0437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
0969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1038 – Aethelnoth dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1061 – Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1138 – Bolesław III Krzywousty dies (b. 1086). Duke of Poland
1268 – Conradin dies executed (b. 1252). Duke of Swabia
1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden dies beheaded (b. 1249)
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
1340 – Batalha do Salado, pela defesa da Península Ibérica da invasão dos mouros (veja também Reconquista) 1422 – Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher, was born.
1467 – Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1590 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert dies (b. 1522). Dutch politician and theologian
1591 – Início do pontificado do Papa Inocêncio IX
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh dies executed (b. 1554). English explorer
1650 – David Calderwood dies (b. 1575). Scottish historian
1656 (O.S.) – Edmond Halley was born (d. 1742). English astronomer
1658 – Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder dies (b. 1600). English Presbyterian leader.
1666 – James Shirley dies (b. 1596). English dramatist.
1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was born (d. 1761). French historian
1690 – Martin Folkes was born (d. 1754). English antiquarian
1704 – John Byng was born (d. 1757). British admiral
1740 – James Boswell was born (d. 1795). Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson
1762 – Andre-Marie Chenier was born. French poet (Elegies).
1783 – Jean le Rond d’Alembert dies (b. 1717). French mathematician and encyclopædist.
1787 – Mozart‘s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 – Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1815 – Daniel Emmett was born (d. 1904). American composer.
1853 – Pierre Joseph Guillaume Zimmermann dies. Composer.
1863 – Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1870 – António José de Ávila assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
1873 – Guillermo Valencia was born. Colombian poet.
1877 – Wilfred Rhodes was born (d. 1973). English cricketer
1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest dies (b. 1821). American Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
1881 – The Judge (US magazine) first published.
1882 – Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was born. President of El Salvador (1931-1934 e 1935-1944)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux was born (d. 1944). French writer. His plays included “Eglantine” and “Provinciales.”
1886 – The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 – Fanny Brice was born (d. 1951). American singer and comedienne
1897 – Joseph Goebbels was born (d. 1945). Nazi Minister of Propaganda
1899 – Akim Tamiroff was born (d. 1972). Russian actor
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz dies (b. 1873). American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
1902 – Flávio Rodrigues da Silva was born. Portuguese musician (fado)
1905 – Étienne Desmarteau dies (b. 1873). Canadian athlete.
1910 – Alfred Ayer was born (d. 1989). British philosopher
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer dies (b. 1847). Hungarian-born newspaper publisher.
1914 – Peyo Yavorov dies. Bulgarian dramatist and poet
1914 – Edmond Polynice assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Haiti.
1915 – William Berenberg was born (d. 2005). American physician and Harvard professor
1919 – A. B. Simpson dies (b. 1843). Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College
1921 – Bill Mauldin was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-winning [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie
1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1923 – Carl Djerassi was born. Austrian chemist
1925 – Dominick Dunne was born. American author
1926 – Jon Vickers was born. Canadian tenor
1927 – Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff uncovered the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. The market crashed.
1930 – Omara Portuondo was born. Cuban singer.
1935 – Takahata Isao was born. Japanese director of animated movies
1936 – O primeiro grupo de prisioneiros políticos chega ao Campo de concentração do Tarrafal, constituída por 157 deportados, formado por dirigentes anarquistas, comunistas e sindicais.
1938 – Luis Ricardo Rizo Avellaneda was born. Argentine militar.
1938 – Ralph Bakshi was born. Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
1940 – Connie Mack was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 – Frida Boccara was born (d. 1996). French singer
1942 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany‘s persecution of Jews.
1944 – Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
1944 – Otto Wiesheu was born. German minister
1945 – Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1946 – Peter Green was born. English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss was born. Academy award winning actor ( The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford)
1948 – Kate Jackson was born. American actress
1948 – Safsaf massacre
1948 – Manuel A. Odría assume a presidência do Peru
1949 – G. I. Gurdjieff dies (b. 1872). , Armenian mystic.
1950 – King Gustav V of Sweden dies (b. 1858)
1953 – William Kapell dies (b. 1922). American pianist.
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 – Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1956 – Wilfredo Gomez was born. Puerto Rican boxer
1957 – Israel‘s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
1957 – Louis B. Mayer dies (b. 1885). American film producer.
1958 – Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak’s novel “Dr. Zhivago” was on the best seller list in the west.
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1960 – Finola Hughes was born. British actress
1961 – Randy Jackson was born. American musician
1963 – Adolphe Menjou dies (b. 1890). American actor.
