Estou cansado de viver na minha terra natal – Sergei Yesenin Dezembro 27, 2007

Estou cansado de viver na minha terra natal,
Pensativo nas vastidões de trigo negro,
A minha cabana vou abandonar
E partirei como vagabundo e ladrão.

Seguirei o dia de caracóis brancos
A procurar miserável abrigo.
E o meu melhor amigo afiará
Em mim a navalha tirada da bota.

A estrada atravessa o prado
Amarela de sol e Primavera,
E aquela de quem guardo o nome
Em mim, correr-me-á da sua porta.

E voltarei então à casa paterna,
Com a alegria de outro me consolarei,
E com a manga, uma noite verde,
Da janela me enforcarei.

Os salgueiros cinzentos na cerca
Inclinarão mais ternamente a cabeça.
E enterrar-me-ão sem me lavarem
Ao som dos cães a ladrar.

E a lua há-de vaguear e vaguear,
Deixando cair ramos nos lagos,
E a Rússia como dantes viverá
A dançar e a chorar na cerca.

Tradução de Manuel de Seabra.

Sergei Yesenin (b. in Kronstantinovo, on October 3 [O.S. September 21]; d. on 27 Dec. 1925)

Call Girl estreia hoje e pode ver aqui um bocadinho

Soraia Chaves, no papel principal, é a mulher fatal do novo filme de António Pedro de Vasconcelos que estreia hoje nos cinemas portugueses. Atracções fatais, amores de perdição e paixões proibidas dão o mote. Bem… o melhor é ir ver o filme, mas pode ver já aqui um bocadinho…

Call Girl estreia hoje e pode ver aqui um bocadinho

Soraia Chaves, no papel principal, é a mulher fatal do novo filme de António Pedro de Vasconcelos que estreia hoje nos cinemas portugueses. Atracções fatais, amores de perdição e paixões proibidas dão o mote. Bem… o melhor é ir ver o filme, mas pode ver já aqui um bocadinho…

