Benfica volta a ganhar bem na Suiça sem ser brilhante Julho 13, 2005

Etoile Carouge 0 – 3 SL Benfica

Segundo jogo-treino da pré-época do Benfica 2005/2006 e segunda vitória. Desta vez frente a uma equipa suiça de escalão secundário o Benfica venceu com facilidade ficando a dever muitos golos ao resultado. Três apenas enquanto atirou por quatro vezes a bola aos ferros da baliza suiça e mais um punhado de oportunidades falhadas, principalmente na primeira parte.

Duas equipas diferentes em ambas as partes – apenas Kariaka fez o jogo todo- na primeira o futebol da equipa portuguesa foi dominador, mais envolvencia no ataque, mais troca de bola e jogo mais fluido. Cinco oportunidades flagrantes até ao 1º. golo por Mantorras após um lançamento em profundidade, isolou-se e marcou à saída do guarda-redes, aos 26′. Ao intervalo era de 0-1 o resultado.

Na segunda parte o jogo foi menos atraente, menos colectivo, mas com mais golos. O 0-2 de penalty foi concretizado por Nuno Gomes após falta sobre Hugo Roque. O 0-3 foi de Karadas em remate de fora da área de surpresa em boa jogada de mérito individual. Karadas é tosco, mas é generoso, disputa as bolas de cabeça e o Benfica precisa de ter alguém com as suas características.

Nota final de algum destaque para Hugo Roque que teve a excelente desmarcação que deu o penalty e outra jogada muito boa finalizada com um remate ao poste mais distante (a quarta bola ao poste – as restantes foram de Mantorras e Andersen na 1ª. parte e de Kariaka na 2ª.).

Reforça-se a impressão que o Benfica precisa de melhor finalização, enquanto a defesa mesmo perante adversários fracos meteu alguma “água”. Teve necessidade de fazer algumas faltas ( com amarelo para Ricardo Rocha) e o Etoile esteve mesmo perto de fazer um golo aos 83′ após defesa incompleta de Moreira a remate de cabeça, teve que depois fazer nova defesa bem difícil.

A arbitragem esteve muito bem segundo a nossa opinião mostrando amarelos quando devia, sem exageros. Notamos todavia um ou outro erro nos fora de jogo, mas sem gravidade.

Teste será, sem dúvida, o Benfica-Chelsea que promete encher o (ainda) Estádio da Luz, no próximo fim de semana.

Uma nota final: Não gostámos nada do equipamento apresentado pelo Benfica. Uma cor esbatida, não definida (qual era? anil pró esverdeado? ) e sem qualquer relação com a grandiosa História do clube. A evitar.

Outros jogos de preparação:

Os outros grandes também jogaram hoje: o Sporting derrotou o Torriense por 3-1 enquanto na Holanda o Porto venceu o Nec de Nijmegen por 1-0

Exorcismo – Miguel Torga

Canto
O meu desencanto
Este cansaço
Lasso
De tudo quanto.

Esta melancolia
Penitente
De quem sente
Que luta e que porfia
Inutilmente.

Esta baça impressão
De que nada vale nada.
Esta tristeza triste
Que resiste
às razões da razão inconformada

Coimbra, 15 de Julho de 1978
Miguel Torga
in Poesia Completa
Publicações Dom Quixote

Co Adriaanse e o FC Porto

Co Adriaanse nestes primeiros dias de treinador em Portugal tem dado a entender ser um treinador organizado e disciplinador.

Já havíamos verificado pelo AZ 67 da época passada, designadamente pela sua passagem pela Taça Uefa (onde foi afastada, no último minuto, pelo Sporting) que é um treinador que trabalha muito bem as suas equipas. O trabalho táctico e os lances ditos “de bola parada” demonstraram uma organização que não se consegue granjear em pouco tempo. Mérito do treinador.

Agora no FC Porto com jogadores individualmente muito superiores aos do AZ e com a postura que assumiu – “os jogadores são para jogar futebol com os pés e não com as orelhas” – proibindo os brincos, “piercings” e outros adereços mais típicos do “show business” do mundo da canção/moda/cinema, as expectativas de uma boa época, parecem bem justificadas.

