1886 – Franz Liszt dies. Hungarian composer.
• 1900 - José Manuel Cayetano Marroquín Ricaurte takes place as President of Colombia
• 1901 – Jean Dubuffet was born (d. 1985). Painter and sculptor.
• 1901 – Henriqueta Brieba was born in Barcelona (d. 18 Sep 1995). Actress
• 1904 – Brett Halliday was born (d. 1977). American mystery writer.
• 1911 – George Liberace was born (d. 1983). Musician.
• 1912 – Milton Friedman was born. American economist. Recipient of the 1976 “Nobel” Prize in economics
• 1912 – Irv Kupcinet was born (d. 2003). American newspaper columnist.
• 1913 – William Todman, was born. Game show producer
• 1914 – Louis de Funès was born (d. 1983). Actor and comedian.
• 1914 – Jean Jaurès dies (b. 1859). French politician.
• 1916 – Bill Todman was born (d. 1979). Game show producer.
• 1917 – The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
• 1917 – Francis Ledwidge dies. Irish poet
• 1918 – Paul D. Boyer was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1918 – Hank Jones was born. Pianist
• 1919 – Curt Gowdy was born. Sports announcer
• 1919 – Primo Levi was born (d. 1987). Author, chemist
• 1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14).
• 1921 – Whitney Young was born (d. 1971). American Civil rights activist who was head of the National Urban League (1961–71).
• 1923 – Ahmet Ertegun was born. Record company executive
• 1928 – Kurt Sontheimer was born. Political scientist
• 1929 – Don Murray was born. Actor
• 1930 – Oleg Popov was born. Clown
• 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
• 1931 – Kenny Burrell was born. Guitarist.
• 1933 – Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague. Dutch author, novelist (“Rituals” “Berlin Notes”). In 1993 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature.
• 1936 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
• 1937 – Charles Martine dies. Apache scout.
• 1939 – France Nuyen was born. Actress
• 1941 – Amarsinh Chaudhary was born. Politician
• 1941 – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to “submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question.”
• 1943 – William Bennett was born. Former U.S. Secretary of Education and drug czar
• 1943 – Susan Flannery was born. Actress
• 1944 – Geraldine Chaplin was born. Actress
• 1944 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery dies. French pilot and writer
• 1945 – Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
• 1946 – Gary Lewis was born. Singer/musician Gary Lewis & The Playboys
• 1946 – Bob Welch was born. Rock and roll musician
• 1948 – At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
• 1950 - Guilhermina Suggia dies. Portuguese cellist
• 1951 – Japan Airlines is established.
• 1951 – Evonne Goolagong was born. Tennis star
• 1951 – Barry Van Dyke was born. Actor
• 1952 – Alan Autry was born. American football player, actor, mayor of Fresno, California
• 1952 – Helmuts Balderis was born. Latvian ice-hockey player
• 1953 – Robert Taft dies. U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate
• 1954 – First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
• 1956 – Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen).
• 1958 – Bill Berry was born. Rock and roll musician (of the band R.E.M.)
• 1958 – Mark Cuban was born. Billionaire businessman, producer, Dallas Mavericks owner
• 1959 – Stanley Jordan was born. Jazz guitarist
• 1961 – At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
• 1962 – Wesley Snipes was born. Actor
• 1964 – Jim Corr was born. Singer, musician (“The Corrs“)
• 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
• 1965 – J. K. Rowling was born. Novelist
• 1966 – Dean Cain was born. Actor
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
• 1972 – Paul-Henri Spaak, dies. Prime minister of Belgium
• 1973 – A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
• 1974 – Jonathan Ogden was born. American football player
• 1974 – Luca Tiengo was born. Italian guitar player. Member of Ledel
• 1974 – Emilia Fox was born. English actress
• 1975 – In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
• 1975 – Jody Ann Paterson was born in Balikpapan, Indonesia.Playboy Playmate of the Month October 1999.
• 1976 – NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
• 1976 – Annie Parisse was born. American actress
• 1977 – Tim Couch was born. American football quarterback
• 1978 – Justin Wilson was born. Racing driver
• 1979 – Carlos Marchena was born. Spanish football player.
• 1980 – Mohd. Rafi dies (b. 1924). Indian playback singer
• 1981 – Ira Losco was born. Maltese singer.
• 1981 – Omar Torrijos dies. Panamanian military leader.
• 1986 – Karl Lagerfeld receives the “Golden Fingerhut”
• 1986 – Chiune Sugihara dies (b. 1900). Japanese diplomat.
• 1986 – Teddy Wilson dies (b. 1912). American jazz pianist
• 1987 – A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
• 1988 – Francisco José dies. Portuguese singer.
• 1992 – A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killg 113.
• 1993 – Baudouin I of Belgium dies.
• 1994 – Portugal is the European Champion in football U-18, beating Germany on penalty kicks.
• 1994 – A UN Security Council resolution authorized the use of “all necessary means” to restore democracy to Haiti.
• 1995 – Henrique Santana dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1996 – MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.
• 1999 – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon’s surface.
• 2001 – Poul Anderson dies. Science fiction author
• 2001 – Portugal – Francisco Costa Gomes dies in Lisbon (b. in Chaves, 1914). President of Portugal (1974-1976)
• 2002 – Portugal – Inicio da 2ª edição da Minho Campus Party.
• 2002 – O Prémio Camões é entregue à escritora portuguesa Maria Velho da Costa
• 2002 – A África do Sul subscreve o Protocolo de Kyoto
• 2003 – WON is shut down
• 2003 – Guido Crepax dies. Italian comics artist
• 2004 – Virginia Grey dies (b. 1917). American actress.
• 2004 – Laura Betti dies (b. 1927). Italian actress.
• 2005 – Wim Duisenberg dies (b. 1935). Dutch banker and 1st president of the European Central Bank.
• La Hae Hawai‘i – Hawaiian Flag Day
• Republic of the Congo – Upswing of the Revolution
• Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
• A few hardcore devotees of Harry Potter celebrate Harry James Potter’s birthday on this date. The novelist J. K. Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter books, chose this date as the fictional character’s birthday as it is her own birthday
• Dia Mundial do Orgasmo

