Ah! Os Relógios – Mário Quintana Julho 30, 2007

Amigos, não consultem os relógios
quando um dia eu me for de vossas vidas
em seus fúteis problemas tão perdidas
que até parecem mais uns necrológios…

Porque o tempo é uma invenção da morte:
não o conhece a vida – a verdadeira –
em que basta um momento de poesia
para nos dar a eternidade inteira.

Inteira, sim, porque essa vida eterna
somente por si mesma é dividida:
não cabe, a cada qual, uma porção.

E os Anjos entreolham-se espantados
quando alguém – ao voltar a si da vida –
acaso lhes indaga que horas são…

Mário de Miranda Quintana (n. em Alegrete, (RS) a 30 de Jul 1906, m. em Porto Alegre (RS) a 5 de Mai de 1993)

Ah! Os Relógios – Mário Quintana

Amigos, não consultem os relógios
quando um dia eu me for de vossas vidas
em seus fúteis problemas tão perdidas
que até parecem mais uns necrológios…

Porque o tempo é uma invenção da morte:
não o conhece a vida – a verdadeira –
em que basta um momento de poesia
para nos dar a eternidade inteira.

Inteira, sim, porque essa vida eterna
somente por si mesma é dividida:
não cabe, a cada qual, uma porção.

E os Anjos entreolham-se espantados
quando alguém – ao voltar a si da vida –
acaso lhes indaga que horas são…

Mário de Miranda Quintana (n. em Alegrete, (RS) a 30 de Jul 1906, m. em Porto Alegre (RS) a 5 de Mai de 1993)

O Perfume – António Correia de Oliveira

O que sou eu? – O Perfume,
Dizem os homens. – Serei.
Mas o que sou nem eu sei…
Sou uma sombra de lume!

Rasgo a aragem como um gume
De espada: Subi. Voei.
Onde passava, deixei
A essência que me resume.

Liberdade, eu me cativo:
Numa renda, um nada, eu vivo
Vida de Sonho e Verdade!

Passam os dias, e em vão!
– Eu sou a Recordação;
Sou mais, ainda: a Saudade.

António Correia de Oliveira (n. em S. Pedro do Sul a 30 de Jul 1879; m. em Belinho, Esposende a 20 de Fev. 1960)

In Cem Poemas Portugueses do Adeus e da Saudade
Org. de José Fanha e José Jorge Letria, Lisboa, Terramar, 20

Mais Poemas de António Correia de Oliveira

António Correia de Oliveira e Mário Quintana dois grandes poetas da língua portuguesa nasceram em 30 de Julho

Em 1879, neste dia 30 de Julho, nascia em S. Pedro do Sul o poeta António Correia de Oliveira. A sua poesia quer patriótica quer religiosa é de inspiração popular.

Convictamente monárquico, transforma-se num dos poetas oficiosos do Estado Novo, com inúmeros textos escolhidos para os livros únicos de língua portuguesa do sistema de ensino primário e secundário. Talvez por isso lembro-me ainda de alguns excertos de poemas que constavam da Antologia da Literatura Portuguesa que em tempos de estudante era adoptada para o ensino de Português.

Foi o primeiro Português a ser nomeado para o prémio Nobel e a própria concorrente vencedora, Gabriela Mistral, declarou publicamente, no acto solene, que não merecia o prémio, estando presente o autor do «Verbo Ser e Verbo Amar».

Faleceu em Belinho, Esposende em 20 de Fevereiro de 1960, onde viveu aliás, desde 1912.

Em 30 de Julho de 1906 nasceu Mário de Miranda Quintana em Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul. Um grande poeta brasileiro que dedicou-se também à tradução nomeadamente de Marcel Proust (Em Busca do Tempo Perdido), Voltaire, Maupassant…

É o poeta das coisas simples. Despreocupado em relação à crítica, faz poesia porque “sente necessidade”, segundo suas próprias palavras. «A sua poesia é caracterizada pelo humanismo, intimismo, coloquialismo, uma diáfana ternura melancólica, subtileza, sugestão e magia».