On this day in History – Dec. 27

• 0418 – Zosimus dies. Greek pope.
• 0537 – St Sofia-church in Constantinople, initiated.
• 1076 – Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev dies (b. 1027).
• 1381 – Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March dies. English politician.
• 1390 – Anne de Mortimer was born (d. 1411). Claimant to the English throne.
• 1437 – Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia.
• 1492 – Cristóbal Colón descubre la isla de Cuba, a la que llama “Juana” y después “Fernandina”, pero que mantendrá finalmente su nombre autóctono.
• 1512 – Ferdinand II issued the Laws of Burgos to “regulate the relations” between Spaniards and Indians in Spain’s American colonies.
• 1548 – Francesco Spiera dies (b. 1502).Italian Protestant jurist.
• 1571 – Johannes Kepler was born (d. 1630). German astronomer .
• 1585 – Pierre de Ronsard dies (b. 1524). French poet.
• 1603 – Thomas Cartwright dies. English Puritan clergyman.
• 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli was born (d. 1705). Swiss mathematician.
• 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
• 1683 – Conyers Middleton was born (d. 1750). English minister.
• 1683 – D. Maria Francisca Isabel de Sabóia dies (b. 21 Jun 1646). Queen of Portugal.
• 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England. (Ler em português Tratado de Methuen)
• 1707 – Jean Mabillon dies (b. 1632). French palaeograopher and diplomat.
• 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis was born (d. 1780). Lithuanian poet.
• 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy was born (d. 1794). French soldier.
• 1717 – Pope Pius VI was born (d. 1799)
• 1721 – François Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1790). Dutch philosopher.
• 1726 – St. John of Cross is canonized by Pope Benedict XIII.
• 1726 – Saint Francis Solanus (1549-1610) is canonized on this day by Pope Benedict XIII
• 1726 – Saint Peregrine Laziosi (1260-1345) is canonized on this day by Pope Benedict XIII
• 1732 – Em Portugal região de Loulé no Algarve ficou parcialmente destruída, como consequência de um sismo devastador.
• 1737 – William Bowyer dies (b. 1663). English printer.
• 1743 – Hyacinthe Rigaud dies (b. 1659). French painter.
• 1763 – Tratado de paz de Fontainebleau, por el que los británicos devuelven Manila a los españoles.
• 1771 – Henri Pitot dies (b. 1695). French engineer.
• 1773 – Sir George Cayley was born (d. 1857). English scientist and aerial navigator.
• 1776 – Nikolay Kamensky was born (d. 1811). Russian general.
• 1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames dies (b. 1697). Scottish philosopher.
• 1796 – Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra, Awadh (d. 1869). Indian poet of Urdu and Farsi
• 1797 – Marquesa de Santos (Domitília de Castro do Canto e Mello), was born in São Paulo -SP. Brazilian nobless personality.
• 1800 – Hugh Blair dies (b. 1718). Scottish preacher and man of letters.
• 1801 – After conquering Italy, Napoleon established the Republic of Lucca.
• 1802 – Jørgensen “Jens” Juel dies (b. 12 May 1745). Danish painter.
• 1803 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier was born (d. 1839). French Canadian Patriote.
• 1812 – Shneur Zalman of Liadi dies (b. 1745). Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism
• 1812 – Joanna Southcott dies (b. 1750). English religious prophetess.
• 1814 – Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
• 1822 – Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France (d. 1895). French scientist, chemist and microbiologist whose contributions were among the most varied and valuable in the history of science and industry.
• 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell was born (d. 1896). Fifth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1831 – Darwin began his historic voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
• 1832 – Pavel Tretyakov was born (d. 1897). Russian businessman and patron of art.
• 1834 – Charles Lamb dies (b. 1775). English essayist.
• 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
• 1836 – Stephen F. Austin dies (b. 1793). American pioneer.
• 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
• 1849 – Jacques Laurent Agasse dies in London (b. 24 Mar 1767). Swiss English painter specialized in animals. [White Horse in Pasture (1807)]
• 1845 – Augusto de Oliveira Machado was born in Lisbon (d. 26 Mar 1924). Portuguese composer.
• 1852 – Dom João G da Câmara was born. Portuguese journalist/songwriter.
• 1858 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly dies (b. 1785). French composer.
• 1864 – Hood’s army crosses the Tennessee River .
• 1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul was born. French artist
• 1871 – World’s 1st Cat show (Crystal Palace, London) .
• 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet was born (d. 1954). English actor.
• 1881 – António Joaquim Granjo was born in Chaves (d. 19 Oct. 1921). Portuguese politician.
• 1882 – Mina Loy was born (d. 1966). English poet and painter.
• 1883 – Cyrus S. Eaton was born (d. 1979). Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist.
• 1884 – Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II’s Congo Free State.
• 1888 – Thea von Harbou was born (d. 1954). German author and actress.
• 1892 – Alfred Edwin McKay was born (d. 1917). Canadian World War One flying ace
• 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer was born (d. 1977). German author and dramatist.
• 1896 – Louis Bromfield was born (d. 1956). American writer.
• 1896 – Maurice De Waele was born (d. 1952). Belgian cyclist.
• 1896 – John Brown dies (b. 1816). British manufacturer.
• 1897 – Tudor Vianu was born (d. 21 May 1964). Romanian poet
• 1899 – Concepción Michel (Concha) dies (b. 1899). Mexican singer, musicologist and politic activist.
• 1900 – Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kan.
• 1900 – Hans Stuck was born (d. 1978). German race car driver.
• 1900 – William George Armstrong dies (b. 1810). English inventor, industrialist, and engineer.
• 1901 – Marlene Dietrich was born (d. 1992). German actress and singer.
• 1904 – Peter Pan, by James Barrie, opens in London .
• 1904 – The Abbey Theatre opens.
• 1904 – El Banfield Athletic Club se refunda como Club Atlético Banfield (Argentina).
• 1906 – Bernardo de Irigoyen dies in Buenos Aires. Argentine politician.
• 1906 – Oscar Levant was born (d. 1972). American pianist, composer and actor.
• 1907 – Conrad L. Raiford was born (d. 2002). Goodwill Ambassador.
• 1907 – Sebastian Haffner was born (d. 1999). German journalist and writer.
• 1907 – Willem van Otterloo was born (d. 1978). Dutch conductor and composer.
• 1909 – Club Atlético Concepción, de Tucumán is founded.
• 1910 – Charles Olson was born (d. 1970). American poet.
• 1914 – Charles Martin Hall dies (b. 1863). American chemist and inventor.
• 1915 – Mary Kornman was born (d. 1973). American actress.
• 1915 – Gyula Zsengellér was born. Hungarian football player
• 1915 – William Masters was born [d. 2001]; William H(owell) Masters made with his wife, Virginia Johnson, an American research team, and, respectively, physician and psychologist, noted for their studies of human sexuality.
• 1917 – Onni Palaste was born. Finnish writer
• 1918 – Beginning of Great Poland Uprising, the Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań) rise against the Germans
• 1918 – John Celardo was born. American comic strip artist.
• 1920 – Bruce Hobbs was born (d. 2005). American jockey.
• 1923 – Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tried to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito
• 1923 – Lagoa Henriques was born in Lisbon. Portuguese sculptor.
• 1923 – Gustave Eiffel dies (b. 1832). French engineer and architect.
• 1924 – William Archer dies in London (b. 23 Sep 1856). Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess)
• 1925 – Michel Piccoli was born in Paris. French actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools).
• 1925 – Sergei Yesenin dies (b. 1895). Russian poet.
• 1926 – Jerome Courtland was born. American actor, director and producer.
• 1927 – the musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
• 1927 – Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party.
• 1927 – Antony Gardner was born. British politician.
• 1927 – Agnes Nixon was born. American television producer, director and writer.
• 1929 – Leon Trotsky is deported from the Soviet Union in February 1929. His first station in exile was at Büyükada off the coast of Istanbul, where he stayed four years.
• 1930 – José de Ribamar Fiquene was born in Itapecuru-mirim (MA). Brazilian writer and politician.
• 1930 – Wilfrid Sheed was born. English-born American writer.
• 1931 – Scotty Moore was born. American guitarist
• 1932 – The Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
• 1932 – The internal passport system, previously denounced by Vladimir Ilich Lenin as one of the worst stigmas of tsarist backwardness and despotism, was reinstated in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.
• 1934 – Persia comienza a denominarse Irán, por disposición del Gobierno.
• 1934 – Isaac Karabtchewsky was born. Brazilian conductor
• 1934 – Larissa Latynina was born. Russian gymnast
• 1936 – Iris Zavala was born in Puerto Rico. Writer ( Breve historia feminista de la literatura española)
• 1938 – Calvin Bridges dies (b. 1889). American geneticist.
• 1938 – Osip Mandelstam dies (b. 1891). Russian poet.
• 1939 – Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake magnitude 8 : 20.0000 – 40,000 die.
• 1939 – John Amos was born. American actor
• 1940 – Louis Hayet dies (b. 29 Aug 1864). French painter and writer.
• 1941 – Michael Pinder was born. British musician (Moody Blues).
• 1941 – Nolan Richardson was born. American basketball coach.
• 1941 – Les Maguire was born. British keyboardist (Gerry & the Pacemakers).
• 1942 – Byron Browne was born. Baseball player.