A Despedida – António Correia de Oliveira Julho 30, 2006

Três modos de despedida
Tem o meu bem para mim:
- «Até logo»; «até à vista»:
Ou «adeus» – É sempre assim.

«Adeus», é lindo, mas triste;
«Adeus» … A Deus entregamos
Nossos destinos: partimos,
Mal sabendo se voltamos.

«Até logo», é já mais doce;
Tem distancia e ausência, é certo;
Mas não é nem ano e dia,
Nem tão-pouco algum deserto.

Vale mais «até à vista»,
Do que «até logo» ou «adeus»;
«À vista», lembra, voltando,
Meus olhos fitos nos teus.

Três modos de despedida
Tem, assim, o meu Amor;
Antes não tivesse tantos!
Nem um só… Fora melhor.

António Correia de Oliveira (n. em S. Pedro do Sul a 30 Jul 1879 m. em Belinho, Esposende a 20 Fev 1960)

A Despedida – António Correia de Oliveira Julho 30, 2006

Três modos de despedida
Tem o meu bem para mim:
- «Até logo»; «até à vista»:
Ou «adeus» – É sempre assim.

«Adeus», é lindo, mas triste;
«Adeus» … A Deus entregamos
Nossos destinos: partimos,
Mal sabendo se voltamos.

«Até logo», é já mais doce;
Tem distancia e ausência, é certo;
Mas não é nem ano e dia,
Nem tão-pouco algum deserto.

Vale mais «até à vista»,
Do que «até logo» ou «adeus»;
«À vista», lembra, voltando,
Meus olhos fitos nos teus.

Três modos de despedida
Tem, assim, o meu Amor;
Antes não tivesse tantos!
Nem um só… Fora melhor.

António Correia de Oliveira (n. em S. Pedro do Sul a 30 Jul 1879 m. em Belinho, Esposende a 20 Fev 1960)

A Despedida – António Correia de Oliveira Julho 30, 2006

Três modos de despedida
Tem o meu bem para mim:
- «Até logo»; «até à vista»:
Ou «adeus» – É sempre assim.

