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On this day in History - Jul 14

2009-07-14T01:07:00.005+01:00

0664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury dies. Archbishop of Canterbury.
0937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria dies.
1093 - Death of St. Ulric of Zell.
1223 - King Philip II of France dies (b. 1165).
1223 - In France, Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France.
1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury dies.
1274 - Saint Bonaventure dies (b. 1221).
1454 - Poliziano was born in Montepulciano, Tuscany. Italian poet and humanist, friend & protégé of Lorenzo de' Medici, and a foremost classical scholar of the Renaissance.
1486 - Andrea del Sarto was born in Firenze (d. 1530). Italien painter (Florentine School).
1536 - France and Portugal sign the naval treaty of Lyons, aligning themselves against Spain.
1575 - Richard Taverner dies. English Bible translator.
1602 - Jules Mazarin was born (d. 1661). French statesman - 1st Minister (1642-1661) - and cardinal.
1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring was born (d. 1657). English royalist soldier.
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 24 May1670).
1614 - Camillus de Lellis dies (b. 1550). Italian saint.
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel was born (d. 1719). French Jansenist theologian.
1642 - Benjamin Thompson was born in Quincy, Massachusetts (d. 13 Apr 1714). 1st native American poet ("New England Crisis").
1671 - Jacques D'Allonville was born (d. 1732). French astronomer and mathematician.
1671 - Méric Casaubon dies (b. 1599). English classical scholar.
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval was born (d. 1747). French soldier.
1676 - Caspar Abel was born (d. 1763). German theologian, historian, and poet.
1696 - William Oldys was born (d. 1761). English antiquarian and bibliographer.

1721 - John Douglas was born (d. 1807). Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters.

1723 - Claude Fleury dies (b. 1640). French historian.

1742 - Richard Bentley dies (b. 1662). English classical scholar.

1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin was born (d. 1816). Russian poet.

1764 - France: Jean-François Varletwas born in Paris. Revolutionary considered by many an anarchist precursor. Varlet is author of one of the first anarchist proclamations, "l'Explosion".

1766 - František Maxmilián Kanka dies (b. 1674). Czech architect.

1769 - The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California).

1771 - Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.

1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine dies (b. 1682). British field marshal

1780 - Charles Batteux dies (b. 1713). French philosopher.

1789 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners. This event in 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution./ Tomada da Bastilha. A fortaleza da Bastilha é atacada e tomada pela população de Paris. A Revolução Francesa tem o seu início. O Dia Nacional da França comemora esta data.

1789 - Jacques de Flesselles dies assassinated (b. 1721). French provost.

1789 - Bernard-René de Launay dies murdered during the Storming of the Bastille Governor of the Bastille.

1790 - French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.

1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon dies (b. 1717). Austrian field marshal.

1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.

1798 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.

1800 - Lorenzo Mascheroni dies in Paris (b. 13 May 1750 in Bergamo). Italian mathematician.

1801 - Johannes Peter Müller was born (d. 1858). German physiologist.

1816 - Arthur de Gobineau was born (d. 1882). French philosopher.

1816 - Francisco de Miranda dies (b. 1750). Venezuelan revolutionary.

1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël dies (b. 1766). Swiss author.

1825 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded at the University of Virginia.

1827 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.

1827 - Augustin Jean Fresnel dies in Ville-d'Avray, France (b. 10 May 1788 in Broglie). French physicist and mathematician.

1829 - Edward White Benson was born (d. 1896). Archbishop of Canterbury.

1834 - James McNeil Whistler was born (d. 1903). American painter.

1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt dies (b. 1763). French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution.

1850 - August Neander dies (b. 1789). German theologian.

1853 - the first US World's Fair opened in New York.

1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst was born (d. 1928). English suffragette.

1859 - Willy Hess was born (d. 1928). German violinist.

1860 - Owen Wister was born (d. 1938). American author.

1862 - Gustav Klimt was born (d. 1918). Austrian painter and graphic artist.

1863 - Paul Walden was born (d. 24 Jan 1957). A Latvian chemist who, while teaching at Riga, discovered the Walden inversion, a reversal of stereochemical configuration that occurs in many reactions of covalent compounds (1896).

1865 - The Matterhorn is conquered: A group of British climbers, headed by British mountaineer Edward Whymper, reached the peak of the Matterhorn ahead of the Italian Alpine team.

1865 - Arthur Capper was born (d. 1951). Newspaper publisher and politician.

1865 - Benjamin Gompertz dies in London (b. 5 Mar 1799 in London). English mathematican and his well remembered for Gompertz's Law of Mortality.

1867 - Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.

1868 - Gertrude Bell was born (d. 1926). English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator.

1874 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt was born (d. 1944).

1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst dies (b. 1816). English Methodist chapel builder.

1881 - Billy the Kid dies killed by sheriff Pat Garrett (b. 1860). American outlaw.

1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos was born (d. 1959).

1887 - Alfred Krupp dies (b. 26 Apr 1812). German manufacturer of steel and armaments who was known as "The Cannon King".

1891 - Alexander M. Volkov was born (d. 1977). Russian novelist and mathematician.

1893 - O general José Santos Zelaya se proclama ditador da Nicarágua.

1893 - Clarence J. Brown was born (d. 1965). Newspaper publisher and politician.

1896 - Buenaventura Durruti was born (d. 1936). Spanish anarchist.

1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler was born (d. 1991). Amerrican politician and baseball commissioner.

1901 - Gerald Finzi was born (d. 1956). British composer.

1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.

1903 - Irving Stone was born in San Francisco (d. 1989). American novelist (Lust for Life; Love is Eternal; The Agony and the Ecstasy).

1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Radzymin, Poland (d. 1991). Polish Yiddish author. His many works (Enemies, A Love Story; A Crown of Feathers; etc.) will earn him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.

1904 - Paul Kruger dies (b. 1824). Boer resistance leader.

1905 - Laurence Chisholm Young was born in Göttingen, Germany (d. 24 Dec 2000 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA). Mathematician.

1906 - Tom Carvel was born (d. 1990). Greek-born businessman and inventor.

1907 - Chico Landi was born (d. 1989). Brazilian racing driver.

1907 - William Henry Perkin dies (b. 1838). English chemist and inventor.

1909 - Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro is inaugurated

1910 - William Hanna was born (d. 2001). American animator.

1910 - Marius Petipa dies (b. 1818). French dancer and choreographer.

1911 - Terry-Thomas was born (d. 1990). British actor.

1912 - Northrop Frye was born (d. 1991). Canadian literary critic.

1912 - Woody Guthrie was born (d. 1967). American folk musician (This Land is Your Land, Hard Travelin’, Union Maid, So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, Dirty Overhalls, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Sinking of the Reuben James)

1913 - Gerald Rudolph Ford was born (d. 2006). 38 th President of the United States. He was the first president to have served without having been chosen in a national election.

1915 - Criação do América Futebol Clube (Natal - RN)

1916 - Natalia Ginzburg was born (d. 1991). Writer.

1917 - Octave Lapize dies (b. 1887). French cyclist.

1918 - Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala. Swedish Academy Award-winning director (Through a Glass Darkly [1961]; The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander).

1918 - Arthur Laurents was born. American playwright, novelist, and director.

1918 - Quentin Roosevelt dies (b. 1897). American Aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt.

1919 - Lino Ventura was born (d. 1987). Italian-born actor.

1921 - In a still-controversial decision, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, immigrant Italian anarchists, were found guilty of the murder of two men in Massachusetts. They were found guilty of the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on 15 April 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. Sacco and Vanzetti, still maintaining their innocence, were executed on 23 August 1927, in spite of they have always mantained their innocence.

1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson was born. British chemist, joint recipient with Ernst Fischer of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds."

1921 - Leon Garfield was born (d. 1996). English children's author.

1921 - Mário Braga was born in Coimbra. Portuguese writer and journalist.

1922 - Brigadier General Robin Olds was born (d. 2007). American fighter pilot.

1922 - Elfriede Rinkel was born. Nazi concentration camp guard.

1922 - Robin Olds was born (d. 2007). American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot.

1923 - Dale Robertson was born. American actor.

1923 - Nascimento de António Quadros († 1994). Membro da geração da revista «57», criada em torno Álvaro Ribeiro. Influenciado pelo existencialismo, que o fez publicar, em 1954, Introdução a uma estética existencial, a sua obra mais conhecida é Portugal Razão e Mistério, (1987).

1924 - Alberto Bordalo was born (d. 1 Apr 1964). Brazilian writer and poet.

1924 - James W. Black was born. Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1925 - Pancho Villa dies (b. 1901). Filipino world boxing champion.

1926 - Harry Dean Stanton was born. American actor (Down Periscope, Never Talk to Strangers, Against the Wall, Wild at Heart, Twister, The Last Temptation of Christ, Red Dawn, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Young Doctors in Love, Escape from New York, Private Benjamin, Death Watch, The Rose, Alien, The Godfather, Part 2, Kelly’s Heroes, Cool Hand Luke, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Two-Lane Blacktop).

1927 - John Chancellor was born (d. 1996). American television commentator.

1928 - Nancy Olson was born. American actress ( Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Snowball Express).

1930 - Polly Bergen was born. American actress, singer, and entrepreneur.

1931 - Robert Stephens was born (d. 12 Nov 1995). Actor (The Secret Rapture, Chaplin, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Henry V, Empire of the Sun, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Taste of Honey).

1932 - Roosevelt Grier was born. American football player, actor, and minister.

1933 - Gleichschaltung: In Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.

1933 - Del Reeves was born. American singer (Slow Hand, Be Quiet Mind, The Girl on the Billboard, Looking at the World through a Windshield, The Philadelphia Phillies; films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Forty Acre Feud).

1933 - Robert Bourassa was born (d. 1996). Quebec politician.

1937 - Yoshiro Mori was born. Japanese politician.

1938 - Jerry Rubin was born (d. 1994). American activist.

1939 - Sid Haig was born. American actor.

1939 - George E. Slusser was born. American scholar and writer.

1939 - Karel Gott was born. Czech singer.

1939 - Sid Haig was born. American actor.

1939 - Alphonse Mucha dies (b. 24 Aug 1860). Czech Art Nouveau painter, illustrator, poster artist, and designer.

1940 - World War II: Andrew George Latta McNaughton takes command of the 7th Army Corps consisting of British, Canadian and New Zealand troops.

1940 - Susan Howatch was born. English author.

1941 - Andreas Khol was born. Austrian politician.

1941 - Maulana Karenga was born. American author and activist.

1942 - Javier Solana was born. Spanish European Union foreign policy chief (1995-1999).

1943 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of a black American.

1943 - Christopher Priest was born. English novelist.

1944 - Billy McCool was born. Baseball player.

1945 - Fundação da Academia Brasileira de Música.

1946 - Dr. Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care was first published. This book became one of the most widely-discussed books ever published and one of the most widely sold.

1946 - John Wood was born. Australian actor.

1946 - Vincent Pastore was born. American actor.

1947 - Claudia Kennedy was born. U.S. Army officer.

1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.

1950 - Gwen Guthrie was born (d. 1999). American singer.

1951 - Erich Hallhuber was born (d. 2003). German actor.

1952 - Bob Casale, AKA Bob 2, was born. Musician (DEVO).

1952 - Franklin Graham was born. American evangelist.

1952 - Joel Silver was born. American film producer.

1953 - Richard von Mises dies in Boston (b. 19 Apr 1883 in Lemberg, Austria, now Lvov, Ukraine). Economist and applied mathematician, who worked on fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics statistics and probability theory (Theory of Flight)

1954 - The central region of the United States suffers extremely hot weather, with the temperature reaching 118° F (48° C) in Warsaw and Union, Missouri, and 117° F (47° C) in East St. Louis, Illinois, setting new all-time state record high temperatures.

1954 - Jacinto Benavente dies (b. 1866). Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1922 . ( La Gobernadora (1901) [The Governor's Wife], Rosas de otoño (1905) [Autumnal Roses], and particularly Señora ama ( 1908) [The Lady of the House] and La Malquerida (1913) [The Wrongly Loved]).

1955 - L. Brent Bozell was born. American author and activist.

1956 - Vladimir Kulich was born. Czech actor.

1956 - John Wishart dies in Acapulco, Mexico (b. 28 Nov 1898 in Montrose, Scotland). Mathematician and statistician.

1958 - Iraqi Revolution: King Faisal II is assassinated at Baghdad. The monarchy is overthrown by Arab nationalists and Abdul Karim Kassem becomes the nation's new leader. / No Iraque, um Golpe de Estado organizado por oficiais do exército proclama a República, e assassina o rei Faisal II (1935-1958), e quase toda a sua família.

1958 - Joe Keenan was born. American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.

1960 - Guatemala: Fire raging through a Guatemala City insane asylum kills 225, severely injuring 300.

1960 - Anna Bligh was born. Australian politician.

1960 - Jane Lynch was born. American actress.

1961 - Jackie Earle Haley was born. American actor.

1962 - Jeff Olson was born. American musician.

1963 - A Câmara Municipal de Lisboa cria em Portugal a primeira Biblioteca Pública para cegos.

1963 - Phil Rosenthal was born. American newspaper columnist.

1965 - Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.

1965 - Igor Khoroshev was born. Russian keyboard player (Yes).

1965 - Adlai Stevenson dies (b. 1900). U.S. presidential candidate.

1966 - In Chicago, Illinois, Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory.

1966 - A fire at a mental hospital in Guatemala City kills 225.

1966 - Brigitte Bardot and Gunther Sachs wedding.

1966 - Brian Selznick was born. American author and illustrator.

1966 - Charles Edward Ambler was born. British noble.

1966 - Ellen Reid was born. Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies).

1966 - Matthew Fox was born. American actor.

1966 - Tanya Donelly was born. American musician (Belly).

1966 - Julie Manet dies (b. 1878). French painter.

1967 - Eddie Mathews becomes the seventh member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.

1967 - Robin Ventura was born. Baseball player.

1967 - Jeff Jarrett was born. American professional wrestler.

1967 - Patrick J. Kennedy was born. American politician.

1967 - Tudor Arghezi dies (b. 1880). Romanian writer.

1968 - Exactly one year to the date of teammate Eddie Mathews' 500th carrer home run, Hank Aaron becomes the eighth member of said club with a home run off Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Stadium in the state capital of Georgia.

1968 - Kazushi Sakuraba was born. Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler.

1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky dies (b. 1892). Russian writer.

1969 - Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, taking effect on July 20.

1969 - Large denominations of United States currency, namely the $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills, are officially withdrawn from circulation by the Federal Reserve System due to "lack of use," leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating United States currency.

1970 - Missy Gold was born in Great Falls, Montana, USA . Actress ( Little Mo, Benson, Twirl )

1971 - Chirag Bhimani was born. Structural and Environmental Engineer

1971 - Bubba Ray Dudley was born. Professional wrestler.

1971 - Mark LoMonaco was born. American professional wrestler

1971 - Joey Styles was born. American wrestling commentator

1971 - Marie-Chantal Toupin was born. French Canadian singer

1972 - Deborah Mailman was born. Australian actress.

1972 - Flávia Monteiro was born. Brazilian actress.

1972 - Emílio Abreu Gómez dies. Mexican writer.

1972 - Leila Diniz dies (b. 1945). Brazilian actress.

1973 - Adam Quinn was born. American bagpipe player.

1973 - Alley Baggett was born in Houston, Texas. American model.

1973 - Candela Peña was born. Spanish actress.

1973 - Halil Mutlu was born. Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter.

1973 - Monoxide Child was born. American musician (Twiztid)

1974 - David Mitchell was born. English comedian and actor.

1974 - Carl Spaatz dies (b. 1891). American Air Force general.

1974 - Raul Lino dies (b. 21 Nov 1879). Portuguese architect.

1975 - Taboo (Jaime Gomez) was born. American rapper (Black Eyed Peas).

1975 - Tim Hudson was born. Baseball player.

1975 - Madan Mohan dies (b. 1924). Hindi Film's Melodious Music director

1976 - Geraint Jones was born. English cricketer.

1976 - Kirsten Sheridan was born. Irish film director and screenwriter.

