Portuguese League – 15 th Matchday Dezembro 17, 2005

– 15th Matchday –
16 Dec 21:30	Naval 1º. de Maio	0- 2	Sporting
17 Dec 16:00	Marítimo	1 – 0	Vitória de Setúbal
17 Dec 16:00	Belenenses	2 – 0	Paços de Ferreira
17 Dec 16:00	Rio Ave	1 – 0	Gil Vicente
17 Dec 16:00	Estrela da Amadora	1 – 2	União de Leiria
17 Dec 17:00	Braga	2 – 0	Académica
17 Dec 19:00	Benfica	1 – 0	Nacional
17 Dec 21:15	Porto	4 – 1	Penafiel
18 Dec 20:30	Boavista	? -?	Vitória de Guimarães

Place	Club	Points	Goals
1.	Porto	34	26-10
2.	Nacional	30	17-7
3.	Vitória de Setúbal	29	12-4
4.	Braga	29	15-7
5.	Benfica	28	22-12
6.	Sporting	27	20-16
7.	Boavista (*)	22	20-13
8.	Paços de Ferreira	21	17-19
9.	Rio Ave	20	20-21
10.	União de Leiria	18	19-21
11.	Marítimo	18	16-17
12.	Académica	18	14-20
13.	Belenenses	17	16-17
14.	Estrela da Amadora	16	11-15
15.	Gil Vicente	14	11-18
16.	Vitória de Guimarães ( *)	13	8-20
17.	Naval 1º. de Maio	11	13-25
18.	Penafiel	7	11-26

(*) Boavista e Vitória de Guimarães têm um jogo a menos, defrontando-se amanhã no Bessa.

Comentários: Porto, Braga, Benfica e Sporting ganharam. Registe-se as derrotas do Nacional na Luz e do Setúbal na Madeira que apesar das posições classificativas superiores dos visitantes não foram surpresas. Grande ascendente das equipas caseiras que ganharam os jogos com excepção do Estrela da Amadora (vindo de uma vitória fora em Alvalade!) que perdeu em casa frente à União de Leiria.

O Porto é o comandante com maior vantagem desde o início do campeonato, tendo agora 4 pontos de avanço sobre o Nacional. Cá em baixo o Penafiel que só amealhou 7 pontos tem já uma decalage de 9 ! relativamente à linha de água de salvação. Também a Naval perdeu e assim começa-se a esboçar a descida de divisão para duas das equipas que ano passado subiram.

Na próxima jornada temos dois jogos em que se adivinham dificuldades para dois dos candidatoas ao título: V. Setúbal-Benfica (isto se não houver a greve anunciada dos jogadores do Setúbal) e Guimarães-Porto. Boavista – Nacional, na luta Uefeira, e Penafiel-Amadora, na luta dos últimos, podem ter desfechos importantes para o futuro destas equipas.

– 16th Matchday –
20 Dec 21:30	Sporting	–	Rio Ave
21 Dec 16:00	Paços de Ferreira	–	Marítimo
21 Dec 17:00	União de Leiria	–	Naval 1º. de Maio
21 Dec 19:00	Académica	–	Belenenses
21 Dec 19:15	Gil Vicente	–	Braga
21 Dec 21:00	Vitória de Setúbal	–	Benfica
22 Dec 19:30	Boavista	–	Nacional
22 Dec 21:00	Penafiel	–	Estrela da Amadora
22 Dec 21:30	Vitória de Guimarães	–	Porto

Porto primeiro ganha em casa ao Penafiel último

Porto 3 – 1 Penafiel

Um golo de bónus não foi suficiente para haver incerteza…

Há semanas atrás em Barcelos o jogo mal tinha começado e o Porto fazia o 0-1 resultado que foi o final. Hoje com 23′ o Penafiel marcou no Estádio do Dragão, por Bruno Amaro, mas ninguém acreditava (nem os jogadores do Penfiel) que pudesse ser o resultado final.

