Superliga de Portugal – 13ª. Jornada Dezembro 5, 2004

Super Liga : 13 ª Jornada

Resultados :

Porto – Beira Mar 0-1

Guimarães – Belenenses 1-0

Nacional – União Leiria 0-3

Gil Vicente – Rio Ave 3-1

Sp. Braga – Penafiel 0-1

Moreirense-Boavista 1-1

V. Setúbal – Marítimo 2-0

Académica – Sporting 2-3

Benfica – Estoril : joga-se amanhã

Destaque nesta jornada para as derrotas em casa do FC Porto e Braga frente a equipas que estavam mal classificadas que possibilitou ao Sporting estar agora a apenas um ponto do comando da classificação ao ganhar à Académica. Neste jogo, o Sporting que dominou a primeira parte chegou ao intervalo a vencer por 2-0 mas na 2ª parte em pouco mais de dez minutos a Académica empatou o jogo; O jogo estava lançado mas uma infantilidade de Vasco Faísca (aproveitada por Ricardo para ” fazer fita”) que deu um ligeiro toque no g. redes do Sporting quando este ia repôr a bola em jogo, valeu-lhe a expulsão (já tinha um cartão amarelo) e colocou de novo o Sporting em ascendente no jogo,conseguindo o 3-2 em lance confuso com os conimbricenses a protestarem a sua legalidade. A Académica esteve ainda perto de empatar num grande remate de longe de Luciano para a defesa da noite de Ricardo que salvou a vitória leonina.

O Boavista em Moreira de Cónegos esteve a vencer mas durante apenas um minuto. Após a primeira parte de um jogo fraco, na segunda as equipas empenharam-se em chegar à vitória que se desenhou para os Boavisteiros pelo recém-entrado João Pinto, mas a vantagem durou pouco após grande golo de cabeça de Manoel. Perdeu assim o Boavista a oportunidade de se isolar em primeiro estando agora na companhia do Sporting a um ponto de distância do FC Porto. De registar ainda a expulsão de João Pinto por palavras dirigidas ao árbitro Olegário Benquerença depois deste deixar por marcar uma falta cometida sobre ele.

O Vitória de Guimarães conseguiu pela 1º. vez neste campeonato ganhar duas vezes consecutivas e começa a recuperar na classificação ao contrário do seu adversário Belenenses que tendo começado bem a época está em fase descendente. Em má situação está o Nacional que sofreu uma derrota pesada em casa frente ao Leiria, ainda que a confirmação da vitória dos leirienses só tenha cheagado nos últimos minutos.

Nos outro de Setúbal entre duas das equipas que se têm destacado no campeonato o Setúbal regressou às vitórias vencendo em casa o Marítimo por 2-0.

O Rio Ave que só tinha uma derrota perdeu com o Gil Vicente em casa deste confirmando a excelente recuperação após a mudança de treinador.

Amanhã disputa-se o Benfica- Estoril e uma vitória do Benfica permite-lhe igualar o FC Porto no comando da classificação,que está como segue:

1º FC Porto 13 jogos , 25 pontos (19-08 )

2º. Sporting 13 jogos, 24 pontos (29-17 )

3º. Boavista 13 jogos, 24 pontos (17-13 )

4º. Setúbal 13 jogos, 23 pontos (19-15)

5º. Benfica 12 jogos, 22 pontos (19 -11)

6º. Sp. Braga 13 jogos, 22 pontos (17-12)

7º. U. Leiria 13 jogos, 20 pontos (16-13)

8º. Marítimo 13 jogos, 20 pontos (15-13)

…….. (últimos lugares)

14ºsEstoril 12 jogos, 12 pontos (14-17)

14ºsG. Vicente 13 jogos, 12 pontos (14-17)

16º.Nacional 13 jogos, 12 pontos (14-22)

17º.Académica 13 jogos, 11 pontos (13-20)

18º.Moreirense 13 jogos, 9 pontos (11-22)

Claude Monet – Garden at Saint-Adress

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Garden in Bordighera, Impression of Morning (1884)

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Claude Monet – Garden at Saint-Adress

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On this day in History – Dec. 05