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon was born. British model
1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1966 – Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich dies. President of Costa Rica (1962-1966)
1968 – Johann Olav Koss was born. Norwegian speed skater
1969 – The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
1970 – Philip John William Cocu was born. Dutch football player
1970 – Edwin Van der Sar was born. Dutch football player
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966)
1971 – Winona Ryder was born. American actress (Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas )
1971 – Duane Allman dies (b. 1946). American musician.
1971 – Arne Tiselius dies (b. 1902). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1972 – Takafumi Horie was born. Japanese entrepreneur
1972 – Florencia Raggi was born. Argentine model and actress
1973 – Gabrielle Union was born. American actress
1973 – Robert Pirès was born. French footballer
1974 – Michael Vaughan was born. English cricketer
1977 – Brendan Fehr was born. Canadian actor
1978 – Travis Henry was born. American football player
1980 – Ben Foster was born. American actor
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base‘s Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1981 – Amanda Beard was born. American swimmer
1981 – Jonathan Brown was born. Australian footballer
1981 – Georges Brassens dies (b. 1921). French singer.
1983 – Maurice Clarett was born. American football player.
1983 – Ana Cristina César dies (b. 1952). Brazilian poetess.
1983 – Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
1984 – Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1985 – Portugal: Aníbal Cavaco Silva é indigitado para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1987 – Makoto Ogawa was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 – Woody Herman dies (b. 1913). American musician.
1988 – In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
1989 – After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1992 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1993 – Masahiro Makino dies. Japanese film director.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1994 – Em Moçambique, Joaquim Chissano e a FRELIMO obtêm a maioria nas eleições.
1995 – Terry Southern dies in New York City (b.1924). Writer (Candy, The Magic Christian). He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Easy Rider (1969).
1996 – Graham Swift won the Booker Prize for his comic novel “Last Orders.”
1997 – Anton LaVey dies (b. 1930). American founder of the Church of Satan
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.
1998 – In Goteberg, Sweden, a fire burned a discotheque with hundreds of teenagers and 63 people were killed. In 2000 four young men were sentenced to prison terms of 3-8 years.
2003 – Hal Clement dies (b. 1922). American writer
2003 – Franco Corelli dies (b. 1921). Italian tenor
2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc dies (b. 1923). Dominican politician
2004 – Peter Twinn dies (b. 1916). English mathematician and World War II code-breaker.
2004 – Jacinto João dies (b. 1944). Portuguese football player (V. Setúbal)
October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Narcissus, Diwali in 1989, St. Abraham of Rostov, St. Anne , St. Bond ,St. Zenobius ,St. Terence of Metz ,St. Theodore , St. Colman of Kilmacduagh ,St. Donatus of Corfu ,Douai Martyrs ,St. Elfleda ,St. Hyacinth ,St. John of Autun ,Bl. Martyrs of Douai , St. Maximilian.
Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
Dia Nacional do Livro (Brasil) (Lei 5191/66).
On this day in History – Oct. 29 Outubro 29, 2005
On this day in History – Oct. 29
0437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
0969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1038 – Aethelnoth dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1061 – Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1138 – Bolesław III Krzywousty dies (b. 1086). Duke of Poland
1268 – Conradin dies executed (b. 1252). Duke of Swabia
1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden dies beheaded (b. 1249)
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
1340 – Batalha do Salado, pela defesa da Península Ibérica da invasão dos mouros (veja também Reconquista) 1422 – Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher, was born.
1467 – Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1590 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert dies (b. 1522). Dutch politician and theologian
1591 – Início do pontificado do Papa Inocêncio IX
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh dies executed (b. 1554). English explorer
1650 – David Calderwood dies (b. 1575). Scottish historian
1656 (O.S.) – Edmond Halley was born (d. 1742). English astronomer
1658 – Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder dies (b. 1600). English Presbyterian leader.
1666 – James Shirley dies (b. 1596). English dramatist.
1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was born (d. 1761). French historian
1690 – Martin Folkes was born (d. 1754). English antiquarian
1704 – John Byng was born (d. 1757). British admiral
1740 – James Boswell was born (d. 1795). Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson
1762 – Andre-Marie Chenier was born. French poet (Elegies).
1783 – Jean le Rond d’Alembert dies (b. 1717). French mathematician and encyclopædist.
1787 – Mozart‘s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 – Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1815 – Daniel Emmett was born (d. 1904). American composer.
1853 – Pierre Joseph Guillaume Zimmermann dies. Composer.
