Wender "O Rottweiller" Março 27, 2006

As imagens da TV permite captar imagens muito “sui generis” que se passam num jogo de futebol. Hoje, porém, vi imagens do Benfica-Braga de sábado absolutamente inéditas. Depois de um lance disputado entre Wender e Luisão os jogadores caem e Petit cai por cima de Wender. Pois bem, Wender dá uma dentada (que valente ferroada!) no traseiro de Petit, daí que Fernando Seara, em tom jocoso, apelidou Wender de “O Rottweiller”. Epíteto nada despropositado à luz daquelas imagens. Sumaríssimo a caminho?

Poesia Matemática – Millôr Fernandes

Às folhas tantas
do livro matemático
um Quociente apaixonou-se
um dia
doidamente
por uma Incógnita.
Olhou-a com seu olhar inumerável
e viu-a do ápice à base
uma figura ímpar;
olhos rombóides, boca trapezóide,
corpo retangular, seios esferóides.
Fez de sua uma vida
paralela à dela
até que se encontraram
no infinito.
“Quem és tu?”, indagou ele
em ânsia radical.
“Sou a soma do quadrado dos catetos.
Mas pode me chamar de Hipotenusa.”
E de falarem descobriram que eram
(o que em aritmética corresponde
a almas irmãs)
primos entre si.
E assim se amaram
ao quadrado da velocidade da luz
numa sexta potenciação
traçando
ao sabor do momento
e da paixão
retas, curvas, círculos e linhas sinoidais
nos jardins da quarta dimensão.
Escandalizaram os ortodoxos das fórmulas euclidiana
e os exegetas do Universo Finito.
Romperam convenções newtonianas e pitagóricas.
E enfim resolveram se casar
constituir um lar,
mais que um lar,
um perpendicular.
Convidaram para padrinhos
o Poliedro e a Bissetriz.
E fizeram planos, equações e diagramas para o futuro
sonhando com uma felicidade
integral e diferencial.
E se casaram e tiveram uma secante e três cones
muito engraçadinhos.
E foram felizes
até aquele dia
em que tudo vira afinal
monotonia.
Foi então que surgiu
O Máximo Divisor Comum
freqüentador de círculos concêntricos,
viciosos.
Ofereceu-lhe, a ela,
uma grandeza absoluta
e reduziu-a a um denominador comum.
Ele, Quociente, percebeu
que com ela não formava mais um todo,
uma unidade.
Era o triângulo,
tanto chamado amoroso.
Desse problema ela era uma fração,
a mais ordinária.
Mas foi então que Einstein descobriu a Relatividade
e tudo que era espúrio passou a ser
moralidade
como aliás em qualquer
sociedade.

Millôr Fernandes (n. 16 Ago 1923 no Rio de Janeiro – RJ; ~)

On this day in History – Mar 27

• BC 47 – The legendary Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, aided by her Roman lover Julius Caesar, was reinstated as coruler of Egypt (with her brother Ptolemy XIV), following a civil war with her brother Ptolemy XIII.
• 0972 – King Robert I of France was born (d. 1031)
• 1191 – Pope Clement III dies.
• 1306 – Robert I of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh are crowned king and Queen of the Scots.
• 1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile, dies (b. 1312).
• 1351 – As part of the struggle between Charles of Blois (supported by the king of France) and John of Montfort (backed by the king of England) over succession to the duchy of Brittany, their knights waged the Battle of the Thirty near Ploërmel.
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI dies (b. c. 1336).
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi was born (d. 1480). Italian composer.
• 1513 – (not 1512 as often cited) – Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
• 1513 – Falhou o ataque da armada portuguesa de Afonso de Albuquerque a Meca .
• 1555 – William Hunter (Protestant martyr) dies .
• 1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland, dies (b. 1566).
• 1625 – Upon the death of James I, Charles I ascended the throne of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1627 – Stephen Fox was born (d. 1716). English politician.
• 1635 – Robert Naunton dies (b.1563). English politician.
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin was born (d. 1762). German composer.
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat was born (d. 1779). French veterinary surgeon.