1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden was born.

1979 - Axel Teichmann was born. German cross-country skier.

1979 - Bernie Castro was born. Baseball player.

1980 - George Smith was born. Australian Rugby Union Player.

1981 - MCLN bombs a popular cinema in Bangui, Central African Republic. Afterwards a declaration is issued, demanding withdrawal of French troops from the country.

1981 - Lee Mead was born. Brutishj musical theatre actor.

1981 - Yomi was born. Japanese vocalist (Nightmare).

1982 - Dmitry Chaplin was born. So You Think You Can Dance finalist

1983 - Wesley Dening was born. Australian TV personality.

1984 - New Zealand elects the Fourth Labour Government bringing in David Lange as Prime Minister of New Zealand, and thus breaking nine years of National party governance under Robert Muldoon

1984 - Chris Steele was born. Canadian musician, (Alexisonfire).

1984 - Philippe Wynne dies (b. 1941). American musician.

1984 - Ernest Tidyman dies (b. 1928). American writer.

1986 - Rivers Langley was born. American radio personality.

1987 - Adam Johnson was born. English footballer.

1987 - Kieran Williams was born. English radio presenter and voice over

1988 - Volkswagen's automobile plant in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - the first auto assembly plant operated by a non-American car manufacturer in the United States - closes after little more than a decade of operation. The plant built Volkswagen's Rabbit model in its first six years, then produced the Golf and some Jetta models until its closing.

1988 - James Vaughan was born. English footballer.

1989 - The 16th James Bond movie "License to Kill" premiers.

1989 - Sean Flynn-Amir was born. American actor.

1989 - Frank Bell dies (b. 1916). British educator.

1991 - Leaders of the Group of Seven nations began gathering in London for their annual economic summit.

1992 - 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.

1992 - A major fire consumes an entire city block in tourist destination Gatlinburg, Tennessee, destroying the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" Museum and several other local businesses and attractions in the process.

1993 - Léo Ferré dies (b. 24 Aug 1916). French musician and singer. / Morte do poeta e cantor francês Leo Ferré (n. 24 Ago 1916). (Webmaster note : "Avec le temps", "La solitude", "C'est extra" - are unforgettable songs).

1994 - César Tovar dies (b. 1940). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.

1995 - The MP3 format was named.

1996 - Jeff Krosnoff dies (b. 1964). CART driver

1997 - Spain: 1 million marchers protest ETA terrorism, Madrid.

1997 - A free Jean-Michel Jarre concert attracts 2 million, Paris, France.

1998 - Dick McDonald dies (b. 1909). American fast food entrepreneur.

1998 - Mário Sargedas dies in Lisbon (b. 1933). Portuguese actor (Paraíso Perdido- 1995; "Vila Faia" -1982, TV Series; Fado Corrido-1964; Retalhos da Vida de Um Médico-1962...).

1998 - Richard McDonald dies (b. 1909). American fast food pioneer.

1999 - Gar Samuelson dies. American musician (Megadeth).

2000 - A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

2000 - The 13th International AIDS Conference comes to a close in Durban, South Africa.

2000 - George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.

2000 - Meredith MacRae dies (b. 1944). American actress.

2000 - René Ríos Boettiger dies (b. 1911). Chilean cartoonist.

2000 - William Roscoe Estep dies (b. 1920). American Baptist historian.

2001 - The International Olympic Committee votes for Beijing to be the host of the 2008 Olympics. This is the first time that China had been bestowed this honor.

2002 - During Bastille Day celebrations, Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed.

2002 - Joaquín Vidella Balaguer y Ricardo dies (b. 01 Sep 1906). President of the Dominican Republic (1960-1962, 1966-1978, 1986-1996).

2002 - Qiqi dies. Longest-living captive Chinese river dolphin.

2003 - The United States Government admits to the existence of "Area 51".

2003 - André Claveau dies (b. 1911). French singer.

2003 - Tex Schramm dies (b. 1920). American football general manager.

2003 - Éva Janikovszky dies (b. 1926). Hungarian novellist.

2003 - François-Albert Angers dies (b. 1909). French Canadian economist.

2004 - O guitarrista espanhol Paco de Lucía ganha o Prémio Príncipe de Astúrias.

2004 - O escritor mexicano José Emilio Pacheco ganha o Prémio Iberoamericano Pablo Neruda.

2005 - Europe holds a two minute silence at 12:00 BST in remembrance of the 7/7 bombings of London, United Kingdom.

2005 - Cicely Saunders dies (b. 1918). English Nurse, physician and writer.

2005 - Joe Harnell dies (b. 1924). American musician, composer and arranger.

2006 - The verdict in the Italian Football Match Fixing Scandal was delivered- Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina were all relegated. AC Milan were spared relegation.

2006 - Stargate SG-1 begins its tenth season, making it the longest-running science fiction series on American television.

2007 - Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

2007 - John Ferguson Sr dies (b. 1938). Former professional hockey player.

2008 - Henki Kolstad dies (b. 1915). Norwegian actor.

France and all French dependencies - Bastille Day.

Sweden - Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day.

Iraq: Republic Day.

Coisas e loisas do maior clube do Mundo

2009-07-13T21:33:00.008+01:00

Jorge Jesus, o novo treinador, disse que com ele os jogadores do Benfica iriam jogar o dobro ou mais...

Pois bem em início de preparação da época o Benfica jogou ontem com o Sion e menos de 24 horas passadas jogou hoje com o Chakhtar vencedor da Taça Uefa da última época). Dois jogos em dois dias! Jorge Jesus prometeu e está a cumprir... o Benfica está a jogar mais...

A Direcção Geral dos Impostos está preocupada com os dossiers dos preços de transferência e ao que parece quer que mais de metade dos custos com o Departamento de Prospecção e Marketing do Benfica sejam facturados ao FC Porto. E parece que tem razão; pois então não é verdade que o Benfica (ou os jornais) anunciam o interesse nos jogadores e eles acabam por ser contratados pelo Porto? É só assinar o contrato... o resto já estava tudo feito.

Pinto da Costa disse que Reyes foi oferecido ao Porto mas que este clube não estava interessado. Não espanta nada. É que o Benfica também não está interessado no Reyes... se estivesse...

Mas o Benfica esteve interessado no avançado Falcão (depois do caso do defesa Álvaro Pereira que tambem foi parar ao Porto). Mas no caso do Falcão descobri qualquer coisa sobre o caso. O jogador não foi para o Benfica por causa de um parecer do Instituto Nacional de Aviação Civil (ex- Direcção Geral da Aeronáutica). Um estudo deste organismo concluiu por excesso de pássaros lá para os lados do Aeroporto de Lisboa e daí que o Benfica para evitar congestionamento (com as águias) logo desistiu do Falcão...

Já falámos em prospecção e eu também já fiz a minha com referência aos jogadores (posições e não só também nomes concretos) que o Benfica precisa para ser campeão nacional e europeu. Falta um guarda-redes de categoria como o Preud'homme, um trinco de categoria do Petit e um avançado como o Mantorras (o de antigamente, com dois joelhos operacionais ...). Se sobrar algum dinheiro ainda recomendo um outro jogador para o meio campo para organização e para pautar os tempos de jogo como Valdo. Com (mais) estes o Benfica é campeão, sem qualquer dúvida, por mais Proenças e Benquerenças que apareçam... Diz-me que esses jogadores não existem? Que importa? Esta prospecção não é pior do que a que o Departamento do Futebol do Benfica faz. Se eles existissem... iriam para o Porto...

Uma palavrinha para os dois jogos de preparação do Benfica já disputados:
i) Dois golos marcados na primeira parte de cada um dos jogos... Zero golos na segunda parte.
ii) Cardozo marca que se farta... Quim sofre golos que se farta...
iii) Moretto confirma que é um grande guarda-redes para defender penalties...
iv) Jorge Jesus tem que pôr a equipa na primeira parte a jogar pior para que na segunda parte os jogadores não estejam tão desconcentrados com as facilidades...
v) Mantorras vai continuar a jogar os últimos dez minutos
vi) Estes jogam foram de preparação séria, até os árbitros se portaram à altura dos jogos oficiais prejudicando o Benfica...

Boa semana... e que Jorge de Jesus continue invicto!

Amar ou Odiar - Fausto Guedes Teixeira

2009-07-13T00:37:00.004+01:00

Amar ou odiar: ou tudo ou nada
O meio termo é que não pode ser
A alma tem de estar sobressaltada
Para o nosso barro se sentir viver

Não é uma cruz a que não for pesada
Metade de um prazer, não é um prazer!
E quem quiser a vida sossegada
Fuja da vida e deixe-se morrer!

Vive-se tanto mais quanto se sente
Todo o valor está no que sofremos
Que nenhum homem seja indiferente!

Amemos muito como odiamos já!
A verdade está sempre nos extremos
Pois é no sentimento que ela está

Fausto Guedes Teixeira (nasceu em Lamego, 11 de Outubro de 1871 — morreu em Lamego, 13 de Julho de 1940)

On this day in History - Jul 13

2009-07-13T00:35:00.001+01:00

100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar was born (either July 13 or July 12) (d. 44 BC). Roman soldier and politician.
0040 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola was born (d. 0093). Roman Governor of Britain.
0574 - Pope John III dies.
0939 - Pope Leo VII dies.
0982 - Otto II is defeated in Calabria by the Saracens, Pandulf II of Salerno and Landulf IV of Benevento killed in battle.
1024 - Emperor Henry II dies.
1174 - William the Lion of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
1189 - Matilda of England dies (b. 1156). Daughter of Henry II of England.
1205 - Hubert Walter dies. Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England.
1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato dies (b. 1313). Italian jurist.
1399 - Peter Parler dies (b. 1330). German architect.
1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China dies (b. 1377).
1491 - Príncipe Afonso de Portugal, herdeiro do rei João II
1527 - John Dee was born (d. 1609). English alchemist, astrologer, and mathematician who contributed greatly to the revival of interest in mathematics in England.
1551 - John Wallop dies (b. 1490). English soldier and diplomat.
1558 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines.
1573 - Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
1579 - Arthur Dee was born (d. 1651). English physician and alchemist.
1590 - Pope Clement X was born (d. 1676).
1607 - Václav Hollar was born (d. 1677). Czech-born actor.
1608 - Ferdinand III was born (d. 1657). Holy Roman Emperor. He headed the so-called peace party at the Habsburg imperial court during the Thirty Years' War and ended that war in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia.
1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria dies (b. 1559). Governor of the Low Countries.
1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester dies (b. 1563). English statesman.
1628 - Robert Shirley dies (b. 1581). English adventurer.
1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder dies (b. 1585). Swedish physician and theologian.
1643 - English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down - In England, Lord Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, wins a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Sir William Waller.
1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia dies (b. 1596).
1647 - Criação da Aula de Fortificação e Arquitectura Militar, na Ribeira das Naus.
1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex dies (b. 1631). English statesman.
1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms dies (b. 1636). Dutch lieutenant-general.
1705 - Titus Oates dies (b. 1649). English protestant conspirator.

1745 - Robert Calder was born (d. 1818). British naval officer.

1755 - Edward Braddock dies. British general.

1760 - Conrad Weiser dies (b. 1696). Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans.

1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige dies (b. 1712). Japanese shogun.

1762 - James Bradley dies (b. 1693). English Astronomer Royal

1769 - Thomas Kelly was born. Irish Episcopal clergyman and author of 765 hymns, including: 'Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him.'

1770 - Alexander Balashov was born (d. 1837). Russian general and statesman.

1772 - HMS Resolution, under the command of Captain James Cook, sets sail from Plymouth, England.

1776 - Caroline of Badenwas born (d. 1841). Queen of Bavaria.

1777 - Guillaume Coustou dies. French sculptor.

1787 - The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.

1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau dies (b. 1715). French economist.

1793 - John Clare was born (d. 1864). English poet.

1793 - Jean Paul Marat (b. 1743), one of the leaders of the French revolution, is murdered by Charlotte Corday.

1794 - Battle of the Vosges between French forces and those of Prussia and Austria

1798 - Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) was born (d. 1860). Tsarina of Russia.

1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart dies (b. 1725). Jacobite claimant to the throne of England.

1808 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta was born (d. 1893). President of France

1816 - Gustav Freitag was born (d. 1895). Writer.

1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest was born (d. 1877). American Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader.

1822 - Greek War of Independence: Greeks defeat Ottoman forces at Thermopylae.

1830 - The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

1832 - The source of the Mississippi River is discovered, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

1837 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.

1841 - Otto Wagner was born (d. 1918). Austrian architect.

1854 - In the battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria Yanez stops the French invasion led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon.

1856 - José Augusto Vieira do Nascimento was born in Valença do Minho (d. 13 Jul 1890). Portuguese writer.

1858 - Stewart Culin was born (d. 1929). American ethnographer.

1859 - Sidney Webb was born (d. 1947). English economist and socialist who was founder of the Fabian Society.

1863 - New York Draft Riots: In New York City, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

1864 - John Jacob Astor IV was born (d. 1912). American entrepreneur.

1878 - Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia and Montenegro become completely independent of the Ottoman empire.

1882 - Johnny Ringo dies (b. 1850). American Gunfighter.

1889 - Louise of Mountbatten was born (d. 1965). Queen of Sweden.

1889 - Robert Hamerling dies (b. 1830). Austrian poet.

1890 - John C. Frémont dies (b. 1813). American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate.

1893 - Morte de Joaquim de Seabra Pessoa. Pai do poeta português Fernando Pessoa.

1894 - Isaac Babel was born (d. 1940). Ukrainian writer.

1895 - Sidney Blackmer was born (d. 1973). American actor.

1896 - Mordecai Ardon was born (d. 1992). One of Israel's greatest painters.

1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz dies (b. 1829). German organic chemist.

1898 - Guglielmo Marconi patenta la radio

1898 - Julius Schreck was born (d. 1936). Member of the Nazi party.

1900 - George Lewis was born (d. 1969). American jazz musician

1900 - Boxer Rebellion: In China, Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling Boxers.

1901 - Eric Portman was born (d. 1969). English stage and film actor.

1903 - Kenneth Clark was born (d. 1983). English art historian.

1905 - Alfredo M. Santos was born (d. 1990). First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero.

1908 - 4th modern Olympic games opens in London. Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.

1909 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.

1912 - Leader of the Indian freedom movement and scholar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad brought out his noted Urdu news journal, al-Hilal.

1913 - Dave Garroway was born (d. 1982). American television host.

1913 - Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was born. Danish shipping magnate.

1914 - Simone Pianetti's mass murder action in Camerata Cornello, Italy.

1914 - Sam Hanksauto was born (d. 27 Jun 1994). Car racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1957: 135.601 mph]

1918 - Alberto Ascari was born (d. 1955). Italian race car driver.

1918 - Sebastião Carvalho Leme was born. Brazilian photographer.

1919 - The British airship R-34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.

1920 - Bill Towers was born (d. 2000). English footballer.

1921 - Ernest Gold was born (d. 1999). Austrian composer.

1921 - Friedrich Peter was born (d. 2005). Austrian politician.

1921 - Git Gay was born (d. 2007). Swedish actress and singer.

1921 - Gabriel Lippmann dies (b. 1845). French physicist Nobel Prize for Phisic de Física in 1908.

1922 - Anker Jørgensen was born. Danish Prime Minister, Democratic Socialist

1922 - Ken Mosdell was born (d. 2006). Canadian ice hockey player.

1922 - Martin Dies dies (b .1870). American politician.

1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949.

1924 - Carlo Bergonzi was born. Italian tenor

1924 - Michel Constantin was born (d. 2003). French film actor.

1927 - Simone Veil was born. French politician.

1928 - Bob Crane was born (d. 1978). American actor.

1928 - Mace Neufeld was born. Film producer.

1928 - Leroy Vinnegar was born. American jazz bassist.

1928 - Tommaso Buscetta was born (d. 2000). Sicilian mafioso and pentito

1929 - Alan Civil was born (d. 1989). English French horn player.

1929 - Sofia Muratova was born. Soviet gymnast.

1930 - The first FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.

