Minibiografia – Luíza Neto Jorge Maio 10, 2008

Mulher ao espelho foto daqui

Não me quero com o tempo nem com a moda
Olho como um deus para tudo de alto
Mas zás! do motor corpo o mau ressalto
Me faz a todo o passo errar a coda.

Porque envelheço, adoeço, esqueço
Quanto a vida é gesto e amor é foda;
Diferente me concebo e só do avesso
O formato mulher se me acomoda

E se nave vier do fundo espaço
Cedo raptar-me, assassinar-me, cedo:
Logo me leve, subirei sem medo
À cena do mais árduo e do mais escasso.

Um poema deixo, ao retardador:
Meia palavra a bom entendedor.

Maria Luíza Neto Jorge nasceu a 10 de Maio de 1939 em Lisboa, onde faleceu a 23 de Fevereiro de 1989. Frequentou Filologia Românica na Faculdade de Letras da sua cidade natal, mas não concluiu o curso. Pertenceu ao grupo Poesia ‘61 e viveu em Paris de 1962 a 1970. A sua poesia é tendencialmente surrealista: «Noite Vertebrada» (1960), «4.ª Dimensão» (1961), «Terra Imóvel» (1964), «O Seu a Seu Tempo» (1966), «19 Recantos» (1969), «O Ciclópico Acto» (1972), «Os Sítios Sitiados» (1973), «Onze Poemas» (1983), «A Lume» (1989) e, postumamente, «Poesia 1960/89» (1993). Adaptou para o teatro «O Fatalista» de Diderot e escreveu os diálogos dos filmes «Brandos Costumes» de Seixas Santos e «A Ilha dos Amores» de Paulo Rocha. Distinguiu-se também como tradutora literária.

Poema e nota biobliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado – Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe – Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

Minibiografia – Luíza Neto Jorge

Mulher ao espelho foto daqui

Não me quero com o tempo nem com a moda
Olho como um deus para tudo de alto
Mas zás! do motor corpo o mau ressalto
Me faz a todo o passo errar a coda.

Porque envelheço, adoeço, esqueço
Quanto a vida é gesto e amor é foda;
Diferente me concebo e só do avesso
O formato mulher se me acomoda

E se nave vier do fundo espaço
Cedo raptar-me, assassinar-me, cedo:
Logo me leve, subirei sem medo
À cena do mais árduo e do mais escasso.

Um poema deixo, ao retardador:
Meia palavra a bom entendedor.

Maria Luíza Neto Jorge nasceu a 10 de Maio de 1939 em Lisboa, onde faleceu a 23 de Fevereiro de 1989. Frequentou Filologia Românica na Faculdade de Letras da sua cidade natal, mas não concluiu o curso. Pertenceu ao grupo Poesia ‘61 e viveu em Paris de 1962 a 1970. A sua poesia é tendencialmente surrealista: «Noite Vertebrada» (1960), «4.ª Dimensão» (1961), «Terra Imóvel» (1964), «O Seu a Seu Tempo» (1966), «19 Recantos» (1969), «O Ciclópico Acto» (1972), «Os Sítios Sitiados» (1973), «Onze Poemas» (1983), «A Lume» (1989) e, postumamente, «Poesia 1960/89» (1993). Adaptou para o teatro «O Fatalista» de Diderot e escreveu os diálogos dos filmes «Brandos Costumes» de Seixas Santos e «A Ilha dos Amores» de Paulo Rocha. Distinguiu-se também como tradutora literária.

Poema e nota biobliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado – Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe – Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

Minibiografia – Luíza Neto Jorge

Mulher ao espelho foto daqui

Não me quero com o tempo nem com a moda
Olho como um deus para tudo de alto
Mas zás! do motor corpo o mau ressalto
Me faz a todo o passo errar a coda.

Porque envelheço, adoeço, esqueço
Quanto a vida é gesto e amor é foda;
Diferente me concebo e só do avesso
O formato mulher se me acomoda

E se nave vier do fundo espaço
Cedo raptar-me, assassinar-me, cedo:
Logo me leve, subirei sem medo
À cena do mais árduo e do mais escasso.

Um poema deixo, ao retardador:
Meia palavra a bom entendedor.

Maria Luíza Neto Jorge nasceu a 10 de Maio de 1939 em Lisboa, onde faleceu a 23 de Fevereiro de 1989. Frequentou Filologia Românica na Faculdade de Letras da sua cidade natal, mas não concluiu o curso. Pertenceu ao grupo Poesia ‘61 e viveu em Paris de 1962 a 1970. A sua poesia é tendencialmente surrealista: «Noite Vertebrada» (1960), «4.ª Dimensão» (1961), «Terra Imóvel» (1964), «O Seu a Seu Tempo» (1966), «19 Recantos» (1969), «O Ciclópico Acto» (1972), «Os Sítios Sitiados» (1973), «Onze Poemas» (1983), «A Lume» (1989) e, postumamente, «Poesia 1960/89» (1993). Adaptou para o teatro «O Fatalista» de Diderot e escreveu os diálogos dos filmes «Brandos Costumes» de Seixas Santos e «A Ilha dos Amores» de Paulo Rocha. Distinguiu-se também como tradutora literária.

Poema e nota biobliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado – Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe – Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

Minibiografia – Luíza Neto Jorge

Mulher ao espelho foto daqui

Não me quero com o tempo nem com a moda
Olho como um deus para tudo de alto
Mas zás! do motor corpo o mau ressalto
Me faz a todo o passo errar a coda.

Porque envelheço, adoeço, esqueço
Quanto a vida é gesto e amor é foda;
Diferente me concebo e só do avesso
O formato mulher se me acomoda

E se nave vier do fundo espaço
Cedo raptar-me, assassinar-me, cedo:
Logo me leve, subirei sem medo
À cena do mais árduo e do mais escasso.

Um poema deixo, ao retardador:
Meia palavra a bom entendedor.

Maria Luíza Neto Jorge nasceu a 10 de Maio de 1939 em Lisboa, onde faleceu a 23 de Fevereiro de 1989. Frequentou Filologia Românica na Faculdade de Letras da sua cidade natal, mas não concluiu o curso. Pertenceu ao grupo Poesia ‘61 e viveu em Paris de 1962 a 1970. A sua poesia é tendencialmente surrealista: «Noite Vertebrada» (1960), «4.ª Dimensão» (1961), «Terra Imóvel» (1964), «O Seu a Seu Tempo» (1966), «19 Recantos» (1969), «O Ciclópico Acto» (1972), «Os Sítios Sitiados» (1973), «Onze Poemas» (1983), «A Lume» (1989) e, postumamente, «Poesia 1960/89» (1993). Adaptou para o teatro «O Fatalista» de Diderot e escreveu os diálogos dos filmes «Brandos Costumes» de Seixas Santos e «A Ilha dos Amores» de Paulo Rocha. Distinguiu-se também como tradutora literária.