1863 – Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1870 – António José de Ávila assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
1873 – Guillermo Valencia was born. Colombian poet.
1877 – Wilfred Rhodes was born (d. 1973). English cricketer
1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest dies (b. 1821). American Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
1881 – The Judge (US magazine) first published.
1882 – Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was born. President of El Salvador (1931-1934 e 1935-1944)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux was born (d. 1944). French writer. His plays included “Eglantine” and “Provinciales.”
1886 – The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 – Fanny Brice was born (d. 1951). American singer and comedienne
1897 – Joseph Goebbels was born (d. 1945). Nazi Minister of Propaganda
1899 – Akim Tamiroff was born (d. 1972). Russian actor
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz dies (b. 1873). American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
1902 – Flávio Rodrigues da Silva was born. Portuguese musician (fado)
1905 – Étienne Desmarteau dies (b. 1873). Canadian athlete.
1910 – Alfred Ayer was born (d. 1989). British philosopher
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer dies (b. 1847). Hungarian-born newspaper publisher.
1914 – Peyo Yavorov dies. Bulgarian dramatist and poet
1914 – Edmond Polynice assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Haiti.
1915 – William Berenberg was born (d. 2005). American physician and Harvard professor
1919 – A. B. Simpson dies (b. 1843). Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College
1921 – Bill Mauldin was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-winning [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie
1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1923 – Carl Djerassi was born. Austrian chemist
1925 – Dominick Dunne was born. American author
1926 – Jon Vickers was born. Canadian tenor
1927 – Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff uncovered the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. The market crashed.
1930 – Omara Portuondo was born. Cuban singer.
1935 – Takahata Isao was born. Japanese director of animated movies
1936 – O primeiro grupo de prisioneiros políticos chega ao Campo de concentração do Tarrafal, constituída por 157 deportados, formado por dirigentes anarquistas, comunistas e sindicais.
1938 – Luis Ricardo Rizo Avellaneda was born. Argentine militar.
1938 – Ralph Bakshi was born. Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
1940 – Connie Mack was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 – Frida Boccara was born (d. 1996). French singer
1942 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany‘s persecution of Jews.
1944 – Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
1944 – Otto Wiesheu was born. German minister
1945 – Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1946 – Peter Green was born. English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss was born. Academy award winning actor ( The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford)
1948 – Kate Jackson was born. American actress
1948 – Safsaf massacre
1948 – Manuel A. Odría assume a presidência do Peru
1949 – G. I. Gurdjieff dies (b. 1872). , Armenian mystic.
1950 – King Gustav V of Sweden dies (b. 1858)
1953 – William Kapell dies (b. 1922). American pianist.
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 – Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1956 – Wilfredo Gomez was born. Puerto Rican boxer
1957 – Israel‘s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
1957 – Louis B. Mayer dies (b. 1885). American film producer.
1958 – Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak’s novel “Dr. Zhivago” was on the best seller list in the west.
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1960 – Finola Hughes was born. British actress
1961 – Randy Jackson was born. American musician
1963 – Adolphe Menjou dies (b. 1890). American actor.
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon was born. British model
1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1966 – Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich dies. President of Costa Rica (1962-1966)
1968 – Johann Olav Koss was born. Norwegian speed skater
1969 – The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
1970 – Philip John William Cocu was born. Dutch football player
1970 – Edwin Van der Sar was born. Dutch football player
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966)
1971 – Winona Ryder was born. American actress (Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas )
1971 – Duane Allman dies (b. 1946). American musician.
1971 – Arne Tiselius dies (b. 1902). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1972 – Takafumi Horie was born. Japanese entrepreneur
1972 – Florencia Raggi was born. Argentine model and actress
1973 – Gabrielle Union was born. American actress
1973 – Robert Pirès was born. French footballer
1974 – Michael Vaughan was born. English cricketer
1977 – Brendan Fehr was born. Canadian actor
1978 – Travis Henry was born. American football player
1980 – Ben Foster was born. American actor
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base‘s Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1981 – Amanda Beard was born. American swimmer
1981 – Jonathan Brown was born. Australian footballer
1981 – Georges Brassens dies (b. 1921). French singer.
1983 – Maurice Clarett was born. American football player.
1983 – Ana Cristina César dies (b. 1952). Brazilian poetess.
1983 – Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
1984 – Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1985 – Portugal: Aníbal Cavaco Silva é indigitado para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1987 – Makoto Ogawa was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 – Woody Herman dies (b. 1913). American musician.