Faleceu em Porto Alegre a 5 de Maio de 1993

Naturalmente, para além dos pemas destes autores já publicados neste blog, ilustraremos esta efeméride com a divulgação de pelo menos mais um de cada autor.

On this day in History – Jul 30

• 0578 – Jacob Baradaeus dies. Bishop of Edessa
• 0579 – Pope Benedict I dies.
• 0657 – Pope St. Vitalian is consecrated and enthroned as Catholic Pope
• 1178 – Fredrick “Barbarossa” crowned King of Burgundy
• 1233 – Assassination of Conrad of Marburg and Gerhard Lutelholb
• 1291 – Haifa falls to the Mameluks
• 1371 – Massacre of the Compagnia del Bruco in Florence, Italy
• 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: Beginning of the Hussite Wars
• 1470 – Hongzhi was born (d. 1505). Emperor of China.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
• 1511 – Giorgio Vasari was born (d. 27 Jun 1574). Italian painter
• 1523 – Juan de Anchieta was born. Spanish composer.
• 1538 – Newfoundland reached by Sir Humphrey Gilbert
• 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
• 1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
• 1549 – Ferdinando I de’ Medici was born (d. 1609). Grand Duke of Tuscany.
• 1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
  1565 – Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, duke of Albany.
• 1588 – Howard sails from Plymouth
• 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
• 1609 – Iroquois Indians defeated by their first sight of firearms
• 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
• 1641 – Regnier de Graaf was born (d. 1673). Dutch physician and anatomist.
• 1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie dies (b. 1624). 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier.
• 1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory dies (b. 1634). Irish naval commander.
• 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain dies (b. 1638). Queen of Louis XIV of France.
• 1691 – Brendan Byrne was born (d. 1949). Irish writer.
• 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof dies (b. 1639). German writer and scholar.
• 1715 – Nahum Tate dies (b. 1652). Irish poet.
• 1718 – William Penn dies (b. 1644). English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
• 1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• 1733 – First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
• 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1763 – Samuel Rogers was born in Stoke Newington. English poet (The Pleasures of Memory). He will be best remembered as a witty conversationalist and friend of many greater poets.
• 1766 – Carta régia que proíbe, no Brasil, as indústrias de ourives, fiadores de ouro, de sedas e algodões tecidos.
• 1771 – Thomas Gray dies (b. 1716). English poet and letter-writer (“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”) .
• 1784 – Denis Diderot dies. French wryter and encyclopedist.
• 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
  1818 – Emily Brontë was born (d. 1848). English novelist.
• 1825 – Malden Island discovered.
• 1835 – Vicente Rocafuerte ocupa la presidencia de Ecuador.
• 1848 – A iluminação a gás é inaugurada em Lisboa.
• 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was born (d. 1919). German industrialist
• 1857 – Thorstein Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929). Economist (The Theory of the Leisure Class).
• 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn was born (d. 1939). English humanitarian.
• 1863 – Henry Ford was born (d. 1947). American industrialist / Nascimento de Henry Ford (1863-1947), no Michigan, Estados Unidos da América. Foi o inventor da linha de montagem para produção de automóveis.
• 1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
• 1866 – New Orleans’s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
• 1875 – George Pickett dies (b. 1825). American Confederate general.
• 1879 – António Correia de Oliveira was born on S. Pedro do Sul (b. 1960). Portuguese poet
• 1881 – Smedley Butler was born (d. 1940). American Marine general.
• 1889 – Franz Masereel was born (d. 1972). Belgian painter and graphic artist.
• 1889 – Vladimir Zworykin was born (d. 1982). Russian physicist and inventor, often called the “Father of Television” for inventing the iconoscope.
• 1890 – Casey Stengel was born (d. 1975). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1893 – Fatima Jinnah was born (d. 1967). Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
• 1894 – Walter Pater dies in Oxford.
• 1895 – Wanda Hawley was born (d. 1963). American actress.
• 1898 – Henry Moore was born (d. 1986). English sculptor.
• 1898 – Otto von Bismarck dies (b. 1815). German chancellor
• 1899 – Gerald Moore was born (d. 1987). English pianist.
• 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies (b. 1844).
• 1901 – Alfred Lépine was born (d. 1955). Quebec ice hockey player and coach
• 1904 – Salvador Novo was born (d. 1974). Mexican writer.
• 1904 – Tsarevich Alexei of Russia was born (d. 1918)
• 1906 – Mario Quintana was born (1994). Brazilian poet / Mário Quintana nascia em Alegrete (RS) (d. 5 Mai 1994). Poeta brasileiro (A Rua dos Cataventos)
• 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson was born (d. 1993). British historian and writer.
