Noite… – Fernando Namora Janeiro 31, 2006

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Ó noite, coalhada nas formas de um corpo de mulher
vago e belo e voluptuoso
num bailado erótico, com o cenário dos astros, mudos e quedos.

Estrelas que as suas mãos afagam e a boca repele,
deixai que os caminhos da noite,
cegos e rectos como o destino,
suspensos como uma nuvem,
sejam os caminhos dos poetas
que lhes decoraram o nome.
Ó noite, coalhada nas formas de um corpo de mulher!
esconde a vida no seio de uma estrela
e fá-la pairar, assim mágica e irreal,
para que a olhemos como uma lua sonâmbula.

Fernando Gonçalves Namora (n. Condeixa-a-Nova em 15 de Abril 1919; m. em Lisboa a 31 Jan 1989)

Intimidade – Fernando Namora

Que ninguém
hoje me diga nada.
Que ninguém venha abrir a minha mágoa,
esta dor sem nome
que eu desconheço donde vem
e o que me diz.
É mágoa.
Talvez seja um começo de amor.
Talvez, de novo, a dor e a euforia de ter vindo ao mundo.

Pode ser tudo isso, ou nada disso.
Mas não afirmo.
As palavras viriam revelar-me tudo.
E eu prefiro esta angústia de não saber de quê.

Fernando Namora (n. em Condeixa a 15 de Abril de 1919; m.
em Lisboa a 31 Jan. 1989)

