Taça de Portugal 4ª. Eliminatória: David eliminou o Golias Janeiro 7, 2007

Eliminação do Porto foi o «escândalo» do dia

Literalmente. David é o nome do jogador do Atlético que aos 59′ marcou o golo dos alcantarenses. Faltava ainda mais de meia-hora mas a ineficácia dos avançados do Porto era incrível. O tempo passava, cantos e cantos mas mais nada. Minuto 90. Ah! Ainda há mais cinco minutos. Ao minuto 95′ penalty, pois é tinha de ser… Quaresma ao poste! Adeus Porto. Também adeus Setúbal. Os finalistas da Taça do ano passado eliminados no primeiro confronto em que participaram nesta época.

Destaque ainda para a eliminação do Marítimo pelo Penafiel da Liga de Honra.

(21.Dez. 2006) União (2ª) 1 – 3 Sporting(L)
(ontem) Benfica(L) 5 – 0 Oliv. do Bairro (2ª)
Hoje
Paredes (2ª) 2 – 4 (após prolgt.) Belenenses(L)
Gondomar (LH) 3 – 0 Rio Maior (2.ª)
Leixões (LH) 2 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Famalicão (2.ª)
Valecambrense (3.ª) 2 – 4 Varzim (LH)
Boavista (L) 3 – 1 Mac. Cavaleiros (3ª)
Penalva do Castelo (2.ª) 2 – 1 Maria da Fonte (2.ª)
Santiago dos Açores (3.ª) 0 – 1 Odivelas (2.ª)
Bragança (2.ª) 4 – 2 Marco (2.ª)
Estrela da Amadora (L) 2 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Feirense (LH)
Nacional (L) 3 – 0 Vizela (LH)
Beira-Mar (L) 6 – 0 Santana (3ª)
FC Porto (L) 0 – 1 Atlético (2ª)
Desportivo das Aves (L) 1 – 0 Oliveirense (3.ª)
Naval (L) 4 – 0 Casa Pia (3ª.)
Desp. Aves (L) 1 – 0 AD Oliveirense (3ª)
Penafiel (LH) 1 – 0 Marítimo (L)
Estoril-Praia (LH) 1 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Santa Clara (3-4 em penalties)
Pontassolense (2.ª) 2 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Olivais e Moscavide (LH)
Camacha (2.ª) 1 – 0 Olhanense (LH)
Sporting da Covilhã (2.ª) 0 – 1 Mafra (2.ª)
Académica (L) 2 – 1 V. Setúbal(L)
Louletano (2.ª) 1 – 0 Sporting de Espinho (2.ª)
Sp. Braga (L) 5 – 2 Portimonense (LH)
P. Ferreira (L) 1 – 2 U. Leiria (L)
Maia (2ª) 2 -0 Lagoa (3ª)
Sertanense (3ª) 1 -0 (ap. prolgt.) Lusitania (2ª)
Juventude de Évora (3.ª) 1 – 2 Pinhalnovense (2.ª)
O Rio Ave (LH) ficara isento

Em destaque as equipas apuradas para a quinta eliminatória

Futebol; Atlético

Taça de Portugal 4ª. Eliminatória: David eliminou o Golias

Eliminação do Porto foi o «escândalo» do dia

Literalmente. David é o nome do jogador do Atlético que aos 59′ marcou o golo dos alcantarenses. Faltava ainda mais de meia-hora mas a ineficácia dos avançados do Porto era incrível. O tempo passava, cantos e cantos mas mais nada. Minuto 90. Ah! Ainda há mais cinco minutos. Ao minuto 95′ penalty, pois é tinha de ser… Quaresma ao poste! Adeus Porto. Também adeus Setúbal. Os finalistas da Taça do ano passado eliminados no primeiro confronto em que participaram nesta época.

Destaque ainda para a eliminação do Marítimo pelo Penafiel da Liga de Honra.

(21.Dez. 2006) União (2ª) 1 – 3 Sporting(L)
(ontem) Benfica(L) 5 – 0 Oliv. do Bairro (2ª)
Hoje
Paredes (2ª) 2 – 4 (após prolgt.) Belenenses(L)
Gondomar (LH) 3 – 0 Rio Maior (2.ª)
Leixões (LH) 2 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Famalicão (2.ª)
Valecambrense (3.ª) 2 – 4 Varzim (LH)
Boavista (L) 3 – 1 Mac. Cavaleiros (3ª)
Penalva do Castelo (2.ª) 2 – 1 Maria da Fonte (2.ª)
Santiago dos Açores (3.ª) 0 – 1 Odivelas (2.ª)
Bragança (2.ª) 4 – 2 Marco (2.ª)
Estrela da Amadora (L) 2 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Feirense (LH)
Nacional (L) 3 – 0 Vizela (LH)
Beira-Mar (L) 6 – 0 Santana (3ª)
FC Porto (L) 0 – 1 Atlético (2ª)
Desportivo das Aves (L) 1 – 0 Oliveirense (3.ª)
Naval (L) 4 – 0 Casa Pia (3ª.)
Desp. Aves (L) 1 – 0 AD Oliveirense (3ª)
Penafiel (LH) 1 – 0 Marítimo (L)
Estoril-Praia (LH) 1 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Santa Clara (3-4 em penalties)
Pontassolense (2.ª) 2 – 1 (ap. prolgt.) Olivais e Moscavide (LH)
Camacha (2.ª) 1 – 0 Olhanense (LH)
Sporting da Covilhã (2.ª) 0 – 1 Mafra (2.ª)
Académica (L) 2 – 1 V. Setúbal(L)
Louletano (2.ª) 1 – 0 Sporting de Espinho (2.ª)
Sp. Braga (L) 5 – 2 Portimonense (LH)
P. Ferreira (L) 1 – 2 U. Leiria (L)
Maia (2ª) 2 -0 Lagoa (3ª)
Sertanense (3ª) 1 -0 (ap. prolgt.) Lusitania (2ª)
Juventude de Évora (3.ª) 1 – 2 Pinhalnovense (2.ª)
O Rio Ave (LH) ficara isento

Em destaque as equipas apuradas para a quinta eliminatória

Futebol; Atlético

A citação do dia (VIII) : Jesualdo Ferreira

«Esta paragem é benéfica do ponto de vista desportivo» em 5 Jan 2007. Nunca estive tanto de acordo, Jesualdo! Viu-se hoje no Estádio do Dragão.

