No Irão não há homossexuais… – Ahmadinejad Setembro 25, 2007

«No Irão não há homossexuais como no vosso país. Não temos disso no nosso país. No Irão não temos este fenómeno, não sei quem vos disse que temos» – Ahamadinejad, Presidente do Irão.

On this day in History – Sep. 26

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
• 0715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
• 1181 – Saint Francis of Assisi was born (d. 1226). Italian founder of the Franciscan Order.
• 1342 – John I, ruler of Poland, died.
• 1406 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros was born (d. 1430). English soldier and politician.
• 1417 – Francesco Zabarella dies (b. 1360). Italian jurist.
• 1468 – Juan de Torquemada dies (b. 1388). Spanish Catholic cardinal.
• 1501 – Džore Držić dies (b. 1461). Croatian writer.
• 1580 – Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
• 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China dies (b. 1582).
• 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu dies (b. 1554). Japanese warrior.
• 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
• 1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple was born (d. 1779). English politician.
• 1716 – Antoine Parent dies (b. 1666). French mathematician.
• 1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was born (d. 1810). British admiral.
• 1758 – Cosme Argerich was born. Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
• 1763 – John Byrom dies (b. 1692). English poet.
• 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro dies (b. 1767). Spanish scholar.
• 1774 – Johnny Appleseed was born (d. 1847). American environmentalist.
• 1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1783 – Fayette County, Pennsylvania created.
• 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
• 1791 – Théodore Géricault was born (d. 1824). French writer.
• 1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
• 1795 – Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo was born (d. 1876). Portughuese politician. / Nascimento de Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo (m. 1876) em Santarém. Oficial de cavalaria durante as Invasões Francesas, perderá um braço no combate do Alto da Bandeira, durante o Cerco do Porto, no decurso da Guerra Civil de 1832-1834. Será nomeado sucessivamente visconde, conde e marquês de Sá da Bandeira, alcunha por que era conhecido desde o seu ferimento.
• 1802 – Baron Jurij Vega dies (b. 1754). Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer.
• 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
• 1815 – The Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia was formed, after the final defeat of Napoleon.
• 1820 – Daniel Boone dies (b. 1734). American frontiersman.
• 1829 – Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
• 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon was born (d. 1923). French Canadian politician.
• 1849 – Ivan Pavlov was born. Russian physiologist, famous for his Nobel Prize-winning behavioral studies on conditioned reflexes in dogs in the 1890s.
• 1854 – Percy Alexander MacMahon was born (d. 25 Dec 1929). English mathematician. Author of Combinatory analysis (2 volumes: 1915, 1916), An introduction to combinatory analysis (1920), New Mathematical Pastimes (1921).
• 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford was born. British pilot
• 1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius dies (b. 1790). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1869 – Komitas was born (d. 1935). Armenian composer.
• 1870 – King Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm was born (d. 1947) . King of Denmark (1912-1947)
• 1871 – Winsor McCay was born (d. 1934). American cartoonist.
• 1873 – Aleksey Shchusev was born (d. 1949). Russian architect.
• 1873 – Wacław Berent was born (d. 1940). Polish novelist and translator.
• 1874 – Lewis Hine was born (d. 1940). American photographer and social activist.
• 1875 – Edmund Gwenn was born (d. 1959). Welsh actor.
• 1876 – Edith Abbott was born (d. 1957). American social worker, educator, and author.
• 1877 – Ugo Cerletti was born (d. 1963). Italian neurologist.
• 1877 – Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
• 1877 – Hermann Grassmann dies (b. 1809). German mathematician and physicist.
• 1881 – Hiram Wesley Evans was born (d. 1966). Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard.
• 1886 – Archibald Vivian Hill was born (d. 1977). English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett was born (d. 1958). British writer.
• 1887 – Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was born (d. 1979). British scientist, engineer and inventor.
• 1887 – Antonio Moreno was born (d. 1967). Spanish-born actor.
• 1887 – José Montealegre Fernández was born. President of Costa Rica (1859-1860 e 1860-1863)
• 1888 – J. Frank Dobie was born (d. 1964). American folklorist and newspaper columnist.
• 1888 – T. S. Eliot was born (d. 1965). American poet and editor. 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Poems)
• 1889 – Martin Heidegger was born (d. 1976). German philosopher.
• 1891 – Charles Munch was born (d. 1968). French conductor and violinist.
• 1893 – Gladys Brockwell was born (d. 1929). American actress.
• 1895 – George Raft was born (d. 1980). American actor.
• 1897 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) was born (d. 1978). 262nd Roman Pope.
• 1897 – Arthur Rhys Davids was born (d. 1917). English pilot.
• 1898 – George Gershwin was born in Brookly NY (d. 11 Jul 1937). American composer (Rhapsody in Blue). He wrote the music for many popular songs for musicals, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics. His greatest work work was the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), on a libretto by DuBose Heyward.
• 1901 – Leon Czolgosz [1873 – 31 Oct 1901], who on 06 September 1901 shot President William McKinley [29 Jan 1843 – 14 Sep 1901], is sentenced to death.
• 1902 – Levi Strauss dies (b. 1829). American clothing manufacturer.
• 1904 – John F. Stairs dies (b. 1848). Canadian businessman and statesman.
• 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn dies (b. 1850). Greek writer.
• 1905 – Emilio Navarro was born. Puerto Rican Baseball Player
• 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 1907 – Anthony Blunt was born (d. 1983). English art historian and Soviet spy.
• 1907 – Bep van Klaveren was born (d. 1992). Dutch boxer.
• 1909 – Bill France, Sr. was born. American founder of NASCAR
• 1914 – The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1914 – Jack LaLanne was born. American fitness advocate.
• 1917 – Réal Caouette was born (d. 1976). French Canadian politician, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada
• 1918 – World War I: Battle of Meuse.
• 1919 – Matilde Camus was born. Spanish poet and researcher
• 1922 – Nicholas Romanov was born. French-born pretender to the Russian throne
• 1923 – Dev Anand was born. Indian actor and film producer.
• 1925 – Marty Robbins was born (d. 1982). American singer.
• 1925 – Norm Dussault was born. American-born ice hockey player.
• 1925 – Cândido de Figueiredo dies. Portuguese lexicographer.
• 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1926 – Julie London was born (d. 2000). American singer and actress.
• 1927 – Patrick O’Neal was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1927 – Robert Blackburn was born (d. 1990). Irish educationist.
• 1928 – Bob Van der Veken was born. Belgian actor
• 1930 – Fritz Wunderlich was born (d. 1966). German tenor.
• 1932 – Dr. Manmohan Singh was born. Prime Minister of India.
• 1932 – Richard Herd was born. American actor.
• 1932 – Vladimir Voinovich was born. Russian writer and dissident.
• 1933 – Donna Douglas was born. American actress.
• 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1935 – Federico Páez Chiriboga becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1935 – Joe Sherlock was born (d. 2007). Irish Labour Party politician.
• 1936 – Luis Fernando Verissimo was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1936 – Winnie Mandela was born. South African anti-apartheid activist.
• 1937 – Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its “Detective Stories” radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
• 1937 – Jerry Weintraub was born. American film producer.
• 1937 – Valentin Pavlov was born (d. 2003). Soviet Union politician.
• 1937 – Bessie Smith dies (b. 1894). American singer.
• 1941 – Salvatore Accardo was born. Italian violinist and conductor.
• 1942 – Kent McCord was born. American actor.
• 1943 – Ian Chappell was born. Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
• 1943 – Tim Schenken was born. Australian racing driver
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1944 – Anne Robinson was born. British television host
• 1945 – Béla Bartók dies (b. 1881). Hungarian composer.
• 1945 – Bryan Ferry was born. British singer.
• 1945 – Gal Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1945 – Louise Beaudoin was born. Quebec politician
• 1946 – Andrea Dworkin was born (d. 2005). American feminist.
• 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman was born. American politician
• 1947 – Lynn Anderson was born. American singer
• 1947 – Hugh Lofting dies (b. 1886). British writer.