Vamos ver se no FC Porto a “confusão” herdada da época passada e a continuação da rotação exagerada de jogadores não será um “handicap” pesado.

Para já Co Adriaanse vai ganhando “pontos”…

On this day in History – Jul 13

0040 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, was born (d. 93). Roman Governor of Britain.
0574 – Pope John III dies.
0939 – Pope Leo VII dies.
1024 – Emperor Henry II, dies.
1205 – Hubert Walter, dies. Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England.
1491 – Príncipe Afonso de Portugal, herdeiro do rei João II
1527 – John Dee was born. English alchemist, astrologer, and mathematician who contributed greatly to the revival of interest in mathematics in England.
1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1590 – Pope Clement X was born (d. 1676).
1608 – Ferdinand III was born (d. 1657). Holy Roman Emperor. He headed the so-called peace party at the Habsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years’ War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.
1621 – Archduke Albert of Austria, dies (b. 1559). Governor of the Low Countries.
1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
1647 – Criação da Aula de Fortificação e Arquitectura Militar, na Ribeira das Naus.
1705 – Titus Oates, dies (b. 1649). Protestant conspirator.
1755 – Edward Braddock, dies. British general.

1769 – Thomas Kelly, was born. Irish Episcopal clergyman and author of 765 hymns, including: ‘Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him.’
1777 – Guillaume Coustou dies. French sculptor.
1787- The U.S. Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1793 – Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered by Charlotte Corday.
1793 – Jean Paul Marat, dies murdered by Charlotte Corday (b.1743). French revolutionary.
1794 – Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1816 – Gustav Freitag, was born (d. 1895). Writer.
1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, was born (d. 1877). American Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
1837 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.
1841 – Otto Wagner was born (d. 1918). Austrian architect.
1854 – In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.

1859 – Sidney Webb, was born. English economist and socialist – founder of the Fabian Society.
1863 – New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, was born (d. 1912). American entrepreneur.
1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia and Montenegro become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
1893 – Morte de Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa. Pai do poeta português Fernando Pessoa.
1894 – Isaac Babel, was born (d. 1940). Ukrainian writer.
1896 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz,dies (b. 1829). German organic chemist.
1898 – Guglielmo Marconi patenta la radio
1900 – George Lewis, was born. American jazz musician (d. 1969)
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers.
1908 – 4th modern Olympic games opens in London. Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.
1909 – Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
1913 – Dave Garroway, was born (d. 1982). American television host.
1914 – Sam Hanksauto was born (d. 27 Jun 1994). Car racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1957: 135.601 mph]
1918 – Alberto Ascari, was born (d. 1955). Italian race car driver.
1918 – Sebastião Carvalho Leme, was born. Brasilian photographer.
1919 – The British airship R-34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1921 – Ernest Gold, was born (d. 1999). Film score composer.
1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, dies. French physicist Nobel Prize for Phisic de Física in 1908.
1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, was born. Italian tenor
1927 – Simone Veil, was born. French politician
1928 – Bob Crane, was born (d. 1978). American actor.
1928 – Mace Neufeld, was born. Film producer
1929 – Alan Civil, was born (d. 1989). English French horn player.
1930 – The first FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
1933 – David Malcolm Storey, was born. Writer
1934 – Wole Soyinka, was born. Nigerian writer
1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, was born. Cosmonaut
1935 – Jack Kemp, was born. American football player and Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – Albert Ayler, was born (d. 1970). Jazz Musician.
1936 – A heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States. The all-time highest temperatures for the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana are all recorded on this date.
1940 – Patrick Stewart, was born. English actor .
1941 – Robert Forster, was born. American actor
1941 – World War II: Montenegrins start the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers on 13 of July.
1942 – World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1942 – Harrison Ford, was born in Chicago, Illinois. American actor (Presumed Innocent, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Sabrina, etc.)
1942 – Roger McGuinn, was born. American musician.
1943 – Greatest tank battle in history ended with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk. Almost 6,000 tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany.
1944 – Ernő Rubik, was born. Hungarian inventor (Rubik’s cube), sculptor, and architect
1946 – Cheech Marin, was born.American actor and comedian
1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, dies (b. 1864). American photographer.
1946 – Nascimento, em Ponte Preta, de João Bosco, cantor e compositor da MPB (música popular brasileira).
1949 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, dies (b. 1874). Austrian composer.
1953 – Johnny Clegg, was born. South African composer and musician
1954 – Sezen Aksu, was born. Turkish singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1954 – Frida Kahlo, dies (b. 1907). Mexican painter.