De facto foi como a tentativa de dar um bónus ao último classificado de modo a que o jogo pudesse ter maior interesse. Viu-se cedo que um só golo de bónus não chegava para pôr em dúvida o resultado, tal era e foi a superioridade do Porto. Aos 5′ McCarthy isolado falha o empate ao emendar muito por cima da barra. Aos 11′ o mesmo McCarthy atira ao poste na sequência de um pontapé de canto. Aos 18′ Quaresma remata à barra. O golo adivinhava-se a todo o momento. E chegou aos 40′: mais uma iniciativa atacante com Lucho Gonzalez em posição frontal à entrada da área a rematar cruzado para junto do poste direito de Nuno Santos que nada pôde fazer. Logo de seguida o 2-1 na concretização de um penalty por Lucho e ao intervalo já o primeiro ganhava ao último.

O Penafiel que para além de último não pôde contar com dois dos seus melhores jogadores (N’Doy e Marco Ferreira, este último emprestado pelo Porto) pouco podia fazer face à dinâmica ofensiva do Porto que aumentou para 3-1 numa grande jogada. Lucho em profundidade a sugerir Quaresma pela esquerda e passe de morte para Lizandro (que bateu em velocidade o central penafidelense) para empurrar para o 3-1. Tão simples quanto eficaz.

O jogo estava resolvido, faltava saber por quantos ficaria. Porém com a vitória assegurada a fome atacante do Porto diminuiu deu até para o Penafiel se espraiar mais no campo (em curto espaço de tempo ganhou três cantos) e o resultado viria a manter-se porque Nuno Santos respondeu a grande altura a um remate de Lizandro.

A arbitragem de Soares Dias foi regular mas condescendente disciplinarmente com Paulo Assunção.

O Porto passou a ter agora quatro ponto de avanço sobre o Nacional (2º.) e cinco sobre o Vitória de Setúbal (3º).

FC Porto: Vítor Baía; Ricardo Costa, Pepe, Pedro Emanuel e César Peixoto; Lucho e Paulo Assunção; Lisandro, Diego e Quaresma (Jorginho aos 68′); McCarthy (Hugo Almeida aos 76′).

Penafiel: Nuno Santos; Pedro Moreira, Odair, Welington e Kelly
Orahovac aos 50′); Sérgio Lomba, Bruno Amaro (Guedes aos 70′), Nilton e Pedro Araújo; Bibishkov (Roberto aos 57′) e José Rui.

Catões amarelos todos para jogadores do Penafiel, aos 23′ Bruno Amaro, aos 43′ para Wellington (no lance que deu origem ao penalty), aos 74′ para para Nilton por falta sobre Sérginho e ainda aos 84′ para Odair.

Benfica, com muitas dificuldades, ganha ao Nacional

Benfica 1 – 0 Nacional

Desta vez foi melhor o resultado do que a exibição

O Benfica em ambiente favorável, mais de 50.000 espectadores, depois dos últimos resultados positivos, apresentou-se com Miccoli no onze titular (saindo Nuno Assis) e Luisão a regressar naturalmente (em vbez de Ricardo Rocha que jogou contra o Boavista) e o Nacional a deixar no banco dois dos seus melhores jogadores ( Goulart e André Pinto).

Nos dez minutos iniciais o Benfica até jogou bem conseguiu três lances de remate com perigo, Miccoli e Petit para defesas de Diego e outro de Miccoli em boa posição a atirar ao lado. Um outro lance em que se pede por duas vezes penalty, corte de Chainho com o braço e depois Ávalos a saltar sobre Luisão.

Com o decorrer do tempo o Nacional muito defensivo acertou as marcações e o Benfica não mais criou perigo. Evidenciava-se alguma indefenição nas posições de Miccoli, Nélson e Geovanni, o jogo era agora lento e era patente a falta de um organizador de jogo.

O árbitro Jorge Sousa, num critério muito estrito em termos disciplinares, distribuía cartões amarelos em quase todas as faltas e ao intervalo havia seis jogadores “amarelados” (dois do Benfica e quatro do Nacional).

No recomeço o jogo adquiriu mais dinâmica o público apoiava o Benfica

O treinador do Nacional é o primeiro a mexer na equipa com opções mais ofensivas Chilikov e mais tarde Goulard (e tirando dois dos jogadores amarelados)e foi o Nacional a dispôr de uma grande oportunidade de golo. Contra-ataque, com superioridade em termos de unidades dos visitantes, com jogada conduzida pela esquerda e cruzamento atrasado para remate de Viveiros à barra!