Atlético Clube de Portugal na Champions League já!!!

Pois é verdade! O Atlético eliminou o Porto no Dragão e nem um penalty aos 95′ (nem apito dourado nem qual quê !…) conseguiu evitar a derrota do Porto. Posto isto, queremos o Alético na Liga dos Campeões já… como é de justiça. Por isso iniciamos aqui um manifesto reivindicativo.

Se concordar assine esta petição pondo o seu nome e blog (se for caso disso) nos comentários.

Atlético Clube de Portugal na Champions League já!!!

Pois é verdade! O Atlético eliminou o Porto no Dragão e nem um penalty aos 95′ (nem apito dourado nem qual quê !…) conseguiu evitar a derrota do Porto. Posto isto, queremos o Alético na Liga dos Campeões já… como é de justiça. Por isso iniciamos aqui um manifesto reivindicativo.

Se concordar assine esta petição pondo o seu nome e blog (se for caso disso) nos comentários.

On this day in History – Jan. 7

• 1 BC (O.S.) – Jesus of Nazareth was born. Central figure of Christianity, (date celebrated by Eastern Orthodox churches as Christmas)
• 1325 – Dinis de Portugal dies (b. 1261). King of Portugal and Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester was born (d. 1397). Son of Edward III of England
• 1355 – Inês de Castro dies (assassinated), mistress of the future King Peter I of Portugal
• 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey dies executed (d. 1374). English politician.
• 1451 – Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy dies (b. 1383)
• 1470 – Gil Vicente was born. Great Portuguese writer. Great personality of theater
• 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII was born (d. 1585)
• 1528 – Jeanne d’Albret was born (d. 1572). Queen of Navarre.
• 1536 – Catherine of Aragon dies (b. 1485). Queen of Henry VIII of England.
• 1537 – Alessandro de’ Medici of Florence dies assassinated.
• 1539 – Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco was born, Spanish lexicographer.
• 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1566 – Pius V becomes Pope.
• 1566 – Louis de Blois dies (b. 1506). Flemish mystic.
• 1598 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
• 1601 – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
• 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
• 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard dies. English painter
• 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli dies. Italian composer
• 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg was born (d. 1677)
• 1658 – Theophilus Eaton dies (b. 1590). Connecticut colonist
• 1685 – Jonas Alströmer was born (d. 1761). Swedish industrialist.
• 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield dies. English royalist general
• 1700 – Raphael Fabretti dies (b. 1618). Italian antiquarian.
• 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler was born (d. 1751). German publisher.
• 1715 – François Fénelon dies (b. 1651). French catholic theologian and writer.
• 1718 – Israel Putnam was born (d. 1790). American Revolutionary War general .
• 1758 – Allan Ramsay dies (b. 1686). Scottish poet.
• 1767 – Thomas Clap dies (b. 1703). First president of Yale University.
• 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte was born (d. 1844). King of Naples
• 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin dies (b. 1695). Swedish politician.
• 1782 – The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
• 1783 – William Tans’ur dies (b. 1700). English hymnist.
• 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first togreen-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
• 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard dies (b. 1715). French physician and scientist.
• 1797 – Consagración de la bandera tricolor italiana (verde, blanco y rojo) en el Congreso de Reggio, en la Emilia.
• 1789 – First nationwide United States election. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.
• 1789 – Primeiro Voto Popular no Brasil.
• 1797 – The current flag of Italy is first used.
• 1800 – Millard Fillmore was born (d. 1874). 13th President of the United States
• 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming was born (d. 1915). Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time
• 1830 – Albert Bierstadt was born (d. 1902). German-American painter.
• 1830 – Thomas Lawrence dies (b. 1769). English painter.
• 1830 – D. Carlota Joaquina dies. Queen of Portugal / Morte da rainha viúva D. Carlota Joaquina, em Lisboa. Tinha casado com o infante D. João, futuro D. João VI em 1785.
• 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan was born (d. 1897). German labor organizer.
• 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis was born (d. 1874). German physicist and inventor.
• 1835 – HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous was born (d. 1879). French saint.
• 1860 – Emanuil Manolov was born (d. 1902). Bulgarian composer.
• 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith dies (b. 1808). U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
• 1870 – Sublevación en Haití contra el presidente Silverio Silvané, que fue fusilado por los rebeldes durante los disturbios
• 1871 – Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was born (d. 1956). French mathematician, politician, and resistance fighter.
• 1872 – James Fisk dies (b. 1834). American entrepreneur.
• 1873 – Adolph Zukor was born (d. 1976). Hungarian producer.
• 1873 – Charles Péguy was born (d. 1914). French poet and essayist.
• 1875 – Thomas Hicks was born (d. 1963). American runner.
• 1875 – Manuel Aranaz Castellanos was born. Cuban writer.
• 1878 – Anselmo Suárez Romero dies. Cuban writer
• 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail dies (b. 1794). French chemist.
• 1890 – Henny Porten was born (d. 1960). Actress.
• 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston was born (d. 1960). American author.
• 1892 – Tewfik Pasha dies (b. 1852). Khedive of Egypt.
• 1893 – Jožef Stefan dies (b. 1835). Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet.
• 1894 – W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1895 – Korea proclaimed its independence from China.
• 1896 – Arnold Ridley was born (d. 1984). British playwright and actor.
• 1899 – Francis Poulenc was born (d. 1963). French composer.
• 1901 – Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
• 1903 – Warren Hull was born (d. 1974). American actor.
• 1903 – Alan Napier was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS.”
• 1908 – Red Allen was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1910 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born (d. 1984). Pakistani poet.
• 1910 – Orval Faubus was born (d. 1994). Governor of Arkansas.
• 1911 – Butterfly McQueen was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 1911 – Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
• 1912 – Charles Addams was born (d. 1988). American cartoonist.
• 1913 – Johnny Mize was born (d. 1993). Baseball player.
• 1916 – Paul Keres was born (d. 1975). Estonian chess player.
• 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot dies (b. 1843). American industrialist, philantropist and the father of T. S. Eliot.
• 1920 – Edmund Barton dies (b. 1849). First Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1922 – Alvin Dark was born. Baseball player and manager
• 1922 – Vincent Gardenia was born (d. 1992). Italian-born actor.
• 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal was born (d. 2000). French flutist.
• 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
• 1923 – Hugh Kenner was born (d. 2003). Canadian literary critic.
• 1924 – The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switserland.
• 1924 – George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
• 1925 – Gerald Durrell was born (d. 1995). British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter.
• 1926 – George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
• 1927 – First international telephone call – New York City to London.
• 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1927 – First international telephone call – New York City to London.
• 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1928 – William Peter Blatty was born. American screenwriter.
• 1928 – El río Támesis se desborda a su paso por Londres, originando una de las mayores inundaciones de la capital británica.
• 1929 – Terry Moore was born. American actress
• 1934 – Charlie Jenkins was born. American runner.