1955 – Ruth Ellis hanged for killing lover – Convicted murderer Ruth Ellis is hanged at Holloway Prison, London.
1956 – Michael Spinks was born. International Boxing Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer [1976]; champion: light heavyweight, heavyweight; total bouts: 33, won: 32, lost: 1, KOs: 21
1957 – Cameron Crowe, was born. American film director and writer
1962 – Rhonda Vincent, was born. Bluegrass singer
1963 – Neal Foulds, was born. English snooker player.
1965 – J. K. Rowling was born. English writer.
1965 – Morte de Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro. Presidente da Colômbia (1950-1953).
1966 – Gerald Levert, was born. Singer
1966 – At Old Trafford, in Manchester, Portugal beat Hungary for the first round of 1966 -Football World Championship , Group 3, Portugal:Hungary 3:1 (1:0). José Augusto 2 , Torres and Ferenc Bene were the scorers / Portugal vence a Hungria por 3-1 (com 1-0 ao intervalo) na primeira ronda da fase final do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol na Inglaterra,em jogo disputado em Manchester perante 37.000 pessoas.
1967 – Tom Simpson, dies (exhaustion) (b. 1937). British cyclist.

1969 – Joaquim Agostinho venceu a etapa La Grande Motte –Revel da Volta à França. Pela primeira vez um ciclista português ganhava duas etapas do Tour, abrindo caminho à maior proeza de sempre até então um oitavo lugar na classificação geral da mais importante prova velocipédica do mundo.
1970 – Leslie Groves, membro do Exército dos Estados Unidos que observou a construção do Pentágono e o principal líder militar do Projecto Manhattan.
1970 – Barry Pinches, was born. English snooker player .

1971 – Death for Moroccan rebel leaders . Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco have been executed.
1972 – The United States Democratic Party nominates George McGovern for president at its convention in Miami Beach, Florida but, because of an impassioned platform dispute, McGovern does not give his acceptance speech until the early morning hours of the 14th.
1973 – Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
1974 – Jarno Trulli, was born. Formula 1 racer.
1974 – Patrick Blackett, dies (b. 1897). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1977 – The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
1977 – Morte do físico português Mário Augusto da Silva
1978 – Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men.
1980 – Seretse Khama, dies (b. 1921). First President of Botswana.
1982 – Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.
1983 – Gabrielle Roy, dies (b. 1909). Canadian author.
1984 – Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
1988 – Final results of Mexico’s recent presidential election were released, giving the victory to the candidate of the governing party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Opponents charged that the election had been stolen.

1993 – Davey Allison, dies (b. 1961). American race car driver.
1996 – A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3 passengers.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, concejal del Partido Popular en Ermua (Euskadi, España), es asesinado por la banda terrorista ETA, provocando una movilización ciudadana contra el terrorismo sin precedentes en el país.
1998 – Indonésia assina o Protocolo de Kyoto.

2000 – Fiji’s coup leaders released their remaining 18 captives, ending a two-month-old parliamentary hostage crisis.
2002 – A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km2) when finally contained on September 5.
2002 – Yousuf Karsh, dies (b. 1908). Turkish-born photographer.
2003 – Compay Segundo, dies (b. 1907). Cuban folk musician (“Buena Vista Social Club”)
2004 – Arthur Kane, dies (b. 1951). Musician (New York Dolls).

2005 – Space Shuttle Discovery launches in the Return to Flight program.
Mongolia – Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Kálimát (Words) – First day of the seventh month of the Bahá’í Calendar
Bon Festival – Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)
Dia Mundial do Rock.

