A recipe for life Julho 14, 2007

Things which you need:

6 Cups of Love
3 Table spoons of Hope
2 Cups of Loyalty
5 Table spoons of Understanding
4 Cups of Kindness
2 Table spoons of Tenderness
4 Cups of Forgiveness
4 Cups of Ptience
1 Barrel of Laughter

Method:

Take Love and Loyalty and mix throughly with Faith. Blend it with kindness, tenderness and understanding. Add hope and sprinkle abundantly with laughter, bake it with sunshine serve daily in generous helpings.

USA – National Nude Day. What does it mean ?

According to some sources today is The National Nude Day, in USA. Does it means, today, everybody is naked? Bush also?

What I know is that everybody born naked.

Well if this is true anybody will be offended with this picture

photo: model unknown (well… if you know her tell me)

USA – National Nude Day. What does it mean ?

According to some sources today is The National Nude Day, in USA. Does it means, today, everybody is naked? Bush also?

What I know is that everybody born naked.

Well if this is true anybody will be offended with this picture

photo: model unknown (well… if you know her tell me)

USA – National Nude Day. What does it mean ?

According to some sources today is The National Nude Day, in USA. Does it means, today, everybody is naked? Bush also?

What I know is that everybody born naked.

Well if this is true anybody will be offended with this picture

photo: model unknown (well… if you know her tell me)

Vou Contar-te Um Segredo – Margarida Rebelo Pinto

Podias ter-me dito que ias sair da minha vida. A paixão é mesmo isto, nunca sabemos quando acaba ou se transforma em amor, e eu sabia que a tua paixão não iria resistir à erosão do tempo, ao frio dos dias, ao vazio da cama, ao silêncio da distância. Há um tempo para acreditar, um tempo para viver e um tempo para desistir, e nós tivemos muita sorte porque vivemos todos esses tempos no modo certo. Podias ter-me dito que querias conjugar o verbo desistir. Demorei muito tempo a aceitar que, às vezes, desistir é o mesmo que vencer, sem travar batalhas. Antigamente pensava que não, que quem desiste perde sempre, que a subtracção é a arma mais cobarde dos amantes, e o silêncio a forma mais injusta de deixar fenecer os sonhos. Mas a vida ensinou-me o contrário. Hoje sei que desistir é apenas um caminho possível, às vezes o único que os homens conhecem. Contigo aprendi que o amor é uma força misteriosa e divina. Sei que também aprendeste muito comigo, mais do que imaginas e do que agora consegues alcançar. Só o tempo te vai dar tudo o que de mim guardaste, esse tempo que é uma caixa que se abre ao contrário: de um lado estás tu, e do outro estou eu, a ver-te sem te poder tocar, a abraçar-te todas as noites antes de adormeceres e a cada manhã ao acordares. Não sei quando te voltarei a ver ou a ter notícias tuas, mas sabes uma coisa? Já não me importo, porque guardei-te no meu coração antes de partires. Numa noite perfeita entre tantas outras, liguei o meu coração ao teu com um fio invisível e troquei uma parte da tua alma com a minha, enquanto dormias.