On this day in History – Jan. 31

• 0743 – Muhammad al-Baqir dies (b. 0676). Shia Imam.
• 1338 – King Charles V of France (d. 1380).
• 1398 – Emperor Suko of Japan dies (b. 1334)
• 1435 – Xuande dies (b. 1398). Emperor of China
• 1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• 1512 – King Henry of Portugal was born (d. 1580)/ Nascimento do Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal.
• 1542 – Descoberta das Cataratas do Iguaçu, por Dom Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca.
• 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise was born (d. 1588). French Catholic leader.
• 1558 – Descubrimiento de la Isla Grande de Chiloé en Chile, por una expedición española integrada por Alonso de Ercilla .
• 1561 – Menno Simons dies (b. 1496). Dutch Mennonite leader.
• 1580 – King Henry of Portugal dies on the day of his 68th birthday (b. 1512)/ Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal faleceu no dia do 68º. aniversário.
• 1597 – John Regis was born (d. 1640). French saint.
• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes (b. 1570), Ambrose Rokewood and Thomas Wintour (b. 1571) are executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
• 1615 – Claudio Aquaviva dies (b. 1543). Italian Jesuit.
• 1624 – Arnold Geulincx was born (d. 1669). Flemish philosopher.
• 1632 – Joost Bürgi dies (b. 1552). Swiss clockmaker and mathematician.
• 1665 – Johannes Clauberg dies (b. 1622). German theologian and philsopher.
• 1676 – Se funda en Guatemala de la Real Universidad de San Carlos.
• 1686 – Hans Egede was born (d. 1758). Norwegian Lutheran missionary.
• 1686 – Jean Mairet dies (b. 1604). French dramatist.
• 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford dies. English privy councilor.
• 1729 – Jakob Roggeveen dies (b. 1659). Dutch explorer.
• 1736 – Bruno Mauricio de Zabala dies. Founder of Montevideo (Uruguay).
• 1736 – Filippo Juvara dies (b. 1678). Italian architect.
• 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital.
• 1752 – Gouverneur Morris was born (d. 1816). Lawmaker and diplomat.
• 1759 – François Devienne was born (d. 1803). French composer.
• 1788 – Charles Edward Stuart dies (b. 1720). Pretender to the British throne.
• 1790 – Thomas Lewis dies (b. 1718). Irish-born Virginia settler.
• 1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot dies (b. 1711). British admiral.
• 1797 – Franz Schubert was born (d. 1828). Austrian Composer. One of the most gifted musicians of the 19th cent.
• 1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
• 1815 – José Félix Ribas dies (b. 1775). Venezuelan independentist leader.
• 1841 – Se constituye la República de El Salvador, al disolverse la Federación de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica.
• 1841 – Sam Loyd was born (d. 10 Apr 1911). Samuel Loyd was an American puzzlemaker who was best known for composing chess problems and games, including Parcheesi, in addition to other mathematically based games and puzzles.
• 1849 – Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom.
• 1851 – David Spangler Kaufman dies (b. 1813). American politician.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• 1865 – The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.
• 1866 – Lev Shestov was born (d. 1938). Russian philosopher.
• 1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
• 1868 – Theodore William Richards was born (d. 1928). American chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemics laureate in 1914.
• 1872 – Zane Grey was born born in Zanesville, Ohio. Prolific American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre .
• 1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
• 1881 – Irving Langmuir was born (d. 1957). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1881 – Joseph Augustine Cushman was born (d. 16 April 1949). U.S. paleontologist and geologist known for his work on paleoecology as shown by Foraminifera (marine protozoans). He was the most well-known foraminiferologist of his time.
• 1882 – Anna Pavlova was born in St. Petersburg [Feb. 12, New Style] (d. 23 Jan. 23). Russian ballerine. The most celebrated dancer of her time.
• 1884 – Theodor Heuss was born (d. 1963). German politician and publicist.
• 1888 – John Bosco dies (b. 1815). Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society / Dom João Bosco, faleceu em Turim (n. 16 Ago 1815). Religioso, educador e escritor italiano. Criou a ordem dos Salesianos em Turim no ano de 1859, com 22 outros religiosos. Foi canonizado em 1 de Abril de 1934.
• 1889 – Frank Foster was born (d. 1958). English cricketer.
• 1891 – Luís de Montalvor (Luís Felipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos) was born in S. Vincent, Cape Vert (d. 2 Mar 1947, in Lisbon). Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1890 – Revolta republicana no Porto, primeira tentativa de derrube da monarquia.
• 1892 – Eddie Cantor was born (d. 1964). American actor and singer.
• 1892 – Charles Spurgeon dies (b. 1834). English preacher and evangelist.
• 1894 – Isham Jones was born (d. 1956). American jazz musician.
• 1901 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe (d. 10 Oct 1974 in Rome). German writer.
• 1902 – Alva Myrdal was born (d. 1986). Swedish politician , diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1902 – Julian H. Steward was born (d. 6 Feb 1972). American anthropologist best known as one of the leading neoevolutionists of the mid-20th century and as the founder of the theory of cultural ecology
• 1902 – Tallulah Bankhead was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1905 – John O’Hara was born (d. 1970). American novelist and short-story writer.
• 1907 – Timothy Eaton dies (b. 1834). Canadian department store founder.
• 1908 – Roberto Chavero (“Atahualpa Yupanqui”) was born. Argentine singer and guitarist.
• 1910 – F. Castro Soromenho was born in Vila de Chinde. Mozambican journalist and writer.
• 1914 – Sri Daya Mata was born. Hindu religious figure.
• 1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott was born (d. 1994). American boxer.
• 1915 – Alan Lomax was born (d. 2002). American singer and musicologist.
• 1915 – Thomas Merton was born (d. 1968). American monk and author.
• 1915 – Garry Moore was born (d. 1993). American comedian and game show host.
• 1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
• 1917 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1917 – Los científicos alemanes Otto Hahn y Lise Meitner descubren el protactinio, elemento radiactivo
• 1918 – A Alemanha realiza um ataque aéreo a Paris, soltando 14 mil bombas sobre a cidade.
• 1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
• 1919 – Jackie Robinson was born (d. 1972). Baseball player.
• 1921 – John Agar was born (d. 2002). American actor.
• 1921 – Carol Channing was born. American actress.
• 1921 – E. Fay Jones was born. American architect.
• 1921 – Mario Lanza, (Alfredo Cocozza Lanza) was born (d. 1959). Operatic singer, actor .
• 1922 – Joanne Dru was born (d. 1996). American actress.
• 1923 – Norman Mailer was born. American writer and journalist
• 1923 – Carol Channing was born in Seattle, Washington. American comedienne and singer.
• 1925 – Ajmed Zogu is elected President of Albania.
• 1925 – Benjamin Hooks was born. American head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• 1929 – Jean Simmons was born. British actress.