1931 - Frank Ramsey was born. American basketball player.

1932 - Hubert Reeves was born. Canadian astrophysicist.

1933 - David Malcolm Storey was born. Writer.

1933 - Patsy Byrne was born. English actress.

1934 - Wole Soyinka was born. Nigerian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev was born. Soviet cosmonaut.

1935 - Jack Kemp was born. American football player and Vice Presidential candidate.

1936 - A heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States. The all-time highest temperatures for the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana are all recorded on this date.

1936 - Albert Ayler was born (d. 1970). American musician.

1937 - José Agrippino de Paula was born in São Paulo (d. 4 Jul 2007). Brazilian writer.

1940 - Patrick Stewart was born. English actor.

1940 - Fausto Guedes Teixeira dies in Lamego (b. 11 Oct. 1871). Portuguese poet.

1941 - World War II: Montenegrins start the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers on 13 of July.

1941 - Robert Forster was born. American actor

1941 - Jacques Perrin was born. French actor and filmmaker

1942 - World War II: German U-Boats sink three more merchant ships in Gulf of St. Lawrence.

1942 - Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois. American actor (Presumed Innocent, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Sabrina, etc.)

1942 - Roger McGuinn was born. American musician.

1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ended with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk. Almost 6,000 tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany.

1944 - Ernő Rubik was born. Hungarian inventor (Rubik's cube), sculptor, and architect

1946 - Cheech Marin was born. American actor and comedian.

1946 - João Bosco was born in Ponte Preta. Brazilian singer and composer.

1946 - Alfred Stieglitz dies (b. 1864). American photographer.

1948 - The Coptic and Ethiopian Churches reach an agreement leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church, and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops.

1948 - Catherine Breillat was born. French director and screenwriter

1948 - Daphne Maxwell Reid was born. American actress.

1949 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics.

1950 - George "Pinky" Nelson was born. American astronaut.

1950 - Ma Ying-jeou was born. Former mayor of Taipei, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT).

1951 - Rob Bishop was born. American politician.

1951 - Stellan Skarsgård was born. Swedish actor.

1951 - Arnold Schoenberg dies (b. 1874). Austrian composer.

1953 - Johnny Clegg was born. South African composer and musician.

1953 - Mila Mulroney was born. Wife of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney

1954 - David Thompson was born. American basketball player.

1954 - Louise Mandrell was born. American musician.

1954 - Rick Chartraw was born. American ice hockey player.

1954 - Sezen Aksu was born. Turkish singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest winner.

1954 - Frida Kahlo dies (b. 1907). Mexican painter.

1955 - Ruth Ellis (b. 1926), convicted murder, dies hanged at London's Holloway Prison. She was the last woman to get the death sentence in Britain.

1956 - Michael Spinks was born. International Boxing Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer [1976]; champion: light heavyweight, heavyweight; total bouts: 33, won: 32, lost: 1, KOs: 21

1956 - Claude Giroux was born. Canadian midget wrestler.

1957 - Phil Margera was born. Father of Bam Margera.

1957 - Thierry Boutsen was born. Belgian racing driver.

1957 - Cameron Crowe was born. American film director and writer.

1959 - Richard Leman was born. English field hockey player.

1960 - Ian Hislop was born. English writer, editor of Private Eye.

1960 - Joy Gresham dies (b. 1915). American writer.

1961 - Tim Watson was born. Australian rules footballer.

1961 - Stelios Manolas was born. Greek footballer and manager.

1962 - Tom Kenny was born. American voice actor.

1962 - Rhonda Vincent was born. Bluegrass singer.

1963 - Neal Foulds was born. English snooker player.

1963 - Spud Webb was born. American basketball player.

1964 - André Gago was born. Portuguese actor.

1965 - J. K. Rowling was born. English writer.

1965 - Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro dies. President of Colombia (1950-1953).

1965 - Photios Kontoglou dies (b. 1895). Greek writer, painter and iconographer.

1966 - Gerald Levert was born (d. 2006). American singer.

1966 - At Old Trafford, in Manchester, Portugal beat Hungary for the first round of 1966 -Football World Championship, Group 3, Portugal:Hungary 3:1 (1:0). José Augusto 2 , Torres and Ferenc Bene were the scorers / Portugal vence a Hungria por 3-1 (com 1-0 ao intervalo) na primeira ronda da fase final do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol na Inglaterra,em jogo disputado em Manchester perante 37.000 pessoas.

1967 - Benny Benassi was born. Italian disc jockey.

1967 - Dean Barnett was born. American Conservative blogger.

1967 - Sandy Fox was born. American voice actress.

1967 - Tom Simpson dies (b. 1937). British cyclist.

1968 - Brazilian Martha Vasconcellos wins Miss Univers contest.

1968 - Robert Gant was born. American actor.

1969 - Joaquim Agostinho venceu a etapa La Grande Motte – Revel da Volta à França. Pela primeira vez um ciclista português ganhava duas etapas do Tour, abrindo caminho à maior proeza de sempre até então um oitavo lugar na classificação geral da mais importante prova velocipédica do mundo.

1969 - Oleg Serebrian was born. Moldovan politician and political scientist

1969 - Mark Greenway was born. British vocalist

1969 - Kakhi Kakhiashvili was born. Georgian-born Greek weightlifter

1970 - Leslie Groves, membro do Exército dos Estados Unidos que observou a construção do Pentágono e o principal líder militar do Projecto Manhattan.

1970 - Barry Pinches was born. English snooker player .

1971 - Death for Moroccan rebel leaders . Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco have been executed.

1972 - The United States Democratic Party nominates George McGovern for president at its convention in Miami Beach, Florida but, because of an impassioned platform dispute, McGovern does not give his acceptance speech until the early morning hours of the 14th.

1972 - Sean Waltman was born. American wrestler.

1973 - Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina.

1973 - Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in.

1973 - Monoxide Child was born. American rapper.

1973 - Ariel Silvio Zárate was born. Argentine footballer.

1973 - Willy Fritsch dies (b. 1901). German film actor.

1974 - Deborah Cox was born. Canadian R&B singer.

1974 - Jarno Trulli was born. Italian Formula 1 racer.

1974 - Patrick Blackett dies (b. 1897). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1975 - Danni Boatwright was born. American model, sports caster, and Survivor contestant

1976 - Al Santos was born. American model and actor.

1976 - Sheldon Souray was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1976 - Frederick Hawksworth dies (b. 1884). GWR Chief mechanical engineer.

1976 - Joachim Peiper dies (b. 1915). German military leader.

1977 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.

1977 - Ashley Scott was born. American actress.

1977 - Mário Augusto da Silva dies. Portuguese physicist.

1978 - Ford Motor Company President Lee Iacocca is fired by chairman Henry Ford II, ending a long dispute between the men.

1978 - Sheldon Souray was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1979 - Craig Bellamy was born. Welsh footballer.

1979 - Ludwig Merwart dies (b. 1913). Austrian painter and graphic artist.

1980 - Seretse Khama dies (b. 1921). First President of Botswana.

1982 - Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.

1982 - Joost van den Broek was born. Dutch keyboard player (After Forever)

1982 - Simon Clist was born. English footballer.

1982 - Christopher Bauman was born (d. 205). American professional wrestler.

1982 - Shin-Soo Choo was born. South Korean baseball player

1982 - Yadier Molina was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.

1983 - Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Sinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka.

1983 - Liu Xiang was born. Chinese hurdling athlete.

1983 - Kristof Beyens was born. Belgian athlete.

1983 - Gabrielle Roy dies (b. 1909). Canadian author.

1984 - Sergei Bubka of U.S.S.R. pole vaults a record 5.89 m.

1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Sydney and Moscow.

1985 - Vice President George H.W. Bush became the first Vice President to become Acting President when President Ronald Reagan underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon. Bush served as Acting President for approximately eight hours.

1985 - Guillermo Ochoa was born. Mexican footballer.

1986 - Orígenes Lessa dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 12 Jul 1903). Brazilian writer and journalist.

1988 - Final results of Mexico's recent presidential election were released, giving the victory to the candidate of the governing party, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Opponents charged that the election had been stolen.

1983 - Liu Xiang was born. Chinese hurdling athlete.

1989 - Sayumi Michishige was born. Japanese singer.

1990 - Matt Weinberg was born. American actor.

1992 - Dylan Patton was born. American actor.

1992 - Elise Matthysen was born. Belgian swimmer.

1993 - Davey Allison dies (b. 1961). American race car driver.

1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen dies (b. 1920). Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group)

1996 - A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3 passengers.

1996 - Pandro S. Berman dies (b. 1905). American film producer.

1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco dies assassinated (b. 1968). Spanish politician.

2000 - Fiji's coup leaders released their remaining 18 captives, ending a two-month-old parliamentary hostage crisis.

2001 - Beijing, China is selected to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

2002 - A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km2) when finally contained on September 5.

2002 - Yousuf Karsh dies (b. 1908). Turkish-born photographer.

2003 - Compay Segundo dies (b. 1907). Cuban folk musician ("Buena Vista Social Club")

2003 - Jeff Groteboer dies (b. 1960). American writer.

2004 - Carlos Kleiber dies (b. 1930). Austrian conductor.

2004 - Arthur Kane dies (b. 1951). Musician (New York Dolls).

2005 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches in the Return to Flight program.

2005 - Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 people.

2006 - Red Buttons dies (b. 1919). American comedian.

2007 - Opening cerimony of 2008 Pan-American Games / Cerimônia de abertura dos Jogos Pan-americanos de 2007.

2007 - Michael Reardon dies. Americian free climber.

2008 - Bronisław Geremek dies (b. 1932). Polish social historian and politician.

Mongolia - Naadam Holiday, 3rd day.

Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kálimát (Words) - First day of the seventh month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan).

Montenegro: Statehood Day.

Poema XX - Pablo Neruda (nos 105 anos do nascimento do poeta)

2009-07-12T10:40:00.004+01:00

Posso escrever os versos mais tristes esta noite.

Escrever, por exemplo: "A noite está estrelada,
e tiritam, azuis, os astros lá ao longe".

O vento da noite gira no céu e canta.

Posso escrever os versos mais tristes esta noite.
Eu amei-a e por vezes ela também me amou.

Em noites como esta tive-a em meus braços.
Beijei-a tantas vezes sob o céu infinito.

Ela quis-me e por vezes também eu a queria.
Como não ter amado os seus grandes olhos fixos.

Posso escrever os versos mais tristes esta noite.
Pensar que não a tenho. Sentir que a perdi.

Ouvir a noite imensa, mais imensa sem ela.
E o verso cai na alma como no pasto o orvalho.

Importa lá que o meu amor não pudesse guardá-la!
Está estrelada a noite e ela não está comigo.

Isso é tudo. Ao longe alguém canta. Ao longe.
A minha alma não se contenta com tê-la perdido.

Como para aproximá-la, o meu olhar procura-a.
Meu coração procura-a e ela não está comigo.

A mesma noite que faz branquejar as mesmas árvores.
Porém, nós já não somos os mesmos desses dias.

Já não a amo, é certo, mas quanto a amei!
Minha voz buscava o vento para tocar os seus ouvidos.

De outro. Será de outro. Como antes dos meus beijos.
A sua voz, o seu corpo claro. Os seus olhos infinitos.

Já não a amo, é certo, mas talvez ainda a ame.
É tão breve o amor e tão longo o olvido.

Porque em noites como esta tive-a nos meus braços,
Minha alma não se conforma com tê-la perdido.

Embora esta seja a última dor que ela me causa,
E estes sejam os últimos versos que lhe escrevo.

Versão original

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.

Escribir, por ejemplo: “La noche esta estrellada,
y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos”.

El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso.

En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos.
La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo infinito.

Ella me quiso, a veces yo también la quería.
Cómo no haber amado sus grandes ojos fijos.

Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Pensar que no la tengo. Sentir que la he perdido.

Oír la noche inmensa, más inmensa sin ella.
Y el verso cae al alma como al pasto el rocío.

Qué importa que mi amor no pudiera guardarla.
La noche está estrellada y ella no está conmigo.

Eso es todo. A lo lejos alguien canta. A lo lejos.
Mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Como para acercarla mi mirada la busca.
Mi corazón la busca, y ella no está conmigo.

La misma noche que hace blanquear los mismos árboles.
Nosotros, los de entonces, ya no somos los mismos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oído.

De otro. Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Porque en noches como esta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Aunque éste sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo.

(In Vinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada)

Pablo Neruda (nasceu no Parral, Chile, em 12 de Julho de 1904 — m. em Santiago a 23 de Setembro de 1973)

Happy birthday Krystal Forscutt

2009-07-12T01:44:00.001+01:00

On this day in History - Jul 12

2009-07-12T01:19:00.002+01:00

100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar was born (d. 44 BC). Roman soldier and politician.
0526 - St Felix IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0783 - Bertrada dies (b. 720). Wife of Pippin III.
1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori was born (d. 1441). Japanese shogun.
1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori dies (b. 1394). Japanese shogun.
1468 - Juan del Encina was born. Spanish poet and composer.
1536 - Erasmus dies in Basel, Switzerland. Dutch writer, humanist and philosopher .
1537 - Robert Aske dies executed (b. 1500). English lawyer who became the leader of rebellion in York. He led the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 and was executed by Henry VIII for treason in 1537.
1537 - Battle of Abancay in Peru / Batalha de Abancay, no Peru: as tropas de Diego Almagro vencem as de Pizarro, comandadas por Alfonso de Alvarado.
1543 - England's King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr (6th and last wife).
1573 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
1580 - Ostrog Bible, the first printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
1584 - Steven Borough dies (b. 1525). English explorer.
1596 - Tsar Michael I of Russia was born (d. 1645).
1641 - A Treaty of Offensive and Defensive Alliance is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic. The treaty had no effect in the Portuguese colonies (Brazil and Angola) that were under Dutch rule since it wasn't respected by both parties.
1648 - Johann Stadimayr dies. German composer.
1664 - Stefano della Bella dies (b. 1610). Italian printmaker.
1674 - Abigail Williams was born (d. 1765). American accuser in the Salem witch trials
1675 - Evaristo Abaco was born (d. 1742). Italian composer.
1682 - Jean Picard dies (b. 21 Jul 1620). French Jesuit, active astronomer, cartographer, hydraulics engineer, Jean Picard devised a movable-wire micrometer to measure the diameters of celestial objects such as the Sun, Moon and planets.
1690 - Battle of the Boyne (Gregorian calendar) - The armies of William III defeat those of the former James II.
1691 - Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar) - The decisive victory of William's forces in Ireland.
1693 - John Ashby dies. English admiral.
1712 - Richard Cromwell dies aged 85. English Lord Protector (1658-59).

1730 - Josiah Wedgwood was born (d. 3 Jan 1795). English inventor, potter. Josiah Wedgwood began a new branch of the pottery industry in the early 1760's. This inventor placed the manufacture of stoneware on a scientific basis, and founded the potteries of North Staffordshire.

1742 - Evaristo Abaco dies onthe day of his 66th birthday. Italian composer.

1749 - Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois dies. Governor of New France.

1759 - British cannon start firing on French at Quebec, from Lévis, Quebec.

1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz dies (b. 1697). German flutist and composer.

1776 - James Cook on a new voyage of discovery.

1780 - Nasce o estadista português Mouzinho da Silveira.

1780 - Juana Azurduy (well known as Teniente Coronela) was born in Torioca (d. 1862). Bolivian fighter for independency.

1784 - Juan Mora Fernández was born. First President of Costa Rica (1824 - 1855).

1790 - The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Assembly.

1803 - Peter Chanel was born (d. 1841). French priest and saint.

1804 - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a duel (b. 1755).

1806 - Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine. / A Confederação do Reno é criada sob a protecção de Napoleão Bonaparte, acabando de facto com o Sacro Império Romano Germânico, dominado nos últimos 300 anos pelos Habsburgos.

1807 - Thomas Hawksley was born (d. 1893). English civil engineer.

1812 - War of 1812: United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario.

1813 - Claude Bernard was born (d. 10 Feb 1878). French physiologist known chiefly for his discoveries concerning the role of the pancreas in digestion, the glycogenic function of the liver, and the regulation of the blood supply by the vasomotor nerves.

