Benfica a anos-luz de distância do Top da Europa Agosto 6, 2005

Benfica 0 – 2 Juventus

Vinte e dois minutos apenas foi o tempo necessário para a Juventus, campeão de Itália, pôr em KO o Benfica, campeão de Portugal, em casa deste. Aos 5′ no primeiro remate à baliza 0-1. Ibrahimovic evita Luisão e do meio da rua remate por alto para um golo inesperado, ainda mais por Quim que de certeza não estava com a concentração necessária por que um golo daqueles …

O 2º. é tão inexplicável quanto o primeiro, mas por motivos diversos. O Benfica a apresentar um meio-campo com 3 médios defensivos ! (Beto-Petit-Manuel Fernandes) perde uma bola a meio campo (em que dois destes tiveram intervenção : passe deficiente de Manuel Fernandes para Beto que perde a bola) e o contra-ataque mortífero permite com toda a facilidade um 2 para 1 que a qualidade de jogadores como Ibrahimovic e Trezeget não permite desperdiçar.

O Benfica ainda teve quase de imediato a sua maior oportunidade de golo do jogo numa tabelinha Mantorras-Giovanni, mas em que este já na área mas apertado não consegue melhor que chutar contra o corpo de Bouffon. Um golo encarnado ainda poderia animar os adeptos e manter em alguma expectastiva o jogo, mas a verdade é que a diferença de qualidade de ambas as equipas foi evidente.

Apesar de alguma rispidez dos italianos não sancionada por uma equipa de arbitragem que é de direito de 2ª categoria mas que revelou de facto ser de 3ª. (como é possível nomear uma equipa de arbitragem destas para um jogo em que estão os campeões de Portugal e de Itália?) , com destaque para Simão Sabrosa e Beto que sofreram as consequências, o colectivismo e a maior velocidade de execução dos italianos (isto para já não falar na categoria tecnica individual de grande parte dos jogadores italianos) foi sempre superior ao Benfica.

Na 2ª. parte com os italianos mais retraidos e com as substituições operadas o Benfica finalmente passou a ter médios ofensivos (com a entrada de Kariaka e Nuno Assis) e deu a aparencia de equilibrar as coisas, mas a derrota foi inapelável. Poderia ter sido ainda assim amenizada ao minuto 91′ quando Ricardo Rocha (que também exagerou na rispidez na 2ª. parte quando passou para lateral esquerdo – mas este levou amarelo!) ganhou a Bouffon para o desvio na bola vinda num pontapé de canto, mas que não teve o caminho da baliza.

Muitas preocupações devem ficar principalmente para os adeptos encarnados depois desta incapacidade demonstrada pelo Benfica associada ainda ao desajustado esquema tactico preferido por Koeman face aos jogadores do plantel. É certo que no campeonato português não há nenhuma Juventus. Mas tirando Porto e Sporting todos os outros jogos são de ganhar. E não é com três médios defensivos no meio-campo e um ponta de lança (que ainda por cima não o é) desapoiado na frente que o Benfica vai marcar golos suficientes. Não se percebe, assim, as “críticas” de Koeman quando disse que o Benfica marcou na épocas passada poucos golos no Campeonato : a verdade é que agora está a marcar muito menos. E não se percebe a dispensa de Karadas -não sendo um craque não se vê ninguém com as caraterísticas físicas, de vontade e disponibilidade que ele demonstrava. Custa ver cruzamentos de Alex ou de Giovanni encontrar na área apenas Simão Sabrosa para concluir de cabeça!

Entretanto continua-se à espera dos jogadores que segundo LFV vão surpreender todos ao ponto de se dizer como é que estes jogadores foram para o Benfica? Bem vejo …devem ser da qualidade de Delibasic.

Ficha do jogo:

Estádio da Luz, em Lisboa

Árbitro: Hugo Miguel

BENFICA – Quim; Alex, Luisão, Ricardo Rocha e Dos Santos; Manuel Fernandes, Petit e Beto; Geovanni, Mantorras e Simão.Jogaram ainda: Moreira, Anderson, Nuno Assis, Karyaka e Nuno Gomes.