• 1948 – Olivia Newton-John was born. Australian singer.
• 1949 – Clodoaldo was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1949 – Jane Smiley was born. American novelist.
• 1949 – Minette Walters was born. British novelist.
• 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
• 1950 – Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
• 1951 – Stuart Tosh was born. Scottish musician.
• 1951 – Hans Cloos dies (b. 1885).German geologist.
• 1952 – Predrag Miletić was born. Serbian actor from Nis
• 1952 – George Santayana dies (b. 1863). Spanish philosopher.
• 1953 – Aivars Lembergs was born. Latvian politician.
• 1953 – Joe Benigno was born. American radio personality.
• 1953 – Xu Beihong dies (b. 1895). Chinese painter.
• 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1954 – Kevin Kennedy was born. Baseball manager and television host
• 1955 – Carlene Carter was born. American singer
• 1956 – Linda Hamilton was born. American actress.
• 1956 – Steve Butler was born. American racecar driver.
• 1957 – West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway .
• 1958 – Richard B. Weldon, Jr. was born. American politician
• 1959 – Rich Gedman was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 – In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R. in the longest speech in UN history (4h 29m)
• 1961 – Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
• 1961 – Will Self was born. British author
• 1961 – Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1962 – Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)
• 1962 – Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
• 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson was born. American actress.
• 1962 – Peter Foster was born. Australian con-man
• 1963 – Lysette Anthony was born. British actress
• 1964 – Nicki French was born. British singer.
• 1965 – Alexandra Lencastre was born. Portuguese actress
• 1965 – Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1965 – James Fitzmaurice dies (b. 1898). Irish aviation pioneer.
• 1966 – The first Chevrolet Camaro appeared.
• 1966 – Christos Dantis was born. Greek composer and singer.
• 1966 – Jillian Barberie was born. Canadian actress and television hostess
• 1966 – Delfim Pinto dos Santos dies in Cascais (b. 1907). Portuguese thinker, philosopher.
• 1967 – Shannon Hoon was born (d. 1995). American singer (Blind Melon).
• 1968 – Portugal : O presidente da República anuncia oficialmente a nomeação de Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de Presidente do Conselho de Ministros, em substituição de António de Oliveira Salazar
• 1968 – James Caviezel was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr dies (b. 1915). Politician, premier of Québec.
• 1969 – The Chicago Seven trial begins.
• 1969 – The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
• 1969 – The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
• 1969 – Paul Warhurst was born. English football player.
• 1969 – Anthony Kavanagh was born. Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie was born. American actress.
• 1972 – Melanie Paxson was born. American actress
• 1972 – Ras Kass was born. American rapper.
• 1972 – Shawn Stockman was born. American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1972 – Charles Correll dies (b. 1890). American radio actor.
• 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1973 – Chris Small was born. Scottish snooker player.
• 1973 – Marty Casey was born. American singer (Lovehammers)
• 1973 – Olga Vasdeki was born. Greek triple jumper.
• 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt dies (b. 1923). American race car driver.
• 1973 – Anna Magnani dies (b. 1908). Italian actress.
• 1974 – Martin Müürsepp was born. Estonian basketball player.
• 1975 – Emma Härdelin was born. Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
• 1975 – Jake Paltrow was born. Director and the brother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• 1976 – Michael Ballack was born. German football player
• 1976 – Lavoslav Ružička dies (b. 1887). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 – Paul Turán dies in Budapest (b. 28 Aug 1910). Jewish mathematician.
• 1977 – Kaylynn was born. American porn star
• 1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot was born. Boston Marathon record holder
• 1978 – Manne Siegbahn dies (b. 1886). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1979 – Fuifui Moimoi was born. New Zealand (Tongan) Rugby League player
• 1979 – Jon Harley was born. English footballer.
• 1979 – Jaycie Phelps was born. American gymnast.
• 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1980 – The Lonie Report in Victoria, Australia recommends rail line closures and freeway expansion.
• 1980 – Henrik and Daniel Sedin was born. Swedish professional ice hockey players.
• 1980 – Patrick Friesacher was born. Austrian race car driver.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1981 – Collien Fernandes was born. German TV host and actress (See Collien Fernandes wallpaper)
• 1981 – Christina Milian was born. American actress and singer. (See Christina Milian high resolution wallpaper)
• 1981 – Serena Williams was born. American tennis player.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo was born. Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Alec Hurwood dies (b. 1902). Australian cricketer.
• 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
• 1983 – Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
• 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma was born in Lisbon. Portuguese footaball player (FC Porto).
• 1983 – Samantha Hammel was born. American record producer and actress
• 1983 – Tino Rossi dies (b. 1907). French singer and actor.
• 1984 – United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong on 01 July 1997 : After two years of negotiation, Great Britain formally agreed to honor the expiration of its 99-year lease on the island of Hong Kong / O governo britânico aceitou o regresso de Hong-Kong à soberania Chinesa em 1997.
• 1984 – Keisha Buchanan was born. English singer and a member of the girlgroup Sugababes
• 1984 – John Facenda dies (b. 1913). American broadcaster and sports announcer.
• 1984 – Paquirri dies (b. 1948). Spanish bullfighter.
• 1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa was born. Estonian singer and a member of the girlgroup Vanilla Ninja
• 1986 – Ashley Leggat was born. Canadian actress.
• 1986 – Hugh Franklin dues (b. 1916). American soap opera actor.
• 1987 – Keith Allen was born. College Radio Personality (WDBK The Real 91.5 FM)
• 1987 – Rosie Munter was born. Swedish singer and model (Play)
• 1988 – Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
• 1988 – Kiira Korpi was born. Finnish figure skater.
• 1988 – Mark Simpson was born. English Clarinetist and Composer.
• 1989 – Um pequeno avião, que transporta três deputados portugueses, cai ao descolar da Jamba, ficando gravemente ferido João Soares, filho do então presidente da República Portuguesa.
• 1990 – The Motion Picture Association of America abolishes the “X” rating, replacing it with “NC-17,” a rating designating a film with content inappropriate for viewers under age 17.
• 1990 – (Alberto Pincherle) Alberto Moravia dies at 82. Italian writer (Woman in Red)
• 1991 – Biosphere 2 opens.
• 1991 – Billy Vaughn dies (b. 1919). American instrumentalist, singer and bandleader.
• 1993 – Posat I is launched, the first Portuguese satelite. / O primeiro satélite português, PoSat I, foi lançado para o espaço.
• 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234;
• 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• 1998 – Betty Carter dies (b. 1930). American singer.
• 1999 – Oseola McCarty dies (b. 1908). Notable benefactor of Southern Miss.
• 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 – Express Samina, capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people where killed.
• 2000 – Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 2000 – Richard Mulligan dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2000 – Baden Powell dies. Brazilian musician.
• 2001 – Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
• 2001 – Walter Avancini dies (b. 18 Apr 1935). Brazilian actor and director.
• 2002 – Thirty people are killed in a gun attack at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
• 2002 – Five people are shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.
• 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2003 – Shawn Lane dies (b. 1963). American guitarist.
• 2003 – Robert Palmer dies (b. 1949). British singer.
• 2004 – Marianna Komlos dies (b. 1969). Professional wrestling valet
• 2005 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli Airstrikes on Palestinian targets continue, with the Israel Defense Forces firing missiles in Gaza, knocking out the power supply to the East of the city, the Khan Yunis refugee camp and Rafah. Hamas had earlier declared an end to rocket attacks following pressure from the Palestinian National Authority and Egypt
• 2006 – Benfica lost against Manchester United 0-1 for the Champions League.
• 2006 – Byron Nelson dies (b. 1912). American golfer
• 2006 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose dies (b. 1916)
• Bureflux (Discordianism)
• European Day of Languages
• Calendar of Saints – Sts. Cosmas and Damian.