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria was born (d. 1795). Italian theologian and historian.
• 1721 – Em Portugal, os funcionários superiores do Ultramar são proibidos de exercer comercio particular .
• 1721 – France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid .
• 1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt was born (d.1786). English classical scholar.
• 1746 – Michael Bruce was born (d. 1767). Scottish poet.
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz dies (b. 1717). Czech composer and violinist.
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader was born (d. 1841). German philosopher and theologian.
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo dies (b. 1696).
• 1781 – Em Portugal, Pina Manique decretou a obrigatoriedade de inspecção sanitária para todas as prostitutas .
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1785 – King Louis XVII of France was born (d. 1795) .
• 1794 – The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny was born (d. 17 Sep 1863). French author (“Poemas Antiques et Modernes”, “Eloa”, “Ou la soeur des anges” “Les Destines”… ).
• 1809 – Baron Haussmann was born (d. 1891). French civic planner .
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien dies (b. 1716). French painter .
• 1810 – William Hepworth Thompson was born (d. 1886). English classical scholar.
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier was born (d. 1888). American illustrator.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli was born (d. 1891). Swiss biologist.
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt dies (b. 1747) .
• 1836 – The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
• 1836 – James Fannin dies (b. 1804). Texas Revolutionary.
• 1836 – Joseph Smith funda o primeiro templo mórmon no estado norte-americano de Ohio.
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, dies. German jurist, (b. 1769) .
• 1845 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born (d. 1923). Physicist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in physics 1901 .
• 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1847 – Otto Wallach was born (d. 1931). German chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford dies (b. 1776) .
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer dies (b. 1797). Astronomer.
• 1851 – Vincent d’Indy was born (d. 1931). Composer and teacher.
• 1851 – First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was born. Spoanish composer.
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, was born. Statistician (d. 1936) .
• 1863 – Sir Henry Royce, was born.Automobile pioneer (d. 1933) .
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar, (b. 1800) .
• 1865 – Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar, (b. 1786).
• 1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
• 1867 – Na Argentina, fundación del Rosario Cricket Club, que luego se transformaría en el Rosario Central futbolístico .
• 1869 – James McNeill, was born. Irish politician .
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann,was born. Narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950) .
• 1871 – First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry dies (b. 1797). French journalist and historian.
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet dies (b. 1803). French historian.
• 1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott dies (b. 1811). Architect.
• 1879 – Edward Steichen was born (d. 1973). American photographer.
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born (d. 1969). German architect whose rectilinear forms crafted in elegant simplicity epitomized the International style of architecture.
• 1889 – John Bright dies (b. 1811) .
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé was born. Composer and conductor.
• 1892 – António Assis Esperança was born (d. 1975). Portuguese writer.
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim was born (d. 1947). Hungarian sociologist.
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson was born (d. 1983). Actress.
• 1901 – Carl Barks was born (d. 2000). Donald Duck illustrator.
• 1901 – Sato Eisaku was born (d. 1975). Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1901 – Sasaki Naojiro, was born. Japanese author (d. 1943) .
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, was born. Politician (d. 1963).
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia was born (d. 25 Dec 1950). Poet ( “Reflejos nocturnos”, “Nostalgia de la muerte”… ).
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill,was born. Aeronautical engineer, “Queen of the Hurricanes” (d. 1980) .
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell,was born. US jazz musician (d. 1969) .
• 1909 – Golo Mann, was born. Historian and publicist (d. 1994) .
• 1910 – John Pierce, was born (d. 02 Apr 2002). Electrical engineer. Father of communications satellits.
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, dies. US scientist and engineer, (b. 1835) .
• 1912 – First lady Helen Taft plants the first Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.
• 1912 – James Callaghan was born. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg was born. Screenwriter and novelist.
• 1914 – 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) .
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood Jr. was born. Blues musician.
• 1917 – The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance was born (d. 2002). American politician.
• 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
• 1918 – Henry Adams dies (b. 1838). Historian and novelist.