• 1910 – Edgar de Evia was born (d. 2003). American mountain climber
• 1912 – Emperor Meiji dies (b. 1852). Japanese emperor.
• 1914 – Lord Killanin was born (d. 1999). Irish International Olympic Committee president.
• 1916 – Dick Wilson was born. American actor
• 1918 – Joyce Kilmer dies in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. American poet.
• 1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle was born. Half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
• 1921 – Grant Johannesen was born (d. 2005). American pianist.
• 1925 – Alexander Trocchi was born (d. 1984). Scottish writer.
• 1925 – Jacques Sernas was born. French actor (La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
• 1926 – Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
• 1927 – Richard Johnson was born. English actor.
• 1928 – George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S.
• 1928 – Eunice Muñoz was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1929 – Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, He)
• 1929 – Sid Krofft was born. Canadian children’s television producer
• 1929 – Werner Tübke was born. German painter.
• 1930 – Thomas Sowell was born. American economist
• 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. / Em Montevideu, os donos da casa vencem a Argentina por 4 a 2 e conquistam o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1930 – Hans Gamper dies. Founder of Futbol Club Barcelona
• 1932 – The X Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.
• 1932 – Walt Disney‘s Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
• 1933 – Edward Byrnes was born. American actor (77 Sunset Strip, holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
• 1934 – Ben Piazza was born (d. 1991). American actor (Guilty by Suspicion, The Hanging Tree)
• 1934 – Bud Selig was born. Baseball team owner and commissioner
• 1934 – Kurt von Schuschnigg was named Austrian chancellor following the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss.
• 1936 – Buddy Guy was born. American guitarist and singer
• 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain was born.
• 1937 – Keizo Obuchi was born (d. 2000). 84th Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1938 – Hervé de Charette was born. French politician
• 1938 – Joe Nuxhall was born. Baseball: Cincinnati Reds pitcher: youngest major-league player [15yrs, 314 days])
• 1939 – Eleanor Smeal was born. Feminist activist.
• 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich was born. American film director (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up Doc?)
• 1940 – Patricia Schroeder was born. American politician, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado (1973-1977)
• 1940 – Nicolau Breyner was born in Serpa. Portuguese actor.
• 1940 – Clive Sinclair was born. British entrepreneur.
• 1941 – Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) was born. American sword swallower
• 1941 – Paul Anka was born. Canadian singer and composer
• 1943 – Henri-François Gautrin was born. Quebec politician
• 1945 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy.
• 1945 – David Sanborn was born. American musician, Grammy award winning
• 1946 – Neil Bonnett was born (d. 1994). NASCAR driver.
• 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger was born. American actor and politician, 38th Governor of California
• 1947 – William Atherton was born. American actor
• 1947 – Joseph Cook dies (b. 1860). Sixth Prime Minister of Australia
• 1948 – Jean Reno was born. Moroccon-born French actor
• 1949 – Dwight White (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
• 1950 – Willie Harper was born. Football: San Francisco ’49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI)
• 1950 – Frank Stallone was born. American singer and actor
• 1953 – Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
• 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
• 1954 – Ken Olin was born. Actor (Hill Street Blues, Thirtysomething)
• 1956 – A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing “In God We Trust” as the U.S. national motto.
• 1956 – Delta Burke was born. American actress (Designing Women, Filthy Rich)
• 1956 – Anita Hill was born. American law professor, author
• 1956 – Réal Cloutier was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Nery Pumpido was born. Argentine football goalkeeper
• 1957 – Rat Scabies was born. British musician
• 1957 – Colm Imbert was born. Trinidadian politician
• 1957 – Clint Hurdle was born. American baseball player and manager
• 1957 – Rui Veloso was born. Portuguese singer, rock musician.
• 1958 – Kate Bush was born. English singer.
• 1958 – Richard Burgi was born. Actor
• 1958 – Kate Bush was born. British musician
• 1958 – Daley Thompson was born. English decathlete
• 1960 – Richard Linklater was born. American director
• 1961 – Laurence Fishburne was born. American actor
• 1961 – Neal McCoy was born. Country singer
• 1962 – Alton Brown was born. American television host and chef
• 1963 – Lisa Kudrow was born. American actress
• 1963 – Chris Mullin was born. Basketball player
• 1964 – Vivica A. Fox was born. American actress (Independence Day)
• 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann was born. German football player and manager