JUVENTUS – Buffon; Pessotto, Thuram, Cannavaro e Chiellini; Emerson, Patrick Vieira e Nedved; Ibrahimovic, Camoranesi e Trezeguet.Jogaram ainda: Birindelli, Del Piero, Mutu, Blasi, Giannichedda, Ruben Oliveira e Zalayeta.

Ao intervalo: 0-2 Golos: 0-1, Ibrahimovic (5 m); 0-2, Trezeguet (22 m) Resultado final: 0-2

Hiroshima : Without (more) words

1945 August 06 Hiroshima – How can the men be so cruel?

Today we live the memory (60 years ago) of one of the saddest days for the Humanity

HARRY S. TRUMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DROPPING OF AN ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA

Address to the Nation, August 6, 194 “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than 2,000 times the blast power of the British “Grand Slam,” which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare. (read completely here).

Como pode o Homem ser tão cruel?! A Humanidade viveu há 60 anos um dos dias mais tristes da sua História. “A maior aposta científica da História” – Truman. Como é possível dizer isto?

On this day in History – Aug 6

0258 – Saint Pope Sixtus II dies
0523 – Saint Pope Hormisdas dies
1221 – Saint Dominic dies / Morre São Domenico de Guzman teólogo espanhol. Foi canonizado em 13 Julho de 1234 pelo Papa Gregorio IX.
1458 – Pope Callixtus III dies
1504 – Matthew Parker was born (d. 1575). Archbishop of Canterbury
1538 – Colombia: fundação da cidade de Santa Fé de Bogotá por Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1539 – Capitão Gonzalo Suárez Rondón funda a cidade de Tunja – Colômbia
1619 – Barbara Strozzi was born (d. 1677). Italian singer and composer
1637 – Ben Jonson dies (b. 1572). English dramatist and poet
1638 – Nicolas Malebranche was born (d. 1715). French philosopher.
1644 – Louise de la Vallière was born (d. 1710). French mistress of Louis XIV of France
1656 – Claude de Forbin was born (d. 1733). French naval commander.
1660 – Diego de Velázquez, pintor español.
1667 – Johann Bernoulli was born. Matematician
1679 – John Snell dies (b. 1629). English royalist.
1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon dies (b. 1625). Archbishop of Paris.
1697 – Niccolo Salvi was born (d. 8 Feb 1751). Italian sculptor.
1700 – Johann Beer dies. Poet.
1715 – Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues, was born (d. 1747) . French moralist and essayist.
1766 – William Hyde Wollaston was born († 1828). English chemist.
1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, was born (d. 9 Jul 1856). Italian chemist.
1787 – The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate a draft of the U.S. Constitution.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. / Francisco II (1768-1835), imperador Habsburgo do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico da Nação Alemã, renunciou ao título, criando o título de Imperador da Áustria, com o nome de Francisco I. Devido à criação da Confederação do Reno, por Napoleão Bonaparte, o Sacro Império tinha de facto deixado de existir
1809 – Alfred Lord Tennyson was born (d. 6 Oct 1892). English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry : The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam
1813 – Venezuela Simón Bolívar (“El libertador”) liberates Caracas.
1819 – Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States
1824 – Perú: batalla de Junín las fuerzas de Simón Bolívar derrotan a las españolas comandadas por Cantarec.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
1828 – Andrew Taylor Still was born (d. 12 Dec 1917). American founder of osteopathy
1840 – Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was born († 1914) . American archeologist
1844 – James Henry Greathead was born (d. 1896). Engineer.
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born (d. 1900)
1851 – Uruguay: llega a Montevideo, procedente de Southampton, el primer barco a vapor, el “Prince”. Se establece así el servicio regular entre Europa y el Río de la Plata.
1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1868 – Paul Claudel was born (d. 23 Feb 1955). French poet and playwright.
1869 – Frank Cobb was born (d. 21 Dec 1923). American journalist and editor of the New York World
1872 – Colombia: se funda la Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, la más antigua de las Correspondientes de la Real Academia Española.
1874 – Charles Fort was born (d. 1932). Writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