«Adeus», é lindo, mas triste;
«Adeus» … A Deus entregamos
Nossos destinos: partimos,
Mal sabendo se voltamos.

«Até logo», é já mais doce;
Tem distancia e ausência, é certo;
Mas não é nem ano e dia,
Nem tão-pouco algum deserto.

Vale mais «até à vista»,
Do que «até logo» ou «adeus»;
«À vista», lembra, voltando,
Meus olhos fitos nos teus.

Três modos de despedida
Tem, assim, o meu Amor;
Antes não tivesse tantos!
Nem um só… Fora melhor.

António Correia de Oliveira (n. em S. Pedro do Sul a 30 Jul 1879, m. em Belinho, Esposende a 20 Fev 1960)

A Canção da vida – Mário Quintana Julho 30, 2006

A young girl sleeping
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A vida é louca
a vida é uma sarabanda
é um corrupio…
A vida múltipla dá-se as mãos como um bando
de raparigas em flor
e está cantando
em torno a ti:
Como eu sou bela
amor!
Entra em mim, como em uma tela
de Renoir
enquanto é primavera,
enquanto o mundo
não poluir
o azul do ar!
Não vás ficar
não vás ficar
aí…
como um salso chorando
na beira do rio…
(Como a vida é bela! como a vida é louca!)

in Esconderijos do Tempo

Mário de Miranda Quintana (n. Alegrete (RS) 30 Jul 1906; m. Porto Alegre (RS) 5 Mai 1993)
Ver : Mário Quintana por si próprio (texto auto-biográgico)
Ler outros poemas do mesmo autor:
Recordo ainda
Amoroso esquecimento
Canção de Junto do Berço

A Canção da vida – Mário Quintana Julho 30, 2006

A young girl sleeping
Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A vida é louca
a vida é uma sarabanda
é um corrupio…
A vida múltipla dá-se as mãos como um bando
de raparigas em flor
e está cantando
em torno a ti:
Como eu sou bela
amor!
Entra em mim, como em uma tela
de Renoir
enquanto é primavera,
enquanto o mundo
não poluir
o azul do ar!
Não vás ficar
não vás ficar
aí…
como um salso chorando
na beira do rio…
(Como a vida é bela! como a vida é louca!)

in Esconderijos do Tempo

Mário de Miranda Quintana (n. Alegrete (RS) 30 Jul 1906; m. Porto Alegre (RS) 5 Mai 1993)
Ver : Mário Quintana por si próprio (texto auto-biográgico)
Ler outros poemas do mesmo autor:
Recordo ainda
Amoroso esquecimento
Canção de Junto do Berço