• 1919 – Nasce o político grego Andreas Papandreu, na ilha de Quios. Foi Primeiro ministro da Grecia nos períodos de 1981 a 1989 e de 1993 a 1996. Morreu em 23. Jun. 1986.
• 1920 – Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD).
• 1922 – Pierre Pairault aka Stefan Wul was born (d. 2003). French author.
• 1923 – Louis Simpson was born. Poet .
• 1923 – Endo Shusaku, was born. Catholic Japanese author (d. 1996) .
• 1923 – FART construction completed.
• 1923 – Sir James Dewar, dies (b. 1842. Chemist.
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, dies (b. 1841). Composer.
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan was born (d. 1990). American singer.
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis was born. Newspaper columnist.
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Soviet conductor, pianist and one of the best-known cellists of the 20th century. He was music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 1994.
• 1927 – Joe Start dies (b. 1842). Baseball player.
• 1930 – David Janssen was born (d. 1980). Actor.
• 1931 – Walter Kieber was born (d. 1978). Liechtenstein head of Government.
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett dies (b. 1867). British novelist.
• 1932 – Nascimento de Robert (Figueira) Farias, em Nova Friburgo-RJ. Actor brasileiro.
• 1933 – O Japão retirou-se da Sociedade das Nações.
• 1934 – Arthur Mitchell was born. Dance company director.
• 1935 – Julian Glover was born. Actor.
• 1936 – Jerry Lacy was born. Actor.
• 1937 – Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam.
• 1938 – Battle of Tai er zhuang .
• 1940 – Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the concentration camp of Auschwitz at Katowice, Poland.
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton was born. Actor.
• 1940 – Cale Yarborough was born. NASCAR race car driver .
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage dies (b. 1872). Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
• 1941 – Britain supports Peter II of Yugoslavia in a coup in Yugoslavia.
• 1942 – World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
• 1942 – Michael York was born. Actor.
• 1944 – Children’s Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno.
• 1944 – The case Follett v. Town of McCormick is decided: Should people who earn their living by selling or distributing religious materials be required to pay the same licensing fees and taxes as are expected of those who sell or distribute non-religious materials? Does “freedom of religion” also mean “freedom from having to pay government fees” like everyone else?
• 1945 – General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
• 1947 – Brian Jones was born. British balloonist.
• 1949 – Leigh Steinberg was born. American sports agent.
• 1950 – Tony Banks was born. Rock musician (Genesis).
• 1950 – Netherlands recognizes People’s Republic of China .
• 1950 – The Indian government places the Calcutta suburb of Howrah under martial law in order to stem the rising tide of religious violence in the area.
• 1950 – Tony Banks was born. Musician of Genesis.
• 1952 – Maria Schneider was born in Paris. French actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor).
• 1952 – Sun Records begins operations.
• 1954 – Wally Stocker was born. Musician of The Babys .
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins was born. British politician.
• 1957 – Krzysztof Pieczynski was born in Opole, Poland. Actor.
• 1957 – 29th Academy Awards: “Around World in 80 Days”, Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman win
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union replacing Nikolay Bulganin
• 1959 – Madagascar: un ciclón causa 3.300 muertos.
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss was born. Musician of INXS.
• 1960 – Muere el compositor mexicano Mario Talavera. Con Lerdo de Tejada, Alfonso Esparza Oteo y Tata Nacho formaron los “Tres Ases de la canción”, conviertiendose después en “El Trío Veneno”. Entre sus composiciones se encuentran “Gratta plena”, “El nopal”, “Flor de mayo”, “Muchachita mía”, “Adiós”, “La china”, “Dulce amor”, “El día que te vayas”, “Así te quiero”, “Caballera”, “Luz de cirio”, entre otras. Nació en Xalapa en 1885.
• 1961 – Moisés Neto was born in Recife, Pernambuco. Brazilian actor, director and producer.
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto was born. Japanese guitarist (B’z) .
• 1962 – Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Louisiana ordered all Roman Catholic schools in the New Orleans diocese to end their policies of racial segregation.
• 1962 – Jann Arden was born. Canadian musician .
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino was born. American actor, director, writer, producer.
• 1963 – Xuxa (Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel) was born. Brazilian television personality. Actress.