• 1934 – Jean Corbeil was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician.
• 1935 – Tommy Johnson was born (d. 2006). American tubist.
• 1935 – Kenny Davern was born. American jazz clarinetist
• 1935 – Valeri Kubasov was born. Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 – João Bénard da Costa was born. Portuguese cinematographer critic and essayst.
• 1935 – World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
• 1937 – Paul Revere was born. American musician
• 1938 – Rory Storm was born (d. 1972). British singer.
• 1938 – Lou Graham was born. American golfer
• 1938 – Roland Topor was born (d. 1997). French illustrator.
• 1939 – Maury Povich was born. American TV host
• 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark was born.
• 1941 – Iona Brown was born (d. 2004). British violinist and conductor.
• 1941 – World War II – North Africa : British troops capture Torbruk airport.
• 1941 – John E. Walker was born; British chemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for his pioneering work on how the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of the “high-energy” compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
• 1942 – World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
• 1942 – Vasily Alexeev was born. Russian weightlifter.
• 1942 – Danny Williams was born (d. 2005). South African singer.
• 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, Major League Baseball player
• 1943 – World War II – North Africa : Oum-el-Araneb, the main Axis base in south Libya, is captured by General Philippe Leclerc’s Free French troops.
• 1943 – Nikola Tesla dies (b. 1856). Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer.
• 1944 – Arne Scheie was born. Norwegian sports commentator.
• 1945 – British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• 1945 – Tony Conigliaro was born (d. 1990). American baseball player.
• 1945 – Dick Marty was born. Swiss politician.
• 1946 – Jann Wenner was born. American publisher.
• 1947 – Shobha De was born. Indian writer
• 1948 – Kenny Loggins was born. American singer
• 1949 – Steven Williams was born. American actor
• 1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa kills 41 people.
• 1950 – Erin Gray was born. American actress
• 1950 – Juan Gabriel was born. Mexican singer and songwriter
• 1950 – Ross Grimsley was born. Major League Baseball pitcher.
• 1951 – Helen Worth was born. British actress.
• 1951 – James Beard was born. American wrestling referee
• 1951 – René Guénon dies (b. 1886). French-Egyptian author.
• 1951 – Luiz Melodia was born. Brazilian singer and composer (MPB : música popular brasileira = Brazilian popular music).
• 1952 – Sammo Hung was born. Hong Kong actor
• 1953 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 1956 – David Caruso was born. American actor.
• 1956 – Mike Liut was born. National Hockey League goaltender.
• 1957 – Sociedade Esportiva Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is founded.
• 1957 – Nicholson Baker was born. American novelist
• 1957 – Katie Couric was born. American television host
• 1957 – Julian Solis was born. Puerto Rican boxer
• 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1959 – Kathy Valentine was born. American musician (The Go-Gos)
• 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin was born. Russian politician
• 1964 – Nicolas Cage was born. American actor
• 1964 – Cyril Davies dies (b. 1932). American musician.
• 1965 – Aparece en Colombia la guerrilla procastrista Ejército de Liberación Nacional
• ELN).
• 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was born (d. 1999). American publicist.
• 1967 – Mark Lamarr was born. British comedian
• 1967 – Guy Hebert was born. Hockey player.
• 1970 – Doug E. Doug was born. American actor
• 1970 – Joao Ricardo was born. Angolan footballer
• 1971 – C.W. Anderson was born. American professional wrestler
• 1971 – David Yost was born. American actor .
• 1972 – Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
• 1972 – Donald Brashear was born. American hockey player
• 1972 – John Berryman dies (b. 1914). American poet.
• 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa was born. Finnish singer
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Eric Gagné was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1976 – Luís Person dies (b. 1936). Brazilian actor and director
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
• 1977 – Se funda el Club de Deportes Cobreloa, de Calama, Chile.
• 1977 – Un grupo de intelectuais tchecos escrevem a chamada Carta dos 77, um documento que exige do Governo de Praga o respeito pelos direitos humanos e civis dos cidadãos.
• 1977 – Michelle Behennah was born. British model
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
• 1979 – Bipasha Basu was born. Indian model and actress
• 1979 – Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, so driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.
• 1980 – Mariangel Ruiz was born. Venezuelan hostees, actress and model.
• 1980 – Larry Williams dies (b. 1935). American singer, pianist and songwriter.
• 1981 – Marquis Daniels was born. American basketball player
• 1981 – Alex Auld was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1982 – El socialdemócrata Luis Alberto Monge gana las elecciones presidenciales de Costa Rica.
• 1982 – Francisco Rodriguez dies. Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Alfred Kastler dies (b. 1902). French investigator whose work give him The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1985 – José Maria Pedroto dies. Portuguese football coach and footballer.
• 1985 – Lewis Hamilton was born. British racing driver
• 1986 – Juan Rulfo dies (b. 1917). Mexican writer, author of “El llano en llamas” (1953) and “Pedro Páramo” (1955 ).
• 1988 – Trevor Howard dies (b. 1913). English actor.
• 1988 – Michel Auclair dies (b. 1922). French actor.
• 1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, dies. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan.
• 1990 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
• 1990 – Liam Aiken was born. American actor
• 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili was born. Georgian figure skater.
• 1990 – Bronko Nagurski dies (b. 1908). American football player.
• 1991 – Roger Lafontant, ex ministro del derrocado dictador haitiano Jean Claude Duvalier, fracasa en su golpe de estado contra el presidente electo, Jean B. Aristide
• 1992 – Richard Hunt dies (b. 1951). American puppeteer (The Muppets).
• 1995 – Murray Rothbard dies (b. 1926). American economist.
• 1996 – El conservador Alvaro Arzú, del Partido Avanzada Nacional, es elegido nuevo presidente de Guatemala.
• 1996 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states killing more than 100.
• 1996 – Károly Grósz dies (b. 1930). Hungarian politician.
• 1998 – Vladimir Prelog dies (b. 1906). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1998 – Owen Bradley dies (b. 1915). American record producer.
• 1999 – The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.
• 2000 – Don Martin dies (b. 1931). American illustrator.
• 2000 – Gary Albright dies (b. 1963). Professional wrestler.
• 2002 – Gyula Várady dies (b. 1919). Hungarian footballer.
• 2002 – Jon Lee dies (suicide). Welsh drummer (Feeder).
• 2002 – Naughtia Childs dies (suicide) (b. 1979). Porn star.
• 2002 – Avery Schreiber dies (b. 1935). American actor.
• 2003 – Oolong dies. Japanese rabbit which became an Internet meme
• 2003 – Bosko Boskovic dies, Yougoslavian director/write/actor . Boskovic’s film “Nebeski Odred” was nominated for the Grand Prix Award at the 1961 Moscow film festival.
• 2003 – José Viana – Portuguese actor died in an automobile accident at age 80. Mr. Viana appeared in numerous films and TV series ( “Senhor Jerónimo”, “Love Letters From a Portuguese Nun” …).
• 2004 – Ingrid Thulin dies. Swedish actress.
• 2004 – Oswald Garrison “Mike” Villard Jr. died this day [b. 1916]; American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar.
• 2005 – Pierre Daninos dies (b. 1913). French novelist.
• 2005 – Eileen Desmond dies (b. 1932). Irish politician.
• 2005 – Rosemary Kennedy dies. Sister of John F. Kennedy
• 2006 – Heinrich Harrer dies (b. 1912). Austrian mountaineer and explorer.
• Catholicism – Feast day of St. Raymond of Penafort.
• Christmas Day in the Julian calendar. This is the day on which Christmas is celebrated in most Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.