1817 - Henry David Thoreau was born (d. 6 May 1862). American philosopher, essayist and poet ( "Hermit of Walden").

1819 - Charles Kingsley was born (d. 1875). English writer.

1824 - Eugène Boudin was born (d. 08 Aug 1898). French Impressionist painter specialized in Maritime Scenes.

1828 - Nikolai Chernyshevsky was born (d. 1889). Russian philosopher.

1834 - David Douglas dies (b. 25 Jun 1799). Scottish botanist who was one of the most successful of the great 19th century plant collectors. He established about 240 species of plants in Britain.

1838 - Portugal : Revolta dos Marechais. Os marechais duques de Saldanha e da Terceira revoltam-se, tentando restabelecer a Carta Constitucional, outorgada por D. Pedro IV. Os generais marquês de Sá da Bandeira e conde do Bonfim opõem-se com as forças sob o seu comando, defendendo o regime Setembrista.

1841 - Georg Emanuel Opitz dies (b. 1775). Austrian portrait and miniature painter, watercolorist, and engraver (Dedication of a Synagogue in Alsace; Tending to the Horses ; Offizier Leibgrenadiergarde 1810).

1845 - Henrik Wergeland dies (b. 1808). Norwegian author.

1849 - Sir William Osler was born (d. 29 Dec 1919). Canadian physician who revolutionized the medical curriculum in North America, adapting the best of the systems he had observed in England and Germany. (The Principles and Practice of Medicine -1892).

1849 - Dolley Madison dies (b. 1768). 4th First Lady Of The United States.

1850 - Otto Schoetensack was born (d. 1912). German anthropologist.

1850 - Oscar W. Neebe was born in New York City (d. 1916). American defendant in the Haymarket Square trial.

1850 - Robert Stevenson dies (b. 8 Jun 1772) Scottish civil engineer (the lighthouse at Bell Rock).

1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen was born (d. 1933). President of Argentina (1916-1922 e 1928-1930).

1854 - George Eastman was born (d. 1932). American inventor - photography pioneer. He founded the Eastman-Kodak Company, which for years held a virtual monopoly in the camera and film industry.

1855 - Edward 'Ned' Hanlan was born (d. 1908). Rower.

1861 - George Washington Carver was born (d. 5 Jan 1943). African-American educator, scientist, chemist, inventor and botanist.

1862 - Medal of Honor authorized by the US Congress.

1863 - Albert Calmette was born in Nice (d. 1933). French physician.

1863 - Paul Karl Ludwig Drude was born (d. 1906). German physicist.

1864 - George Washington Carver was born (d. 1943). American botanist.

1868 - Stefan George was born (d. 1933). German poet.

1870 - Celluloid - A U.S. patent for an improved process by which celluloid is produced was awarded to John W(esley) Hyatt, Jr., (1837 - 1920) the man considered to be the "father of the U.S. Plastics industry," and his brother, Isaiah S. Hyatt of Albany, N.Y.

1870 - Louis II of Monaco was born (d. 1949).

1876 - Max Jacob was born (d. 1944). French poet.

1880 - Tod Browning was born (d. 1962). American film director.

1883 - Saul Dushman was born (d. 1954). Russian-American physical chemist, a world leader in vacuum science and technology, a GE assistant director of research and author of several standard scientific textbooks.

1884 - Amedeo Modigliani was born (d. 1920). Italian painter and sculptor (Reclining Nude)

1886 - Jean Hersholt was born (d. 1956). Danish film director and actor.

1892 - Bruno Schulz was born (d. 1942). Polish writer and painter.

1892 - Harry Piel was born (d. 1963). Actor, film director, and producer.

1892 - A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint Gervais.

1895 - Buckminster Fuller was born (d. 1983). American architect.

1895 - Kirstin Flagstad was born († 07 Dec 1962). Norwegian soprano.

1895 - Richard Buckminster Fuller was born (d. 1983). American architect, engineer, inventor, educator, author and philosopher, who developed the geodesic dome.

1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II was born (d. 1960). American lyricist.

1902 - Günther Anders was born (d. 1992). Philosopher and writer.

1904 - Deng Xiaoping was born (d. 1997). Chinese politician and leader.

1904 - Pablo Neruda was born in Parral (d. 13 Sep 1973). Chilean poet and political activist (Residence on Earth) who was the 1971 Nobel Prize recipient.

1906 - Alfred Dreyfus found innocent in France / O capitão do estado maior francês Alfred Dreyfus, condenado em 1894 por traição, é reabilitado e reintegrado no exército. Tinha sido condenado com base em provas forjadas, e mantido na prisão de 1896 a 1899, sabendo-se que não era culpado, devido ao anti-semitismo do corpo de oficiais francês.

1908 - Milton Berle was born (d. 2002). American actor and comedian.

1909 - Joe DeRita was born (d. 1993). American actor and comedian.

1909 - Curly Joe DeRita was born (d. 1993). American actor and comedian.

1909 - Fritz Leonhardt was born (d. 1999). German civil engineer.

1910 - Charles Rolls dies (b. 1877). British motorist, aviator, and automobile manufacturer who was one of the founders of the Rolls-Royce Ltd. automobile company.

1913 - Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was born. American physicist, 1995 Nobel Prize for Physics laureate jointly with Polikarp Kuschb "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum".

1914 - Fracassa a tentativa de assassinato contra Rasputín, aventureiro russo de grande influência na corte czarista.

1914 - Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut, pitches for the Red Sox.

1916 - James Sant dies (b. 23 Apr 1880). English painter (The Children Of Major H. Barrett Of Moredon, Taunton (1909); The Schoolmaster's Daughter(1870); Sentiment ; The Russell Sisters ).

1917 - The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.

1917 - Andrew Wyeth was born. American Contemporary Realist painter (Christina's World; Sheepskin ).

1918 - Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blew up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

1918 - Dragutin Lerman dies (b. 1864). Croatian explorer.

1919 - Charles Rock dies (b. 1866). Actor.

1920 - Beah Richards was born (d. 2000). American actress.

1920 - Pierre Berton was born (d. 2004). Canadian journalist and writer.

1920 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent.

1920 - Na Bolívia, uma revolução derruba o presidente liberal José Gutiérrez Guerra.

1920 - The Panama Canal was formally dedicated.

1920 - Pierre Berton was born (d. 2004). Canadian journalist and writer.

1920 - Beah Richards was born (d. 2000). American actress.

1921 - Bob Fillion was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.

1921 - Ralph Herz dies (b. 1878). Actor.

1922 - Mark Hatfield was born. U.S. Senator from Oregon.

1922 - Michael Ventris was born. English architect and cryptographer who in 1952 deciphered the Minoan Linear B script.

1923 - Harry Lonsdale dies. English actor.

1924 - Horacio Vásquez assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência da República Dominicana.

1925 - Roger B. Smith was born. American automobile executive.

1926 - Gertrude Bell dies (b. 1868). English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator.

1927 - Paixão Côrtes was born. Brazilian folklorist.

1928 - Elias James Corey was born. American organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1990 "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis".

1930 - Gordon Pinsent was born. Canadian actor, director, and writer.

1931 - Nathan Söderblom dies (b. 1866). Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

1932 - Lambeth Bridge, London, opened by King George V of the United Kingdom.

1932 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.

1932 - Otis Davis was born. American runner.

1933 - Congress passes the first federal minimum wage law in the United States: 33 cents per hour.

1933 - Donald E. Westlake was born. American author.

1934 - Van Cliburn was born. American concert pianist.

1934 - Ole Evinrude dies (b. 19 Apr 1877). Norwegian inventor and manufacturer of the outboard marine engine.

1935 - Alfred Dreyfus dies (b. 1859). French military officer.

1936 - Edla Van Steen was born in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. Brazilian writer.

1937 - Bill Cosby was born. American comedian and actor.

1937 - Lionel Jospin was born. Prime Minister of France.

1937 - Michel Louvain was born. French Canadian singer.

1937 - "Guernica" exhibited for the first time. Guernica, a Spanish town with a population of 5.000, was bombed to the ground on April 26, 1937. The event was eternalized in a painting by Pablo Picasso.

1938 - Ron Fairly was born. American baseball player.

1938 - Wieger Mensonides was born. Dutch swimmer.

1941 - Benny Parsons was born (d. 2007). American NASCAR driver.

1941 - Joseph Whipp was born. American actor.

1942 - Richard Stoltzman was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Clarinetist (Tashi).

1942 - Billy Smith was born. Australian rugby league footballer.

1943 - World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - German and Soviet forces engage in largest tank engagement of all time / Durante a Batalha de Kursk, o maior combate de carros blindados da história, deu-se perto da aldeia russa de Prohorovka. Novecentos blindados russos defrontaram outros tantos blindados alemães.

1943 - The largest tank engagement ever takes place, part of the Battle of Kursk.

1943 - Christine McVie was born. British singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac).

1943 - Paul Silas was born. American basketball player and head coach.

1943 - Walter Murch was born. American film editor.

1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. dies (b. 1887). American general, received Medal of Honor.

1945 - Inauguração, na Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, da Conferência para a Unificação Ortográfica da Língua Portuguesa. O acordo daqui resultante acabaria por ser adoptado apenas por Portugal, através do Decreto n.º 35 228, de 8 de Dezembro de 1945. Texto integral do Acordo Ortográfico de 1945.

1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni was born. Italian actor.

1945 - Boris Galerkin dies (b. 1871). Russian mathematician.

1945 - Wolfram von Richthofen dies (b. 1895). German field marshal.

1946 - Fujioka Hiroshi was born. Japanese martial artist and actor.

1947 - Gareth Edwards was born. Welsh rugby union footballer.

1947 - Richard C. McCarty was born. American professor of psychology.

1947 - Jimmie Lunceford dies (b. 1902). American saxophonist and bandleader.

1948 - Ben Burtt was born. American sound designer.

1948 - Jay Thomas was born. American actor.

1948 - Walter Egan was born. American singer.

1948 - Richard Simmons was born. American fitness trainer.

1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born (d. 1997). Sufi musician.

1948 - Dusan Kovacevic was born in Mrdjenovac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Writer.

1949 - Rick Hendrick was born. American NASCAR Team Owner, and car dealer.

1949 - Douglas Hyde dies (b. 1860). First President of Ireland.

1950 - Claudia Alencar was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress.

1950 - Eric Carr was born (d. 1991). American drummer (Kiss).

1950 - Gilles Meloche was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1950 - Elsie De Wolfe dies (b. 1865). American actress and interior decorator.

1950 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.

1950 - Eric Carr was born (d. 1991). American drummer (Kiss).

1950 - Gilles Meloche was born. French Canadian ice hockey goaltender.

1951 - Brian Grazer was born. American film producer.

1951 - Cheryl Ladd was born. American actress.

1951 - Sylvia Sass was born. Hungarian soprano.

1951 - Jamey Sheridan was born. American actor.

1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer was born (d. 1995). Bass Guitar Player.

1952 - Voja Antonić was born. Serbian inventor and writer.

1954 - Wolfgang Dremmler was born. German footballer.

1956 - Sandi Patty was born. American singer.

1956 - Mario Soto was born. Dominican professional baseball player.

1957 - U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney, who served in the post from 1956 to 1961, issued a report on a connection smoking and lung cancer.

1957 - Richard Douglas Husband was born (d. 2003). American astronaut.

1958 - Jennifer Saunders was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. British actress.

1959 - Steve Fuller was born. Anglo-American philosopher and sociologist.

1960 - Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.

1960 - Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence.

1960 - Corynne Charby was born. French model, actress and singer.

1961 - Mazo de la Roche dies (b. 1879). Canadian author.

1962 - Dan Murphy was born. American guitarist (Soul Asylum).

1962 - Dean Wilkins was born. English football manager.

1962 - Julio César Chávez was born. Mexican boxer.

1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn dies (b. 1907). American band leader.

1964 - Gaby Roslin was born. English television presenter.

1964 - Tim Gane was born. English musician (Stereolab, McCarthy).

1965 - Robin Wilson was born. American singer.

1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar was born. Indian cricketer.

1967 - Four days of race riots begin in Newark, New Jersey that will claim the lives of 27 people.

1967 - Richard Herring was born. English comedian.

1967 - John Petrucci was born. American guitar player (Dream Theater).

1967 - Bruny Surin was born. Canadian athlete.

1968 - Catherine Plewinski was born. French swimmer.

1969 - Alan Mullally was born. England cricketer.

1969 - Lisa Nicole Carson was born. American actress.

1969 - Jesse Pintado was born (d. 2006). American guitarist (Napalm Death).

1969 - Vanessa de Oliveira was born. Brazilian model.

1970 - Brian Lee Byung-Hun was born. South Korean actor.

1970 - Juba Kalamka was born. American artist/activist.

1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi was born. American figure skater.

1971 - Yvon Robert dies (b. 1914). French Canadian professional wrestler.

1972 - Brett Reed was born. American musician (Rancid).

1972 - Jake Wood was born. English actor.

1972 - Travis Best was born. American basketball player.

1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.

1973 - Magoo was born. American rapper.

1973 - Christian Vieri was born. Italian football player.

1973 - Agostinho dos Santos dies in France in a plane crash (b. 25 Apr 1932). Brazilian actor.

1973 - Lon Chaney, Jr. dies (b. 1906). American actor.

1974 - The manager of Liverpool football club, Bill Shankly, is retiring from his post.

1974 - Sharon den Adel was born. Dutch singer (Within Temptation).

1974 - Stelios Giannakopoulos was born. Greek footballer.

1974 - Gregory Helms was born. American professional wrestler.

1975 - São Tomé and Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (National Day). Manuel Pinto da Costa is the first President.

1975 - Carolina Kasting (Carolina Kasting Arruda) was born in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. Brazilian actress.

1975 - Cheyenne Jackson was born. American actor and singer.

1976 - Anna Friel was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England. British actress .

1976 - Dan Boyle was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1976 - Tracie Spencer was born. American singer.

1976 - Morre na cidade do Porto (onde tem uma rua com o seu nome) o pintor português (Simão) Dordio Gomes (n. 26 Jul 1890, em Arraiolos). Diplomado em Pintura Histórica pela Escola de Belas-Artes de Lisboa, em 1910-1911, Dórdio Gomes estudou em Paris nas Beaux-Arts. Em 1921 regressou a Paris para ali estudar durante cinco anos. Datam dessa época as pinturas que enviou, em 1923, à Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes para a Exposição dos Cinco Independentes (Casas de Malakoff e Auto-Retrato da Natureza Morta).

1977 - Brock Lesnar was born. American professional wrestler.

1977 - Neil Harris was born. English footballer.

1977 - Steve Howey was born. American actor.

1977 - Airin Older was born. American musician.

1977 - Ed Holmes dies at 66. Actor (Growing Paynes, Once Upon a Tune).

1978 - Claire Chitham was born. New Zealand actress.

1978 - Michele Rodriguez was born. American actress.

1978 - Topher Grace was born. American actor.

1979 - The island nation of Kiribati declares independence.

1979 - Marília Passos was born in Campinas, São Paulo. Brazilian actress.

1979 - Nikos Barlos was born. Greek basketball player.

1979 - Minnie Riperton dies (b. 1947). American soul singer.

1980 - O Atleta do Século - Édson Arantes do Nascimento, o Rei Pelé, foi eleito o Atleta do Século, em pesquisa mundial promovida pelo jornal francês L´Equipe.

1980 - Johanna Klum was born. German TV presenter.

1981 - Adrienne Camp was born. South African singer/songwriter.

1982 - Antonio Cassano was born. Italian footballer.

1983 - Megumi Kawamura was born. Japanese volleyballer.

1983 - Munaf Patel was born. Indian cricketer.

1983 - Chris Wood dies (b. 1944). British musician, played with Traffic.

1984 - Geraldine Ferraro designated running mate of Walter Mondale. USA Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale put forward Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate on this day in 1984, making her the first woman ever nominated for vice president by a major U.S. political party.

1984 - Gareth Gates was born. British singer.