• 1929 – Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1961, with Robert Hofstadter of the United States, for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma-rays and his discovery in this connection of the Mössbauer effect.
• 1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 1930 – 3M Markets Scotch Tape.
• 1931 – Ernie Banks was born. Baseball player.
• 1933 – John Galsworthy dies (b. 1867). English writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
• 1935 – Kenzaburo Oe was born. Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• 1937 – Philip Glass was born. American composer
• 1937 – Suzanne Pleshette was born. American actress.
• 1938 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was born.
• 1938 – James G. Watt was born. American politician.
• 1938 – Constitui-se oficialmente em Burgos o primeiro governo espanhol presidido pelo general Franco, que substitui a Junta Técnica do Estado.
• 1940 – Jessica Walter was born. American actress.
• 1941 – Richard A. “Dick” Gephardt was born. American politician.
• 1941 – Charles V. Chapin dies (b. 17 Jan 1856). American physician and epidemiologist who, with Gardner T. Swarts, established the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. (1888) in Providence, Rhode Island.
• 1942 – Daniela Bianchi was born. Italian actress.
• 1942 – Derek Jarman was born (d. 1994). American director and writer.
• 1943 – As forças militares alemãs cercadas em Stalinegrado rendem-se ao exército soviético. Durante a Batalha de Stalingrado 160.000 alemães morreram e 90.000 foram feitos prisioneiros, incluindo o marechal de campo von Paulus, o primeiro marechal alemão a render-se.
• 1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 1944 – Jean Giraudoux dies (b. 1882). French writer.
• 1944 – Charlie Musselwhite was born. American musician.
• 1945 – Joseph Kosuth was born. American conceptual artist.
• 1945 – Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
• 1946 – Yugoslavia‘s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• 1946 – Terry Kath was born (d. 1978). American musician.
• 1947 – Jonathan Banks was born. American actor.
• 1947 – Nolan Ryan was born. Baseball player.
• 1948 – Muneo Suzuki was born. Japanese politician.
• 1949 – Ken Wilber was born. American philosopher.
• 1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• 1951 – Dave Benton was born. Aruban-born singer
  1952 – Nadya Rusheva was born (d. 1969). Russian painter.
• 1952 – Pedro Prado, faleceu, escritor chileno, Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile em 1949.
• 1953 – A flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
• 1955 – John Mott dies (b. 1865). American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1956 – A. A. Milne dies (b. 1882). English author.
• 1956 – Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1956 – Johnny Rotten was born. British singer (Sex Pistols)
• 1958 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit.
• 1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1959 – Anthony LaPaglia was born. Australian actor.
• 1959 – Kelly Lynch was born. American actress
• 1960 – Grant Morrison was born. British comic book author and chaos magician
• 1961 – Lloyd Cole was born. British singer and songwriter
• 1961 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. The U.S. launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
• 1961 – Jânio Quadros, tendo como vice João Goulart, foi empossado presidente do Brasil ao ser eleito com 48% dos votos da população.
• 1962 – Cuba es expulsada de la Organización de Estados Americanos.
• 1964 – Jeff Hanneman was born. American guitarist (Slayer)
• 1964 – Billey Shamrock was born. Swedish singer and songwriter.
• 1966 – Dirk Brouwer dies (b. 1 Sep 1902). Dutch-born U.S. astronomer and geophysicist known for his achievements in celestial mechanics, especially for his pioneering application of high-speed digital computers for astronomical computations
• 1967 – Eddie Tolan dies (b. 1908). American athlete.
• 1968 – Mauritius breaks from Britain after days of rioting (Independence is officially achieved on 12 March 1968.)
• 1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon.
• 1968 – Nauru declares independence from Australia.
• 1970 – Minnie Driver was born. British actress.
• 1970 – Slim Harpo dies (b. 1924). American singer.
• 1971 – Patrick Kielty was born. Northern Irish comedian and television presenter.
• 1971 – Minnie Driver was born. Actress.
• 1971 – Apollo program: Astronauts aboard Apollo 14 lift off for a mission to the moon.
• 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1973 – Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch dies (b. 1895). Norwegian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner.
• 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn dies (b. 1882). American film studio executive.
• 1976 – Ernesto Miranda dies (b. 1941). American litigant.
• 1976 – Buddy Rice was born. American race car driver.
• 1980 – Tiffany Limos was born. American actress.
• 1981 – Justin Timberlake was born. American singer.
• 1982 – Bruno Nogueira was born. Portuguese presenter and comedian.
• 1982 – Helena Paparizou was born. Greek singer.
• 1982 – Inocêncio Romeiro Enes dies (b. 1892). Portuguese (Azorian) religious
• 1988 – Super Bowl XXII: The Washington Redskins win their second championship of the 1980s, 42-10.
• 1988 – In Aveiro (Portugal), Diogo Freitas do Amaral is elected President of CDS (Center Democratic and Social) during the VIII Congress of the party.
• 1989 – Fernando Namora dies (b. 15 Apr 1919). Portuguese writer /Fernando Namora morre em Lisboa (n. 15 Abr 1919 em Condeixa-a-Nova). Médico e escritor português era até então o autor português mais traduzido em todo o mundo. Em Condeixa foi criada a Casa Museu Fernando Namora. Casa da Malta (1945), Minas de S. Francisco (1946), Retalhos da Vida de um Médico (1949-1963, em dois volumes), Domingo à Tarde (1961), Rio Triste (1982) e Sentados na Relva (1986).
• 1990 – The first McDonald’s opens in Moscow, Russia.
• 1990 – Rashad Khalifa dies stabbed (b. 1935). Egyptian-born imam.
• 1990 – Salvador Barata Feyo dies (b. 5 Dec 1899 in Moçamedes, Mozambique). Portuguese sculptor, essayst and pedagogue.
• 1991 – Márcio Mello dies (b. 1906). Brazilian politician.
• 1992 – Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American musician.
• 1993 – Super Bowl XXVII: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills, 52-17.
• 1994 – Um incêndio destrói o Grande Teatro de Liceo, de Barcelona, construído em 1847.
• 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1995 – George Abbott, director and producer on Broadway, dies at 107 (b. 1887) .
• 1995 – Dragon Ball Z ends its run in Japan.
• 1995 – George Robert Stibitz dies (b. 30 April 1904). U.S. mathematician who was regarded by many as the “father of the modern digital computer.”
• 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1.400.
• 1999 – Super Bowl XXXIII: The Denver Broncos defeat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19.
• 1999 – Norm Zauchin dies (b. 1929). Baseball player.
• 2000 – Gil Kane dies (b. 1926). Latvian-born comic book writer.
• 2000 – An Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California killing 131.
• 2001 – In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crash into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson dies (b. 1923). Canadian writer.
• 2004 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 ends its run on the Sci-Fi Channel.
• 2004 – Eleanor Holm dies (b. 1913). American swimmer.
• Catholicism – Feast day of St. John Bosco.