On this day in History – Jan. 7

• 1 BC (O.S.) – Jesus of Nazareth was born. Central figure of Christianity, (date celebrated by Eastern Orthodox churches as Christmas)
• 1325 – Dinis de Portugal dies (b. 1261). King of Portugal and Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester was born (d. 1397). Son of Edward III of England
• 1355 – Inês de Castro dies (assassinated), mistress of the future King Peter I of Portugal
• 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey dies executed (d. 1374). English politician.
• 1451 – Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy dies (b. 1383)
• 1470 – Gil Vicente was born. Great Portuguese writer. Great personality of theater
• 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII was born (d. 1585)
• 1528 – Jeanne d’Albret was born (d. 1572). Queen of Navarre.
• 1536 – Catherine of Aragon dies (b. 1485). Queen of Henry VIII of England.
• 1537 – Alessandro de’ Medici of Florence dies assassinated.
• 1539 – Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco was born, Spanish lexicographer.
• 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1566 – Pius V becomes Pope.
• 1566 – Louis de Blois dies (b. 1506). Flemish mystic.
• 1598 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
• 1601 – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
• 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
• 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard dies. English painter
• 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli dies. Italian composer
• 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg was born (d. 1677)
• 1658 – Theophilus Eaton dies (b. 1590). Connecticut colonist
• 1685 – Jonas Alströmer was born (d. 1761). Swedish industrialist.
• 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield dies. English royalist general
• 1700 – Raphael Fabretti dies (b. 1618). Italian antiquarian.
• 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler was born (d. 1751). German publisher.
• 1715 – François Fénelon dies (b. 1651). French catholic theologian and writer.
• 1718 – Israel Putnam was born (d. 1790). American Revolutionary War general .
• 1758 – Allan Ramsay dies (b. 1686). Scottish poet.
• 1767 – Thomas Clap dies (b. 1703). First president of Yale University.
• 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte was born (d. 1844). King of Naples
• 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin dies (b. 1695). Swedish politician.
• 1782 – The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
• 1783 – William Tans’ur dies (b. 1700). English hymnist.
• 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first togreen-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
• 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard dies (b. 1715). French physician and scientist.
• 1797 – Consagración de la bandera tricolor italiana (verde, blanco y rojo) en el Congreso de Reggio, en la Emilia.
• 1789 – First nationwide United States election. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.
• 1789 – Primeiro Voto Popular no Brasil.
• 1797 – The current flag of Italy is first used.
• 1800 – Millard Fillmore was born (d. 1874). 13th President of the United States
• 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming was born (d. 1915). Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time
• 1830 – Albert Bierstadt was born (d. 1902). German-American painter.
• 1830 – Thomas Lawrence dies (b. 1769). English painter.
• 1830 – D. Carlota Joaquina dies. Queen of Portugal / Morte da rainha viúva D. Carlota Joaquina, em Lisboa. Tinha casado com o infante D. João, futuro D. João VI em 1785.
• 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan was born (d. 1897). German labor organizer.
• 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis was born (d. 1874). German physicist and inventor.
• 1835 – HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous was born (d. 1879). French saint.
• 1860 – Emanuil Manolov was born (d. 1902). Bulgarian composer.
• 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith dies (b. 1808). U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
• 1870 – Sublevación en Haití contra el presidente Silverio Silvané, que fue fusilado por los rebeldes durante los disturbios
• 1871 – Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was born (d. 1956). French mathematician, politician, and resistance fighter.
• 1872 – James Fisk dies (b. 1834). American entrepreneur.
• 1873 – Adolph Zukor was born (d. 1976). Hungarian producer.
• 1873 – Charles Péguy was born (d. 1914). French poet and essayist.
• 1875 – Thomas Hicks was born (d. 1963). American runner.
• 1875 – Manuel Aranaz Castellanos was born. Cuban writer.
• 1878 – Anselmo Suárez Romero dies. Cuban writer
• 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail dies (b. 1794). French chemist.
• 1890 – Henny Porten was born (d. 1960). Actress.
• 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston was born (d. 1960). American author.
• 1892 – Tewfik Pasha dies (b. 1852). Khedive of Egypt.
• 1893 – Jožef Stefan dies (b. 1835). Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet.
• 1894 – W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1895 – Korea proclaimed its independence from China.
• 1896 – Arnold Ridley was born (d. 1984). British playwright and actor.
• 1899 – Francis Poulenc was born (d. 1963). French composer.
• 1901 – Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
• 1903 – Warren Hull was born (d. 1974). American actor.
• 1903 – Alan Napier was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS.”
• 1908 – Red Allen was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1910 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born (d. 1984). Pakistani poet.
• 1910 – Orval Faubus was born (d. 1994). Governor of Arkansas.
• 1911 – Butterfly McQueen was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 1911 – Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
• 1912 – Charles Addams was born (d. 1988). American cartoonist.
• 1913 – Johnny Mize was born (d. 1993). Baseball player.
• 1916 – Paul Keres was born (d. 1975). Estonian chess player.
• 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot dies (b. 1843). American industrialist, philantropist and the father of T. S. Eliot.
• 1920 – Edmund Barton dies (b. 1849). First Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1922 – Alvin Dark was born. Baseball player and manager
• 1922 – Vincent Gardenia was born (d. 1992). Italian-born actor.
• 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal was born (d. 2000). French flutist.
• 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
• 1923 – Hugh Kenner was born (d. 2003). Canadian literary critic.
• 1924 – The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switserland.
• 1924 – George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
• 1925 – Gerald Durrell was born (d. 1995). British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter.
• 1926 – George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
• 1927 – First international telephone call – New York City to London.
• 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1927 – First international telephone call – New York City to London.
• 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1928 – William Peter Blatty was born. American screenwriter.
• 1928 – El río Támesis se desborda a su paso por Londres, originando una de las mayores inundaciones de la capital británica.
• 1929 – Terry Moore was born. American actress
• 1934 – Charlie Jenkins was born. American runner.
• 1934 – Jean Corbeil was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician.
• 1935 – Tommy Johnson was born (d. 2006). American tubist.
• 1935 – Kenny Davern was born. American jazz clarinetist
• 1935 – Valeri Kubasov was born. Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 – João Bénard da Costa was born. Portuguese cinematographer critic and essayst.
• 1935 – World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