Poema e nota biobliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado – Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe – Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

10 May: Happy birthday Linda Evangelista

10 May: Happy birthday Linda Evangelista

On this day in History – May 10

• 0946 – Pope Agapito II begins his Papacy.
• 1034 – Mieszko II of Poland dies (b. 0990).
• 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan was born (d. 1317).
• 1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria dies.
• 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
• 1424 – Go-Kameyama dies. Emperor of Japan.
• 1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli dies (b. 1397). Italian mathematician and astronomer.
• 1493 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll dies. Scottish politician.
• 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
• 1503 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
• 1508 – Miguel Ángel Buonarotti comienza a pintar en el Vaticano los frescos de la capilla Sixtina.
• 1521 – Sebastian Brant dies (b. 1457). German writer, author (“Narrenschiff,” or “Ship of Fools” )
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier discovers Newfoundland.
• 1566 – Leonhard Fuchs dies (b. 17 Jan 1501). German botanist.
• 1604 – Jean Mairet was born (d. 1686). French dramatist.
• 1624 – Dutch troops invaded Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (See The Dutch in Brazil).
• 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan was born (d. 1317).
• 1641 – Dudley North was born (d. 1691). English economist.
• 1641 – Johan Banér dies (b. 1596). Swedish soldier.
• 1657 – Gustaf Horn dies (b. 1592). Swedish soldier and politician.
• 1670 – Claude Vignon dies (b. 19 May 1593). French painter and engraver.Esther before
  The Young Singer Ahasuerus Croesus Receiving Tribute from a Lydian Peasant.
• 1691 – Colonel John Birch dies (b. 1615). English soldier.
• 1696 – Jean de la Bruyere dies (b. 17 Aug 1645). French writer and moralist.
• 1699 – Bartolomeo Nazari (or Nazzari) was born (d. 24 Aug 1758). Italian artist.
• 1717 – John Hathorne dies (b. 1641). American magistrate.
• 1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans dies (b. 1670). English soldier.
• 1727 – Anne Robert Turgot was born (d. 1781). Statesman.
• 1733 – Barton Booth dies (b. 1681). English actor.
• 1737 – Nakamikado Emperor of Japan dies (b. 1702).
• 1742 – D. João V adoece ficando parcialmente paralisado.
• 1746 – Gaspard Monge was born (d. 1818). French mathematician.
• 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was born (d. 1836). French composer (La Marseillaise).
• 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel was born (d. 1826). German poet.
• 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
• 1770 – Louis Nicolas Davout was born (d. 1823). French marshal.
• 1774 – King Louis XV of France dies (b. 1710).
• 1774 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.
• 1775 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle was born (d. 1809). French cavalry general.
• 1787 – William Watson dies (b. 1715). English physician and scientist.
• 1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel was born (d. 14 July 1827). French physicist who pioneered in optics and did much to establish the wave theory of light advanced by Thomas Young.
• 1788 – Catherine Pavlovna of Russia was born (d. 1819). German queen.
• 1789 – É detido o patriota brasileiro José da Silva Xavier, conhecido como Tiradentes.
• 1792 – John Stevens dies. American delegate to the Continental Congress.
• 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States.
• 1807 – Comte de Rochambeau dies (b. 1725). French soldier.
• 1808 – Nascimento do General Osório (Manoel Luís Osório), patrono do exército brasileiro, em Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Arroio, atual Município de Osório-RS.
• 1813 – Montgomery Blair was born (d. 1883). American politician.
• 1818 – Paul Revere dies (b. 1735). American patriot and engraver.
• 1822 – August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen, Baptized (as an infant) on 10 May 1822: Viennese painter and lithographer who died on 21 March 1889.
• 1824 – National Gallery in London opens to the public.
• 1826 – Giuseppe Sigismondo dies (b. 13 Sep 1739). Italian composer.
• 1827 – David Johnson was born (d. 30 Jan 1908). US Hudson River School painter. He produced an oeuvre with a greater variety of subject. Predominantly remembered as a landscape painter of the US northeast wilderness, Johnson also produced still lifes, portraits, and an occasional genre subject. — Croquet on the Lawn (1873, 51x86cm; 706x1219pix, 216kb)— Safely Anchored (1880, 33x48cm)— Natural Bridge (1860, 76x61cm)— Upper Twin Lakes in the Colorado Rockies (1865, 52x77cm) — View on the Androscoggin River, Maine (1870, 71x112cm) — Androscoggin River (1869, 36x56cm; 709x1125pix, 164kb)— Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey
• 1828 – James McDougal Hart was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland (d. 24 Oct 1901). Scottish-born US painter. An afternoon concert (1850, 99x136cm)— Returning from harvest (1870, 51x87cm) — Presidential Range and Starr King Mountain from Lunenburg VT (11 Sep 1867, 37x61cm) — The Adirondacks — Adirondack Scenery.
• 1829 – Thomas Young dies (b. 1773). English physician and linguist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
• 1830 – François-Marie Raoult was born (d. 1 Apr 1901). French chemist who formulated a law on solutions (called Raoult’s law) that made it possible to determine the molecular weights of dissolved substances.
• 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• 1838 – John Wilkes Booth was born (d. 1865). American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• 1840 – Hadzhi Dimitar was born (d. 1868). Bulgarian revolutionist.
• 1841 – James Gordon Bennett Jr. was born (d. 1918). American publisher.
• 1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands (d. 4 Jan 1920). Spanish novelist.
• 1844 – Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra was born in Nicaragua (d. 15 Apr. 1923). President of Costa Rica (1902-1906).
• 1847 – Wilhelm Killing was born (d. 1923). German mathematician.
• 1849 – Katsushika Hoknsa dies (b. 21 Oct 1760). Xilographer.
• 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac dies (b. 1778). French chemist and physicist.
• 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
• 1863 – Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson dies (b. 1824). American Confederate general.
• 1864 – Léon Gaumont was born in Paris. (d. 10 Aug 1946). French film pioneer.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment “Attack-in-depth” assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton was wounded slightly but immediately is promoted to Brigadier general.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
• 1866 – Léon Bakst was born (d. 1924). Russian artist.
• 1868 – Ed Barrow was born (d. 1953). American baseball manager.
• 1868 – Henry Bennett dies (b. 1808). American politican.
• 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
• 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• 1872 – Marcel Mauss was born (d. 1950). French sociologist.
• 1874 – Moses Schorr was born (d. 1941). Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist.
• 1876 – Ivan Cankar was born (d. 1918). Slovenian writer.
• 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian independence war.
• 1878 – Gustav Stresemann was born (d. 1929). Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1879 – Symon Petlura was born (d. 1926). Ukrainian statesman.
• 1886 – Karl Barth was born (d. 1968). Swiss Protestant theologian.
• 1886 – Olaf Stapledon was born (d. 1950). British author and philosopher.
• 1886 – Felix Manalo was born (d. 1963). 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo.
• 1886 – Karl Barth was born (d. 1968). Swiss Protestant theologian.
• 1886 – Olaf Stapledon was born (d. 1950). British author and philosopher.
• 1887 – Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha was born (d. 1962). 40th Sufi master of the Oveyssi order.
• 1888 – Max Steiner was born (d. 1971). Austrian composer.
• 1889 – Mae Murray was born (d. 1965). American actress.
• 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin dies (b. 1826). Russian satirist.
• 1890 – Alfred Jodl was born (d. 1946). German general.
• 1894 – Dimitri Tiomkin was born (d. 1921). Russian composer (Academy Award 1954- High and Mighty).