• 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
• 1776 – A group of undergraduates at the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia organize an honor society called Phi Beta Kappa. The first of the “Greek letter” societies formed in the US, members met regularly to write, debate, and socialize. They adopted an oath of secrecy, a code of laws, Latin and Greek mottoes, and an elaborate initiation rite.
• 1782 – Martin Van Buren, born , eighth president of the United States
• 1791 – Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria, at age 35.
• 1792- George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-elected vice president.
• 1839 – General George Custer, born, American soldier
• 1870 – Alexandre Dumas , died, writer
• 1872 – Having left New York on Nov. 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.
• 1890 – Fritz Lang, film director (d. 1976)
• 1891 – O imperador brasileiro D. Pedro II morreu em Paris, no exílio.
• 1901 – Walt Disney, born in Chicago, [d. 1966] American cartoonist and film producer, started an entertainment empire with his creation of animated movies and world-renowned amusement parks.
• 1901 – Werner Karl Heisenberg, German physicist – Born at Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany [d. 1976]
• 1906 – Otto Preminger, born, American producer, director, and actor (He directed is first film The Great Love, in 1931 and a highly acclaimed play, Libel, in 1935; Anatomy of a Murder in 1959 and Exodus in 1960 …)
• 1911 – Turks defeated by Italian forces at Tripoli.
• 1917 – Sidónio Pais, embaixador de Portugal em Berlim de 1912 a 1916, na altura professor da escola de Guerra (Academia Militar), e major, chefiou uma revolução que o levará ao poder três dias depois. O movimento e a situação política que criou será conhecido pelo «Dezembrismo».
• 1926 – Claude Monet, died, impressionist painter
• 1932 – Little Richard, born,American singer and songwriter
• 1932 – The first Ford Model C and V-8 automobile was introduced on this day
• 1932 – German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States.
• 1933- The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America
• 1934 – Joan Didion, born, American novelist
• 1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.
• 1938 – J.J. Cale, born, musician
• 1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
• 1945- Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1946- Jose Carreras , born, Opera singer
• 1947 – Egberto Gismonti , born compositor e multiinstrumentista brasileiro
• 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show debuts.Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello launch their TV show. They made only 52 episodes, but the show appeared in reruns for decades
• 1955: The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous trade unions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, is formed.
• 1962 – José Cura, born, Argentine tenor
• 1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
• 1969 – Writer-director Morgan J. Freeman born, writer – director
• 1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.
• 1977 – Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt breaks all relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen.
• 1978 – USSR and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty”; In an effort to prop up an unpopular pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union signs a “friendship treaty” with the Afghan government agreeing to provide economic and military assistance.
• 1979 – feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
• 1992 – Aid agencies are stripped by gunmen in Somalia on eve of US troop arrival.
• 2002 – At Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.
  

On this day in History – Dec. 04 Dezembro 4, 2004

• 1334 – Pope John XXII, died
• 1443 – Pope Julius II, born (d 1513)
• 1586 – Elisabeth I England confirms the death sentence against Marie Stuart
• 1619 – Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas)
• 1642 – Cardinal Richelieu, died, French statesman
• 1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founded a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illinois Indians (the mission later grew into Chicago, Illinois).
• 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, died, English philosoph
• 1783 – George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.
• 1791 – The first issue of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published
• 1800 – Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup, born , Danish poet
• 1816 – James Monroe of Virginia was elected (by electors) the fifth president of the United Sates.
• 1829 – In the face of fierce opposition, British Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide
• 1866 – Vasily Kandinsky, born , Russian painter
• 1875 – William Marcy “Boss” Tweed of New York’s Tammany Hall escaped from jail and fled the country.
• 1893 – Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
• 1918 – President Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference.
• 1931 – Alex Delvecchio, born, ice hockey Hall of Fame player
• 1940 – John Cale, born, rock musician (The Velvet Underground)
• 1942 – President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.
• 1942 – U.S. bombers struck the Italian mainland for the first time in World War II.
• 1945 – The Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations.
• 1949 – Jeff Bridges, born, actor
• 1952 – Great Smog of 1952: A “killer fog” descended on London (“Smog” for “smoke” and “fog” became a word).
• 1954 – Ghanaian government breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium.
• 1963 – Sergey Bubka, born, athlete (pole vault)
• 1965 – The United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard.
• 1973 – Tyra Banks, born, actress-model
• 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
• 1977 – A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737 is hijacked and then blown up in mid-air over the Straits of Johore, killing 100.
• 1978 – San Francisco got its first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone.
• 1980 – Francisco Sá Carneiro Portuguese politician, prime minister, died in office, when his plane crashed into a building in Camarate, soon after taking-off from Lisbon airport, when heading to Oporto to take party in a rally for the coalition presidential candidate, António Soares Carneiro.
• 1980 – Adelino Amaro da Costa Portuguese politician, Minister of Defense died when his plane crashed (see last entry)
• 1984 – a five-day hijack drama began as four armed men seized a Kuwaiti airliner en route to Pakistan and forced it to land in Tehran, where the hijackers killed American passenger Charles Hegna.
• 1984 – Lindsay Felton, born, actress
• 1991 – Pan Am Airlines ended operations.
• 1991 – Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson is released after seven years as a hostage in Lebanon.1992 – President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.
• 1993 – A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
• 1993 – Rock musician and composer Frank Zappa died at age 52.
• 1994 – Bosnian Serbs released 53 out of some 400 U.N. peacekeepers they were holding as insurance against further NATO airstrikes.
• 2003 – Maria de Arruda Muller, died, Brazilien teacher and poet (born in Cuiabá, MT, em 09-Dec-1888)
• 2003 – Interpol put the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, on its most-wanted list
  