O Benfica foi feliz nesse lance e teve o mérito de acordar Koeman que faz entrar AOS 62′ Mantorras e Nuno Assis para os lugares de Miccoli e de Nélson (estranhando-se a saída deste e deixando Alcides “amarelado” em campo).

Dez minutos depois o Benfica chega ao golo por Nuno Gomes. Um cruzamento para a área Diego (incomodado por Luisão) falha o murro na bola que sobra para Nuno Gomes que em rotação faz a bola entrar por alto na baliza do Nacional. Os jogadores visitantes reclamaram falta sobre o guarda-redes.

A partir daqui o jogo vibrante não teve mais tactica. Era futebol directo do Nacional com bolas para a área do Benfica aproveitando a presença de André Pinto que entrara para o lugar de Alonso e o Benfica agora mais defensivo. O árbitro já não consegue manter o critério disciplinar, perdoando o 2º. amarelo a Chainho por agarrão persistente e notório a Mantorras mas mostrou o 2º. cartão amarelo a Alcides (aos 88′) e volta a não mostrar amarelo a André Pinto quando dá uma estalada a Petit, marcando a falta !

Quim teve ainda de intervir ao defender com as pernas um remate ao 2º. poste de Viveiros.

Vitória feliz do Benfica com um Nacional muito defensivo na primeira parte e que quando mexeu na equipa para tentar mais alguma coisa sofreu o golo.

Benfica: Quim; Alcides, Luisão, Anderson e Léo (Ricardo Rocha aos 83′), Petit e Beto, Nélson (Nuno Assis aos 82′) Nuno Gomes e Geovanni; Miccoli (Mantorras aos 62′)

Nacional: Diego; Ricardo Fernandes, Ávalos e Fernando Cardozo; Patacas, Cléber (Goulart aos 56′) , Chainho, Alonso (André Pinto aos 73′) e Miguelito; Anic (Chilikov aos 50′) e Nuno Viveiros.

5′ Cartão amarelo para Darko Anic (Nacional), por falta sobre Miccoli.
24′ Cartão amarelo para Anderson (Benfica), por falta sobre Anic, quando este preparava-se para ir isolado para a baliza.
32′ Cartão amarelo para Cléber Monteiro (Nacional), por não deixar marcar uma falta.
34′ Cartão amarelo para Alcides (Benfica) e Ricardo Fernandes do Nacional, por desentendimento mútuo.
37′ Cartão amarelo para Alonso (Nacional), por sair da «barreira» fora de tempo.
58′ Cartão amarelo para Alexandre Goulart (Nacional), por falta sobre Luisão.
64′ Cartão Amarelo para Patacas (Nacional), por falta sobre Leo.
67′ Cartão amarelo para Leo, por falta sobre Nuno Viveiros.
70′ Cartão amarelo para Chainho, por falta sobre Mantorras.