On this day in History – Jul 13

0040 – Gnaeus Julius Agricola, was born (d. 93). Roman Governor of Britain.
0574 – Pope John III dies.
0939 – Pope Leo VII dies.
1024 – Emperor Henry II, dies.
1205 – Hubert Walter, dies. Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England.
1491 – Príncipe Afonso de Portugal, herdeiro do rei João II
1527 – John Dee was born. English alchemist, astrologer, and mathematician who contributed greatly to the revival of interest in mathematics in England.
1558 – Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1590 – Pope Clement X was born (d. 1676).
1608 – Ferdinand III was born (d. 1657). Holy Roman Emperor. He headed the so-called peace party at the Habsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years’ War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.
1621 – Archduke Albert of Austria, dies (b. 1559). Governor of the Low Countries.
1643 – English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down – In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
1647 – Criação da Aula de Fortificação e Arquitectura Militar, na Ribeira das Naus.
1705 – Titus Oates, dies (b. 1649). Protestant conspirator.
1755 – Edward Braddock, dies. British general.

1769 – Thomas Kelly, was born. Irish Episcopal clergyman and author of 765 hymns, including: ‘Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him.’
1777 – Guillaume Coustou dies. French sculptor.
1787- The U.S. Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
1793 – Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered by Charlotte Corday.
1793 – Jean Paul Marat, dies murdered by Charlotte Corday (b.1743). French revolutionary.
1794 – Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1816 – Gustav Freitag, was born (d. 1895). Writer.
1821 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, was born (d. 1877). American Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader.
1822 – Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.
1837 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.
1841 – Otto Wagner was born (d. 1918). Austrian architect.
1854 – In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.

1859 – Sidney Webb, was born. English economist and socialist – founder of the Fabian Society.
1863 – New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.
1864 – John Jacob Astor IV, was born (d. 1912). American entrepreneur.
1878 – Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia and Montenegro become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.
1893 – Morte de Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa. Pai do poeta português Fernando Pessoa.
1894 – Isaac Babel, was born (d. 1940). Ukrainian writer.
1896 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz,dies (b. 1829). German organic chemist.
1898 – Guglielmo Marconi patenta la radio
1900 – George Lewis, was born. American jazz musician (d. 1969)
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers.
1908 – 4th modern Olympic games opens in London. Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.
1909 – Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
1913 – Dave Garroway, was born (d. 1982). American television host.
1914 – Sam Hanksauto was born (d. 27 Jun 1994). Car racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1957: 135.601 mph]
1918 – Alberto Ascari, was born (d. 1955). Italian race car driver.
1918 – Sebastião Carvalho Leme, was born. Brasilian photographer.
1919 – The British airship R-34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
1921 – Ernest Gold, was born (d. 1999). Film score composer.
1921 – Gabriel Lippmann, dies. French physicist Nobel Prize for Phisic de Física in 1908.
1924 – Carlo Bergonzi, was born. Italian tenor
1927 – Simone Veil, was born. French politician
1928 – Bob Crane, was born (d. 1978). American actor.
1928 – Mace Neufeld, was born. Film producer
1929 – Alan Civil, was born (d. 1989). English French horn player.
1930 – The first FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
1933 – David Malcolm Storey, was born. Writer
1934 – Wole Soyinka, was born. Nigerian writer
1934 – Aleksei Yeliseyev, was born. Cosmonaut
1935 – Jack Kemp, was born. American football player and Vice Presidential candidate
1936 – Albert Ayler, was born (d. 1970). Jazz Musician.
1936 – A heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States. The all-time highest temperatures for the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana are all recorded on this date.
1940 – Patrick Stewart, was born. English actor .
1941 – Robert Forster, was born. American actor
1941 – World War II: Montenegrins start the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers on 13 of July.
1942 – World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1942 – Harrison Ford, was born in Chicago, Illinois. American actor (Presumed Innocent, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Sabrina, etc.)
1942 – Roger McGuinn, was born. American musician.
1943 – Greatest tank battle in history ended with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk. Almost 6,000 tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany.
1944 – Ernő Rubik, was born. Hungarian inventor (Rubik’s cube), sculptor, and architect
1946 – Cheech Marin, was born.American actor and comedian
1946 – Alfred Stieglitz, dies (b. 1864). American photographer.
1946 – Nascimento, em Ponte Preta, de João Bosco, cantor e compositor da MPB (música popular brasileira).
1949 – Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1951 – Arnold Schoenberg, dies (b. 1874). Austrian composer.
1953 – Johnny Clegg, was born. South African composer and musician
1954 – Sezen Aksu, was born. Turkish singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1954 – Frida Kahlo, dies (b. 1907). Mexican painter.