• 1963 – Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom‘s rail network. See Beeching axe.
• 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1964 – Derrick McKenzie was born. Rock musician (Jamiroquai).
• 1966 – Paula Trickey was born. American actress.
• 1967 – Talisa Soto was born. American actress.
• 1967 – Jim Thompson disappeared (b. 1906). Designer.
• 1968 – Sandra Hess was born. Swiss-born actress and model.
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin dies in a plane crash (b. 1934). Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to orbit the earth.
• 1968 – Sadie Frost was born. British actress.
• 1968 – Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia .
• 1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
• 1969 – Keith Flint was born. Member of British group The Prodigy
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette was born. Actress.
• 1969 – Mário Sacramento dies (b. 7 Jul 1920). Portuguese essayst.
• 1969 – B. Traven dies. Writer .
• 1970 – Mariah Carey was born. Singer .
• 1970 – Brendan Hill was born. Musician (“Blues Traveler“) .
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell was born. Actress.
• 1970 – Princess Leila of Iran was born (d. 2001) .
• 1971 – David Coulthard was born in Twynholm, Scotland. Formula One racing driver.
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was born. Dutch football striker
• 1972 – M. C. Escher dies (b. 1898). Dutch artist.
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano dies (b. 1904). Musician.
• 1973 – 45th Academy Awards: “Godfather”, Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win. Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for The Godfather in protest of Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans.
• 1975 – Fergie was born. Hip-hop singer Fergie (Black Eyed Peas).
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.
• 1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.
• 1979 – Eric Clapton end Pattie Boyd get married.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1983 – Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title .
• 1983 – Emily Ann Lloyd was born. Actress.
• 1986 – Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.
• 1986 – Melissa Stern aka “Baby M”was born.
• 1988 – Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
• 1989 – Generations, the first American soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC.
• 1990 – Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
• 1991 – Ralph Bates dies (b. 1940). British actor.
• 1991 – Aldo Ray dies (b. 1926). American actor.
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood dies (b. 1903). American bridge player. (b. 1903).
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
• 1993 – Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar.
• 1993 – Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger.
• 1993 – Paul Laszlo dies (b. 1900). Hungarian interior designer and architect.
• 1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
• 1994 – O expresidente da Colombia César Gaviria Trujillo é eleito em Washington novo secretario general da Organização de Estados Americanos (OEA).
• 1994 – Maiden flight for future fighter jet. The troubled European Fighter Aircraft has made its inaugural flight two years later than expected.
• 1995 – Portugal: Em Sintra tem início o 11º. Congresso da Organização Mundial de Poetas.
• 1995 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer, is laureated with 1994 Camões Prize
• 1995 – 67th Academy Awards: “Forest Gump”, Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win .
• 1996 – An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison
• 1997 – Na California verifica-se um suicídio em massa de 38 seguidores do grupo pseudoreligioso “Heaven’s Gate”, cujo líder é Marshall Applewhite.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer for use in treating erectile dysfunction. / Os Estados Unidos aprovam o remédio Viagra, produzido pela companhia Pfizer, que ajuda a combater a impotência sexual de homens.
• 1998 – David McClelland dies (b. 1917). Psychological theorist.
• 1998 – Ferry Porsche dies (b. 1909). Austrian automobile manufacturer, founder of Porsche
• 2000 – Ian Dury dies (b. 1942). English rock musician.
• 2002 – Milton Berle dies (b. 1908). American actor, comedian.
• 2002 – Dudley Moore dies (b. 1935). British actor, musician.
• 2002 – Billy Wilder dies (b. 1906). American director.
• 2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
• 2003 – An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France kills 4 people.
• 2003 – Ricardo Munguia dies. Aid worker in Afghanistan.
• 2003 – Joseph Menusa dies (b. 1970). First soldier from the Philippines to die in the 2003 Iraq War.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2005 – Bob Casey dies (b. 1925). Baseball announcer.