On this day in History – Sep. 26

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
• 0715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
• 1181 – Saint Francis of Assisi was born (d. 1226). Italian founder of the Franciscan Order.
• 1342 – John I, ruler of Poland, died.
• 1406 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros was born (d. 1430). English soldier and politician.
• 1417 – Francesco Zabarella dies (b. 1360). Italian jurist.
• 1468 – Juan de Torquemada dies (b. 1388). Spanish Catholic cardinal.
• 1501 – Džore Držić dies (b. 1461). Croatian writer.
• 1580 – Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
• 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China dies (b. 1582).
• 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu dies (b. 1554). Japanese warrior.
• 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
• 1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple was born (d. 1779). English politician.
• 1716 – Antoine Parent dies (b. 1666). French mathematician.
• 1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was born (d. 1810). British admiral.
• 1758 – Cosme Argerich was born. Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
• 1763 – John Byrom dies (b. 1692). English poet.
• 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro dies (b. 1767). Spanish scholar.
• 1774 – Johnny Appleseed was born (d. 1847). American environmentalist.
• 1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1783 – Fayette County, Pennsylvania created.
• 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
• 1791 – Théodore Géricault was born (d. 1824). French writer.
• 1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
• 1795 – Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo was born (d. 1876). Portughuese politician. / Nascimento de Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo (m. 1876) em Santarém. Oficial de cavalaria durante as Invasões Francesas, perderá um braço no combate do Alto da Bandeira, durante o Cerco do Porto, no decurso da Guerra Civil de 1832-1834. Será nomeado sucessivamente visconde, conde e marquês de Sá da Bandeira, alcunha por que era conhecido desde o seu ferimento.
• 1802 – Baron Jurij Vega dies (b. 1754). Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer.
• 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
• 1815 – The Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia was formed, after the final defeat of Napoleon.
• 1820 – Daniel Boone dies (b. 1734). American frontiersman.
• 1829 – Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
• 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon was born (d. 1923). French Canadian politician.
• 1849 – Ivan Pavlov was born. Russian physiologist, famous for his Nobel Prize-winning behavioral studies on conditioned reflexes in dogs in the 1890s.
• 1854 – Percy Alexander MacMahon was born (d. 25 Dec 1929). English mathematician. Author of Combinatory analysis (2 volumes: 1915, 1916), An introduction to combinatory analysis (1920), New Mathematical Pastimes (1921).
• 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford was born. British pilot
• 1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius dies (b. 1790). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1869 – Komitas was born (d. 1935). Armenian composer.
• 1870 – King Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm was born (d. 1947) . King of Denmark (1912-1947)
• 1871 – Winsor McCay was born (d. 1934). American cartoonist.
• 1873 – Aleksey Shchusev was born (d. 1949). Russian architect.
• 1873 – Wacław Berent was born (d. 1940). Polish novelist and translator.
• 1874 – Lewis Hine was born (d. 1940). American photographer and social activist.
• 1875 – Edmund Gwenn was born (d. 1959). Welsh actor.
• 1876 – Edith Abbott was born (d. 1957). American social worker, educator, and author.
• 1877 – Ugo Cerletti was born (d. 1963). Italian neurologist.
• 1877 – Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
• 1877 – Hermann Grassmann dies (b. 1809). German mathematician and physicist.
• 1881 – Hiram Wesley Evans was born (d. 1966). Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard.
• 1886 – Archibald Vivian Hill was born (d. 1977). English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett was born (d. 1958). British writer.
• 1887 – Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was born (d. 1979). British scientist, engineer and inventor.
• 1887 – Antonio Moreno was born (d. 1967). Spanish-born actor.
• 1887 – José Montealegre Fernández was born. President of Costa Rica (1859-1860 e 1860-1863)
• 1888 – J. Frank Dobie was born (d. 1964). American folklorist and newspaper columnist.
• 1888 – T. S. Eliot was born (d. 1965). American poet and editor. 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Poems)
• 1889 – Martin Heidegger was born (d. 1976). German philosopher.
• 1891 – Charles Munch was born (d. 1968). French conductor and violinist.
• 1893 – Gladys Brockwell was born (d. 1929). American actress.
• 1895 – George Raft was born (d. 1980). American actor.
• 1897 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) was born (d. 1978). 262nd Roman Pope.
• 1897 – Arthur Rhys Davids was born (d. 1917). English pilot.
• 1898 – George Gershwin was born in Brookly NY (d. 11 Jul 1937). American composer (Rhapsody in Blue). He wrote the music for many popular songs for musicals, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics. His greatest work work was the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), on a libretto by DuBose Heyward.
• 1901 – Leon Czolgosz [1873 – 31 Oct 1901], who on 06 September 1901 shot President William McKinley [29 Jan 1843 – 14 Sep 1901], is sentenced to death.
• 1902 – Levi Strauss dies (b. 1829). American clothing manufacturer.
• 1904 – John F. Stairs dies (b. 1848). Canadian businessman and statesman.
• 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn dies (b. 1850). Greek writer.
• 1905 – Emilio Navarro was born. Puerto Rican Baseball Player
• 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 1907 – Anthony Blunt was born (d. 1983). English art historian and Soviet spy.
• 1907 – Bep van Klaveren was born (d. 1992). Dutch boxer.
• 1909 – Bill France, Sr. was born. American founder of NASCAR
• 1914 – The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1914 – Jack LaLanne was born. American fitness advocate.
• 1917 – Réal Caouette was born (d. 1976). French Canadian politician, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada
• 1918 – World War I: Battle of Meuse.
• 1919 – Matilde Camus was born. Spanish poet and researcher
• 1922 – Nicholas Romanov was born. French-born pretender to the Russian throne
• 1923 – Dev Anand was born. Indian actor and film producer.
• 1925 – Marty Robbins was born (d. 1982). American singer.
• 1925 – Norm Dussault was born. American-born ice hockey player.
• 1925 – Cândido de Figueiredo dies. Portuguese lexicographer.
• 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1926 – Julie London was born (d. 2000). American singer and actress.
• 1927 – Patrick O’Neal was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1927 – Robert Blackburn was born (d. 1990). Irish educationist.
• 1928 – Bob Van der Veken was born. Belgian actor
• 1930 – Fritz Wunderlich was born (d. 1966). German tenor.
• 1932 – Dr. Manmohan Singh was born. Prime Minister of India.
• 1932 – Richard Herd was born. American actor.
• 1932 – Vladimir Voinovich was born. Russian writer and dissident.
• 1933 – Donna Douglas was born. American actress.
• 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1935 – Federico Páez Chiriboga becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1935 – Joe Sherlock was born (d. 2007). Irish Labour Party politician.
• 1936 – Luis Fernando Verissimo was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1936 – Winnie Mandela was born. South African anti-apartheid activist.
• 1937 – Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its “Detective Stories” radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
• 1937 – Jerry Weintraub was born. American film producer.
• 1937 – Valentin Pavlov was born (d. 2003). Soviet Union politician.
• 1937 – Bessie Smith dies (b. 1894). American singer.
• 1941 – Salvatore Accardo was born. Italian violinist and conductor.
• 1942 – Kent McCord was born. American actor.
• 1943 – Ian Chappell was born. Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
• 1943 – Tim Schenken was born. Australian racing driver
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1944 – Anne Robinson was born. British television host
• 1945 – Béla Bartók dies (b. 1881). Hungarian composer.
• 1945 – Bryan Ferry was born. British singer.
• 1945 – Gal Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1945 – Louise Beaudoin was born. Quebec politician
• 1946 – Andrea Dworkin was born (d. 2005). American feminist.
• 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman was born. American politician
• 1947 – Lynn Anderson was born. American singer
• 1947 – Hugh Lofting dies (b. 1886). British writer.
• 1948 – Olivia Newton-John was born. Australian singer.
• 1949 – Clodoaldo was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1949 – Jane Smiley was born. American novelist.