1988 – In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
1989 – After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1992 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1993 – Masahiro Makino dies. Japanese film director.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1994 – Em Moçambique, Joaquim Chissano e a FRELIMO obtêm a maioria nas eleições.
1995 – Terry Southern dies in New York City (b.1924). Writer (Candy, The Magic Christian). He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Easy Rider (1969).
1996 – Graham Swift won the Booker Prize for his comic novel “Last Orders.”
1997 – Anton LaVey dies (b. 1930). American founder of the Church of Satan
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.
1998 – In Goteberg, Sweden, a fire burned a discotheque with hundreds of teenagers and 63 people were killed. In 2000 four young men were sentenced to prison terms of 3-8 years.
2003 – Hal Clement dies (b. 1922). American writer
2003 – Franco Corelli dies (b. 1921). Italian tenor
2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc dies (b. 1923). Dominican politician
2004 – Peter Twinn dies (b. 1916). English mathematician and World War II code-breaker.
2004 – Jacinto João dies (b. 1944). Portuguese football player (V. Setúbal)
October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Narcissus, Diwali in 1989, St. Abraham of Rostov, St. Anne , St. Bond ,St. Zenobius ,St. Terence of Metz ,St. Theodore , St. Colman of Kilmacduagh ,St. Donatus of Corfu ,Douai Martyrs ,St. Elfleda ,St. Hyacinth ,St. John of Autun ,Bl. Martyrs of Douai , St. Maximilian.
Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
Dia Nacional do Livro (Brasil) (Lei 5191/66).
On this day in History – Oct. 29
0437 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
0969 – Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
1017 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1038 – Aethelnoth dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
1061 – Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
1138 – Bolesław III Krzywousty dies (b. 1086). Duke of Poland
1268 – Conradin dies executed (b. 1252). Duke of Swabia
1268 – Frederick I, Margrave of Baden dies beheaded (b. 1249)
1268 – Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
1340 – Batalha do Salado, pela defesa da Península Ibérica da invasão dos mouros (veja também Reconquista) 1422 – Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
1463 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician and philosopher, was born.
1467 – Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
1590 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert dies (b. 1522). Dutch politician and theologian
1591 – Início do pontificado do Papa Inocêncio IX
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1618 – Sir Walter Raleigh dies executed (b. 1554). English explorer
1650 – David Calderwood dies (b. 1575). Scottish historian
1656 (O.S.) – Edmond Halley was born (d. 1742). English astronomer
1658 – Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
1666 – Edmund Calamy the Elder dies (b. 1600). English Presbyterian leader.
1666 – James Shirley dies (b. 1596). English dramatist.
1675 – Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
1682 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was born (d. 1761). French historian
1690 – Martin Folkes was born (d. 1754). English antiquarian
1704 – John Byng was born (d. 1757). British admiral
1740 – James Boswell was born (d. 1795). Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson
1762 – Andre-Marie Chenier was born. French poet (Elegies).
1783 – Jean le Rond d’Alembert dies (b. 1717). French mathematician and encyclopædist.
1787 – Mozart‘s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1792 – Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1815 – Daniel Emmett was born (d. 1904). American composer.
1853 – Pierre Joseph Guillaume Zimmermann dies. Composer.
1863 – Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie – Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1870 – António José de Ávila assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
1873 – Guillermo Valencia was born. Colombian poet.
1877 – Wilfred Rhodes was born (d. 1973). English cricketer
1877 – Nathan Bedford Forrest dies (b. 1821). American Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
1881 – The Judge (US magazine) first published.
1882 – Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was born. President of El Salvador (1931-1934 e 1935-1944)
1882 – Jean Giraudoux was born (d. 1944). French writer. His plays included “Eglantine” and “Provinciales.”
1886 – The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1891 – Fanny Brice was born (d. 1951). American singer and comedienne
1897 – Joseph Goebbels was born (d. 1945). Nazi Minister of Propaganda
1899 – Akim Tamiroff was born (d. 1972). Russian actor
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1901 – Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz dies (b. 1873). American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
1902 – Flávio Rodrigues da Silva was born. Portuguese musician (fado)
1905 – Étienne Desmarteau dies (b. 1873). Canadian athlete.
1910 – Alfred Ayer was born (d. 1989). British philosopher
1911 – Joseph Pulitzer dies (b. 1847). Hungarian-born newspaper publisher.
1914 – Peyo Yavorov dies. Bulgarian dramatist and poet
1914 – Edmond Polynice assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Haiti.