• 1937 – Paul Revere was born. American musician
• 1938 – Rory Storm was born (d. 1972). British singer.
• 1938 – Lou Graham was born. American golfer
• 1938 – Roland Topor was born (d. 1997). French illustrator.
• 1939 – Maury Povich was born. American TV host
• 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark was born.
• 1941 – Iona Brown was born (d. 2004). British violinist and conductor.
• 1941 – World War II – North Africa : British troops capture Torbruk airport.
• 1941 – John E. Walker was born; British chemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for his pioneering work on how the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of the “high-energy” compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
• 1942 – World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
• 1942 – Vasily Alexeev was born. Russian weightlifter.
• 1942 – Danny Williams was born (d. 2005). South African singer.
• 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, Major League Baseball player
• 1943 – World War II – North Africa : Oum-el-Araneb, the main Axis base in south Libya, is captured by General Philippe Leclerc’s Free French troops.
• 1943 – Nikola Tesla dies (b. 1856). Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer.
• 1944 – Arne Scheie was born. Norwegian sports commentator.
• 1945 – British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• 1945 – Tony Conigliaro was born (d. 1990). American baseball player.
• 1945 – Dick Marty was born. Swiss politician.
• 1946 – Jann Wenner was born. American publisher.
• 1947 – Shobha De was born. Indian writer
• 1948 – Kenny Loggins was born. American singer
• 1949 – Steven Williams was born. American actor
• 1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa kills 41 people.
• 1950 – Erin Gray was born. American actress
• 1950 – Juan Gabriel was born. Mexican singer and songwriter
• 1950 – Ross Grimsley was born. Major League Baseball pitcher.
• 1951 – Helen Worth was born. British actress.
• 1951 – James Beard was born. American wrestling referee
• 1951 – René Guénon dies (b. 1886). French-Egyptian author.
• 1951 – Luiz Melodia was born. Brazilian singer and composer (MPB : música popular brasileira = Brazilian popular music).
• 1952 – Sammo Hung was born. Hong Kong actor
• 1953 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 1956 – David Caruso was born. American actor.
• 1956 – Mike Liut was born. National Hockey League goaltender.
• 1957 – Sociedade Esportiva Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is founded.
• 1957 – Nicholson Baker was born. American novelist
• 1957 – Katie Couric was born. American television host
• 1957 – Julian Solis was born. Puerto Rican boxer
• 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1959 – Kathy Valentine was born. American musician (The Go-Gos)
• 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin was born. Russian politician
• 1964 – Nicolas Cage was born. American actor
• 1964 – Cyril Davies dies (b. 1932). American musician.
• 1965 – Aparece en Colombia la guerrilla procastrista Ejército de Liberación Nacional
• ELN).
• 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was born (d. 1999). American publicist.
• 1967 – Mark Lamarr was born. British comedian
• 1967 – Guy Hebert was born. Hockey player.
• 1970 – Doug E. Doug was born. American actor
• 1970 – Joao Ricardo was born. Angolan footballer
• 1971 – C.W. Anderson was born. American professional wrestler
• 1971 – David Yost was born. American actor .
• 1972 – Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
• 1972 – Donald Brashear was born. American hockey player
• 1972 – John Berryman dies (b. 1914). American poet.
• 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa was born. Finnish singer
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Eric Gagné was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1976 – Luís Person dies (b. 1936). Brazilian actor and director
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
• 1977 – Se funda el Club de Deportes Cobreloa, de Calama, Chile.
• 1977 – Un grupo de intelectuais tchecos escrevem a chamada Carta dos 77, um documento que exige do Governo de Praga o respeito pelos direitos humanos e civis dos cidadãos.
• 1977 – Michelle Behennah was born. British model
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
• 1979 – Bipasha Basu was born. Indian model and actress
• 1979 – Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, so driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.
• 1980 – Mariangel Ruiz was born. Venezuelan hostees, actress and model.
• 1980 – Larry Williams dies (b. 1935). American singer, pianist and songwriter.
• 1981 – Marquis Daniels was born. American basketball player
• 1981 – Alex Auld was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1982 – El socialdemócrata Luis Alberto Monge gana las elecciones presidenciales de Costa Rica.
• 1982 – Francisco Rodriguez dies. Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Alfred Kastler dies (b. 1902). French investigator whose work give him The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1985 – José Maria Pedroto dies. Portuguese football coach and footballer.
• 1985 – Lewis Hamilton was born. British racing driver
• 1986 – Juan Rulfo dies (b. 1917). Mexican writer, author of “El llano en llamas” (1953) and “Pedro Páramo” (1955 ).
• 1988 – Trevor Howard dies (b. 1913). English actor.
• 1988 – Michel Auclair dies (b. 1922). French actor.
• 1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, dies. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan.
• 1990 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
• 1990 – Liam Aiken was born. American actor
• 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili was born. Georgian figure skater.
• 1990 – Bronko Nagurski dies (b. 1908). American football player.
• 1991 – Roger Lafontant, ex ministro del derrocado dictador haitiano Jean Claude Duvalier, fracasa en su golpe de estado contra el presidente electo, Jean B. Aristide
• 1992 – Richard Hunt dies (b. 1951). American puppeteer (The Muppets).
• 1995 – Murray Rothbard dies (b. 1926). American economist.
• 1996 – El conservador Alvaro Arzú, del Partido Avanzada Nacional, es elegido nuevo presidente de Guatemala.
• 1996 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states killing more than 100.
• 1996 – Károly Grósz dies (b. 1930). Hungarian politician.
• 1998 – Vladimir Prelog dies (b. 1906). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1998 – Owen Bradley dies (b. 1915). American record producer.
• 1999 – The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.
• 2000 – Don Martin dies (b. 1931). American illustrator.
• 2000 – Gary Albright dies (b. 1963). Professional wrestler.
• 2002 – Gyula Várady dies (b. 1919). Hungarian footballer.
• 2002 – Jon Lee dies (suicide). Welsh drummer (Feeder).
• 2002 – Naughtia Childs dies (suicide) (b. 1979). Porn star.
• 2002 – Avery Schreiber dies (b. 1935). American actor.
• 2003 – Oolong dies. Japanese rabbit which became an Internet meme
• 2003 – Bosko Boskovic dies, Yougoslavian director/write/actor . Boskovic’s film “Nebeski Odred” was nominated for the Grand Prix Award at the 1961 Moscow film festival.
• 2003 – José Viana – Portuguese actor died in an automobile accident at age 80. Mr. Viana appeared in numerous films and TV series ( “Senhor Jerónimo”, “Love Letters From a Portuguese Nun” …).
• 2004 – Ingrid Thulin dies. Swedish actress.
• 2004 – Oswald Garrison “Mike” Villard Jr. died this day [b. 1916]; American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar.
• 2005 – Pierre Daninos dies (b. 1913). French novelist.
• 2005 – Eileen Desmond dies (b. 1932). Irish politician.
• 2005 – Rosemary Kennedy dies. Sister of John F. Kennedy
• 2006 – Heinrich Harrer dies (b. 1912). Austrian mountaineer and explorer.
• Catholicism – Feast day of St. Raymond of Penafort.
• Christmas Day in the Julian calendar. This is the day on which Christmas is celebrated in most Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.