Vou Contar-te Um Segredo – Margarida Rebelo Pinto

On this day in History – Jul 14

• 0664 – Deusdedit of Canterbury dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 0937 – Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria dies.
• 1093 – Death of St. Ulric of Zell.
• 1223 – King Philip II of France dies (b. 1165)
• 1223 – In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
• 1270 – Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury dies
• 1274 – Saint Bonaventure dies (b. 1221)
• 1454 – Poliziano was born in, Montepulciano, Tuscany. Italian poet and humanist, friend & protégé of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and a foremost classical scholar of the Renaissance.
• 1486 – Andrea del Sarto was born in Firenze (d. 1530). Italien painter (Florentine School).
• 1536 – France and Portugal sign the naval treaty of Lyons, aligning themselves against Spain.
• 1575 – Richard Taverner dies. English Bible translator
• 1602 – Jules Mazarin was born (d. 1661). French statesman – 1st Minister (1642-1661) – and cardinal.
• 1608 – George Goring, Lord Goring was born (d. 1657). English royalist soldier.
• 1610 – Ferdinando II de’ Medici, 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 24 May1670).
• 1614 – Camillus de Lellis dies (b. 1550). Italian saint.
• 1634 – Pasquier Quesnel was born (d. 1719). French Jansenist theologian.
• 1642 – Benjamin Thompson was born in Quincy, Massachusetts (d. 13 Apr 1714). 1st native American poet (“New England Crisis”)
• 1671 – Jacques D’Allonville was born (d. 1732). French astronomer and mathematician
• 1671 – Méric Casaubon dies (b. 1599). English classical scholar.
• 1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval was born (d. 1747). French soldier.
• 1676 – Caspar Abel was born (d. 1763). German theologian, historian, and poet.
• 1696 – William Oldys was born (d. 1761). English antiquarian and bibliographer.
• 1721 – John Douglas was born (d. 1807). Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters.
• 1723 – Claude Fleury dies (b. 1640). French historian.
• 1742 – Richard Bentley dies (b. 1662). English classical scholar.
• 1743 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin was born (d. 1816). Russian poet.
• 1764 – France: Jean-François Varletwas born in Paris. Revolutionary considered by many an anarchist precursor. Varlet is author of one of the first anarchist proclamations, “l’Explosion”.
• 1766 – František Maxmilián Kaňka dies (b. 1674). Czech architect.
• 1774 – James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine dies (b. 1682). British field marshal
• 1780 – Charles Batteux dies (b. 1713). French philosopher.
• 1789 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. This event in 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution./ Tomada da Bastilha. A fortaleza da Bastilha é atacada e tomada pela população de Paris. A Revolução Francesa tem o seu início. O Dia Nacional da França comemora esta data
• 1789 – Jacques de Flesselles dies assassinated (b. 1721). French provost.
• 1789 – Bernard-René de Launay dies murdered during the Storming of the Bastille Governor of the Bastille
• 1790 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
• 1790 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon dies (b. 1717). Austrian field marshal.
• 1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
• 1800 – Lorenzo Mascheroni dies in Paris (b. 13 May 1750 in Bergamo). Italian mathematician.
• 1801 – Johannes Peter Müller was born (d. 1858). German physiologist.
• 1816 – Arthur de Gobineau was born (d. 1882). French philosopher.
• 1816 – Francisco de Miranda dies (b. 1750). Venezuelan revolutionary
• 1817 – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël dies (b. 1766). Swiss author.
• 1825 – The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1827 – The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1827 – Augustin Jean Fresnel dies in Ville-d’Avray, France (b. 10 May 1788 in Broglie). French physicist and mathematician.
• 1829 – Edward White Benson was born (d. 1896). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1834 – Edmond Charles Genêt dies (b. 1763). French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.
• 1850 – August Neander dies (b. 1789). German theologian.
• 1853 – the first US World’s Fair opened in New York.
• 1857 – Emmeline Pankhurst was born (d. 1928). English suffragette.
• 1859 – Willy Hess was born (d. 1928). German violinist.
• 1860 – Owen Wister was born (d. 1938). American author.
• 1862 – Gustav Klimt was born (d. 1918). Austrian painter and graphic artist.
• 1863 – Paul Walden was born (d. 24 Jan 1957). A Latvian chemist who, while teaching at Riga, discovered the Walden inversion, a reversal of stereochemical configuration that occurs in many reactions of covalent compounds (1896).
• 1865 – The Matterhorn is conquered . A group of British climbers, headed by British mountaineer Edward Whymper, reached the peak of the Matterhorn ahead of the Italian Alpine team.
• 1865 – Arthur Capper was born (d. 1951). Newspaper publisher and politician.
• 1865 – Benjamin Gompertz dies in London (b. 5 Mar 1799 in London). English mathematican and his well remembered for Gompertz’s Law of Mortality
• 1867 – Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.
• 1868 – Gertrude Bell was born (d. 1926). English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator.
• 1874 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt was born (d. 1944).
• 1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst dies (b. 1816). English Methodist chapel builder.
• 1881 – Billy the Kid dies killed by sheriff Pat Garrett (b. 1860). American outlaw.
• 1885 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos was born (d. 1959).
• 1887 – Alfred Krupp dies (b. 26 Apr 1812). German manufacturer of steel and armaments who was known as “The Cannon King.”
• 1891 – Alexander M. Volkov was born (d. 1977). Russian novelist and mathematician.
• 1893 – O general José Santos Zelaya se proclama ditador da Nicarágua.
• 1893 – Clarence J. Brown was born (d. 1965). Newspaper publisher and politician.
• 1896 – Buenaventura Durruti was born (d. 1936). Spanish anarchist.
• 1898 – A. B. “Happy” Chandler was born (d. 1991). Amerrican politician and baseball commissioner
• 1901 – Gerald Finzi was born (d. 1956). British composer.
• 1902 – The Campanile in St Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
• 1903 – Irving Stone was born in San Francisco (d. 1989). American novelist (Lust for Life; Love is Eternal; The Agony and the Ecstasy).
• 1904 – Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland (d. 1991). Polish Yiddish author. His many works (Enemies, A Love Story; A Crown of Feathers; etc.) will earn him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