• 1942 – Charmian Carr was born. American actress.
• 1943 – Cokie Roberts was born. American journalist.
• 1943 – Peter Sinfield was born. British lyricist and producer.
• 1943 – Joan Manuel Serrat was born in Barcelona. Singer.
• 1943 – Maurício Tapajós was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 21 Apr 1995). Brazilian violinist ans popular composer
• 1943 – German warship “Scharnhorst” sinks in Barents Sea.
• 1944 – Barry Elliot was born. British actor.
• 1944 – Mick Jones was born. British musician (Foreigner).
• 1945 – The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
• 1945 – Belgium joins to United Nations.
• 1946 – Janet Street-Porter was born. British journalist, producer and presenter.
• 1947 – the children’s television program “Howdy Doody” made its debut on NBC.
• 1947 – In Italy is promulgated the first Constitution after The World War.
• 1947 – Peter Criss (Peter Crisscuola) was born. Musician (Kiss).
• 1947 – Janet Perry was born. American soprano.
• 1947 – Tracy Nelson was born. American blues singer.
• 1947 – Mickey Redmond was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1948 – Gerard Depardieu was born. French actor.
• 1949 – Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation – Albert Einstein published his extended theory of gravitation in the “New York Times”.
• 1949 – T.S. Monk was born. Jazz singer-musician.
• 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
• 1949 – Carson Kievman was born. American composer
• 1950 – Roberto Bettega was born. Italian football player.
• 1950 – Max Beckmann was born (d. 1884). German painter
• 1950 – Terry Bozzio was born. American drummer (Missing Persons)
• 1950 – Max Beckmann dies (b. 1884). German painter.
• 1951 – 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) .
• 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo was born. President of Mexico (1994-2000)
• 1952 – Karla Bonoff was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1952 – Jay Hill was born. Canadian politician
• 1952 – David Knopfler was born. British musician and composer (Dire Straits).
• 1952 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan dies (b. 1878). Australian Roman Catholic priest.
• 1953 – Julian Tuwim dies (b. 1894). Polish poet.
• 1955 – Barbara Olson was born (d. 2001). American political commentator.
• 1955 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter dies (b. 1881). English soldier.
• 1955 – Brad Murphey was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1956 – 5.580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt following the Tripartite Invasion.
• 1956 – Lambert McKenna dies (b. 1870). Irish editor and lexicographer.
• 1957 – The biggest abattoir in the north of England has been shut down after foot-and-mouth disease was found in cattle waiting to be slaughtered.
• 1957 – James Sanford was born. American runner (world record 50m indoor) .
• 1959 – Gerina Dunwich was born. American author.
• 1959 – Andre Tippett was born. American football player.
• 1959 – Alfonso Reyes dies (b. 17 May 1889). Mexican poet, historian and diplomat.
• 1960 – France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara.
• 1960 – Maryam d’Abo was born. British actress.
• 1960 – Victoria Paige Meyerink was born. American actress and producer.
• 1960 – Donald Nally was born. American choral conductor.
• 1962 – Mark Few was born. American basketball coach.
• 1962 – Barbara Crampton was born. American actress.
• 1962 – Bill Self was born. American basketball coach.
• 1962 – Sherri Steinhauer was born. American golfer.
• 1965 – Andrew Ettingshausen was born. Australian rugby player.
• 1965 – Chris Mainwaring was born (d. 2007). Australian rules footballer.
• 1965 – Salman Khan was born. Indian actor.
• 1965 – Edgar Ende dies (b. 1901). German painter.
• 1966 – Eva LaRue was born. American actress.
• 1966 – Fabian Núñez was born. American politician.
• 1966 – Wendy Coakley-Thompson was born. American writer.
• 1966 – Bill Goldberg was born. American football player and professional wrestler.
• 1966 – John Harrington was born. American photographer and author.
• 1966 – Guillermo Stábile dies. Argentine footballer and National coach.
• 1968 – The long-running radio program The Breakfast Club signs off for the last time (ABC radio).
• 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending humanity’s first manned mission to the Moon.
• 1969 – Sarah Vowell was born. American author and journalist
• 1969 – Jean-Christophe Boullion was born. French race car driver
• 1969 – Serafim Leite dies (b. 1880). Portuguese Jesuit and historian.
• 1970 – Brendon Cook was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1970 – Lorenzo Neal was born. American football player.
• 1971 – Chyna was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Bryan Smolinski was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1971 – Joanie Laurer was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Duncan Ferguson was born. Scottish football player.
• 1972 – Colin Charvis was born. Rugby union player.
• 1972 – Matt Slocum was born. American musician (Sixpence None The Richer)
• 1972 – Thomas Wilson Brown was born. American actor.
• 1972 – Lester B. Pearson dies (b. 1897). Fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1973 – Kristoffer Zegers was born. Dutch composer.
• 1973 – Dee Ferris was born. British painter.
• 1973 – Wilson Cruz was born. Puerto Rican actor.
• 1974 – Jay Pandolfo was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1974 – Masi Oka was born. Japanese-American actor.
• 1974 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock dies (b. 1898). Russian physicist.
• 1975 – Heather O’Rourke was born (d. 1988). American actress.
• 1976 – Fernando Pisani was born. Canadian/Italian hockey player.
• 1977 – Jacqueline Pillon was born. Canadian actress.
• 1978 – King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain’s 1st democratic constitution.
• 1978 – Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
• 1978 – Bob Luman dies (b. 1937). American Country and Rockabilly singer.
• 1978 – Houari Boumédienne dies (b. 1932). President of Algeria
• 1979 – The Soviet Union took control of Afghanistan, installing Afghan politician Babrak Karmal as president.
• 1979 – David Dunn was born. English football player.
• 1979 – Carson Palmer was born. American football player.
• 1980 – Claudio Castagnoli was born. Swiss wrestler.
• 1980 – Cas Haley was born. American singer and guitarist.
• 1981 – Emilie de Ravin was born. Australian actress.
• 1981 – Hoagy Carmichael dies (b. 1899). American composer and singer.
• 1982 – James Mead was born. American guitarist (Kutless).
• 1982 – Terji Skibenæs was born. Faroese guitarist, (Týr).
• 1982 – John Swigert dies (b. 1931). American astronaut.
• 1983 – Cole Hamels was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 – Gilles Simon was born. French tennis player.
• 1985 – Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; a total of 20 people were killed, including five of the attackers, who were slain by police and security personnel.
• 1985 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
• 1985 – Paul Stastny was born. Canadian-American ice hockey player.
• 1985 – Telma Monteiro was born. Portuguese judok.
• 1987 – Geoffrey D Lloyd dies (b. 1933). Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors.
• 1988 – Hayley Williams was born. American Singer (Paramore)
• 1988 – Hal Ashby dies at 59. US director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die, Coming Home. (see My top 5 movies).
• 1992 – Kay Boyle dies (b. 1902). American writer.
• 1993 – Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93 .
• 1993 – British customs officials seize £70m of Colombian cocaine thought to be linked to the Mafia.
• 1993 – André Pilette dies (b. 1918). Belgian racing driver.
• 1994 – Four Roman Catholic priests — three French and a Belgian — were shot to death in their rectory in Algiers, a day after French commandos killed four radicals who’d hijacked an Air France jet from Algiers to Marseille.
• 1995 – Shura Cherkassky dies (b. 1909). Ukrainian classical pianist.
• 1996 – Rwanda’s first genocide trial opened for the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis.
• 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
• 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in prison in Northern Ireland.
• 1997 – Brendan Gill dies (b. 1914). American columnist and humorist.
• 1997 – Billy Wright dies (b. 1960). Irish Protestant paramilitary leader.
• 2000 – Antonio Rodríguez Valdivieso dies (b. 1918). Spanish painter.
• 2001 – The U.S. announced plans to hold Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2001 – President Bush permanently normalized trade relations with China.
• 2002 – Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
• 2002 – George Roy Hill dies (b. 1922). American film director.
• 2003 – Alan Bates dies (b. 1934). English actor.
• 2003 – Ivan Calderon dies murdered (b. 1962). Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• 2004 – Yushchenko wins Ukraine election re-run
• 2004 – Hank Garland dies (b. 1930). American musician.
• 2005 – Portugal: César Peixoto, portuguese footballer and Isabel Figueira, Portuguese model and TV personality, get married at Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Costa, na Pousada de Guimarães.
• 2005 – Jacinto Figueira Jr. dies (b. 04 Dec 1927). Brazilian journalist, singer and TV presenter.
• 2005 – William Doody dies (b. 1931). Canadian politician.
• 2006 – Gerald Ford dies in Rancho Mirage, California (b. 1913). Thirty-Eighth President of United States of America (1974-1977)
• 2007 – Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide attack; Former Prime-Minister and Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.
• The second day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
• R.C. Saints – John the Apostle and Evangelist
• St. Stephen’s Day, a public holiday in Romania.