• 1964 – Dwayne O’Brien was born. Country musician (Little Texas)
• 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• 1965 – Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
  1966 – At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2. / Em Londres, os donos da casa vencem a Alemanha por 4 a 2 e conquistam a Copa do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1966 – President Johnson signed the Medicare bill on this day in 1966.
• 1968 – Robert Korzeniowski was born. Polish athlete
• 1968 – Sean Moore was born. Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
• 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders.
• 1969 – Simon Baker was born. American actor
• 1970 – Powder Ridge Rock Festival
• 1970 – Christopher Nolan was born. British film director
• 1970 – George Szell dies (b. 1897). Hungarian conductor
• 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
• 1971 – Pan-American Games started in Colombia
• 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162
• 1971 – Tom Green was born. Canadian comedian, actor
• 1971 – Christine Taylor was born. American actress (The Brady Bunch Movie)
• 1971 – Kenneth Slessor dies (b. 1901). Australian poet
• 1973 – Markus Naslund was born. Swedish icehockey player
• 1973 – Sonu Nigam was born. Indian singer/actor
• 1974 – Radostin Kishishev was born. Bulgarian footballer
• 1974 – Hilary Swank was born. American Academy Award winning actress
• 1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
• 1975 – Representatives of 35 countries convened in Helsinki, Finland, for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the “Helsinki Accords.” The conference was aimed at ensuring peace in Europe.
• 1975 – Graham Nicholls was born. British artist
• 1975 – Cherie Priest was born. American writer
• 1975 – James Blish dies. Author
• 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa, labour leader, disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
• 1976 – O Cruzeiro, de Belo Horizonte – Minas Gerais – Brasil , ganha a Copa Libertadores da América, vencendo o River Plate, da Argentina, por 3 a 2.
• 1977 – Jaime Pressly was born. American actress
• 1979 – Graeme McDowell was born. Northern Irish professional golfer
• 1979 – Ian Watkins was born. Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
• 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
• 1980 – Sara Anzanello was born. Italian volleyball player
• 1981 – Nicky Hayden was born. American motorcycle racer
• 1982 – Matthew Johnson was born. American rapper
• 1983 – Sean Dillon was born. Irish footballer
• 1983 – Lynn Fontanne dies (b. 1887). English actress.
• 1983 – Howard Dietz dies (b. 1896). American lyricist.
• 1984 – West German swimmer Michael Gross became the first double gold winner of the 1984 Summer Olympics, while the United States picked up three gold medals in swimming and shooting.
• 1984 – Mobutu Sese Seko is reelected Presidente of Zaire.
• 1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle was born. American basketball player
• 1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm was born. Norwegian footballer
• 1985 – Julia Hall Bowman Robinson dies (b. 1919). American mathematician.
• 1986 – Adam Nelson was born. English conductor.
• 1988 – Chacrinha dies (b. 1916). Brazilian TV presenter and radialist,
• 1989 – Lane Frost dies (b. 1963). American bull rider.
• 1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
• 1992 – Joe Shuster dies (b. 1914). Canadian comic book artist.
• 1992 – Brenda Marshall dies (b. 1915). American actress.
• 1996 – Claudette Colbert dies in Barbados at age 92. French-American actress
• 1997 – A double suicide bombing kills 14 people in Jerusalem,Israel.
• 1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
• 1997 – Bao Dai dies (b. 1913). Last empereur of Vietnam
• 2000 – President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election (59,05% dos votos) against Francisco Arias (38,04%).
• 2002 – Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie is the first woman to dunk in a basketball game.
• 2002 – The accounting law referred to as “The Sarbanes Oxley Act” was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush
• 2002 – Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne
• 2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
• 2003 – 490,000 Rock Fans attend Sarsfest concert at Downsview park in Toronto, Canada, Headlined by The Rolling Stones, AC/DC Rush, The Tea Party, and 12 other major rock acts.
• 2003 – Sam Phillips dies (b. 1923). American record producer.
• 2004 – A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.
• 2004 – Andre Noble dies (b. 1979). Canadian actor.
• 2005 – Ray Cunningham dies (b. 1905). Baseball player.
• 2005 – John Garang dies (b. 1945). Vice President of Sudan
• 2005 – Anthony Walker dies (b. 1987). Hate crime murder victim
• 2006 – World’s longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show has aired for 42 years.
• 2006 – At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre.
• 2006 – Al Balding dies (b. 1924). Canadian professional golfer.
• 2006 – Murray Bookchin dies (b. 1921). American libertarian socialist.
• Vanuatu – Independence Day