Porto – Beira Mar 0 – 1 Dezembro 3, 2004

O Campeonato Português de Futebol continua na senda das surpresas. O campeão em título e líder da tabela classificativa volta a perder em casa, agora frente ao Beira Mar de Manuel Cajuda que não havia vencido ainda (nos oito jogos anteriores)! Um golo de Beto aos 38′ da 1ª. parte na marcação de um livre colocou os aveirenses a vencer numa primeira parte dominada pelos locais que desperdiçaram várias oportunidades de golo. Na 2ª. parte o nível dos portistas baixou apesar das alterações efectuadas com entradas de Maniche e Derlei jogadores que o treinador pensava poupar para o próximo confronto da Champions League. Cantos e mais cantos era a única coisa que iam obtendo face a uma defensiva do Beira Mar coesa e um guarda-redes seguro. Nem a expulsão de Beto aos 78′ (errada, porquanto não houve qualquer simulação de falta) aproveitou o F. C. Porto, que foi através de dois cabeceamentos na sequência de cantos da direita do ataque que causou os lances de maior perigo, mas os remates sairam ligeiramente ao lado.

É caso para dizer que em dia em que o Presidente Pinto da Costa foi constituído arguido no processo de corrupção da arbitragem que está em investigação, ficando com termo de identidade e residência, quem ficou com pouca liberdade de movimentos e de reacções foi a equipa. O treinador que já não podia contar com V.Baía, Jorge Costa e McCarthy procurou ainda fazer descansar Maniche e Derley, e esta abordagem de jogo talvez também tivesse influência se não negativa na equipa do Porto, pelo menos positiva nos adversários que abordaram o jogo pensando que poderiam conseguir pontuar. O árbitro não esteve bem, mas acabou por não ter influência no resultado.

Já a caminho de se completar a Jornada 13 os “grandes” vêm revelando extremas dificuldades na demonstração da sua superioridade (até agora inexistente) com um número de pontos perdidos anormal e já não fazemos palpites quanto ao futuro. Lembrem-se os leitores que diagnosticamos na semana passada uma jornada calma para os primeiros principalmente para Porto e Benfica, que este resultado desde já desmente. Vamos aguardar pelos restantes resultados para saber se Boavista, Benfica, Braga e Sporting aproveitam este deslize.