• 1949 – Minette Walters was born. British novelist.
• 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
• 1950 – Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
• 1951 – Stuart Tosh was born. Scottish musician.
• 1951 – Hans Cloos dies (b. 1885).German geologist.
• 1952 – Predrag Miletić was born. Serbian actor from Nis
• 1952 – George Santayana dies (b. 1863). Spanish philosopher.
• 1953 – Aivars Lembergs was born. Latvian politician.
• 1953 – Joe Benigno was born. American radio personality.
• 1953 – Xu Beihong dies (b. 1895). Chinese painter.
• 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1954 – Kevin Kennedy was born. Baseball manager and television host
• 1955 – Carlene Carter was born. American singer
• 1956 – Linda Hamilton was born. American actress.
• 1956 – Steve Butler was born. American racecar driver.
• 1957 – West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway .
• 1958 – Richard B. Weldon, Jr. was born. American politician
• 1959 – Rich Gedman was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 – In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R. in the longest speech in UN history (4h 29m)
• 1961 – Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
• 1961 – Will Self was born. British author
• 1961 – Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1962 – Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)
• 1962 – Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
• 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson was born. American actress.
• 1962 – Peter Foster was born. Australian con-man
• 1963 – Lysette Anthony was born. British actress
• 1964 – Nicki French was born. British singer.
• 1965 – Alexandra Lencastre was born. Portuguese actress
• 1965 – Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1965 – James Fitzmaurice dies (b. 1898). Irish aviation pioneer.
• 1966 – The first Chevrolet Camaro appeared.
• 1966 – Christos Dantis was born. Greek composer and singer.
• 1966 – Jillian Barberie was born. Canadian actress and television hostess
• 1966 – Delfim Pinto dos Santos dies in Cascais (b. 1907). Portuguese thinker, philosopher.
• 1967 – Shannon Hoon was born (d. 1995). American singer (Blind Melon).
• 1968 – Portugal : O presidente da República anuncia oficialmente a nomeação de Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de Presidente do Conselho de Ministros, em substituição de António de Oliveira Salazar
• 1968 – James Caviezel was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr dies (b. 1915). Politician, premier of Québec.
• 1969 – The Chicago Seven trial begins.
• 1969 – The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
• 1969 – The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
• 1969 – Paul Warhurst was born. English football player.
• 1969 – Anthony Kavanagh was born. Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie was born. American actress.
• 1972 – Melanie Paxson was born. American actress
• 1972 – Ras Kass was born. American rapper.
• 1972 – Shawn Stockman was born. American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1972 – Charles Correll dies (b. 1890). American radio actor.
• 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1973 – Chris Small was born. Scottish snooker player.
• 1973 – Marty Casey was born. American singer (Lovehammers)
• 1973 – Olga Vasdeki was born. Greek triple jumper.
• 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt dies (b. 1923). American race car driver.
• 1973 – Anna Magnani dies (b. 1908). Italian actress.
• 1974 – Martin Müürsepp was born. Estonian basketball player.
• 1975 – Emma Härdelin was born. Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
• 1975 – Jake Paltrow was born. Director and the brother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• 1976 – Michael Ballack was born. German football player
• 1976 – Lavoslav Ružička dies (b. 1887). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 – Paul Turán dies in Budapest (b. 28 Aug 1910). Jewish mathematician.
• 1977 – Kaylynn was born. American porn star
• 1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot was born. Boston Marathon record holder
• 1978 – Manne Siegbahn dies (b. 1886). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1979 – Fuifui Moimoi was born. New Zealand (Tongan) Rugby League player
• 1979 – Jon Harley was born. English footballer.
• 1979 – Jaycie Phelps was born. American gymnast.
• 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1980 – The Lonie Report in Victoria, Australia recommends rail line closures and freeway expansion.
• 1980 – Henrik and Daniel Sedin was born. Swedish professional ice hockey players.
• 1980 – Patrick Friesacher was born. Austrian race car driver.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1981 – Collien Fernandes was born. German TV host and actress (See Collien Fernandes wallpaper)
• 1981 – Christina Milian was born. American actress and singer. (See Christina Milian high resolution wallpaper)
• 1981 – Serena Williams was born. American tennis player.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo was born. Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Alec Hurwood dies (b. 1902). Australian cricketer.
• 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
• 1983 – Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
• 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma was born in Lisbon. Portuguese footaball player (FC Porto).
• 1983 – Samantha Hammel was born. American record producer and actress
• 1983 – Tino Rossi dies (b. 1907). French singer and actor.
• 1984 – United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong on 01 July 1997 : After two years of negotiation, Great Britain formally agreed to honor the expiration of its 99-year lease on the island of Hong Kong / O governo britânico aceitou o regresso de Hong-Kong à soberania Chinesa em 1997.
• 1984 – Keisha Buchanan was born. English singer and a member of the girlgroup Sugababes
• 1984 – John Facenda dies (b. 1913). American broadcaster and sports announcer.
• 1984 – Paquirri dies (b. 1948). Spanish bullfighter.
• 1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa was born. Estonian singer and a member of the girlgroup Vanilla Ninja
• 1986 – Ashley Leggat was born. Canadian actress.
• 1986 – Hugh Franklin dues (b. 1916). American soap opera actor.
• 1987 – Keith Allen was born. College Radio Personality (WDBK The Real 91.5 FM)
• 1987 – Rosie Munter was born. Swedish singer and model (Play)
• 1988 – Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
• 1988 – Kiira Korpi was born. Finnish figure skater.
• 1988 – Mark Simpson was born. English Clarinetist and Composer.
• 1989 – Um pequeno avião, que transporta três deputados portugueses, cai ao descolar da Jamba, ficando gravemente ferido João Soares, filho do então presidente da República Portuguesa.
• 1990 – The Motion Picture Association of America abolishes the “X” rating, replacing it with “NC-17,” a rating designating a film with content inappropriate for viewers under age 17.
• 1990 – (Alberto Pincherle) Alberto Moravia dies at 82. Italian writer (Woman in Red)
• 1991 – Biosphere 2 opens.
• 1991 – Billy Vaughn dies (b. 1919). American instrumentalist, singer and bandleader.
• 1993 – Posat I is launched, the first Portuguese satelite. / O primeiro satélite português, PoSat I, foi lançado para o espaço.
• 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234;
• 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• 1998 – Betty Carter dies (b. 1930). American singer.
• 1999 – Oseola McCarty dies (b. 1908). Notable benefactor of Southern Miss.
• 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 – Express Samina, capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people where killed.
• 2000 – Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 2000 – Richard Mulligan dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2000 – Baden Powell dies. Brazilian musician.
• 2001 – Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
• 2001 – Walter Avancini dies (b. 18 Apr 1935). Brazilian actor and director.
• 2002 – Thirty people are killed in a gun attack at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
• 2002 – Five people are shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.
• 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2003 – Shawn Lane dies (b. 1963). American guitarist.
• 2003 – Robert Palmer dies (b. 1949). British singer.
• 2004 – Marianna Komlos dies (b. 1969). Professional wrestling valet
• 2005 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli Airstrikes on Palestinian targets continue, with the Israel Defense Forces firing missiles in Gaza, knocking out the power supply to the East of the city, the Khan Yunis refugee camp and Rafah. Hamas had earlier declared an end to rocket attacks following pressure from the Palestinian National Authority and Egypt
• 2006 – Benfica lost against Manchester United 0-1 for the Champions League.
• 2006 – Byron Nelson dies (b. 1912). American golfer
• 2006 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose dies (b. 1916)
• Bureflux (Discordianism)
• European Day of Languages
• Calendar of Saints – Sts. Cosmas and Damian.