1984 - Michael McGovern was born. Northern Irish footballer.

1985 - Luiz Ejlli was born. Albanian singer.

1985 - Natasha Poly was born. Russian supermodel.

1986 - Orange Parade sparks riots : Dozens are injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland (Font: BBC).

1986 - JP Pietersen was born. South African rugby union footballer.

1986 - Krystal Forscutt was born. Australian model/reality TV contestant.

1988 - Melissa O'Neil was born. Canadian singer.

1988 - Josh Logan dies. Film director and writer.

1990 - Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership.

1990 - João Saldanha dies (b. 1917). Brazilian journalist and football manager.

1991 - Erik Per Sullivan was born. American actor.

1991 - Aprovação da nova Constituição da Bulgária.

1991 - A Japanese professor who had translated Salman Rushdie’s "The Satanic Verses" was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was attacked in Milan.

1993 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the shore of Hokkaido, Japan launches a devastating tsunami, killing 202 on the small island of Okushiri

1993 - Dan Eldon dies (b. 1970). British photojournalist.

1996 - John Chancellor dies (b. 1927). American television journalist.

1996 - Jonathan Melvoin dies (b. 1961). American musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins).

1997 - In Spain, kidnapped Basque politician Miguel Angel Blanco was found mortally dead shortly after a deadline set by his militant Basque captors.

1998 - KDE 1.0 released.

1998 - 1.7 billion people watched soccer's 16th FIFA World Cup final between France and Brazil at Stade of France. France won 3-0. / A França ganha o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.

1998 - Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) wins Silverstone Grand Prix.

1998 - Northern Ireland : Children die in Drumcree protests - Three young brothers are murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree continues.

1998 - Serge Lemoyne dies (b. 1941). French Canadian artist.

1998 - Jimmy Driftwood dies (b. 1907). American folk songwriter and musician.

1999 - Bill Owen dies (b. 1914). British actor.

2000 - In Spain a car bomb exploded at the entrance of the Corte Ingles department store in Madrid. 10 people were injured.

2000 - Charles Merritt dies (b. 1908). Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II.

2001 - Paul Eugène Magloire dies. President of Haiti (1950-1956).

2002 - Gay rights: The Superior Court of Ontario orders Ontario to recognize same-sex marriages.

2003 - Benny Carter dies (b. 1907). American musician.

2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes is officially appointed Prime Minister of Portugal.

2004 - Betty Oliphant dies (b. 1918). Co-founder of National Ballet of Canada.

2005 - Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.

2005 - Lord John King, Baron King of Wartnaby dies (b. 1917). Chief executive of British Airways since its privitisation.

2006 - Hezbollah initiates Operation True Promise.

2007 - Stan Zemanek dies (b. 1947). Australian radio personality.

2007 - Mr. Butch dies (b. 1951). Iconic Boston street figure.

2007 - Robert Burås dies (b. 1975). Norwegian guitar player.

2008 – Bobby Murcer dies (b. 1946). American baseball player.

2008 - Tony Snow dies (b. 1955). Former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush.

Kiribati: Independence Day.

São Tomé and Príncipe - Independence Day.

Mongolia: Second day of Naadam

Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador: The Twelfth (also known as Orangemen's Day, commemorates the Battle of the Boyne)

A Semana (IX)

2009-07-11T22:38:00.009+01:00

Seis meses de trabalho da Comissão de Inquérito Parlamentar sobre o Caso BPN terminou improficuamente com a relatora deputada do Partido Socialista Sónia Sanfona (que não é sereia) a atirar-se para o chão e até a esmurrar os joelhos (em linguagem futebolística, é claro) para defender a posição da supervisão do Banco de Portugal e do seu colega de partido, Governador, Vítor Constâncio. As contradições são patentes, pois se "Ficou claro que ao longo destes anos o Banco de Portugal (BdP) exerceu a supervisão de forma estreita e contínua. No período 2001-2008 foram feitas diversas inspecções, pelo BdP ao BPN, não havendo nenhum outro banco do sistema sujeito a mais inspecções directas" e nada das situações graves que todos agora conhecem foi detectada... tirem-se as conclusões! Ainda assim, «Face ao incumprimento reiterado do BPN às exigências colocadas, o BdP podia ter sido mais incisivo e mais diligente" conclui o relatório que salva a pele do Governador e até serve de estímulo para este atacar a Comissão.

Finalmente a Assembleia da República resolveu o problema do Provedor da Justiça e com 198 votos (dos 217 que participaram na eleição) Alfredo José de Sousa foi designado sucessor de Nascimento Rodrigues. É caso para dizer que se a solução afinal era tão fácil porque motivos demorou-se tanto tempo a descobri-la.

Ainda no plano nacional mais um escândalo assume, infelizmente, realce. Não sendo assunto novo a investigação de alegadas fraudes na gestão dos Correios levou à constituição de mais de meia centena de arguidos...

Internacionalmente é a China que assume o destaque das notícias. No sudoeste deste país tremores de terra nos dias 9 e 10 de Julho destruiram mais de 18000 habitações. Por outro lado em Xinjiang os conflitos étnicos recrudescem. A situação também não é nova. Já desde 2005 que a Human Right Watch fala na repressão religiosa dos Uighurs em Xinjiang.

Entretanto, na 4ª. feira na Cimeira dos G8 chegou-se um acordo sobre a determinação dos países indiustrializados em limitar o aquecimento global a dois graus de temperatura até ao ano 2050. Mas Ban Ki-Moon Secretário Geral da ONU citica líderes do G8 por tão insuficiente empenho.

No desporto a loucura Cristiano Ronaldo em Madrid dominou numa semana em que os clubes nacionais de futebol começaram os trabalhos. O Porto mais uma vez é um recordista das vendas (para onde é que vai parar o dinheiro? Estou tentado em inscrever-me como sócio do FCP só para poder oficialmente fazer esta pergunta...) e sem Lucho e Lisandro vão aparecer Beluschi (não, não é a Mónica - antes fosse!) e Falcão, que estava alinhado para a Luz mas por causa do congestionamento de aves em Lisboa como perigo de embaterem nos aviões da Tap, foi desviado para o FCP. No hóquei em patins, que já foi a segunda modalidade mais popular em Portugal, mais uma vez ficámos fora da final do Mundial, e terminámos em terceiro ao bater o Brasil por 8-3, enquanto os espanhóis anfitriões sagraram-se campeões ao bater a Argentina por 3-1.

Hoje começaram em Portugal os Jogos da Lusofonia e com uma equipa de quinta categoria no futebol já coleccionámos uma (escandalosa) derrota frente a Cabo Verde! É com esta selecção que queremos prestigiar estes Jogos?

Para a semana há mais e entretanto bom trabalho (que bem precisamos...) ou boas férias e cuidado com a gripe A.

O Idílio Suave - Guilherme de Almeida (na data em que se completa 40 anos sobre a sua morte)

2009-07-11T06:57:00.004+01:00

Chegas. Vens tão ligeira
e és tão ansiosamente esperada, que enfim,
nem te sentindo o passo e já te tendo inteira,
completamente em mim,
quando, toda Watteau, silenciosa, apareces,
é como se não viesses.

Vens... E ficas tão perto
de mim, e tão diluída em minha solidão,
que eu me sinto sozinho e acho imenso e deserto
e vazio o salão...
E, sem te ouvir nem ver, arde-me em febre a face,
como se eu te esperasse!

Partes. Mas é tão pouco
o que de ti se vai que ainda te vejo o arfar
do seio, e o teu cabelo, e o teu vestido louco,
e a carícia do olhar,
e a tua boca em flor a dizer-me doidices,
como se não partisses!

in Poesia Brasileira do Século XX Dos Modernistas à Actualidade; Edições Antígona

Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida (n. em Campinas, São Paulo a 24 de Jul de 1890; m. em São Paulo a 11 de Jul 1969)

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On this day in History - Jul 11

2009-07-11T01:06:00.008+01:00

0472 - Anthemius dies. Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder).
0911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
0937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy dies.
0969 - Olga of Kiev dies.
1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem dies (b. 1136).
1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach dies. Duke of Bavaria.
1216 - Hendrik of Constantinople dies. Emperor of Constantinople (1206-16).
1274 - Robert the Bruce was born in Turnberry, Scotland (d. 1329). King of Scotland (1306-1329).
1276 - Início do pontificado do Papa Adriano V.
1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) - the Flemish cities beat the king of France.
1302 - Robert II of Artois dies (b. 1250). French soldier.
1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1366 - Anne of Bohemia was born (d. 1394). Consort of Richard II of England.
1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
1533 - King Henry VIII of England who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg dies (b. 1484).
1581 - Peder Skram dies. Danish senator and naval hero.
1561 - Luis de Góngora was born (d. 1627). Spanish poet.
1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
1603 - Kenelm Digby was born (d. 1665). English privateer.
1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni was born (d. 1701). Japanese warlord.
1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia was born (d. 1713).
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria was born (d. 1726).
1688 - King Narai of Siam dies (b. 1629).
1679 - William Chamberlayne dies (b. 1619). English poet.
1709 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius was born (d. 1785). Swedish chemist.
1723 - Jean-François Marmontel was born (d. 1799). French historian and writer.
1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
1740 - Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
1751 - Caroline Matilda of Wales was born(d. 1775). Queen consort of Denmark and Norway.

1754 - Thomas Bowdler was born (d. 1825). English physican and censor.

1766 - Elizabeth Farnese dies (b. 1692). Wife of Philip V of Spain.

1767 - John Quincy Adams was born (d. 1848). President of the United States.

1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet dies. Irish-born New York pioneer.

1775 - Simon Boerum dies (b. 1724). American Continental Congressman.

1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage.

1789 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille / O rei de França, Luís XVI, demite o seu ministro das finanças, Necker. O afastamento de Necker vai fomentar os distúrbios em Paris.

1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu dies (b. 1740). Wallachian writer.

1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

1804 - Alexander Hamilton dies in an duel (b. 1757). United States Secretary of the Treasury.

1806 - James Smith dies. American signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.

1822 - As Cortes Constituintes votam a Constituição. Foi a primeira Constituição portuguesa.

1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor dies (b. 1744). American Revolutionary War soldier.

1826 - Alexander Afanasyev was born (d. 1871). Russian folklorist.

1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis was born (d. 1896). Greek politician.

1832 - Carlos Holguín Mallarino was born. President of Colombia (1888-1892).

1836 - Carlos Gomes (António Carlos Gomes) was born in Campinas, S. Paulo. Brazilian composer.

1839 - Anatacio Bustamante assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do México.

1844 - King Peter of Serbia was born (d. 1921).

1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky dies (b. 1800). Russian poet.

1846 - Leon Bloy was born (d. 1917). French writer.

1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens.

1850 - Annie Armstrong was born. American missionary leader.

1851 - Millie and Christine McCoy were born (d. 1912). Conjoined twins.

1857 - Alfred Binet was born (d. 1911). French psychologist.

1859 - A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.

1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington DC.

1864 - Petar Danov was born (d. 1944). Bulgarian spiritual teacher.

1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was born (d. 1953).

1882 - The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.

1886 - Boris Grigoriev was borrn (d. 1939). Russian painter.

1889 - Tijuana, Mexico was founded.

1892 - Thomas Mitchell was born in Elisabeth, New Jersey (17 Dez 1962). American actor.
1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

1895 - The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.

1895 - Dolly Wilde was born (d. 1941). English socialite.

1897 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.

1897 - Eugene "Bull" Connor was born (d. 1973). American law enforcement official who was Sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama.

1899 - E. B. White was born (d. 1985). American writer.

1902 - Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was born in São Paulo. Brazilian historian, journalist and writer.

1903 - O. E. Hasse was born (d. 1978). Actor.

1903 - Sidney Franklin was born (d. 1976). American bullfighter.

1903 - Rudolf Abel was born (d. 1971). Soviet intelligence officer.

1906 - Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.

1906 - Herbert Wehner was born (d. 1990). German politician.

1909 - Simon Newcomb dies (b. 1835). American astronomer and mathematician.

1910 - Irene Hervey was born (d. 1998). American actress.

1913 - Cordwainer Smith was born (d. 1966). American writer.

1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in major league baseball.

1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov was born (d. 2002). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics laureate in 1964 (with Nikolay G. Basov, USSR and Charles H. Townes, USA), "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle".

1916 - Bertrand Russell is suspended from Cambridge University for his protests against the First World War and had previously been fined for pacifist activities.

1916 - Gough Whitlam was born. Twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia.

1916 - Reg Varney was born. English actor.

1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.

1920 - Yul Brynner was born. Russian-born actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).

1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France dies (b. 1826).

1921 - Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.

1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.

1921 - Outer Mongolia becomes independent (from China).

1921 - Ilse Werner was born. Dutch-born actress.

1922 - Hollywood Bowl opens.

1922 - Gene Evans was born (d. 1998). American actor.

1923 - José de Abreu Albano dies in Montauban (France) (b. 12 Apr 1882). Brazilian poet and diplomat.

1924 - César Lattes was born (d. 2005). Brazilian physicist.

1924 - Charlie Tully was born (d. 1971). Northern Irish footballer.

1924 - Brett Somers was born. Canadian actor.

1925 - Nicolai Gedda was born. Swedish tenor.

1926 - Frederick Buechner was born. American author.

1927 - Theodore H. Maiman was born. Physicist.

1929 - Hermann Prey was born (d. 1998). German baritone.

1929 - David Kelly (actor) was born. Irish actor.

1929 - William Mosforth dies (b. 1857). English footballer,

1929 - Luís Norton Barreto Murat dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 May 1861). Brazilian poet, revolutionary and abolicionist.

1930 - Harold Bloom was born. American literary critic.

1931 - Tab Hunter was born. American actor.

1931 - Tullio Regge was born. Italian physicist.

1931 - Thurston Harris was born (d. 1990). American singer.

1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.

1933 - Bob McGrath was born. American actor.

1934 - Giorgio Armani was born. Italian fashion designer.

1935 - Oliver Napier was born. Northern Irish politician.

1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opened to traffic.

1936 - James Murray dies (b. 1901). American actor.

1937 - Pai Hsien-yung was born. Taiwanese writer.

1937 - George Gershwin dies (b. 26 Sep 1898). American composer.

1938 - Afonso Celso dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 31 Mar 1860). Brazilian poet and politician.

1939 - Seth Gaaikema was born. Dutch comedian.

1940 - World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.

1940 - Yvon Charbonneau was born. French Canadian union leader and politician.

1941 - Clive Puzey was born. Zimbabwean racing driver.

1943 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.

1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.

1943 - Rolf Stommelen was born (d. 1983). German race car driver.

1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as president of the United States.

1944 - Myra Gale Brown was born. Former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis.

1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath was born. Catholic bishop.

1946 - Cuthbert Johnson was born. Benedictine abbot.

1947 - The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.

1947 - Bo Lundgren was born. Swedish politician.

1949 - Liona Boyd was born. English-born musician.

1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.

1950 - Bruce McGill was born. American actor.

1950 - Pervez Hoodbhoy was born. Pakistani nuclear physicist.

1950 - J.R. Morgan was born. British classical scholar.

1950 - Bonnie Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).

1952 - Bill Barber was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1952 - John Kettley was born. English weather forecaster.

n Spinks was born. American former boxer.

1953 - Mindy Sterling was born. American actress.

1953 - Peter Brown was born. American singer, songwriter and producer.

1953 - Margarida Martins was born. Portuguese founder of the solidarity institution «Abraço».

1954 - Butch Reed was born. American professional wrestler.

1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.

1956 - Sela Ward was born. American actress.

1957 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.

1957 - Michael Rose was born. Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru).

1957 - Peter Murphy was born. British musician - (Bauhaus).

1958 - Andrew Gilbert-Scott was born. British racing driver.

1958 - Hugo Sánchez was born. Mexican footballer.

1958 - Lúcia Veríssimo was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.

1959 - Suzanne Vega was born in Santa Monica, California. American singer.

1959 - Richie Sambora was born. Guitarist (Bon Jovi).

1959 - Charlie Parker dies (b. 1882). English cricketer.