On this day in History – Dec. 27

• 0418 – Zosimus dies. Greek pope.
• 0537 – St Sofia-church in Constantinople, initiated.
• 1076 – Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev dies (b. 1027).
• 1381 – Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March dies. English politician.
• 1390 – Anne de Mortimer was born (d. 1411). Claimant to the English throne.
• 1437 – Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia.
• 1492 – Cristóbal Colón descubre la isla de Cuba, a la que llama “Juana” y después “Fernandina”, pero que mantendrá finalmente su nombre autóctono.
• 1512 – Ferdinand II issued the Laws of Burgos to “regulate the relations” between Spaniards and Indians in Spain’s American colonies.
• 1548 – Francesco Spiera dies (b. 1502).Italian Protestant jurist.
• 1571 – Johannes Kepler was born (d. 1630). German astronomer .
• 1585 – Pierre de Ronsard dies (b. 1524). French poet.
• 1603 – Thomas Cartwright dies. English Puritan clergyman.
• 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli was born (d. 1705). Swiss mathematician.
• 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
• 1683 – Conyers Middleton was born (d. 1750). English minister.
• 1683 – D. Maria Francisca Isabel de Sabóia dies (b. 21 Jun 1646). Queen of Portugal.
• 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England. (Ler em português Tratado de Methuen)
• 1707 – Jean Mabillon dies (b. 1632). French palaeograopher and diplomat.
• 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis was born (d. 1780). Lithuanian poet.
• 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy was born (d. 1794). French soldier.
• 1717 – Pope Pius VI was born (d. 1799)
• 1721 – François Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1790). Dutch philosopher.
• 1726 – St. John of Cross is canonized by Pope Benedict XIII.
• 1726 – Saint Francis Solanus (1549-1610) is canonized on this day by Pope Benedict XIII
• 1726 – Saint Peregrine Laziosi (1260-1345) is canonized on this day by Pope Benedict XIII
• 1732 – Em Portugal região de Loulé no Algarve ficou parcialmente destruída, como consequência de um sismo devastador.
• 1737 – William Bowyer dies (b. 1663). English printer.
• 1743 – Hyacinthe Rigaud dies (b. 1659). French painter.
• 1763 – Tratado de paz de Fontainebleau, por el que los británicos devuelven Manila a los españoles.
• 1771 – Henri Pitot dies (b. 1695). French engineer.
• 1773 – Sir George Cayley was born (d. 1857). English scientist and aerial navigator.
• 1776 – Nikolay Kamensky was born (d. 1811). Russian general.
• 1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames dies (b. 1697). Scottish philosopher.
• 1796 – Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra, Awadh (d. 1869). Indian poet of Urdu and Farsi
• 1797 – Marquesa de Santos (Domitília de Castro do Canto e Mello), was born in São Paulo -SP. Brazilian nobless personality.
• 1800 – Hugh Blair dies (b. 1718). Scottish preacher and man of letters.
• 1801 – After conquering Italy, Napoleon established the Republic of Lucca.
• 1802 – Jørgensen “Jens” Juel dies (b. 12 May 1745). Danish painter.
• 1803 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier was born (d. 1839). French Canadian Patriote.
• 1812 – Shneur Zalman of Liadi dies (b. 1745). Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism
• 1812 – Joanna Southcott dies (b. 1750). English religious prophetess.
• 1814 – Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
• 1822 – Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France (d. 1895). French scientist, chemist and microbiologist whose contributions were among the most varied and valuable in the history of science and industry.
• 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell was born (d. 1896). Fifth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1831 – Darwin began his historic voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
• 1832 – Pavel Tretyakov was born (d. 1897). Russian businessman and patron of art.
• 1834 – Charles Lamb dies (b. 1775). English essayist.
• 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
• 1836 – Stephen F. Austin dies (b. 1793). American pioneer.
• 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
• 1849 – Jacques Laurent Agasse dies in London (b. 24 Mar 1767). Swiss English painter specialized in animals. [White Horse in Pasture (1807)]
• 1845 – Augusto de Oliveira Machado was born in Lisbon (d. 26 Mar 1924). Portuguese composer.
• 1852 – Dom João G da Câmara was born. Portuguese journalist/songwriter.
• 1858 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly dies (b. 1785). French composer.
• 1864 – Hood’s army crosses the Tennessee River .
• 1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul was born. French artist
• 1871 – World’s 1st Cat show (Crystal Palace, London) .
• 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet was born (d. 1954). English actor.
• 1881 – António Joaquim Granjo was born in Chaves (d. 19 Oct. 1921). Portuguese politician.
• 1882 – Mina Loy was born (d. 1966). English poet and painter.
• 1883 – Cyrus S. Eaton was born (d. 1979). Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist.
• 1884 – Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II’s Congo Free State.
• 1888 – Thea von Harbou was born (d. 1954). German author and actress.
• 1892 – Alfred Edwin McKay was born (d. 1917). Canadian World War One flying ace
• 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer was born (d. 1977). German author and dramatist.
• 1896 – Louis Bromfield was born (d. 1956). American writer.
• 1896 – Maurice De Waele was born (d. 1952). Belgian cyclist.
• 1896 – John Brown dies (b. 1816). British manufacturer.
• 1897 – Tudor Vianu was born (d. 21 May 1964). Romanian poet
• 1899 – Concepción Michel (Concha) dies (b. 1899). Mexican singer, musicologist and politic activist.
• 1900 – Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kan.
• 1900 – Hans Stuck was born (d. 1978). German race car driver.
• 1900 – William George Armstrong dies (b. 1810). English inventor, industrialist, and engineer.
• 1901 – Marlene Dietrich was born (d. 1992). German actress and singer.
• 1904 – Peter Pan, by James Barrie, opens in London .
• 1904 – The Abbey Theatre opens.
• 1904 – El Banfield Athletic Club se refunda como Club Atlético Banfield (Argentina).
• 1906 – Bernardo de Irigoyen dies in Buenos Aires. Argentine politician.
• 1906 – Oscar Levant was born (d. 1972). American pianist, composer and actor.
• 1907 – Conrad L. Raiford was born (d. 2002). Goodwill Ambassador.
• 1907 – Sebastian Haffner was born (d. 1999). German journalist and writer.
• 1907 – Willem van Otterloo was born (d. 1978). Dutch conductor and composer.
• 1909 – Club Atlético Concepción, de Tucumán is founded.
• 1910 – Charles Olson was born (d. 1970). American poet.
• 1914 – Charles Martin Hall dies (b. 1863). American chemist and inventor.
• 1915 – Mary Kornman was born (d. 1973). American actress.
• 1915 – Gyula Zsengellér was born. Hungarian football player
• 1915 – William Masters was born [d. 2001]; William H(owell) Masters made with his wife, Virginia Johnson, an American research team, and, respectively, physician and psychologist, noted for their studies of human sexuality.
• 1917 – Onni Palaste was born. Finnish writer
• 1918 – Beginning of Great Poland Uprising, the Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań) rise against the Germans
• 1918 – John Celardo was born. American comic strip artist.
• 1920 – Bruce Hobbs was born (d. 2005). American jockey.
• 1923 – Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tried to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito
• 1923 – Lagoa Henriques was born in Lisbon. Portuguese sculptor.
• 1923 – Gustave Eiffel dies (b. 1832). French engineer and architect.
• 1924 – William Archer dies in London (b. 23 Sep 1856). Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess)
• 1925 – Michel Piccoli was born in Paris. French actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools).
• 1925 – Sergei Yesenin dies (b. 1895). Russian poet.
• 1926 – Jerome Courtland was born. American actor, director and producer.
• 1927 – the musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
• 1927 – Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party.
• 1927 – Antony Gardner was born. British politician.
• 1927 – Agnes Nixon was born. American television producer, director and writer.
• 1929 – Leon Trotsky is deported from the Soviet Union in February 1929. His first station in exile was at Büyükada off the coast of Istanbul, where he stayed four years.
• 1930 – José de Ribamar Fiquene was born in Itapecuru-mirim (MA). Brazilian writer and politician.
• 1930 – Wilfrid Sheed was born. English-born American writer.
• 1931 – Scotty Moore was born. American guitarist
• 1932 – The Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
• 1932 – The internal passport system, previously denounced by Vladimir Ilich Lenin as one of the worst stigmas of tsarist backwardness and despotism, was reinstated in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.
• 1934 – Persia comienza a denominarse Irán, por disposición del Gobierno.
• 1934 – Isaac Karabtchewsky was born. Brazilian conductor
• 1934 – Larissa Latynina was born. Russian gymnast
• 1936 – Iris Zavala was born in Puerto Rico. Writer ( Breve historia feminista de la literatura española)
• 1938 – Calvin Bridges dies (b. 1889). American geneticist.
• 1938 – Osip Mandelstam dies (b. 1891). Russian poet.
• 1939 – Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake magnitude 8 : 20.0000 – 40,000 die.
• 1939 – John Amos was born. American actor
• 1940 – Louis Hayet dies (b. 29 Aug 1864). French painter and writer.
• 1941 – Michael Pinder was born. British musician (Moody Blues).
• 1941 – Nolan Richardson was born. American basketball coach.
• 1941 – Les Maguire was born. British keyboardist (Gerry & the Pacemakers).
• 1942 – Byron Browne was born. Baseball player.
