Sorteio da 5ª. Eliminatória da Taça Janeiro 9, 2007

Benfica cheio de sorte… livrou-se do Atlético

O sorteio da 5ª. eliminatória foi realizado ao fim da manhã, ditando os seguintes confrontos:

Nacional (L) – Penafiel (LH)
Atlético (II) – Santa Clara (LH)
Beira-Mar (L) – Louletano (II)
Leixões (LH) – Académica (L)
Estrela da Amadora (L) – Naval (L)
Boavista (L) – Penalva do Castelo (II)
Odivelas (II) – Mafra (II)
Gondomar (LH) – Belenenses (L)
Sporting (L) – Rio Ave (LH)
Maia (II) – Desportivo das Aves (L)
Sporting de Braga (L) – Pontassolense (II)
Benfica (L) – União de Leiria (L)
Varzim (LH) – Sertanense (III)
Pinhalnovense (II) – Camacha (II)
Isento: Bragança (II).

Como se vê apenas dois jogos entre equipas da Liga Bwin: o Benfica-União de Leiria e e Estrela da Amadora-Naval. O Sporting defronta em casa o Rio Ave e interessante parece ser o Gondomar-Belenenses e o Leixões-Académica. O Benfica livrou-se do Atlético!! que joga em casa frente ao Santa Clara da Liga de Honra.

Esta eliminatória está agendada para o dia 21 deste mês.

Congratulations – Lazio

SS Lazio was founded on this day in 1900, in Rome. Congratulations for all tiffosi. You deserve to be glad and happy.

Lazio is going to play tomorrow against Benfica in Dubai for the final of Torneo “Mohammed bin Rashid”. I hope tomorrow you be sad.

Congratulations – Lazio

SS Lazio was founded on this day in 1900, in Rome. Congratulations for all tiffosi. You deserve to be glad and happy.

Lazio is going to play tomorrow against Benfica in Dubai for the final of Torneo “Mohammed bin Rashid”. I hope tomorrow you be sad.

A Educação pela Pedra – João Cabral de Melo Neto

Uma educação pela pedra: por lições;
para aprender da pedra, freqüentá-la;
captar sua voz inenfática, impessoal
(pela de dicção ela começa as aulas).
A lição de moral, sua resistência fria
ao que flui e a fluir, a ser maleada;
a de economia, seu adensar-se compacta:
lições de pedra (de fora para dentro,
cartilha muda), para quem soletrá-la.
Outra educação pela pedra: no Sertão
(de dentro para fora, e pré-didática).
No Sertão a pedra não sabe lecionar,
e se lecionasse não ensinaria nada;
lá não se aprende a pedra: lá a pedra,
uma pedra de nascença, entranha a alma.

João Cabral de Melo Neto (n. Recife, Pernambuco em 9 Jan 1920; m. Rio de Janeiro, 9 Out 1999)