• 2006 – Realiza-se em Lisboa a cerimónia de entrega do Prémio João Carreira Bom 2005 ao jornalista e escritor Baptista-Bastos
• Angolan Victory Day
• Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church
• World Theatre Day

On this day in History – Mar 27

• BC 47 – The legendary Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, aided by her Roman lover Julius Caesar, was reinstated as coruler of Egypt (with her brother Ptolemy XIV), following a civil war with her brother Ptolemy XIII.
• 0972 – King Robert I of France was born (d. 1031)
• 1191 – Pope Clement III dies.
• 1306 – Robert I of Scotland and Elizabeth de Burgh are crowned king and Queen of the Scots.
• 1350 – King Alfonso XI of Castile, dies (b. 1312).
• 1351 – As part of the struggle between Charles of Blois (supported by the king of France) and John of Montfort (backed by the king of England) over succession to the duchy of Brittany, their knights waged the Battle of the Thirty near Ploërmel.
• 1378 – Pope Gregory XI dies (b. c. 1336).
• 1416 – Antonio Squarcialupi was born (d. 1480). Italian composer.
• 1513 – (not 1512 as often cited) – Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.
• 1513 – Falhou o ataque da armada portuguesa de Afonso de Albuquerque a Meca .
• 1555 – William Hunter (Protestant martyr) dies .
• 1625 – King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland, dies (b. 1566).
• 1625 – Upon the death of James I, Charles I ascended the throne of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1627 – Stephen Fox was born (d. 1716). English politician.
• 1635 – Robert Naunton dies (b.1563). English politician.
• 1702 – Johann Ernst Eberlin was born (d. 1762). German composer.
• 1712 – Claude Bourgelat was born (d. 1779). French veterinary surgeon.
• 1714 – Francesco Antonio Zaccaria was born (d. 1795). Italian theologian and historian.
• 1721 – Em Portugal, os funcionários superiores do Ultramar são proibidos de exercer comercio particular .
• 1721 – France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid .
• 1730 – Thomas Tyrwhitt was born (d.1786). English classical scholar.
• 1746 – Michael Bruce was born (d. 1767). Scottish poet.
• 1757 – Johann Stamitz dies (b. 1717). Czech composer and violinist.
• 1765 – Franz Xaver von Baader was born (d. 1841). German philosopher and theologian.
• 1770 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo dies (b. 1696).
• 1781 – Em Portugal, Pina Manique decretou a obrigatoriedade de inspecção sanitária para todas as prostitutas .
• 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1785 – King Louis XVII of France was born (d. 1795) .
• 1794 – The government of the United States establishes a permanent United States Navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
• 1794 – Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
• 1797 – Alfred de Vigny was born (d. 17 Sep 1863). French author (“Poemas Antiques et Modernes”, “Eloa”, “Ou la soeur des anges” “Les Destines”… ).
• 1809 – Baron Haussmann was born (d. 1891). French civic planner .
• 1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien dies (b. 1716). French painter .
• 1810 – William Hepworth Thompson was born (d. 1886). English classical scholar.
• 1813 – Nathaniel Currier was born (d. 1888). American illustrator.
• 1814 – War of 1812: In northern Alabama, United States forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
• 1817 – Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli was born (d. 1891). Swiss biologist.
• 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt dies (b. 1747) .
• 1836 – The first Mormon temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre – Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas.
• 1836 – James Fannin dies (b. 1804). Texas Revolutionary.
• 1836 – Joseph Smith funda o primeiro templo mórmon no estado norte-americano de Ohio.
• 1843 – Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, dies. German jurist, (b. 1769) .
• 1845 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born (d. 1923). Physicist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in physics 1901 .
• 1846 – Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
• 1847 – Otto Wallach was born (d. 1931). German chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
• 1849 – Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford dies (b. 1776) .
• 1850 – Wilhelm Beer dies (b. 1797). Astronomer.
• 1851 – Vincent d’Indy was born (d. 1931). Composer and teacher.
• 1851 – First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.
• 1851 – Ruperto Chapí y Lorente was born. Spoanish composer.
• 1857 – Karl Pearson, was born. Statistician (d. 1936) .
• 1863 – Sir Henry Royce, was born.Automobile pioneer (d. 1933) .