A Cantiga do Campo – Gomes Leal Janeiro 30, 2006

Ceifeira bonita – Severo Portela
óleo sobre tela 1982; retirado daqui

Museu Municipal Severo Portela -Almodovar

porque andas tu mal comigo
ò minha doce trigueira
quem me dera ser o trigo
que andando pisas na eira

quando entre as mais raparigas
vais cantando entre as searas
eu choro ao ouvir-te as cantigas
que cantas nas manhãs claras

por isso nada me medra
ando curvado e sombrio
quem me dera ser a pedra
em que tu lavas no rio

e falam com tristes vozes
do teu amor singular
aquela casa onde coses
com varanda para o mar

(e) por isso nada me medra
ando curvado e sombrio
quem me dera ser a pedra
em que tu lavas no rio

António Gomes Leal (n. em Lisboa a 6 Jun 1848; m. 29 Jan 1921)

Esta letra foi musicada pelos Madredeus
fazendo parte do álbum Os Dias da Madredeus que pode comprar aqui

A Cantiga do Campo – Gomes Leal

Ceifeira bonita – Severo Portela
óleo sobre tela 1982; retirado daqui

Museu Municipal Severo Portela -Almodovar

porque andas tu mal comigo
ò minha doce trigueira
quem me dera ser o trigo
que andando pisas na eira

quando entre as mais raparigas
vais cantando entre as searas
eu choro ao ouvir-te as cantigas
que cantas nas manhãs claras

por isso nada me medra
ando curvado e sombrio
quem me dera ser a pedra
em que tu lavas no rio

e falam com tristes vozes
do teu amor singular
aquela casa onde coses
com varanda para o mar