Mulher Sentada
Luto no Sertão
Tecendo a manhã

On this day in History – Jan. 9

• 0475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1282 – Abû ‘Uthmân Sa’îd Hakam al Qurashi dies (b. 1204). Ruler of Minorca.
• 1283 – Wen Tianxiang dies executed (b. 1236). Prime Minister of China.
• 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
• 1431 – Trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1499 – Johann Cicero dies (b. 1455). Elector of Brandenburg
• 1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany dies (b. 1477). Queen of Charles VIII of France
• 1522 – Adriano de Utrech es elegido Papa, será el último no italiano hasta Juan Pablo II.
• 1539 – Francisco Pizarro funda la ciudad peruana de Ayacucho, con el nombre de San Juan de la Frontera.
• 1543 – Guillaume du Bellay dies (b. 1491). French diplomat and general.
• 1554 – Pope Gregory XV was born (d. 1623).
• 1562 – Amago Haruhisa dies (b. 1514). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1571 – Karel Bonaventura Buquoy was born (d. 1621). French soldier.
• 1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon dies (b. 1510). French naval officer.
• 1574 – Christoph Buel was born. Composer.
• 1589 – Ivan Gundulic was born (d. 1638). Croatian poet.
• 1598 – Jasper Heywood dies (b. 1553). English translator
• 1620 – Johann Weichmann was born. Composer.
• 1624 – Empress Meisho of Japan was born (d. 1696).
• 1643 – Giovanni Riccioli first reported the phenomenon known as the Ashen Light of Venus .
• 1677 – Aernout van der Neer dies (b. 1603). Dutch cartoonist and painter.
• 1685 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1766). Dutch philologist.
• 1693 – Un terremoto destruye en Sicilia 60 pueblos y aldeas, lo que causó la muerte de más de 50.000 personas.
• 1695 – John E Loovens was born. Lawyer .
• 1699 – Robert J Pothier was born French lawyer .
• 1728 – Thomas Warton was born (d. 1790). Poet laureate of England
• 1753 – Luísa Todi was born. Portuguese lyric singer.
• 1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, sieur de Fontenelle, dies (b. 11 Feb 1657). French scientist and author, whose Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), was one of the first works to present science for the lay reader.
• 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel dies (b. 1688). French mathematician.
• 1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1766 – Thomas Birch dies (b. 1705). British historian.
• 1768 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).
• 1773 – Cassandra Austen was born (d. 1845). English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen
• 1788 – Connecticut became the fifth state in the United States.
• 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was born (d. 1855). Swedish poet.
• 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies (b. 16 May 1718). Italian mathematician and philosopher who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. (“Propositiones Philosophicae” – 1738).
• 1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet dies (b. 1762). French general.
• 1805 – Noble Jones dies (b. 1723). American Continental Congressman.
• 1806 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
• 1811 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was born (d. 1856). English writer.
• 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. / Os membros do Senado da Câmara do Rio de Janeiro pediram a D. Pedro para não deixar o Brasil. O infante D. Pedro, chamado a Portugal pelas Cortes, decidiu ficar no Brasil, dando origem ao «Dia do Fico».
• 1823 – Friedrich von Esmarch was born (d. 1908). German surgeon who was the first to introduce a first-aid kit and triage on the battlefield. He introduced first aid training for both military and civilian personnel.
• 1829 – Thomas William Robertson was born (d. 1871). English playwright.
• 1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit was born (d. 1857). German explorer
• 1832 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand was born (d. 1900). Journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1839 – Thomas Henderson measured the first stellar parallax: Alpha Centauri.
• 1843 – William Hedley dies (b. 13 July 1779) English coal-mine manager who was a pioneer in the building and design of steam locomotives successfully using a simple friction adhesion between wheels and rails instead of geared track;
• 1848 – Caroline Herschel dies (b. 16 Mar 1750). German-born British astronomer, sister of Sir William Herschel, who assisted in his astronomical researches making calculations associated with his studies. In her own telescope observations, she found three nebulae (1783) and eight comets (1786-97).
• 1854 – Jennie Jerome was born (d. 1921). American society beauty.
• 1856 – Anton Aškerc was born (d. 1912). Slovenian priest and poet.
• 1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
• 1858 – Anson Jones commits suicide (b. 1798). 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
• 1859 – Carrie Chapman Catt was born. Suffragist .
• 1861 – Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The “Star of the West” incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the “First Shots of the American Civil War.”)
• 1863 – Se inaugura el Metro de Londres, primer ferrocarril subterráneo del mundo, de 7 kilómetros de longitud.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Hindman .
• 1864 – Vladimir Steklov was born (d. 1926). Russian mathematician.
• 1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen was born (d. 1939). Danish chemist.
• 1869 – Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was born (d. 1910). German physical chemist who, with Boländer proposed a theory of valency (1899) to explain the capacity of an atom to combine with another atom in light of the newly discovered presence of electrons within the atom.
• 1870 – Joseph B Strauss was born (d. 1938). American civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
• 1870 – Amadeus William Grabau, was born [d. 1946]; American geologist and paleontologist, known for his work on world stratigraphic deposits and the deciphering of Earth history.
• 1872 – Brasil y Paraguay firman la paz.
• 1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France dies (b. 1808)
• 1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik was born (d. 1934). Ukrainian poet.
• 1875 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born (d. 1942). American socalite.
• 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe dies (b. 1801). American abolitionist
• 1877 – Alexander Brullov dies (b. 1799). Russia painter.
• 1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy dies (b. 1820).
• 1878 – John Broadus Watson was born (d. 1958). American psychologist whose ideas initiated behaviorism as a branch of psychology. Inspired by the recent work of Ivan Pavlov, he studied the biology, physiology, and behavior of animals.
• 1878 – Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
• 1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie was born (d. 1938). British poet and critic.
• 1881 – Edouard Beaupré was born (d. 1904). Horse lifter.
• 1881 – Giovanni Papini was born (d. 1956). Italian writer.
• 1882 – Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on “The English Renaissance of Art” in New York.
• 1886 – Edwin Ray Guthrie was born (d. 1959). American psychologist whose work dealt with the psychology of learning and the role association plays. ( Law of Contiguity) .
• 1890 – Karel Capek was born. Czech author .
• 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky was born (d. 1935). German journalist.
• 1892 – Eva Bowring was born (d. 1985). American politician.
• 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison dies (b. 6 Mar 1812). American watchmaker who is known as “the father of American watchmaking.” He was the first person to apply the interchangeable system to the manufacture of watches (1850).
• 1897 – Karl Löwith was born (d. 1973). German philosopher.
• 1898 – Vilma Bánky was born (d. 1991). Hungarian actress.
• 1898 – Gracie Fields was born (d. 1979). English vaudeville performer.
• 1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin was born (d. 1977). Russian composer.
• 1900 – First railway train runs on the Cairo to Khartoum line through the Sudan.
• 1900 – S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.
• 1900 – Joseph Frederick Wagner was born. composer.
• 1900 – Maria of Romania was born (d. 1961). Queen Consort of Yugoslavia.
• 1901 – Chic Young was born (d. 1973). American cartoonist.
• 1901 – Richard Copley Christie dies (b. 1830). English scholar.
• 1902 – Rudolph Bing was born (d. 1997). Austrian-born opera manager.
• 1902 – Josemaría Escrivá was born (d. 1975). Spanish religious author.
• 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia .
• 1903 – Hem Vejakorn was born (d. 1969). Thai illustrator.
• 1904 – George Balanchine was born (d. 1983). Russian dancer/choreographer.
• 1905 – According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir was born (d. 1986). French author (“Le Deuxième Sexe”).
• 1908 – Wilhelm Busch dies (b. 1832). German painter.
• 1908 – Abraham Goldfaden dies (b. 1840). Russian-born actor.
• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee was born (d. 1970). Burlesque performer.
• 1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones dies (b. 1853). American composer.
• 1912 – United States Marines invade Honduras.
• 1912 – Ralph Tubbs was born (d. 1996). British architect.
• 1913 – Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California (d. 1994). 37th United States President.
• 1914 – Kenny (Klook) Clarke was born (d. 1985). American jazz drummer and composer
• 1915 – Fernando Lamas was born (d. 1982). Argentine actor.
• 1916 – The Ottoman Empire prevailed in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated.
• 1916 – Vic Mizzy was born. American orchestra leader
• 1916 – Peter Twinn was born (d. 2004). English World War II code-breaker.
• 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1917 – Herbert Lom was born. Czech actor
• 1917 – Otto Glória was born. Brazilian football manager.
• 1918 – Émile Reynaud dies (b. 1844). French scientist.
• 1920 – Clive Dunn was born. British actor.
• 1920 – João Cabral de Melo Neto was born (d. 1999). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said was born. Pakistani scholar.
• 1921 – Lister Sinclair was born (d. 2006). Canadian broadcaster and playwright.
• 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana was born. Indian-born American biochemist who (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
• 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré was born (d. 1984). President of Guinea.