1955 – Ruth Ellis hanged for killing lover – Convicted murderer Ruth Ellis is hanged at Holloway Prison, London.
1956 – Michael Spinks was born. International Boxing Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer [1976]; champion: light heavyweight, heavyweight; total bouts: 33, won: 32, lost: 1, KOs: 21
1957 – Cameron Crowe, was born. American film director and writer
1962 – Rhonda Vincent, was born. Bluegrass singer
1963 – Neal Foulds, was born. English snooker player.
1965 – J. K. Rowling was born. English writer.
1965 – Morte de Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro. Presidente da Colômbia (1950-1953).
1966 – Gerald Levert, was born. Singer
1966 – At Old Trafford, in Manchester, Portugal beat Hungary for the first round of 1966 -Football World Championship , Group 3, Portugal:Hungary 3:1 (1:0). José Augusto 2 , Torres and Ferenc Bene were the scorers / Portugal vence a Hungria por 3-1 (com 1-0 ao intervalo) na primeira ronda da fase final do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol na Inglaterra,em jogo disputado em Manchester perante 37.000 pessoas.
1967 – Tom Simpson, dies (exhaustion) (b. 1937). British cyclist.

1969 – Joaquim Agostinho venceu a etapa La Grande Motte –Revel da Volta à França. Pela primeira vez um ciclista português ganhava duas etapas do Tour, abrindo caminho à maior proeza de sempre até então um oitavo lugar na classificação geral da mais importante prova velocipédica do mundo.
1970 – Leslie Groves, membro do Exército dos Estados Unidos que observou a construção do Pentágono e o principal líder militar do Projecto Manhattan.
1970 – Barry Pinches, was born. English snooker player .

1971 – Death for Moroccan rebel leaders . Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco have been executed.
1972 – The United States Democratic Party nominates George McGovern for president at its convention in Miami Beach, Florida but, because of an impassioned platform dispute, McGovern does not give his acceptance speech until the early morning hours of the 14th.
1973 – Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
1973 – Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.
1974 – Jarno Trulli, was born. Formula 1 racer.
1974 – Patrick Blackett, dies (b. 1897). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1977 – The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
1977 – Morte do físico português Mário Augusto da Silva
1978 – Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men.
1980 – Seretse Khama, dies (b. 1921). First President of Botswana.
1982 – Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.
1983 – Gabrielle Roy, dies (b. 1909). Canadian author.
1984 – Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m
1985 – The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.
1988 – Final results of Mexico’s recent presidential election were released, giving the victory to the candidate of the governing party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Opponents charged that the election had been stolen.

1993 – Davey Allison, dies (b. 1961). American race car driver.
1996 – A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3 passengers.
1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, concejal del Partido Popular en Ermua (Euskadi, España), es asesinado por la banda terrorista ETA, provocando una movilización ciudadana contra el terrorismo sin precedentes en el país.
1998 – Indonésia assina o Protocolo de Kyoto.

2000 – Fiji’s coup leaders released their remaining 18 captives, ending a two-month-old parliamentary hostage crisis.
2002 – A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km2) when finally contained on September 5.
2002 – Yousuf Karsh, dies (b. 1908). Turkish-born photographer.
2003 – Compay Segundo, dies (b. 1907). Cuban folk musician (“Buena Vista Social Club”)
2004 – Arthur Kane, dies (b. 1951). Musician (New York Dolls).

2005 – Space Shuttle Discovery launches in the Return to Flight program.
Mongolia – Naadam Holiday, 3rd day
Bahá’í Faith – Feast of Kálimát (Words) – First day of the seventh month of the Bahá’í Calendar
Bon Festival – Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)
Dia Mundial do Rock.