On this day in History – Sep. 26

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
• 0715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne
• 1181 – Saint Francis of Assisi was born (d. 1226). Italian founder of the Franciscan Order.
• 1342 – John I, ruler of Poland, died.
• 1406 – Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros was born (d. 1430). English soldier and politician.
• 1417 – Francesco Zabarella dies (b. 1360). Italian jurist.
• 1468 – Juan de Torquemada dies (b. 1388). Spanish Catholic cardinal.
• 1501 – Džore Držić dies (b. 1461). Croatian writer.
• 1580 – Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.
• 1620 – Taichang Emperor of China dies (b. 1582)
• 1626 – Wakisaka Yasuharu dies (b. 1554). Japanese warrior
• 1687 – The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
• 1711 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple was born (d. 1779). English politician.
• 1716 – Antoine Parent dies (b. 1666). French mathematician.
• 1750 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was born (d. 1810). British admiral.
• 1758 – Cosme Argerich was born. Argentine physician, founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires.
• 1763 – John Byrom dies (b. 1692). English poet.
• 1764 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro dies (b. 1767). Spanish scholar.
• 1774 – Johnny Appleseed was born (d. 1847). American environmentalist.
• 1777 – British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
• 1783 – Fayette County, Pennsylvania created
• 1789 – Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.
• 1791 – Théodore Géricault was born (d. 1824). French writer.
• 1792 – Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.
• 1795 – Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo was born (d. 1876). Portughuese politician. / Nascimento de Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo (m. 1876) em Santarém. Oficial de cavalaria durante as Invasões Francesas, perderá um braço no combate do Alto da Bandeira, durante o Cerco do Porto, no decurso da Guerra Civil de 1832-1834. Será nomeado sucessivamente visconde, conde e marquês de Sá da Bandeira, alcunha por que era conhecido desde o seu ferimento.
• 1802 – Baron Jurij Vega dies (b. 1754). Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and military officer.
• 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
• 1815 – The Holy Alliance of Russia, Austria, and Prussia was formed, after the final defeat of Napoleon.
• 1820 – Daniel Boone dies (b. 1734). American frontiersman.
• 1829 – Scotland Yard, the official British criminal investigation organization, is formed.
• 1840 – Louis-Olivier Taillon was born (d. 1923). French Canadian politician.
• 1849 – Ivan Pavlov was born. Russian physiologist, famous for his Nobel Prize-winning behavioral studies on conditioned reflexes in dogs in the 1890s.
• 1854 – Percy Alexander MacMahon was born (d. 25 Dec 1929). English mathematician. Author of Combinatory analysis (2 volumes: 1915, 1916), An introduction to combinatory analysis (1920), New Mathematical Pastimes (1921).
• 1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford was born. British pilot
• 1868 – August Ferdinand Möbius dies (b. 1790). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1869 – Komitas was born (d. 1935). Armenian composer.
• 1870 – King Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm was born (d. 1947) . King of Denmark (1912-1947)
• 1871 – Winsor McCay was born (d. 1934). American cartoonist.
• 1873 – Aleksey Shchusev was born (d. 1949). Russian architect.
• 1873 – Wacław Berent was born (d. 1940). Polish novelist and translator.
• 1874 – Lewis Hine was born (d. 1940). American photographer and social activist.
• 1875 – Edmund Gwenn was born (d. 1959). Welsh actor.
• 1876 – Edith Abbott was born (d. 1957). American social worker, educator, and author.
• 1877 – Ugo Cerletti was born (d. 1963). Italian neurologist.
• 1877 – Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
• 1877 – Hermann Grassmann dies (b. 1809). German mathematician and physicist.
• 1881 – Hiram Wesley Evans was born (d. 1966). Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard.
• 1886 – Archibald Vivian Hill was born (d. 1977). English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1887 – Edwin Keppel Bennett was born (d. 1958). British writer.
• 1887 – Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was born (d. 1979). British scientist, engineer and inventor.
• 1887 – Antonio Moreno was born (d. 1967). Spanish-born actor.
• 1887 – José Montealegre Fernández was born. President of Costa Rica (1859-1860 e 1860-1863)
• 1888 – J. Frank Dobie was born (d. 1964). American folklorist and newspaper columnist.
• 1888 – T. S. Eliot was born (d. 1965). American poet and editor. 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. (The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, Poems)
• 1889 – Martin Heidegger was born (d. 1976). German philosopher.
• 1891 – Charles Munch was born (d. 1968). French conductor and violinist.
• 1893 – Gladys Brockwell was born (d. 1929). American actress.
• 1895 – George Raft was born (d. 1980). American actor.
• 1897 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini) was born (d. 1978). 262nd Roman Pope.
• 1897 – Arthur Rhys Davids was born (d. 1917). English pilot.
• 1898 – George Gershwin was born in Brookly NY (d. 11 Jul 1937). American composer (Rhapsody in Blue). He wrote the music for many popular songs for musicals, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics. His greatest work work was the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), on a libretto by DuBose Heyward.
• 1901 – Leon Czolgosz [1873 – 31 Oct 1901], who on 06 September 1901 shot President William McKinley [29 Jan 1843 – 14 Sep 1901], is sentenced to death.
• 1902 – Levi Strauss dies (b. 1829). American clothing manufacturer.
• 1904 – John F. Stairs dies (b. 1848). Canadian businessman and statesman.
• 1904 – Lafcadio Hearn dies (b. 1850). Greek writer.
• 1905 – Emilio Navarro was born. Puerto Rican Baseball Player
• 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
• 1907 – Anthony Blunt was born (d. 1983). English art historian and Soviet spy.
• 1907 – Bep van Klaveren was born (d. 1992). Dutch boxer.
