On this day in History - Jan. 25

Efemérides: Destaque do dia: O nosso destaque vai para dois acontecimentos envolvendo duas personagens do futebol. A vida e a morte. A vida - o nascimento do maior jogador português de todos os tempos Eusébio que completa hoje 63 anos. A morte - a de Feher no campo do jogo, memória ainda bem fresca, há um ano, num jogo frente ao V. Guimarães, poucos minutos depois de entrar em campo. O sorriso perante o cartão amarelo mostrado pelo árbitro, por atrasar o jogo, e poucos segundos depois a queda no chão e a morte fulminante. Vida e morte, dois dos temas deste blog.





• 477 - Geiseric, dies, King of the Vandals and Alans (b. ca. 389).
• 844 - Pope Gregory IV dies .
• 1327- Edward III becomes King of England.
• 1477 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany was born and consort queen of France (d. 1514).
• 1494 - Alfonso II becomes King of Naples replacing his father.
• 1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1538 - se descubrió en el Cerro Rico de Potosí (Bolivia) la primera mina de plata.
• 1553 - Fundación de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.
• 1554 - Foundation of São Paulo city, Brazil.
• 1565 - Battle at Talikota India Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army.
• 1569 - Se establece en la América española el Tribunal de la Inquisición, en virtud de una cédula de esta fecha, firmada por Felipe II.
• 1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.
• 1627 - Robert Boyle, was born (d. 30. Dec. 1691). Anglo-Irish chemist and natural philosopher noted for his pioneering experiments on the properties of gases and his espousal of a corpuscular view of matter that was a forerunner of the modern theory of chemical elements. He was a founding member of the Royal Society of London.
• 1640 - Robert Burton, Author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies .
• 1736 - Count (comte) De L'empire Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born (d. 10 Apr 1813). Italian-French mathematician who made great contributions to the theory of numbers and to analytic and celestial mechanics. ( "Analytic Mechanics"- 1788).
• 1739 - nace Charles Dumouriez, militar francés.
• 1755 - Moscow University established.
• 1759 - Robert Burns, was born Scotland's national poet (d. 1796).
• 1770 - Captain James Cook, was born navigator (b. 1728 d. 1779 - discovered Australia - today is Australia day.
• 1774 - George Dollond was born (d. 13 May 1852). British optician who invented a number of precision instruments used in astronomy, geodesy, and navigation.
• 1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
• 1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
• 1796 - William MacGillivray, was born naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852) .
• 1798 - Benjamin Thompson presented a paper to the Royal Society, Enquiry concerning the Source of Heat which is excited by Friction, in which he presented the idea that heat represents a form of motion, as opposed to the prevailing idea of being a fluid.
• 1799 - a seed-planting device was patented by Eliakim Spooner of Vermont. The seeds were fed by gravity. The machine was not practical, however.
• 1812 -William Shanks was born (d. 1882). English mathematician who spent numerous years manually calculating the value of pi. Shanks kept a boarding school at Houghton-le-Spring in a coal mining area near Durham.
• 1825 - El general peruano José Miguel Lanza conquista la ciudad de La Paz y proclama la independencia del Alto Perú.
• 1839 - Michael Faraday publicly announced for the first time the existence of photography as the subject of his Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution.
• 1841 - Jackie Fisher, was born First Sea Lord (d. 1920).
• 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, was born pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954).
• 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
• 1860 - Charles Curtis, was born Vice President of the United States (d. 1936) .
• 1860 - Firma del Tratado de Maposingue, que pone fin a la invasión peruana de Ecuador dirigida por el general Ramón Castilla.
• 1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows .
• 1874- William Somerset Maugham was born (d. 1965) .
• 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, was born (d. 1975); Swedish-American electrical engineer and television pioneer who developed a high-frequency alternator.
• 1881 - O famoso autor russo Fiodor Dostoievski falece poucos dias após sofrer uma hemorragia. Suas últimas palavras foram, “Não me segurem. Minha hora chegou. Eu preciso morrer”. Dostoievski havia escrito o clássico “Crime e Castigo”.