(e) por isso nada me medra
ando curvado e sombrio
quem me dera ser a pedra
em que tu lavas no rio

António Gomes Leal (n. em Lisboa a 6 Jun 1848; m. 30 Jan 1921)

Esta letra foi musicada pelos Madredeus
fazendo parte do álbum Os Dias da Madredeus que pode comprar aqui

AS ALDEIAS – Gomes Leal

foto proveniente de ultimo reduto

Eu gosto das aldeias sossegadas,
com seu aspecto calmo e pastoril,
erguidas nas colinas azuladas,
mais frescas que as manhãs finas de Abril.

Pelas tardes das eiras, como eu gosto
de sentir a sua vida activa e sã!
Vê-las na luz dolente do sol-posto,
e nas suaves tintas da manhã!…

As crianças do campo, ao amoroso
calor do dia, folgam seminuas,
e exala-se um sabor misterioso
da agreste solidão das suas ruas.

Alegram as paisagens as crianças
mais cheias de murmúrios de que um ninho;
e elevam-nos às coisas simples, mansas,
ao fundo, as brancas velas dum moinho.

Pelas noites de Estio, ouvem-se os ralos
zunirem suas notas sibilantes…
E mistura-se o uivar dos cães distantes
com o cântico metálico dos galos.

in Claridades do Sul
António Gomes Leal (n. in Lisbon 30 Jan 1848 ; 1921)