88′ Segundo amarelo e consequente vermelho a Alcides por falta sobre Miguelito

90′ Cartão amarelo a Nuno Gomes por protestos

On this day in History – Dec. 17

• 0283 – St Gaius becomes Pope.
• 0384 – St Siricius becomes Pope.
• 1187 – Pope Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra] dies. Italian Pope
• 1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut dies (b. 1150)
• 1239 – Kujo Yoritsugu was born (d. 1256). Japanese shogun.
• 1267 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan was born (d. 1324).
• 1273 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi dies (b. 1207). Persian poet and mystic.
• 1471 – Isabel of Portugal dies (b. 1397). Duchess of Burgundy.
• 1493 – Paracelso was born (d. 1754). Swiss alquimist and phyician
• 1531 – Installation de l’Inquisition à Lisbonne par le pape Clément VII
• 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England
• 1586 – The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei, the 107th imperial ruler of Japan, begins.
• 1637 – The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
• 1663 – Dona Ana de Souza, Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Angola) dies (b. 1583).
• 1718 – England declared war on Spain.
• 1734 – Maria I of Portugal was born (d. 1816). Portuguese queen.
• 1749 – Domenico Cimarosa was born (d. 1801). Italian composer.
• 1763 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1722)
• 1770 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, born this day, composer.
• 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized (d. 1827). German Composer.
• 1777 – France recognized American independence.
• 1778 – Humphry Davy was born (d. 1829). English chemist.
• 1787 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne was born (d. 1869). Czech anatomist.
• 1796 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
• 1797 – Joseph Henry, was born ; US, Scientist / inventor / pioneer of electromagnetism .
• 1799 – Titian Peale was born (d. 1885). American artist.
• 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier was born [d. 1892]. American Poet and abolicionist. Whittier was a pioneer in regional literature as well as a crusader for many humanitarian causes.
• 1812 – Kaspar Hauser dies (b. 1812). German foundling.
• 1830 – Simon Bolivar died in Santa Marta [b. 1783]; General and Venezuelan statesman, first President of Colombia.
• 1830 – Jules de Goncourt was born (d. 1870). French publisher.
• 1833 – Kaspar Hauser dies (b. 1812). German foundling.
• 1843 – A Christmas Carol a fictional short story by Charles Dickens is published.
• 1853 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree was born (d. 1917). English actor
• 1853 – Emile Roux was born (d. 1933). French physician.
• 1859 – Paul César Helleu was born (d. 1927). French artist.
• 1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• 1872 – Mistinguett was born (d. 1956). French actress and singer.
• 1873 – Ford Madox Ford was born (d. 1939). English writer.
• 1874 – William Lyon Mackenzie King was born (d. 1950). Tenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1887 – Josef Lada was born (d. 1957). Czech painter.
• 1888 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was born (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Sam Barry was born (d. 1950). American basketball coach.
• 1893 – Erwin Piscator was born (d. 1966). German film director.
• 1894 – Arthur Fiedler was born (d. 1979). American conductor.
• 1897 – Alphonse Daudet dies. French writer.
• 1901 – Lee Strasberg was born (d. 1982). Austrian-born actor and director.
• 1903 – Erskine Caldwell was born (d. 1987). American author.
• 1903 – Ray Noble was born (d. 1978). English musician.
• 1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
• 1905 – Érico Veríssimo was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1906 – Fernando Lopes Graça was born in Tomar. Portuguese composer and musicologist.
• 1907 – Independence of Bhutan
• 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin dies (b. 1824). Irish-born physicist.
• 1908 – Willard Frank Libby was born (d. 1980). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1909 – King Leopold II of Belgium , dies (b. 1835)
• 1911 – André Claveau was born (d. 2003). French singer.
• 1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald was born (d. 2000). English writer.