• 1904 – Paul Kruger dies (b. 1824). Boer resistance leader.
• 1905 – Laurence Chisholm Young was born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 24 Dec 2000 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA). Mathematician.
• 1906 – Tom Carvel was born (d. 1990). Greek-born businessman and inventor.
• 1907 – Chico Landi was born (d. 1989). Brazilian racing driver.
• 1907 – William Henry Perkin dies (b. 1838). English chemist and inventor.
• 1910 – William Hanna was born (d. 2001). American animator.
• 1910 – Marius Petipa dies (b. 1818). French dancer and choreographer.
• 1911 – Terry-Thomas was born (d. 1990). British actor.
• 1912 – Northrop Frye was born (d. 1991). Canadian literary critic
• 1912 – Woody Guthrie was born (d. 1967). American folk musician ( This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin’, Union Maid, So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, Dirty Overhalls, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Sinking of the Reuben James)
• 1913 – Gerald Rudolph Ford was born. 38 th President of the United States. He was the first president to have served without having been chosen in a national election.
• 1915 – Criação do América Futebol Clube (Natal – RN)
• 1916 – Natalia Ginzburg was born (d. 1991). Writer.
• 1917 – Octave Lapize dies (b. 1887). French cyclist.
• 1918 – Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala. Swedish Academy Award-winning director ( Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander)
• 1918 – Arthur Laurents was born. American playwright, novelist, and director.
• 1919 – Lino Ventura was born (d. 1987). Italian-born actor.
• 1921 – In a still-controversial decision, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrant Italian anarchists, were found guilty of the murder of two men in Massachusetts. They were found guilty of the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on 15 April 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. Sacco and Vanzetti, still maintaining their innocence, were executed on 23 August 1927, in spite of they have always mantained their innocence.
• 1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson was born. British chemist, joint recipient with Ernst Fischer of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for “for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.”
• 1921 – Leon Garfield was born (d. 1996). English children’s author.
• 1922 – Brigadier General Robin Olds was born (d. 2007). American fighter pilot.
• 1922 – Elfriede Rinkel was born. Nazi concentration camp guard
• 1923 – Dale Robertson was born. American actor
• 1923 – Nascimento de António Quadros († 1994). Membro da geração da revista «57», criada em torno Álvaro Ribeiro. Influenciado pelo existencialismo, que o fez publicar, em 1954, Introdução a uma estética existencial, a sua obra mais conhecida é Portugal Razão e Mistério, (1987).
• 1924 – Alberto Bordalo was born (d. 1 Apr 1964). Brazilian writer and poet.
• 1924 – James W. Black was born. Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1926 – Harry Dean Stanton was born. American actor (Down Periscope, Never Talk to Strangers, Against the Wall, Wild at Heart, Twister, The Last Temptation of Christ, Red Dawn, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Young Doctors in Love, Escape from New York, Private Benjamin, Death Watch, The Rose, Alien, The Godfather, Part 2, Kelly’s Heroes, Cool Hand Luke, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Two-Lane Blacktop).
• 1927 – John Chancellor was born (d. 1996). American television commentator.
• 1928 – Nancy Olson was born. American actress ( Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Snowball Express).
• 1930 – Polly Bergen was born. American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
• 1931 – Robert Stephens was born (d. 12 Nov 1995). Actor (The Secret Rapture, Chaplin, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Henry V, Empire of the Sun, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Taste of Honey).
• 1932 – Roosevelt Grier was born. American football player, actor, and minister
• 1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
• 1933 – Del Reeves was born. American singer (Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud)
• 1933 – Robert Bourassa was born (d. 1996). Quebec politician.
• 1937 – Yoshiro Mori was born. Japanese politician
• 1938 – Jerry Rubin was born (d. 1994). American activist
• 1939 – Sid Haig was born. American actor
• 1939 – George E. Slusser was born. American scholar and writer
• 1939 – Karel Gott was born. Czech singer.
• 1939 – Alphonse Mucha dies (b. 24 Aug 1860). Czech Art Nouveau painter, illustrator, poster artist, and designer.
• 1940 – World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
• 1941 – Andreas Khol was born. Austrian politician
• 1941 – Maulana Karenga was born. American author and activist.
• 1942 – Javier Solana was born. Spanish European Union foreign policy chief (1995-1999).
• 1943 – In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.
• 1944 – Billy McCool was born. Baseball player
• 1945 – Fundação da Academia Brasileira de Música
• 1946 – John Wood was born. Australian actor.
• 1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care was first published. This book became one of the most widely-discussed books ever published and one of the most widely sold.
• 1947 – Claudia Kennedy was born. Retired U.S. Army lieutenant general.
• 1948 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
• 1950 – Gwen Guthrie was born (d. 1999). American singer.
• 1951 – Erich Hallhuber was born (d. 2003). German actor.
• 1952 – Franklin Graham was born. American evangelist
• 1953 – Richard von Mises dies in Boston (b. 19 Apr 1883 in Lemberg, Austria, now Lvov, Ukraine). Economist and applied mathematician, who worked on fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics statistics and probability theory (Theory of Flight)
• 1954 – The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.
• 1954 – Jacinto Benavente dies (b. 1866). Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1922 . ( La Gobernadora (1901) [The Governor’s Wife], Rosas de otoño (1905) [Autumnal Roses], and particularly Señora ama ( 1908) [The Lady of the House] and La Malquerida (1913) [The Wrongly Loved]).
• 1956 – Vladimir Kulich was born. Czech actor
• 1956 – John Wishart dies in Acapulco, Mexico (b. 28 Nov 1898 in Montrose, Scotland). Mathematician and statistician.
• 1958 – Iraqi Revolution: King Faisal II is assassinated at Baghdad. The monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation’s new leader. / No Iraque, um Golpe de Estado organizado por oficiais do exército proclama a República, e assassina o rei Faisal II (1935-1958), e quase toda a sua família.