• 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
• 1882 - Virginia Woolf, was born (d.1941) writer ( Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse) .
• 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, was born conductor (d. 1954) .
• 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded.
• 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
• 1899 - nace Paul Henri Spaak, estadista belga.
• 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka,was born writer (d. 1986).
• 1900 -Theodosius Dobzhansky was born, (d. 18 Dec 1975). Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose work had a major influence on 20th-century thought and research on genetics and evolutionary theory.
• 1908 - Ouida, dies, writer (b. 1839).
• 1915 - desde New York, Alexander Bell llama a Thomas Watson en San Francisco.
• 1916 - Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary.
• 1917- Ilya Prigogine,was born (d. 28 May 2003) Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
• 1917- The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
• 1918 - Ernie Harwell, was born, baseball sportscaster.
• 1918 - Decreto fundacional de la Escuela de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Facultad Nacional de Derecho de Panamá, base de la Universidad Nacional.
• 1918 - Russia declared a Soviets republic.
• 1919 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer.
• 1919 - The League of Nations is founded.
• 1923 - Arvid Carlsson, scientist, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1925 - muere Juan Vucetich, creador del sistema dactiloscópico.
• 1927 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, was born bossa nova legend.
• 1928 - Nace Eduard Shevardnadze, presidente de Georgia.
• 1930 - Dean Jones, was born , actor .
• 1931 - Gandhi es puesto en libertad en la India.
• 1932 - Maximilian von Frey dies (b. 16 Nov 1852). Austrian physiologist who studied the sense of touch, providing the first comprehensive information about the cutaneous senses.
• 1933 - Corazon Aquino, was born President of the Philippines .
• 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, was born Russian bard (poet, singer) and actor (d. 1980) .
• 1938 - Etta James, (Jamesette Hawkins) was born, US singer (Roll With Me Henry).
• 1939 - Earthquake hits Chillán Chile, 10,000 killed.
• 1942 - Carl Eller, was born American football player .
• 1942 - Eusébio da Silva Ferreira ("The Black Panther") , was born, in Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) the best Portuguese football player of all times. He represented Benfica. Won two European Champions Cup, several Portugal Championship and Portugal Cups. He was Golden Boot. In WorldChampionship 1966 (Portugal was 3º.) he was considered the best player and he was the top scorer.
• 1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• 1943 - Tobe Hooper, was born director .
• 1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor .
• 1946 - Edwin Bissel Holt dies, (b. 1873) ; U.S. psychologist and philosopher noted for his emphasis on the purposive character of knowing.
• 1947 - Al Capone, dies, gangster (b. 1899) .
• 1949 - At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
• 1949 - The first Israeli election -- David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister.
• 1951 - Steve Prefontaine, was born distance runner .
• 1954 - nace Ricardo Bochini, futbolista argentino.
• 1955 - A liderança da União Soviética declara oficialmente o final do estado de guerra do país com a Alemanha.
• 1955 - US and Panama sign canal treaty.
• 1957 - La India se anexiona Cachemira.
• 1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga dies, (b. 7 Feb 1871). Japanese bacteriologist, chiefly noted for his discovery (1897) of the dysentery bacillus Shigella, which is named after him.
• 1959 - despega el primer vuelo transcontinental comercial en jet.
• 1959 - Juan XXII anuncia el Concilio Vaticano II.
• 1960 - Beno Gutenberg dies (b. 4 Jun 1889). American seismologist noted for his analyses of earthquake waves and the information they furnish about the physical properties of the Earth's interior.
• 1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disk jockeys who accepted money for paying particular records.
• 1961 - Un golpe de Estado del coronel Aníbal Portillo derroca a la Junta y establece un Directorio Cívico-Militar en El Salvador.
• 1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released .
• 1961 - In Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1963 - Sir Isaac Shoenberg dies, (b. 1 Mar 1880) Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the world's first public high-definition telecast (from London, 1936).
• 1967 - nace David Ginola, futbolista francés.
• 1969 - Irene Castle, dies, dancer .