On this day in History – Jan. 30

• 0133 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor
• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 0969).
• 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan dies (b. 1161).
• 1384 – Louis II of Flanders dies (b. 1330).
• 1505 – Thomas Tallis was born (d. 1585). English composer.
• 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus was born (d. 1641). Dutch theologian.
• 1574 – Damião de Góis dies (b. 1502). Portuguese philosopher.
• 1580 – Maria de Aragão dies (b. 1482). Second wife of King of Portugal D. Manuel I
• 1606 – Everard Digby dies (b. 1578). English conspirator.
• 1615 – Thomas Rolfe was born. American colonial settler
• 1648 – The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the Eighty Years’ War between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 – King Charles I of England dies beheaded (b. 1600) .
• 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed – after having been dead for two years.
• 1661 – Charles Rollin was born (d. 1741). French historian.
• 1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect.
• 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz was born (d. 1773). German flutist and composer.
• 1720 – Charles De Geer was born (d. 1778). Swedish industrialist and entomologist
• 1726 – Se funda la ciudad de Montevideo por el general español Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
• 1754 – John Lansing, Jr. was born (d. 1829). American statesman.
• 1781 – Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
• 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso was born (d. 1838). German poet.
• 1790 – The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica.
• 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer was born (d. 1899). Austrian geologist.
• 1835 – Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -first assassination attempt against a President.
• 1836 – Betsy Ross dies (b. 1752). American seamstress.
• 1841 – Félix Faure was born (d. 1899). President of France.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck dies (b. 1778). Dutch zoologist.
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler was born (d. 1935). American composer .
• 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1867 – Emperor Komei of Japan dies (b. 1831).
• 1869 – William Carleton dies (b. 1794). Irish novelist.
• 1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare was born (d. 1940). Estonian author.
• 1882 – Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, N. Y. (d. 1945). President of the United States.
• 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery.
• 1889 – Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria dies (b. 1858)
• 1894 – King Boris III of Bulgaria was born (d. 1943).
• 1899 – Max Theiler was born (d. 11 Aug 1972). South- African microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever.
• 1900 – United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
• 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola was born (d. 1959). German driver of racing cars.
• 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner was born (d. 1983). German-born art historian.
• 1910 – C Subramaniam was born (d. 2000). Indian politician.
  1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
• 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1911 – Roy Eldridge was born (d. 1989). American jazz musician.
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, was born(b. 1989). American historian.
• 1913 – House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1914 – David Wayne was born (d. 1995). Actor.
• 1914 – John Ireland was born (d. 1992). Canadian actor.
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper was born (d. 1976). German military leader.
• 1915 – John Profumo was born. British cabinet minister
• 1920 – Delbert Mann was born. American director.
• 1921 – António Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet.
• 1922 – Nuno Teotónio Pereira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1922 – Dick Martin was born. American comedian.
• 1924 – Lloyd Alexander was born. American writer .
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart was born. American computer scientist .
• 1925 – Dorothy Malone was born. American actress .
• 1925 – Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr dies (b. 1896). American actress.
• 1927 – Olof Palme was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76 and 1982-86).
• 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1928 – Hal Prince was born. American stage producer, director .
• 1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1929 – Roger Newland Shepard was born. American psychologist who was awarded the National Medal of Science (1995) for his research work that provided major new insights into the nature of mental processes, previously considered impossible to study .
• 1930 – Gene Hackman was born. American actor.
• 1930 – Magnus Malan was born. South African politician
• 1931 – Allan W. Eckert was born. American historian, naturalist and author.
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard was born. Australian-American author .
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama was born. Japanese comedian and politician .
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 – Louis Rukeyser was born. American journalist.
• 1933 – The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time.
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan was born (d. 1984). Writer and poet.
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave was born. English actress .
• 1937 – Boris Spassky was born. Russian chess grand master.
• 1939 – Alejandro Toledo was born. President of Peru
• 1941 – Richard Cheney was born. Politician, vice president of the United States .
• 1941 – Gregory Benford was born. American author and scientist.
• 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1941 – World War II: North AfricaThe 6th Australian Division, of Lieutenant-General Dick O’Connor’s XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fighting.
• 1943 – Marty Balin was born. American musician .
• 1944 – United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 – The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea in the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000.
• 1945 – Michael Dorris was born (d. 1997). American writer.
• 1947 – Les Barker was born. English poet .
• 1947 – Steve Marriott was born (d. 1991). English musician (The Small Faces)
• 1948 – Orville Wright dies (b. 1871). American aviation pioneer.
• 1948 – Nick Broomfield was born. British actor
• 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) is murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• 1948 – Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz .
• 1949 – Peter Agre was born. American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1951 – Phil Collins was born in London. English musician (Genesis) .
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton was born. American actor.
• 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche dies (b. 1875). Austrian automotive engineer.
• 1952 – Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
• 1955 – Judith Tarr was born. American author.
• 1957 – Payne Stewart was born (d. 1999). American golfer.
• 1958 -Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft .
• 1958 – Jean Crotti dies (b. 1878). Swiss artist.
• 1959 – Jody Watley was born. American singer.
• 1960 – Clara Pinto Correia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese investigator and writer.
• 1962 – Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1962 – King Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau was born. American teacher
• 1962 – Manuel de Abreu dies (b. 1894). Brazilian physician.
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc dies (b. 1899). French composer.
• 1964 – Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
• 1965 – Marcelo Bonfá was born. Brazilian musician (Legião Urbana)
• 1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• 1969 – The Beatles‘ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• 1969 – Georges Pire dies (b. 1910). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1972 – Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
• 1972 – Tim Jones was born. Gonzo Journalist .
• 1974 – Christian Bale was born.Welsh actor .
• 1975 – First faroese stamp issued.
• 1976 – Andy Milonakis was born. American comedian.
• 1979 – Varig 707-323C freighter, flewn by the same commander of Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1980 – Professor Longhair dies (b. 1918). American musician, King of New Orleans music.
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama was born. American actor.
• 1981- Dimitar Berbatov was born. Bulgarian footballer
• 1981 – Peter Crouch was born. English footballer
• 1981 – Garth Barrett’s raiders, part of the South African Recce Operations, attack supposed MK cadres at Matola, Mozambique. A Portuguese engineer, Jose Ramos, is “mistakenly identified” as Joe Slovo, one of the raids main targets, by the South African forces and is shot at a roadblock.
• 1982 – Lightning Hopkins dies (b. 1912). American musician.
• 1983 – Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942.
• 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1989 – American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
• 1989 – Khleo Thomas was born. American actor
• 1990 – Jake Thomas was born. Actor (Lizzie McGuire) .
• 1991 – John Bardeen dies (b. 1908). American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1991 – John McIntire dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1993 – Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI.
• 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
• 1994 – The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle dies (b. 1912). French author.
• 1995 – Gerald Durrell dies (b. 1925). British naturalist, zookeeper, author and television presenter.
• 1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia.
• 1995 – Gerald Malcolm Durrell, dies (b. 7 Jan 1925) British naturalist and prolific author, known internationally for his pioneering, even controversial, role in preserving and breeding endangered species in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild.
• 1996 – Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 1997 – Las cenizas de Mahatma Gandhi, padre de la India, son arrojadas al río Ganges después de cumplirse 49 años desde que fue asesinado en Nueva Delhi por un extremista.
• 1999 – Huntz Hall dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy dies (b. 1909). American writer.
• 1999 – A 7-year old boy dies of choking on a Pokémon Power Bouncer ball toy.
• 2000 – In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16.
• 2000 – Off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont dies (b. 1911). French actor.
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff dies (b. 1916). The father of modern neurosurgery.
• 2002 – Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an “evil and hostile attack” against him.
• 2003 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
• 2005 – Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country’s first free election since 1953.
• 2005 – Martyn Bennet dies (b. 1971). Multi-instrumentalist and composer.

Porto não aproveita e empata com o Rio Ave Janeiro 29, 2006

Rio Ave 0 – 0 Porto

Em noite gelada … um pontinho não aqueceu.

O Porto tinha a grande oportunidade de repôr a vantagem de seis pontos na liderança, mas em noite de muito frio o seu futebol não chegou a aquecer.

É certo que teve sempre o controlo do jogo, disfrutou em exclusivo das oportunidades de golo (poucas) do jogo mas em termos de eficácia o resultado diz tudo.

Só aos 80′ o golo esteve iminente quando na sequência de um pontapé de canto Mora quase em cima da linha defendeu e no minuto seguinte um desiquilibrio de Ivanildo pela esquerda com cruzamento para Alan com tempo para tudo atirar por cima.

Livres, quase sempre mal marcados, cantos… mas golos … nada e futebol pouco.

O Rio Ave que na primeira parte ainda procurou jogar … à medida que o tempo passava ia recuando … recuando… e conseguiu o seu objectivo.

O árbitro Duarte Gomes só mostrou amarelos a jogadores do Rio Ave – e que faltou fazer Quaresma para ser contemplado com um ? – e nos poucos lances de ataque do Rio Ave as decisões do juiz assistente foram sempre para o lado do Porto. Numa delas José Gomes isolava-se pela direira e noutra em que a bola acabou no fundo da baliza do Porto achou que a bola já tinha saído. Caricata foi a substituição pedida para a entrada de Idalécio (já em tempo de desconto) e em que houve três ou quatro interrupções intercalares até que o árbitro a permitisse.