• 1909 – Bill France, Sr. was born. American founder of NASCAR
• 1914 – The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• 1914 – Jack LaLanne was born. American fitness advocate.
• 1917 – Réal Caouette was born (d. 1976). French Canadian politician, leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada
• 1918 – World War I: Battle of Meuse.
• 1919 – Matilde Camus was born. Spanish poet and researcher
• 1922 – Nicholas Romanov was born. French-born pretender to the Russian throne
• 1923 – Dev Anand was born. Indian actor and film producer.
• 1925 – Marty Robbins was born (d. 1982). American singer.
• 1925 – Norm Dussault was born. American-born ice hockey player.
• 1925 – Cândido de Figueiredo dies. Portuguese lexicographer.
• 1926 – Masatoshi Koshiba was born. Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1926 – Julie London was born (d. 2000). American singer and actress.
• 1927 – Patrick O’Neal was born (d. 1994). American actor.
• 1927 – Robert Blackburn was born (d. 1990). Irish educationist.
• 1928 – Bob Van der Veken was born. Belgian actor
• 1930 – Fritz Wunderlich was born (d. 1966). German tenor.
• 1932 – Dr. Manmohan Singh was born. Prime Minister of India.
• 1932 – Richard Herd was born. American actor.
• 1932 – Vladimir Voinovich was born. Russian writer and dissident.
• 1933 – Donna Douglas was born. American actress.
• 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• 1935 – Federico Páez Chiriboga becomes President of Ecuador.
• 1935 – Joe Sherlock was born (d. 2007). Irish Labour Party politician.
• 1936 – Luis Fernando Verissimo was born. Brazilian writer.
• 1936 – Winnie Mandela was born. South African anti-apartheid activist.
• 1937 – Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its “Detective Stories” radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
• 1937 – Jerry Weintraub was born. American film producer.
• 1937 – Valentin Pavlov was born (d. 2003). Soviet Union politician.
• 1937 – Bessie Smith dies (b. 1894). American singer.
• 1941 – Salvatore Accardo was born. Italian violinist and conductor.
• 1942 – Kent McCord was born. American actor.
• 1943 – Ian Chappell was born. Australian test cricket player and broadcaster
• 1943 – Tim Schenken was born. Australian racing driver
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
• 1944 – Anne Robinson was born. British television host
• 1945 – Béla Bartók dies (b. 1881). Hungarian composer.
• 1945 – Bryan Ferry was born. British singer.
• 1945 – Gal Costa was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1945 – Louise Beaudoin was born. Quebec politician
• 1946 – Andrea Dworkin was born (d. 2005). American feminist.
• 1946 – Christine Todd Whitman was born. American politician
• 1947 – Lynn Anderson was born. American singer
• 1947 – Hugh Lofting dies (b. 1886). British writer.
• 1948 – Olivia Newton-John was born. Australian singer.
• 1949 – Clodoaldo was born. Brazilian football player.
• 1949 – Jane Smiley was born. American novelist.
• 1949 – Minette Walters was born. British novelist.
• 1950 – United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.
• 1950 – Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.
• 1951 – Stuart Tosh was born. Scottish musician.
• 1951 – Hans Cloos dies (b. 1885).German geologist.
• 1952 – Predrag Miletić was born. Serbian actor from Nis
• 1952 – George Santayana dies (b. 1863). Spanish philosopher.
• 1953 – Aivars Lembergs was born. Latvian politician.
• 1953 – Joe Benigno was born. American radio personality.
• 1953 – Xu Beihong dies (b. 1895). Chinese painter.
• 1954 – Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.
• 1954 – Kevin Kennedy was born. Baseball manager and television host
• 1955 – Carlene Carter was born. American singer
• 1956 – Linda Hamilton was born. American actress.
• 1956 – Steve Butler was born. American racecar driver.
• 1957 – West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway .
• 1958 – Richard B. Weldon, Jr. was born. American politician
• 1959 – Rich Gedman was born. American baseball player.
• 1960 – In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
• 1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba’s support for the U.S.S.R. in the longest speech in UN history (4h 29m)
• 1961 – Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
• 1961 – Will Self was born. British author
• 1961 – Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1962 – Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed (National Day)
• 1962 – Premiere of The Beverly Hillbillies on CBS.
• 1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson was born. American actress.
• 1962 – Peter Foster was born. Australian con-man
• 1963 – Lysette Anthony was born. British actress
• 1964 – Nicki French was born. British singer.
• 1965 – Alexandra Lencastre was born. Portuguese actress
• 1965 – Cindy Herron was born. American singer (En Vogue)
• 1965 – James Fitzmaurice dies (b. 1898). Irish aviation pioneer.
• 1966 – The first Chevrolet Camaro appeared.
• 1966 – Christos Dantis was born. Greek composer and singer.
• 1966 – Jillian Barberie was born. Canadian actress and television hostess
• 1966 – Delfim Pinto dos Santos dies in Cascais (b. 1907). Portuguese thinker, philosopher.
• 1967 – Shannon Hoon was born (d. 1995). American singer (Blind Melon).
• 1968 – Portugal : O presidente da República anuncia oficialmente a nomeação de Marcelo Caetano para o cargo de Presidente do Conselho de Ministros, em substituição de António de Oliveira Salazar
• 1968 – James Caviezel was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Daniel Johnson, Sr dies (b. 1915). Politician, premier of Québec.
• 1969 – The Chicago Seven trial begins.
• 1969 – The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
• 1969 – The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
• 1969 – Paul Warhurst was born. English football player.
• 1969 – Anthony Kavanagh was born. Canadian comedian, actor and singer
• 1970 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
• 1970 – Sheri Moon Zombie was born. American actress.
• 1972 – Melanie Paxson was born. American actress
• 1972 – Ras Kass was born. American rapper.
• 1972 – Shawn Stockman was born. American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