• 1960 – Guatemala: Fire raging through a Guatemala City insane asylum kills 225, severely injuring 300.
• 1961 – Jackie Earle Haley was born. American actor.
• 1963 – A Câmara Municipal de Lisboa cria em Portugal a primeira Biblioteca Pública para cegos
• 1965 – Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
• 1965 – Igor Khoroshev was born. Russian keyboard player (Yes)
• 1965 – Adlai Stevenson dies (b. 1900). U.S. presidential candidate.
• 1966 – In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory.
• 1966 – A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225.
• 1966 – Brigitte Bardot and Gunther Sachs wedding
• 1966 – Charles Edward Ambler was born. British noble
• 1966 – Tanya Donelly was born. American musician (Belly)
• 1966 – Ellen Reid was born. Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
• 1966 – Matthew Fox was born. American actor
• 1967 – Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
• 1967 – Robin Ventura was born. Baseball player
• 1967 – Jeff Jarrett was born. American professional wrestler
• 1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy was born. American politician
• 1967 – Tudor Arghezi dies (b. 1880). Romanian writer.
• 1968 – Exactly one year to the date of teammate Eddie Mathews’ 500th carrer home run, Hank Aaron becomes the eighth member of said club with a home run off Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Stadium in the state capital of Georgia.
• 1968 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky dies )b. 1892). Russian writer.
• 1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20.
• 1969 – Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to “lack of use,” leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency.
• 1970 – Missy Gold was born in Great Falls, Montana, USA . Actress ( Little Mo, Benson, Twirl )
• 1971 – Chirag Bhimani was born. Structural and Environmental Engineer
• 1971 – Bubba Ray Dudley was born. Professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Mark LoMonaco was born. American professional wrestler
• 1971 – Joey Styles was born. American wrestling commentator
• 1971 – Marie-Chantal Toupin was born. French Canadian singer
• 1972 – Deborah Mailman was born. Australian actress.
• 1972 – Flávia Monteiro was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1972 – Emílio Abreu Gómez dies. Mexican writer.
• 1972 – Leila Diniz dies (b. 1945). Brazilian actress.
• 1973 – Alley Baggett was born in Houston, Texas. American model.
• 1973 – Monoxide Child was born. American musician (Twiztid)
• 1973 – Adam Quinn was born. American bagpipe player
• 1974 – David Mitchell was born. English comedian and actor
• 1974 – Raul Lino dies (b. 21 Nov 1879). Portuguese architect.
• 1975 – Taboo (Jaime Gomez) was born. American rapper (Black Eyed Peas).
• 1975 – Tim Hudson was born. Baseball player.
• 1975 – Madan Mohan dies (b. 1924). Hindi Film’s Melodious Music director
• 1976 – Geraint Jones was born. English cricketer
• 1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden was born.
• 1979 – Bernie Castro was born. Baseball player.
• 1980 – George Smith was born. Australian Rugby Union Player
• 1981 – MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.
• 1981 – Lee Mead was born. Brutishj musical theatre actor
• 1983 – Wesley Dening was born. Australian TV personality
• 1984 – New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon
• 1984 – Philippe Wynne dies (b. 1941). American musician.
• 1984 – Ernest Tidyman dies. American writer.
• 1986 – Rivers Langley was born. American radio personality
• 1987 – Kieran Williams was born. English radio presenter and voice over
• 1988 – Volkswagen‘s automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania – the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States – closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen‘s Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing.
• 1988 – James Vaughan was born. English footballer
• 1989 – The 16th James Bond movie “License to Kill” premiers.
• 1989 – Sean Flynn-Amir was born. American actor
• 1991 – Leaders of the Group of Seven nations began gathering in London for their annual economic summit.
• 1992 – A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.
• 1993 – Léo Ferré dies (b. 24 Aug 1916). French musician and singer. / Morte do poeta e cantor francês Leo Ferré (n. 24 Ago 1916). (Nota pessoal : “Avec le temps”, “La solitude“, “C’est extra” – são canções inesquecíveis)
• 1994 – César Tovar dies (b. 1940). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
• 1995 – The MP3 format was named.
• 1996 – Jeff Krosnoff dies (b. 1964). CART driver
• 1997 – Spain: 1 million marchers protest ETA terrorism, Madrid.
• 1997 – A free Jean-Michel Jarre concert attracts 2 million, Paris, France.
• 1998 – Dick McDonald dies (b. 1909). American fast food entrepreneur
• 1998 – Mário Sargedas dies in Lisbon (b. 1933). Portugueses actor. (Paraíso Perdido– 1995; “Vila Faia” -1982, TV Series; Fado Corrido-1964; Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico-1962…).
• 1999 – Gar Samuelson dies. American musician (Megadeth) .
• 2000 – The 13th International AIDS Conference comes to a close in Durban, South Africa.
• 2000 – William Roscoe Estep dies (b. 1920). American Baptist historian.
• 2000 – George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
• 2001 – The International Olympic Committee votes for Beijing to be the host of the 2008 Olympics. This is the first time that China had been bestowed this honor.
• 2002 – During Bastille Day celebrations, Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
• 2002 – Joaquín Vidella Balaguer y Ricardo dies (b. 01 Sep 1906). President of the Dominican Republic (1960-1962, 1966-1978, 1986-1996).
• 2002 – Qiqi dies. Longest-living captive Chinese river dolphin
• 2003 – André Claveau dies (b. 1911). French singer.
• 2003 – Tex Schramm dies (b. 1920). American football general manager.
• 2003 – Éva Janikovszky dies. Hungarian novellist
• 2003 – François-Albert Angers dies (b. 1909). French Canadian economist.
• 2004 – O guitarrista espanhol Paco de Lucía ganha o Prémio Príncipe de Astúrias.
• 2004 – O escritor mexicano José Emilio Pacheco ganha o Prémio Iberoamericano Pablo Neruda
• 2005 – Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom
• 2005 – Cicely Saunders dies (b. 1918). English Nurse, physician and writer.
• 2006 – The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all relegated. AC Milan were spared relegation.
• 2006 – Stargate SG-1 begins its tenth season, making it the longest-running science fiction series on American television.
• France and all French dependencies – Bastille Day
• Sweden – Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day.
• United States – National Nude Day