Estádio: Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube
Árbitros: Duarte Gomes, Aux – Arlindo Santos,Carlos Carmo

Rio Ave: Mora; José Gomes, Danielson, Bruno Mendes e Milhazes; Marquinhos, Mozer (c), Delson (Ricardo Jorge aos 80′) e Cleiton( Idalécio aos 90+4′); Gaúcho (Chidi aos 61′) e Evandro.

Porto: Helton; Bosingwa, Pepe e Cech; Raul Meireles, Ibson (Ivanildo aos 46′), Paulo Assunção (c) e Diego; Quaresma (Alan aos 73′), Adriano e Lisandro (Hugo Almeida aos 62′).

39′ Cartão amarelo para Marquinhos (Rio Ave), por falta sobre Diego.
68′ Cartão amarelo para José Gomes (Rio Ave), por falta sobre Ivanildo.
82′ Cartão amarelo para Mozer (Rio Ave), por falta sobre Ivanildo.

Portuguese League – 20th Matchday

– 20th Matchday –
27 Jan 21:30	Paços de Ferreira	0 – 1	Boavista
28 Jan 17:00	Naval 1º. de Maio	2 – 0	Estrela da Amadora
28 Jan 19:45	Benfica	1 – 3	Sporting
29 Jan 16:00	Belenenses	5 – 0	Penafiel
29 Jan 16:00	Marítimo	3 – 0	União de Leiria
29 Jan 16:00	Nacional	2 – 0	Gil Vicente
29 Jan 19:15	Rio Ave	0 – 0	Porto
29 Jan 21:15	Braga	1 – 0	Vitória de Guimarães
30 Jan 20:30	Vitória de Setúbal	–	Académica

Place	Club	Points	Goals
1.	Porto	44	31-12
2.	Benfica	40	32-16
3.	Nacional	39	26-11
3.	Braga	39	21-11
5.	Sporting	37	30-21
6.	Vitória de Setúbal (*)	33	16-10
7.	Boavista	32	26-19
8.	Marítimo	27	25-22
9.	União de Leiria	25	24-28
9.	Rio Ave	25	24-27
9.	Estrela da Amadora	25	17-20
12.	Belenenses	24	24-22
13.	Paços de Ferreira	22	21-26
14.	Gil Vicente	21	17-25
15.	Académica (*)	20	16-26
16.	Naval 1º. de Maio	18	20-29
17.	Vitória de Guimarães	16	10-27
18.	Penafiel	8	12-38

(*) Têm menos um jogo disputado, defrontando-se amanhã

Comentários: Nesta jornada o Benfica surpreendeu pela negativa, não tanto pela derrota, resultado sempre normal num derby, mas pela incapacidade demonstrada. No entanto, o Porto desperdiçou a oportunidade em Vila do Conde para alargar a vantagem para uma margem confortável ao ceder um nulo frio como o tempo. Deste modo o Sporting ainda sonha e Nacional e Braga vencedores dos jogos caseiros voltam a aproximar-se do topo, sendo que na próxima jornada ainda que jogando fora podem fazer história se derrotarem Sporting e Porto, respectivamente. O Boavista no arranque da jornada foi ganhar ao Paços de Ferreira e nos restantes jogos tivemos vitórias caseiras. Então o Belenenses não se limitou a ganhar mas a golear com cinco pastéis de nata (leia-se golos) o último classificado Penafiel.

Na próxima semana temos grandes jogos: Para o topo da classificação o Porto joga com o Braga e o Sporting recebe o Nacional, enquanto o Benfica vai a Leiria defrontar a União. Cá em baixo na tabela o Guimarães recebe o Belenenses e a Académica defronta o Paços de Ferreira.