• 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen was born (d. 1987). Prime minister of Norway.
• 1897 – Andrés Bonifacio dies (b. 1863). Filipino revolutionary leader.
• 1898 – Ariel Durant was born (d. 1981). American historian.
• 1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin was born (d. 1979). Ukrainian-born composer.
• 1899 – Fred Astaire was born (d. 1987). American singer, dancer and actor.
• 1899 – Artur Paredes was born (d. 1980). Portuguese guitarist.
• 1902 – Anatole Litvak was born (d. 1974). Ukrainian-born film director.
• 1902 – David O. Selznick was born (d. 1965). American film producer.
• 1903 – Otto Bradfisch was born (d. 1994). Nazi leader.
• 1904 – Henry Morton Stanley (Bula Matari) dies (b. 28 Jan 1841). Journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.
• 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin dies (b. 1861). Russian painter.
• 1905 – Markos Vamvakaris was born (d. 1972). Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter.
• 1906 – D. António Ferreira Gomes was born (d. 1989). Bishop of Porto (Portugal).
• 1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time (Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina, USA).
• 1909 – Maybelle Carter was born. American musician
• 1909 – José Agustín Arango dies. President of Panamá (1903-1904.
• 1911 – Bel Kaufman was born. American author
• 1912 – Nascimento de Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, grande médico e introdutor da cirurgia cardíaca no Brasil, em Guaratinguetá-SP
• 1913 – João Villaret was born. Portuguese actor and poetry declaimer/ Nasce o actor e grande declamador português João Villaret.
• 1915 – Denis Thatcher was born. British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher
• 1916 – Milton Babbitt was born. American composer.
• 1920 – John Wesley Hyatt dies (b. 28 Nov 1837). Inventor and pioneer of the plastics industry who discovered the process for making celluloid.
• 1921 – Rudolf von Ribbentrop was born. Nazi officer.
• 1922 – The USA annexes the Kingman Reef.
• 1923 – Heydar Aliyev was born (d. 2003). Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic.
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
• 1926 – Hugo Banzer was born (d. 2002). Bolivian dictator.
• 1927 – Nayantara Sahgal was born. Indian author.
• 1928 – Arnold Rüütel was born. Estonian president.
• 1929 – Antonine Maillet was born. French canadian novelist and playwright
• 1930 – Scott Muni was born (d. 2004). American radio DJ.
• 1930 – Pat Summerall was born. American football player and broadcaster.
• 1930 – Julio Romero de Torres dies (b. 9 Nov 1874). Córdoba Spanish painter. — Encendiendo la mecha (1924, 63x40cm; 615x376pix, 19kb) — Mujer con pistola (1925, 52x34cm; 611x404pix, 19kb) — La escopeta de caza (1929, 63x37cm; 619x355pix, 15kb) . — El cohete (1931, 63x37cm; 592x351pix, 14kb) — Viernes Santo
• 1931 – Ettore Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino. Italian film director.
• 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford was born. English writer.
• 1933 – Paraguay declared war on Bolivia.
• 1934 – Cliff Wilson was born (d. 1994). Welsh snooker player.
• 1934 – Jeanine Basinger was born. American film scholar.
• 1935 – Larry Williams was born (d. 1980). American singer and songwriter.
• 1936 – Gary Owens was born. American actor and announcer.
• 1937 – Tamara Press was born. Soviet athlete.
• 1937 – Jim Hickman was born. American baseball player.
• 1937 – William Tedmarsh dies (b. 1876). Silent movie actor.
• 1938 – Jean Becker was born. French director, screenwriter and actor.
• 1938 – Marina Vlady was born. French actress.
• 1938 – Maxim Shostakovich was born in Leningrad, Russia. Conductor (Atlanta Symph),
• 1939 – Luiza Neto Jorge was born in Lisbon (d. 1939). Portuguese poetess.
• 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
• 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – Wayne A. Downing was born. Retired United States Army general
• 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – Thai Phayap Army invaded the Shan States during the Burma Campaign of World War II.
• 1942 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ was born. Burkinabé politician.
• 1943 – Richard Darman was born. American economist.
• 1944 – Jim Abrahams was born. American film director.
• 1944 – Marie-France Pisier was born. French actress.
• 1944 – Maureen Lipman was born. English actress.
• 1944 – Jim Abrahams was born. American film director.
• 1945 – Richard Glücks dies (b. 1889). German SS officer.
• 1946 – Donovan was born. Scottish musician.
• 1946 – Dave Mason was born. English musician (“Traffic“).
• 1946 – Graham Gouldman was born. British musician and songwriter (10cc)
• 1946 – Catulo da Paixão Cearense dies in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian, great musician and poet.
• 1947 – Caroline Cooney was born. American author.
• 1947 – Jay Ferguson was born. American musician and composer.
• 1947 – Thomas Tessier was born. American author.
• 1950 – SEAT (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo) is founded.
• 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene dies (b. 1883). American librarian, bibliographer, archivist.
• 1952 – Kikki Danielsson was born. Swedish singer.
• 1952 – Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva was born. Brazilian football coach.
• 1953 – John Diamond was born (d. 2001). English journalist.
• 1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
• 1955 – Chris Berman was born. American sportscaster (ESPN).
• 1955 – Ashoka Prasad was born. Medical scientist and psychiatrist
• 1955 – Homer Simpson was born (ficcional). Cartoon Character.
• 1955 – Mark David Chapman was born. American assassin of John Lennon
• 1955 – Tommy Burns dies (b. 1881). Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
• 1955 – John Radecki dies (b. 1865). Australian stained glass artist.
• 1956 – Vladislav Listyev was born. Russian TV anchor and journalist
• 1957 – En Colombia el General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla renuncia al poder y este es tomado por una Junta Militar.
• 1957 – Sid Vicious was born (d. 1979). English bassist of The Sex Pistols.
• 1958 – Rick Santorum was born. U.S. Senator.
• 1958 – Yu Suzuki was born. Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series.
• 1958 – Gaétan Boucher was born. Quebec speed skater.
• 1959 – Danny Schayes was born. American basketball player.
• 1959 – Victoria Rowell was born. American actress.
• 1960 – Bono was born. Irish singer of U2.
• 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1960 – Yury Olesha dies (b. 1899). Russian novelist.
• 1961 – Danny Carey was born. American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)
• 1963 – Lisa Nowak was born. American astronaut.
• 1963 – Luiza Coutinho Tomé was born in Itapipoca, Ceará. Brazilian actress.
• 1963 – Gene “Big Daddy” Lipscomb dies (b. 1931). American football player.
• 1964 – Mikhail Larionov dies (b. 03 Jun 1881). Moldovan-Russian French Cubist painter, stage designer, printmaker, illustrator, draftsman, and writer — Pioneer of pure abstraction in painting, he founded the avant-garde Rayonist movement (1910) with Natal’ya Sergeyevna Goncharova [16 Jun 1881 – 17 Oct 1962], whom he later married; [The Cockerel. Rayonist Study ; Blue Rayonism]
• 1965 – Linda Evangelista was born. Canadian supermodel.
• 1965 – Darren Matthews was born. English professional wrestler.
• 1966 – Jonathan Edwards was born. English athlete (triple jumper).
• 1967 – Jon Ronson was born. British journalist and author.
• 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda was born. Japanese footballer and sportscaster.
• 1967 – Scott Brison was born. Canadian politician.
• 1967 – Young MC was born. American rapper.
• 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini dies (b. 1935). Italian racing driver.
• 1967 – Palmira Bastos dies (b. 30 May 1875). Portuguese actress.
• 1968 – Erik Palladino was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Ed Sanders was born. British actor and television personality.
• 1968 – Al Murray was born. British comedian.
• 1968 – Darren Matthews was born. English professional wrestler.
• 1968 – Scotty Beckett dies (b. 1929). American child actor.
• 1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
• 1969 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill. It lasted to May 20. Identified on American battle maps as Hill 937 the battle for Hamburger Hill, actually Ap Bia Mountain, which cost Americans 46 killed and 400 wounded, was one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War as it spelled the end of major American ground combat operations.