• 1864 – Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar, (b. 1800) .
• 1865 – Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar, (b. 1786).
• 1866 – President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
• 1867 – Na Argentina, fundación del Rosario Cricket Club, que luego se transformaría en el Rosario Central futbolístico .
• 1869 – James McNeill, was born. Irish politician .
• 1871 – Heinrich Mann,was born. Narrator, dramatist and essayist (d. 1950) .
• 1871 – First international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
• 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry dies (b. 1797). French journalist and historian.
• 1875 – Edgar Quinet dies (b. 1803). French historian.
• 1878 – Sir George Gilbert Scott dies (b. 1811). Architect.
• 1879 – Edward Steichen was born (d. 1973). American photographer.
• 1886 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born (d. 1969). German architect whose rectilinear forms crafted in elegant simplicity epitomized the International style of architecture.
• 1889 – John Bright dies (b. 1811) .
• 1892 – Ferde Grofé was born. Composer and conductor.
• 1892 – António Assis Esperança was born (d. 1975). Portuguese writer.
• 1893 – Karl Mannheim was born (d. 1947). Hungarian sociologist.
• 1899 – Gloria Swanson was born (d. 1983). Actress.
• 1901 – Carl Barks was born (d. 2000). Donald Duck illustrator.
• 1901 – Sato Eisaku was born (d. 1975). Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1901 – Sasaki Naojiro, was born. Japanese author (d. 1943) .
• 1901 – Erich Ollenhauer, was born. Politician (d. 1963).
• 1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia was born (d. 25 Dec 1950). Poet ( “Reflejos nocturnos”, “Nostalgia de la muerte”… ).
• 1905 – Elsie MacGill,was born. Aeronautical engineer, “Queen of the Hurricanes” (d. 1980) .
• 1906 – Pee Wee Russell,was born. US jazz musician (d. 1969) .
• 1909 – Golo Mann, was born. Historian and publicist (d. 1994) .
• 1910 – John Pierce, was born (d. 02 Apr 2002). Electrical engineer. Father of communications satellits.
• 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, dies. US scientist and engineer, (b. 1835) .
• 1912 – First lady Helen Taft plants the first Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.
• 1912 – James Callaghan was born. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
• 1914 – Budd Schulberg was born. Screenwriter and novelist.
• 1914 – 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) .
• 1915 – Robert Lockwood Jr. was born. Blues musician.
• 1917 – The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.
• 1917 – Cyrus Vance was born (d. 2002). American politician.
• 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
• 1918 – Henry Adams dies (b. 1838). Historian and novelist.
• 1919 – Nasce o político grego Andreas Papandreu, na ilha de Quios. Foi Primeiro ministro da Grecia nos períodos de 1981 a 1989 e de 1993 a 1996. Morreu em 23. Jun. 1986.
• 1920 – Hermann Müller becomes German chancellor (SPD).
• 1922 – Pierre Pairault aka Stefan Wul was born (d. 2003). French author.
• 1923 – Louis Simpson was born. Poet .
• 1923 – Endo Shusaku, was born. Catholic Japanese author (d. 1996) .
• 1923 – FART construction completed.
• 1923 – Sir James Dewar, dies (b. 1842. Chemist.
• 1924 – Walter Parratt, dies (b. 1841). Composer.
• 1924 – Sarah Vaughan was born (d. 1990). American singer.
• 1927 – Anthony Lewis was born. Newspaper columnist.
• 1927 – Mstislav Rostropovich, was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Soviet conductor, pianist and one of the best-known cellists of the 20th century. He was music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., from 1977 to 1994.
• 1927 – Joe Start dies (b. 1842). Baseball player.
• 1930 – David Janssen was born (d. 1980). Actor.
• 1931 – Walter Kieber was born (d. 1978). Liechtenstein head of Government.
• 1931 – Arnold Bennett dies (b. 1867). British novelist.
• 1932 – Nascimento de Robert (Figueira) Farias, em Nova Friburgo-RJ. Actor brasileiro.
• 1933 – O Japão retirou-se da Sociedade das Nações.