On this day in History – Jul 30 Julho 30, 2006

• 0578 – Jacob Baradaeus dies. Bishop of Edessa
• 0579 – Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0657 – St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1178 – Fredrick “Barbarossa” crowned King of Burgundy
• 1233 – Assassination of Conrad of Marburg and Gerhard Lutelholb
• 1291 – Haifa falls to the Mameluks
• 1371 – Massacre of the Compagnia del Bruco in Florence, Italy
• 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague; Beginning of the Hussite Wars
• 1511 – Giorgio Vasari was born (d. 27 Jun 1574). Italian painter
• 1523 – Juan de Anchieta was born. Spanish composer.
• 1538 – Newfoundland reached by Sir Humphrey Gilbert
• 1549 – Ferdinando I de’ Medici was born (d. 1609). Grand Duke of Tuscany.
• 1565 – Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, duke of Albany.
• 1588 – Howard sails from Plymouth
• 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
• 1609 – Iroquois Indians defeated by their first sight of firearms
• 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
• 1641 – Regnier de Graaf was born (d. 1673). Dutch physician and anatomist.
• 1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie dies (b. 1624). 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier.
• 1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory dies (b. 1634). Irish naval commander.
• 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain dies (b. 1638). Queen of Louis XIV of France.
• 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof dies (b. 1639). German writer and scholar.
• 1715 – Nahum Tate dies (b. 1652). Irish poet.
• 1718 – William Penn dies (b. 1644). English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
• 1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• 1733 – First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
• 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1763 – Samuel Rogers is born in Stoke Newington, England. Poet (The Pleasures of Memory). He will be best remembered as a witty conversationalist and friend of many greater poets.
• 1766 – Carta régia que proíbe, no Brasil, as indústrias de ourives, fiadores de ouro, de sedas e algodões tecidos.
• 1771 – Thomas Gray dies (b. 1716). English poet and letter-writer (“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”) .
• 1784 – Denis Diderot dies. French wryter and encyclopedist.
• 1818 – Emily Brontë was born (d. 1848). English novelist.
• 1825 – Malden Island discovered.
• 1835 – Vicente Rocafuerte ocupa la presidencia de Ecuador.
• 1848 – A iluminação a gás é inaugurada em Lisboa.
• 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was born. German industrialist
• 1857 – Thorstein Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929). Economist (The Theory of the Leisure Class).
• 1863 – Henry Ford was born (d. 1947). American industrialist / Nascimento de Henry Ford (1863-1947), no Michigan, Estados Unidos da América. Foi o inventor da linha de montagem para produção de automóveis.
• 1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
• 1875 – George Pickett, dies (b. 1825). American Confederate general.
• 1879 – António Correia de Oliveira was born on S. Pedro do Sul (b. 1960). Portuguese poet
• 1889 – Franz Masereel was born (d. 1972). Painter and graphic artist.
• 1889 – Vladimir Zworykin was born in Russia (d. 1982). Physicist and inventor, often called the “Father of Television” for inventing the iconoscope.
• 1890 – Casey Stengel was born (d. 1975). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1894 – Walter Pater dies in Oxford.
• 1898 – Otto von Bismarck dies. German chancellor
• 1898 – Henry Moore was born (d. 1986). English sculptor.
• 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies (b. 1844).
• 1906 – Mario Quintana nascia em Alegrete (RS) (d. 5 Mai 1994). Poeta brasileiro (A Rua dos Cataventos)
• 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, was born (d. 1993). British historian and writer.
• 1912 – Emperor Meiji dies (b. 1852). Japanese emperor.
• 1914 – Lord Killanin was born (d. 1999). Former IOC president.
• 1918 – Joyce Kilmer dies in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. Poet.
• 1921 – Grant Johannesen was born (d. 2005). American concert pianist.
• 1925 – Mikis Theodorakis was born. Greek composer.
• 1925 – Jacques Sernas was born. Actor (La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
• 1927 – Richard Johnson was born. Actor.
• 1928 – George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S.
• 1928 – Eunice Muñoz was born. Portiguese actress.
• 1929 – Christine McGuire was born. Singer (The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, He)
• 1929 – Werner Tübke was born. Painter (de:Werner Tübke)
• 1930 – Thomas Sowell was born. Economist
• 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. / Em Montevideu, os donos da casa vencem a Argentina por 4 a 2 e conquistam o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1930 – Hans Gamper dies. Founder of Futbol Club Barcelona
• 1932 – The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.
• 1933 – Edd “Kookie” Byrnes was born. Actor(77 Sunset Strip, holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
• 1934 – Ben Piazza was born. Actor (Guilty by Suspicion, The Hanging Tree)
• 1934 – Bud Selig was born. Baseball team owner and commissioner
• 1934 – Kurt von Schuschnigg was named Austrian chancellor following the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss.
• 1934 – «Noite das Facas Longas». Ernest Rohm, chefe das SA, e um número muito elevado de comandantes da organização paramilitar do partido nazi, são assassinados por ordem de Hitler, assim como muitos políticos de direita, que se opunham ao governo ditatorial de Hitler.