• 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson dies (b. 1836). English physician.
• 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1925 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes abandona definitivamente Portugal.Depois de ser eleito presidente, o seu mandato foi marcado por grande instabilidade política e social, conduzindo à sua resignação em 11 de Dezembro de 1925. Em 17 de Dezembro, embarca no paquete grego “Zeus”. Nunca mais regressará a Portugal.
• 1925 – Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact.
• 1929 – Manuel Gomes da Costa dies. President of Portuguese Republic in 1926.
• 1929 – Jacqueline Hill was born (d. 1993). British actress
• 1929 – William Safire was born. American columnist
• 1930 – Bob Mathias was born. American athlete
• 1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl was born. German actor
• 1930 – Bob Guccione, was born. Publisher of Penthouse magazine.
• 1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
• 1937 – Jaime Lerner was born. Brazilian architect and urbanist.
• 1938 – Peter Snell was born. New-Zealand athlet.
• 1939 – the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee “Graf Spee” was scuttled by its crew, ending the World War II Battle of the River Plate off Uruguay.
• 1939 – Eddie Kendricks was born (d. 1992). American musician.
• 1941 – Nazi siege of Sevastopol begins.
• 1941 – Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor.
• 1941 – Gene Clark was born (d. 1991). American musician.
• 1942 – Paul Butterfield was born (d. 1987). American musician.
• 1943 – Ron Geesin was born. Scottish musician
• 1943 – Lauren Hutton was born. American model and actress
• 1944 – Jack L. Chalker was born. Canadian novelist
• 1944 – Bernard Hill was born. English actor
• 1944 -The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing “evacuees” to return home.
• 1944 – Ference Bene, was born, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic Gold-1964).
• 1945 – Honduras becomes member of United Nations
• 1945 – Elvin Hayes was born. American basketball player
• 1945 – Ernie Hudson was born. American actor.
• 1949 – Paul Rodgers was born. British singer (Free)
• 1951 – Ken Hitchcock was born. Canadian hockey coach
• 1951 – Tatyana Kazankina was born,in Petrovsk, USSR;middle distance runner (Olympic Gold-1976).
• 1953 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’ 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad.
• 1955 – Brad Davis was born. American basketball player
• 1957 – the United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
• 1957 – “Partido Acción Nacional” is created in Mexico.
• 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers dies (b. 1893). English writer.
• 1958 – Mike Mills, was born, rock musician (R.E.M.).
• 1960 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia after being ousted by his son.
• 1961 – India seizes Goa, Damão and Diu from Portugal.
• 1961 – A fire at a circus in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323 people.
• 1963 -Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea.
• 1964 – Victor Franz Hess was born (d. 1883). Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 – Kristiina Ojuland was born. Estonian politician.
• 1968 – Paul Tracy was born. Canadian race car driver.
• 1969 – General Costa e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1902). President of Brazil
• 1969 – Signature d’un traité d’amitié de 20 ans entre l’Algérie et la Tunisie.
• 1969 – The U.S. Air Force ended its “Project Blue Book” and concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity behind UFO (OVNI) sightings.
• 1969 – SALT I talks begin.
• 1970 – My Lai trial begins.
• 1970 – Coastal cities events Mass riots in the coastal cities of Poland ended in massacre of shipyard workers in Gdynia .
• 1970 – Joshua Seth was born. American voice actor and hypnotist
• 1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau was born. French basketball player
• 1971 – Alan Khan was born. South African Radio DJ and breakfast TV host on am2day
• 1971 – Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir .
• 1972 – Ivan Pedroso was born. Cuba, long jumper (Olympics-4th-92) .
• 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
• 1973 – Paula Radcliffe, was born, distance runner in athletics .