On this day in History – Jul 14

• 0664 – Deusdedit of Canterbury dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 0937 – Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria dies.
• 1093 – Death of St. Ulric of Zell.
• 1223 – King Philip II of France dies (b. 1165)
• 1223 – In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
• 1270 – Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury dies
• 1274 – Saint Bonaventure dies (b. 1221)
• 1454 – Poliziano was born in, Montepulciano, Tuscany. Italian poet and humanist, friend & protégé of Lorenzo de’ Medici, and a foremost classical scholar of the Renaissance.
• 1486 – Andrea del Sarto was born in Firenze (d. 1530). Italien painter (Florentine School).
• 1536 – France and Portugal sign the naval treaty of Lyons, aligning themselves against Spain.
• 1575 – Richard Taverner dies. English Bible translator
• 1602 – Jules Mazarin was born (d. 1661). French statesman – 1st Minister (1642-1661) – and cardinal.
• 1608 – George Goring, Lord Goring was born (d. 1657). English royalist soldier.
• 1610 – Ferdinando II de’ Medici, 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 24 May1670).
• 1614 – Camillus de Lellis dies (b. 1550). Italian saint.
• 1634 – Pasquier Quesnel was born (d. 1719). French Jansenist theologian.
• 1642 – Benjamin Thompson was born in Quincy, Massachusetts (d. 13 Apr 1714). 1st native American poet (“New England Crisis”)
• 1671 – Jacques D’Allonville was born (d. 1732). French astronomer and mathematician
• 1671 – Méric Casaubon dies (b. 1599). English classical scholar.
• 1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval was born (d. 1747). French soldier.
• 1676 – Caspar Abel was born (d. 1763). German theologian, historian, and poet.
• 1696 – William Oldys was born (d. 1761). English antiquarian and bibliographer.
• 1721 – John Douglas was born (d. 1807). Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters.
• 1723 – Claude Fleury dies (b. 1640). French historian.
• 1742 – Richard Bentley dies (b. 1662). English classical scholar.
• 1743 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin was born (d. 1816). Russian poet.
• 1764 – France: Jean-François Varletwas born in Paris. Revolutionary considered by many an anarchist precursor. Varlet is author of one of the first anarchist proclamations, “l’Explosion”.
• 1766 – František Maxmilián Kaňka dies (b. 1674). Czech architect.
• 1774 – James O’Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine dies (b. 1682). British field marshal
• 1780 – Charles Batteux dies (b. 1713). French philosopher.
• 1789 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. This event in 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution./ Tomada da Bastilha. A fortaleza da Bastilha é atacada e tomada pela população de Paris. A Revolução Francesa tem o seu início. O Dia Nacional da França comemora esta data
• 1789 – Jacques de Flesselles dies assassinated (b. 1721). French provost.
• 1789 – Bernard-René de Launay dies murdered during the Storming of the Bastille Governor of the Bastille
• 1790 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
• 1790 – Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon dies (b. 1717). Austrian field marshal.
• 1791 – The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
• 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
• 1800 – Lorenzo Mascheroni dies in Paris (b. 13 May 1750 in Bergamo). Italian mathematician.
• 1801 – Johannes Peter Müller was born (d. 1858). German physiologist.
• 1816 – Arthur de Gobineau was born (d. 1882). French philosopher.
• 1816 – Francisco de Miranda dies (b. 1750). Venezuelan revolutionary
• 1817 – Anne Louise Germaine de Staël dies (b. 1766). Swiss author.
• 1825 – The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded at the University of Virginia.
• 1827 – The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.
• 1827 – Augustin Jean Fresnel dies in Ville-d’Avray, France (b. 10 May 1788 in Broglie). French physicist and mathematician.
• 1829 – Edward White Benson was born (d. 1896). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1834 – Edmond Charles Genêt dies (b. 1763). French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.
• 1850 – August Neander dies (b. 1789). German theologian.
• 1853 – the first US World’s Fair opened in New York.
• 1857 – Emmeline Pankhurst was born (d. 1928). English suffragette.
• 1859 – Willy Hess was born (d. 1928). German violinist.
• 1860 – Owen Wister was born (d. 1938). American author.
• 1862 – Gustav Klimt was born (d. 1918). Austrian painter and graphic artist.
• 1863 – Paul Walden was born (d. 24 Jan 1957). A Latvian chemist who, while teaching at Riga, discovered the Walden inversion, a reversal of stereochemical configuration that occurs in many reactions of covalent compounds (1896).
• 1865 – The Matterhorn is conquered . A group of British climbers, headed by British mountaineer Edward Whymper, reached the peak of the Matterhorn ahead of the Italian Alpine team.
• 1865 – Arthur Capper was born (d. 1951). Newspaper publisher and politician.
• 1865 – Benjamin Gompertz dies in London (b. 5 Mar 1799 in London). English mathematican and his well remembered for Gompertz’s Law of Mortality
• 1867 – Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.
• 1868 – Gertrude Bell was born (d. 1926). English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator.
• 1874 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt was born (d. 1944).
• 1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst dies (b. 1816). English Methodist chapel builder.
• 1881 – Billy the Kid dies killed by sheriff Pat Garrett (b. 1860). American outlaw.
• 1885 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos was born (d. 1959).
• 1887 – Alfred Krupp dies (b. 26 Apr 1812). German manufacturer of steel and armaments who was known as “The Cannon King.”
• 1891 – Alexander M. Volkov was born (d. 1977). Russian novelist and mathematician.
• 1893 – O general José Santos Zelaya se proclama ditador da Nicarágua.
• 1893 – Clarence J. Brown was born (d. 1965). Newspaper publisher and politician.
• 1896 – Buenaventura Durruti was born (d. 1936). Spanish anarchist.
• 1898 – A. B. “Happy” Chandler was born (d. 1991). Amerrican politician and baseball commissioner
• 1901 – Gerald Finzi was born (d. 1956). British composer.
• 1902 – The Campanile in St Mark’s Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
• 1903 – Irving Stone was born in San Francisco (d. 1989). American novelist (Lust for Life; Love is Eternal; The Agony and the Ecstasy).
• 1904 – Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland (d. 1991). Polish Yiddish author. His many works (Enemies, A Love Story; A Crown of Feathers; etc.) will earn him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