On this day in History – Jan. 7

• 1 BC (O.S.) – Jesus of Nazareth was born. Central figure of Christianity, (date celebrated by Eastern Orthodox churches as Christmas)
• 1325 – Dinis de Portugal dies (b. 1261). King of Portugal and Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
• 1355 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester was born (d. 1397). Son of Edward III of England
• 1355 – Inês de Castro dies (assassinated), mistress of the future King Peter I of Portugal
• 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey dies executed (d. 1374). English politician.
• 1451 – Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy dies (b. 1383)
• 1470 – Gil Vicente was born. Great Portuguese writer. Great personality of theater
• 1502 – Pope Gregory XIII was born (d. 1585)
• 1528 – Jeanne d’Albret was born (d. 1572). Queen of Navarre.
• 1536 – Catherine of Aragon dies (b. 1485). Queen of Henry VIII of England.
• 1537 – Alessandro de’ Medici of Florence dies assassinated.
• 1539 – Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco was born, Spanish lexicographer.
• 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
• 1566 – Pius V becomes Pope.
• 1566 – Louis de Blois dies (b. 1506). Flemish mystic.
• 1598 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
• 1601 – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
• 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1610 – Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
• 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard dies. English painter
• 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli dies. Italian composer
• 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg was born (d. 1677)
• 1658 – Theophilus Eaton dies (b. 1590). Connecticut colonist
• 1685 – Jonas Alströmer was born (d. 1761). Swedish industrialist.
• 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield dies. English royalist general
• 1700 – Raphael Fabretti dies (b. 1618). Italian antiquarian.
• 1706 – Johann Heinrich Zedler was born (d. 1751). German publisher.
• 1715 – François Fénelon dies (b. 1651). French catholic theologian and writer.
• 1718 – Israel Putnam was born (d. 1790). American Revolutionary War general .
• 1758 – Allan Ramsay dies (b. 1686). Scottish poet.
• 1767 – Thomas Clap dies (b. 1703). First president of Yale University.
• 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte was born (d. 1844). King of Naples
• 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin dies (b. 1695). Swedish politician.
• 1782 – The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
• 1783 – William Tans’ur dies (b. 1700). English hymnist.
• 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a gas balloon, becoming the first togreen-white-red tricolour as official flag. It is the birthday of the flag of Italy.
• 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard dies (b. 1715). French physician and scientist.
• 1797 – Consagración de la bandera tricolor italiana (verde, blanco y rojo) en el Congreso de Reggio, en la Emilia.
• 1789 – First nationwide United States election. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation’s first president.
• 1789 – Primeiro Voto Popular no Brasil.
• 1797 – The current flag of Italy is first used.
• 1800 – Millard Fillmore was born (d. 1874). 13th President of the United States
• 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming was born (d. 1915). Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time
• 1830 – Albert Bierstadt was born (d. 1902). German-American painter.
• 1830 – Thomas Lawrence dies (b. 1769). English painter.
• 1830 – D. Carlota Joaquina dies. Queen of Portugal / Morte da rainha viúva D. Carlota Joaquina, em Lisboa. Tinha casado com o infante D. João, futuro D. João VI em 1785.
• 1831 – Heinrich von Stephan was born (d. 1897). German labor organizer.
• 1834 – Johann Philipp Reis was born (d. 1874). German physicist and inventor.
• 1835 – HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
• 1844 – Bernadette Soubirous was born (d. 1879). French saint.
• 1860 – Emanuil Manolov was born (d. 1902). Bulgarian composer.
• 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith dies (b. 1808). U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
• 1870 – Sublevación en Haití contra el presidente Silverio Silvané, que fue fusilado por los rebeldes durante los disturbios
• 1871 – Felix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was born (d. 1956). French mathematician, politician, and resistance fighter.
• 1872 – James Fisk dies (b. 1834). American entrepreneur.
• 1873 – Adolph Zukor was born (d. 1976). Hungarian producer.
• 1873 – Charles Péguy was born (d. 1914). French poet and essayist.
• 1875 – Thomas Hicks was born (d. 1963). American runner.
• 1875 – Manuel Aranaz Castellanos was born. Cuban writer.
• 1878 – Anselmo Suárez Romero dies. Cuban writer
• 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail dies (b. 1794). French chemist.
• 1890 – Henny Porten was born (d. 1960). Actress.
• 1891 – Zora Neale Hurston was born (d. 1960). American author.
• 1892 – Tewfik Pasha dies (b. 1852). Khedive of Egypt.
• 1893 – Jožef Stefan dies (b. 1835). Slovenian physicist, mathematician, and poet.
• 1894 – W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• 1895 – Korea proclaimed its independence from China.
• 1896 – Arnold Ridley was born (d. 1984). British playwright and actor.