• 1934 – Arthur Mitchell was born. Dance company director.
• 1935 – Julian Glover was born. Actor.
• 1936 – Jerry Lacy was born. Actor.
• 1937 – Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam.
• 1938 – Battle of Tai er zhuang .
• 1940 – Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the concentration camp of Auschwitz at Katowice, Poland.
• 1940 – Austin Pendleton was born. Actor.
• 1940 – Cale Yarborough was born. NASCAR race car driver .
• 1940 – Michael Joseph Savage dies (b. 1872). Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor.
• 1941 – Britain supports Peter II of Yugoslavia in a coup in Yugoslavia.
• 1942 – World War II: United Kingdom forces raid the U-boat base at St. Nazaire, France.
• 1942 – Michael York was born. Actor.
• 1944 – Children’s Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno.
• 1944 – The case Follett v. Town of McCormick is decided: Should people who earn their living by selling or distributing religious materials be required to pay the same licensing fees and taxes as are expected of those who sell or distribute non-religious materials? Does “freedom of religion” also mean “freedom from having to pay government fees” like everyone else?
• 1945 – General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
• 1947 – Brian Jones was born. British balloonist.
• 1949 – Leigh Steinberg was born. American sports agent.
• 1950 – Tony Banks was born. Rock musician (Genesis).
• 1950 – Netherlands recognizes People’s Republic of China .
• 1950 – The Indian government places the Calcutta suburb of Howrah under martial law in order to stem the rising tide of religious violence in the area.
• 1950 – Tony Banks was born. Musician of Genesis.
• 1952 – Maria Schneider was born in Paris. French actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor).
• 1952 – Sun Records begins operations.
• 1954 – Wally Stocker was born. Musician of The Babys .
• 1957 – Nick Hawkins was born. British politician.
• 1957 – Krzysztof Pieczynski was born in Opole, Poland. Actor.
• 1957 – 29th Academy Awards: “Around World in 80 Days”, Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman win
• 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union replacing Nikolay Bulganin
• 1959 – Madagascar: un ciclón causa 3.300 muertos.
• 1959 – Andrew Farriss was born. Musician of INXS.
• 1960 – Muere el compositor mexicano Mario Talavera. Con Lerdo de Tejada, Alfonso Esparza Oteo y Tata Nacho formaron los “Tres Ases de la canción”, conviertiendose después en “El Trío Veneno”. Entre sus composiciones se encuentran “Gratta plena”, “El nopal”, “Flor de mayo”, “Muchachita mía”, “Adiós”, “La china”, “Dulce amor”, “El día que te vayas”, “Así te quiero”, “Caballera”, “Luz de cirio”, entre otras. Nació en Xalapa en 1885.
• 1961 – Moisés Neto was born in Recife, Pernambuco. Brazilian actor, director and producer.
• 1961 – Tak Matsumoto was born. Japanese guitarist (B’z) .
• 1962 – Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Louisiana ordered all Roman Catholic schools in the New Orleans diocese to end their policies of racial segregation.
• 1962 – Jann Arden was born. Canadian musician .
• 1963 – Quentin Tarantino was born. American actor, director, writer, producer.
• 1963 – Xuxa (Maria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel) was born. Brazilian television personality. Actress.
• 1963 – Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom‘s rail network. See Beeching axe.
• 1964 – The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
• 1964 – Derrick McKenzie was born. Rock musician (Jamiroquai).
• 1966 – Paula Trickey was born. American actress.
• 1967 – Talisa Soto was born. American actress.
• 1967 – Jim Thompson disappeared (b. 1906). Designer.
• 1968 – Sandra Hess was born. Swiss-born actress and model.
• 1968 – Yuri Gagarin dies in a plane crash (b. 1934). Soviet cosmonaut who was the first man to orbit the earth.
• 1968 – Sadie Frost was born. British actress.
• 1968 – Suharto succeeds Sukarno as President of Indonesia .
• 1969 – Mariner 7 is launched.
• 1969 – Keith Flint was born. Member of British group The Prodigy
• 1969 – Pauley Perrette was born. Actress.
• 1969 – Mário Sacramento dies (b. 7 Jul 1920). Portuguese essayst.