• 1904 – Paul Kruger dies (b. 1824). Boer resistance leader.
• 1905 – Laurence Chisholm Young was born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 24 Dec 2000 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA). Mathematician.
• 1906 – Tom Carvel was born (d. 1990). Greek-born businessman and inventor.
• 1907 – Chico Landi was born (d. 1989). Brazilian racing driver.
• 1907 – William Henry Perkin dies (b. 1838). English chemist and inventor.
• 1910 – William Hanna was born (d. 2001). American animator.
• 1910 – Marius Petipa dies (b. 1818). French dancer and choreographer.
• 1911 – Terry-Thomas was born (d. 1990). British actor.
• 1912 – Northrop Frye was born (d. 1991). Canadian literary critic
• 1912 – Woody Guthrie was born (d. 1967). American folk musician ( This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin’, Union Maid, So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, Dirty Overhalls, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Sinking of the Reuben James)
• 1913 – Gerald Rudolph Ford was born. 38 th President of the United States. He was the first president to have served without having been chosen in a national election.
• 1915 – Criação do América Futebol Clube (Natal – RN)
• 1916 – Natalia Ginzburg was born (d. 1991). Writer.
• 1917 – Octave Lapize dies (b. 1887). French cyclist.
• 1918 – Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala. Swedish Academy Award-winning director ( Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander)
• 1918 – Arthur Laurents was born. American playwright, novelist, and director.
• 1919 – Lino Ventura was born (d. 1987). Italian-born actor.
• 1921 – In a still-controversial decision, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrant Italian anarchists, were found guilty of the murder of two men in Massachusetts. They were found guilty of the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on 15 April 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. Sacco and Vanzetti, still maintaining their innocence, were executed on 23 August 1927, in spite of they have always mantained their innocence.
• 1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson was born. British chemist, joint recipient with Ernst Fischer of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for “for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.”
• 1921 – Leon Garfield was born (d. 1996). English children’s author.
• 1922 – Brigadier General Robin Olds was born (d. 2007). American fighter pilot.
• 1922 – Elfriede Rinkel was born. Nazi concentration camp guard
• 1923 – Dale Robertson was born. American actor
• 1923 – Nascimento de António Quadros († 1994). Membro da geração da revista «57», criada em torno Álvaro Ribeiro. Influenciado pelo existencialismo, que o fez publicar, em 1954, Introdução a uma estética existencial, a sua obra mais conhecida é Portugal Razão e Mistério, (1987).
• 1924 – Alberto Bordalo was born (d. 1 Apr 1964). Brazilian writer and poet.
• 1924 – James W. Black was born. Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1926 – Harry Dean Stanton was born. American actor (Down Periscope, Never Talk to Strangers, Against the Wall, Wild at Heart, Twister, The Last Temptation of Christ, Red Dawn, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Young Doctors in Love, Escape from New York, Private Benjamin, Death Watch, The Rose, Alien, The Godfather, Part 2, Kelly’s Heroes, Cool Hand Luke, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Two-Lane Blacktop).
• 1927 – John Chancellor was born (d. 1996). American television commentator.
• 1928 – Nancy Olson was born. American actress ( Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Snowball Express).
• 1930 – Polly Bergen was born. American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
• 1931 – Robert Stephens was born (d. 12 Nov 1995). Actor (The Secret Rapture, Chaplin, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Henry V, Empire of the Sun, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Taste of Honey).
• 1932 – Roosevelt Grier was born. American football player, actor, and minister
• 1933 – Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
• 1933 – Del Reeves was born. American singer (Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud)
• 1933 – Robert Bourassa was born (d. 1996). Quebec politician.
• 1937 – Yoshiro Mori was born. Japanese politician
• 1938 – Jerry Rubin was born (d. 1994). American activist
• 1939 – Sid Haig was born. American actor
• 1939 – George E. Slusser was born. American scholar and writer
• 1939 – Karel Gott was born. Czech singer.
• 1939 – Alphonse Mucha dies (b. 24 Aug 1860). Czech Art Nouveau painter, illustrator, poster artist, and designer.
• 1940 – World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.
• 1941 – Andreas Khol was born. Austrian politician
• 1941 – Maulana Karenga was born. American author and activist.
• 1942 – Javier Solana was born. Spanish European Union foreign policy chief (1995-1999).
• 1943 – In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.
• 1944 – Billy McCool was born. Baseball player
• 1945 – Fundação da Academia Brasileira de Música
• 1946 – John Wood was born. Australian actor.
• 1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care was first published. This book became one of the most widely-discussed books ever published and one of the most widely sold.
• 1947 – Claudia Kennedy was born. Retired U.S. Army lieutenant general.
• 1948 – Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
• 1950 – Gwen Guthrie was born (d. 1999). American singer.
• 1951 – Erich Hallhuber was born (d. 2003). German actor.
• 1952 – Franklin Graham was born. American evangelist
• 1953 – Richard von Mises dies in Boston (b. 19 Apr 1883 in Lemberg, Austria, now Lvov, Ukraine). Economist and applied mathematician, who worked on fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics statistics and probability theory (Theory of Flight)
• 1954 – The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.
• 1954 – Jacinto Benavente dies (b. 1866). Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1922 . ( La Gobernadora (1901) [The Governor’s Wife], Rosas de otoño (1905) [Autumnal Roses], and particularly Señora ama ( 1908) [The Lady of the House] and La Malquerida (1913) [The Wrongly Loved]).
• 1956 – Vladimir Kulich was born. Czech actor
• 1956 – John Wishart dies in Acapulco, Mexico (b. 28 Nov 1898 in Montrose, Scotland). Mathematician and statistician.
• 1958 – Iraqi Revolution: King Faisal II is assassinated at Baghdad. The monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation’s new leader. / No Iraque, um Golpe de Estado organizado por oficiais do exército proclama a República, e assassina o rei Faisal II (1935-1958), e quase toda a sua família.