• 1972 – Charles Correll dies (b. 1890). American radio actor.
• 1973 – Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
• 1973 – Chris Small was born. Scottish snooker player.
• 1973 – Marty Casey was born. American singer (Lovehammers)
• 1973 – Olga Vasdeki was born. Greek triple jumper.
• 1973 – Ralph Earnhardt dies (b. 1923). American race car driver.
• 1973 – Anna Magnani dies (b. 1908). Italian actress.
• 1974 – Martin Müürsepp was born. Estonian basketball player.
• 1975 – Emma Härdelin was born. Swedish singer (Garmarna and Triakel)
• 1975 – Jake Paltrow was born. Director and the brother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow
• 1976 – Michael Ballack was born. German football player
• 1976 – Lavoslav Ružička dies (b. 1887). Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1976 – Paul Turán dies in Budapest (b. 28 Aug 1910). Jewish mathematician.
• 1977 – Kaylynn was born. American porn star
• 1978 – Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot was born. Boston Marathon record holder
• 1978 – Manne Siegbahn dies (b. 1886). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1979 – Fuifui Moimoi was born. New Zealand (Tongan) Rugby League player
• 1979 – Jon Harley was born. English footballer.
• 1979 – Jaycie Phelps was born. American gymnast.
• 1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt dies (b. 1910). American actor.
• 1980 – The Lonie Report in Victoria, Australia recommends rail line closures and freeway expansion.
• 1980 – Henrik and Daniel Sedin was born. Swedish professional ice hockey players.
• 1980 – Patrick Friesacher was born. Austrian race car driver.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1981 – Collien Fernandes was born. German TV host and actress (See Collien Fernandes wallpaper)
• 1981 – Christina Milian was born. American actress and singer. (See Christina Milian high resolution wallpaper)
• 1981 – Serena Williams was born. American tennis player.
• 1981 – Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• 1982 – Miguel Alfredo Portillo was born. Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Alec Hurwood dies (b. 1902). Australian cricketer.
• 1983 – Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
• 1983 – Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.
• 1983 – Ricardo Quaresma was born in Lisbon. Portuguese footaball player (FC Porto).
• 1983 – Samantha Hammel was born. American record producer and actress
• 1983 – Tino Rossi dies (b. 1907). French singer and actor.
• 1984 – United Kingdom agrees handover of Hong Kong on 01 July 1997 : After two years of negotiation, Great Britain formally agreed to honor the expiration of its 99-year lease on the island of Hong Kong / O governo britânico aceitou o regresso de Hong-Kong à soberania Chinesa em 1997.
• 1984 – Keisha Buchanan was born. English singer and a member of the girlgroup Sugababes
• 1984 – John Facenda dies (b. 1913). American broadcaster and sports announcer.
• 1984 – Paquirri dies (b. 1948). Spanish bullfighter.
• 1985 – Lenna Kuurmaa was born. Estonian singer and a member of the girlgroup Vanilla Ninja
• 1986 – Ashley Leggat was born. Canadian actress.
• 1986 – Hugh Franklin dues (b. 1916). American soap opera actor.
• 1987 – Keith Allen was born. College Radio Personality (WDBK The Real 91.5 FM)
• 1987 – Rosie Munter was born. Swedish singer and model (Play)
• 1988 – Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal in the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics for failing a drug test.
• 1988 – Kiira Korpi was born. Finnish figure skater.
• 1988 – Mark Simpson was born. English Clarinetist and Composer.
• 1989 – Um pequeno avião, que transporta três deputados portugueses, cai ao descolar da Jamba, ficando gravemente ferido João Soares, filho do então presidente da República Portuguesa.
• 1990 – The Motion Picture Association of America abolishes the “X” rating, replacing it with “NC-17,” a rating designating a film with content inappropriate for viewers under age 17.
• 1990 – (Alberto Pincherle) Alberto Moravia dies at 82. Italian writer (Woman in Red)
• 1991 – Biosphere 2 opens.
• 1991 – Billy Vaughn dies (b. 1919). American instrumentalist, singer and bandleader.
• 1993 – Posat I is launched, the first Portuguese satelite. / O primeiro satélite português, PoSat I, foi lançado para o espaço.
• 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234;
• 1997 – An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• 1998 – Betty Carter dies (b. 1930). American singer.
• 1999 – Oseola McCarty dies (b. 1908). Notable benefactor of Southern Miss.
• 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 2000 – Express Samina, capsized after running aground near the isle of Paros. 82 people where killed.
• 2000 – Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 2000 – Richard Mulligan dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2000 – Baden Powell dies. Brazilian musician.
• 2001 – Star Trek: Enterprise begins airing in the US.
• 2001 – Walter Avancini dies (b. 18 Apr 1935). Brazilian actor and director.
• 2002 – Thirty people are killed in a gun attack at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
• 2002 – Five people are shot dead in a botched bank robbery in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States.
• 2002 – The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• 2003 – Shawn Lane dies (b. 1963). American guitarist.
• 2003 – Robert Palmer dies (b. 1949). British singer.
• 2004 – Marianna Komlos dies (b. 1969). Professional wrestling valet
• 2005 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli Airstrikes on Palestinian targets continue, with the Israel Defense Forces firing missiles in Gaza, knocking out the power supply to the East of the city, the Khan Yunis refugee camp and Rafah. Hamas had earlier declared an end to rocket attacks following pressure from the Palestinian National Authority and Egypt
• 2006 – Benfica lost against Manchester United 0-1 for the Champions League.
• 2006 – Byron Nelson dies (b. 1912). American golfer
• 2006 – Iva Toguri D’Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose dies (b. 1916)
• Bureflux (Discordianism)
• European Day of Languages
• Calendar of Saints – Sts. Cosmas and Damian.