1915 – William Berenberg was born (d. 2005). American physician and Harvard professor
1919 – A. B. Simpson dies (b. 1843). Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College
1921 – Bill Mauldin was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-winning [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie
1921 – The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1923 – Carl Djerassi was born. Austrian chemist
1925 – Dominick Dunne was born. American author
1926 – Jon Vickers was born. Canadian tenor
1927 – Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff uncovered the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert.
1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. The market crashed.
1930 – Omara Portuondo was born. Cuban singer.
1935 – Takahata Isao was born. Japanese director of animated movies
1936 – O primeiro grupo de prisioneiros políticos chega ao Campo de concentração do Tarrafal, constituída por 157 deportados, formado por dirigentes anarquistas, comunistas e sindicais.
1938 – Luis Ricardo Rizo Avellaneda was born. Argentine militar.
1938 – Ralph Bakshi was born. Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
1940 – Connie Mack was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
1940 – Frida Boccara was born (d. 1996). French singer
1942 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany‘s persecution of Jews.
1944 – Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
1944 – Otto Wiesheu was born. German minister
1945 – Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
1946 – Peter Green was born. English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 – Richard Dreyfuss was born. Academy award winning actor ( The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford)
1948 – Kate Jackson was born. American actress
1948 – Safsaf massacre
1948 – Manuel A. Odría assume a presidência do Peru
1949 – G. I. Gurdjieff dies (b. 1872). , Armenian mystic.
1950 – King Gustav V of Sweden dies (b. 1858)
1953 – William Kapell dies (b. 1922). American pianist.
1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 – Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1956 – Wilfredo Gomez was born. Puerto Rican boxer
1957 – Israel‘s prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.
1957 – Louis B. Mayer dies (b. 1885). American film producer.
1958 – Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak’s novel “Dr. Zhivago” was on the best seller list in the west.
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1960 – Finola Hughes was born. British actress
1961 – Randy Jackson was born. American musician
1963 – Adolphe Menjou dies (b. 1890). American actor.
1964 – Yasmin Le Bon was born. British model
1964 – A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
1966 – Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich dies. President of Costa Rica (1962-1966)
1968 – Johann Olav Koss was born. Norwegian speed skater
1969 – The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
1970 – Philip John William Cocu was born. Dutch football player
1970 – Edwin Van der Sar was born. Dutch football player
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966)
1971 – Winona Ryder was born. American actress (Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas )
1971 – Duane Allman dies (b. 1946). American musician.
1971 – Arne Tiselius dies (b. 1902). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1972 – Takafumi Horie was born. Japanese entrepreneur
1972 – Florencia Raggi was born. Argentine model and actress
1973 – Gabrielle Union was born. American actress
1973 – Robert Pirès was born. French footballer
1974 – Michael Vaughan was born. English cricketer
1977 – Brendan Fehr was born. Canadian actor
1978 – Travis Henry was born. American football player
1980 – Ben Foster was born. American actor
1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base‘s Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
1981 – Amanda Beard was born. American swimmer
1981 – Jonathan Brown was born. Australian footballer
1981 – Georges Brassens dies (b. 1921). French singer.
1983 – Maurice Clarett was born. American football player.
1983 – Ana Cristina César dies (b. 1952). Brazilian poetess.
1983 – Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
1984 – Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title
1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
1985 – Portugal: Aníbal Cavaco Silva é indigitado para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1987 – Makoto Ogawa was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
1987 – Woody Herman dies (b. 1913). American musician.
1988 – In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
1989 – After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
1992 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
1993 – Masahiro Makino dies. Japanese film director.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
1994 – Em Moçambique, Joaquim Chissano e a FRELIMO obtêm a maioria nas eleições.
1995 – Terry Southern dies in New York City (b.1924). Writer (Candy, The Magic Christian). He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Easy Rider (1969).
1996 – Graham Swift won the Booker Prize for his comic novel “Last Orders.”
1997 – Anton LaVey dies (b. 1930). American founder of the Church of Satan
1998 – Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
1998 – In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
1998 – Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.
1998 – In Goteberg, Sweden, a fire burned a discotheque with hundreds of teenagers and 63 people were killed. In 2000 four young men were sentenced to prison terms of 3-8 years.
2003 – Hal Clement dies (b. 1922). American writer
2003 – Franco Corelli dies (b. 1921). Italian tenor
2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
2004 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc dies (b. 1923). Dominican politician
2004 – Peter Twinn dies (b. 1916). English mathematician and World War II code-breaker.