1875 – Francisco Javier León assume a presidência do Equador.
1875 – Gabriel García Moreno, presidente ecuatoriano, asesinado .
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr. was born (d. 1952). U.S. Senator from Maine.
1880 – Hans Moser was born in Vienna († 6 Aug 1964). Actor.
1881 – Leo Carrillo was born (d. 1961). Actor.
1881 – Alexander Fleming was born (d. 11 Mar 1955). Scottish bacteriologist; discovered penicillin in 1928. Laureated in 1945 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1881 – Louella Parsons was born (d. 1972). Gossip columnist.
1883 – Scott Nearing was born (d. 1983). American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer.
1889 – John Middleton Murry was born (d. 1957). English poet.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the convicted murdetr, with murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
1890 – Renuncia do presidente argentino Miguel Juárez Celman
1892 – Hoot Gibson was born (d. 1962). Actor.
1893 – Wright Patman was born (d. 1976). American politician.
1900 – Cecil H. Green was born (d. 2003). American geophysicist and businessman.
1902 – Dutch Schultz was born (d. 1935). American bootlegger and gangster.
1904 – Jean Desses was born (d. 1970). French couturier.
1904 – Aleksander Bocheński was born († 2001) . Polish publicist and essayst (DZIEJE GLUPOTY W POLSCE – Pamflety dziejopisarskie )
1904 – Eduard Hanslick dies. Music critic
1906 – Cátulo Castillo, dramaturgo, compositor y letrista de tangos argentino.
1911 – Lucille Ball was born (d. 1989). American radio, film and television actress and comedy star.
1911 – Florentino Ameghino, dies (b. 18 Sep 1854). Argentinian Paleontologist , naturalist?.
1914 – Ronald Duncan was born (d. 3 Jun 1982). English playwright, poet and writer
1915 – World War I: Battle of Battle of Sari Bair begins – The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1916 – Richard Hofstadter was born (d. 24 Oct 1970). Physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons.
1916 – Michael Burke was born.
1917 – Robert Mitchum was born (d. 1 Jul 1997). Actor.
1918 – Otto Wolff von Amerongen was born. Industrialist.
1922 – Sir Freddie Laker was born. Entrepreneur.
1926 – Jackie Presser was born (d. 9 Jul 1988). American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88)
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers‘ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1928 – Jan Kucera was born. Author .
1928 – Chung Se Yung was born. Korean automobile manufacturer
1929 – Luis García Morales, poeta e intelectual venezolano.
1928 – Andy Warhol was born (d. 22 Feb 1987). American artist best known for initiating the Pop art movement
1930 – Abbey Lincoln was born. Singer, actress
1931 – Bix Beiderbecke dies (b. 1903). Jazz musician.
1931 – Fundação do Club Atlético Independiente – Uruguai
1932 – Howard Hodgkin was born. Painter and print-maker.
1932 – Italia – First Venice film festivals
1932 – Morte do explorador checo Václav Vojtech.
1934 – Haití: las tropas estadounidenses se retiran de la isla, que ocupaban desde 1915 (habían sido invadidas cruentamente por Woodrow Wilson).
1934 – Piers Anthony was born. Writer
1937 – Nascimento de Baden Powell. Músico brasileiro.
1938 – Paul Bartel was born (d. 2000). American actor, writer and director.
1938 – Peter Bonerz was born. Actor-director
1940 – União Soviética anexa a Letónia
1941 – Cezar Ivănescu was born. Romanian poet “Rod”, “La Baad”, “Muzeon”, “Doina”, “Sutrele muţeniei”, “Jeu d’amour”, “Rosarium”.
1942 – Jonathan Campbell dies (b. 1875). Film pioneer.
1943 – Jon Postel was born. Creator of DNS
1943 – Dan Grigore was born. Romanian pianist
1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb. / Com a Segunda Guerra Mundial já vencida de fato, os Estados Unidos da América lançam uma bomba atómica sobre a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima. Oitenta mil pessoas morrem imediatamente e mais sessenta mil morreram até o fim do ano de doenças causadas por poeira radioativa.
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun was born. President of South Korea
1946 – Masaaki Sakai was born. Japanese comedian.
1946 – Tony Lazzeri dies. Major League Baseball player.
1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu.
1950 – Muere en San José, Melico Salazar, gran tenor nacional da Costa Rica.
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1957 – Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