• 1942 – Charmian Carr was born. American actress.
• 1943 – Cokie Roberts was born. American journalist.
• 1943 – Peter Sinfield was born. British lyricist and producer.
• 1943 – Joan Manuel Serrat was born in Barcelona. Singer.
• 1943 – Maurício Tapajós was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 21 Apr 1995). Brazilian violinist ans popular composer
• 1943 – German warship “Scharnhorst” sinks in Barents Sea.
• 1944 – Barry Elliot was born. British actor.
• 1944 – Mick Jones was born. British musician (Foreigner).
• 1945 – The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
• 1945 – Belgium joins to United Nations.
• 1946 – Janet Street-Porter was born. British journalist, producer and presenter.
• 1947 – the children’s television program “Howdy Doody” made its debut on NBC.
• 1947 – In Italy is promulgated the first Constitution after The World War.
• 1947 – Peter Criss (Peter Crisscuola) was born. Musician (Kiss).
• 1947 – Janet Perry was born. American soprano.
• 1947 – Tracy Nelson was born. American blues singer.
• 1947 – Mickey Redmond was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1948 – Gerard Depardieu was born. French actor.
• 1949 – Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation – Albert Einstein published his extended theory of gravitation in the “New York Times”.
• 1949 – T.S. Monk was born. Jazz singer-musician.
• 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
• 1949 – Carson Kievman was born. American composer
• 1950 – Roberto Bettega was born. Italian football player.
• 1950 – Max Beckmann was born (d. 1884). German painter
• 1950 – Terry Bozzio was born. American drummer (Missing Persons)
• 1950 – Max Beckmann dies (b. 1884). German painter.
• 1951 – 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) .
• 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo was born. President of Mexico (1994-2000)
• 1952 – Karla Bonoff was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1952 – Jay Hill was born. Canadian politician
• 1952 – David Knopfler was born. British musician and composer (Dire Straits).
• 1952 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan dies (b. 1878). Australian Roman Catholic priest.
• 1953 – Julian Tuwim dies (b. 1894). Polish poet.
• 1955 – Barbara Olson was born (d. 2001). American political commentator.
• 1955 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter dies (b. 1881). English soldier.
• 1955 – Brad Murphey was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1956 – 5.580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt following the Tripartite Invasion.
• 1956 – Lambert McKenna dies (b. 1870). Irish editor and lexicographer.
• 1957 – The biggest abattoir in the north of England has been shut down after foot-and-mouth disease was found in cattle waiting to be slaughtered.
• 1957 – James Sanford was born. American runner (world record 50m indoor) .
• 1959 – Gerina Dunwich was born. American author.
• 1959 – Andre Tippett was born. American football player.
• 1959 – Alfonso Reyes dies (b. 17 May 1889). Mexican poet, historian and diplomat.
• 1960 – France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara.
• 1960 – Maryam d’Abo was born. British actress.
• 1960 – Victoria Paige Meyerink was born. American actress and producer.
• 1960 – Donald Nally was born. American choral conductor.
• 1962 – Mark Few was born. American basketball coach.
• 1962 – Barbara Crampton was born. American actress.
• 1962 – Bill Self was born. American basketball coach.
• 1962 – Sherri Steinhauer was born. American golfer.
• 1965 – Andrew Ettingshausen was born. Australian rugby player.
• 1965 – Chris Mainwaring was born (d. 2007). Australian rules footballer.
• 1965 – Salman Khan was born. Indian actor.
• 1965 – Edgar Ende dies (b. 1901). German painter.
• 1966 – Eva LaRue was born. American actress.
• 1966 – Fabian Núñez was born. American politician.
• 1966 – Wendy Coakley-Thompson was born. American writer.
• 1966 – Bill Goldberg was born. American football player and professional wrestler.
• 1966 – John Harrington was born. American photographer and author.
• 1966 – Guillermo Stábile dies. Argentine footballer and National coach.
• 1968 – The long-running radio program The Breakfast Club signs off for the last time (ABC radio).
• 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending humanity’s first manned mission to the Moon.
• 1969 – Sarah Vowell was born. American author and journalist
• 1969 – Jean-Christophe Boullion was born. French race car driver
• 1969 – Serafim Leite dies (b. 1880). Portuguese Jesuit and historian.
• 1970 – Brendon Cook was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1970 – Lorenzo Neal was born. American football player.
• 1971 – Chyna was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Bryan Smolinski was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1971 – Joanie Laurer was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Duncan Ferguson was born. Scottish football player.
• 1972 – Colin Charvis was born. Rugby union player.
• 1972 – Matt Slocum was born. American musician (Sixpence None The Richer)
• 1972 – Thomas Wilson Brown was born. American actor.
• 1972 – Lester B. Pearson dies (b. 1897). Fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1973 – Kristoffer Zegers was born. Dutch composer.
• 1973 – Dee Ferris was born. British painter.
• 1973 – Wilson Cruz was born. Puerto Rican actor.
• 1974 – Jay Pandolfo was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1974 – Masi Oka was born. Japanese-American actor.
• 1974 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock dies (b. 1898). Russian physicist.
• 1975 – Heather O’Rourke was born (d. 1988). American actress.
• 1976 – Fernando Pisani was born. Canadian/Italian hockey player.
• 1977 – Jacqueline Pillon was born. Canadian actress.
• 1978 – King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain’s 1st democratic constitution.
• 1978 – Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
• 1978 – Bob Luman dies (b. 1937). American Country and Rockabilly singer.
• 1978 – Houari Boumédienne dies (b. 1932). President of Algeria
• 1979 – The Soviet Union took control of Afghanistan, installing Afghan politician Babrak Karmal as president.
• 1979 – David Dunn was born. English football player.
• 1979 – Carson Palmer was born. American football player.
• 1980 – Claudio Castagnoli was born. Swiss wrestler.
• 1980 – Cas Haley was born. American singer and guitarist.
• 1981 – Emilie de Ravin was born. Australian actress.
• 1981 – Hoagy Carmichael dies (b. 1899). American composer and singer.
• 1982 – James Mead was born. American guitarist (Kutless).
• 1982 – Terji Skibenæs was born. Faroese guitarist, (Týr).
• 1982 – John Swigert dies (b. 1931). American astronaut.
• 1983 – Cole Hamels was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 – Gilles Simon was born. French tennis player.
• 1985 – Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; a total of 20 people were killed, including five of the attackers, who were slain by police and security personnel.
• 1985 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
• 1985 – Paul Stastny was born. Canadian-American ice hockey player.
• 1985 – Telma Monteiro was born. Portuguese judok.
• 1987 – Geoffrey D Lloyd dies (b. 1933). Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors.
• 1988 – Hayley Williams was born. American Singer (Paramore)
• 1988 – Hal Ashby dies at 59. US director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die, Coming Home. (see My top 5 movies).
• 1992 – Kay Boyle dies (b. 1902). American writer.
• 1993 – Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93 .
• 1993 – British customs officials seize £70m of Colombian cocaine thought to be linked to the Mafia.
• 1993 – André Pilette dies (b. 1918). Belgian racing driver.
• 1994 – Four Roman Catholic priests — three French and a Belgian — were shot to death in their rectory in Algiers, a day after French commandos killed four radicals who’d hijacked an Air France jet from Algiers to Marseille.
• 1995 – Shura Cherkassky dies (b. 1909). Ukrainian classical pianist.
• 1996 – Rwanda’s first genocide trial opened for the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis.
• 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
• 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in prison in Northern Ireland.
• 1997 – Brendan Gill dies (b. 1914). American columnist and humorist.
• 1997 – Billy Wright dies (b. 1960). Irish Protestant paramilitary leader.
• 2000 – Antonio Rodríguez Valdivieso dies (b. 1918). Spanish painter.
• 2001 – The U.S. announced plans to hold Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2001 – President Bush permanently normalized trade relations with China.
• 2002 – Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
• 2002 – George Roy Hill dies (b. 1922). American film director.
• 2003 – Alan Bates dies (b. 1934). English actor.
• 2003 – Ivan Calderon dies murdered (b. 1962). Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• 2004 – Yushchenko wins Ukraine election re-run
• 2004 – Hank Garland dies (b. 1930). American musician.
• 2005 – Portugal: César Peixoto, portuguese footballer and Isabel Figueira, Portuguese model and TV personality, get married at Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Costa, na Pousada de Guimarães.
• 2005 – Jacinto Figueira Jr. dies (b. 04 Dec 1927). Brazilian journalist, singer and TV presenter.
• 2005 – William Doody dies (b. 1931). Canadian politician.
• 2006 – Gerald Ford dies in Rancho Mirage, California (b. 1913). Thirty-Eighth President of United States of America (1974-1977)
• 2007 – Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide attack; Former Prime-Minister and Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.
• The second day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
• R.C. Saints – John the Apostle and Evangelist
• St. Stephen’s Day, a public holiday in Romania.