1960 - Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence.

1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

1962 - Soviet cosmonaut Nikolayev is four days in space, a record.

1962 - Gaetan Duchesne was born (d. 2007). French Canadian ice hockey player.

1962 - Pauline McLynn was born. Irish actress.

1963 - Al MacInnis was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1963 - Lisa Rinna was born. American actress.

1963 - Sandra Schmirler was born (d. 2000). Canadian curler.

1964 - Craig Charles was born. English actor.

1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family.

1965 - Ernesto Hoost was born. Dutch kickboxer.

1965 - Tony Cottee was born. English footballer.

1965 - Scott Shriner was born. American musician (Weezer).

1966 - Fifa World Cup begins in England.

1966 - Greg Grunberg was born. American actor.

1966 - Mick Molloy was born. Australian comedian.

1966 - Delmore Schwartz dies (b. 1913). American poet.

1967 - Jeff Corwin was born. American naturalist and TV personality.

1967 - Guy Favreau dies (b. 1917). French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.

1968 - Michael Geist was born. Canadian academic.

1968 - Esera Tuaolo was born. American football player.

1968 - “Once Upon a Time in the West” premiered at German cinemas. It immediately became an international blockbuster due to its star cast (Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Henry Fonda), as well as its music.

1969 - David Tao was born. Taiwanese singer-songwriter.

1969 - Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida dies in São Paulo (b. 124 Jul 1890). Brazilian writer and poet.

1970 - Justin Chambers was born. American actor.

1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalized.

1971 - Brett Hauer was born. American ice hockey player.

1971 - Leisha Hailey was born. American actress and musician Uh Huh Her (band).

1971 - John W. Campbell dies (b. 1910). American writer and editor.

1971 - Pedro Rodríguez dies (b. 1940). Mexican racing driver.

1972 - Michael Rosenbaum was born in Oceanside, New York. American actor.

1972 - Steven Richards was born. Australian racing driver.

1972 - Jussi 69 was born. Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes).

1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in he death of 122 people.

1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris was born. Greek athlete.

1973 - Andrew Bird was born. American musician.

1974 - André Ooijer was born. Dutch footballer.

1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson was born. Icelandic footballer.

1974 -Pär Lagerkvist dies (b. 1891). Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1975 - Chinese archaeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.

1975 - Lil' Kim was born. American rapper.

1975 - Willie Anderson was born. American football player.

1975 - Rubén Baraja was born. Spanish footballer.

1975 - Riona Hazuki was born. Japanese actress.

1975 - Samer el Nahhal was born. Finnish musician (Lordi).

1976 - Eduardo Najera was born. Mexican-born basketball player.

1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom.

1977 - Brandon Short was born. American football player.

1977 - Javier López was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.

1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: a truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.

1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth.

1979 - Claude Wagner dies (b. 1925). French Canadian judge and politician.

1979 - Lucília Fraga dies (b. 1895). Brazilian painter.

1980 – Im Su-jeong was born. South Korean model and actress.

1980 - T.J. Wilson was born. Canadian professional wrestler.

1981 - Andre Johnson was born. American football player.

1981 - Carla Campbell was born. Jamaican model.

1981 - Aaron Proctor was born. American professional wrestling promoter & politician.

1981 - Diana Chaves was born. Portuguese actress.

1982 - Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Italy wins 1982 edition of the Football World Cup.

1982 - Chris Cooley was born. American football player.

1982 - Lil' Zane was born. American rapper.

1983 - A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.

1983 - Kelly Poon was born. Singaporean singer.

1983 - Marie Eleonor Serneholt was born. Swedish musician (A*Teens).

1983 - Peter Cincotti was born. American singer songwriter.

1983 - Evan Roberts was born. American radio broadcaster.

1983 - Ross Macdonald dies (b. 1915). American-Canadian writer.

1984 - Yorman Bazardo was born. Venezuelan baseball player.

1984 - Rachael Taylor was born. Australian actress.

1984 - Tanith Belbin was born. Canadian ice dancer.

1984 - Hitomi Hyuga was born. Japanese actress.

1985 - Aki Maeda was born. Japanese actress.

1986 - Yoann Gourcuff was born. French footballer.

1986 - Ryan Jarvis was born. English footballer.

1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.

1987 - Shigeaki Kato was born. Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band)).

1987 - Avi Ran dies (b. 1963). Israeli footballer.

1989 - David Henrie was born. American actor.

1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier dies (b. 1907). English stage and screen actor.

1990 - Oka Crisis in Quebec.

1990 - Caroline Wozniacki was born. Danish tennis player.

1990 - Connor Paolo was born. American actor.

1991 - A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.

1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico.

1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi dies (b. 1947). English-Japanese translator of the Satanic Verses.

1994 - Gary Kildall dies (b. 1942). American computer programmer.

1994 - Savannah dies (b. 1970). American actress.

1994 - Gary Kildall dies. American computer programmer.

1994 - Shannon Wilsey dies (b. 1970). Best known as Savannah. American porno actress.

1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.

1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.

1995 - Bosnian Serbs capture the Muslim city of Srebrenica. Many inhabitants are murdered, beginning the so-called Srebrenica Massacre.

1997 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba 44.

1998 - Some 600,000 people gathered in Berlin for the annual Love Parade, billed as the largest celebration of techno music.

1999 - Helen Forrest dies (b. 1917). American jazz singer.

2000 - Pedro Mir dies (b. 1921). Dominican poet.

2000 - Robert Runcie dies (b. 1921). Archbishop of Canterbury.

2001 - Herman Brood dies ( suicide) (b. 1946). Dutch singer and artist.
2001 - Cândida Branca Flor dies (b. 12 Nov. 1949). Portuguese singer.

2002 - Former Argentina junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri was arrested for the torture and execution of leftists during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).

2002 - In Venezuela an estimated 600,000 people marched demanding that Pres. Chavez abandon the presidency.

2003 - Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.

2003 - Augusto Abelaira dies (b. 18 Mar 1926). Portuguese writer.

2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the agency.

2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes é indicado para primeiro-ministro de Portugal.

2004 - The 15th International AIDS conference began in Bangkok, Thailand.

2004 - Laurance Rockefeller dies (b. 1910). American conservationist and philanthropist.

2005 - Gretchen Franklin dies (b. 1911). English actress.

2005 - Frances Langford dies (b. 1914). American actress and singer.

2005 - Jesús Iglesias dies (b. 1922). Argentine racing driver.

2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

2006 - Microsoft's official support of Windows 98 and Windows Me ends.

2006 - Barnard Hughes dies (b. 1915). American actor.

2006 - John Spencer dies (b. 1935). English snooker player.

2007 - Alfonso López Michelsen dies (b. 1913). 32nd Colombian President.

2007 - Lady Bird Johnson dies (b. 1912). First Lady of the United States.

2007 - Ed Mirvish dies (b. 1916). Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

2007 - Glenda Adams dies (b. 1939). Australian author.

2008 - Michael DeBakey dies (b. 1908). American surgeon and inventor.

United Nations - World Population Day.

Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).

Mongolia - First day of Naadam.

Belgium (partially) - Flemish Day (1302).

China - China National Maritime Day.

Benin - Independence Day (1960).

Burkina Faso - Independence Day (1960).

Niger - Independence Day (1960).

Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint).

Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order).

Portugal: Municipal holiday in Santo Tirso and Arcos de Valdevez.

Responde Tu - Nicolás Guillén

2009-07-10T01:54:00.003+01:00

Tú, que partiste de Cuba,
responde tú,
¿dónde hallarás verde y verde,
azul y azul,
palma y palma bajo el cielo?
Responde tú.

Tú, que tu lengua olvidaste,
responde tú,
y en lengua extraña masticas
el güel y el yu,
¿cómo vivir puedes mudo?
Responde tú.

Tú, que dejaste la tierra,
responde tú,
dónde tu padre reposa
bajo una cruz,
¿dónde dejarás tus huesos?
Responde tú.

Ah desdichado, responde,
responde tú,
¿dónde hallarás verde y verde,
azul y azul,
palma y palma bajo el cielo?
Responde tú.

Ouçamos agora este poema na voz de Ana Belen

Tú, que partiste de Cuba,
responde tu,
- onde acharás verde e verde,
azul e azul,
palmeiras e palmeiras sob o céu ?
Responde tu.

Tu, que tua língua esqueceste,
responde tu,
e em língua estrangeira mastigas o
well e o you,
como podes viver mudo?
Responde tu.

Tu, que deixaste a terra,
responde tu,
onde teu pai repousa
sob uma cruz,
- onde deixarás teus ossos ?
Responde tu.

Ah infeliz, responde,
responde tu,
-onde acharás verde e verde,
azul e azul,
palmeiras e palmeiras sob o céu ?
Responde tu.

Trad. de José Bento

in Rosa do Mundo, 2001 Poemas para o Futuro

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (nasceu em Camaguey, Cuba a 10 de Julho de 1902 ; m. em Havana a 16 Jul 1989)

Happy birthday - Jessica Simpson

2009-07-10T01:11:00.000+01:00

On this day in History - Jul 10

2009-07-10T01:03:00.004+01:00

48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
0138 - Hadrian dies (b. 0076). Roman Emperor.
0649 - Li Shimin dies (b. 0599). Emperor of China.
0988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1086 - Kanute IV (Saint) dies (b. c. 1043). King of Denmark (1080-1086).
1099 - Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) dies (b. 1043). Spanish heroe.
1103 - King Eric I of Denmark dies.
1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1217 - 200 navios de cruzados alemães e húngaros entram nos rios Douro e Tejo (Portugal).
1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary dies (b. 1262).
1372 - Treaty of Tagilde - John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster, England) makes a claim to the throne of Castile being married to Dona Constanza (daughter of Dom Pedro I of Castile and León), and makes an accord with Dom Fernando I of Portugal against Spain and France / Assinatura do Tratado de Tagilde entre o rei D. Fernando de Portugal e John Gaunt, duque de Lencastre, filho do rei Eduardo III.
1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan was born (d. 1471).
1452 - King James III of Scotland was born (d. 1488).
1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1460 – Guerra das Rosas – Batalha de Northampton: O Conde de Warwick vence novamente e Henrique VI é feito prisioneiro.
1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham dies (b. 1402). English military leader.
1480 - King René I of Naples dies (b. 1410).
1509 - John Calvin was born (d. 1564). French religious reformer.
1517 - Odet de Coligny was born (d.1571). French cardinal and Protestant.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1559 - Henry II of France dies (b. 1519).
1584 - William I of Orange dies assassinated (b. 1533) in Delft by Balthasar Gérard. Dutch leader.
1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria dies (b. 1540). Regent of Inner Austria.
1592 - Pierre d'Hozier was born (d. 1660). French historian.
1594 - Paolo Bellasio dies (b. 1554). Italian composer.
1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey was born (d. 1686). English royalist statesman.
1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy dies (b. 1571). French soldier.
1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville was born (d. 1703). French adventurer.
1638 - David Teniers III was born (d. 1685). Flemish painter.
1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
1653 - Gabriel Naudé dies (b. 1600). French librarian and scholar.
1666 - John Ernest Grabe was born (d. 1711). German-born Anglican theologian.
1680 - Louis Moréri dies (b. 1643). French encyclopedist.
1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg was born (d. 1719). German Lutheran missionary to India.
1682 - Roger Cotes was born (d. 1719). English mathematician.
1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray dies (b. 1610). French historian.
1686 - John Fell dies (b. 1625). English churchman.

1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain was born (d. 1783).

1723 - William Blackstone was born (d. 1780). English jurist.

1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was born (d. 1807).

1776 - Richard Peters dies (b. 1704). English-born clergyman.

1778 - American Revolution : Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.

1792 - George Mifflin Dallas was born (d. 1864). U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States.

1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.

1802 – Robert Chambers was born (d. 1871). Scottish author and naturalist.

1804 - Emma Smith was born (d. 1879). Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

1806 - George Stubbs dies (b. 1724). British painter.

1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt was born (d. 1889). German geologist.

1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.

1830 - Camille Pissarro was born (d. 1903). French painter.

1832 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

1832 - Alvan Graham Clark was born (d. 1897). American telescope maker and astronomer.

1834 - James McNeil Whistler was born (d. 1903). American painter.

1835 - Henryk Wieniawski was born (d. 1880). Polish composer.

1839 - Adolphus Busch was born (d. 1913). German-born brewer.

1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.

1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre dies (b. 1787). French inventor and photographer.

1856 - Nikola Tesla was born (d. 1943). Croatian physicist.

1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden was born (d. 1929). Chancellor of Germany.

1871 - Marcel Proust was born (d. 18 Nov 1922). French writer.

1874 - Sergey Konenkov was born (d. 1971). Russian painter.

1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune was born (d. 1955). American educator.

1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai dies (b. 1812). German architect.

1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz was born (d. 1948). German general.

1884 - Paul Morphy dies (b. 1837). American chess player.

1888 - Giorgio Chirico was born (d. 1978). Italian painter.

1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1895 - Carl Orff was born (d. 1982). German composer.

1896 - Thérèse Casgrain was born (d. 1981). French Canadian politician and senator.

1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond" was born (d. 1931). American bootlegger.

1897 - Karl Plagge was born (d. 1957). German officer.

1899 - Heiri Suter was born (d. 1978). Swiss cyclist.

1899 - John Gilbert was born (d. 1936). American actor.

1900 – Mitchell Parish was born (d. 1993). American lyricist.

1900 - Sampson Sievers was born (d. 1979). Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker.

1902 - Kurt Alder was born (d. 1958). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1902 - Nicolás Guillén was born (d. 16 Jul 1989). Cuban poet.

1903 - John Wyndham was born (d. 1969). British author.

1903 - Werner Best was born (d. 1989). German jurist and nazi leader.

1904 - Porfirio Díaz is reelected President of Mexico for more six years.

1905 - Thomas Gomez was born (d. 1971). American actor.

1905 - Wolfram Sievers was born (d. 1948). Nazi physician.

1908 - Phoebe Knapp dies (b. 1839). American hymn writer.

1909 – Donald Sinclair was born (d. 1981). British hotel manager, inspiration for Fawlty Towers.

1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).

1913 - Salvador Espriu was born (d. 1985). Spanish poet.

1914 - Joseph 'Joe' Schuster was born. Canadian-born cartoonist.

1915 - Saul Bellow was born. (d. 2005). Canadian writer.

1915 - Milt Buckner was born (d. 1977). American jazz pianist.

1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard" was born (d. 2007). American television host.

1917 – Hugh Alexander was born (d. 2000). American baseball player.

1920 - David Brinkley was born (d. 2003). American television reporter.

1920 - Owen Chamberlain was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1920 - Jackie Fisher dies (b. 1841). British admiral.

1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born. American activist.

1921 - Harvey Ball was born (d. 2001). American inventor.

1921 - Jake LaMotta was born. American boxer.

1923 – Earl Hamner Jr. was born. American author and television producer.

1923 - G. A. Kulkarni was born (d. 1987). Indian (Marathi) writer.

1923 – Jean Kerr was born. American author.

1923 - John Bradley was born (d. 1994). United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima).

1924 - Bobo Brazil was born (d. 1998). American professional wrestler.

1924 – Johnny Bach was born. American basketball coach.

1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.

1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad was born. Fourth Malaysian Prime Minister.

1925 - Vasco Granja was born (d. 2009). Portuguese TV presenter.

1926 - Fred Gwynne was born (d. 1993). American actor.

1927 - Grigory Barenblatt was born. Russian mathematician.

1927 - Suzanne Cloutier was born (d. 2003). Canadian film actor.

1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso was born (d. 2003). Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer.

1928 - Bernard Buffet was born (d. 1999). French painter.

1928 - Moshe Greenberg was born. American-Israeli Bible scholar.

1929 - Winnie Ewing was born. Scottish politician.

1930 – Bruce Boa was born (d. 2004). Canadian actor.

1931 – Alice Munro was born. Canadian writer.

1931 - Nick Adams was born (d. 1968). American actor.

1932 - Carlo Mario Abate was born. Italian racing driver.

1934 - Jerry Nelson was born. American puppeteer.