On this day in History – Jul 30

• 0578 – Jacob Baradaeus dies. Bishop of Edessa
• 0579 – Pope Benedict I dies.
• 0657 – Pope St. Vitalian is consecrated and enthroned as Catholic Pope
• 1178 – Fredrick “Barbarossa” crowned King of Burgundy
• 1233 – Assassination of Conrad of Marburg and Gerhard Lutelholb
• 1291 – Haifa falls to the Mameluks
• 1371 – Massacre of the Compagnia del Bruco in Florence, Italy
• 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: Beginning of the Hussite Wars
• 1470 – Hongzhi was born (d. 1505). Emperor of China.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
• 1511 – Giorgio Vasari was born (d. 27 Jun 1574). Italian painter
• 1523 – Juan de Anchieta was born. Spanish composer.
• 1538 – Newfoundland reached by Sir Humphrey Gilbert
• 1540 – Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
• 1540 – Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
• 1549 – Ferdinando I de’ Medici was born (d. 1609). Grand Duke of Tuscany.
• 1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
  1565 – Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, duke of Albany.
• 1588 – Howard sails from Plymouth
• 1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
• 1609 – Iroquois Indians defeated by their first sight of firearms
• 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• 1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
• 1641 – Regnier de Graaf was born (d. 1673). Dutch physician and anatomist.
• 1652 – Charles Amédée de Savoie dies (b. 1624). 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier.
• 1680 – Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory dies (b. 1634). Irish naval commander.
• 1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain dies (b. 1638). Queen of Louis XIV of France.
• 1691 – Brendan Byrne was born (d. 1949). Irish writer.
• 1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof dies (b. 1639). German writer and scholar.
• 1715 – Nahum Tate dies (b. 1652). Irish poet.
• 1718 – William Penn dies (b. 1644). English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
• 1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• 1733 – First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
• 1756 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1763 – Samuel Rogers was born in Stoke Newington. English poet (The Pleasures of Memory). He will be best remembered as a witty conversationalist and friend of many greater poets.
• 1766 – Carta régia que proíbe, no Brasil, as indústrias de ourives, fiadores de ouro, de sedas e algodões tecidos.
• 1771 – Thomas Gray dies (b. 1716). English poet and letter-writer (“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”) .
• 1784 – Denis Diderot dies. French wryter and encyclopedist.
• 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
  1818 – Emily Brontë was born (d. 1848). English novelist.
• 1825 – Malden Island discovered.
• 1835 – Vicente Rocafuerte ocupa la presidencia de Ecuador.
• 1848 – A iluminação a gás é inaugurada em Lisboa.
• 1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was born (d. 1919). German industrialist
• 1857 – Thorstein Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929). Economist (The Theory of the Leisure Class).
• 1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn was born (d. 1939). English humanitarian.
• 1863 – Henry Ford was born (d. 1947). American industrialist / Nascimento de Henry Ford (1863-1947), no Michigan, Estados Unidos da América. Foi o inventor da linha de montagem para produção de automóveis.
• 1863 – Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
• 1866 – New Orleans’s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
• 1875 – George Pickett dies (b. 1825). American Confederate general.