• 1969 – B. Traven dies. Writer .
• 1970 – Mariah Carey was born. Singer .
• 1970 – Brendan Hill was born. Musician (“Blues Traveler“) .
• 1970 – Elizabeth Mitchell was born. Actress.
• 1970 – Princess Leila of Iran was born (d. 2001) .
• 1971 – David Coulthard was born in Twynholm, Scotland. Formula One racing driver.
• 1972 – Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was born. Dutch football striker
• 1972 – M. C. Escher dies (b. 1898). Dutch artist.
• 1972 – Sharkey Bonano dies (b. 1904). Musician.
• 1973 – 45th Academy Awards: “Godfather”, Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win. Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for The Godfather in protest of Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans.
• 1975 – Fergie was born. Hip-hop singer Fergie (Black Eyed Peas).
• 1976 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington, DC subway system is opened.
• 1977 – Tenerife disaster: Two jumbo jets collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583.
• 1979 – Eric Clapton end Pattie Boyd get married.
• 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• 1983 – Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title .
• 1983 – Emily Ann Lloyd was born. Actress.
• 1986 – Car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer.
• 1986 – Melissa Stern aka “Baby M”was born.
• 1988 – Moudud Ahmed becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
• 1989 – Generations, the first American soap opera to have an entire black family in its original core cast, commences telecasts on NBC.
• 1990 – Propaganda: The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba.
• 1991 – Ralph Bates dies (b. 1940). British actor.
• 1991 – Aldo Ray dies (b. 1926). American actor.
• 1992 – Easley Blackwood dies (b. 1903). American bridge player. (b. 1903).
• 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.
• 1993 – Albert Zafy becomes President of Madagascar.
• 1993 – Mahamane Ousmane becomes President of Niger.
• 1993 – Paul Laszlo dies (b. 1900). Hungarian interior designer and architect.
• 1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
• 1994 – O expresidente da Colombia César Gaviria Trujillo é eleito em Washington novo secretario general da Organização de Estados Americanos (OEA).
• 1994 – Maiden flight for future fighter jet. The troubled European Fighter Aircraft has made its inaugural flight two years later than expected.
• 1995 – Portugal: Em Sintra tem início o 11º. Congresso da Organização Mundial de Poetas.
• 1995 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer, is laureated with 1994 Camões Prize
• 1995 – 67th Academy Awards: “Forest Gump”, Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win .
• 1996 – An Israeli court convicted Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s confessed assassin of murder, then sentenced former law student Yigal Amir to life in prison
• 1997 – Na California verifica-se um suicídio em massa de 38 seguidores do grupo pseudoreligioso “Heaven’s Gate”, cujo líder é Marshall Applewhite.
• 1998 – The Food and Drug approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer for use in treating erectile dysfunction. / Os Estados Unidos aprovam o remédio Viagra, produzido pela companhia Pfizer, que ajuda a combater a impotência sexual de homens.
• 1998 – David McClelland dies (b. 1917). Psychological theorist.
• 1998 – Ferry Porsche dies (b. 1909). Austrian automobile manufacturer, founder of Porsche
• 2000 – Ian Dury dies (b. 1942). English rock musician.
• 2002 – Milton Berle dies (b. 1908). American actor, comedian.
• 2002 – Dudley Moore dies (b. 1935). British actor, musician.
• 2002 – Billy Wilder dies (b. 1906). American director.
• 2002 – Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 28 people in Netanya, Israel.
• 2003 – An explosion in the Nitrochimie dynamite factory in Billy-Berclau, France kills 4 people.
• 2003 – Ricardo Munguia dies. Aid worker in Afghanistan.
• 2003 – Joseph Menusa dies (b. 1970). First soldier from the Philippines to die in the 2003 Iraq War.
• 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• 2005 – Bob Casey dies (b. 1925). Baseball announcer.
• 2006 – Realiza-se em Lisboa a cerimónia de entrega do Prémio João Carreira Bom 2005 ao jornalista e escritor Baptista-Bastos
• Angolan Victory Day
• Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church
• World Theatre Day