• 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.
• 1923 – Katherine Mansfield dies (b. 1888). New Zealand writer.
• 1924 – Sergei Parajanov was born (d. 1990). Armenian film director.
• 1925 – Lee Van Cleef was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1926 – Jean-Pierre Côté was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec.
• 1928 – Judith Krantz was born. American author
• 1928 – Domenico Modugno was born (d. 1994). Italian singer, songwriter.
• 1928 – Sandino proclama en Nicaragua la república de Nueva Segovia, a cuya capital llamaría Ciudad Sandino.
• 1929 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
• 1929 – Heiner Muller was born (d. 1995). German dramatist.
• 1929 – Brian Friel was born. Irish dramatist
• 1929 – Dorothea Puente was born. American serial killer
• 1931 – Algis Budrys was born. American author
• 1931 – Wayne Munn dies (b. 1896). Wrestler.
• 1932 – Robert P. Casey was born (d. 2000). American politician.
• 1934 – Bart Starr was born. American football player
• 1935 – Bob Denver was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1935 – Dick Enberg was born. American sportscaster
• 1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons was born. American writer
• 1936 – John Gilbert dies (b. 1899). American actor.
• 1937 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
• 1937 – Racially mixed marriages are banned by Italy in its North African colonies.
• 1939 – A Líbia é incorporada ao território da Itália.
• 1939 – Johann Strauss III dies (b. 1866). Austrian conductor.
• 1939 – Johnny Gruelle dies (b. 1880). American cartoonist, children’s book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann.
• 1940 – Jimmy Boyd was born. American actor and singer
• 1940 – Barbara Buczek was born (d. 1993). Polish composer.
• 1940 – Ruth Dreifuss was born. Swiss politician
• 1941 – Joan Baez was born. American singer and activist
• 1941 – Gilles Vaillancourt was born. Quebec politician
• 1942 – K Callan was born. American actress
• 1942 – Susannah York was born. British actress
• 1943 – Freddie Starr was born. English comedian and singer
• 1944 – Jimmy Page was born. English rock musician, guitarist (Led Zeppelin) .
• 1945 – The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1946 – Countee Cullen dies (b. 1903). American poet.
• 1947 – Ronnie Landfield was born. American artist
• 1947 – Karl Mannheim dies (b. 1893). German sociologist.
• 1949 – Five RAF reconnaissance planes are shot down by Israeli fighters over Egypt.
• 1950 – David Johansen was born. American singer.
• 1950 – Rio Reiser was born (d. 1996). German singer.
• 1951 – United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• 1951 – Crystal Gayle was born.American singer
• 1951 – M.L. Carr was born. Basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Hugh Bayley was born. British politician
• 1955 – J. K. Simmons was born. American actor
• 1956 – Kimberly Beck was born. American actress
• 1956 – Imelda Staunton was born. British actress
• 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca was born. Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1958 – Willis Rodney Whitney dies (b. 1868). American chemist and research director who founded the General Electric Company’s research laboratory and directed pioneering work there .
• 1959 – Mark Martin was born. American NASCAR driver.
• 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú was born. Nobel Peace Prize laureate / Nace Rigoberta Menchú, guatemalteca defensora de los derechos humanos. Premio Nobel de la Paz 1992.
• 1959 – Cristi Minculescu was born. Romanian musician
• 1959 – Otis Nixon was born. Baseball player
• 1960 – Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt.
• 1961 – Emily Greene Balch dies (b. 1867). American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• 1963 – Michael Everson was born. Expert in writing systems and Unicode
• 1964 – Several Panamanian youths put up the Panamanian flag, and are fired on from the Canal Zone, setting off four days of anti-imperialist insurrection around the country.
• 1964 – Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.
• 1965 – Eric Erlandson was born. American musician
• 1965 – Joely Richardson was born. British actress
• 1965 – Darren Bennett was born. Australian-born American football player
• 1965 – Iain Dowie was born. English football manager
• 1967 – Claudio Caniggia was born. Argentinian footballer
• 1967 – Steven Harwell was born. American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1967 – Dave Matthews was born. South African singer and musician
• 1967 – Carl Bell was born. American musician
• 1968 – Surveyor 7, the last of America’s unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.
• 1968 – Jimmy Adams was born. West Indian cricketer
• 1968 – Joey Lauren Adams was born. American actress
• 1968 – Al Schnier was born. American rock guitarist
• 1969 – El Concorde hace su primer vuelo de prueba.
• 1970 – Alex Staropoli was born. Italian keyboardist
• 1970 – Lara Fabian was born. Belgian singer
• 1971 – Daniel Dumile was born. American hip hop artist
• 1971 – Scott Thornton was born. National Hockey League player
• 1971 – Elmer Flick dies (b. 1876). Baseball player.
• 1972 – RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire (Hong Kong harbor).
• 1972 – Mat Hoffman was born. American BMX biker
• 1972 – Jay Powell was born. Baseball player
• 1972 – Ted Shawn dies (b. 1891). American dancer.
• 1975 – Angela Bettis was born. American actress
• 1975 – Kim Mathers was born. Former wife of Eminem
• 1975 – Kiko Calero was born. Baseball player
• 1975 – Pierre Fresnay dies (b. 1879). French actor.
• 1975 – Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov dies (b. 1901). Russian mathematician.
• 1976 – Todd Grisham was born. American professional wrestling interviewer
• 1976 – Radek Bonk was born. National Hockey League player
• 1976 – Rupert Wildt dies (b. 1905). German-American astronomer who studied atmospheres of planets. He identified (1932) certain absorption bands (observed by Slipher) in the spectra of Jupiter and the outer planets as indicative of ammonia and methane as minor components of these planets which are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.
• 1978 – Chad Johnson was born. American football player
• 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso was born. Italian footballer
• 1978 – AJ McLean was born. American singer
• 1978 – Maggie Rizer was born. American model and AIDS activist
• 1978 – Mathieu Garon was born. National Hockey League goaltender
• 1979 – Tomiko Van was born. Japanese singer.
• 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi dies (b. 1891). Italian engineer and architect who gained international recognition for his dramatic designs for large-span structures made possible with the use of reinforced concrete.
• 1980 – Na Arábia Saudita, 63 muçulmanos fanáticos são decapitados por terem sitiado a Grande Mesquita de Meca em novembro de 1979.
• 1981 – In Portugal Francisco Pinto Balsemão becomes Prime-Minister in substitution of Diogo Freitas do Amaral.
• 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek was born.Polish footballer
• 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki dies (b. 1922). Polish composer.
• 1984 – Wolfgang Staudte dies (b. 1906). German director.
• 1985 – Robert Mayer dies (b. 1879). British businessman and philanthropist.
• 1986 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
• 1987 – Paolo Nutini was born.British Singer/Songwriter
• 1987 – Pablo Santos was born (d. 2006). Mexican actor-
• 1987 – Marion Hutton dies (b. 1919). American singer.
• 1987 – Arthur Lake dies (b. 1905). American actor.
• 1988 – Científicos del Instituto Whitehead, de Boston, logran aislar el gen (TDF) responsable del sexo humano y localizado en el cromosoma “Y”, que está presente sólo en los hombres.
• 1989 – The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.
• 1989 – Michaella Krajicek was born. Dutch tennis player
• 1989 – Bill Terry dies (b. 1898). Baseball player.
• 1990 – Spud Chandler dies (b. 1907). Baseball player.
• 1991 – The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• 1992 – Serbia se declara como República independiente de Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1992 – Bill Naughton dies (b. 1910). British playwright.
• 1992 – Steve Brodie dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1993 – Svetoslav Roerich dies (b. 1904). Russian painter.
• 1994 – Johnny Temple dies (b. 1927). Baseball player.
• 1995 – Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
• 1995 – Peter Cook dies (b. 1937). British actor, satirist, writer, and comedian.
• 1995 – Souphanouvong dies (b. 1909). President of Laos.
• 1996 – Sun Microsystems announced the formation of JavaSoft.
• 1997 – A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro. Airport killing 29.
• 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski dies (b. 1909). Prime Minister of Poland
• 1997 – Jesse White dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1998 – Kenichi Fukui dies (b. 1918). Japanese chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann for investigation of the mechanisms of chemical reactions. In 1952, at Kyoto University, Fukui introduced his “frontier orbital theory of reactions.
• 1998 – two teams of international collaborations of scientists announced the discovery that galaxies are accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds, by observing distant, ancient exploding stars .
• 2000 – O presidente do Uzbequistão, Islam Karimov, é reeleito com 91,9% dos votos.
• 2000 – Nigel Tranter dies (b. 1909). Scottish historian and author.
• 2001 – Maurice Prather dies (b. 1926). American motion picture and still photographer.
• 2002 – The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
• 2003 – Peter Tinnswood died at age 66 . British TV comedy writer Peter Tinniswood wrote for numerous British TV series during his 40-year career.
• 2003 – Will McDonough dies (b. 1935). American sports journalist.
• 2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
• 2005 – Gonzalo Gavira dies (b. 1925). Mexican film sound technician.
• 2006 – The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
• 2006 – The first The Howard Stern Show via Sirius Satellite Radio is broadcast.
• 2006 – Andy Caldecott dies during during the 9th stage (Dakar Rally) (b. 1964). Australian KTM motorcyclist
• 2006 – Mikk Mikiver dies (b. 1937). Estonian actor, director.
• Martyrs’ Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone
• Roman Catholic – Feast of Saint Adrian
• Eastern Orthodox – Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse
• Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines

On this day in History – Jan. 9

• 0475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1282 – Abû ‘Uthmân Sa’îd Hakam al Qurashi dies (b. 1204). Ruler of Minorca.
• 1283 – Wen Tianxiang dies executed (b. 1236). Prime Minister of China.
• 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
• 1431 – Trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1499 – Johann Cicero dies (b. 1455). Elector of Brandenburg
• 1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany dies (b. 1477). Queen of Charles VIII of France
• 1522 – Adriano de Utrech es elegido Papa, será el último no italiano hasta Juan Pablo II.
• 1539 – Francisco Pizarro funda la ciudad peruana de Ayacucho, con el nombre de San Juan de la Frontera.
• 1543 – Guillaume du Bellay dies (b. 1491). French diplomat and general.
• 1554 – Pope Gregory XV was born (d. 1623).
• 1562 – Amago Haruhisa dies (b. 1514). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1571 – Karel Bonaventura Buquoy was born (d. 1621). French soldier.
• 1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon dies (b. 1510). French naval officer.
• 1574 – Christoph Buel was born. Composer.
• 1589 – Ivan Gundulic was born (d. 1638). Croatian poet.
• 1598 – Jasper Heywood dies (b. 1553). English translator
• 1620 – Johann Weichmann was born. Composer.
• 1624 – Empress Meisho of Japan was born (d. 1696).
• 1643 – Giovanni Riccioli first reported the phenomenon known as the Ashen Light of Venus .
• 1677 – Aernout van der Neer dies (b. 1603). Dutch cartoonist and painter.
• 1685 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1766). Dutch philologist.
• 1693 – Un terremoto destruye en Sicilia 60 pueblos y aldeas, lo que causó la muerte de más de 50.000 personas.
• 1695 – John E Loovens was born. Lawyer .
• 1699 – Robert J Pothier was born French lawyer .
• 1728 – Thomas Warton was born (d. 1790). Poet laureate of England
• 1753 – Luísa Todi was born. Portuguese lyric singer.
• 1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, sieur de Fontenelle, dies (b. 11 Feb 1657). French scientist and author, whose Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), was one of the first works to present science for the lay reader.
• 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel dies (b. 1688). French mathematician.
• 1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1766 – Thomas Birch dies (b. 1705). British historian.
• 1768 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).
• 1773 – Cassandra Austen was born (d. 1845). English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen
• 1788 – Connecticut became the fifth state in the United States.
• 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was born (d. 1855). Swedish poet.
• 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies (b. 16 May 1718). Italian mathematician and philosopher who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. (“Propositiones Philosophicae” – 1738).
• 1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet dies (b. 1762). French general.
• 1805 – Noble Jones dies (b. 1723). American Continental Congressman.
• 1806 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
• 1811 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was born (d. 1856). English writer.
• 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. / Os membros do Senado da Câmara do Rio de Janeiro pediram a D. Pedro para não deixar o Brasil. O infante D. Pedro, chamado a Portugal pelas Cortes, decidiu ficar no Brasil, dando origem ao «Dia do Fico».
• 1823 – Friedrich von Esmarch was born (d. 1908). German surgeon who was the first to introduce a first-aid kit and triage on the battlefield. He introduced first aid training for both military and civilian personnel.
• 1829 – Thomas William Robertson was born (d. 1871). English playwright.
• 1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit was born (d. 1857). German explorer
• 1832 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand was born (d. 1900). Journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1839 – Thomas Henderson measured the first stellar parallax: Alpha Centauri.
• 1843 – William Hedley dies (b. 13 July 1779) English coal-mine manager who was a pioneer in the building and design of steam locomotives successfully using a simple friction adhesion between wheels and rails instead of geared track;
• 1848 – Caroline Herschel dies (b. 16 Mar 1750). German-born British astronomer, sister of Sir William Herschel, who assisted in his astronomical researches making calculations associated with his studies. In her own telescope observations, she found three nebulae (1783) and eight comets (1786-97).
• 1854 – Jennie Jerome was born (d. 1921). American society beauty.
• 1856 – Anton Aškerc was born (d. 1912). Slovenian priest and poet.
• 1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
• 1858 – Anson Jones commits suicide (b. 1798). 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
• 1859 – Carrie Chapman Catt was born. Suffragist .
• 1861 – Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The “Star of the West” incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the “First Shots of the American Civil War.”)
• 1863 – Se inaugura el Metro de Londres, primer ferrocarril subterráneo del mundo, de 7 kilómetros de longitud.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Hindman .
• 1864 – Vladimir Steklov was born (d. 1926). Russian mathematician.
• 1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen was born (d. 1939). Danish chemist.
• 1869 – Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was born (d. 1910). German physical chemist who, with Boländer proposed a theory of valency (1899) to explain the capacity of an atom to combine with another atom in light of the newly discovered presence of electrons within the atom.
• 1870 – Joseph B Strauss was born (d. 1938). American civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
• 1870 – Amadeus William Grabau, was born [d. 1946]; American geologist and paleontologist, known for his work on world stratigraphic deposits and the deciphering of Earth history.
• 1872 – Brasil y Paraguay firman la paz.
• 1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France dies (b. 1808)
• 1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik was born (d. 1934). Ukrainian poet.
• 1875 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born (d. 1942). American socalite.
• 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe dies (b. 1801). American abolitionist
• 1877 – Alexander Brullov dies (b. 1799). Russia painter.
• 1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy dies (b. 1820).
• 1878 – John Broadus Watson was born (d. 1958). American psychologist whose ideas initiated behaviorism as a branch of psychology. Inspired by the recent work of Ivan Pavlov, he studied the biology, physiology, and behavior of animals.
• 1878 – Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
• 1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie was born (d. 1938). British poet and critic.
• 1881 – Edouard Beaupré was born (d. 1904). Horse lifter.
• 1881 – Giovanni Papini was born (d. 1956). Italian writer.
• 1882 – Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on “The English Renaissance of Art” in New York.
• 1886 – Edwin Ray Guthrie was born (d. 1959). American psychologist whose work dealt with the psychology of learning and the role association plays. ( Law of Contiguity) .
• 1890 – Karel Capek was born. Czech author .
• 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky was born (d. 1935). German journalist.
• 1892 – Eva Bowring was born (d. 1985). American politician.
• 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison dies (b. 6 Mar 1812). American watchmaker who is known as “the father of American watchmaking.” He was the first person to apply the interchangeable system to the manufacture of watches (1850).
• 1897 – Karl Löwith was born (d. 1973). German philosopher.
• 1898 – Vilma Bánky was born (d. 1991). Hungarian actress.
• 1898 – Gracie Fields was born (d. 1979). English vaudeville performer.
• 1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin was born (d. 1977). Russian composer.
• 1900 – First railway train runs on the Cairo to Khartoum line through the Sudan.
• 1900 – S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.
• 1900 – Joseph Frederick Wagner was born. composer.
• 1900 – Maria of Romania was born (d. 1961). Queen Consort of Yugoslavia.
• 1901 – Chic Young was born (d. 1973). American cartoonist.
• 1901 – Richard Copley Christie dies (b. 1830). English scholar.
• 1902 – Rudolph Bing was born (d. 1997). Austrian-born opera manager.
• 1902 – Josemaría Escrivá was born (d. 1975). Spanish religious author.
• 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia .
• 1903 – Hem Vejakorn was born (d. 1969). Thai illustrator.
• 1904 – George Balanchine was born (d. 1983). Russian dancer/choreographer.
• 1905 – According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir was born (d. 1986). French author (“Le Deuxième Sexe”).
• 1908 – Wilhelm Busch dies (b. 1832). German painter.
• 1908 – Abraham Goldfaden dies (b. 1840). Russian-born actor.
• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee was born (d. 1970). Burlesque performer.
• 1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones dies (b. 1853). American composer.
• 1912 – United States Marines invade Honduras.
• 1912 – Ralph Tubbs was born (d. 1996). British architect.
• 1913 – Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California (d. 1994). 37th United States President.
• 1914 – Kenny (Klook) Clarke was born (d. 1985). American jazz drummer and composer
• 1915 – Fernando Lamas was born (d. 1982). Argentine actor.
• 1916 – The Ottoman Empire prevailed in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated.
• 1916 – Vic Mizzy was born. American orchestra leader
• 1916 – Peter Twinn was born (d. 2004). English World War II code-breaker.
• 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1917 – Herbert Lom was born. Czech actor
• 1917 – Otto Glória was born. Brazilian football manager.
• 1918 – Émile Reynaud dies (b. 1844). French scientist.
• 1920 – Clive Dunn was born. British actor.
• 1920 – João Cabral de Melo Neto was born (d. 1999). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said was born. Pakistani scholar.
• 1921 – Lister Sinclair was born (d. 2006). Canadian broadcaster and playwright.
• 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana was born. Indian-born American biochemist who (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
• 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré was born (d. 1984). President of Guinea.