1959 – Joyce Sims was born. American singer and songwriter
1959 – Argentina: el Partido Comunista es declarado ilegal.
1959 – Preston Sturges dies. Playwright, screenwriter, director
1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
1962 – Michelle Yeoh was born. Actress
1963 – Kevin Mitnick was born. Computer hacker
1964 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke dies. Actor
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
1966 – Portugal – Inauguração da ponte sobre o Tejo, de 2278 m de comprimento, baptizada na época por Ponte Salazar e após a revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974, denominada Ponte 25 de Abril. de 2278 metros de longitud.
1966 – Portugal – São postos em circulação os selos da Emissão Comemorativa da Inauguração da Ponte Salazar.
1966 – Cordwainer Smith dies. Writer
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues his Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam.
1968 – Independência da Suazilândia
1969 – Elliott Smith was born (d. 2003). American musician.
1969 – Theodor W. Adorno dies (b. 1903). German philosopher
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan was born. Film director, writer, producer, and actor ”The Village,” ”The Sixth Sense’‘
1971 – Merrin Dungey was born. Actress
1972 – Geri Halliwell was born. Singer (Spice girls)
1973 – Asia Carrera was born. Actress.
1973 – Fulgencio Batista dies. Cuban dictator
1975 – Renate Götschl, sciatrice austriaca
1975 – Giorgio Rocca, sciatore italiano
1976 – Melissa George was born. Actress
1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky dies (b. 1903). Russian cellist.
1978 – Pope Paul VI dies. 263th Pope
1978 – Billy Klippert was born. Singer.
1982 – Adrianne Curry was born. Reality television
1983 – Chile: los partidos de oposición forman la Alianza Democrática.
1983 – Klaus Nomi dies. Singer
1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
1985 – Victor Paz Estenssoro assume a presidência da Bolívia.
1985 – Morte de Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés. Presidente de Honduras (1971-1972)
1986 – A low pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.
1986 – William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
1988 – “Police riot” in New York City‘s Tompkins Square Park
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
1990 – Benazir Bhutto government dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan of India.
1990 – JonBenét Ramsey was born (d. 1996). Beauty queen and murder victim.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
1991 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1991 – Harry Reasoner dies. Reporter
1993 – Tex Hughson dies (b. 1916). Major League Baseball player.
1993 – Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1993 – The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
1994 – Domenico Modugno dies (9 Jan 1928). Italian singer & songwriter
1996 – Hernán Siles Zuazo, presidente boliviano.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1996 – Australian census conducted.
1996 – Morte de Hernán Siles Zuazo. Presidente boliviano (1956-1960 e 1982-1985)
1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Teodor Yivkov, jefe del Estado búlgaro.
1998 – Andre Weil dies. Mathematician
2001 – Jorge Amado de Faria dies. Brazilian writer
2001 – President George W. Bush receives President’s Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
2001 – Renúncia do presidente boliviano Hugo Banzer. Jorge Quiroga sucede-lhe na Presidencia
2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States
2002 – Manaindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled “Primes in P”.
2002 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, de 72 años, jura a la presidencia de Bolivia,
2002 – Edsger Dijkstra dies (b. 1930). Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972
2004 – Rick James, musician.
2004 – Posse de Antônio Carlos Secchin na Academia Brasileira de Letras.
2005 – Em San Jose da California, Estados Unidos, começa a disputar-se o 37º. Campeonato do Mundo de Hóquei em Patins.
2005 – Inauguração em Helsínquia, Finlândia, do Campeonato do Mundo de Atletismo.
Christianity – Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
Bolivia – Independence Day
Jamaica – Independence Day
United Arab Emirates – H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan‘s Accession Day.