• 1879 – António Correia de Oliveira was born on S. Pedro do Sul (b. 1960). Portuguese poet
• 1881 – Smedley Butler was born (d. 1940). American Marine general.
• 1889 – Franz Masereel was born (d. 1972). Belgian painter and graphic artist.
• 1889 – Vladimir Zworykin was born (d. 1982). Russian physicist and inventor, often called the “Father of Television” for inventing the iconoscope.
• 1890 – Casey Stengel was born (d. 1975). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1893 – Fatima Jinnah was born (d. 1967). Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
• 1894 – Walter Pater dies in Oxford.
• 1895 – Wanda Hawley was born (d. 1963). American actress.
• 1898 – Henry Moore was born (d. 1986). English sculptor.
• 1898 – Otto von Bismarck dies (b. 1815). German chancellor
• 1899 – Gerald Moore was born (d. 1987). English pianist.
• 1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies (b. 1844).
• 1901 – Alfred Lépine was born (d. 1955). Quebec ice hockey player and coach
• 1904 – Salvador Novo was born (d. 1974). Mexican writer.
• 1904 – Tsarevich Alexei of Russia was born (d. 1918)
• 1906 – Mario Quintana was born (1994). Brazilian poet / Mário Quintana nascia em Alegrete (RS) (d. 5 Mai 1994). Poeta brasileiro (A Rua dos Cataventos)
• 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson was born (d. 1993). British historian and writer.
• 1910 – Edgar de Evia was born (d. 2003). American mountain climber
• 1912 – Emperor Meiji dies (b. 1852). Japanese emperor.
• 1914 – Lord Killanin was born (d. 1999). Irish International Olympic Committee president.
• 1916 – Dick Wilson was born. American actor
• 1918 – Joyce Kilmer dies in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. American poet.
• 1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle was born. Half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
• 1921 – Grant Johannesen was born (d. 2005). American pianist.
• 1925 – Alexander Trocchi was born (d. 1984). Scottish writer.
• 1925 – Jacques Sernas was born. French actor (La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
• 1926 – Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
• 1927 – Richard Johnson was born. English actor.
• 1928 – George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S.
• 1928 – Eunice Muñoz was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1929 – Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, He)
• 1929 – Sid Krofft was born. Canadian children’s television producer
• 1929 – Werner Tübke was born. German painter.
• 1930 – Thomas Sowell was born. American economist
• 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. / Em Montevideu, os donos da casa vencem a Argentina por 4 a 2 e conquistam o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1930 – Hans Gamper dies. Founder of Futbol Club Barcelona
• 1932 – The X Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.
• 1932 – Walt Disney‘s Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
• 1933 – Edward Byrnes was born. American actor (77 Sunset Strip, holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
• 1934 – Ben Piazza was born (d. 1991). American actor (Guilty by Suspicion, The Hanging Tree)
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Benfica perdeu com o Al-Ahly e a jogar assim… Julho 29, 2007

Depois do jogo do centenário do Cluj da Roménia o jogo do centenário do Al-Ahly no Egipto. As mesmas esperanças antes do jogo. As mesmas desilusões e maiores preocupações ainda depois deste jogo.

Não se trata de um jogo mau, de um jogo que corre mal, de azar. Antes fosse isso. Trata-se de uma filosofia. Este sistema (que sistema?) não funciona. A duas semanas de jogar a pré-eliminatória da Liga dos Campeões o Benfica é uma equipa banal. Sem velocidade, sem capacidade psicológica, sem extremos, sem organização ofensiva.