On this day in History – Dec. 03

• 0741- Saint Zacharias begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
• 1154 – Pope Anastasius IV , died
• 1552 – Francisco Xavier died (age 48), Jesuit missionary, in China, where he contracted a fever while waiting for permission to preach.
• 1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes from Colombia to England.
• 1621 – Galileo invented the telescope.
• 1803 – Hector Berlioz, born , French composer (Symphony Fantastique
• 1818 – Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• 1828 – U.S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
• 1857 – Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowskij (“Joseph Conrad”), Born in Poland, Conrad would become one of the greatest English novelist and short-story, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story Heart of Darkness (1902).
• 1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, died in Samoa, [b. 1850 ] Scotish, novelist and poet, author of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• 1899 – Ikeda Hayato, born , Japanese prime minister (d. 1965)
• 1900 – Richard Kuhn, born, German biochemist, winner 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1967)
• 1904 – Roberto Marinho, born , Brazilien jornalist and business man
• 1912 – First Balkan War ends – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
• 1917 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).
• 1919 – Pierre A. Renoir French painter and sculptor died at age 78.
• 1925 – “Concerto in F,” by George Gershwin, had its world premiere at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin himself at the piano.
• 1930 – Jean-Luc Godard, born, French film director
• 1930 – Andy Williams, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show), was born in Wall Lake, Iowa.
• 1940 – Manuela Ferreira Leite born, portuguese politician: Minister of Education and Minister of Finances
• 1943 – Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy began.
• 1944 – Greek Civil War starts in Athens
• 1946 – Poemas de Alberto Caeiro y Odes de Ricardo Reis, de Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa, were published.
• 1947 – Tennessee Williams‘ play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway
• 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, born, singer
• 1953 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Republic of China is signed in Washington, DC.
• 1960 – Daryl Hannah, born, actress – Vidé Daryl Hannah photo
• 1960 – Julianne Moore, born, actress
• 1963 – Nelson Mandela‘s treason trial begins in South Africa.
• 1967 – Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant.
• 1970 – Christian Karembeu, born, French football (soccer) player
• 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ’s Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
• 1971 -President Nixon commuted Jimmy Hoffa’s jail term.
• 1973 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, died, Président du Mexique, entre 1952 et 1958
• 1978 – Luis Herrera Campins es elegido presidente de la República de Venezuela.
• 1975 – Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People’s Democratic Republic proclaimed
• 1976 – Patrick Hillery becomes the sixth President of Ireland
• 1979 – 11 people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.
• 1984 – A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4.000 people.
• 1955 – Britain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
• 1987 – Mariana Torres, born , Mexican actress
• 1989 – Fernando Martín Espina died (age 27), Spanish basketball player
• 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end.
• 1990 – At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with a Boeing 727 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers aboard flight 1482.
• 1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
• 1995 – The US and Europe signed a trans-Atlantic trade and security accord in Madrid, Spain.
• 1997 – In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. However, The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty.
• 1997 – Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner exercised stock options for a profit of $565 million.
• 1997 – In Norway Dr. Christian Sandsdalen was convicted for the mercy killing in Jun 1996 of Bodil Bjerkmann (45), who suffered from multiple sclerosis. He was the first Norwegian tried for mercy killing
• 1999 – Tori Murden (36) of the United States became the 1st woman to complete a rowboat crossing of the Atlantic. Her 81-day, 7 hr. and 31 min. trip began in the Canary Islands and finished at Fort-du-Bas in Guadeloupe.
• 2000 – Sandra Baldwin was elected the first female president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
• 2000 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, poet, died of cancer. Gwendolyn Brooks promoted an understanding of Black culture through her candid, compassionate poetry and became the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize.
• 2001 – In Argentina the government put a 90-day partial freeze on bank accounts to help stem a run on banks. Weekly withdrawals were limited to $250.