• 1936 – Buddy Guy was born. Guitarist, singer
• 1938 – Joe Nuxhall was born. Baseball: Cincinnati Reds pitcher: youngest major-league player [15yrs, 314 days])
• 1938 – Hervé de Charette was born.French politician
• 1939 – Eleanor Smeal was born. Feminist activist.
• 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich was born. American film director (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up Doc?)
• 1940 – Former U-S Representative Patricia Schroeder.
• 1940 – Nicolau Breyner was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1940 – Clive Sinclair was born. British entrepreneur.
• 1941 – Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) sword swallower
• 1941 – Paul Anka was born. Singer and composer
• 1945 – David Sanborn was born. Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner
• 1945 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy.
• 1946 – Neil Bonnett was born (d. 1994). NASCAR driver.
• 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger was born. Actor, 38th Governor of California
• 1947 – William Atherton was born. American actor
• 1947 – Joseph Cook dies. Sixth Prime Minister of Australia
• 1948 – Jean Reno was born. Actor
• 1949 – Dwight White (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
• 1950 – Willie Harper was born. Football: San Francisco ‘49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI)
• 1950 – Frank Stallone was born. Actor
• 1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
• 1954 – Ken Olin was born. Actor (Hill Street Blues, Thirtysomething)
• 1956 – Delta Burke was born. (Designing Women, Filthy Rich)
• 1956 – Anita Hill was born. American law professor, author
• 1956 – A Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing “In God We Trust” as the U.S. national motto.
• 1957 – Nery Pumpido was born. Argentine football player, coach.
• 1957 – Rui Veloso was born. Portuguese singer, rock musician.
• 1958 – Kate Bush was born. English singer.
• 1958 – Richard Burgi was born. Actor
• 1961 – Laurence Fishburne was born. Actor
• 1961 – Neal McCoy was born. Country singer
• 1962 – Alton Brown was born. Food Network host
• 1963 – Lisa Kudrow was born. Actress
• 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann was born. German football player amd manager.
• 1964 – Vivica A. Fox was born. Actress
• 1964 – Dwayne O’Brien was born. Country musician (Little Texas)
• 1964 – Vivica Fox was born. Actress (“Independence Day”)
• 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• 1966 – At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2. / Em Londres, os donos da casa vencem a Alemanha por 4 a 2 e conquistam a Copa do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1966 – President Johnson signed the Medicare bill on this day in 1966.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders.
• 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
• 1971 - Início dos Jogos Pan-Americanos na Colômbia
• 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162
• 1971 – Tom Green was born. Comedian, actor
• 1971 – Christine Taylor was born. Actress (“The Brady Bunch Movie”)
• 1971 – Kenneth Slessor dies. Australian poet
• 1974 – Hilary Swank was born. Academy Award winning actress
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
• 1975 – Representatives of 35 countries convened in Helsinki, Finland, for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the “Helsinki Accords.” The conference was aimed at ensuring peace in Europe.
• 1975 – Graham Nicholls was born. British artist
• 1975 – James Blish dies. Author
• 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa, labour leader, disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• 1977 – Jaime Pressly was born. Actress.
• 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
• 1981 – Nicky Hayden was born. American Motorcycle Racer
• 1983 – Lynn Fontanne dies. Actress.
• 1983 – Luis Buñel was born. Spanish film composer.
• 1984 – West German swimmer Michael Gross became the first double gold winner of the 1984 Summer Olympics, while the United States picked up three gold medals in swimming and shooting.
• 1984 – Mobutu Sese Seko is reelected Presidente of Zaire.
• 1988 – Chacrinha dies (b. 1916). Brazilian TV presenter and radialist,
• 1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
• 1996 – Claudette Colbert dies in Barbados at age 92. Actress
• 1997 – A double suicide bombing kills 14 people in Jerusalem,Israel.
• 1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
• 1997 – Bao Dai dies (b. 1913). Last empereur of Vietnam
• 2000 – President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election.
• 2002 – Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie is the first woman to dunk in a basketball game.
• 2002 – The accounting law referred to as “The Sarbanes Oxley Act” was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush
• 2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
• 2003 – 490,000 Rock Fans attend Sarsfest concert at Downsview park in Toronto, Canada, Headlined by The Rolling Stones, AC/DC Rush, The Tea Party, and 12 other major rock acts.
• 2003 – Sam Phillips dies. Record producer.
• 2004 – A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.
• 2005 – John Garang dies (b. 1945). Vice President of Sudan
• 2005 – Anthony Walker dies (b. 1987). Hate crime murder victim
• 2006 – World’s longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show has aired for 42 years.
• Vanuatu – Independence Day
• International Bog Day
• Sysadmin Appreciation Day
• Comedy Celebration Day – Held on the last Sunday in July. This celebration in San Francisco recognizes the many comics that started their career there. Sponsor: Jose Simon.