A primeira parte foi dominada pelos africanos que logo aos 4′ tiveram mais um tónico: um penalty muito duvidoso (para não dizer inventado pelo árbitro egípicio) que Shadi Mohammed transformou. Mas a verdade é que só aos trinta minutos o Benfica criou perigo num remate à meia volta numa diagonal de Bergessio muito bem defendido pelo guarda redes egípcio. Depois ainda um rodopiar de Cardozo com remate de pé esquerdo a proporcionar mais uma grande defesa.

Na segunda parte com as substituições em ambas as equipas o Benfica melhorou. Deixou de haver dois trincos (saiu Katsouranis) entrou Rui Costa. O Benfica parecia postado em alterar o resultado e conseguiu-o, jogada pela esquerda, Rui Costa levantou para uma assistencia perfeita para Nuno Assis igualar. O Benfica estava por cima tinha tudo para ganhar… mas esta equipa tem problemas sérios de concencentração. Brincadeira na defesa Zoro não afasta, Nelson ainda faz pior e coloca a bola para isolar um adversário (Honsi) que face à saída (em falso) de Quim fez o 2-1 aos 63′.

Um golo incrível ainda pior que o 2-2 de Cluj, mas repete-se a história, acumulação de erros infantis. Depois a perder, a tónica do jogo inverteu-se outra vez. O Benfica sem qualquer capacidade de reacção e a não mostrar o que andam a fazer nos treinos. Como é possível desperdiçar 3 pontapés de canto sem criar perigo? Manuel Fernandes e Rui Costa directamente para fora e depois um marcado curto para se perder a bola pela linha lateral sem pressionar sequer a defesa adversária?

O problema do Benfica não é de jogadores… é de mentalidade e de filosofia! Quanto à saída de Simão, isso é para outras análises, mas sempre se diz que grande parte do dinheiro do Simão já foi gasto para comprar dois argentinos e um americano… sendo que, pelo menos um Fernando Santos já foi adiantando que era para ser emprestado… enfim!

Intertoto Cup: União de Leiria ganhou no prolongamento

1×2

UEFA Intertoto Cup

União de Leiria 4 – 1 (1-0) Hajduk Kula

(após prolongamento)

A equipa de Leiria sofreu muito para garantir presença na segunda pré-eliminatória da Taça Uefa pois aos 90 minutos de jogo o resultado era de zero a zero conservando os sérvios a vantagem de um golo da primeira mão. Os leirienses depois de uma primeira parte fraca apertaram mais no ataque na segunda e aos 81′ Paulo César rematou de cabeça à barra. Já em tempo de compensação Éder marcou a favor dos leirienses estabelecendo o empate na eliminatória e levando o jogo para prolongamento.

No prolongamento pensou-se que os visitantes poderiam sentir mais a componente psicológica de um jogo que esteve quase ganho, especialmente quando Laranjeiro de penalty, aos 97′ fez o 2-0. Porém os sérvios reagiram e também de penalty apontado por Bogic voltaram a ficar por cima da eliminatória estavam decorridos 107′. No entanto, Songou, que fez uma boa exibição, a três minutos do final «deu» a eliminatória à equipa da casa, confirmada ainda no minuto 120′ através de outro penalty por Laranjeiro depois de falta indiscutível sobre Songou.

Os restantes resultados foram os seguintes:

Sampdoria 1 – 0 (1-0) Cherno More

Atlético Madrid 1 – 0 (1-2) Gloria Bistrica (ag) 2-1 More » 0-1 More »
Trabzonspor 1-2 (1-2) Otelul 1-2
Lems 3-1 (0-0) Chornomorets
Rubin 1-3 (0-0) Rapid Wien
Hamburg 4-0 (1-1) Dacia
Aab 1-1 (2-1) Gent
Blackburn 2-0 (4-0) Vetra
1-1 Utrecht 1 – 1 (0-0) Hammarby
OFI 0-1 (0-1) Tobol