On this day in History – Aug 6

0258 – Saint Pope Sixtus II dies
0523 – Saint Pope Hormisdas dies
1221 – Saint Dominic dies / Morre São Domenico de Guzman teólogo espanhol. Foi canonizado em 13 Julho de 1234 pelo Papa Gregorio IX.
1458 – Pope Callixtus III dies
1504 – Matthew Parker was born (d. 1575). Archbishop of Canterbury
1538 – Colombia: fundação da cidade de Santa Fé de Bogotá por Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1539 – Capitão Gonzalo Suárez Rondón funda a cidade de Tunja – Colômbia
1619 – Barbara Strozzi was born (d. 1677). Italian singer and composer
1637 – Ben Jonson dies (b. 1572). English dramatist and poet
1638 – Nicolas Malebranche was born (d. 1715). French philosopher.
1644 – Louise de la Vallière was born (d. 1710). French mistress of Louis XIV of France
1656 – Claude de Forbin was born (d. 1733). French naval commander.
1660 – Diego de Velázquez, pintor español.
1667 – Johann Bernoulli was born. Matematician
1679 – John Snell dies (b. 1629). English royalist.
1695 – François de Harlay de Champvallon dies (b. 1625). Archbishop of Paris.
1697 – Niccolo Salvi was born (d. 8 Feb 1751). Italian sculptor.
1700 – Johann Beer dies. Poet.
1715 – Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues, was born (d. 1747) . French moralist and essayist.
1766 – William Hyde Wollaston was born († 1828). English chemist.
1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, was born (d. 9 Jul 1856). Italian chemist.
1787 – The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began to debate a draft of the U.S. Constitution.
1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire. / Francisco II (1768-1835), imperador Habsburgo do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico da Nação Alemã, renunciou ao título, criando o título de Imperador da Áustria, com o nome de Francisco I. Devido à criação da Confederação do Reno, por Napoleão Bonaparte, o Sacro Império tinha de facto deixado de existir
1809 – Alfred Lord Tennyson was born (d. 6 Oct 1892). English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry : The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam
1813 – Venezuela Simón Bolívar (“El libertador”) liberates Caracas.
1819 – Norwich University founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States
1824 – Perú: batalla de Junín las fuerzas de Simón Bolívar derrotan a las españolas comandadas por Cantarec.
1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
1828 – Andrew Taylor Still was born (d. 12 Dec 1917). American founder of osteopathy
1840 – Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was born († 1914) . American archeologist
1844 – James Henry Greathead was born (d. 1896). Engineer.
1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was born (d. 1900)
1851 – Uruguay: llega a Montevideo, procedente de Southampton, el primer barco a vapor, el “Prince”. Se establece así el servicio regular entre Europa y el Río de la Plata.
1861 – British annexation of Lagos, Nigeria.
1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with USS Essex near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1868 – Paul Claudel was born (d. 23 Feb 1955). French poet and playwright.
1869 – Frank Cobb was born (d. 21 Dec 1923). American journalist and editor of the New York World
1872 – Colombia: se funda la Academia Colombiana de la Lengua, la más antigua de las Correspondientes de la Real Academia Española.
1874 – Charles Fort was born (d. 1932). Writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena
1875 – Francisco Javier León assume a presidência do Equador.
1875 – Gabriel García Moreno, presidente ecuatoriano, asesinado .
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr. was born (d. 1952). U.S. Senator from Maine.
1880 – Hans Moser was born in Vienna († 6 Aug 1964). Actor.
1881 – Leo Carrillo was born (d. 1961). Actor.
1881 – Alexander Fleming was born (d. 11 Mar 1955). Scottish bacteriologist; discovered penicillin in 1928. Laureated in 1945 with the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1881 – Louella Parsons was born (d. 1972). Gossip columnist.
1883 – Scott Nearing was born (d. 1983). American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer.
1889 – John Middleton Murry was born (d. 1957). English poet.