• 1970 - Jane Bathori, dies, opera singer (b. 1877) .
• 1971 - Charles Manson and three female "family members" are found guilty of murder of seven people (one of them the actress Sharon Tate) and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• 1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
• 1971 - Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
• 1971 - Luca Badoer, was born, Formula One driver from Italy .
• 1972 - World's first kidney and pancreatic tissue transplant carried out in London
• 1974 - Dr Christian Barnard performs a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place .
• 1975 - Bangladesh's independence leader and first prime minister, sheik Mujibur Rahman , 54, assumes the presidency. He would be killed, along with most of his family, in a coup d'état seven months later 75/08/15.
• 1975 - Tim Montgomery,was born American athlete .
• 1977 - Armando Falcão, ministro da Justiça do governo militar, contesta um manifesto assinado por 1.046 intelectuais, exigindo o fim da censura no Brasil.
• 1980 - Christian Olsson, was born Swedish triple jumper .
• 1980 - Abolhassan Bani-Sadr vence as primeiras eleições presidenciais do Irã. Ele obtém 70% dos votos da população.
• 1981- Alicia Keys, was born singer, musician .
• 1981 - Adele Astaire, dies, dancer (b. 1897) .
• 1981 - Super Bowl XV: The Oakland Raiders defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10.
• 1982 - 9th American Music Award Kenny Rogers win.
• 1982 - Fallece Alfredo Ovando, ex presidente de Bolivia.
• 1985 - El Papa Juan Pablo II inicia una visita de once días por Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú y Trinidad-Tobago.
• 1986 - La nave espacial estadounidense "Voyager 2" envía a la Tierra fotografías de 12 nuevas lunas que rodean el planeta Urano y cuya existencia se desconocía.
• 1986 - Mueren 30 personas y 12 resultan gravemente heridas por la explosión de una fábrica de armas situada en Iquique (Chile).
• 1987 - Super Bowl XXI: The New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos, 39-20.
• 1988 - 15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston .
• 1990 - The Burns' Day storm hits Northwestern Europe.
• 1990 - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1990 - Ava Gardner, dies, American actress (b. 1922) .
• 1990 - Fallece Dámaso Alonso, poeta y académico español.
• 1991 - Durante a Guerra do Golfo, os Estados Unidos acusam o Iraque de despejar petróleo no golfo pérsico. Os norte-americanos chamam isso de terrorismo ambiental.
• 1991 - Muere la periodista colombiana Diana Turbay en una fallida operación policial para liberarla de los narcotraficantes que la habían secuestrado seis meses antes.
• 1991 - Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government .
• 1992 - A selection of America's popular films begins showing on Soviet television
• 1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its second official language.
• 1993 - Slobodan Milosevic jura como presidente de Serbia ante el nuevo Parlamento, tras su victoria en las elecciones.
• 1993 - Mir Amir Kansi kills two employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
• 1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, dies, (b. 5 Jan 1909) American mathematician and logician whose work on recursion theory helped lay the foundations of theoretical computer science.
• 1995 - Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of European Committee .
• 1995 - The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, is mistaken for a US Trident missile by the Olenegorsk early-warning radar station.
• 1996 - Jonathan Larson,dies, American composer (b. 1960)
• 1997 - Asesinan al reportero gráfico argentino José Luis Cabezas.
• 1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: The Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers, 31-24.
• 1998 - Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) & soccer David Beckham gets engaged.
• 1999 - Robert Shaw, dies, American conductor (b. 1916) .
• 1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• 2001 - El nuevo primer ministro serbio, Zoran Djindjic, y los miembros de su gabinete toman posesión oficial de sus cargos, tras la caída definitiva del régimen de Slobodan Milosevic .
• 2004 - Opportunity (MER-B) landed on surface of Mars.
• 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, dies,Dutch athlete (b. 1918) .
• 2004 - Miklós Fehér, football player dies during the soccer match V. Guimarães- Benfica for Portuguese League. He had entered the game a few minutes before and suddendly he fell alone on the ground (b. 1979) .