On this day in History – Dec. 27

• 0418 – Zosimus dies. Greek pope.
• 0537 – St Sofia-church in Constantinople, initiated.
• 1076 – Prince Svyatoslav II of Kiev dies (b. 1027).
• 1381 – Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March dies. English politician.
• 1390 – Anne de Mortimer was born (d. 1411). Claimant to the English throne.
• 1437 – Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia.
• 1492 – Cristóbal Colón descubre la isla de Cuba, a la que llama “Juana” y después “Fernandina”, pero que mantendrá finalmente su nombre autóctono.
• 1512 – Ferdinand II issued the Laws of Burgos to “regulate the relations” between Spaniards and Indians in Spain’s American colonies.
• 1548 – Francesco Spiera dies (b. 1502).Italian Protestant jurist.
• 1571 – Johannes Kepler was born (d. 1630). German astronomer .
• 1585 – Pierre de Ronsard dies (b. 1524). French poet.
• 1603 – Thomas Cartwright dies. English Puritan clergyman.
• 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli was born (d. 1705). Swiss mathematician.
• 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance is signed.
• 1683 – Conyers Middleton was born (d. 1750). English minister.
• 1683 – D. Maria Francisca Isabel de Sabóia dies (b. 21 Jun 1646). Queen of Portugal.
• 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England. (Ler em português Tratado de Methuen)
• 1707 – Jean Mabillon dies (b. 1632). French palaeograopher and diplomat.
• 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis was born (d. 1780). Lithuanian poet.
• 1715 – Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy was born (d. 1794). French soldier.
• 1717 – Pope Pius VI was born (d. 1799)
• 1721 – François Hemsterhuis was born (d. 1790). Dutch philosopher.
• 1726 – St. John of Cross is canonized by Pope Benedict XIII.
• 1726 – Saint Francis Solanus (1549-1610) is canonized on this day by Pope Benedict XIII
• 1726 – Saint Peregrine Laziosi (1260-1345) is canonized on this day by Pope Benedict XIII
• 1732 – Em Portugal região de Loulé no Algarve ficou parcialmente destruída, como consequência de um sismo devastador.
• 1737 – William Bowyer dies (b. 1663). English printer.
• 1743 – Hyacinthe Rigaud dies (b. 1659). French painter.
• 1763 – Tratado de paz de Fontainebleau, por el que los británicos devuelven Manila a los españoles.
• 1771 – Henri Pitot dies (b. 1695). French engineer.
• 1773 – Sir George Cayley was born (d. 1857). English scientist and aerial navigator.
• 1776 – Nikolay Kamensky was born (d. 1811). Russian general.
• 1782 – Henry Home, Lord Kames dies (b. 1697). Scottish philosopher.
• 1796 – Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra, Awadh (d. 1869). Indian poet of Urdu and Farsi
• 1797 – Marquesa de Santos (Domitília de Castro do Canto e Mello), was born in São Paulo -SP. Brazilian nobless personality.
• 1800 – Hugh Blair dies (b. 1718). Scottish preacher and man of letters.
• 1801 – After conquering Italy, Napoleon established the Republic of Lucca.
• 1802 – Jørgensen “Jens” Juel dies (b. 12 May 1745). Danish painter.
• 1803 – François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier was born (d. 1839). French Canadian Patriote.
• 1812 – Shneur Zalman of Liadi dies (b. 1745). Lithuanian rabbi and founder of Chabad Hasidism
• 1812 – Joanna Southcott dies (b. 1750). English religious prophetess.
• 1814 – Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson’s make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans.
• 1822 – Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, France (d. 1895). French scientist, chemist and microbiologist whose contributions were among the most varied and valuable in the history of science and industry.
• 1823 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell was born (d. 1896). Fifth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1831 – Darwin began his historic voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
• 1832 – Pavel Tretyakov was born (d. 1897). Russian businessman and patron of art.
• 1834 – Charles Lamb dies (b. 1775). English essayist.
• 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing 8 people.
• 1836 – Stephen F. Austin dies (b. 1793). American pioneer.
• 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time (Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia).
• 1849 – Jacques Laurent Agasse dies in London (b. 24 Mar 1767). Swiss English painter specialized in animals. [White Horse in Pasture (1807)]
• 1845 – Augusto de Oliveira Machado was born in Lisbon (d. 26 Mar 1924). Portuguese composer.
• 1852 – Dom João G da Câmara was born. Portuguese journalist/songwriter.
• 1858 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly dies (b. 1785). French composer.
• 1864 – Hood’s army crosses the Tennessee River .
• 1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul was born. French artist
• 1871 – World’s 1st Cat show (Crystal Palace, London) .
• 1879 – Sydney Greenstreet was born (d. 1954). English actor.
• 1881 – António Joaquim Granjo was born in Chaves (d. 19 Oct. 1921). Portuguese politician.
• 1882 – Mina Loy was born (d. 1966). English poet and painter.
• 1883 – Cyrus S. Eaton was born (d. 1979). Canadian-American financier, industrialist and philanthropist.
• 1884 – Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II’s Congo Free State.
• 1888 – Thea von Harbou was born (d. 1954). German author and actress.
• 1892 – Alfred Edwin McKay was born (d. 1917). Canadian World War One flying ace
• 1896 – Carl Zuckmayer was born (d. 1977). German author and dramatist.
• 1896 – Louis Bromfield was born (d. 1956). American writer.
• 1896 – Maurice De Waele was born (d. 1952). Belgian cyclist.
• 1896 – John Brown dies (b. 1816). British manufacturer.
• 1897 – Tudor Vianu was born (d. 21 May 1964). Romanian poet
• 1899 – Concepción Michel (Concha) dies (b. 1899). Mexican singer, musicologist and politic activist.
• 1900 – Militant prohibitionist Carry A. Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar, at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kan.
• 1900 – Hans Stuck was born (d. 1978). German race car driver.
• 1900 – William George Armstrong dies (b. 1810). English inventor, industrialist, and engineer.
• 1901 – Marlene Dietrich was born (d. 1992). German actress and singer.
• 1904 – Peter Pan, by James Barrie, opens in London .
• 1904 – The Abbey Theatre opens.
• 1904 – El Banfield Athletic Club se refunda como Club Atlético Banfield (Argentina).
• 1906 – Bernardo de Irigoyen dies in Buenos Aires. Argentine politician.
• 1906 – Oscar Levant was born (d. 1972). American pianist, composer and actor.
• 1907 – Conrad L. Raiford was born (d. 2002). Goodwill Ambassador.
• 1907 – Sebastian Haffner was born (d. 1999). German journalist and writer.