• 1960 – Guatemala: Fire raging through a Guatemala City insane asylum kills 225, severely injuring 300.
• 1961 – Jackie Earle Haley was born. American actor.
• 1963 – A Câmara Municipal de Lisboa cria em Portugal a primeira Biblioteca Pública para cegos
• 1965 – Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.
• 1965 – Igor Khoroshev was born. Russian keyboard player (Yes)
• 1965 – Adlai Stevenson dies (b. 1900). U.S. presidential candidate.
• 1966 – In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory.
• 1966 – A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225.
• 1966 – Brigitte Bardot and Gunther Sachs wedding
• 1966 – Charles Edward Ambler was born. British noble
• 1966 – Tanya Donelly was born. American musician (Belly)
• 1966 – Ellen Reid was born. Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
• 1966 – Matthew Fox was born. American actor
• 1967 – Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
• 1967 – Robin Ventura was born. Baseball player
• 1967 – Jeff Jarrett was born. American professional wrestler
• 1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy was born. American politician
• 1967 – Tudor Arghezi dies (b. 1880). Romanian writer.
• 1968 – Exactly one year to the date of teammate Eddie Mathews’ 500th carrer home run, Hank Aaron becomes the eighth member of said club with a home run off Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Stadium in the state capital of Georgia.
• 1968 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky dies )b. 1892). Russian writer.
• 1969 – Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20.
• 1969 – Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to “lack of use,” leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency.
• 1970 – Missy Gold was born in Great Falls, Montana, USA . Actress ( Little Mo, Benson, Twirl )
• 1971 – Chirag Bhimani was born. Structural and Environmental Engineer
• 1971 – Bubba Ray Dudley was born. Professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Mark LoMonaco was born. American professional wrestler
• 1971 – Joey Styles was born. American wrestling commentator
• 1971 – Marie-Chantal Toupin was born. French Canadian singer
• 1972 – Deborah Mailman was born. Australian actress.
• 1972 – Flávia Monteiro was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1972 – Emílio Abreu Gómez dies. Mexican writer.
• 1972 – Leila Diniz dies (b. 1945). Brazilian actress.
• 1973 – Alley Baggett was born in Houston, Texas. American model.
• 1973 – Monoxide Child was born. American musician (Twiztid)
• 1973 – Adam Quinn was born. American bagpipe player
• 1974 – David Mitchell was born. English comedian and actor
• 1974 – Raul Lino dies (b. 21 Nov 1879). Portuguese architect.
• 1975 – Taboo (Jaime Gomez) was born. American rapper (Black Eyed Peas).
• 1975 – Tim Hudson was born. Baseball player.
• 1975 – Madan Mohan dies (b. 1924). Hindi Film’s Melodious Music director
• 1976 – Geraint Jones was born. English cricketer
• 1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden was born.
• 1979 – Bernie Castro was born. Baseball player.
• 1980 – George Smith was born. Australian Rugby Union Player
• 1981 – MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.
• 1981 – Lee Mead was born. Brutishj musical theatre actor
• 1983 – Wesley Dening was born. Australian TV personality
• 1984 – New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon
• 1984 – Philippe Wynne dies (b. 1941). American musician.
• 1984 – Ernest Tidyman dies. American writer.
• 1986 – Rivers Langley was born. American radio personality
• 1987 – Kieran Williams was born. English radio presenter and voice over
• 1988 – Volkswagen‘s automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania – the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States – closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen‘s Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing.
• 1988 – James Vaughan was born. English footballer
• 1989 – The 16th James Bond movie “License to Kill” premiers.
• 1989 – Sean Flynn-Amir was born. American actor
• 1991 – Leaders of the Group of Seven nations began gathering in London for their annual economic summit.
• 1992 – A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.
• 1993 – Léo Ferré dies (b. 24 Aug 1916). French musician and singer. / Morte do poeta e cantor francês Leo Ferré (n. 24 Ago 1916). (Nota pessoal : “Avec le temps”, “La solitude“, “C’est extra” – são canções inesquecíveis)
• 1994 – César Tovar dies (b. 1940). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
• 1995 – The MP3 format was named.
• 1996 – Jeff Krosnoff dies (b. 1964). CART driver
• 1997 – Spain: 1 million marchers protest ETA terrorism, Madrid.
• 1997 – A free Jean-Michel Jarre concert attracts 2 million, Paris, France.
• 1998 – Dick McDonald dies (b. 1909). American fast food entrepreneur
• 1998 – Mário Sargedas dies in Lisbon (b. 1933). Portugueses actor. (Paraíso Perdido– 1995; “Vila Faia” -1982, TV Series; Fado Corrido-1964; Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico-1962…).
• 1999 – Gar Samuelson dies. American musician (Megadeth) .
• 2000 – The 13th International AIDS Conference comes to a close in Durban, South Africa.
• 2000 – William Roscoe Estep dies (b. 1920). American Baptist historian.
• 2000 – George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.
• 2001 – The International Olympic Committee votes for Beijing to be the host of the 2008 Olympics. This is the first time that China had been bestowed this honor.
• 2002 – During Bastille Day celebrations, Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.
• 2002 – Joaquín Vidella Balaguer y Ricardo dies (b. 01 Sep 1906). President of the Dominican Republic (1960-1962, 1966-1978, 1986-1996).
• 2002 – Qiqi dies. Longest-living captive Chinese river dolphin
• 2003 – André Claveau dies (b. 1911). French singer.
• 2003 – Tex Schramm dies (b. 1920). American football general manager.
• 2003 – Éva Janikovszky dies. Hungarian novellist
• 2003 – François-Albert Angers dies (b. 1909). French Canadian economist.
• 2004 – O guitarrista espanhol Paco de Lucía ganha o Prémio Príncipe de Astúrias.
• 2004 – O escritor mexicano José Emilio Pacheco ganha o Prémio Iberoamericano Pablo Neruda
• 2005 – Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom
• 2005 – Cicely Saunders dies (b. 1918). English Nurse, physician and writer.
• 2006 – The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all relegated. AC Milan were spared relegation.
• 2006 – Stargate SG-1 begins its tenth season, making it the longest-running science fiction series on American television.
• France and all French dependencies – Bastille Day
• Sweden – Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day.
• United States – National Nude Day