On this day in History – Dec. 03

• 0741- Saint Zacharias begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
• 1154 – Pope Anastasius IV , died
• 1552 – Francisco Xavier died (age 48), Jesuit missionary, in China, where he contracted a fever while waiting for permission to preach.
• 1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes from Colombia to England.
• 1621 – Galileo invented the telescope.
• 1803 – Hector Berlioz, born , French composer (Symphony Fantastique
• 1818 – Illinois became the 21st state in the United States.
• 1828 – U.S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
• 1857 – Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowskij (“Joseph Conrad”), Born in Poland, Conrad would become one of the greatest English novelist and short-story, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story Heart of Darkness (1902).
• 1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, died in Samoa, [b. 1850 ] Scotish, novelist and poet, author of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• 1899 – Ikeda Hayato, born , Japanese prime minister (d. 1965)
• 1900 – Richard Kuhn, born, German biochemist, winner 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1967)
• 1904 – Roberto Marinho, born , Brazilien jornalist and business man
• 1912 – First Balkan War ends – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
• 1917 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).
• 1919 – Pierre A. Renoir French painter and sculptor died at age 78.
• 1925 – “Concerto in F,” by George Gershwin, had its world premiere at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin himself at the piano.
• 1930 – Jean-Luc Godard, born, French film director
• 1930 – Andy Williams, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show), was born in Wall Lake, Iowa.
• 1940 – Manuela Ferreira Leite born, portuguese politician: Minister of Education and Minister of Finances
• 1943 – Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy began.
• 1944 – Greek Civil War starts in Athens
• 1946 – Poemas de Alberto Caeiro y Odes de Ricardo Reis, de Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa, were published.
• 1947 – Tennessee Williams‘ play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway
• 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, born, singer
• 1953 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Republic of China is signed in Washington, DC.
• 1960 – Daryl Hannah, born, actress – Vidé Daryl Hannah photo
• 1960 – Julianne Moore, born, actress
• 1963 – Nelson Mandela‘s treason trial begins in South Africa.
• 1967 – Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world’s first successful human heart transplant.
• 1970 – Christian Karembeu, born, French football (soccer) player
• 1970 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ’s Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
• 1971 -President Nixon commuted Jimmy Hoffa’s jail term.
• 1973 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, died, Président du Mexique, entre 1952 et 1958
• 1978 – Luis Herrera Campins es elegido presidente de la República de Venezuela.
• 1975 – Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People’s Democratic Republic proclaimed
• 1976 – Patrick Hillery becomes the sixth President of Ireland
• 1979 – 11 people were killed in a crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum, where the British rock group The Who was performing.
• 1984 – A cloud of deadly poison gas leaked from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing over 4.000 people.
• 1955 – Britain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
• 1987 – Mariana Torres, born , Mexican actress
• 1989 – Fernando Martín Espina died (age 27), Spanish basketball player
• 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end.
• 1990 – At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with a Boeing 727 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers aboard flight 1482.
• 1992 – The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
• 1995 – The US and Europe signed a trans-Atlantic trade and security accord in Madrid, Spain.
• 1997 – In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. However, The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty.
• 1997 – Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner exercised stock options for a profit of $565 million.
• 1997 – In Norway Dr. Christian Sandsdalen was convicted for the mercy killing in Jun 1996 of Bodil Bjerkmann (45), who suffered from multiple sclerosis. He was the first Norwegian tried for mercy killing
• 1999 – Tori Murden (36) of the United States became the 1st woman to complete a rowboat crossing of the Atlantic. Her 81-day, 7 hr. and 31 min. trip began in the Canary Islands and finished at Fort-du-Bas in Guadeloupe.
• 2000 – Sandra Baldwin was elected the first female president of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
• 2000 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, poet, died of cancer. Gwendolyn Brooks promoted an understanding of Black culture through her candid, compassionate poetry and became the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize.
• 2001 – In Argentina the government put a 90-day partial freeze on bank accounts to help stem a run on banks. Weekly withdrawals were limited to $250.

Beveren – Benfica 0 – 3 Uefa Cup (Group Stage) Dezembro 2, 2004

O Benfica venceu com facilidade a equipa belga do Beveren por 0-3 e assegurou a passagem para a próxima fase da Taça Uefa, faltando saber se fica em 1º. ou em 2º. lugar no grupo, dependendo do resultado do jogo Stuttgart- Dinamo de Zagreb. O jogo adivinhava-se fácil e ainda mais fácil se tornou quando aos 3′ o guarda-redes belga foi expulso por falta sobre Karadas e consequente penalty. Simão Sabrosa concretizou o penalty aos 5′ fazendo o 0-1 e até por volta dos 30′ as oportunidades sucediam-se a um ritmo invulgar, com perdidas inacreditáveis principalmente por Karadas. Aos 20′ finalmente o 0-2 por Zahovic após passe de João Pereira, uma simulação de Karadas isolou Zahovic que marcou à vontade. Aos 24′ Paulo Almeida lesionado foi substituido por Giovanni. Após os 30′ o jogo decorreu sem interesse; o Benfica abrandou o ritmo e a equipa belga teve até a oportunidade de trocar a bola entre os seus jogadores durante certos períodos de jogo. Na 2ª. parte as oportunidades foram escassas mas o Benfica ainda conseguiu elevar para 0-3 novamente por Zahovic que após cruzamento de Bruno Aguiar surgiu isolado (a defesa belga falhou na tentativa de fora de jogo) para à vontade voltar a marcar. O resto do jogo não teve interesse, com o Benfica em ritmo de treino e jogadores em má forma (Giovanni não jogou nada), ficando para a história o resultado. Na equipa do Beveren, com jogadores muito jovens, destaque para Sanogo que sózinho na frente ainda deu algum trabalho à defesa encarnada.

No outro jogo do grupo o Dinamo de Zagreb empatou em casa 2-2 com o Hereveen e ficou em posição difícil para se apurar pois agora só uma vitória na Alemanha lhe garante o apuramento.

Nos outros grupos surpreende a eliminação da Lazio ao empatar na Roménia com o Egaleo por 2-2 resultado insuficiente para compensar os resultados negativos dos outros jogos.

Thought of the day

“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don’t; men hope women won’t change but they do.” – Bettina Arndt