2004 – Jacinto João dies (b. 1944). Portuguese football player (V. Setúbal)
October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
St. Narcissus, Diwali in 1989, St. Abraham of Rostov, St. Anne , St. Bond ,St. Zenobius ,St. Terence of Metz ,St. Theodore , St. Colman of Kilmacduagh ,St. Donatus of Corfu ,Douai Martyrs ,St. Elfleda ,St. Hyacinth ,St. John of Autun ,Bl. Martyrs of Douai , St. Maximilian.
Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
Dia Nacional do Livro (Brasil) (Lei 5191/66).
Conhecimento sábio Outubro 28, 2005
Índio do Equador
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“Dentro de mim existem dois cachorros, um deles é cruel e mau o outro é muito bom e dócil E andam sempre a brigar”.
Questionado sobre quem ganharia a briga, o sábio índio depois de demonstrar alguma reflexão respondeu: “Aquele que eu alimentar”.
Mourinho e a história da raposa e as uvas
Mourinho já não nos surpreende. Se culpasse o seu defesa central Robert Huth (*) pela derrota – e no fundo a si próprio pela escolha deste em detrimento de Ricardo Carvalho – percebia-se, assim … é a história da raposa e das uvas que afinal estavam verdes…
(*) Robert Huth ofereceu o empate ao Charlton e foi o jogador do Chelsea que falhou o “penalty” de desempate.
Tempos-juncos Velimir Khlébnikov
Juncos
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Tempos-juncos
Na margem do lago,
Onde as pedras são tempo,
Onde o tempo é de pedra.
No lago da margem,
Tempos, juncos,
Na margem do lago,
Santos, juntos
Velimir Khlébnikov (Russia, b. 28 Oct 1885; d. 28 Jun 1922)
Trad.: Augusto de Campos e Boris Schnaiderman
in Rosa do Mundo 2001 Poemas para o Futuro
Porto 2001 – Cidade Europeia da Cultura – Assírio & Alvim
Vilancete – Rui de Noronha
Em vossas mãos pequeninas,
Mãos fininhas, de criança,
Quero pôr minha esperança.
Mãos pequenas, de boneca,
Mãos de cera, transparentes,
Mãos de fada, doces, quentes,
Tentadoras andorinhas.
Quem terá a dita um dia
De beijá-las com calor
E o seu coração depor
Em vossas mãos pequeninas?
Tão fracas, são levezinhas,
Parecem duas janelas.
Quem me diz se através delas
Ver o céu se não alcança?
Por todo esse mundo fora
Raras têm, ainda as mais moças,
Mãos tão finas como as vossas
Mãos fininhas de criança.
Mãos minúsculas, brinquedos
de Chaminé de Natal.
Mãos tranquilas, mãos sem mal,
Mãos de amor e confiança.
Abri-me essas mãos celestes,
Essas mãos de anjo inocente,
Nelas doida e cegamente.
Quero pôr minha esperança.
António Ruy de Noronha (n. Moçambique 28 Out 1909; m. Moçambique 25 Dez 1943)
Por amar-te tanto – Rui de Noronha
jasmins
Que culpa terei eu de amar-te assim?
Que culpa terás tu de o não saberes?
Quem adivinha o que se passa em mim?
Como hei-de adivinhar o que tu queres?
Oh! Corações secretos de mulheres!
Oh! Minhas ilusões, mágoas sem fim!
Porque hei-de eu ter só mágoas, não prazeres,
por tanto te querer, doce jasmim?
Tudo, que sob aluz do sol existe,
alegre é num momento e noutro triste,
só eu herdei apenas dor e pranto…
O mais humilde verme, que rasteja,
um outro tem, que o ama, afaga e beija
– e eu nada tenho por amar-te tanto…
António Ruy de Noronha (n. Moçambique 28 Out 1909; m. Moçambique 25 Dez 1943).
Por amar-te tanto – Rui de Noronha
jasmins
Que culpa terei eu de amar-te assim?
Que culpa terás tu de o não saberes?
Quem adivinha o que se passa em mim?
Como hei-de adivinhar o que tu queres?
Oh! Corações secretos de mulheres!
Oh! Minhas ilusões, mágoas sem fim!
Porque hei-de eu ter só mágoas, não prazeres,
por tanto te querer, doce jasmim?