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

On this day in History – Jan. 29

• 0904 – Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher.
• 1119 – Pope Gelasius II dies.
• 1523 – Ulrico Zuinglio da a conocer sus 67 tesis para la reforma de la Iglesia.
• 1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1647)
• 1595 – Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers, was probably first performed.
• 1613 – Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees.
• 1632 – Johann Georg Graevius was born (d. 1703). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1635 – É fundada a Academia Francesa (Academie Française), uma das mais renomadas sociedades literárias da Europa.
• 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg was born (d. 29 Mar 1772). Swedish naturalist, philosopher and theologian.
• 1711 – Giuseppe Bonno was born (d. 1788). Austrian composer.
• 1712 – Le congrès d’Utrecht. Les diplomates français et anglais se réunissent en congrès à Utrecht. Ils veulent en finir avec la guerre de la succession d’Espagne, qui épuise l’Europe .
• 1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born (d. 1777). Austrian composer.
• 1717 – Jeffrey Amherst was born (d. 1797). British Military leader.
• 1718 – Paul Rabaut was born (d. 1794). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1730 – Peter II, tsar of Russia (1727-30) died of smallpox on the day set for his wedding.
• 1737 – Thomas Paine was born (d. 1809). Patriot, radical, pamphleteer.
• 1743 – Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV b. 1653).
• 1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark was born (d. 1808) .
• 1754 – Moses Cleaveland was born (d. 1806). Founder of the city of Cleveland.
• 1782 – Daniel Auber was born (d. 1871). French composer.
• 1814 – France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1814 – Johann Gottheb Fichte dies. Philosopher
• 1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1738) .
• 1834 – President Jackson orders first use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute .
• 1838 – João de Oliveira Penha Fortuna was born in Braga (d. 3 Feb 1919). Portuguese poet.
• 1839 – Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood .
• 1841 – Durante la Guerra del Opio, Gran Bretaña ocupa Hong Kong.
• 1843 – William McKinley, was born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1901). 25th President of the United States [1897-1901]. Was assassinated six months after the start of his second term, on 14 September, in Buffalo, New York.
• 1845 – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
• 1846 – Karol Olszewski was born (d. 1915). Polish scientis.
• 1848 – Chile: se adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1859 -William Cranch Bond, dies (b. 9 Sep 1789); American astronomer who, with his son, George Phillips Bond (1825-65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
• 1860 – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born (d. 1904). Playwright and short story writer.
• 1861 – Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1862 – Frederick Delius was born (d. 1934). Composer.
• 1863 – Bear River Massacre
• 1866 – Romain Rolland was born (d. 1944). Dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
• 1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born. Writer.
• 1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born (d. 1960). Entrepreneur.
• 1876 – Havergal Brian was born (d. 1972). Composer.
• 1880 – W.C. Fields was born (d,. 1946). Actor.
• 1885 – Leadbelly was born (d. 1949). Musician.
• 1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1888 – Sydney Chapman, was born (d. 16 Jun 1970). English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics.
• 1889 – O rápido reconhecimento internacional do novo regime foi o primeiro objetivo do ministro Quintino Bocaiúva, responsável pela pasta das Relações Exteriores do Governo Provisório, sob a liderança do marechal Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca.
• 1890 – Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República brasileira, proclamada em novembro de 1889.
• 1891 – Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt was born (d. 1975). Russian ballerina.
• 1893 – Sensacional robo en un hotel de París de cuadros de pintores famosos .
• 1895 – José Martí ordena el inicio del levantamiento por la independencia de Cuba de España.
• 1895 – Barão de Itararé, nasceu neste dia, jornalista e articulista brasileiro (m. 1971)
• 1898 – Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano, was born, Spanish musician and composer .
• 1899 – Desaparece el pintor Alfred Sisley.
• 1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1901 – Allen Du Mont, was born, television pioneer .
• 1905 – Barnett Newman was born (d. 1970). American painter.
• 1905 – José do Patrocínio, jornalista, orador, escritor e abolicionista brasileiro. Autor de romances, ele escreveu “Mata Coqueiro”, “Pedro Espanhol” e “Os Retirantes”.
• 1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark dies (b. 1818) .
• 1908 – Piero Leonardi, was born, Italian geologist and prehistorian, known for his research on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Triassic invertebrates (from 190-225 million years ago) and the Permian vertebrates (from 225-280 million years ago).
• 1910 – Colin Middleton was born (d. 1983). Northern Irish artist.
• 1911 – Peter von Siemens was born (d. 1986). Industrialist.
• 1913 – Peter von Zahn was born (d. 2001). Journalist and writer.
• 1915 – Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). Actor.
• 1916 – World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1917 – John Raitt was born. Actor, singer .
• 1918 – John Forsythe was born. Actor .
• 1922 – Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved .
• 1923 – Paddy Chayefsky was born (d. 01 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning playwright, (Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network).
• 1923 – Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1924 – Luigi Nono was born (d. 1990). Italian composer.
• 1924 – Teófilo Braga morte de, primeiro presidente do governo provisório da República Portuguesa.
• 1926 – Abdus Salam was born (d. 21 Nov 1996). Pakistani nuclear physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow.
• 1926 – Franco Cerri was born. Italian jazzman
• 1927 – Edward Abbey was born (d. 1989). Environmentalist.
• 1927 – António Alçada Baptista was born. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 – João Abel Manta was born. Portuguese painter and graphic artist.
• 1928 – Douglas Haig dies (b. 1861). British soldier.
• 1928 – Lee Shau Kee was born. Hong Kong SAR property developer
• 1929 – Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1929 – Gordon Solie was born (d. 2000). Wrestling announcer.
• 1932 – Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1933 – President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 – Sara Teasdale dies (b. 1884). American poet.
• 1934 – Un temblor de tierra en Acapulco (México) daña el 90 por cien de los edificios
• 1934 – Fritz Haber dies (b. 9 Dec 1868). German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia (1909) directly from nitrogen and hydrogen .
• 1936 – First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1938 – Armando Palacio Valdés dies. Spanish writer.
• 1939 – Germaine Greer was born. Australian feminist writer.
• 1940 – Katharine Ross was born. American actress.
• 1942 – Claudine Longet was born. French singer and dancer
• 1942 – World War II: North AfricaBenghazi, Libya, is taken by German and Italian forces.
• 1942 – Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination); Ecuador y Perú firman el Tratado de Río de Janeiro, para el arreglo definitivo del pleito de límites en la zona amazónica fronteriza de ambos países, con Argentina, Brasil, Chile y EE.UU como garantes.
• 1942 – Arnaldo Tamayo- Mendez , was born, cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
• 1944 – Battleship Missouri is launched.
• 1944 – Battle of Cisterna in central Italy.
• 1944 – A total of about 300 men, women and children were massacred indiscriminately at the Massacre in Koniuchy in Poland.
• 1945 – Tom Selleck, was born in Detroit MI, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI) .
• 1945 – Jim Nicholson was born. Northern Irish politician
• 1945 – Nascimento de A BOLA, um marco histórico na imprensa desportiva portuguesa e jornal de grande prestígio internacional. Não podia deixar de assinalar este facto no meu blog, eu que ainda me lembro perfeitamente quando, miúdo, me deslocava ao pequeno clube de bairro da terra onde vivia “Azes Valboenses F.C” para poder ler “A Bola”, tendo muitas vezes que esperar que outros o acabassem de ler, para então sim, me deleitar não só com as notícias desportivas em sentido estrito, mas também particularmente com as crónicas que fazia das regiões e países estrangeiros onde as equipas portuguesas jogavam ou as as provas internacionais importantes decorriam (p. ex. Volta à França em bicicleta). MUITOS PARABÉNS.
• 1946 – Harry Hopkins dies (b. 1890). American politician.
• 1947 – Linda B. Buck was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1948 – Cristina Saralegui was born. Hispanic Talk-Show Host.
• 1948 – Marc Singer was born. Canadian actor
• 1949 – Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel.
• 1950 – Ann Jillian was born. American actress
• 1950 – Jody Scheckter was born. South Africa racing driver.
• 1952 – Tommy Ramone was born. Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 – Hwang Woo-Suk was born. South Korean Biomedical Scientist
• 1953 – Louie Perez was born. Mexican-American drummer (Los Lobos)
• 1954 – Oprah Winfrey was born. Actress, talk show host, producer, publisher.
• 1954 – Richard “Handsome Dick” Manitoba was born. American punk rock singer (The Dictators, MC5)
• 1954 – Yukinobu Hoshino was born. Japanese mangaka .
• 1956 – H. L. Mencken dies (b. 1880). American journalist .
• 1957 – Grazyna Miller was born. Italian poetess,translator and journalist
• 1958 – Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed .
• 1958 – Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1958 – The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous
• 1959 – Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
• 1960 – Gia Carangi was born (d. 1986). American model.
• 1960 – Sean Kerly was born. British field hockey player
• 1960 – Greg Louganis was born. American diver, Olympics gold medalist.
• 1960 – Steve Sax was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 – J. G. Thirlwell was born. Australian-born musician.
• 1962 – Nicholas Turturro was born. American actor
• 1962 – Fritz Kreisler dies (b. 1975). Austrian violinist.
• 1963 – Robert Lee Frost dies (b. 1874). US poet, 4 Pulitzers (b. 1874) .
• 1963 – First inductees into the Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1964 – Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 – Andre Reed was born. American football player
• 1964 – Alan Ladd actor (Shane), dies at 50 in Palm Springs CA
• 1965 – Dominik Hasek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1966 – Romário was born. Brazilian footballer
• 1966 – The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1966 – Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
• 1968 – Edward Burns was born. American actor
• 1969 – Thomas Jane was born. American actor
• 1969 – Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community
• 1969 – Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA (b. 1893)
• 1970 – Heather Graham was born. Actress, model.
• 1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was born. Indian shooter
• 1973 – Jason Schmidt was born. Major League Baseball All-Star
• 1975 – Sara Gilbert was born. Actress.
• 1975 – Manuel Guimarães dies (b. 1915). Portuguese painter and film director.
• 1976 – Grigorios Paliouras was born. Canadian scientist
• 1977 – Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). Actor, comedian.
• 1978 – Sweden became the first nation to curb aerosol sprays to halt the destruction of the ozone layer.
• 1979 – Pixie (glamour model) was born.
• 1979 – Sui Feifei was born. Chinese basketball player
• 1980 – Antonio Molina composer, dies at 85 .
• 1980 – Jimmy Durante dies (b. 1893). Actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian.
• 1981 – Jonny Lang was born. American musician
• 1981 – España: Adolfo Suárez dimite de sus cargos de presidente del Gobierno y del partido de Unión de Centro Democrático.
• 1983 – 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
• 1984 – Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman.
• 1986 – The Height 611 UFO Incident.
• 1986 – Yoweri Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army’s military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month.)
• 1986 – Drew Tyler Bell was born. American actor
• 1987 – Physician’s Weekly announces that the smile on the face of Leonardo DaVinci‘s Mona Lisa is caused by a “…facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear.”
• 1987 – Josep Vicenç Foix dies. Poet.
• 1989 – 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-2, 6-2, 6-2)
• 1990 – The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America’s worst oil spill.
• 1990 – Jessica D. Stone was born, actress
• 1990 – O Congresso da Somália Unificada nomeia Alí Mahdi Mohamed como novo presidente do país.
• 1991- Yasushi Inoue, historian .
• 1992 – Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). Composer, musician
• 1992 – Manuel González Valcárcel dies. Spanish architect.
• 1993 – Leo Lowental, dies, filósofo alemán.
• 1993 – French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
• 1994 – Ulrike Maier dies in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967). Alpine skiing world champion.
• 1995 – Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a “definitive end” to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 – La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 – First release of Duke Nukem 3D
• 1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 1998 – Sierra Marcoux was born. American actress
• 1999 – Lili St. Cyr dies (b. 1918). American exotic dancer.
• 1999 – Estados Unidos: el cuadro Santa Rufina, del pintor sevillano Diego Velázquez es adquirido por un coleccionista anónimo por 1166 millones de pesetas en Nueva York.
• 2000 – A BOLA passa a ter divulgação através da Internet.
• 2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2001 – El juez Juan Guzmán dicta una orden de procesamiento y arresto domiciliario contra el dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 2002 – In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush described “regimes that sponsor terror” as an Axis of Evil.
• 2002 – Daniel Pearl dies (b. 1963). Journalist.
• 2002 – Harold Russell dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born actor .
• 2003 – Frank Moss dies (b. 1911). U.S. Senator from Utah.
• 2003 – Solicitor Sally Clark, aged 38, jailed for life for murdering her two baby sons, was freed by the Court of Appeal.
• 2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, which is situated in Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing 56-foot long Sperm whale is what is claimed to have caused the explosion.