• 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.
• 1923 – Katherine Mansfield dies (b. 1888). New Zealand writer.
• 1924 – Sergei Parajanov was born (d. 1990). Armenian film director.
• 1925 – Lee Van Cleef was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1926 – Jean-Pierre Côté was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec.
• 1928 – Judith Krantz was born. American author
• 1928 – Domenico Modugno was born (d. 1994). Italian singer, songwriter.
• 1928 – Sandino proclama en Nicaragua la república de Nueva Segovia, a cuya capital llamaría Ciudad Sandino.
• 1929 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
• 1929 – Heiner Muller was born (d. 1995). German dramatist.
• 1929 – Brian Friel was born. Irish dramatist
• 1929 – Dorothea Puente was born. American serial killer
• 1931 – Algis Budrys was born. American author
• 1931 – Wayne Munn dies (b. 1896). Wrestler.
• 1932 – Robert P. Casey was born (d. 2000). American politician.
• 1934 – Bart Starr was born. American football player
• 1935 – Bob Denver was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1935 – Dick Enberg was born. American sportscaster
• 1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons was born. American writer
• 1936 – John Gilbert dies (b. 1899). American actor.
• 1937 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
• 1937 – Racially mixed marriages are banned by Italy in its North African colonies.
• 1939 – A Líbia é incorporada ao território da Itália.
• 1939 – Johann Strauss III dies (b. 1866). Austrian conductor.
• 1939 – Johnny Gruelle dies (b. 1880). American cartoonist, children’s book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann.
• 1940 – Jimmy Boyd was born. American actor and singer
• 1940 – Barbara Buczek was born (d. 1993). Polish composer.
• 1940 – Ruth Dreifuss was born. Swiss politician
• 1941 – Joan Baez was born. American singer and activist
• 1941 – Gilles Vaillancourt was born. Quebec politician
• 1942 – K Callan was born. American actress
• 1942 – Susannah York was born. British actress
• 1943 – Freddie Starr was born. English comedian and singer
• 1944 – Jimmy Page was born. English rock musician, guitarist (Led Zeppelin) .
• 1945 – The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1946 – Countee Cullen dies (b. 1903). American poet.
• 1947 – Ronnie Landfield was born. American artist
• 1947 – Karl Mannheim dies (b. 1893). German sociologist.
• 1949 – Five RAF reconnaissance planes are shot down by Israeli fighters over Egypt.
• 1950 – David Johansen was born. American singer.
• 1950 – Rio Reiser was born (d. 1996). German singer.
• 1951 – United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• 1951 – Crystal Gayle was born.American singer
• 1951 – M.L. Carr was born. Basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Hugh Bayley was born. British politician
• 1955 – J. K. Simmons was born. American actor
• 1956 – Kimberly Beck was born. American actress
• 1956 – Imelda Staunton was born. British actress
• 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca was born. Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1958 – Willis Rodney Whitney dies (b. 1868). American chemist and research director who founded the General Electric Company’s research laboratory and directed pioneering work there .
• 1959 – Mark Martin was born. American NASCAR driver.
• 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú was born. Nobel Peace Prize laureate / Nace Rigoberta Menchú, guatemalteca defensora de los derechos humanos. Premio Nobel de la Paz 1992.
• 1959 – Cristi Minculescu was born. Romanian musician
• 1959 – Otis Nixon was born. Baseball player
• 1960 – Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt.
• 1961 – Emily Greene Balch dies (b. 1867). American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• 1963 – Michael Everson was born. Expert in writing systems and Unicode
• 1964 – Several Panamanian youths put up the Panamanian flag, and are fired on from the Canal Zone, setting off four days of anti-imperialist insurrection around the country.
• 1964 – Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.
• 1965 – Eric Erlandson was born. American musician
• 1965 – Joely Richardson was born. British actress
• 1965 – Darren Bennett was born. Australian-born American football player
• 1965 – Iain Dowie was born. English football manager
• 1967 – Claudio Caniggia was born. Argentinian footballer
• 1967 – Steven Harwell was born. American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1967 – Dave Matthews was born. South African singer and musician
• 1967 – Carl Bell was born. American musician
• 1968 – Surveyor 7, the last of America’s unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.
• 1968 – Jimmy Adams was born. West Indian cricketer
• 1968 – Joey Lauren Adams was born. American actress
• 1968 – Al Schnier was born. American rock guitarist
• 1969 – El Concorde hace su primer vuelo de prueba.
• 1970 – Alex Staropoli was born. Italian keyboardist
• 1970 – Lara Fabian was born. Belgian singer
• 1971 – Daniel Dumile was born. American hip hop artist
• 1971 – Scott Thornton was born. National Hockey League player
• 1971 – Elmer Flick dies (b. 1876). Baseball player.
• 1972 – RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire (Hong Kong harbor).
• 1972 – Mat Hoffman was born. American BMX biker
• 1972 – Jay Powell was born. Baseball player
• 1972 – Ted Shawn dies (b. 1891). American dancer.
• 1975 – Angela Bettis was born. American actress
• 1975 – Kim Mathers was born. Former wife of Eminem
• 1975 – Kiko Calero was born. Baseball player
• 1975 – Pierre Fresnay dies (b. 1879). French actor.
• 1975 – Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov dies (b. 1901). Russian mathematician.
• 1976 – Todd Grisham was born. American professional wrestling interviewer
• 1976 – Radek Bonk was born. National Hockey League player
• 1976 – Rupert Wildt dies (b. 1905). German-American astronomer who studied atmospheres of planets. He identified (1932) certain absorption bands (observed by Slipher) in the spectra of Jupiter and the outer planets as indicative of ammonia and methane as minor components of these planets which are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.
• 1978 – Chad Johnson was born. American football player
• 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso was born. Italian footballer
• 1978 – AJ McLean was born. American singer
• 1978 – Maggie Rizer was born. American model and AIDS activist
• 1978 – Mathieu Garon was born. National Hockey League goaltender
• 1979 – Tomiko Van was born. Japanese singer.
• 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi dies (b. 1891). Italian engineer and architect who gained international recognition for his dramatic designs for large-span structures made possible with the use of reinforced concrete.
• 1980 – Na Arábia Saudita, 63 muçulmanos fanáticos são decapitados por terem sitiado a Grande Mesquita de Meca em novembro de 1979.
• 1981 – In Portugal Francisco Pinto Balsemão becomes Prime-Minister in substitution of Diogo Freitas do Amaral.
• 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek was born.Polish footballer
• 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki dies (b. 1922). Polish composer.
• 1984 – Wolfgang Staudte dies (b. 1906). German director.
• 1985 – Robert Mayer dies (b. 1879). British businessman and philanthropist.
• 1986 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
• 1987 – Paolo Nutini was born.British Singer/Songwriter
• 1987 – Pablo Santos was born (d. 2006). Mexican actor-
• 1987 – Marion Hutton dies (b. 1919). American singer.
• 1987 – Arthur Lake dies (b. 1905). American actor.
• 1988 – Científicos del Instituto Whitehead, de Boston, logran aislar el gen (TDF) responsable del sexo humano y localizado en el cromosoma “Y”, que está presente sólo en los hombres.
• 1989 – The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.
• 1989 – Michaella Krajicek was born. Dutch tennis player
• 1989 – Bill Terry dies (b. 1898). Baseball player.
• 1990 – Spud Chandler dies (b. 1907). Baseball player.
• 1991 – The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• 1992 – Serbia se declara como República independiente de Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1992 – Bill Naughton dies (b. 1910). British playwright.
• 1992 – Steve Brodie dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1993 – Svetoslav Roerich dies (b. 1904). Russian painter.
• 1994 – Johnny Temple dies (b. 1927). Baseball player.
• 1995 – Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
• 1995 – Peter Cook dies (b. 1937). British actor, satirist, writer, and comedian.
• 1995 – Souphanouvong dies (b. 1909). President of Laos.
• 1996 – Sun Microsystems announced the formation of JavaSoft.
• 1997 – A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro. Airport killing 29.
• 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski dies (b. 1909). Prime Minister of Poland
• 1997 – Jesse White dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1998 – Kenichi Fukui dies (b. 1918). Japanese chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann for investigation of the mechanisms of chemical reactions. In 1952, at Kyoto University, Fukui introduced his “frontier orbital theory of reactions.
• 1998 – two teams of international collaborations of scientists announced the discovery that galaxies are accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds, by observing distant, ancient exploding stars .
• 2000 – O presidente do Uzbequistão, Islam Karimov, é reeleito com 91,9% dos votos.
• 2000 – Nigel Tranter dies (b. 1909). Scottish historian and author.
• 2001 – Maurice Prather dies (b. 1926). American motion picture and still photographer.
• 2002 – The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
• 2003 – Peter Tinnswood died at age 66 . British TV comedy writer Peter Tinniswood wrote for numerous British TV series during his 40-year career.
• 2003 – Will McDonough dies (b. 1935). American sports journalist.
• 2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
• 2005 – Gonzalo Gavira dies (b. 1925). Mexican film sound technician.
• 2006 – The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
• 2006 – The first The Howard Stern Show via Sirius Satellite Radio is broadcast.
• 2006 – Andy Caldecott dies during during the 9th stage (Dakar Rally) (b. 1964). Australian KTM motorcyclist
• 2006 – Mikk Mikiver dies (b. 1937). Estonian actor, director.
• Martyrs’ Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone
• Roman Catholic – Feast of Saint Adrian
• Eastern Orthodox – Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse
• Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines

On this day in History – Jan. 9

• 0475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1282 – Abû ‘Uthmân Sa’îd Hakam al Qurashi dies (b. 1204). Ruler of Minorca.
• 1283 – Wen Tianxiang dies executed (b. 1236). Prime Minister of China.
• 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
• 1431 – Trial of Joan of Arc began in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1499 – Johann Cicero dies (b. 1455). Elector of Brandenburg
• 1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany dies (b. 1477). Queen of Charles VIII of France
• 1522 – Adriano de Utrech es elegido Papa, será el último no italiano hasta Juan Pablo II.
• 1539 – Francisco Pizarro funda la ciudad peruana de Ayacucho, con el nombre de San Juan de la Frontera.
• 1543 – Guillaume du Bellay dies (b. 1491). French diplomat and general.
• 1554 – Pope Gregory XV was born (d. 1623).
• 1562 – Amago Haruhisa dies (b. 1514). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1571 – Karel Bonaventura Buquoy was born (d. 1621). French soldier.
• 1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon dies (b. 1510). French naval officer.
• 1574 – Christoph Buel was born. Composer.
• 1589 – Ivan Gundulic was born (d. 1638). Croatian poet.
• 1598 – Jasper Heywood dies (b. 1553). English translator
• 1620 – Johann Weichmann was born. Composer.
• 1624 – Empress Meisho of Japan was born (d. 1696).
• 1643 – Giovanni Riccioli first reported the phenomenon known as the Ashen Light of Venus .
• 1677 – Aernout van der Neer dies (b. 1603). Dutch cartoonist and painter.
• 1685 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1766). Dutch philologist.
• 1693 – Un terremoto destruye en Sicilia 60 pueblos y aldeas, lo que causó la muerte de más de 50.000 personas.
• 1695 – John E Loovens was born. Lawyer .
• 1699 – Robert J Pothier was born French lawyer .
• 1728 – Thomas Warton was born (d. 1790). Poet laureate of England
• 1753 – Luísa Todi was born. Portuguese lyric singer.
• 1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, sieur de Fontenelle, dies (b. 11 Feb 1657). French scientist and author, whose Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), was one of the first works to present science for the lay reader.
• 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel dies (b. 1688). French mathematician.
• 1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1766 – Thomas Birch dies (b. 1705). British historian.
• 1768 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).
• 1773 – Cassandra Austen was born (d. 1845). English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen
• 1788 – Connecticut became the fifth state in the United States.
• 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was born (d. 1855). Swedish poet.
• 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies (b. 16 May 1718). Italian mathematician and philosopher who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. (“Propositiones Philosophicae” – 1738).
• 1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet dies (b. 1762). French general.
• 1805 – Noble Jones dies (b. 1723). American Continental Congressman.
• 1806 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
• 1811 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was born (d. 1856). English writer.
• 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. / Os membros do Senado da Câmara do Rio de Janeiro pediram a D. Pedro para não deixar o Brasil. O infante D. Pedro, chamado a Portugal pelas Cortes, decidiu ficar no Brasil, dando origem ao «Dia do Fico».
• 1823 – Friedrich von Esmarch was born (d. 1908). German surgeon who was the first to introduce a first-aid kit and triage on the battlefield. He introduced first aid training for both military and civilian personnel.
• 1829 – Thomas William Robertson was born (d. 1871). English playwright.
• 1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit was born (d. 1857). German explorer
• 1832 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand was born (d. 1900). Journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec.
• 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1839 – Thomas Henderson measured the first stellar parallax: Alpha Centauri.
• 1843 – William Hedley dies (b. 13 July 1779) English coal-mine manager who was a pioneer in the building and design of steam locomotives successfully using a simple friction adhesion between wheels and rails instead of geared track;
• 1848 – Caroline Herschel dies (b. 16 Mar 1750). German-born British astronomer, sister of Sir William Herschel, who assisted in his astronomical researches making calculations associated with his studies. In her own telescope observations, she found three nebulae (1783) and eight comets (1786-97).
• 1854 – Jennie Jerome was born (d. 1921). American society beauty.
• 1856 – Anton Aškerc was born (d. 1912). Slovenian priest and poet.
• 1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
• 1858 – Anson Jones commits suicide (b. 1798). 5th and last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
• 1859 – Carrie Chapman Catt was born. Suffragist .
• 1861 – Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The “Star of the West” incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the “First Shots of the American Civil War.”)
• 1863 – Se inaugura el Metro de Londres, primer ferrocarril subterráneo del mundo, de 7 kilómetros de longitud.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Hindman .
• 1864 – Vladimir Steklov was born (d. 1926). Russian mathematician.
• 1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen was born (d. 1939). Danish chemist.
• 1869 – Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was born (d. 1910). German physical chemist who, with Boländer proposed a theory of valency (1899) to explain the capacity of an atom to combine with another atom in light of the newly discovered presence of electrons within the atom.
• 1870 – Joseph B Strauss was born (d. 1938). American civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
• 1870 – Amadeus William Grabau, was born [d. 1946]; American geologist and paleontologist, known for his work on world stratigraphic deposits and the deciphering of Earth history.
• 1872 – Brasil y Paraguay firman la paz.
• 1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France dies (b. 1808)
• 1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik was born (d. 1934). Ukrainian poet.
• 1875 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born (d. 1942). American socalite.
• 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe dies (b. 1801). American abolitionist
• 1877 – Alexander Brullov dies (b. 1799). Russia painter.
• 1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy dies (b. 1820).
• 1878 – John Broadus Watson was born (d. 1958). American psychologist whose ideas initiated behaviorism as a branch of psychology. Inspired by the recent work of Ivan Pavlov, he studied the biology, physiology, and behavior of animals.
• 1878 – Humbert I becomes King of Italy.
• 1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie was born (d. 1938). British poet and critic.
• 1881 – Edouard Beaupré was born (d. 1904). Horse lifter.
• 1881 – Giovanni Papini was born (d. 1956). Italian writer.