• 1975 – Milla Jovovitch was born in Kiev. Ukrainian actress and model.
• 1975 – Nick Dinsmore was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1975 – Lynette Fromme was sentenced in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Ford.
• 1978 – OPEC raises oil prices 18% .
• 1978 – Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda.
• 1979 – in a case that aggravated racial tensions, Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally beaten after a police chase in Miami. (Four white police officers were later acquitted of charges stemming from McDuffie’s death.)
• 1981 – members of the Red Brigades kidnapped Brigadier General James L. Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe, from his home in Verona, Italy. (Dozier was rescued 42 days later).
• 1982 – Tootsie opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, and Geena Davis.
• 1983 – Bomb attack on Harrod’s war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured.
• 1983 – A fire at a night club in Madrid kills 82.
• 1986 – Eugene Hasenfus, the American convicted by Nicaragua for his part in running guns to the Contras, was pardoned, then released.
• 1986 – Vanessa Zima was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. American actress.
• 1986 – US Congress forms “Irangate” committee.
• 1987 – Irving Allen doies (b.1916). American producer.
• 1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar dies (b. 1903). Novelist (Memoirs of Hadrien). First woman to be electedd for The French Academy (Académie française)
• 1989 – The first half-hour length episode of The Simpsons debuts with their Christmas special, “Simpsons Roasting Over an Open Fire”.
• 1989 – Brazil holds its first direct free election in 29 years. Fernando Collor de Mello is elected President.
• 1989 – Full scale street manifestations and riots in Timisoara ignite the Romanian Revolution
• 1992 – North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by U.S (President Bush)., Canada, (Prime Minister Brian Mulroney) and Mexico (President Carlos Salinas) in separate ceremonies.
• 1992 – Dana Andrews dies (b. 1909). American actor.
• 1993 – American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Mohammed Farah Aidid.
• 1993 -Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
• 1994 – North Korea shot down a U.S. Army helicopter which had strayed north of the demilitarized zone — the co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, was killed; the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall, was captured and held for nearly two weeks.
• 1994 -Six shots were fired at the White House by an unidentified gunman.
• 1994 – Lisbon 94 — European Capital of Culture ends.
• 1996 – Inauguration de la Bibliothèque François-Miterrand par Jacques Chirac
• 1996 -Guerrilheiros do Movimento Revolucionário Tupac Amaru invadem a residência do embaixador japonês em Lima, Peru, e fazem 500 reféns.
• 1996- A Assembléia Geral das Nações Unidas elege Kofi Annan, do país africano de Gana, como seu novo secretário-geral.
• 1996 -Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
• 1997 – A chartered Yakovlev-42 from Ukraine crashes into the mountains near Katerini, Greece killing 70
• 1998 – Claudia Benton (b. 1959) is murdered in her West University, Texas home by Angel Maturino Resendiz. Peruvian child psychologist.
• 1999 – Grover Washington, Jr. dies (b. 1943). American musician.
• 2002 – Peace accord signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2002 – Giovanni Intra dies; born in New Zealand in 1968, co-founder in 1998 (with artist Steve Hanson) of China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles.
• 2003 – First supersonic flight by Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
• 2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the third and final Lord of the Rings movie to open in theaters.
• 2003 – The British government announced the first reported case of a person dying from the human form of mad cow disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor.
• 2003 – Ed Devereaux dies (b. 1925). Australian actor.
• 2003 – Otto Graham dies (b. 1921). American football player.
• Roman festivals – Saturnalia, in honor of Saturn, began.
• R.C. Saints – O Sapientia ; Saint Lazarus
• Bhutan – National Day (1907)
• USA – Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)