(*-*) entre parentesis os resultados da primeira mão

Intertoto Cup: União de Leiria ganhou no prolongamento

1×2

UEFA Intertoto Cup

União de Leiria 4 – 1 (1-0) Hajduk Kula

(após prolongamento)

A equipa de Leiria sofreu muito para garantir presença na segunda pré-eliminatória da Taça Uefa pois aos 90 minutos de jogo o resultado era de zero a zero conservando os sérvios a vantagem de um golo da primeira mão. Os leirienses depois de uma primeira parte fraca apertaram mais no ataque na segunda e aos 81′ Paulo César rematou de cabeça à barra. Já em tempo de compensação Éder marcou a favor dos leirienses estabelecendo o empate na eliminatória e levando o jogo para prolongamento.

No prolongamento pensou-se que os visitantes poderiam sentir mais a componente psicológica de um jogo que esteve quase ganho, especialmente quando Laranjeiro de penalty, aos 97′ fez o 2-0. Porém os sérvios reagiram e também de penalty apontado por Bogic voltaram a ficar por cima da eliminatória estavam decorridos 107′. No entanto, Songou, que fez uma boa exibição, a três minutos do final «deu» a eliminatória à equipa da casa, confirmada ainda no minuto 120′ através de outro penalty por Laranjeiro depois de falta indiscutível sobre Songou.

Os restantes resultados foram os seguintes:

Sampdoria 1 – 0 (1-0) Cherno More

Atlético Madrid 1 – 0 (1-2) Gloria Bistrica (ag) 2-1 More » 0-1 More »
Trabzonspor 1-2 (1-2) Otelul 1-2
Lems 3-1 (0-0) Chornomorets
Rubin 1-3 (0-0) Rapid Wien
Hamburg 4-0 (1-1) Dacia
Aab 1-1 (2-1) Gent
Blackburn 2-0 (4-0) Vetra
1-1 Utrecht 1 – 1 (0-0) Hammarby
OFI 0-1 (0-1) Tobol

(*-*) entre parentesis os resultados da primeira mão

Intertoto Cup: União de Leiria ganhou no prolongamento

1×2

UEFA Intertoto Cup

União de Leiria 4 – 1 (1-0) Hajduk Kula

(após prolongamento)

A equipa de Leiria sofreu muito para garantir presença na segunda pré-eliminatória da Taça Uefa pois aos 90 minutos de jogo o resultado era de zero a zero conservando os sérvios a vantagem de um golo da primeira mão. Os leirienses depois de uma primeira parte fraca apertaram mais no ataque na segunda e aos 81′ Paulo César rematou de cabeça à barra. Já em tempo de compensação Éder marcou a favor dos leirienses estabelecendo o empate na eliminatória e levando o jogo para prolongamento.

No prolongamento pensou-se que os visitantes poderiam sentir mais a componente psicológica de um jogo que esteve quase ganho, especialmente quando Laranjeiro de penalty, aos 97′ fez o 2-0. Porém os sérvios reagiram e também de penalty apontado por Bogic voltaram a ficar por cima da eliminatória estavam decorridos 107′. No entanto, Songou, que fez uma boa exibição, a três minutos do final «deu» a eliminatória à equipa da casa, confirmada ainda no minuto 120′ através de outro penalty por Laranjeiro depois de falta indiscutível sobre Songou.

Os restantes resultados foram os seguintes:

Sampdoria 1 – 0 (1-0) Cherno More

Atlético Madrid 1 – 0 (1-2) Gloria Bistrica (ag) 2-1 More » 0-1 More »
Trabzonspor 1-2 (1-2) Otelul 1-2
Lems 3-1 (0-0) Chornomorets
Rubin 1-3 (0-0) Rapid Wien
Hamburg 4-0 (1-1) Dacia
Aab 1-1 (2-1) Gent
Blackburn 2-0 (4-0) Vetra
1-1 Utrecht 1 – 1 (0-0) Hammarby
OFI 0-1 (0-1) Tobol

(*-*) entre parentesis os resultados da primeira mão