1935 - Tura Satana was born. American actress.

1938 – Lee Morgan was born. American hard-bop trumpeter.

1938 - Paul Andreu was born. French architect.

1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.

1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı was born (d. 1999). Turkish politician, journalist, and educator

1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.

1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).

1940 - O marechal Petain assina uma nova constituição, o que equivale ao nascimento da III República francesa.

1940 - Helen Donath was born. American soprano.

1940 - Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai was born. British economist.

1940 – Tom Farmer was born. Scottish entrepreneur.

1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.

1941 - Alain_Krivine was born. French politician, leader of the Trotskyist movement in France.

1941 - David G. Hartwell was born. American editor and anthologist.

1941 - Ian Whitcomb was born. English songwriter, entertainer and producer.

1941 - Jelly Roll Morton dies (b. 1890). American jazz musician.

1942 - The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were established.

1942 - Pyotr Klimuk was born. Belarussian cosmonaut.

1942 - Ronnie James Dio was born. American musician.

1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.

1943 - A Sicília é invadida pelos exércitos aliados.

1943 - Arthur Ashe was born (d. 1993). American tennis player.

1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré was born. French film director.

1945 - John Motson was born. British sports (football) commentator.

1945 - Peter Michalica was born. Slovak violinist.

1945 – Ron Glass was born. American actor.

1945 - Virginia Wade was born. British tennis player.

1946 - Sue Lyon was born. American actress.

1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.

1947 - Arlo Guthrie was born. American musician.

1949 - No Festival Cinematográfico de Knokke (Bélgica), o filme Ladrões de Bicicleta, de Vittorio de Sicca é premiado. O filme é um dos expoentes do neorealismo italiano.

1949 - Sunil Gavaskar was born. Indian cricketer.

1949 - John Whitehead was born. American singer, songwriter, and record producer

1949 – Sunil Gavaskar was born. Indian cricketer.

1950 - Greg Kihn was born. American pop musician and radio personality.

1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos was born. Greek politician.

1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.

1951 - Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.

1951 - Cheryl Wheeler was born. American singer and songwriter.

1951 - Phyllis Smith was born. American actress (The Office).

1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva was born. Russian gymnast.

1952 - Kim Mitchell was born. Canadian guitarist/singer.

1952 - Peter van Heemst was born. Dutch politician.

1953 - Rik Emmett was born. Canadian musician (Triumph).

1953 - Zoogz Rift was born. American singer/songwriter and wrestling booker.

1954 - Andre Dawson was born. American baseball player.

1954 - Neil Tennant was born. British musician.

1954 - Calogero Vizzini dies (b. 1877). Sicilian mafioso.

1956 - Joe Giard dies (b. 1898). American baseball player.

1956 - Tom McClintock was born. American politician.

1957 - Cindy Sheehan was born. American anti-war/political activist.

1958 – Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, Alaska, at 524m high.

1958 - Alaska was born. Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.

1958 - Béla Fleck was born. American musician.

1958 – Fiona Shaw was born. Irish actress.

1959 - Ellen Kuras was born. American cinematographer.

1959 - Janet Julian was born. American actress.

1961 - Jacky Cheung was born. Hong Kong singer and actor.

1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1963 - Teddy Wakelam dies (b. 1893). English sports broadcaster and rugby union player.

1964 - Urban Meyer was born. American football coach.

1964 - Wilfried Peeters was born. Belgian cyclist.

1965 - Alec Mapa was born. Filipino-American actor and comedian.

1965 - Ken Mellons was born. American singer.

1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark was born.

1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, lead by Martin Luther King, held a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.

1966 - Johnny Grunge was born (d. 2006). American wrestler.

1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.

1967 - Tom Meents was born. American Professional monster truck driver.

1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.

1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka was born. Algerian athlete.

1968 – Jonathan Gilbert was born. American actor.

1969 - Alexandra Hedison was born. American actress.

1969 - Gale Harold was born. American actor.

1969 – Jamie Glover was born. British actor.

1970 – Adam Hills was born. Australian comedian.

1970 - Gary LeVox was born. American singer (Rascal Flatts).

1970 - Helen Sjöholm was born. Swedish singer and actress.

1970 - Jason Orange was born. UK pop singer and dancer (Take That).

1970 - John Simm was born. British actor.

1970 - Augusto Meyer dies (b. 24 Jan 1902). Brazilian journalist, poet and essayst.

1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson dies (b. 1908). Icelandic foreign and later prime minister.

1971 - Adam Foote was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1971 - Gregory Goodridge was born. Barbadian footballer.

1972 - Peter Serafinowicz was born. British comedian and actor.

1972 - Sofia Vergara was born in Barranquilla. Colombian model and actress: Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble

1972 - Tilo Wolff was born. German musician (Lacrimosa).

1972 - Lovie Austin dies (b. 1887). American jazz pianist.

1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.

1974 - O poema "Hino dos Bandeirantes" é instituído como letra oficial do Hino do estado de São Paulo (Brasil).

1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor was born. English actor.

1975 - Alain Nasreddine was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson was born. Icelandic actor.

1976 - The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy. Forty-one containers in Italy carried a highly toxic cargo. The containers came from Seveso in northern Italy, where dioxin had escaped in a tragic accident at a chemicals factory.

1976 - One US and three UK mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

1976 - Adrian Grenier was born. American actor.

1976 - Brendon Lade was born. Australian rules footballer.

1976 - Edmílson Gomes was born. Brazilian footballer.

1976 - Elijah Blue Allman was born. American musician (Deadsy).

1976 - Ludovic Giuly was born. French footballer.

1977 – Gwendoline Yeo was born. American actress.

1977 – Schapelle Corby was born. Australian convicted drug smuggler.

1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.

1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

1978 - Jesse Lacey was born. American musician (Brand New).

1978 - John D Rockefeller III dies (b. 1906). American businessman.

1978 - Joe Davis dies (b. 1901). English snooker player.

1979 - Tyrell Godwin was born. American baseball player.

1979 - Mvondo Atangana was born. Cameroon footballer.

1979 - Arthur Fiedler dies (b. 1894). American conductor.

1980 - Adam Petty was born (d. 2000). American race car driver.

1980 - Alejandro Millán was born. Mexican singer and songwriter.

1980 – Han Eun-jeong was born. South Korean actress.

1980 - Jessica Simpson was born. American singer .

1980 - Cláudia Leitte was born. Brazilian singer «Babado Novo».

1980 - Orlando Jordan was born. American wrestler.

1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas was born. American actor.

1980 - Francisco Rebolo dies (b. 1902). Brazilian painter.

1981 - Portugal: Criação da Fundação Salvador Caetano.

1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev was born. Bulgarian footballer.

1981 - Ken Rex McElroy dies (b. 1936). American hog rustler.

1982 - Alex Arrowsmith was born. American musician..

1982 - Sebastian Mila was born. Polish footballer.

1983 - Kim Hee Chul was born. Korean musician (Super Junior).

1983 – Matthew Egan was born. Australian rules footballer.

1983 - Estrellita Castro dies (b. 1908). Spanish singer and actress.

1984 – Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia was born. Miss World 2004.

1984 - Mark González was born. Chilean football player.

1985 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbor by French DGSE agents.

1985 - After a storm of controversy surrounding a change in its cola's formula (see New Coke), Coca-Cola re-introduces the old formula as "Coca-Cola Classic".

1985 – B.J. Crombeen was born. American ice hockey player.

1985 – Mario Gómez was born. German footballer.

1987 - John Hammond dies (b. 1910). American record producer.

1989 - Mel Blanc dies in Los Angeles (b. 1908). American voice actor : the "man of a thousand voices", including such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.

1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.

1991 - South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.

1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

1993 - Sam Rolfe dies (b. 1924). American screenwriter.

1994 - Leonid Kuchma won the second round of Ukrainian_presidential_election and Alexander Lukashenko won with around 80 per cent of the vote the first Bielorussian Presidential elections.

1995 - Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest.

1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1997 - Spain: Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

1998 - The DNA-identified remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his family in St. Louis, Missouri after being in the Tomb of the Unknowns since 1984.

1998 - Roman Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.

1999 - United States women's national soccer team team wins the FIFA Women's World Cup in Pasadena,California at The Rose Bowl.

2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.

2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas dies (b. 1915). French politician.

2000 - Justin Pierce dies (b. 1975). English-American actor and skateboarder.

2000 - Vakkom Majeed dies (b. 1909). Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member.

2001 - Um júri norte-americano condena à prisão perpétua o terrorista islâmico Jalfan Jamis Mohamed, autor do atentado contra a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos na Tanzânia, no qual morreram 11 pessoas.

2001 - Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja dies. President of San Salvador (1982-1984).

2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté dies (b. 1926). French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, crashed by a container truck and fell from the flyover of Tuen Mun Road, into the valley under it. 21 people (including the driver) were killed in this accident. This is the largest number of deaths by bus crashes in Hong Kong.

2003 - Spain opened its first mosque (in Granada) since the Moors were expelled in 1492.

2003 - Winston Graham dies (b.1908). English writer.

2003 - Hartley Shawcross dies (b. 1902). British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

2003 - Bishnu Maden dies. Nepalese politician.

2004 - Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo dies (b. 1930). Portuguese politician, first woman in to be Prime-Minister in Portugal/ Morre Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, política portuguesa, primeira mulher a ocupar o lugar de primeiro-ministro no país (n. 1930).

2005 - UK Police Defend Birmingham Evacuation- Only days after deadly bomb attacks in London, some 20,000 people were evacuated from Birmingham overnight Saturday as police reacted to a "credible threat" to the central English city.

2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.

2005 - A.J. Quinnell dies (b. 1940). English writer.~

2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce dies (b. 1955). American radio performer.

2005 - Freddy Soto dies (b. 1970). American comedian and actor.

2005 - Jimmy Franklin (b. 1948) and Bobby Younkin dies during an airshow performance. American aerobatics and air show pilots.

2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

2006 - Shamil Basayev dies (b. 1965). Chechen rebel.

2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi dies (b. 1951). Radical Pakistani cleric.

2007 - Doug Marlette dies (b. 1949). American cartoonist.

2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu dies (b. 1944). Director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China.

2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

2008 - Hiroaki Aoki dies (b. 1938). Founder of Benihana.

2008 - Mike Souchak dies (b. 1927). Professional golfer.

Followers of Meher Baba: Silence Day.

Bahamas: Independence Day.

Mauritania: Armed Forces Day.

Wyoming: Statehood Day.

Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.

Municipal Holyday in Miranda do Douro, Portugal.

Soneto da Véspera - Vinicius de Moraes (dezanove anos passados sobre o seu desaparecimento)

2009-07-09T02:07:00.005+01:00

Quando chegares e eu te vir chorando
De tanto te esperar, que te direi?
E da angústia de amar-te, te esperando
Reencontrada, como te amarei?

Que beijo teu de lágrimas terei
Para esquecer o que vivi lembrando
E que farei da antiga mágoa quando
Não puder te dizer por que chorei?

Como ocultar a sombra em mim suspensa
Pelo martírio da memória imensa
Que a distância criou – fria de vida

Imagem tua que eu compus serena
Atenta ao meu apelo e à minha pena
E que quisera nunca mais perdida...

Extraído de Vinicius de Moraes, Antologia Poética, Publicações Dom Quixote

Vinicius de Moraes (n. Rio de Janeiro a 19 Out 1913; m. Rio de Janeiro, 9 Jul 1980)

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Aquarela
Amigos

Happy birthday - Jessica van der Steen

2009-07-09T01:05:00.000+01:00

On this day in History - Jul 9

2009-07-09T01:01:00.005+01:00

0455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
0518 - Anastasius I dies (b. 0430). Byzantine emperor.
1228 - Stephen Langton dies (b. c. 1150). Archbishop of Canterbury.
1249 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan was born (d. 1305).
1357 - 5:31 AM - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assisted laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1386 - Duke Leopold III of Austria dies (killed in battle) (b. 1351).
1511 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg was born (d. 1571). Queen of Denmark and Norway.
1540 - Henry VIII of England annulled his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1541 - Estevão da Gama departs Massawa, leaving behind 400 matchlock men and 150 slaves under his brother Christovão da Gama, with orders to assist the Emperor of Ethiopia defeat Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi who has invaded his Empire.
1553 - Maurice, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1521).
1577 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr was born (d. 1618). English Jamestown colonist.
1578 - Ferdinand II was born (d. 1637). Holy Roman Emperor.
1654 - Emperor Reigen of Japan was born (d. 1732).
1654 - Ferdinand IV of Germany dies (b. 1633).
1686 - Philip Livingston was born (d. 1749). American politician.
1689 - Alexis Piron was born (d. 1773). French writer.

1706 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville dies (b. 1661). French Canadian sailor and explorer.

1721 - Johann Nikolaus Götz was born (d. 1781). German poet.

1737 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1671).

1742 - John Oldmixon dies (b. 1673). English historian.

1746 - Philip V of Spain dies (b. 1683).

1747 - Giovanni Bononcini dies (b. 1670). Italian composer.

1749 - Naval settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia founded as British answer to Louisbourg.

1753 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock was born (d. 1825). Governor of Newfoundland.

1755 - French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are suffer a devastating defeat to French and Native American forces. During the battle, British General Edward Braddock is mortally wounded. Colonel George Washington survives.

1763 - Francisco_Joaquim_Bingre was born in Canelas, Estarreja (d. 26 Mar 1856 in Mira). Portuguese poet who was one of the founders of Nova Arcádia.

1764 - Ann Radcliffe was born (d. 1823). English writer.

1766 - Jonathan Mayhew dies (b. 1720). American minister.

1775 - Matthew Lewis was born (d. 1818). English novelist.

1786 - Sophie Hélène Béatrix was born (d. 1787). Princess of France.

1789 - In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.

1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.

1793 - Act Against Slavery passed in Upper Canada and importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.

1795 - Henry Seymour Conway dies (b. 1721). British general and statesman.

1797 - Edmund Burke dies (b. 1729). British philosopher and statesman.

1800 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was born (d. 1885). German physician.

1807 - Treaties of Tilsit signed by Napoleon I and Alexander I.

1808 - Alexander William Doniphan was born (d. 1887). American lawyer and soldier.

1810 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.

1815 - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Benevente becomes Prime Minister of France.

1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.

1819 - Elias Howe was born (d. 1867). American inventor (sewing machine).

1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano was born (d. 1913). Italian Catholic churchman.

1832 - Portugal: O exército liberal ocupa o Porto.

1833 - Joaquim de Sousa Andrade was born (d. 21 Apr. 1902). Brazilian poet.

1836 - Camille de Renesse was born (d. 1904). Belgian count.

1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman was born (d. 1908). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1841 - Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar assume a presidência da Bolívia.

1841 - Joaquim António de Aguiar assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.

1846 - The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.

1848 - Robert I, Duke of Parma was born (d. 1907). Last ruling Duke of Parma.

1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies (b. 1819) and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th President of the United States.

1850 - Báb dies (b. 1819). Persian founder of the Bábi Faith.

1850 - Jean-Pierre Boyer dies. President of Haiti (1818-1843).

1852 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan dies (b. 1794). American politician.

1855 - Lord Raglan dies (b. 1788). Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War.

1856 - Nikola Tesla was born. Croatian physicist.

1856 - James Strang dies assassinated (b. 1813). Mormon splinter group leader.

1856 - Amedeo Avogadro dies (b. 1776). Italian chemist.

1858 - Franz Boas was born (d. 1942). German anthropologist.

1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson ends.

1867 - An unsuccessful expedition led by E.D Young set out to search for Dr David Livingstone (Scottish Missionary and explorer).

1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.

1870 - Portugal: A abolição da pena de morte é alargada às colónias portuguesas.

1879 - Carlos Chagas was born (d. 1934). Brazilian physician.

1879 - Ottorino Respighi was born (d. 1936). Italian composer.

1880 - Paul Broca dies (b. 1824). French physician and anatomist.

1882 - Ignacio Carrera Pinto dies (b. 1848). Chilean war hero.

1887 - Reportedly paper napkins were used for the first time by John Dickinson (stationery manufacturers) at the company's annual dinner.