• 1899 – Francis Poulenc was born (d. 1963). French composer.
• 1901 – Alferd Packer is released from prison after serving 18 years for cannibalism.
• 1903 – Warren Hull was born (d. 1974). American actor.
• 1903 – Alan Napier was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1904 – The distress signal “CQD” is established only to be replaced two years later by “SOS.”
• 1908 – Red Allen was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1910 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born (d. 1984). Pakistani poet.
• 1910 – Orval Faubus was born (d. 1994). Governor of Arkansas.
• 1911 – Butterfly McQueen was born (d. 1995). American actress.
• 1911 – Mary Pickford marries Owen Moore.
• 1912 – Charles Addams was born (d. 1988). American cartoonist.
• 1913 – Johnny Mize was born (d. 1993). Baseball player.
• 1916 – Paul Keres was born (d. 1975). Estonian chess player.
• 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot dies (b. 1843). American industrialist, philantropist and the father of T. S. Eliot.
• 1920 – Edmund Barton dies (b. 1849). First Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1922 – Alvin Dark was born. Baseball player and manager
• 1922 – Vincent Gardenia was born (d. 1992). Italian-born actor.
• 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal was born (d. 2000). French flutist.
• 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes.
• 1923 – Hugh Kenner was born (d. 2003). Canadian literary critic.
• 1924 – The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switserland.
• 1924 – George Gershwin completes Rhapsody in Blue.
• 1925 – Gerald Durrell was born (d. 1995). British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter.
• 1926 – George Burns marries Gracie Allen.
• 1927 – First international telephone call – New York City to London.
• 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1927 – First international telephone call – New York City to London.
• 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
• 1928 – William Peter Blatty was born. American screenwriter.
• 1928 – El río Támesis se desborda a su paso por Londres, originando una de las mayores inundaciones de la capital británica.
• 1929 – Terry Moore was born. American actress
• 1934 – Charlie Jenkins was born. American runner.
• 1934 – Jean Corbeil was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician.
• 1935 – Tommy Johnson was born (d. 2006). American tubist.
• 1935 – Kenny Davern was born. American jazz clarinetist
• 1935 – Valeri Kubasov was born. Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 – João Bénard da Costa was born. Portuguese cinematographer critic and essayst.
• 1935 – World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Italo-French agreements.
• 1937 – Paul Revere was born. American musician
• 1938 – Rory Storm was born (d. 1972). British singer.
• 1938 – Lou Graham was born. American golfer
• 1938 – Roland Topor was born (d. 1997). French illustrator.
• 1939 – Maury Povich was born. American TV host
• 1939 – Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark was born.
• 1941 – Iona Brown was born (d. 2004). British violinist and conductor.
• 1941 – World War II – North Africa : British troops capture Torbruk airport.
• 1941 – John E. Walker was born; British chemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for his pioneering work on how the enzyme ATP synthase catalyses the formation of the “high-energy” compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
• 1942 – World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
• 1942 – Vasily Alexeev was born. Russian weightlifter.
• 1942 – Danny Williams was born (d. 2005). South African singer.
• 1942 – Jim Lefebvre, Major League Baseball player
• 1943 – World War II – North Africa : Oum-el-Araneb, the main Axis base in south Libya, is captured by General Philippe Leclerc’s Free French troops.
• 1943 – Nikola Tesla dies (b. 1856). Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer.
• 1944 – Arne Scheie was born. Norwegian sports commentator.
• 1945 – British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
• 1945 – Tony Conigliaro was born (d. 1990). American baseball player.
• 1945 – Dick Marty was born. Swiss politician.
• 1946 – Jann Wenner was born. American publisher.
• 1947 – Shobha De was born. Indian writer
• 1948 – Kenny Loggins was born. American singer
• 1949 – Steven Williams was born. American actor
• 1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa kills 41 people.
• 1950 – Erin Gray was born. American actress
• 1950 – Juan Gabriel was born. Mexican singer and songwriter
• 1950 – Ross Grimsley was born. Major League Baseball pitcher.
• 1951 – Helen Worth was born. British actress.
• 1951 – James Beard was born. American wrestling referee
• 1951 – René Guénon dies (b. 1886). French-Egyptian author.
• 1951 – Luiz Melodia was born. Brazilian singer and composer (MPB : música popular brasileira = Brazilian popular music).
• 1952 – Sammo Hung was born. Hong Kong actor
• 1953 – President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
• 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
• 1956 – David Caruso was born. American actor.
• 1956 – Mike Liut was born. National Hockey League goaltender.
• 1957 – Sociedade Esportiva Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is founded.
• 1957 – Nicholson Baker was born. American novelist
• 1957 – Katie Couric was born. American television host
• 1957 – Julian Solis was born. Puerto Rican boxer