Tudo, que sob aluz do sol existe,
alegre é num momento e noutro triste,
só eu herdei apenas dor e pranto…
O mais humilde verme, que rasteja,
um outro tem, que o ama, afaga e beija
– e eu nada tenho por amar-te tanto…
António Ruy de Noronha (n. Moçambique 28 Out 1909; m. Moçambique 25 Dez 1943)
in A Circulatura do Quadrado – Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa – Edição UNICEPE – Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, CRL – 2004
On this day in History – Oct. 28
0312 – Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine the Great defeats the forces of Maxentius.
1017 – Henry III was born. Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046-56
1225 – Jien dies (b. 1155). Japanese poet and historian
1412 – Margaret I of Denmark dies (b. 1353). Queen of Haakon VI of Norway
1485 – Rodolphus Agricola dies (b. 1443). Dutch humanist.
1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
1510 – St. Francis Borgia was born (d. 1572). Spanish duke and Jesuit priest
1516 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
1520 – Pier Gerlofs Donia dies. Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad’s control.
1568 – Ashikaga Yoshihide dies (b. 1539). Japanese shogun.
1585 – Cornelius Jansen was born (d. 1638). French bishop and religious reformer.
1627 – Jahangir dies (b. 1569). Mughal Emperor of India.
1636 – Harvard University (Cambridge Mass) founded
1639 – Stefano Landi dies (b. 1587). Italian composer.
1646 – William Dobson dies (b. 1610). English painter.
1661 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana died (b. 1518). Spanish playwright.
1676 – Jean Desmarets dies (b. 1595). French writer.
1691 – Peder Tordenskjold was born (d.1720). Norwegian naval hero
1703 – Antoine Deparcieux was born (d. 1768). French mathematician.
1703 – John Wallis died (b. 1616). English mathematician.
1704 – John Locke died (b. 1632). English philosopher.
1708 – Prince George of Denmark died (b. 1653). Consort of Queen Anne of England
1716 – Stephen Fox died (b. 1627). English politician.
1718 – Ignacije Szentmartony was born (d. 1793). Croatian geographer
1740 – Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia
1740 – Anna Ivanova Romanova dies (b. 1693). Empress of Russia (1730-40)
1746 – Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
1754 – Friedrich von Hagedorn dies (b. 1708). German poet.
1755 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier dies (b. 1689). French composer.
1763 – Heinrich, count von Brühl dies (b. 1700). German statesman.
1768 – Michel Blavet died (b. 1700). French flutist.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
1793 – Eliphalet Remington was born (d. 1861). American firearms manufacturer.
1794 – John Smeaton dies (b . 1724). English civil engineer
1800 – Artemas Ward dies (b. 1727). American politician and soldier
1804 – Pierre François Verhulst was born (d. 1849). Belgian mathematician.
1806 – Charlotte Turner Smith dies (b. 1749). English poet and novelist.
1818 – Abigail Adams dies (b. 1744). First Lady of the United States
1841 – Nasce José Fontana, iniciador do movimento operário em Portugal.
1846 – Georges Auguste Escoffier was born (d. 1935). French chef.
1857 – Louis Eugène Cavaignac dies (b. 1802). French soldier and politician.
1864 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
1868 – Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
1877 – Robert Swinhoe dies (b. 1835). British naturalist.
1879 – Marie Roch Louis Reybaud died (b. 1799). French writer.
1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov was born (d. 1922). Russian poet
1886 – In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1892 – Dink Johnson was born (d. 1954). American musician
1894 – Américo de Oliveira Durão was born in Coruche (d. in Lisbon, 7 Mar 1969). Portuguese dramatist and poet.
1896 – Howard Hanson was born (d. 1981). American composer
1897 – Hercules Robinson dies (b. 1824). British colonial administrator.
1899 – Ottmar Mergenthaler dies (b. 1854). German-born inventor
1900 – Max Müller dies (b. 1823). German-born orientalist
1902 – Elsa Lanchester was born (d. 1986). British-born actress.
1903 – Evelyn Waugh was born (d. 1966). English writer.
1907 – Edith Head was born (d. 1981). American costum designer.
1909 – Francis Bacon was born (d. 1992). Irish painter.
1909 –Antonio Ruy de Noronha was born in Mozambique (d. 25 Dec 1943). Portuguese journalist and poet
1912 – Richard Doll was born (d. 2005). English epidemiologist.
1914 – Jonas Salk was born (d. 1995). American medical scientist
1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge was born (d. 1994). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – Paul Jarrico was born (d. 1997). American screenwriter.