1889 - Leo Dandurand was born (d. 1964). American-born Canadian hockey executive.

1893 - Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open heart surgery at Provident Hospital in Chicago.

1893 - George Geary was born (d. 1981). English cricketer.

1894 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa was born (d. 1984). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1896 - William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of gold speech.

1900 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.

1900 - Ida Ehre was born in Prerau. Moravia (d. 1989). Austrian-German actress and theatre director and manager.

1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland was born (d. 2000). English novelist.

1903 - Alphonse François Renard dies (b. 1842). Belgian geologist.

1905 - Clarence Campbell was born (d. 1984). Canadian hockey executive.

1908 - Allama Rasheed Turabi was born (d. 1973). Pakistani scholar, orator and philosopher.

1908 - Paul Brown was born (d. 1991). American football coach.

1911 - John A. Wheeler was born. American physicist.

1911 - Mervyn Peake was born (d. 1968). British writer and illustrator.

1915 - David Diamond was born (d. 2005). American composer.

1916 - Sir Dean Goffin was born (d. 1984). New Zealand composer.

1916 - Edward Heath was born (d. 2005). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom [1970-1974].

1918 - Great train wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.

1918 - Restabelecimento das relações diplomáticas entre Portugal e o Vaticano.

1918 - Jarl Wahlström was born (d. 1999). 12th General of The Salvation Army.

1921 - Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar delivered his famous speech at Khilafat Conference, Karachi.

1922 - Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking a world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.

1925 - Golpe de Estado no Equador, quando o general Francisco González de la Torre derruba o presidente Gonzalo S. Córdova.

1925 – Charles E. Wicks, Professor, co-author of Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer.

1925 - Guru Dutt was born. Legendary Bollywood director, producer and actor.

1925 - Peter Ludwig was born (d. 1996). German entrepreneur and art collector.

1926 - António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.

1926 - Ben Roy Mottelson was born. American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1927 - Ed Ames was born. American singer and actor.

1927 - Red Kelly was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1927 - Susan Cabot was born (d. 1986). American actress.

1927 - John Drew Jr. dies (b. 1853). American actor.

1928 - Federico Bahamontes was born. Spanish cyclist.

1928 - Vince Edwards was born (d. 1996). American actor, director and singer.

1929 - Jesse McReynolds was born. American singer and mandolinist.

1929 - Lee Hazlewood was born. American country singer, songwriter and producer.

1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco was born (d. 1999).

1930 - Buddy Bregman was born. American musical arranger and conductor.

1930 - Roy McLean was born (d. 2007). South African cricketer.

1932 - Brazil: Starting of the Constitutionalist Revolution: Dissastified with the actions of the federal government, the oligarchies of São Paulo initiate an insurrection to retake power from Getúlio Vargas /Brasil: Tem inicío a chamada Revolução Constitucionalista, no estado de São Paulo, que apoiado pelo Mato Grosso ergue-se contra o governo central de Getúlio Vargas.

1932 - Donald Rumsfeld was born. 13th & 21st United States Secretary of Defense.

1932 - King C. Gillette dies (b. 1885). American inventor.

1933 - Oliver Sacks was born. British neurologist and author.

1934 - Michael Graves was born. American architect.

1935 - Mercedes Sosa was born. Argentine singer.

1935 - Michael Williams was born (d. 2001). English actor.

1935 - Wim Duisenberg was born (d. 2005). Dutch economist and politician.

1936 - Andre Pronovost was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.

1936 - Floyd Abrams was born. First Amendment attorney and advocate.

1936 - June Jordan was born (d. 2002). American writer and teacher.

1936 – Richard Wilson was born. Scottish actor and director.

1937 - David Hockney was born. English artist.

1937 - Oliver Law dies killed in battle (b. 1899). First African-American commander of U.S. troops.

1938 - Brian Dennehy was born. American actor.

1938 - Benjamin Cardozo dies (b. 1870). American jurist.

1942 - Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

1942 – Edy Williams was born. American actress.

1942 - Richard Roundtree was born. American actor.

1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.

1943 - John Casper was born. American astronaut.

1944 - World War II: Battle of Normandy - British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.

1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - Americans take Saipan.

1945 - A forest fire breaks out in the Tillamook Burn, the third fire in that area since 1933.

1945 - Dean R. Koontz was born. American author.

1945 - Root Boy Slim was born (d. 1993). American entertainer.

1946 - Bon Scott was born (d. 1980). Australian singer (AC/DC).

1946 - Natasha Pyne was born. English actress.

1947 - Haruomi Hosono was born. Japanese musician.

1947 - Mitch Mitchell was born. English drummer.

1947 - O. J. Simpson was born. American football player and actor.

1947 - Lucjan Żeligowski dies (b. 1865). Polish general.

1948 - Pakistan issued first set of Postage stamp, having image of Constituent Assembly, Jinnah International Airport (Quaid-e-Azam International Airport), Shahi Fort.

1948 - Hassan Wirajuda was born. Indonesian current foreign minister.

1949 - Em Portugal é fundada a Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia.

1949 - Jesse Duplantis was born. American evangelist, author, and inspirational speaker.

1949 - Fritz Bennicke Hart dies (b. 1874). English-born Australian composer.

1950 - Viktor Yanukovych was born. Prime Minister of Ukraine.

1951 - Chris Cooper was born. American actor.

1951 - Harry Heilmann dies (b. 1894). American baseball player.

1952 - John Tesh was born. American composer.

1953 - Margie Gillis was born. Canadian dancer and choreographer.

1953 - Thomas Ligotti was born. American author.

1953 - Álvaro de Castelões dies in Porto (b. 1 Apr 1859). Portuguese noble (3rd Viscount of Castelões) and poet.

1955 - The Russell-Einstein Manifesto was released by Bertrand Russell in London.

1955 - Fred Norris was born. American radio personality.

1955 - Jimmy Smits was born. Puerto Rican Emmy Award-winning actor: L.A. Law [1989-90]; N.Y.P.D. Blue, Birdland, Glitz, Mi Familia, Gross Misconduct, The Cisco Kid, Price of Glory.

1955 - Steve Coppell was born. English football player and manager.

1955 - Willie Wilson was born. American baseball player.

1955 - Don Beauman dies (b. 1928). British racing driver.

1956 - António Fonseca was born in Ambriz. Angolan poet, writer and essayst.

1956 - Marc Almond was born. British singer.

1956 - Tom Hanks was born. American Academy Award-winning actor: Forrest Gump [1994], Philadelphia [1993]; Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Joe Versus the Volcano, Splash, The Money Pit, You’ve Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Awayactor.

1957 - Kelly McGillis was born. American actress.

1957 - Paul Merton was born. British comedian.

1957 - Tim Kring was born. American writer and producer.

1958 - Lituya Bay is hit by a mega-tsunami. The wave is recorded at 524 meters high, making it the largest wave in history.

1959 - Clive Stafford Smith was born. British human rights lawyer.

1959 - Jim Kerr was born. Scottish singer (Simple Minds).

1959 - Kevin Nash was born. American professional wrestler.

1960 - Marc Mero was born. American professional wrestler.

1964 - Courtney Love was born. American musician.

1964 - Gianluca Vialli was born. Italian football player.

1965 - David O'Hara was born. Irish-Scottish actor.

1965 - Frank Bello was born. American musician (Anthrax).

1965 - Jason Rhoades was born (d. 2006). American installation artist.

1966 - Pamela Adlon was born. American voice actress.

1967 - A team of mountaineers successfully climb the Old Man of Hoy, the expedition is televised by BBC television in a unique live outside broadcast.

1967 - Gunnar Axén was born. Swedish politician.

1967 - Eugen Fischer dies (b. 1874). Nazi physician.

1968 - Official opening of Hayward Gallery on London's South Bank.

1968 - Lars Gyllenhaal was born. Swedish author.

1968 - Paolo Di Canio was born. Italian football player.

1969 - Jason Kearton was born. Australian former footballer.

1969 - Mark Lui was born. Hong Kong composer and producer.

1970 - Masami Tsuda was born. Manga author.

1970 - Trent Green was born. American football player.

1971 - Dani Behr was born. English model and TV presenter.

1971 - Marc Andreessen was born. American software developer.

1972 - Robert Weede dies (b. 1903). American baritone.

1973 – Enrique Murciano was born. American actor.

1973 - Kelly Holcomb was born. American football player.

1974 – Gary Kelly was born. Irish football player.

1974 - Nikola Sarcevic was born. Swedish bassist and singer (Millencolin).

1974 - Sian Berry was born. British politician.

1974 - Earl Warren dies (b. 1891). Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1975 - The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system.

1975 – Craig Quinnell was born. Welsh rugby player.

1975 - Isaac Brock was born. American musician.

1975 - Jack White was born. American musician (The White Stripes).

1975 - Shelton Benjamin was born. American professional wrestler.

1976 - Fred Savage was born. American actor (The Wonder Years, The Princess Bride, Little Monsters, The Boy Who Could Fly).

1976 - Jochem Uytdehaage was born. Dutch speed skater.

1976 - Shelton Benjamin was born. American professional wrestler.

1978 – Kara Goucher was born. American athlete.

1978 - Linda Park was born. Korean-born actress.

1978 - Mark Medlock was born. German singer.

1979 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.

1979 - Ella Koon was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.

1979 - Suzanne Stokes was born. American model (Playmate of the Month February 2000).

1979 - Cornelia Otis Skinner dies (b. 1899). American actress and author.

1980 - Vinicius de Moraes dies (b. 1913). Brazilian poet and lyricist./Morre Vinícius de Moraes (n. 1913). Escritor e diplomata brasileiro. Vinícius de Moraes - o poeta do amor- foi um dos mais populares poetas brasileiros.

1981 - Senegalese political parties Party of Independence and Work (PIT) and Democratic League - Movement for the Labour Party (LD-MPT) legally recognized.

1981 - Kimveer Gill was born (d. 2006). Canadian spree shooter (Dawson College shooting).

1982 - A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.

1982 - Alecko Eskandarian was born. Armenian-American footballer.

1982 - Ashly DelGrosso was born. American ballroom dancer.

1982 - Maggie Ma was born. Canadian actress.

1982 - Sakon Yamamoto was born. Japanese race car driver.

1983 - Lucia Micarelli was born. American musician.

1984 - York Minster was struck by a lightning bolt, the resulting fire rampaged through most of the building. However the cathedral valuables were rescued by clergymen and the "Rose Window" was not affected.

1984 - Proceedings against the Purity Law.

1984 - Jacob Hoggard was born. Canadian singer of Canadian band Hedley (band).

1984 - Jessica_Van_Der_Steen was born. Belgian fashion model.

1985 - Ashley Young was born. English football player.

1985 - Paweł Korzeniowski was born. Polish swimmer.

1985 - Jimmy Kinnon dies (b. 1911). Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous.

1985 - Rafael Campos dies of cancer (b. 1936). Dominicam actor (Ramon-Rhoda, Sancho-V).

1985 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg dies (b. 1896).

1985 - Jimmy Kinnon dies (b. 1911). Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous.

1986 - The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.

1986 - Dominic Cervi was born. American footballer.

1986 - Kiely Williams was born. American singer and actress.

1986 – Simon Dumont was born. American freestyle skier.

1989 - Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.

1989 - First time Wimbeldon has both men & women's final on same day, Boris Becker beats Stefan Edberg and Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova.

1990 – Fábio Pereira da Silva was born. Brazilian footballer.

1990 - Rafael Pereira da Silva was born. Brazilian footballer.

1991 - International Human Rights Federation cites human rights violations committed by police and military personnel during Oka crisis in Quebec, Canada.

1991 - South Africa is reintroduced into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.

1991 - Mitchel Musso was born. American actor.

1991 - Spencer Elden was born. American actor Baby/Model on Nirvana (band)'s Nevermind album.

1992 - Eric Sevareid dies (b. 1912). American reporter.

1992 - Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton announces that Tennessee Senator Al Gore will be his running mate.

1994 - Akiane Kramarik was born. American painter and poet.

1994 - Bill Mosienko dies (b. 1921). Professional ice hockey player.

1995 - Musical group The Grateful Dead perform the last concert of their 30-year career at Soldier Field, Chicago.

1995 - Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lankan Air Force and it killed 125 Tamil civilian refugees.

1995 - Georgie Henley was born. English actress.

1996 - Melvin Belli dies (b. 1907). American attorney.

1997 - Mike Tyson's boxing license is suspended for at least a year and he is fined $3 million for biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a televised match.

1998 - Bolívia assina o Protocolo de Kyoto.

1998 - In the Azores Islands (Portugal) a 6.2 quake resulted in ten people killed, about 100 injured and 1,000 left homeless on Faial.

1999 - Days of student protests begins after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory of University of Tehran.

1999 - Robert de Cotret dies (b. 1944). Canadian politician.

2000 - Doug Fisher dies (b. 1941). English actor.

2001 - WCW and ECW join forces on Monday Night Raw creating The Alliance and tarting the Invasion storyline.

2002 - The African Union was established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman was Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

2002 - Major League Baseball All-Star Game ends in a controversial tie at Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, when both teams have exhausted all their pitchers.

2002 - Laurence Janifer dies (b. 1933). American science fiction writer.

2002 - Rod Steiger dies (b. 1925) American actor.

2003 - Winston Graham dies (b. 1908). American author.

2003 - Switzerland ratifies Kyoto's Protocol.

2004 - After José Manuel Barroso's appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.

2004 - Chuck Cadman dies (b. 1948). Canadian politician.

2004 - Paula Danziger dies (b. 1944) American author.

2004 - Paul Klebnikov dies (b. 1963) American journalist.

2004 - Isabel Sanford dies (b. 1917). American actress.

2004 - Jean Lefèbvre dies. French actor.

2005 - Yevgenij Grishin dies (b. 1931). Russian speed skater.

2005 - Huang Kun dies (b. 1919). Chinese physicist.

2005 - Alex Shibicky dies (b. 1914). Canadian ice hockey player.

2006 - At least 122 people are dead after a Sibir Airlines passenger jet Airbus A-310 with 200 people on board veered off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions.

2006 - Italy wins the 2006 FIFA World Cup, defeating France 5-3 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw. This is Italy's 4th World Cup win.

2006 - Roger Federer wins his fourth consecutive Wimbledon tennis championship, beating Rafael Nadal in the final match of the tournament.

2006 - Zinedine Zidane in his final match, headbutts Marco Materazzi and gets sent off in the final of the FIFA World Cup.

2006 - Camané4ever (blog) is founded.

2006 - Milan Williams dies (b. 1948). American musician (The Commodores).

2007 - Charles Lane dies (b. 1905). American actor.

2008 - Séamus Brennan dies (b. 1948). Irish politician.

Roman festival - Caprotinia, or feasts of Juno Caprotina.

Argentina - Independence Day.

Palau - Constitution Day.

Bahá'í Faith - Holy Day: Martyrdom of the Báb.

São Paulo (Brazil) - Constitutional Revolution of 1932.

Portugal: Municipal Holiday in Maia.

Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Our Lady of Peace.

Amor e Providência - Manuel de Arriaga

2009-07-08T02:28:00.002+01:00

Em quanto eu, alta noite, velo e lido,
Por vós mantendo innumeros cuidados,
Dormis, caros filhinhos, socegados
Em torno a mim o sonho appetecido!
Dormis?! sonhaes de certo... e eu pae envido
Meus esforços por vêr realisados
Vossos sonhos gentis e perfumados:
Ampara-vos um peito estremecido.
Outro Alguem faz por nós o que eu vos faço:
Com suprema bondade e sapiencia,
Rege os mundos que rolam pelo espaço!
Esse Alguem é o Amor por excellencia,
O formidavel e invisivel braço,
E o olhar que nunca dorme - a Providencia!

in Cantos Sagrados

Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue (nasceu na cidade da Horta, Açores a 8 de Julho de 1840 — m. em Lisboa, 5 de Março de 1917)

Pode ler esta obra livremente na net através deste link The Project Gutemberg Ebook

Happy birthday - Kate Groombridge

2009-07-08T01:18:00.001+01:00