• 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1969 – Billy Roberts was born. American Chef.
• 1969 – John Scalzi was born. American writer.
• 1969 – Jorge Zalamea dies. Colombian writer and diplomat.
• 1970 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr makes an overtime winning goal followed by a leap in the air that would become one of the most famous photographs in ice hockey – (“The Goal”).
• 1970 – David Weir was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1970 – Perry Blake was born. Irish singer/songwriter.
• 1971 – Ådne Søndrål was born. Norwegian speed skater.
• 1972 – Radosław Majdan was born. Polish footballer.
• 1973 – Creación del Frente Polisario en el Sahara Occidental.
• 1973 – Joshua Eagle was born. Australian tennis player
• 1973 – Aviv Geffen was born. Israeli singer/songwriter (Blackfield)
• 1974 – Sylvain Wiltord was born. French footballer.
• 1974 – Hal Mohr dies (b. 1894). Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable
• 1975 – Adam Deadmarsh was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1975 – Hélio Castroneves was born. Brazilian race car driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
• 1976 – Rob Malda was born. American internet writer/editor (Slashdot)
• 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi was born. Greek javelin thrower.
• 1976 – Elias Aslaksen dies (b. 1888). Leader of Smith’s Friends.
• 1976 – Stuart Braithwaite was born. Scottish musician (Mogwai).
• 1976 – Udo Mechels was born. Belgian singer.
• 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi was born. Greek javelin thrower.
• 1977 – Denise Ho was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1977 – Henri Camara was born. Senegalese footballer.
• 1977 – Nick Heidfeld was born. German Formula 1 driver.
• 1977 – Joan Crawford dies (b. 1904). American atress.
• 1978 – Liverpool F.C. win their second European Champion Clubs’ Cup, defeating Club Brugge K.V. 1-0 at Wembley Stadium, London.
• 1978 – Kenan Thompson was born. American actor.
• 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
• 1979 – Lee Hyori was born. South Korean singer.
• 1981 – François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France after defeated Valery Giscard d’Estaing.
• 1981 – Arjun Bhaskar was born. Great Indian astronaut.
• 1981 – Humberto Suazo was born.Chilean footballer.
• 1982 – Adebayo Akinfenwa was born. English footballer.
• 1982 – Daniel Harris was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1982 – Despina Caldis was born. Greek-Australian actress.
• 1982 – Jeremy Gable was born. American playwright.
• 1982 – Katherine Bates was born. Australian cyclist.
• 1982 – Jeremy Gable was born. American playwright.
• 1982 – Peter Weiss dies (b. 1916). German writer and artist (Marat-Sade).
• 1983 – Gustav Fridolin was born. Swedish politician.
• 1983 – Natalia Zabala was born. Miss Spain 2007.
• 1984 – Joaquim Agostinho dies. Portuguese cyclist / Morre Joaquim Agostinho, ciclista português, quando participava numa prova no Algarve. Sagrou-se campeão nacional em 1968 e 1973. Em 1970 e 1972 venceu a volta a Portugal. Alcançou lugares cimeiros em Espanha e França. Foi considerado dos melhores ciclistas mundiais.
• 1985 – Edcarlos was born. Brazilian footballer (Benfica).
• 1985 – Ryan Getzlaf was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – In Lisbon a fire destroys Maria Vitoria Theatre / Em Lisboa, o Teatro Maria Vitória é consumido por um violento incêndio.
• 1988 – Michel Rocard becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1988 – Shen Congwen dies (b. 1902). Chinese writer.
• 1989 – Lindsey Shaw was born. American actress.
• 1989 – Sam Mac was born. Australian radio and television personality
• 1989 – Woody Shaw dies (b. 1944). American jazz musician.
• 1989 – Lindsey Shaw was born. American actress.
• 1989 – Sam Mac was born. Australian radio and television personality.
• 1989 – Woody Shaw dies (b. 1944). American jazz musician.
• 1990 – The government of China announced the release of 211 dissidents who had been involved in pro-democracy demonstrations a year earlier.
• 1990 – Walker Percy dies (b. 1916). American author.
• 1990 – Susan Oliver dies (b. 1922). American actress.
• 1991 – Miss Nana was born. American rapper.
• 1992 – Sylvia Syms dies (b. 1917). American jazz singer.
• 1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills 188 workers, mostly young women.
• 1993 – Charice Pempengco was born. Filipino singer
• 1993 – Mirai Shida was born. Japanese actress
• 1994 – Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.
• 1994 – The American State of Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy (b. 1942) for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
• 1994 – Weezer releases their debut, self-titled album.
• 1994 – An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.
• 1994 – John Wayne Gacy is executed (b. 1942). American serial killer.
• 1995 – One-hundred-four miners were killed in an elevator accident in Orkney, South Africa.
• 1996 – A “rogue storm” near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain’s history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
• 1996 – Excel Communications, Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol (ECI).
• 1996 – A “rogue storm” near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain’s history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.
• 1997 – An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400 people.
• 1997 – Lebanese of all faiths welcomed Pope John Paul II on his first visit to their country.
• 1997 – Joan Weston dies (b. 1935). Roller Derby Queen.
• 1998 – National elections are held in Hungary.
• 1999 – The Cézanne painting Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit is sold for $60.5 million – Sotheby’s.
• 1999 – Shel Silverstein dies (b. 1930). American poet and composer.
• 2000 – Shyann McClure was born. American actress and model.
• 2000 – Dédé Fortin dies (b. 1962). Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs).
• 2000 – Jules Deschênes dies (b. 1923). Quebec superior court judge.
• 2001 – In Ghana, a stampede at a football game kills over 120 spectators.
• 2001 – Deborah Walley dies (b. 1943). American actress.
• 2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
• 2002 – In Colombia Gen. Gustavo Socha was removed from his job as head of anti-narcotic efforts for the National Police after $2 million in US funds was discovered missing from a special police administrative account.
• 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block dies executed in Yellow Mama, the electric chair of Alabama (b. 1948). Convicted murderer.
• 2002 – Yves Robert dies (b. 1920). French actor, screenwriter and director.
• 2003 – Record shattering tornado activity during the May 2003 Tornado Outbreak Sequence.
• 2003 – Milan Vukcevich dies (b. 1937). Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer.
• 2003 – Maria do Carmo Arruda vence a Maratona de São Paulo – Brasil (femininos)
• 2003 – Genilson Júnior Silva vence a Maratona de São Paulo (masculinos)
• 2003 – Milan Vukcevich dies (b. 1937). Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer.
  2004 – Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, said his bank would pay $2.7 billion to settle class-action litigation accusing it of misleading investors in WorldCom.
• 2004 – Gosselin sextuplets were born.
• 2005 – A hand grenade allegedly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet(20 meters) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
• 2005 – David Wayne dies (b. 1958). American singer (Metal Church) .
• 2006 – Raizo Matsuno dies (b. 1917). Japanese politician.
• 2006 – A.M. Rosenthal dies (b. 1922). American newspaper editor.
• 2006 – Soraya dies (b. 1969). Colombian-American singer.
• 2006 – Val Guest dies (b. 1911). British film director.
• 2007 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce the date he will step down.
• Memorial Day of Blessed Damien of Moloka’i in Christianity.
• Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina.
• Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia.
• Inauguration Day in South Africa.
• Tin Han’s Day in China.
• Mother’s Day in much of South America, El Salvador, India, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, and Singapore.
• Celebration of the Clandestine Retreat of Ma’at and Ra in Ancient Egypt.