• 1907 – Willem van Otterloo was born (d. 1978). Dutch conductor and composer.
• 1909 – Club Atlético Concepción, de Tucumán is founded.
• 1910 – Charles Olson was born (d. 1970). American poet.
• 1914 – Charles Martin Hall dies (b. 1863). American chemist and inventor.
• 1915 – Mary Kornman was born (d. 1973). American actress.
• 1915 – Gyula Zsengellér was born. Hungarian football player
• 1915 – William Masters was born [d. 2001]; William H(owell) Masters made with his wife, Virginia Johnson, an American research team, and, respectively, physician and psychologist, noted for their studies of human sexuality.
• 1917 – Onni Palaste was born. Finnish writer
• 1918 – Beginning of Great Poland Uprising, the Poles in Greater Poland (or Grand Duchy of Poznań) rise against the Germans
• 1918 – John Celardo was born. American comic strip artist.
• 1920 – Bruce Hobbs was born (d. 2005). American jockey.
• 1923 – Namba Daisuke, a Japanese student, tried to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito
• 1923 – Lagoa Henriques was born in Lisbon. Portuguese sculptor.
• 1923 – Gustave Eiffel dies (b. 1832). French engineer and architect.
• 1924 – William Archer dies in London (b. 23 Sep 1856). Scottish critic and playwright (Green Goddess)
• 1925 – Michel Piccoli was born in Paris. French actor (Topaz, Peril, May Fools).
• 1925 – Sergei Yesenin dies (b. 1895). Russian poet.
• 1926 – Jerome Courtland was born. American actor, director and producer.
• 1927 – the musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York.
• 1927 – Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party.
• 1927 – Antony Gardner was born. British politician.
• 1927 – Agnes Nixon was born. American television producer, director and writer.
• 1929 – Leon Trotsky is deported from the Soviet Union in February 1929. His first station in exile was at Büyükada off the coast of Istanbul, where he stayed four years.
• 1930 – José de Ribamar Fiquene was born in Itapecuru-mirim (MA). Brazilian writer and politician.
• 1930 – Wilfrid Sheed was born. English-born American writer.
• 1931 – Scotty Moore was born. American guitarist
• 1932 – The Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
• 1932 – The internal passport system, previously denounced by Vladimir Ilich Lenin as one of the worst stigmas of tsarist backwardness and despotism, was reinstated in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.
• 1934 – Persia comienza a denominarse Irán, por disposición del Gobierno.
• 1934 – Isaac Karabtchewsky was born. Brazilian conductor
• 1934 – Larissa Latynina was born. Russian gymnast
• 1936 – Iris Zavala was born in Puerto Rico. Writer ( Breve historia feminista de la literatura española)
• 1938 – Calvin Bridges dies (b. 1889). American geneticist.
• 1938 – Osip Mandelstam dies (b. 1891). Russian poet.
• 1939 – Erzincan, Turkey is hit by an earthquake magnitude 8 : 20.0000 – 40,000 die.
• 1939 – John Amos was born. American actor
• 1940 – Louis Hayet dies (b. 29 Aug 1864). French painter and writer.
• 1941 – Michael Pinder was born. British musician (Moody Blues).
• 1941 – Nolan Richardson was born. American basketball coach.
• 1941 – Les Maguire was born. British keyboardist (Gerry & the Pacemakers).
• 1942 – Byron Browne was born. Baseball player.
• 1942 – Charmian Carr was born. American actress.
• 1943 – Cokie Roberts was born. American journalist.
• 1943 – Peter Sinfield was born. British lyricist and producer.
• 1943 – Joan Manuel Serrat was born in Barcelona. Singer.
• 1943 – Maurício Tapajós was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 21 Apr 1995). Brazilian violinist ans popular composer
• 1943 – German warship “Scharnhorst” sinks in Barents Sea.
• 1944 – Barry Elliot was born. British actor.
• 1944 – Mick Jones was born. British musician (Foreigner).
• 1945 – The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
• 1945 – Belgium joins to United Nations.
• 1946 – Janet Street-Porter was born. British journalist, producer and presenter.
• 1947 – the children’s television program “Howdy Doody” made its debut on NBC.
• 1947 – In Italy is promulgated the first Constitution after The World War.
• 1947 – Peter Criss (Peter Crisscuola) was born. Musician (Kiss).
• 1947 – Janet Perry was born. American soprano.
• 1947 – Tracy Nelson was born. American blues singer.
• 1947 – Mickey Redmond was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1948 – Gerard Depardieu was born. French actor.
• 1949 – Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation – Albert Einstein published his extended theory of gravitation in the “New York Times”.
• 1949 – T.S. Monk was born. Jazz singer-musician.
• 1949 – Indonesian National Revolution: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants Indonesia sovereignty.
• 1949 – Carson Kievman was born. American composer
• 1950 – Roberto Bettega was born. Italian football player.
• 1950 – Max Beckmann was born (d. 1884). German painter
• 1950 – Terry Bozzio was born. American drummer (Missing Persons)
• 1950 – Max Beckmann dies (b. 1884). German painter.
• 1951 – 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) .
• 1951 – Ernesto Zedillo was born. President of Mexico (1994-2000)
• 1952 – Karla Bonoff was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1952 – Jay Hill was born. Canadian politician
• 1952 – David Knopfler was born. British musician and composer (Dire Straits).
• 1952 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan dies (b. 1878). Australian Roman Catholic priest.
• 1953 – Julian Tuwim dies (b. 1894). Polish poet.
• 1955 – Barbara Olson was born (d. 2001). American political commentator.
• 1955 – Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter dies (b. 1881). English soldier.
• 1955 – Brad Murphey was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1956 – 5.580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt following the Tripartite Invasion.
• 1956 – Lambert McKenna dies (b. 1870). Irish editor and lexicographer.
• 1957 – The biggest abattoir in the north of England has been shut down after foot-and-mouth disease was found in cattle waiting to be slaughtered.
• 1957 – James Sanford was born. American runner (world record 50m indoor) .
• 1959 – Gerina Dunwich was born. American author.
• 1959 – Andre Tippett was born. American football player.
• 1959 – Alfonso Reyes dies (b. 17 May 1889). Mexican poet, historian and diplomat.
• 1960 – France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara.
• 1960 – Maryam d’Abo was born. British actress.
• 1960 – Victoria Paige Meyerink was born. American actress and producer.
• 1960 – Donald Nally was born. American choral conductor.