• 1882 – Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on “The English Renaissance of Art” in New York.
• 1886 – Edwin Ray Guthrie was born (d. 1959). American psychologist whose work dealt with the psychology of learning and the role association plays. ( Law of Contiguity) .
• 1890 – Karel Capek was born. Czech author .
• 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky was born (d. 1935). German journalist.
• 1892 – Eva Bowring was born (d. 1985). American politician.
• 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison dies (b. 6 Mar 1812). American watchmaker who is known as “the father of American watchmaking.” He was the first person to apply the interchangeable system to the manufacture of watches (1850).
• 1897 – Karl Löwith was born (d. 1973). German philosopher.
• 1898 – Vilma Bánky was born (d. 1991). Hungarian actress.
• 1898 – Gracie Fields was born (d. 1979). English vaudeville performer.
• 1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin was born (d. 1977). Russian composer.
• 1900 – First railway train runs on the Cairo to Khartoum line through the Sudan.
• 1900 – S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.
• 1900 – Joseph Frederick Wagner was born. composer.
• 1900 – Maria of Romania was born (d. 1961). Queen Consort of Yugoslavia.
• 1901 – Chic Young was born (d. 1973). American cartoonist.
• 1901 – Richard Copley Christie dies (b. 1830). English scholar.
• 1902 – Rudolph Bing was born (d. 1997). Austrian-born opera manager.
• 1902 – Josemaría Escrivá was born (d. 1975). Spanish religious author.
• 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia .
• 1903 – Hem Vejakorn was born (d. 1969). Thai illustrator.
• 1904 – George Balanchine was born (d. 1983). Russian dancer/choreographer.
• 1905 – According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir was born (d. 1986). French author (“Le Deuxième Sexe”).
• 1908 – Wilhelm Busch dies (b. 1832). German painter.
• 1908 – Abraham Goldfaden dies (b. 1840). Russian-born actor.
• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee was born (d. 1970). Burlesque performer.
• 1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones dies (b. 1853). American composer.
• 1912 – United States Marines invade Honduras.
• 1912 – Ralph Tubbs was born (d. 1996). British architect.
• 1913 – Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California (d. 1994). 37th United States President.
• 1914 – Kenny (Klook) Clarke was born (d. 1985). American jazz drummer and composer
• 1915 – Fernando Lamas was born (d. 1982). Argentine actor.
• 1916 – The Ottoman Empire prevailed in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated.
• 1916 – Vic Mizzy was born. American orchestra leader
• 1916 – Peter Twinn was born (d. 2004). English World War II code-breaker.
• 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1917 – Herbert Lom was born. Czech actor
• 1917 – Otto Glória was born. Brazilian football manager.
• 1918 – Émile Reynaud dies (b. 1844). French scientist.
• 1920 – Clive Dunn was born. British actor.
• 1920 – João Cabral de Melo Neto was born (d. 1999). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said was born. Pakistani scholar.
• 1921 – Lister Sinclair was born (d. 2006). Canadian broadcaster and playwright.
• 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana was born. Indian-born American biochemist who (with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley) shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
• 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré was born (d. 1984). President of Guinea.
• 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes first autogiro flight.
• 1923 – Katherine Mansfield dies (b. 1888). New Zealand writer.
• 1924 – Sergei Parajanov was born (d. 1990). Armenian film director.
• 1925 – Lee Van Cleef was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1926 – Jean-Pierre Côté was born (d. 2002). Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec.
• 1928 – Judith Krantz was born. American author
• 1928 – Domenico Modugno was born (d. 1994). Italian singer, songwriter.
• 1928 – Sandino proclama en Nicaragua la república de Nueva Segovia, a cuya capital llamaría Ciudad Sandino.
• 1929 – The Seeing Eye is established with the mission to train dogs to assist the blind (Nashville, Tennessee).
• 1929 – Heiner Muller was born (d. 1995). German dramatist.
• 1929 – Brian Friel was born. Irish dramatist
• 1929 – Dorothea Puente was born. American serial killer
• 1931 – Algis Budrys was born. American author
• 1931 – Wayne Munn dies (b. 1896). Wrestler.
• 1932 – Robert P. Casey was born (d. 2000). American politician.
• 1934 – Bart Starr was born. American football player
• 1935 – Bob Denver was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1935 – Dick Enberg was born. American sportscaster
• 1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons was born. American writer
• 1936 – John Gilbert dies (b. 1899). American actor.
• 1937 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
• 1937 – Racially mixed marriages are banned by Italy in its North African colonies.
• 1939 – A Líbia é incorporada ao território da Itália.
• 1939 – Johann Strauss III dies (b. 1866). Austrian conductor.
• 1939 – Johnny Gruelle dies (b. 1880). American cartoonist, children’s book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann.
• 1940 – Jimmy Boyd was born. American actor and singer
• 1940 – Barbara Buczek was born (d. 1993). Polish composer.
• 1940 – Ruth Dreifuss was born. Swiss politician
• 1941 – Joan Baez was born. American singer and activist
• 1941 – Gilles Vaillancourt was born. Quebec politician
• 1942 – K Callan was born. American actress
• 1942 – Susannah York was born. British actress
• 1943 – Freddie Starr was born. English comedian and singer
• 1944 – Jimmy Page was born. English rock musician, guitarist (Led Zeppelin) .
• 1945 – The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1946 – Countee Cullen dies (b. 1903). American poet.
• 1947 – Ronnie Landfield was born. American artist
• 1947 – Karl Mannheim dies (b. 1893). German sociologist.
• 1949 – Five RAF reconnaissance planes are shot down by Israeli fighters over Egypt.
• 1950 – David Johansen was born. American singer.
• 1950 – Rio Reiser was born (d. 1996). German singer.
• 1951 – United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• 1951 – Crystal Gayle was born.American singer
• 1951 – M.L. Carr was born. Basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Hugh Bayley was born. British politician
• 1955 – J. K. Simmons was born. American actor
• 1956 – Kimberly Beck was born. American actress
• 1956 – Imelda Staunton was born. British actress
• 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca was born. Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1958 – Willis Rodney Whitney dies (b. 1868). American chemist and research director who founded the General Electric Company’s research laboratory and directed pioneering work there .
• 1959 – Mark Martin was born. American NASCAR driver.
• 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú was born. Nobel Peace Prize laureate / Nace Rigoberta Menchú, guatemalteca defensora de los derechos humanos. Premio Nobel de la Paz 1992.