On this day in History – May 10

• 0946 – Pope Agapito II begins his Papacy.
• 1034 – Mieszko II of Poland dies (b. 0990).
• 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan was born (d. 1317).
• 1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria dies.
• 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of King Edward I of England.
• 1424 – Go-Kameyama dies. Emperor of Japan.
• 1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli dies (b. 1397). Italian mathematician and astronomer.
• 1493 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll dies. Scottish politician.
• 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
• 1503 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.
• 1508 – Miguel Ángel Buonarotti comienza a pintar en el Vaticano los frescos de la capilla Sixtina.
• 1521 – Sebastian Brant dies (b. 1457). German writer, author (“Narrenschiff,” or “Ship of Fools” )
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier discovers Newfoundland.
• 1566 – Leonhard Fuchs dies (b. 17 Jan 1501). German botanist.
• 1604 – Jean Mairet was born (d. 1686). French dramatist.
• 1624 – Dutch troops invaded Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (See The Dutch in Brazil).
• 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan was born (d. 1317).
• 1641 – Dudley North was born (d. 1691). English economist.
• 1641 – Johan Banér dies (b. 1596). Swedish soldier.
• 1657 – Gustaf Horn dies (b. 1592). Swedish soldier and politician.
• 1670 – Claude Vignon dies (b. 19 May 1593). French painter and engraver.Esther before
  The Young Singer Ahasuerus Croesus Receiving Tribute from a Lydian Peasant.
• 1691 – Colonel John Birch dies (b. 1615). English soldier.
• 1696 – Jean de la Bruyere dies (b. 17 Aug 1645). French writer and moralist.
• 1699 – Bartolomeo Nazari (or Nazzari) was born (d. 24 Aug 1758). Italian artist.
• 1717 – John Hathorne dies (b. 1641). American magistrate.
• 1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans dies (b. 1670). English soldier.
• 1727 – Anne Robert Turgot was born (d. 1781). Statesman.
• 1733 – Barton Booth dies (b. 1681). English actor.
• 1737 – Nakamikado Emperor of Japan dies (b. 1702).
• 1742 – D. João V adoece ficando parcialmente paralisado.
• 1746 – Gaspard Monge was born (d. 1818). French mathematician.
• 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle was born (d. 1836). French composer (La Marseillaise).
• 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel was born (d. 1826). German poet.
• 1768 – John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton severely criticizing King George III. This action provokes rioting in London.
• 1770 – Louis Nicolas Davout was born (d. 1823). French marshal.
• 1774 – King Louis XV of France dies (b. 1710).
• 1774 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Ticonderoga is taken by a small force led by Colonel Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Representatives from the 13 colonies of the United States meet in Philadelphia and raise the Continental Army to defend the new republic. They place it under command of Cavalier George Washington of Virginia.
• 1775 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle was born (d. 1809). French cavalry general.
• 1787 – William Watson dies (b. 1715). English physician and scientist.
• 1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel was born (d. 14 July 1827). French physicist who pioneered in optics and did much to establish the wave theory of light advanced by Thomas Young.
• 1788 – Catherine Pavlovna of Russia was born (d. 1819). German queen.
• 1789 – É detido o patriota brasileiro José da Silva Xavier, conhecido como Tiradentes.
• 1792 – John Stevens dies. American delegate to the Continental Congress.
• 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States.
• 1807 – Comte de Rochambeau dies (b. 1725). French soldier.
• 1808 – Nascimento do General Osório (Manoel Luís Osório), patrono do exército brasileiro, em Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Arroio, atual Município de Osório-RS.
• 1813 – Montgomery Blair was born (d. 1883). American politician.
• 1818 – Paul Revere dies (b. 1735). American patriot and engraver.
• 1822 – August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen, Baptized (as an infant) on 10 May 1822: Viennese painter and lithographer who died on 21 March 1889.
• 1824 – National Gallery in London opens to the public.
• 1826 – Giuseppe Sigismondo dies (b. 13 Sep 1739). Italian composer.
• 1827 – David Johnson was born (d. 30 Jan 1908). US Hudson River School painter. He produced an oeuvre with a greater variety of subject. Predominantly remembered as a landscape painter of the US northeast wilderness, Johnson also produced still lifes, portraits, and an occasional genre subject. — Croquet on the Lawn (1873, 51x86cm; 706x1219pix, 216kb)— Safely Anchored (1880, 33x48cm)— Natural Bridge (1860, 76x61cm)— Upper Twin Lakes in the Colorado Rockies (1865, 52x77cm) — View on the Androscoggin River, Maine (1870, 71x112cm) — Androscoggin River (1869, 36x56cm; 709x1125pix, 164kb)— Schooley’s Mountain, New Jersey
• 1828 – James McDougal Hart was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland (d. 24 Oct 1901). Scottish-born US painter. An afternoon concert (1850, 99x136cm)— Returning from harvest (1870, 51x87cm) — Presidential Range and Starr King Mountain from Lunenburg VT (11 Sep 1867, 37x61cm) — The Adirondacks — Adirondack Scenery.
• 1829 – Thomas Young dies (b. 1773). English physician and linguist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
• 1830 – François-Marie Raoult was born (d. 1 Apr 1901). French chemist who formulated a law on solutions (called Raoult’s law) that made it possible to determine the molecular weights of dissolved substances.
• 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• 1838 – John Wilkes Booth was born (d. 1865). American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
• 1840 – Hadzhi Dimitar was born (d. 1868). Bulgarian revolutionist.
• 1841 – James Gordon Bennett Jr. was born (d. 1918). American publisher.
• 1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós was born in Las Palmas, Canary Islands (d. 4 Jan 1920). Spanish novelist.
• 1844 – Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra was born in Nicaragua (d. 15 Apr. 1923). President of Costa Rica (1902-1906).
• 1847 – Wilhelm Killing was born (d. 1923). German mathematician.
• 1849 – Katsushika Hoknsa dies (b. 21 Oct 1760). Xilographer.
• 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac dies (b. 1778). French chemist and physicist.
• 1857 – Indian Mutiny: In India, the Sepoys revolt against the British Army.
• 1863 – Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson dies (b. 1824). American Confederate general.
• 1864 – Léon Gaumont was born in Paris. (d. 10 Aug 1946). French film pioneer.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Colonel Emory Upton leads a 10-regiment “Attack-in-depth” assault against the Confederate works at The Battle of Spotsylvania, which, though ultimately unsuccessful, would provide the idea for the massive assault against the Bloody Angle on May 12. Upton was wounded slightly but immediately is promoted to Brigadier general.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky (he lingered until his death on June 6).
• 1866 – Léon Bakst was born (d. 1924). Russian artist.
• 1868 – Ed Barrow was born (d. 1953). American baseball manager.
• 1868 – Henry Bennett dies (b. 1808). American politican.
• 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah).
• 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• 1872 – Marcel Mauss was born (d. 1950). French sociologist.
• 1874 – Moses Schorr was born (d. 1941). Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist.
• 1876 – Ivan Cankar was born (d. 1918). Slovenian writer.
• 1877 – Romania declares itself independent from Turkey, recognized on March 26, 1881 after the end of the Romanian independence war.
• 1878 – Gustav Stresemann was born (d. 1929). Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1879 – Symon Petlura was born (d. 1926). Ukrainian statesman.
• 1886 – Karl Barth was born (d. 1968). Swiss Protestant theologian.
• 1886 – Olaf Stapledon was born (d. 1950). British author and philosopher.
• 1886 – Felix Manalo was born (d. 1963). 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo.
• 1886 – Karl Barth was born (d. 1968). Swiss Protestant theologian.
• 1886 – Olaf Stapledon was born (d. 1950). British author and philosopher.
• 1887 – Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha was born (d. 1962). 40th Sufi master of the Oveyssi order.
• 1888 – Max Steiner was born (d. 1971). Austrian composer.
• 1889 – Mae Murray was born (d. 1965). American actress.
• 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin dies (b. 1826). Russian satirist.
• 1890 – Alfred Jodl was born (d. 1946). German general.
• 1894 – Dimitri Tiomkin was born (d. 1921). Russian composer (Academy Award 1954- High and Mighty).
• 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen was born (d. 1987). Prime minister of Norway.
• 1897 – Andrés Bonifacio dies (b. 1863). Filipino revolutionary leader.
• 1898 – Ariel Durant was born (d. 1981). American historian.
• 1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin was born (d. 1979). Ukrainian-born composer.
• 1899 – Fred Astaire was born (d. 1987). American singer, dancer and actor.
• 1899 – Artur Paredes was born (d. 1980). Portuguese guitarist.
• 1902 – Anatole Litvak was born (d. 1974). Ukrainian-born film director.
• 1902 – David O. Selznick was born (d. 1965). American film producer.
• 1903 – Otto Bradfisch was born (d. 1994). Nazi leader.
• 1904 – Henry Morton Stanley (Bula Matari) dies (b. 28 Jan 1841). Journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.
• 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin dies (b. 1861). Russian painter.
• 1905 – Markos Vamvakaris was born (d. 1972). Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter.
• 1906 – D. António Ferreira Gomes was born (d. 1989). Bishop of Porto (Portugal).
• 1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time (Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virgina, USA).
• 1909 – Maybelle Carter was born. American musician
• 1909 – José Agustín Arango dies. President of Panamá (1903-1904.
• 1911 – Bel Kaufman was born. American author
• 1912 – Nascimento de Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini, grande médico e introdutor da cirurgia cardíaca no Brasil, em Guaratinguetá-SP
• 1913 – João Villaret was born. Portuguese actor and poetry declaimer/ Nasce o actor e grande declamador português João Villaret.
• 1915 – Denis Thatcher was born. British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher
• 1916 – Milton Babbitt was born. American composer.
• 1920 – John Wesley Hyatt dies (b. 28 Nov 1837). Inventor and pioneer of the plastics industry who discovered the process for making celluloid.
• 1921 – Rudolf von Ribbentrop was born. Nazi officer.
• 1922 – The USA annexes the Kingman Reef.
• 1923 – Heydar Aliyev was born (d. 2003). Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic.
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remained so until his death in 1972.
• 1926 – Hugo Banzer was born (d. 2002). Bolivian dictator.
• 1927 – Nayantara Sahgal was born. Indian author.
• 1928 – Arnold Rüütel was born. Estonian president.
• 1929 – Antonine Maillet was born. French canadian novelist and playwright
• 1930 – Scott Muni was born (d. 2004). American radio DJ.
• 1930 – Pat Summerall was born. American football player and broadcaster.
• 1930 – Julio Romero de Torres dies (b. 9 Nov 1874). Córdoba Spanish painter. — Encendiendo la mecha (1924, 63x40cm; 615x376pix, 19kb) — Mujer con pistola (1925, 52x34cm; 611x404pix, 19kb) — La escopeta de caza (1929, 63x37cm; 619x355pix, 15kb) . — El cohete (1931, 63x37cm; 592x351pix, 14kb) — Viernes Santo
• 1931 – Ettore Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino. Italian film director.
• 1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
• 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford was born. English writer.
• 1933 – Paraguay declared war on Bolivia.
• 1934 – Cliff Wilson was born (d. 1994). Welsh snooker player.
• 1934 – Jeanine Basinger was born. American film scholar.
• 1935 – Larry Williams was born (d. 1980). American singer and songwriter.
• 1936 – Gary Owens was born. American actor and announcer.
• 1937 – Tamara Press was born. Soviet athlete.
• 1937 – Jim Hickman was born. American baseball player.
• 1937 – William Tedmarsh dies (b. 1876). Silent movie actor.
• 1938 – Jean Becker was born. French director, screenwriter and actor.
• 1938 – Marina Vlady was born. French actress.
• 1938 – Maxim Shostakovich was born in Leningrad, Russia. Conductor (Atlanta Symph),
• 1939 – Luiza Neto Jorge was born in Lisbon (d. 1939). Portuguese poetess.
• 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
• 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1940 – World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
• 1940 – World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – Wayne A. Downing was born. Retired United States Army general
• 1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• 1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland in order to try and negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
• 1942 – Thai Phayap Army invaded the Shan States during the Burma Campaign of World War II.
• 1942 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ was born. Burkinabé politician.
• 1943 – Richard Darman was born. American economist.
• 1944 – Jim Abrahams was born. American film director.
• 1944 – Marie-France Pisier was born. French actress.
• 1944 – Maureen Lipman was born. English actress.
• 1944 – Jim Abrahams was born. American film director.