1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, the convicted murdetr, with murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair.
1890 – Renuncia do presidente argentino Miguel Juárez Celman
1892 – Hoot Gibson was born (d. 1962). Actor.
1893 – Wright Patman was born (d. 1976). American politician.
1900 – Cecil H. Green was born (d. 2003). American geophysicist and businessman.
1902 – Dutch Schultz was born (d. 1935). American bootlegger and gangster.
1904 – Jean Desses was born (d. 1970). French couturier.
1904 – Aleksander Bocheński was born († 2001) . Polish publicist and essayst (DZIEJE GLUPOTY W POLSCE – Pamflety dziejopisarskie )
1904 – Eduard Hanslick dies. Music critic
1906 – Cátulo Castillo, dramaturgo, compositor y letrista de tangos argentino.
1911 – Lucille Ball was born (d. 1989). American radio, film and television actress and comedy star.
1911 – Florentino Ameghino, dies (b. 18 Sep 1854). Argentinian Paleontologist , naturalist?.
1914 – Ronald Duncan was born (d. 3 Jun 1982). English playwright, poet and writer
1915 – World War I: Battle of Battle of Sari Bair begins – The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
1916 – Richard Hofstadter was born (d. 24 Oct 1970). Physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons.
1916 – Michael Burke was born.
1917 – Robert Mitchum was born (d. 1 Jul 1997). Actor.
1918 – Otto Wolff von Amerongen was born. Industrialist.
1922 – Sir Freddie Laker was born. Entrepreneur.
1926 – Jackie Presser was born (d. 9 Jul 1988). American Teamsters Union leader (1983-88)
1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 – In New York, the Warner Brothers‘ Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1928 – Jan Kucera was born. Author .
1928 – Chung Se Yung was born. Korean automobile manufacturer
1929 – Luis García Morales, poeta e intelectual venezolano.
1928 – Andy Warhol was born (d. 22 Feb 1987). American artist best known for initiating the Pop art movement
1930 – Abbey Lincoln was born. Singer, actress
1931 – Bix Beiderbecke dies (b. 1903). Jazz musician.
1931 – Fundação do Club Atlético Independiente – Uruguai
1932 – Howard Hodgkin was born. Painter and print-maker.
1932 – Italia – First Venice film festivals
1932 – Morte do explorador checo Václav Vojtech.
1934 – Haití: las tropas estadounidenses se retiran de la isla, que ocupaban desde 1915 (habían sido invadidas cruentamente por Woodrow Wilson).
1934 – Piers Anthony was born. Writer
1937 – Nascimento de Baden Powell. Músico brasileiro.
1938 – Paul Bartel was born (d. 2000). American actor, writer and director.
1938 – Peter Bonerz was born. Actor-director
1940 – União Soviética anexa a Letónia
1941 – Cezar Ivănescu was born. Romanian poet “Rod”, “La Baad”, “Muzeon”, “Doina”, “Sutrele muţeniei”, “Jeu d’amour”, “Rosarium”.
1942 – Jonathan Campbell dies (b. 1875). Film pioneer.
1943 – Jon Postel was born. Creator of DNS
1943 – Dan Grigore was born. Romanian pianist
1945 – World War II: An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 died by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb. / Com a Segunda Guerra Mundial já vencida de fato, os Estados Unidos da América lançam uma bomba atómica sobre a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima. Oitenta mil pessoas morrem imediatamente e mais sessenta mil morreram até o fim do ano de doenças causadas por poeira radioativa.
1946 – Roh Moo-hyun was born. President of South Korea
1946 – Masaaki Sakai was born. Japanese comedian.
1946 – Tony Lazzeri dies. Major League Baseball player.
1949 – Clarence Richard Silva, Roman Catholic Bishop of Honolulu.
1950 – Muere en San José, Melico Salazar, gran tenor nacional da Costa Rica.
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1957 – Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
1959 – Joyce Sims was born. American singer and songwriter
1959 – Argentina: el Partido Comunista es declarado ilegal.
1959 – Preston Sturges dies. Playwright, screenwriter, director
1960 – Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.
1962 – Michelle Yeoh was born. Actress
1963 – Kevin Mitnick was born. Computer hacker
1964 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke dies. Actor
1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into United States law.