On this day in History – Dec. 17

• 0283 – St Gaius becomes Pope.
• 0384 – St Siricius becomes Pope.
• 1187 – Pope Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra] dies. Italian Pope
• 1195 – Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut dies (b. 1150)
• 1239 – Kujo Yoritsugu was born (d. 1256). Japanese shogun.
• 1267 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan was born (d. 1324).
• 1273 – Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi dies (b. 1207). Persian poet and mystic.
• 1471 – Isabel of Portugal dies (b. 1397). Duchess of Burgundy.
• 1493 – Paracelso was born (d. 1754). Swiss alquimist and phyician
• 1531 – Installation de l’Inquisition à Lisbonne par le pape Clément VII
• 1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England
• 1586 – The reign of Emperor Go-Yozei, the 107th imperial ruler of Japan, begins.
• 1637 – The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
• 1663 – Dona Ana de Souza, Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Angola) dies (b. 1583).
• 1718 – England declared war on Spain.
• 1734 – Maria I of Portugal was born (d. 1816). Portuguese queen.
• 1749 – Domenico Cimarosa was born (d. 1801). Italian composer.
• 1763 – Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1722)
• 1770 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, born this day, composer.
• 1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized (d. 1827). German Composer.
• 1777 – France recognized American independence.
• 1778 – Humphry Davy was born (d. 1829). English chemist.
• 1787 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne was born (d. 1869). Czech anatomist.
• 1796 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
• 1797 – Joseph Henry, was born ; US, Scientist / inventor / pioneer of electromagnetism .
• 1799 – Titian Peale was born (d. 1885). American artist.
• 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier was born [d. 1892]. American Poet and abolicionist. Whittier was a pioneer in regional literature as well as a crusader for many humanitarian causes.
• 1812 – Kaspar Hauser dies (b. 1812). German foundling.
• 1830 – Simon Bolivar died in Santa Marta [b. 1783]; General and Venezuelan statesman, first President of Colombia.
• 1830 – Jules de Goncourt was born (d. 1870). French publisher.
• 1833 – Kaspar Hauser dies (b. 1812). German foundling.
• 1843 – A Christmas Carol a fictional short story by Charles Dickens is published.
• 1853 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree was born (d. 1917). English actor
• 1853 – Emile Roux was born (d. 1933). French physician.
• 1859 – Paul César Helleu was born (d. 1927). French artist.
• 1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• 1872 – Mistinguett was born (d. 1956). French actress and singer.
• 1873 – Ford Madox Ford was born (d. 1939). English writer.
• 1874 – William Lyon Mackenzie King was born (d. 1950). Tenth Prime Minister of Canada
• 1887 – Josef Lada was born (d. 1957). Czech painter.
• 1888 – King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was born (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Sam Barry was born (d. 1950). American basketball coach.
• 1893 – Erwin Piscator was born (d. 1966). German film director.
• 1894 – Arthur Fiedler was born (d. 1979). American conductor.
• 1897 – Alphonse Daudet dies. French writer.
• 1901 – Lee Strasberg was born (d. 1982). Austrian-born actor and director.
• 1903 – Erskine Caldwell was born (d. 1987). American author.
• 1903 – Ray Noble was born (d. 1978). English musician.
• 1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
• 1905 – Érico Veríssimo was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1906 – Fernando Lopes Graça was born in Tomar. Portuguese composer and musicologist.
• 1907 – Independence of Bhutan
• 1907 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin dies (b. 1824). Irish-born physicist.
• 1908 – Willard Frank Libby was born (d. 1980). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1909 – King Leopold II of Belgium , dies (b. 1835)
• 1911 – André Claveau was born (d. 2003). French singer.
• 1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald was born (d. 2000). English writer.
• 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson dies (b. 1836). English physician.
• 1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1925 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes abandona definitivamente Portugal.Depois de ser eleito presidente, o seu mandato foi marcado por grande instabilidade política e social, conduzindo à sua resignação em 11 de Dezembro de 1925. Em 17 de Dezembro, embarca no paquete grego “Zeus”. Nunca mais regressará a Portugal.
• 1925 – Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact.
• 1929 – Manuel Gomes da Costa dies. President of Portuguese Republic in 1926.
• 1929 – Jacqueline Hill was born (d. 1993). British actress
• 1929 – William Safire was born. American columnist
• 1930 – Bob Mathias was born. American athlete
• 1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl was born. German actor
• 1930 – Bob Guccione, was born. Publisher of Penthouse magazine.
• 1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
• 1937 – Jaime Lerner was born. Brazilian architect and urbanist.
• 1938 – Peter Snell was born. New-Zealand athlet.
• 1939 – the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee “Graf Spee” was scuttled by its crew, ending the World War II Battle of the River Plate off Uruguay.
• 1939 – Eddie Kendricks was born (d. 1992). American musician.
• 1941 – Nazi siege of Sevastopol begins.
• 1941 – Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor.
• 1941 – Gene Clark was born (d. 1991). American musician.
• 1942 – Paul Butterfield was born (d. 1987). American musician.
• 1943 – Ron Geesin was born. Scottish musician
• 1943 – Lauren Hutton was born. American model and actress
• 1944 – Jack L. Chalker was born. Canadian novelist
• 1944 – Bernard Hill was born. English actor
• 1944 -The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing “evacuees” to return home.
• 1944 – Ference Bene, was born, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic Gold-1964).
• 1945 – Honduras becomes member of United Nations
• 1945 – Elvin Hayes was born. American basketball player
• 1945 – Ernie Hudson was born. American actor.
• 1949 – Paul Rodgers was born. British singer (Free)
• 1951 – Ken Hitchcock was born. Canadian hockey coach