• 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1959 – Kathy Valentine was born. American musician (The Go-Gos)
• 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin was born. Russian politician
• 1964 – Nicolas Cage was born. American actor
• 1964 – Cyril Davies dies (b. 1932). American musician.
• 1965 – Aparece en Colombia la guerrilla procastrista Ejército de Liberación Nacional
• ELN).
• 1966 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy was born (d. 1999). American publicist.
• 1967 – Mark Lamarr was born. British comedian
• 1967 – Guy Hebert was born. Hockey player.
• 1970 – Doug E. Doug was born. American actor
• 1970 – Joao Ricardo was born. Angolan footballer
• 1971 – C.W. Anderson was born. American professional wrestler
• 1971 – David Yost was born. American actor .
• 1972 – Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
• 1972 – Donald Brashear was born. American hockey player
• 1972 – John Berryman dies (b. 1914). American poet.
• 1973 – Jonna Tervomaa was born. Finnish singer
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Eric Gagné was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1976 – Luís Person dies (b. 1936). Brazilian actor and director
• 1976 – Alfonso Soriano was born. Dominican Major League Baseball player
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
• 1977 – Se funda el Club de Deportes Cobreloa, de Calama, Chile.
• 1977 – Un grupo de intelectuais tchecos escrevem a chamada Carta dos 77, um documento que exige do Governo de Praga o respeito pelos direitos humanos e civis dos cidadãos.
• 1977 – Michelle Behennah was born. British model
• 1977 – Dustin Diamond was born. American actor
• 1979 – Bipasha Basu was born. Indian model and actress
• 1979 – Phnom Penh fell to the advancing Vietnamese troops, so driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• 1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out Chrysler Corporation.
• 1980 – Mariangel Ruiz was born. Venezuelan hostees, actress and model.
• 1980 – Larry Williams dies (b. 1935). American singer, pianist and songwriter.
• 1981 – Marquis Daniels was born. American basketball player
• 1981 – Alex Auld was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1982 – El socialdemócrata Luis Alberto Monge gana las elecciones presidenciales de Costa Rica.
• 1982 – Francisco Rodriguez dies. Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Alfred Kastler dies (b. 1902). French investigator whose work give him The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 1985 – José Maria Pedroto dies. Portuguese football coach and footballer.
• 1985 – Lewis Hamilton was born. British racing driver
• 1986 – Juan Rulfo dies (b. 1917). Mexican writer, author of “El llano en llamas” (1953) and “Pedro Páramo” (1955 ).
• 1988 – Trevor Howard dies (b. 1913). English actor.
• 1988 – Michel Auclair dies (b. 1922). French actor.
• 1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, dies. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan.
• 1990 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
• 1990 – Liam Aiken was born. American actor
• 1990 – Elene Gedevanishvili was born. Georgian figure skater.
• 1990 – Bronko Nagurski dies (b. 1908). American football player.
• 1991 – Roger Lafontant, ex ministro del derrocado dictador haitiano Jean Claude Duvalier, fracasa en su golpe de estado contra el presidente electo, Jean B. Aristide
• 1992 – Richard Hunt dies (b. 1951). American puppeteer (The Muppets).
• 1995 – Murray Rothbard dies (b. 1926). American economist.
• 1996 – El conservador Alvaro Arzú, del Partido Avanzada Nacional, es elegido nuevo presidente de Guatemala.
• 1996 – One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states killing more than 100.
• 1996 – Károly Grósz dies (b. 1930). Hungarian politician.
• 1998 – Vladimir Prelog dies (b. 1906). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1998 – Owen Bradley dies (b. 1915). American record producer.
• 1999 – The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.
• 2000 – Don Martin dies (b. 1931). American illustrator.
• 2000 – Gary Albright dies (b. 1963). Professional wrestler.
• 2002 – Gyula Várady dies (b. 1919). Hungarian footballer.
• 2002 – Jon Lee dies (suicide). Welsh drummer (Feeder).
• 2002 – Naughtia Childs dies (suicide) (b. 1979). Porn star.
• 2002 – Avery Schreiber dies (b. 1935). American actor.
• 2003 – Oolong dies. Japanese rabbit which became an Internet meme
• 2003 – Bosko Boskovic dies, Yougoslavian director/write/actor . Boskovic’s film “Nebeski Odred” was nominated for the Grand Prix Award at the 1961 Moscow film festival.
• 2003 – José Viana – Portuguese actor died in an automobile accident at age 80. Mr. Viana appeared in numerous films and TV series ( “Senhor Jerónimo”, “Love Letters From a Portuguese Nun” …).
• 2004 – Ingrid Thulin dies. Swedish actress.
• 2004 – Oswald Garrison “Mike” Villard Jr. died this day [b. 1916]; American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar.
• 2005 – Pierre Daninos dies (b. 1913). French novelist.
• 2005 – Eileen Desmond dies (b. 1932). Irish politician.
• 2005 – Rosemary Kennedy dies. Sister of John F. Kennedy
• 2006 – Heinrich Harrer dies (b. 1912). Austrian mountaineer and explorer.
• Catholicism – Feast day of St. Raymond of Penafort.
• Christmas Day in the Julian calendar. This is the day on which Christmas is celebrated in most Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.