They’re just music instruments!

What’s this pale life without music pumping it with colors and meanings? What’s a song with no music instruments breathing life into it? What’s a singer without his/her band? What’s a band without smart instruments? And what are instruments without skilled players with full devotion?

There are unique characteristics for each music instrument. We’ve heard of the string, wind, percussion and keyboard instruments. Each one of them, no matter to which category it belongs, is an individual world with special characteristics, nature and charm. To play any of those instruments, you need to have the skill to work it. No matter how great your appearance is, it remains insignificant to those sensitive objects. Your talent, magic and passion are what really matter, and the rest is just unneeded luxury.

You see the Clarinet…slender and subtle, it grabs your heart before your eyes. You enjoy hearing its sound when it’s played by the “experts,” but that doesn’t keep your hands off of it. At the beginning you find your way with it pretty challenging, “Do I have to be professional to play it?” Sure! Otherwise you’ll be very disappointed with the results. Nevertheless, as soon as you learn the proper steps, you skillfully convert your inner emotions to air blown through the mouthpiece. And if you press the metal keys with the fingers of both hands, it will respond to your touches with different sounds that are capable of stealing your senses. It doesn’t take much for the Clarinet to give it all to you. Just be gentle and professional, and only then it will produce such an engaging fluid sound. Those who fall for the Clarinet are compassionate with rich inner souls.

Unlike the delicate Clarinet, the Drum needs that “aggressiveness” and power. You don’t have to guess, it’s obvious, and you already know what it needs to work. You just might not have the skill to master it the right way. Drums are round, large and not very attractive at first, but don’t you go crazy when you hear it? And even crazier when you communicate with it? It needs to be beaten, either directly with body parts, or with some sort of “implement” to produce sound. You beat it and beat it and beat it, and the harder you beat it the louder it gets. Did you ever wonder how patient and obedient this instrument is? You probably never noticed that her actions are actually reactions to your madness. Try to track your hits, and see how the sound goes louder each time you hit. You can turn the loud sound of the Drum into powerful music that could rock your body and soul. Even if you weren’t a fan of the Drum, you can’t deny that the Drum is the heart of any live “concert.”

You know it’s beautiful and irresistible. You’ve had many dreams about it and now it’s finally yours, but don’t you even dare to drag it into your bedroom! No matter how “skilled” and “passionate” you think you are. Your bedroom remains the most inappropriate and limited place that can fit the majesty of the Piano. This instrument was created to standout, to be in front of the eyes of everyone, and in the middle of the crowd. That doesn’t mean it’s going to follow you to the empty sidewalks. Your skill, passion and love are not enough to fill the strut Piano that is surrounded with lovers of every kind. There are always better admirers who are way better than you, and who fell hard for it. Remember to be competitive and superb, there is always a Chopin, a Beethoven and even a Mozart out there. You could probably drag it after you flaunt it in front of a rich audience, in one of those historical theaters to prove that you deserve it. Don’t forget to wear your expensive suit. Unfortunately, when it comes to the Piano, you have to go a little materialistic. You have to spend and pretend, my friend! If you love it, you need to sacrifice your simplicity to maintain your relationship with this fine popular instrument.

This one is a different story. It doesn’t work without it resting on your shoulder (pretty pampered and dependent, but wait! That’s not all). Don’t let the heavenly sound of the magical Violin lead you to believe “it’s beautiful and easy to get.” The Violin is not as predictable as it may appear. Mastering the Violin is a complex process that requires years and years of extensive and constant attempts. Don’t hold your breath; this is not the hardest part of the relationship. You should be able to transmit your feelings to the “listener” while feeling perfectly at ease. Remember sophistication is the number one rule here. There would be times where you would burst and say, “That’s enough, this isn’t working for me, and I’m fed up!” But then you find yourself with your head bent in total submission, trying to tame it, when in reality you are the one being tamed. If you think you can go through all that then go for it! The lovely Violin is worth the entire struggle for sure. It could be soft and expressive and/or exciting and brilliant. You just need to learn what “strings” to touch and where, and when to stop “tightening” them. Last but not least, don’t forget to put it back in that velvet case, otherwise hands will be all over it.

Sounds like women? Well, this musician could be any male, and that instrument could be any female. There aren’t that many persons who are capable of playing instruments. You could play one, two, or even three…but you won’t be a good musician with all of them. Most talented famous musicians in the world – Like Yanni, Reginald kell and Naseer Shama – only knew how to play one of those instruments, and people are impressed, influenced and inspired by them. people learn from professionals like that and they look up to them. Usually, those who know how to play more than two instruments are the worst players of all. They waste their passion and skill, they divide it in shattered pieces – as if it was charity—a little here and a little over there. They could work two instruments or even four, but they aren’t good at them. Their talent becomes exhausted, and their passion becomes fragile. Indeed, those were the ones driven by selfishness to have it all, and that’s why they didn’t accomplish much and we didn’t hear about any one of them. They fail to offer total devotion and complete passion.You see how important dedication and devotion are? Same thing applies to women and relationships.

Women are music instruments yearning for skilled players that could actually “work it,” and not complain about how “hard it is” and fail to “master it.” The types of music instruments (women) pass the number of your ten fingers—so thinking that they are all the same is pretty idiotic, you know?—and each one of them has its own charm and magic, but to get it, you are required to learn those “specific techniques.” Please, stop dreaming of all of them. Sure, they’re beautiful when they are all “played” but they require just one player, and not just any player. Each one needs a player that is excellent. Whether you are the lover of the subtle Clarinet, the magnificent Piano, the wild Drum, or even the soft Violin you need to be an expert. Don’t blame it on any of them if you get noise instead of music, the chances are: you’re a terrible player. Ever dreamed of being a fine musician instead of just being an amateur player shifting and changing instruments every time you fail?

`If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to grow?’ Kahlil Gibran.

Each of us has known the moment when our heart felt like a volcano.

That pounding anger that fills our thoughts with darkness and blocks our creativity.

But it is not by denying these feelings we renew our creativity but by acknowledging their source and finding constructive ways to clear them away.

For `The Spirit’ to flow we too need to keep these channels clear.

Anger that lingers is dark and blocks the light.

Volcano’s are about flow, they burst their way out of the earth and with time create rich soil in which flowers flourish.

Our hearts can be the same.

An acknowledgement of the power of our feelings, a flow towards resolution, then again growth.

To allow a lingering of anger results in darkness where the flowers of creativity have no light.

We see pain and suffering all around us in the world as a result of old angers that continue to create such darkness.

Creativity is about walking towards light and joy, it’s about allowing the rich volcanic soil to fill our hearts with flowers.

Peace and Greetings to all from Greenearth in Australia

en donde quedo el derecho????

hace ya un tiempo que me molesta algo es sobre el reallity de los niños …yo me pregunto en donde están sus derechos???…quienes son los encargados de velar por ellos???
sus padres??? los organismos de defensa???…porque se lucra con tantos chicos???
que pasó con los adultos que alguna vez fueron niños???acaso su memoria se les borró???

no estoy deacuerdo con el uso y abuso de los niños en labores que no son propias de ellos….
la infancia es muy corta para perderla abruptamente
la infancia es una etapa que ha de ser preservada y cuidada celosamente!!!

elisa
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