Beautiful world !!

I’m glad I was invited by Sharm to contribute in this encouragingly WUB.Thanks Sharm.I guess to start with how about having a beautiful mind in our beautiful world!

So peaceful..wouldn’t it be nice if it remains forever?
You live in a beautiful world. The more you appreciate and enjoy that beauty, the more beautiful it becomes.Thoughts of anger attract more anger.Thoughts of goodness attract more goodness.Your thoughts of accomplishment enable you to see that accomplishment in every detail.And whatever you can see, you can find a way to be.
And remember thoughts of peace truly make you more peaceful that can lead those around you to carry peaceful thoughts as well…try it!!So does with beauty.

Beauty is so subjective,impossible to define accurately, at the same time, impossible to ignore.You know what it is without having to learn. It is much more than mere physical appearance.In fact, magnificent beauty can often be found in what appears to be plain and ordinary, when you explore it deeply enough.Beauty can awe, inspire and astonish,energize your spirit in ways that nothing else can.

Amazing…It’s beautiful!!
One of the nicest things you can do for yourself is to give yourself the time and space to simply take in the beauty that is around you.Beauty asks nothing more than to be treasured, and when you let yourself experience it, beauty has much to give.

There is beauty stretching out in all directions.Dive deeply into it, and it will make you more.

Won’t you simply take time to enjoy your each day of your life, and take time to reflect in the beauty of your life and the country in which you live?

Noushy Syah,UK.

What a Wonderful World!

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

“What a Wonderful World” was written by songwriters Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, first performed by Louis Armstrong, and released as a single in early fall 1967. Intended as an antidote for the increasingly racially and politically charged climate in the U.S. (and written specifically for Armstrong, who had broad crossover appeal), the song details the singer’s delight in the simple enjoyment of everyday life. The song also has a hopeful, optimistic tone with regard to the future, with reference to babies being born into the world and having much to which to look forward. The song was not initially a hit in the States, where it sold less than 1,000 copies, but was a major success in the UK, reaching number one in the UK singles chart.

Source: Wikipedia

Today, I´ll like to share a very special video with all of you.
“What a wonderful world” is one of the most beautiful songs that talks about our world.
One week ago, I made this video with pictures related to the song.
I worked with a Michael Buble´s cover of the song.

I hope you enjoy it!

DRuCi
Dominican Republic

Spanish

“What a Wonderful World” fue escrita por Bob Thiele y George David Weiss, interpretada en inicio por Louis Armstrong, y lanzado como un sencillo en el 1967. Fue escrita con la intención de servir de antídoto al creciente clima racista y politico de la época ( especialmente para que Armstrong, realizara su crossover musical), la canción nos muestra detalles de cómo el cantante disfruta de la vida diaria. La canción tiene un mensaje de esperanza, un tono optimista respecto al futuro, con referencia a los bebés que nacen en el mundo y lo mucho que tenemos por adelante. La canción no fue un éxito en los Estados Unidos, donde vendió menos de 1,000 copias, pero fue un gran éxito en UK, llegando a ser número uno en las listas.

Fuente: Wikipedia

Hoy, me gustaría compartir un video muy especial con todos ustedes.

“What a wonderful world” es una de las canciones más hermosas, que nos habla de las cosas maravillosas que tenemos en nuestro mundo.

Hace una semana, realicé este video con imágenes relacionadas a la canción, utilizando como música el cover de Michael Buble.

!Espero que lo disfruten!