• 1945 – Richard Glücks dies (b. 1889). German SS officer.
• 1946 – Donovan was born. Scottish musician.
• 1946 – Dave Mason was born. English musician (“Traffic“).
• 1946 – Graham Gouldman was born. British musician and songwriter (10cc)
• 1946 – Catulo da Paixão Cearense dies in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian, great musician and poet.
• 1947 – Caroline Cooney was born. American author.
• 1947 – Jay Ferguson was born. American musician and composer.
• 1947 – Thomas Tessier was born. American author.
• 1950 – SEAT (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo) is founded.
• 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene dies (b. 1883). American librarian, bibliographer, archivist.
• 1952 – Kikki Danielsson was born. Swedish singer.
• 1952 – Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva was born. Brazilian football coach.
• 1953 – John Diamond was born (d. 2001). English journalist.
• 1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets release “Rock Around the Clock”, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.
• 1955 – Chris Berman was born. American sportscaster (ESPN).
• 1955 – Ashoka Prasad was born. Medical scientist and psychiatrist
• 1955 – Homer Simpson was born (ficcional). Cartoon Character.
• 1955 – Mark David Chapman was born. American assassin of John Lennon
• 1955 – Tommy Burns dies (b. 1881). Canadian World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.
• 1955 – John Radecki dies (b. 1865). Australian stained glass artist.
• 1956 – Vladislav Listyev was born. Russian TV anchor and journalist
• 1957 – En Colombia el General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla renuncia al poder y este es tomado por una Junta Militar.
• 1957 – Sid Vicious was born (d. 1979). English bassist of The Sex Pistols.
• 1958 – Rick Santorum was born. U.S. Senator.
• 1958 – Yu Suzuki was born. Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series.
• 1958 – Gaétan Boucher was born. Quebec speed skater.
• 1959 – Danny Schayes was born. American basketball player.
• 1959 – Victoria Rowell was born. American actress.
• 1960 – Bono was born. Irish singer of U2.
• 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
• 1960 – Yury Olesha dies (b. 1899). Russian novelist.
• 1961 – Danny Carey was born. American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)
• 1963 – Lisa Nowak was born. American astronaut.
• 1963 – Luiza Coutinho Tomé was born in Itapipoca, Ceará. Brazilian actress.
• 1963 – Gene “Big Daddy” Lipscomb dies (b. 1931). American football player.
• 1964 – Mikhail Larionov dies (b. 03 Jun 1881). Moldovan-Russian French Cubist painter, stage designer, printmaker, illustrator, draftsman, and writer — Pioneer of pure abstraction in painting, he founded the avant-garde Rayonist movement (1910) with Natal’ya Sergeyevna Goncharova [16 Jun 1881 – 17 Oct 1962], whom he later married; [The Cockerel. Rayonist Study ; Blue Rayonism]
• 1965 – Linda Evangelista was born. Canadian supermodel.
• 1965 – Darren Matthews was born. English professional wrestler.
• 1966 – Jonathan Edwards was born. English athlete (triple jumper).
• 1967 – Jon Ronson was born. British journalist and author.
• 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda was born. Japanese footballer and sportscaster.
• 1967 – Scott Brison was born. Canadian politician.
• 1967 – Young MC was born. American rapper.
• 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini dies (b. 1935). Italian racing driver.
• 1967 – Palmira Bastos dies (b. 30 May 1875). Portuguese actress.
• 1968 – Erik Palladino was born. American actor.
• 1968 – Ed Sanders was born. British actor and television personality.
• 1968 – Al Murray was born. British comedian.
• 1968 – Darren Matthews was born. English professional wrestler.
• 1968 – Scotty Beckett dies (b. 1929). American child actor.
• 1969 – The first rural outdoor rock concert at Zap, North Dakota is ended prematurely as North Dakota National Guard is ordered to disperse the unruly crowd.
• 1969 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill. It lasted to May 20. Identified on American battle maps as Hill 937 the battle for Hamburger Hill, actually Ap Bia Mountain, which cost Americans 46 killed and 400 wounded, was one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War as it spelled the end of major American ground combat operations.
• 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1969 – Billy Roberts was born. American Chef.
• 1969 – John Scalzi was born. American writer.
• 1969 – Jorge Zalamea dies. Colombian writer and diplomat.
• 1970 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr makes an overtime winning goal followed by a leap in the air that would become one of the most famous photographs in ice hockey – (“The Goal”).
• 1970 – David Weir was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1970 – Perry Blake was born. Irish singer/songwriter.
• 1971 – Ådne Søndrål was born. Norwegian speed skater.
• 1972 – Radosław Majdan was born. Polish footballer.
• 1973 – Creación del Frente Polisario en el Sahara Occidental.
• 1973 – Joshua Eagle was born. Australian tennis player
• 1973 – Aviv Geffen was born. Israeli singer/songwriter (Blackfield)
• 1974 – Sylvain Wiltord was born. French footballer.
• 1974 – Hal Mohr dies (b. 1894). Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable
• 1975 – Adam Deadmarsh was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1975 – Hélio Castroneves was born. Brazilian race car driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner
• 1976 – Rob Malda was born. American internet writer/editor (Slashdot)
• 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi was born. Greek javelin thrower.
• 1976 – Elias Aslaksen dies (b. 1888). Leader of Smith’s Friends.
• 1976 – Stuart Braithwaite was born. Scottish musician (Mogwai).
• 1976 – Udo Mechels was born. Belgian singer.
• 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi was born. Greek javelin thrower.
• 1977 – Denise Ho was born. Hong Kong singer.
• 1977 – Henri Camara was born. Senegalese footballer.
• 1977 – Nick Heidfeld was born. German Formula 1 driver.
• 1977 – Joan Crawford dies (b. 1904). American atress.
• 1978 – Liverpool F.C. win their second European Champion Clubs’ Cup, defeating Club Brugge K.V. 1-0 at Wembley Stadium, London.
• 1978 – Kenan Thompson was born. American actor.
• 1979 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
• 1979 – Lee Hyori was born. South Korean singer.
• 1981 – François Mitterrand takes office as the first Socialist President of France after defeated Valery Giscard d’Estaing.
• 1981 – Arjun Bhaskar was born. Great Indian astronaut.
• 1981 – Humberto Suazo was born.Chilean footballer.
• 1982 – Adebayo Akinfenwa was born. English footballer.
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Apito Final: Afinal há corrupção e coacção no futebol português (?!)