1966 – Portugal – Inauguração da ponte sobre o Tejo, de 2278 m de comprimento, baptizada na época por Ponte Salazar e após a revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974, denominada Ponte 25 de Abril. de 2278 metros de longitud.
1966 – Portugal – São postos em circulação os selos da Emissão Comemorativa da Inauguração da Ponte Salazar.
1966 – Cordwainer Smith dies. Writer
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues his Encyclical Ecclesiam Suam.
1968 – Independência da Suazilândia
1969 – Elliott Smith was born (d. 2003). American musician.
1969 – Theodor W. Adorno dies (b. 1903). German philosopher
1970 – M. Night Shyamalan was born. Film director, writer, producer, and actor ”The Village,” ”The Sixth Sense’‘
1971 – Merrin Dungey was born. Actress
1972 – Geri Halliwell was born. Singer (Spice girls)
1973 – Asia Carrera was born. Actress.
1973 – Fulgencio Batista dies. Cuban dictator
1975 – Renate Götschl, sciatrice austriaca
1975 – Giorgio Rocca, sciatore italiano
1976 – Melissa George was born. Actress
1976 – Gregor Piatigorsky dies (b. 1903). Russian cellist.
1978 – Pope Paul VI dies. 263th Pope
1978 – Billy Klippert was born. Singer.
1982 – Adrianne Curry was born. Reality television
1983 – Chile: los partidos de oposición forman la Alianza Democrática.
1983 – Klaus Nomi dies. Singer
1984 – Pop star Prince releases Purple Rain, the album which would launch him to superstardom.
1985 – In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.
1985 – Victor Paz Estenssoro assume a presidência da Bolívia.
1985 – Morte de Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés. Presidente de Honduras (1971-1972)
1986 – A low pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.
1986 – William J. Schroeder died after living 620 days with the Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
1988 – “Police riot” in New York City‘s Tompkins Square Park
1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
1990 – Benazir Bhutto government dismissed by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan of India.
1990 – JonBenét Ramsey was born (d. 1996). Beauty queen and murder victim.
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.
1991 – Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party (Japan), becomes Japan’s first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
1991 – Harry Reasoner dies. Reporter
1993 – Tex Hughson dies (b. 1916). Major League Baseball player.
1993 – Louis Freeh is confirmed by the United States Senate to be the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1993 – The Fugitive opens in theaters, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
1994 – Domenico Modugno dies (9 Jan 1928). Italian singer & songwriter
1996 – Hernán Siles Zuazo, presidente boliviano.
1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
1996 – Australian census conducted.
1996 – Morte de Hernán Siles Zuazo. Presidente boliviano (1956-1960 e 1982-1985)
1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Teodor Yivkov, jefe del Estado búlgaro.
1998 – Andre Weil dies. Mathematician
2001 – Jorge Amado de Faria dies. Brazilian writer
2001 – President George W. Bush receives President’s Daily Briefing entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.
2001 – Renúncia do presidente boliviano Hugo Banzer. Jorge Quiroga sucede-lhe na Presidencia
2002 – Marquis de la Fayette is made Honorary Citizen of the United States
2002 – Manaindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled “Primes in P”.
2002 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, de 72 años, jura a la presidencia de Bolivia,
2002 – Edsger Dijkstra dies (b. 1930). Dutch computer scientist. Turing Award in 1972
2004 – Rick James, musician.
2004 – Posse de Antônio Carlos Secchin na Academia Brasileira de Letras.
2005 – Em San Jose da California, Estados Unidos, começa a disputar-se o 37º. Campeonato do Mundo de Hóquei em Patins.
2005 – Inauguração em Helsínquia, Finlândia, do Campeonato do Mundo de Atletismo.
Christianity – Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
Bolivia – Independence Day
Jamaica – Independence Day
United Arab Emirates – H.H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan‘s Accession Day.