• 1962 – Mark Few was born. American basketball coach.
• 1962 – Barbara Crampton was born. American actress.
• 1962 – Bill Self was born. American basketball coach.
• 1962 – Sherri Steinhauer was born. American golfer.
• 1965 – Andrew Ettingshausen was born. Australian rugby player.
• 1965 – Chris Mainwaring was born (d. 2007). Australian rules footballer.
• 1965 – Salman Khan was born. Indian actor.
• 1965 – Edgar Ende dies (b. 1901). German painter.
• 1966 – Eva LaRue was born. American actress.
• 1966 – Fabian Núñez was born. American politician.
• 1966 – Wendy Coakley-Thompson was born. American writer.
• 1966 – Bill Goldberg was born. American football player and professional wrestler.
• 1966 – John Harrington was born. American photographer and author.
• 1966 – Guillermo Stábile dies. Argentine footballer and National coach.
• 1968 – The long-running radio program The Breakfast Club signs off for the last time (ABC radio).
• 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending humanity’s first manned mission to the Moon.
• 1969 – Sarah Vowell was born. American author and journalist
• 1969 – Jean-Christophe Boullion was born. French race car driver
• 1969 – Serafim Leite dies (b. 1880). Portuguese Jesuit and historian.
• 1970 – Brendon Cook was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1970 – Lorenzo Neal was born. American football player.
• 1971 – Chyna was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Bryan Smolinski was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1971 – Joanie Laurer was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1971 – Duncan Ferguson was born. Scottish football player.
• 1972 – Colin Charvis was born. Rugby union player.
• 1972 – Matt Slocum was born. American musician (Sixpence None The Richer)
• 1972 – Thomas Wilson Brown was born. American actor.
• 1972 – Lester B. Pearson dies (b. 1897). Fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1973 – Kristoffer Zegers was born. Dutch composer.
• 1973 – Dee Ferris was born. British painter.
• 1973 – Wilson Cruz was born. Puerto Rican actor.
• 1974 – Jay Pandolfo was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1974 – Masi Oka was born. Japanese-American actor.
• 1974 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock dies (b. 1898). Russian physicist.
• 1975 – Heather O’Rourke was born (d. 1988). American actress.
• 1976 – Fernando Pisani was born. Canadian/Italian hockey player.
• 1977 – Jacqueline Pillon was born. Canadian actress.
• 1978 – King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain’s 1st democratic constitution.
• 1978 – Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
• 1978 – Bob Luman dies (b. 1937). American Country and Rockabilly singer.
• 1978 – Houari Boumédienne dies (b. 1932). President of Algeria
• 1979 – The Soviet Union took control of Afghanistan, installing Afghan politician Babrak Karmal as president.
• 1979 – David Dunn was born. English football player.
• 1979 – Carson Palmer was born. American football player.
• 1980 – Claudio Castagnoli was born. Swiss wrestler.
• 1980 – Cas Haley was born. American singer and guitarist.
• 1981 – Emilie de Ravin was born. Australian actress.
• 1981 – Hoagy Carmichael dies (b. 1899). American composer and singer.
• 1982 – James Mead was born. American guitarist (Kutless).
• 1982 – Terji Skibenæs was born. Faroese guitarist, (Týr).
• 1982 – John Swigert dies (b. 1931). American astronaut.
• 1983 – Cole Hamels was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 – Gilles Simon was born. French tennis player.
• 1985 – Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports; a total of 20 people were killed, including five of the attackers, who were slain by police and security personnel.
• 1985 – American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
• 1985 – Paul Stastny was born. Canadian-American ice hockey player.
• 1985 – Telma Monteiro was born. Portuguese judok.
• 1987 – Geoffrey D Lloyd dies (b. 1933). Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors.
• 1988 – Hayley Williams was born. American Singer (Paramore)
• 1988 – Hal Ashby dies at 59. US director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die, Coming Home. (see My top 5 movies).
• 1992 – Kay Boyle dies (b. 1902). American writer.
• 1993 – Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93 .
• 1993 – British customs officials seize £70m of Colombian cocaine thought to be linked to the Mafia.
• 1993 – André Pilette dies (b. 1918). Belgian racing driver.
• 1994 – Four Roman Catholic priests — three French and a Belgian — were shot to death in their rectory in Algiers, a day after French commandos killed four radicals who’d hijacked an Air France jet from Algiers to Marseille.
• 1995 – Shura Cherkassky dies (b. 1909). Ukrainian classical pianist.
• 1996 – Rwanda’s first genocide trial opened for the 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis.
• 1996 – Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.
• 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in prison in Northern Ireland.
• 1997 – Brendan Gill dies (b. 1914). American columnist and humorist.
• 1997 – Billy Wright dies (b. 1960). Irish Protestant paramilitary leader.
• 2000 – Antonio Rodríguez Valdivieso dies (b. 1918). Spanish painter.
• 2001 – The U.S. announced plans to hold Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• 2001 – President Bush permanently normalized trade relations with China.
• 2002 – Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya.
• 2002 – George Roy Hill dies (b. 1922). American film director.
• 2003 – Alan Bates dies (b. 1934). English actor.
• 2003 – Ivan Calderon dies murdered (b. 1962). Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• 2004 – Yushchenko wins Ukraine election re-run
• 2004 – Hank Garland dies (b. 1930). American musician.
• 2005 – Portugal: César Peixoto, portuguese footballer and Isabel Figueira, Portuguese model and TV personality, get married at Igreja do Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Costa, na Pousada de Guimarães.
• 2005 – Jacinto Figueira Jr. dies (b. 04 Dec 1927). Brazilian journalist, singer and TV presenter.
• 2005 – William Doody dies (b. 1931). Canadian politician.
• 2006 – Gerald Ford dies in Rancho Mirage, California (b. 1913). Thirty-Eighth President of United States of America (1974-1977)
• 2007 – Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide attack; Former Prime-Minister and Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.
• The second day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
• R.C. Saints – John the Apostle and Evangelist
• St. Stephen’s Day, a public holiday in Romania.

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