Pois aí está. Não foi a bomba, porque há tanto tempo que o assunto se desenrola que a explosão foi perdendo força…

Afinal em termos de clubes só o Boavista aparece verdadeiramente atingido com a pena de descida de divisão pela prática de coacção sobre os árbitros. João Loureiro sofreu uma suspensão de quatro anos, embora não tenha qualquer intuito de voltar ao dirigismo desportivo, segundo ele próprio afirma.

O FC Porto vê a sua situação «regularizada» com a perda de meros 6 pontos que produz efeitos num campeonato em que tinha 20 de avanço. Afinal a(s) «tentativa(s) de corrupção» até vale(m) a pena… e o Pinto da Costa (o presidente suspenso por dois anos) até já declarou que o Porto não vai recorrer ! Vai ele recorrer da pena que lhe foi aplicada. Tirem as devidas ilacções…

A União de Leiria foi o terceiro clube atingido com a perda de três pontos, também num campeonato em que a consequência é nenhuma. O presidente João Bartolomeu foi suspenso por um ano.

Mas sintomático da gravidade dos factos é que cinco árbitros foram punidos com penas de suspensão não inferiores a dois anos! «Os árbitros envolvidos nestes processos foram também punidos com penas de suspensão: Augusto Duarte com seis anos; Jacinto Paixão com quatro anos; Martins dos Santos com três anos e meio; José Chilrito e Manuel Quadrado com dois anos e meio».

Afinal os árbitros cederam à coacção? Houve só tentativas de corrupção (ou sea corrupção não consumada) e cinco árbitros apanham estas penas? Parece não haver correspondencia entre a gravidade das penas aos clubes e aos árbitros… Ou será porque a maior parte dos árbitros atingidos já não está cá a arbitrar? Jacinto Paixão, Martins dos Santos (afinal o Presidente do Nacional tinha razão, não me admiro, eu tenho ainda uns videozitos dumas arbitragens deste senhor…).

O Apito Final parece dizer que houve coragem (tardia) ? Ou ela ficou a meio-termo? Ou ainda como diz o Blog Atlântico Não devia ser ao contrário?

Quem é que afinal tinha razão?

De qualquer modo destas decisões cabe recurso para o Conselho de Justiça…