• 1951 – Tatyana Kazankina was born,in Petrovsk, USSR;middle distance runner (Olympic Gold-1976).
• 1953 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’ 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad.
• 1955 – Brad Davis was born. American basketball player
• 1957 – the United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
• 1957 – “Partido Acción Nacional” is created in Mexico.
• 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers dies (b. 1893). English writer.
• 1958 – Mike Mills, was born, rock musician (R.E.M.).
• 1960 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia after being ousted by his son.
• 1961 – India seizes Goa, Damão and Diu from Portugal.
• 1961 – A fire at a circus in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323 people.
• 1963 -Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea.
• 1964 – Victor Franz Hess was born (d. 1883). Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1966 – Kristiina Ojuland was born. Estonian politician.
• 1968 – Paul Tracy was born. Canadian race car driver.
• 1969 – General Costa e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1902). President of Brazil
• 1969 – Signature d’un traité d’amitié de 20 ans entre l’Algérie et la Tunisie.
• 1969 – The U.S. Air Force ended its “Project Blue Book” and concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity behind UFO (OVNI) sightings.
• 1969 – SALT I talks begin.
• 1970 – My Lai trial begins.
• 1970 – Coastal cities events Mass riots in the coastal cities of Poland ended in massacre of shipyard workers in Gdynia .
• 1970 – Joshua Seth was born. American voice actor and hypnotist
• 1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau was born. French basketball player
• 1971 – Alan Khan was born. South African Radio DJ and breakfast TV host on am2day
• 1971 – Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir .
• 1972 – Ivan Pedroso was born. Cuba, long jumper (Olympics-4th-92) .
• 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
• 1973 – Paula Radcliffe, was born, distance runner in athletics .
• 1975 – Milla Jovovitch was born in Kiev. Ukrainian actress and model.
• 1975 – Nick Dinsmore was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1975 – Lynette Fromme was sentenced in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Ford.
• 1978 – OPEC raises oil prices 18% .
• 1978 – Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda.
• 1979 – in a case that aggravated racial tensions, Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally beaten after a police chase in Miami. (Four white police officers were later acquitted of charges stemming from McDuffie’s death.)
• 1981 – members of the Red Brigades kidnapped Brigadier General James L. Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe, from his home in Verona, Italy. (Dozier was rescued 42 days later).
• 1982 – Tootsie opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, and Geena Davis.
• 1983 – Bomb attack on Harrod’s war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured.
• 1983 – A fire at a night club in Madrid kills 82.
• 1986 – Eugene Hasenfus, the American convicted by Nicaragua for his part in running guns to the Contras, was pardoned, then released.
• 1986 – Vanessa Zima was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. American actress.
• 1986 – US Congress forms “Irangate” committee.
• 1987 – Irving Allen doies (b.1916). American producer.
• 1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar dies (b. 1903). Novelist (Memoirs of Hadrien). First woman to be electedd for The French Academy (Académie française)
• 1989 – The first half-hour length episode of The Simpsons debuts with their Christmas special, “Simpsons Roasting Over an Open Fire”.
• 1989 – Brazil holds its first direct free election in 29 years. Fernando Collor de Mello is elected President.
• 1989 – Full scale street manifestations and riots in Timisoara ignite the Romanian Revolution
• 1992 – North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by U.S (President Bush)., Canada, (Prime Minister Brian Mulroney) and Mexico (President Carlos Salinas) in separate ceremonies.
• 1992 – Dana Andrews dies (b. 1909). American actor.
• 1993 – American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Mohammed Farah Aidid.
• 1993 -Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
• 1994 – North Korea shot down a U.S. Army helicopter which had strayed north of the demilitarized zone — the co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, was killed; the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall, was captured and held for nearly two weeks.
• 1994 -Six shots were fired at the White House by an unidentified gunman.
• 1994 – Lisbon 94 — European Capital of Culture ends.
• 1996 – Inauguration de la Bibliothèque François-Miterrand par Jacques Chirac
• 1996 -Guerrilheiros do Movimento Revolucionário Tupac Amaru invadem a residência do embaixador japonês em Lima, Peru, e fazem 500 reféns.
• 1996- A Assembléia Geral das Nações Unidas elege Kofi Annan, do país africano de Gana, como seu novo secretário-geral.
• 1996 -Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
• 1997 – A chartered Yakovlev-42 from Ukraine crashes into the mountains near Katerini, Greece killing 70
• 1998 – Claudia Benton (b. 1959) is murdered in her West University, Texas home by Angel Maturino Resendiz. Peruvian child psychologist.
• 1999 – Grover Washington, Jr. dies (b. 1943). American musician.
• 2002 – Peace accord signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 2002 – Giovanni Intra dies; born in New Zealand in 1968, co-founder in 1998 (with artist Steve Hanson) of China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles.
• 2003 – First supersonic flight by Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
• 2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the third and final Lord of the Rings movie to open in theaters.
• 2003 – The British government announced the first reported case of a person dying from the human form of mad cow disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor.
• 2003 – Ed Devereaux dies (b. 1925). Australian actor.
• 2003 – Otto Graham dies (b. 1921). American football player.
• Roman festivals – Saturnalia, in honor of Saturn, began.
• R.C. Saints – O Sapientia ; Saint Lazarus
• Bhutan – National Day (1907)
• USA – Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)