1916- Oswald Boelcke dies (b. 1891). German pilot
1916 – Cleveland Abbe dies (b. 1838). American meteorologist
1917 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg died (b. 1831)
1918 – Ulisse Dini died (b. 1845). Italian mathematician
1918 – Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary.
1918 – New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe).
1919 – Prohibition begins: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto.
1922 – March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that “Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence.”
1922 – Gershon Kingsley was born. German composer
1922 – Simon Muzenda was born (d. 2003). Zimbabwean politician
1924 – Tony de Matos was born. Portuguese singer.
1929 – Bernhard von Bülow dies (b. 1849). Chancellor of Germany
1930 – Bernie Ecclestone was born. English racing official
1932 – Suzy Parker was born (d. 2003). American actress
1936 – US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
1937 – Charlie Daniels was born. American musician
1938 – Anne Perry was born. English-born novelist
1939 – Jane Alexander was born. American actress
1940 – World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albanian and is the selected anniversary of Greece’s entry into World War II. It is celebrated in Greece as “OXI” Day.
1942 – The Alaska Highway is completed.
1943 – The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occured.
1944 – Dennis Franz was born. American actor
1948 – Telma Hopkins was born. American singer
1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1948 – Flag of Israel is adopted
1949 – Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
1949 – Bruce Jenner was born. American athlete
1950 – The Jack Benny Show, starring Jack Benny, premiers (it ran for 15 years).
1952 – Billy Hughes dies (b. 1862). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia
1954 – Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature.
1955 – Bill Gates was born. American software pioneer.
1957 – Ernst Gräfenberg dies (b. 1881). German physican and scientist
1958 – Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
1959 – Camilo Cienfuegos dies (b. 1932). Cuban revolutionary
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1963 – Verónica Gamba was born in Buenos Aires. Playmate, November, 1983
1963 – Eros Ramazzotti was born, Italian pop musician, songwriter, Adesso Te
1965 – French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow.
1965 – Nostra Aetate, the “Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions” of the Second Vatican Council, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III‘s declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.
1965 – In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic (catenarian) steel Gateway Arch is completed.
1965 – Earl Bostic died (b. 1913). American saxophonist
1966 – Steve Atwater was born. American football player
1967 – Julia Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia. American actress Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman
1967 – John Romero was born. American video game designer
1968 – Ben Harper was born. American musician
1970 – Land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket powered automobile called the Blue Flame
1972 – Terrell Davis was born. American football player
1973 – Sergio Tofano dies (b. 1883). Italian actor
1973 – Taha Hussein dies (b. 1889). Egyptian writer
1974 – Joaquin Phoenix was born. Puerto Rican-born actor
1975 – Georges Carpentier dies (b. 1894). French boxer
1976 – John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic policy adviser of President Nixon and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeastern Arizona.
1977 – Lara Antunes was born. Miss Portugal 1997 , model
1977 – Miguel Mihura dies (b. 21 Jun 1905). Spanish dramatist, humourist and writer.
1979 – Aki Hakala was born. The drummer of The Rasmus
1980 – Alan Smith was born. English footballer
1981 – Milan Baros was born. Czech footballer.
1982 – Felipe González torna-se o primeiro primeiro-ministro socialista em Espanha, após ter obtido grande maioria eleitoral.
1984 – 14th New York City Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
1984 – 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
1986 – The centennial of the Statue of Liberty‘s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1986 – Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews and is given five life sentences.
1986 – John Braine dies (b. 1922). English novelist
1987 – André Masson dies (b. 04 Jan 1896). French Surrealist painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer.
1988 – Pietro Annigoni dies (b. 7 Jun 1910). Italian painter.
1988 – Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
1996 – Morey Amsterdam dies (b. 1908). American actor and comedian
1997 – The bulls come running back as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32. The massive rally comes a day after a 554 point drop. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
1998 – An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested.
1998 – Ted Hughes dies (b. 1930). English poet
2000 – Lída Baarová dies (b. 1914). Czech actress.
2000 – Carlos Guastavino dies (b. 1912). Argentine composer
2001 – Gerard Hengeveld dies (b. 1910). Dutch composer
2002 – Margaret Booth dies (b. 1898). American film editor
2002 – Erling Persson dies (b. 1917). Swedish entrepreneur
2004 – Jimmy McLarnin dies (b. 1907). Irish-born boxer
Feast day of Saint Jude the Thaddaeus (also known as Saint Thaddaeus)
Feast day of Saint Simon the Canaanite
Greece – Oxi (No) Day
Czech Republic – Independence Day (Founding Day)
Dia do Funcionário Público
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