• 1959 – Cristi Minculescu was born. Romanian musician
• 1959 – Otis Nixon was born. Baseball player
• 1960 – Construction of the Aswan Dam begins in Egypt.
• 1961 – Emily Greene Balch dies (b. 1867). American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
• 1963 – Michael Everson was born. Expert in writing systems and Unicode
• 1964 – Several Panamanian youths put up the Panamanian flag, and are fired on from the Canal Zone, setting off four days of anti-imperialist insurrection around the country.
• 1964 – Anti-American rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.
• 1965 – Eric Erlandson was born. American musician
• 1965 – Joely Richardson was born. British actress
• 1965 – Darren Bennett was born. Australian-born American football player
• 1965 – Iain Dowie was born. English football manager
• 1967 – Claudio Caniggia was born. Argentinian footballer
• 1967 – Steven Harwell was born. American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1967 – Dave Matthews was born. South African singer and musician
• 1967 – Carl Bell was born. American musician
• 1968 – Surveyor 7, the last of America’s unmanned lunar probes, landed on the Moon.
• 1968 – Jimmy Adams was born. West Indian cricketer
• 1968 – Joey Lauren Adams was born. American actress
• 1968 – Al Schnier was born. American rock guitarist
• 1969 – El Concorde hace su primer vuelo de prueba.
• 1970 – Alex Staropoli was born. Italian keyboardist
• 1970 – Lara Fabian was born. Belgian singer
• 1971 – Daniel Dumile was born. American hip hop artist
• 1971 – Scott Thornton was born. National Hockey League player
• 1971 – Elmer Flick dies (b. 1876). Baseball player.
• 1972 – RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire (Hong Kong harbor).
• 1972 – Mat Hoffman was born. American BMX biker
• 1972 – Jay Powell was born. Baseball player
• 1972 – Ted Shawn dies (b. 1891). American dancer.
• 1975 – Angela Bettis was born. American actress
• 1975 – Kim Mathers was born. Former wife of Eminem
• 1975 – Kiko Calero was born. Baseball player
• 1975 – Pierre Fresnay dies (b. 1879). French actor.
• 1975 – Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov dies (b. 1901). Russian mathematician.
• 1976 – Todd Grisham was born. American professional wrestling interviewer
• 1976 – Radek Bonk was born. National Hockey League player
• 1976 – Rupert Wildt dies (b. 1905). German-American astronomer who studied atmospheres of planets. He identified (1932) certain absorption bands (observed by Slipher) in the spectra of Jupiter and the outer planets as indicative of ammonia and methane as minor components of these planets which are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.
• 1978 – Chad Johnson was born. American football player
• 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso was born. Italian footballer
• 1978 – AJ McLean was born. American singer
• 1978 – Maggie Rizer was born. American model and AIDS activist
• 1978 – Mathieu Garon was born. National Hockey League goaltender
• 1979 – Tomiko Van was born. Japanese singer.
• 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi dies (b. 1891). Italian engineer and architect who gained international recognition for his dramatic designs for large-span structures made possible with the use of reinforced concrete.
• 1980 – Na Arábia Saudita, 63 muçulmanos fanáticos são decapitados por terem sitiado a Grande Mesquita de Meca em novembro de 1979.
• 1981 – In Portugal Francisco Pinto Balsemão becomes Prime-Minister in substitution of Diogo Freitas do Amaral.
• 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek was born.Polish footballer
• 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki dies (b. 1922). Polish composer.
• 1984 – Wolfgang Staudte dies (b. 1906). German director.
• 1985 – Robert Mayer dies (b. 1879). British businessman and philanthropist.
• 1986 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
• 1987 – Paolo Nutini was born.British Singer/Songwriter
• 1987 – Pablo Santos was born (d. 2006). Mexican actor-
• 1987 – Marion Hutton dies (b. 1919). American singer.
• 1987 – Arthur Lake dies (b. 1905). American actor.
• 1988 – Científicos del Instituto Whitehead, de Boston, logran aislar el gen (TDF) responsable del sexo humano y localizado en el cromosoma “Y”, que está presente sólo en los hombres.
• 1989 – The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California.
• 1989 – Michaella Krajicek was born. Dutch tennis player
• 1989 – Bill Terry dies (b. 1898). Baseball player.
• 1990 – Spud Chandler dies (b. 1907). Baseball player.
• 1991 – The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• 1992 – Serbia se declara como República independiente de Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1992 – Bill Naughton dies (b. 1910). British playwright.
• 1992 – Steve Brodie dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1993 – Svetoslav Roerich dies (b. 1904). Russian painter.
• 1994 – Johnny Temple dies (b. 1927). Baseball player.
• 1995 – Valeri Poliakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.
• 1995 – Peter Cook dies (b. 1937). British actor, satirist, writer, and comedian.
• 1995 – Souphanouvong dies (b. 1909). President of Laos.
• 1996 – Sun Microsystems announced the formation of JavaSoft.
• 1997 – A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro. Airport killing 29.
• 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski dies (b. 1909). Prime Minister of Poland
• 1997 – Jesse White dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1998 – Kenichi Fukui dies (b. 1918). Japanese chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann for investigation of the mechanisms of chemical reactions. In 1952, at Kyoto University, Fukui introduced his “frontier orbital theory of reactions.
• 1998 – two teams of international collaborations of scientists announced the discovery that galaxies are accelerating, flying apart at ever faster speeds, by observing distant, ancient exploding stars .
• 2000 – O presidente do Uzbequistão, Islam Karimov, é reeleito com 91,9% dos votos.
• 2000 – Nigel Tranter dies (b. 1909). Scottish historian and author.
• 2001 – Maurice Prather dies (b. 1926). American motion picture and still photographer.
• 2002 – The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
• 2003 – Peter Tinnswood died at age 66 . British TV comedy writer Peter Tinniswood wrote for numerous British TV series during his 40-year career.
• 2003 – Will McDonough dies (b. 1935). American sports journalist.
• 2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
• 2005 – Gonzalo Gavira dies (b. 1925). Mexican film sound technician.
• 2006 – The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
• 2006 – The first The Howard Stern Show via Sirius Satellite Radio is broadcast.
• 2006 – Andy Caldecott dies during during the 9th stage (Dakar Rally) (b. 1964). Australian KTM motorcyclist
• 2006 – Mikk Mikiver dies (b. 1937). Estonian actor, director.
• Martyrs’ Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone
• Roman Catholic – Feast of Saint Adrian
• Eastern Orthodox – Feast of Saint Theophan the Recluse
• Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines