Não choreis os mortos – Pedro Homem de Mello

Não choreis nunca os mortos, esquecidos
Na funda escuridão das sepulturas.
Deixai crescer, à solta, as ervas duras
Sobre os seus corpos vãos, adormecidos.

E quando, à tarde, o Sol, entre brasidos,
Agonizar…guardai, longe as doçuras
Das vossas orações, calmas e puras,
Para os que vivem, mudos e vencidos.

Lembrai-vos dos aflitos, dos cativos,
Da multidão sem fim dos que são vivos,
Dos tristes que não podem esquecer.

E, ao meditar, então, na paz da Morte,
Vereis, talvez, como é suave a sorte
Daqueles que deixaram de sofrer.

Pedro Homem de Mello (n. 06 Set 1904; m. 5 Mar 1984)

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Povo que lavas no rio - Pedro Homem de Mello

Por ocasião da efeméride do nascimento deste grande poeta português deixamos aqui este belo poema que se tornou conhecido pela voz da imortal fadista portuguesa Amália Rodrigues.


Povo que lavas no rio
Que vais às feiras e à tenda
Que talhas com teu machado
As tábuas do meu caixão,
Há-de haver quem te defenda,
Quem turve o teu ar sadio,
Quem compre o teu chão sagrado,
Mas a tua vida não!

Meu cravo branco na orelha!
Minha camélia vermelha!
Meu verde manjericão!
Ó natureza vadia!
Vejo uma fotografia...
Mas a tua vida, não!

Fui ter à mesa redonda,
Beber em malga que esconda
Um beijo, de mão em mão...
Água pura, fruto agreste,
Fora o vinho que me deste,
Mas a tua vida não!

Procissões de praia e monte,
Areais, píncaros, passos
Atrás dos quais os meus vão!
Que é dos cântaros da fonte?
Guardo o jeito desses braços...
Mas a tua vida, não!

Aromas de urze e de lama!
Dormi com eles na cama...
Tive a mesma condição.
Bruxas e lobas, estrelas!
Tive o dom de conhecê-las...
Mas a tua vida, não!

Subi às frias montanhas,
Pelas veredas estranhas
Onde os meus olhos estão.
Rasguei certo corpo ao meio...
Vi certa curva em teu seios...
Mas a tua vida, não!

Só tu! Só tu és verdade!
Quando o remorso me invade
E me leva à confissão...
Povo! Povo! eu te pertenço.
Deste-me alturas de incenso.
Mas a tua vida, não!

Povo que lavas no rio,
Que vais às feiras e à tenda,
Que talhas com teu machado,
As tábuas do meu caixão,
Pode haver quem te defenda,
Quem turve o teu ar sadio,
Quem compre o teu chão sagrada,
Mas a tua vida, não!

Pedro Homem de Mello (n. 06-Set-1904 ; m 05-Mar-1984)

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Revelação - Pedro Homem de Mello

Tinha quarenta e cinco... e eu, dezasseis...
Na minha fronte, indómitos anéis
Vinham da infância, saltitando ainda.


Contavam dela: — Já falou a reis!
Tinha quarenta e cinco... e eu, dezesseis...
Formosa? Não. Mais que formosa: linda.


Seu olhar diz: Seja o que o Amor quiser
A verdade planta que os meus dedos tomem!

Pela última vez foste mulher...
E eu, pela vez primeira, fui um homem

Pedro Homem de Mello (n. 06-Set-1904 ; m. 05-Mar-1984)

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On this day in History - Sep 06

3761 BC - The first day of the Hebrew Calendar.
0394 - Battle of Frigidus: The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills the pagan usurper Eugenius and his Frankish general Arbogast.
0972 - Pope John XIII dies
1425 - Fallece Carlos III el Noble de Navarra.
1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi dies (b. 1481). Japanese shogun.
1522 - The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to San Lucar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1566 - Muere el sultán otomano Solimán II el Magnífico.
1577 - Pietro Tacca was born. Italian sculptor/architect (Aanbidding of the Point)
1620 - The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
1625 - Thomas Dempster dies (b. 1579). Scottish historian.
1628 - Puritans settle Salem which will later become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1635 - Metius dies (b. 1571). Dutch mathematician and astronomer.
1640 - Nascimento de D. Manuel, filho de D. João IV e D. Luísa Francisca de Gusmão.
1649 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick dies (b. 1574). English explorer and geographer.
1656 - Guillaume Dubois was born (b. 1723). French cardinal and statesman.
1666 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia was born (d. 1696)
1683 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert dies (b. 1619). French politician.
1708 - Sir John Morden dies (b. 1623). English merchant and philanthropist.
1724 -Felipe V vuelve a ocupar el trono de España, tras la muerte de su hijo Luis, que sólo reinó siete meses y medio.
1729 - Nace el filósofo Moses Mendelsohn
1748 - Edmund Gibson dies (b. 1669). English jurist.
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette was born (d. 1834). French soldier.
1766 - John Dalton was born (d. 1844). British chemist and physicist.
1781 - Anton Diabelli was born (d. 1858). Austrian music publisher and composer.
1781 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place with the result of a British minor victory
1795 - Frances Wright was born (d. 1852). English writer, activist, and lecturer.
1800 - Catharine Beecher was born (d. 1878). American educator.
1811 - Aparece "El Peruano", primer periódico patriota de Perú. Diez años después, el Libertador Bolívar fundaría un diario oficial con el mismo nombre, que sobrevive hasta hoy.
1812 - Bataille de la Moskova.
1813 - Bataille de Dennewitz.
1815 - Simón Bolívar, escribe su carta de Jamaica donde analiza la situación de América.
1822 - Portugal: Os constitucionalistas eliminam a Inquisição (que havia sido estabelecida por João III ( o "Piedoso").
1829 - Marie Zakrzewska was born (d. 1902). Polish physician.
1847 - Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts.
1856 - Nace el inventor del psicoanálisis Sigmund Freud.
1857 - Zelia Nuttall was born (d. 1933). American archeologist and historian.
1859 - Boris Yakovlovic Bukreev was born (d. 1962). Russian mathematician.
1860 - Jane Addams was born († 1935). American activist and social worker. 1931 Nobel Prize for Peace laureate.
1861 - American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, which gives the Union control the mouth of the Tennessee River.
1863 - American Civil War: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1869 - Felix Salten was born (d. 1945). Austrian author.
1869 - Muere el político argentino Valentín Alsina. Fue gobernador de la provincia de Buenos Aires en 1857.
1870 - Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming, votes in the morning, becoming the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1874 - Hacen prisionero al Mayor General Calixto García
1876 - John James Richard Macleod was born. English physician. 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine. laureate.
1877 - Buddy Bolden was born (d. 1930). American musician.
1879 - Max Schreck was born (d. 1936). German actor.
1885 - Eugenio Noel (Eugenio Muñoz Diaz) was born. Spanish writer.
1885 - Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria.
1885 - Muere el político e inventor español Narciso Monturiol.
1888 - Charles Turner becomes the first bowler to take 250 wickets in an English season - a feat since accomplished only by Tom Richardson (twice), J.T. Hearne, Wilfred Rhodes (twice) and Tich Freeman (six times).
1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was born (d. 1969). American politician.
1888 - Abd el-Kader was born. Emir algérien.
1890 - Claire Chennault was born (d. 1958). American pilot.
1892 - Sir Edward Appleton was born (d. 1965). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1895 - Mexico: Nace en Lagos Moreno, Jalisco, Ricardo Cobarrubias Chacón, historiador y erudito.
1897 - Di Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 26 Oct 1976). Brazilian painter and caricaturist.
1899 - Emídio Guerreiro, político português († 2005) . Portuguese politician.
1899 - Billy Rose was born (d. 1966). American composer.
1900 - W.A.C. Bennett was born (d. 1979). Canadian politician.
1900 - Julien Green was born. Writer.
1901 - American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1902 - Frederick Augustus Abel dies (b. 1827). English chemist.

1904 - Pedro Homem de Melo was born in Oporto (d. 05 Mar 1984). Portuguese poet.
1904 - Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom was born (d. 1976). American boxer.
1906 - Luis Federico Leloir, was born († 1987). French-born Argentine scientist Premio Nobel de Química en 1970.
1907 - Sully Prudhomme dies (b. 1839). French writer, 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
1907 - Muere Jerónimo de la Osa, escritor panameño.
1911 - Harry Danning was born (d. 2004). Baseball player.
1915 - The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
1918 - Peru : A los 82 años muere Don Pedro M. Barros. Educador.

1920 - Nasce Maria Leonor. Conceituada profissional da rádio portuguesa.
1921 - Carmen Laforet was born. Spanish writer.
1928 - Robert M. Pirsig was born. American author
1929 - Yash Johar was born. Indian film producer
1930 - Golpe militar en Argentina, el general José Félix Uriburu derroca al presidente democrático Hipólito Yrigoyen. Comienza la Década Infame.
1935 - Jacques Desallangre was born. French politician.
1936 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1936 - Francisco Frutos was born. Spanish politician.
1937 - Jo Anne Worley was born. American actress
1937 - Sergio Aragonés was born, Spanish-born illustrator
1937 - Brigid Berlin was born. American actor and artist .
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1938 - España: muere en un accidente automovilístico Alfonso XIII de Borbón (abuelo del actual rey de España).
1939 - World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1939 - Susumu Tonegawa was born. Japanese scientist who was 1987 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate.
1940 - Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1941 - Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jew inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
1943 - Richard J. Roberts was born. British chemist who was 1993 Nobel Prize in Medicine
laureate.
1944 - Roger Waters was born. English musician (Pink Floyd)
1944 - Swoosie Kurtz was born. American actress.
1944 - Libertação da cidade de Bruxelas pelos aliados da Segunda Guerra Mundial.
1945 - Go Nagai was born. Japanese writer.
1947 - Jane Curtin was born. American actress.
1948 - Juliana becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
1949 - Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952 - Gertrude Lawrence dies (b. 1898). English actress.
1953 - Giambattista Baronchelli was born. Italien cyclist.
1954 - Filipinas: Australia, Estados Unidos, Filipinas, Francia, Nueva Zelanda, Pakistán, Reino Unido y Tailandia firman en Manila el tratado de constitución de la Organización del Tratado del Sudeste Asiático.
1955 - Istanbul Pogrom: Istanbul's Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored pogrom.
1957 - José Sócrates was born. Portuguese politician. Prime Minister of Portugal (2005-)
1958 - Jeff Foxworthy was born. American comedian, actor, and author .
1960 - Michael Winslow was born. American actor and comedian.
1960 - El ciclón Donna causa 102 muertos, 200 desaparecidos y unos 550 heridos a su paso por Puerto Rico.
1961 - Paul Waaktaar-Savoy was born. Norwegian guitarist (a-ha)
1962 - Hanns Eisler dies (b. 1898). German-born composer.
1964 - Rosie Perez was born. American actress
1965 - War of 1965: India attacks Pakistan and announces that its forces will capture Lahore (city of Pakistan) in an hour.
1966 - In Cape Town, the South African architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
1966 - Hendrik Verwoerd dies (b. 1901). Prime Minister of South Africa.
1966 - Margaret Sanger dies (b. 1879). American birth control activist.
1966 - Gabino Diego was born. Spanish actor.
1966 - Morte do escritor argentino Nicolás Olivari
1968 - Swaziland becomes independent.
1969 - Arthur Friedenreich dies (b. 18 Jul 1969). Brazilian footballer. One of the top goal scorers of all time.
1970 - Stéphane Guivarc'h was born. Footballer.
1970 - Palestina: Yasser Arafat es nombrado general en jefe de las fuerzas revolucionarias palestinas.
1970 - Four passenger jets are simultaneously hijacked. Two are taken to Dawson's Field.
1970 - Paul Miller, American composer, artist, and author
1971 - Dolores O'Riordan was born. Irish musician (The Cranberries)
1972 - China Miéville was born. English writer
1972 - Munich Massacre: Israeli athletes and coaches are killed when police assault Black September members in a failed hostage rescue in West Germany.
1973 - Greg Rusedski was born. Canadian-born tennis player
1974 - Nina Persson was born. Swedish musician (The Cardigans))
1974 - Justin Whalin was born. American actor
1974 - Tim Henman was born. English tennis player
1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido in Japan and requests political asylum from the United States.

1976 -O escritor português Miguel Torga recebe o Grande Prémio Internacional de Poesia em Hokke-Heist, na Bélgica.
1977 - Polícia sul-africana prende Steve Biko
1978 - Estados Unidos: los presidentes de Egipto, Anwar el-Sadat, e Israel, Menahem Beguin firman los acuerdos de paz para Oriente Medio en Camp David.
1978 - Muere, a los 105 años de edad, Leonora Cohen (1873- 1978), la última de las famosas sufragistas británicas.
1979 - Argentina: la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos llega a Buenos Aires para investigar más de 30.000 asesinatos perpetrados en apenas tres años por el dictador Videla.
1979 - Foxy Brown was born. American rapper.
1982 - O italiano Paolo Rossi recebe da FIFA o prémio de melhor jogador do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol disputado em Espanha
1983 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1983 - Chile: protestas contra los diez años del régimen del dictador Pinochet, con el resultado de 11 muertos, 25 heridos y 200 detenidos.
1984 - Ernest Tubb dies (b. 1914). American singer.
1985 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
1986 - In Istanbul, two Arab terrorists from Abu Nidal's terror organization kill 22 and wound six inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Shabbat services.
1987 - William Haley dies . BBC director (1944-1952).
1990 - Len Hutton dies (b. 1916). English cricketer.
1990 - Tom Fogerty dies (b. 1941). Musician ( Creedence Clearwater Revival).
1990 - Entrada em serviço do Boeing VC-25.
1990 - Muere en Buenos Aires, Argentina, el cuentista, crítico literario, autor teatral y profesor universitario Juan Carlos Ghiano. Había nacido en Nogoyá, Entre Ríos. Fue secretario de la Academia Argentina de Letras.
1991 - The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1991 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1991 - Marruecos: el gobierno acuerda un alto el fuego con el Frente Polisario.
1994 - Nicky Hopkins dies (b. 1944). British musician.
1995 - With the jury absent, Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.
1995 - Cal Ripken Jr. breaks Lou Gehrig's record of playing 2131 consecutive baseball games.
1996 - Eddie Murray becomes the 15th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Oriole Park in Baltimore, Maryland.
1997 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey draws large crowds.
1998 - Akira Kurosawa dies (b. 1910). Japanese film director.
1999 - El motociclista español Alex Crivillé triunfa en el Gran Premio de la Ciudad de Imola, Italia.
2000 - In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
2001 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
2002 - El catedrático español Juan Velarde recibe el Premio Rey Juan Carlos de Economía.
2003 - Harry Goz dies (b. 1932). American actor.
Pakistan - Defence Day
Swaziland - Independence Day
Bulgaria - Unification Day

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A ditadura do fisco ... e o Sporting

"O que se está a passar com o Sporting é uma brutalidade que nem as últimas ditaduras que se tem conhecimento se atreveriam a praticar" (Dias da Cunha).

É a ditadura do fisco.

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On this day in History - Sep 05

1187 - Louis VIII of France was born (d. 1226)
1201 - Constance, Duchess of Brittany dies (b. 1161)
1235 - Henry I, Duke of Brabant dies (b. 1165)
1494 - Ratificação do Tratado de Tordesilhas por Portugal
1548 - Catarina Parr dies (b. 1512). Last wife of Henrique VIII of England.
1568 - Tommaso Campanella was born (d. 1639). Italian theologian, philosopher, and poet.
1629 - Domenico Allegri dies. Italian composer
1638 - Louis XIV of France was born (d. 1715)
1666 - Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1667 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri was born (d. 1733). Italian mathematician.
1695 - Carl Gustaf Tessin was born (d. 1770). Swedish politician.
1698 - In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each.
1735 - Johann Christian Bach was born (d. 1782). German composer.
1750 - Robert Fergusson was born (d. 1774). Scottish poet.
1767 - Nasce, em Hannover, August Wilhelm von Schlegel (m. 12 Jun 1845). Poeta e crítico alemão. Um dos fundadores do Romantismo alemão.
1771 - Archduke Charles was born (d. 1847). Austrian general
1774 - Caspar David Friedrich was born (d. 1840). German artist.
1774 - First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1775 - Nasce Juan Martín Díez (m. 1825), el Empecinado.
1791 - Giacomo Meyerbeer was born (d. 1864). German composer.
1793 - In France, the French National Convention votes to implement terror measures to enforce the principles of the French Revolution, initiating the Reign of Terror.
1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos dies (b. 1741). French general and author.
1803 - François Devienne dies (b. 1759). French composer.
1807 - Richard Chenevix Trench was born (d. 1886). Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist
1827 - Goffredo Mameli was born. Italian poet and writer.

1831 - Victorien Sardu was born (d. 8 Nov 1908). French actor and playwright.
1836 - Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1836 - Ferdinand Raimund dies (b. 1790). Austrian playwright.
1838 - Charles Percier dies (b. 1764). French architect.
1847 - Jesse James was born (d. 1882). American outlaw.
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born (d. 1935). Russian rocket scientist and inventor.
1857 - Auguste Comte dies (b. 1798). French sociologist.
1862 - American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
1867 - Amy Beach was born. American composer and pianist.

1870 - Nascimento de Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada. Político brasileiro.
1874 - Nap Lajoie was born (d. 1959). Baseball player.
1877 - Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1877 - Crazy Horse dies (b. 1849). Sioux chief.
1882 - The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1888 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born (d. 1975). Second President of India.
1892 - Joseph Szigeti was born (d. 1973). Hungarian violinist.
1898 - Sarah Edmonds dies (b. 1841). Canadian nurse, soldier, and spy.
1901 - Ignacij Klemenčič dies (b. 1853). Slovenian physicist.
1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (later renamed Minor League Baseball), is formed in Chicago, Illinois.
1902 - Darryl F. Zanuck was born (d. 1979). American film producer and executive.
1902 - Rudolf Virchow dies (b. 1821). German pathologist and politician.
1905 - Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1983). Writer.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, USA, the Treaty of Portsmouth, a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
1906 - Brandbury Robinson throws the first legal forward pass in an American football game.
1906 - Ludwig Boltzmann dies (b. 1844). Austrian physicist.
1908 - Nasce Josué de Castro. Escritor, geógrafo e nutricionista brasileiro
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr. dies (b. 1845). U.S. Army general.
1912- John Cage was born (d. 1992). American composer.
1912 - Kristina Söderbaum was born (d. 2001). German actress and photographer.
1913 - Frank Thomas was born (d. 2004). American animator.
1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

1914 - Nasce Nicanor Parra. Antipoeta chileno.

1914 - Charles Péguy dies. French poet.
1916 - Frank Yerby was born (d. 1991). American novelist.
1920 - Alvaro Obregón es elegido presidente de México.
1920 - Nasce, no Alvito (Alentejo), o poeta Raul de Carvalho (m. 1984). Entre os seus livros mais representativos, contam-se Mesa da Solidão e A Aliança, ambos vindos a lume na década de 50 do século XX.
1921 - Jack Valenti was born. American political advisor and film executive
1924 - Paul Volcker was born. American banker
1929 - Bob Newhart was born. American actor and comedian
1929 - Andrian Nikolayev was born. Cosmonaut.
1930 - Robert Means Thompson dies (b. 1849). American naval officer.
1932 - El Congreso Mexicano acepta la dimisión del presidente Ortiz Rubio. Le sustituye el general Rodríguez.
1934 - Carol Lawrence was born. American actress and singer
1936 - Bill Mazeroski was born. Baseball player
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
1939 - George Lazenby was born. Australian actor
1939 - William Devane was born. American actor
1939 - Susumu Tonegawa was born. Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1940 - Raquel Welch was born. American actress.

1941 - Nascimento de Rachid Boudjedra. Escritor argelino.
1942 - Werner Herzog was born. German film director
1943 - World War II: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under U.S. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.
1944 - Bélgica, Holanda y Luxemburgo firman el tratado de constitución del Benelux.
1945 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1945 - Al Stewart was born. Scottish singer and songwriter
1946 - Freddie Mercury was born (d. 1991). Zanzibar-born singer Queen
1946 - Loudon Wainwright III was born. American singer and composer
1946 - Buddy Miles was born. American musician.

1946 - Hugo Verboven was born in Lommel (Belgium). Painter

1948 - Benita Ferrero-Waldner was born. Austrian diplomat and politician
1948 - Robert Schuman becomes Prime Minister of France.
1949 - A former sharpshooter in World War II, Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey, with a souvenir Luger to become the first U.S. single-episode mass murderer.
1950 - Cathy Guisewite was born. American cartoonist
1957 - Nasce Luís Marques Mendes. Político e advogado português.
1960 - Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
1960 - Senegal: O poeta Leopoldo Sedar Senghor é eleito presidente.
1960 - O Real Madrid ganha a Taça Intercontinental ao vencer o Peñarol por 5 a 1.
1961 - Brasil: João Goulart chega de viagem à China para ser empossado presidente (v. Campanha da Legalidade)
1961 - Yugoslavia: representantes de 24 países reunem-se em Belgrado para realizar a primeira Conferencia de Países Não Alinhados.
1962 - Peter Wingfield was born. Welsh actor
1963 - Juan Alderete was born. American bassist (Racer X)
1965 - Fundação do Estádio do Mineirão .

1965 - Chris Morris was born. British writer.
1965 - Thomas Johnston dies (b. 1882). Scottish-born politician.
1966 - Dezső Lauber dies (b. 1879). Hungarian athlete.

1967 - Nascimento de Mathias Sammer. Jogador alemão de futebol.
1969 - Dweezil Zappa was born. American musician
1969 - My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1970 - Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province.
1970 - Jochen Rindt dies (b. 1942). Austrian race car driver.
1972 - Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
1973 - Rose McGowan was born. Italian-born actress
1975 - In Sacramento, California, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson named Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
1975 - Georg Ots dies (b. 1920). Estonian singer.
1976 - Tatyana Gutsu was born. Ukrainian gymnast.
1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 - Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
1980 - The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
1983 - The half-hour Robert MacNeil Report changes its name to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, becoming the first hour-long network news show.
1983 - Peter Jennings becomes lead anchor for ABC World News Tonight
1983 - Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for NBC Nightly News
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
1986 - Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
1988 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest bankrupt thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
1988 - Gert Fröbe dies (b. 1913). German actor.
1990 - Ivan Mihailov dies (b. 1896). Bulgarian revolutionary.

1990 - Morte do escritor argentino Juan Oscar Ponferrada (n. 11 May 1907)
1992 - Fritz Leiber dies (b. 1910). American author.
1995 - William Kunstler dies (b. 1919). American lawyer and activist.
1996 - Carl Fallberg dies (b. 1915). American cartoon author.
1997 - Georg Solti dies. Hungarian conductor.
1997 - Mother Teresa dies (b. 1910). Albanian nun and aid worker
1997 - At least 87 people killed in the Beni-Messous massacre
1998 - Leo Penn dies (b. 1921). American film director.

1998 - Allen Drury dies. American writer.
1999 - Allen Funt dies (b. 1914). American radio and television personality.
2000 - Tuvalu é admitido como Estado-membro das Nações Unidas.
2001 - Vladimir Zerjavic dies (b. 1912). Croatian UN statistician.
2000 - Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
2001 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
2001 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2002 - A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
2002 - The Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, United States, which burned 499,570 acres (2,020 km²), is finally contained.

2003 - Tropas israelitas matam o dirigente do Hamas, Mohammed Hanbali.
2003 - Gisele MacKenzie dies (b. 1927). Canadian singer.
2003 - Furacão Fabian chega às Bermudas.
2004 - Future Hurricane Ivan becomes a Hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
The feast day of Teresa of Calcutta, currently pending sainthood.
The birthdate of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India

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Ilusões - Medeiros e Albuquerque

Velas fugindo pelo mar em fora...
Velas ... pontos - depois ... depois, vazia
a curva azul do mar, onde, sonora,
canta do vento a triste salmodia...

Partem pandas e brancas... Vem a aurora
e vem a noite após, muda e sombria...
E, se em porto distante a frota ancora,
é p'ra partir de novo em outro dia...

Assim as Ilusões. Chegam, garbosas,
palpitam sonhos, desabrocham rosas
na esteira azul das peregrinas frotas...

Chegam... Ancoram n'alma um só momento;
logo, as velas abrindo, amplas ao vento,
fogem p'ra longe solidões remotas.

Medeiros e Albuquerque (n. Recife 4 Set 1897; m. Rio de Janeiro 9 Jun 1934)
in A Circulatura do Quadrado:
Alguns dos mais belos poemas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa
(Edição Unicepe)

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On this day in History - Sep 04

0476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.

0799 - Musa al-Kazim dies (b. 0745). Shia Imam.

1241 - King Alexander III of Scotland was born (d. 1286)
1260 - The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.

1479 - Assinatura do Tratado de Alcáçovas, entre D. Afonso V e os reis católicos, Isabel de Castela e Fernando de Aragão, que pôs fim à Guerra da Sucessão de Castela. O rei de Portugal reconheceu Isabel como rainha de Castela, em vez da sua sobrinha D. Joana, a Excelente Senhora, conhecida em Espanha como a Beltraneja, por ser considerada filha de um D. Beltrão e não do rei Henrique IV, e da infanta de Portugal, D. Joana, filha do rei D. Duarte.
1563 - Wanli was born (d. 1620). Emperor of China.
1596 - Constantijn Huygens was born (d. 1687). Dutch poet and composer
1768 - François Rene Chateaubriand was born (d. 1848). French writer and diplomat.

1780 - John Fielding dies (b. 1721). English magistrate and social reformer.

1781 - The city of Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk was born (d. 1891). First Lady of the United States

1804 - Richard Somers dies. American naval officer
1810 - Donald McKay was born. Shipbuilder.
1824 - Anton Bruckner was born (d. 1896). Austrian composer.
1832 - Antonio Agliardi was born (d. 1915). Italian diplomat.
1851 - John Dillon was born (d. 1927). Irish nationalist.

1852 - William MacGillivray dies (b. 1796). Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.

1865 - Inicio do governo de Joaquim António de Aguiar como Primeiro-Ministro de Portugal

1867 - Nasce no Recife José Joaquim de Campos Medeiros e Albuquerque (m. 9 Jun 1934). Republicano e abolicionista, foi poeta, contista, romancista, político e conferencista. Foi um dos primeiros poetas brasileiros a revelar conhecimentos da estética simbolista. É o autor da letra do Hino da República Federal Brasileira.

1987 - Bill Bowes dies (b. 1908). English cricketer.
1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1886 - Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
1891 - Fritz Todt was born (d. 1942). Nazi official.
1892 - Darius Milhaud was born (d. 1974). French composer.
1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
1895 - Nigel Bruce was born (d. 1953). English actor.
1896 - Antonin Artaud was born (d. 1948). French playwright, actor, and director.
1905 - Mary Renault was born (d. 1983). English novelist.
1906 - Max Delbrück was born (d. 1981). German biologist.

1907 - Edvard Grieg dies (b. 1843). Norwegian composer.
1908 - Richard Wright was born (d. 1960). American writer.
1908 - Edward Dmytryk was born (d. 1999). American film director.

1911 - Inicio do governo de José Pinheiro Chagas como Primeiro-ministro de Portugal

1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre dies (b. 1832). Spanish writer.

1918 - Paul Harvey was born. American radio broadcaster
1920 - Teddy Johnson was born. British singer
1923 - In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
1924 - Joan Aiken was born (d. 2004). English writer.
1925 - Forrest Carter was born. American author

1928 - Dick York was born (d. 1992). American actor.

1931 - Aldo Rossi was born (d. 1997). Italian architect.

1931 - Mitzi Gaynor was born. Actress, dancer.

1932 - Dinsdale Landen was born (d. 2003). English actor.

1937 - Dawn Fraser was born. Australian swimmer

1940 - World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result.

1941 - Sushilkumar Shinde was born. Indian politician.

1941 - Marilena de Souza Chauí was born. Brazilian philosopher and educator

1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armored Division liberate the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
1945 - World War II: Japanese forces surrender on Wake Island after hearing word of their nation's surrender.

1946 - Gary Duncan was born. American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1946 - Greg Elmore was born. American drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1948 - Samuel Hui was born. Hong Kong singer
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
1949 - Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon
1949 - Tom Watson was born. Golfer.
1950 - The "Beetle Bailey" comic strip begins.
1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1955 - The first-ever match in the European Champion Clubs' Cup was played on this day. Lisbon's Estádio Nacional was the setting, Sporting Clube de Portugal and FK Partizan of Belgrade the teams in opposition and the final score was 3-3.
1957 - Nine black students attempted to enter Little Rock's Central High School but were blocked by the National Guard. Arkansas governor Orval Faubus had summoned the federal troops.
1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
1957 - Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.

1957 - Khandi Alexander was born. American actress
1957 - Patricia Tallman was born. American actress
1959 - Kevin Harrington was born. Australian actor
1960 - Damon Wayans was born. American actor and comedian
1963 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland killing all on board.
1964 - Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.

1965 - Albert Schweitzer dies (b. 1875). German physician.
1967 - The last new episode of the television sitcom Gilligan's Island airs on CBS-TV.
1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins - The United States Marines launch a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.

1968 - Mike Piazza was born. baseball player
1970 - Daisy Dee was born. West Indian-born singer and actress
1970 - Igor Cavalera was born. Brazilian drummer (Sepultura) .

1970 - Salvador Allende ganha as eleições presidenciais no Chile.
1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska killing all 111 people on board.
1971 - The Lawrence Welk Show airs its last show.
1972 -U. S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh gold medal at the Munich Summer Olympics.
1972 - The Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker, returns to television with a new format on CBS. Over three decades later, it continues to air and give away prizes galore.

1973 - Jason David Frank was born. American actor

1974 - Marcel Achard dies (b. 1899). French playwright.
1977 - E. F. Schumacher dies (b. 1911). German economist and statistician.
1977 - Ian Grushka was born. American musician (New Found Glory)
1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, was born.American singer.

1989 - Ronald Syme dies (b. 1903). New Zealand-born classicist and historian.

1994 - George Simenon dies (b. 1903). Belgium writer.

1995 - Paulo Gracindo dies (b. 1911). Brazilian actor.

1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1996 - War on Drugs: Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.
1997 - In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird rolls off the assembly line.
1997 - A U.S. Air Force C-141 cargo plane and a German TU-154 collide in mid-air over southwest Africa killing 33.

2003 - Tibor Varga dies (b. 1921). Hungarian violinist and conductor.

2004 - Flórida é atingida pelo furacão Ivan

Father's Day in Australia and New Zealand (2005)

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2006 FIFA World Cup Qualifying - Europe

Results of the Games played Today

Group 1
Andorra 0 - 0 Finland
Romania 2 - 0 Czech Republic (two goals of Adrian Mutu)
Armenia 0 - 1 Netherlands

1º Netherland 25 points 9 Games
2º. Romania 22 p. 11 G
3º.Czech Republic 21 9 G

Group 2
Albania 2 - 1 Kazakhstan
Georgia 1 - 1 Ukraine
Turkey 2 - 2 Denmark

1º Ukraine 26 p 10 G (already qualified)
2º. Turkey 17 p 10 G
3º. Greece 15 p 9 G

Group 3
Portugal 6 - 0 Luxembourg
Russia 2 - 0 Liechtenstein
Estonia 2 -1 Latvia

1º. Portugal 23 p 9 G
2º. Slovakia 18 p 9 G
3º. Russia 18 p 9 G

Group 4
Switzerland 1 -1 Israel
France 3 - 0 Faroe Islands (Cissé scored two goals)
1ºs. Switzerland , France and Republic Ireland all with 13 points and 7 Games played
4º. Israel 12 points 8 Games

Group 5
Scotland 1 -1 Italy
Moldova 2 -0 Belarus
Slovenia 2 - 3 Norway

1º Italy 14 p 7 G
2º. Norway 12 p 7 G
3º. Slovenia 9 p 7 G

Group 6
Poland 3 - 2 Austria
Wales 0-1 England
Northern Ireland 2 - 0 Azerbaijan

1º. Poland 21 points 8 Games
2º. England 19 p 7 G
3º. Austria 11 p 7 G

Group 7
Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 - 0 Belgium
Serbia and Montenegro 2-0 Lithuania (Kežman brilliant in Belgrade)

1º. Servia and Montenegro 15 p 7 G
2º. Spain 13 p 7 G
3º. Bosnia-Kerzegovina 10 p 7 G

Group 8
Sweden 3 - 0 Bulgaria
Iceland 1 -3 Croatia
Hungary 4 - 0 Malta

1º. Croatia 19 p 7 G
2º. Sweden 18 p 7 G
3º. Hungary 13 p 7 G

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Fifa World Cup - Germany 2006 - Europe Qualifying Group 3 : Portugal one more step forward

Portugal 6 - 0 Luxembourg

No Estádio do Algarve Portugal goleou, como se esperava, a frágil equipa do Luxemburgo, ultrapassando os 5-0 do jogo do Luxemburgo, ao marcar agora mais um golo. O resultado ao intervalo era de 3-0 com golos de Jorge Andrade, Ricardo Carvalho e Pauleta. Os dois primeiros de cabeça na sequência de bolas paradas o 3º. num chapéu esplendoroso de Pauleta depois de um lançamento longo de Jorge Andrade

Na 2ª parte Scolari foi substituindo jogadores (Maniche por João Moutinho, logo na reentrada e mais tarde Criatiano Ronaldo por Simão e Deco por Hélder Postiga), mas a superioridade portuguesa foi sempre inquestionável.

Pauleta fez o 4º. após assistencia de João Moutinho que ganhara um ressalto feliz; o 5º. na marcação de um liovre directo por Simão Sabrosa e o 6º. também por Simão com a bola a ser desviada pelo braço dum defesa luxemburguês e com o guarda-redes, com culpas, a deixar entrar a bola na baliza.

Os luxemburgueses logo no início ainda beneficiaram de dois campos e obrigaram Ricardo logo aos 3' a uma defesa difícil, mas depois limitaram-se a defender procurando não sofrer muitos golos.

O árbitro holandês também parecia que não queria muitos golos e deixou passar duas grandes penalidades flagrantes, mostrando até no 1º. lance o cartão amarelo a Deco.

O público gostou da exibição da selecção portuguesa que atingiu bom nível principalmente na 1ª. parte com Deco a distinguir-se em lances de pura magia.

Ficha do jogo:

Estádio do Algarve Espect.: 26340

PORTUGAL - Ricardo; Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Andrade e Nuno Valente; Costinha e Manichen (46'); Figo, Deco (66') e Cristiano Ronaldo (60'); Pauleta. Jogaram ainda: João Moutinho (46'), Simão Sabrosa (60') e Hélder Postiga(66')

LUXEMBURGO - Marc Oberweis; Federspiel, Heinz, Benoit Lang (39'), Reiter, Leweck, Strasser, Sebastien Remy (68'), Carlo Pace (61'), Collette e Hoffmann. Jogaram ainda Schnell (39') , Chris Sagramola (61') e Ernard Sabotic (68').

Cartão Amarelo para Reiter (15'), Deco (28') e Alphonse Leweck (56')

Na próxima 4ª. feira temos um jogo importante com a Rússia, em Moscovo, Rússia que hooje bateu em casa o Liechtenstein por 2-0.

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Nothingandall - Happy Birthday : Um ano de Vida

Foi há precisamente um ano que este blog nasceu. Nunca imaginaria o papel e a importancia que a simples curiosidade que na altura tinha ( o que é isso de ter um blog ?) passou a representar na minha vida. As horas livres ( e não só...) passaram a estar todas ocupadas. Não sei até quando vai durar... Mas mais de 160.000 páginas visitadas ao fim dum ano é obra!

Quero agradecer especialmente a todos os meus amigos visitantes habituais, toda a gentileza e comentários de apoio, mas também para todos os que por aqui passam anonimamente... deixo ficar uma palavra de agradecimento.

Agradecimento extensivo ao Blogger (sem o qual o mesmo nem sequer existia) e a todos os directórios, motores de busca, etc, que incluem este humilde blog nos seus directórios ou listagens.

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On this day in History - Sep 03

0301 - San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.
0590 - St. Gregory I becomes Pope.
1189 - Richard I of England is crowned in Westminster.
1260 - The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
1384 - Portugal : Fim do cerco de Lisboa (Crise de 1383-1385)
1474 - Ariosto was born (d. 1533). Italian poet.
1499 - Diane de Poitiers was born (d. 1566). Mistress of Henri II of France.
1568 - Adriano Banchieri was born (d. 1634). Italian composer.
1651 - English Civil War: Battle of Worcester - Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
1653 - Roger North was born (d. 1 Mar 1734). English lawyer, historian and biographer
1653 - Claudius Salmasius dies (b. 1588). French classical scholar.
1658 - Oliver Cromwell dies (b. 1599). Lord Protector of England.
1662 - William Lenthall dies (b. 1591). English politician.
1675 - Paul Dudley was born (d. 1751). Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
1693 - Charles Radclyffe was born (d. 1746). British politician.
1695 - Pietro Locatelli was born (d. 1764). Italian composer.
1720 - Henri de Massue dies (b. 1648). Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat.
1729 - Jean Hardouin dies (b. 1646). French scholar.
1758 - José I de Portugal escapa a uma tentativa de regicídio da qual resulta o Processo dos Távoras
1759 - Em Portugal, D. José I (conhecido pelo cognome O Reformador) procedeu à abolição da Companhia de Jesus.
1766 - Archibald Bower dies (b. 1686). Scottish historian.
1777- The Flag of the United States flies in battle for the first time, at Cooch's Bridge in Maryland.
1781 - Eugène de Beauharnais was born (d. 1824). Son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine.
1783 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
1798 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1810 - Paul Kane was born (d. 1871). Canadian painter.
1811 - John Humphrey Noyes was born (d. 13 Apr 1886). American founder of the Oneida Community
1814 - Mark Hopkins was born (d. 29 Mar 1878). American capitalist; helped build Central Pacific Railroad
1826 - The USS Vincennes commanded by William Finch, leaves New York City to become first United States warship to circumnavigate globe.
1830 - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach was born (d. 1916). Austrian novelist.
1838 - Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.
1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett was born (d. 24 Jun 1909). American writer.
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men, women, and children.
1856 - Louis Henry Sullivan was born. American architect
1857 - John McLoughlin dies (b. 1784). Canadian trapper.
1859 - Jean-Léon Jaurés was born. French socialist politician.
1860 - Edward Filene was born (d. 26 Sep 1937). American department-store entrepreneur and philanthropist
1861 - American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
1869 - Fritz Pregl was born (d. 1930). Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1874 - The congress of the state of México elevates Naucalpan to the category of Villa, with the title of "Villa de Juárez".
1875 - Ferdinand Porsche was born (d.1951). German automotive engineer.
1878 - Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
1883 - António Sérgio (de Sousa) was born in Damão, India (d. 1969). Portuguese polygraph writer and essayst. [Considerações Histórico-filosoficas (1916); Ensaios (1920); O Desejado (1924); Antero de Quental e António Vieira (1948), Cartas ao Terceiro Homem (1953-57); ... ].
1883 - Ivan Turgenev dies (b. 1818). Russian author.
1887 - Frank Christian was born (d. 1973). American musician.
1888 - Nereu Ramos was Born (d. 1958). President of Brazil
1888 - Thomas Milton Rivers was born (d. 12 May 1962). American virologist; helped to develop the polio vaccine.
1893 - James Harrison dies (b. 1816). Scottish-born inventor.
1895 - The first professional football game is played, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, between the Latrobe YMCA and the Jeannette Athletic Club. (Latrobe won the contest 12-0).
1897 - Francisco Mignone was born (d. 1986). Brazilian composer and conductor
1899 - Sir Macfarlane Burnet was born (d. 31 Aug 1985). Australian Nobel Prize-winning (1960)physician and virologist
1900 - Maurice Dobb was born (d. 1976). Economist.
1900 - Urho Kekkonen was born (d. 1986). Eighth President of Finland.
1902 - Popular author Sarah Orne Jewett is thrown out of a carriage, virtually ending her writing career.
1903 - Joseph Skipsey dies (b. 1832). British poet.
1905 - Carl David Anderson was born (d. 1901). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1907 - Loren Eiseley was born (d. 1977). American anthropologist.
1908 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin was born (d. 1988). Russian mathematician.
1910 - Kitty Carlisle was born. American actress and television personality
1913 - Alan Ladd was born (d. 1964). American actor.
1914 - Papacy of Giacomo della Chiesa began. He becomes pope Benedict XV.
1914 - Albéric Magnard dies (b. 1865). French composer.
1916 - Eddie Stanky was born (d. 1999). Baseball player.
1918 - Helen Wagner was born. American actress.
1921 - Thurston Dart was born (d. 1971). English harpsichordist and conductor.
1923 - Mort Walker was born. American cartoonist
1929 - Irene Papas was born. Greek film actress
1930 - Cherry Wilder was born (d. 2002). New Zealand author.
1931 - Dick Motta was born. American basketball coach
1931 - Paulo Maluf was born. Brazilian politician
1933 - Tompall Glaser was born. American singer
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH.
1938 - Caryl Churchill was born. English playwright
1938 - Ryoji Noyori was born. Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Eileen Brennan was born. American actress.
1939 - World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany.
1940 - Eduardo Galeano was born. Uruguayan journalist
1942 - Al Jardine was born. American musician (the Beach Boys)
1943 - Valerie Perrine was born. American actress
1943 - World War II: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces for the first time in the war.
1947 - Kjell Magne Bondevik was born. Prime Minister of Norway
1948 - Edvard Beneš dies (b. 1884). President of Czechoslovakia.
1949 - Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria was born (d. 2004)
1949 - José Pekerman was born. Argentine football coach.
1950 - Racing inaugura en Avellaneda, provincia de Buenos Aires, su estadio de fútbol actual. Diseñado para más de 100.000 espectadores, es uno de los más grandes de Argentina.
1951 - The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
1954 - The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
1954 - The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy
1955 - Steve Jones was born. English musician (Sex Pistols)
1958 - In Greece, police starts shaving the hair of youths called "teddy boys" to the skin.
1959 - Merritt Butrick was born (d. 1989). American actor.
1962 - E. E. Cummings dies (b. 1894). American poet.
1963 - Amber Lynn was born. American actress
1964 - Adam Curry was born. Internet entrepreneur
1964 - Stewart Holbrook dies (b. 1893). American author.
1965 - Charlie Sheen was born. American actor.
1966 - The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
1967 - The last telecast of the television game show What's My Line? airs on CBS after a 17 year run.
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam under a new constituition.
1967 - Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right.
1967 - Woody Guthrie dies (b. 1912). American musician and songwriter.
1967 - James Dunn dies (b. 1905). American actor.
1969 - Ho Chi Minh dies (b. 1890). Vietnamese revolutionary.
1969 - John Fugelsang was born. American actor.
1969 - Dominic West was born. British actor.
1970 - Vince Lombardi dies (b. 1913). American football coach.
1971 - Qatar regains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 - Jennifer Paige was born. Singer.
1974 - Harry Partch dies (b. 1901). American composer.
1976 - Vivek Oberoi was born. Indian actor.
1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
1978 - Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979 - Julio Cesar was born. Brazilian footballer.
1980 - Danny King was born. American writer.
1980 - Duncan Renaldo dies (b. 1904). American actor.
1981 - Alec Waugh dies (b. 1898). English writer.
1982 - Fearne Cotton was born. British television presenter
1982 - Andrew McMahon was born. American singer-songwriter
1986 - Shaun White was born. American snowboarder and skateboarder.
1991 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
1991 - Frank Capra dies (b. 1897). American film director.
1994 - James T. Aubrey dies (b. 1918). American television executive.
1994 - Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
1997 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
1997 - A Vietnamese Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
1998 - Espartaco Santoni dies. Venezuelan actor and producer.
2001 - Pauline Kael dies (b. 1919). American film critic.
2001 - Thuy Trang dies (b. 1973). American actress.

2002 -W. Clement Stone dies (b. 1902). American best selling author and founder of Combined Insurance Co (now a part of Aon Corp.)
2003 - Gilberto Gil recebe o Grammy Latino prémio de Personalidade do Ano, Miami
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill dies (b. 1954). American anti-abortion murderer.
Independence Day in Qatar
2004 -A three-day hostage siege at a school in Beslan, Russia, ended in bloody chaos after Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building; more than 330 people were killed.
2004 - The Beslan school massacre results in the deaths of approximately 344 teachers and children.
2004 - Jennifer Hawkins, Miss Universe, experiences a wardrobe malfunction while modelling at Westfield Shopping Mall, Parramatta, Australia
2004 - The blog Nothingandall is created when the first post Russian troops in Beslan's School is published.

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Katrina : A natural phenomenon or a punishment of God ?

Hurricane Katrina was a powerful hurricane that caused extensive and severe damage over 90,000 square miles (200,000 km²) of the southeastern United States (an area equivalent to Great Britain). Katrina will likely be judged as the worst natural disaster to hit the United States to date. Was this simply a natural phenomenon or was it a punishment of God ?

1 - It was a natural catastrophe. God isn't called in this matter.

2 - It was a punishment of God :
a) Against Human being iniquity in general
b) Against USA in general
c) Against the American people for supporting Bush and his politics.
d) To show who commands

Give me your opinion.

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On this day in History - Sep 02

44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
31 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. / Octávio, um dos membros do triunvirato que governava Roma, derrotou as forças navais de Marco António e de Cleópatra, rainha do Egipto, na Batalha de Actium, ao largo da costa do Épiro na parte ocidental da Grécia.
0421 - Constantius III dies. Roman Emperor .

1192 - Los cruzados, derrotados, firman un armisticio con Saladino, el sultán de Egipto.
1274 - Prince Munetaka dies (b. 1242). Japanese shogun
1397 - Francesco Landini dies. Italian composer
1540 - Lebna Dengel dies (b. 1501). Emperor of Ethiopia
1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi was born (d. 1616). Italian architect
1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
1652 - Jose de Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto) dies. Spanish painter.
1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
1675 - William Somervile was born (d. 1742). English poet.
1680 - Per Brahe (the younger) dies (b. 1602). Swedish soldier and statesman
1688 - Robert Viner dies (b. 1631). Lord Mayor of London.
1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1615)
1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1764- Revd Nathaniel Bliss dies (d. 1700). English Astronomer Royal
1789 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.

1792 - Nascimento de Vicente Ramón Roca Rodríguez. Presidente do Equador

1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
1805 - Esteban Echeverría was born in Buenos Aires (d. 18 Jan 1851). Argentine poet and politician. [ Consuelos (1834); Rimas (1837) ; Manual de Enseñanza Moral (1846)]
1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1814 - Ernst Curtius was born (d. 11 Jul 1896). German archaeologist; directed the excavation of Olympia
1820 - Jiaqing dies (b. 1760). Emperor of China
1830 - William P. Frye was born. American politician
1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach dies (b. 1854). Austrain astronomer
1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
1834 - Thomas Telford dies (b. 1757). Scottish civil engineer.

1836 - Anton Braith was born (d. 1905). German painter
1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii was born (d. 1917). Queen of Hawaii

1840 - Giovanni Verga was born in Catania (d. 27 Jan 1922). Italian novelist and playwright

1845 - Bernardino Rivadavia dies. First President of Argentine (1826-1827).
1850 - Albert Spalding was born (d. 1915). Baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald was born (d. 1932). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1862 - Franjo Krežma was born (d. 1881). Croatian violinist
1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
1865 - William Rowan Hamilton dies (b. 1805)., Irish mathematician
1867 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

1876 - Morre José Fontana (n. 1841). Um dos fundadores do Partido Socialista. Iniciador do movimento operário em Portugal.
1877 - Frederick Soddy was born (d. 1956). Nobel Prize laureate in 1921.

1882 - Venezuela: Fallece El General De Brigada Francisco Mejia (n. 4 Oct 1798).
1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach was born (d. 1970). Christian missionary.
1885 - É inaugurada a cadeia Penitenciária de Lisboa (Portugal).
1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.

1894 - Joseph Roth was born (d. 27 May 1939). Austrian writer
1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
1898 - Wilford Woodruff dies (b. 1807). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1900 - Entra em funcionamento um cabo telegráfico entre Borkun e Nova York, que passa pelas ilhas dos Açores.
1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1917 - Cleveland Amory was born (d. 1998). Author.
1917 - Laurindo de Almeida was born. Brazilian violonist and composer.

1921 - Julio Adalberto Rivera was born. President of El Salvador (1962 - 1967)
1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas dies (b. 1855). Croatian-American oil exploration pioneer
1921 - Henry Austin Dobson dies (b. 1840). English poet
1923 - Rene Thom was born (d. 2002). French mathematician.
1924 - Daniel arap Moi was born. President of Kenya.
1929 - Hal Ashby was born (d. 1988). American film director.

1930 - O general José Félix Uriburu toma o poder na Argentina, após derrubar o presidente Hipólito Irigoyen.
1932 - Renuncia al cargo de Presidente de México don Pascual Ortiz Rubio.

1932 - Alberto Guerrero Martínez assume a presidência do Equador
1934 - Alcide Nunez dies (b. 1884). American musician
1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
1936 - Andrew Grove was born. American computer chip manufacturer.
1937 - Pierre de Coubertin dies (b. 1863). French founder of the modern Olympic Games.

1938 - Nasce, na Figueira da Foz. Eduardo Nery. Pintor ( abstratizante e geometrista) português.
1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

1940 - Regis Debray was born. French writer and politician.
1941 - David Bale was born (d. 2003). South African-born activist.
1943 - José Álvaro Morais was born in Coimbra (d. 30 Jan 2004). Portuguese film director (Quaresma -2003; Peixe-Lua - 2000 aka the Moonfish; Bobo, O -1987 aka The jester)
1944 - Al Matthews was born (d. 2002). American actor.
1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. / Com a declaração de vitória dos aliados, feita pelo Presidente americano Truman, após a assinatura da rendição incondicional do Japão, a Segunda Guerra Mundial terminou oficialmente
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an Republic independent, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
1947 - Assinatura do Tratado Interamericano de Asistencia Recíproca (TIAR) no Rio de Janeiro.
1948 - Terry Bradshaw was born. American football player
1948 - Christa McAuliffe was born (d. 1986). American schoolteacher and astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion .
1950 - Rosanna DeSoto was born. American actress
1951 - Mark Harmon was born. American actor
1952 - Alain Giresse was born. French footballer.
1952 - Jimmy Connors was born. American tennis player
1953 - John Zorn was born. American musician
1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV dies (b. 1883). U.S. general
1960 - Arnaldo Antunes was born. Brazilian music and poet.

1961 - Brasil : O Congresso aprova a emenda constitucional que institui o regime parlamentarista. Assim, João Goulart pôde assumir a presidência depois da renúncia de Jânio Quadros.
1961 - Oscar Magrini was born. Brazilian actor.
1961 - Eric Dickerson was born. American football player
1961 - Carlos Valderrama was born. Colombian footballer
1963 - CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.

1964 - Morre Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes (n. 12 Abr 1894). Presidente da República Portuguesa entre 1951 e 1958.
1964 - Keanu Reeves was born. American actor.
1964 - Alvin York dies (b. 1887). Most decorated American soldier of World War I
1965 - Lennox Lewis was born. Canadian-British boxer
1966 - Salma Hayek was born. Mexican actress

1966 - Olivier Panis was born. French F1 car racer

1967 - Andreas Möller was born. Gernman footballer.

1967 - The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declares its independence.
1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey was born. American singer
1969 - Ho Chi Minh dies (b. 1890). Vietmamese president and prime minister.

1970 - O parlamento indiano anula os privilégios dos 279 marajás do país, igualando-os aos cidadãos normais.
1971 - Tommy Maddox was born. American football player
1972 - Sergei Zholtok was born. Latvian hockey player
1973 - John R. R. Tolkien dies (b. 1892). British writer
1973 - Carl Dudley dies (b. 1910). American movie director
1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak dies (b. 1934). Polish poet and dramatist
1976 - Phil Lipscomb was born. American bassist Taproot .

1978 - Juan L. Ortiz dies (b. 11 Jun 1896). Argentine poet. [El agua y la noche" (1924-1932); "El alba sube..." (1933-1936); "El ángel inclinado" (1938); "La rama hacia el este" (1940); "El álamo y el viento" (1947); "El aire conmovido" (1949); "La mano infinita" (1951); "La brisa profunda" (1954); "El alma y las colinas" (1956); "De las raíces y del cielo" (1958); "En el aura del sauce" (Obras completas 1970-1971, incluye "El junco y la corriente", "El Gualeguay" y "La orilla que se abisma"].

1979 - Nascimento de Anderson Corrêa Polga. Jogador brasileiro de futebol que representa actualmente o Sporting Club de Portugal

1980 - Brasil: Ouro Preto, em Minas Gerais, é considerada pela UNESCO como Património Histórico da Humanidade.
1981 - Andrija Maurovic dies (b. 1901). Croatian illustrator
1982 - Robert Hall was born. Bearded gentleman who wouldn't believe me.
1987 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
1990 - Transnistria declares its independence from Moldova, however Moldova does not recognize it.
1990 - Iraq invade el emirato de Kuwait. El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU condena la invasión. 1991 - Alfonso García Robles dies (b. 1911). Mexican diplomat and pacifist; delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament; former Secretary for Foreign Affairs and pacifist. He shared The Nobel Peace Prize 1982 with Alva Myrdal

1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1992 - Barbara McClintock dies (b. 1902). American geneticist .

1995 - Vaclav Neumann dies (b. 29 Sep 1920). Czech conductor.
1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
1997 - Rudolph Bing dies (b. 1902). Austrian-born opera manager
1998 - Allen Drury dies (b. 1918). American author.
1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
1998 - A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
2000 - Elvera Sanchez dies (d. 1905). Puerto Rican dancer
2000 - Curt Siodmak dies (b. 1907). German-born author
2001 - Christiaan Barnard dies (b. 1922). South African heart surgeon.
2001 - Troy Donahue dies (b. 1936). American actor.
2001 - Cartoon Network begins its adult-oriented block, Adult Swim.
2002 - Dick Reynolds dies (b. 1915). Australian Rules player and coach
2004 - Joan Oró dies (b. 26 Oct 1923). Catalan scientist
Vietnam - National Day
Mauritius - Ganesh Chaturthi
Transnistria - Independence day, note Transnistria is not a recognized independent state

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FUI AL RÍO - Juan L. Ortiz

Fui al río, y lo sentía
cerca de mí, enfrente de mí.
Las ramas tenían voces
que no llegaban hasta mí.
La corriente decía
cosas que no entendía.
Me angustiaba casi.
Quería comprenderlo,
sentir qué decía el cielo vago y pálido en él
con sus primeras sílabas alargadas,
pero no podía.

Regresaba
-¿Era yo el que regresaba?-
en la angustia vaga
de sentirme solo entre las cosas últimas y secretas.
De pronto sentí el río en mí,
corría en mí
con sus orillas trémulas de señas,
con sus hondos reflejos apenas estrellados.
Corría el río en mí con sus ramajes.
Era yo un río en el anochecer,
y suspiraban en mí los árboles,
y el sendero y las hierbas se apagaban en mí.
Me atravesaba un río, me atravesaba un río!

Juan L. Ortiz (n. 11 Jun 1896 Puerto Ruíz (Entre Ríos),Argentina ; m. 2 Sep 1978)

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On this day in History - Sep 01

5509 BC - The world was created, according to the Byzantine Empire.
0462 - possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle
0921 - Richard, Duke of Burgundy dies.
1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders dies.
1157 - King Richard I of England was born (d. 1199)
1159 - Morte do Papa Adriano IV
1159 - Pope Adrian IV dies.
1181 - Início do pontificado do Papa Lucio III
1532 - Lady Anne Boleyn is created Marchioness of Pembroke by her fiancée, King Henry VIII of England
1557 - Jacques Cartier dies (b. 1491). French explorer.
1574 - Guru Amar Das dies (b. 1479). Third Sikh Guru.
1581 - Guru Ram Das dies (b. 1534). Fourth Sikh Guru.
1644 - Battle of Tippermuir, Montrose defeats Elcho's Covenanters, reviving Royalist cause
1648 - Marin Mersenne dies (b. 1588). French mathematician.
1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina was born (d. 1694). Tsaritsa of Russia.
1653 - Johann Pachelbel was born (d. 1706). German composer.
1685 - Leoline Jenkins dies (b. 1625). Welsh lawyer and diplomat.
1687 - Henry Morse dies (b. 1614). English philosopher.
1711 - William Boyce was born (d. 1779). English composer.
1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years — longer than any major European monarch.
1715 - François Girardon dies (b. 1628). French sculptor.
1715- King Louis XIV (Ludovic) of France dies (b. 1638)
1734 - Joseph Wright of Derby was born (d. 1797). English painter.
1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1807 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason.
1818 - Nascimento de José María Castro Madriz. Presidente da Costa Rica (1847-1849 e 1866-1868)
1821 - Morte do botânico francês Antoine Gouan
1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

1851 - Cuba, es fusilado en La Habana el dirigente de la insurrección cubana Narciso López.
1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck was born (d. 1921). German composer.
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly - Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.

1863 - Nascimento de João Pinheiro Chagas. Político e jornalista português.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
1870 - Cirilo Antonio Rivarola Acosta assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Paraguai
1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "Molly Maguires", to disband.
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs was born (d. 1950). American writer.
1877 - Francis William Aston was born (d. 1945). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1922.
1880 - Fernando Arturo de Meriño assume a presidência da República Dominicana
1882 - Ulises Heureaux assume a presidência da República Dominicana
1884 - Francisco Gregorio Billini assume a presidência da República Dominicana
1885 - D H Lawrence was born (d. 1930). English writer.
1886 - Nascimento de Tarsila do Amaral. Pintora brasileira.
1887 - Blaise Cendrars was born (d. 1961). Swiss writer.
1888 - Andrija Štampar was born (d. 1958). Croatian physician and World Health Organization diplomat.
1889 - Richard Arlen was born (d. 1976). American actor.
1894 - Great Hinckley Fire: A forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota kills more than 400 people.
1897- The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1905 - Elvera Sanchez was born (d. 2000). Puerto Rican dance.
1906 - Joaquín Balaguer was born (d. 2002). President of the Dominican Republic.
1907 - Walter Reuther was born (d. 1970). American labor union leader.
1910 - Fundação do Futebol Clube Corinthians Paulista (Brasil).
1910 - William Osgood Aydelotte was born. American sociologist
1906 - the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.
1910 - James Frederick Bonner was born. American scientist
1911 - Emilio Estrada assume a presidência do Equador.
1912 - Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador
1913 - Christian Nyby was born (d. 1993). American director and film editor.
1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. 1916 - Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Equador
1918 - Nascimento de Alfredo Ceschiatti. Escultor brasileiro
1918 - Nascimento de Otacílio dos Santos Colares. Escritor e jornalista brasileiro
1920 - José Luis Tamayo assume a presidência do Equador.

1920 - Nasce Jacinto do Prado Coelho. Professor universitário e ensaísta português.
1920 - Richard Farnsworth was born (d. 2000). American actor.
1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans was born (d. 1995). Dutch writer.
1922 - Yvonne De Carlo was born. Canadian actress
1922 - Vittorio Gassman was born (d. 2000). Italian actor.
1923 - Rocky Marciano was born (d. 1969). American boxer.
1923 - An earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama killing about 100,000 people. See Great Kanto earthquake for details.
1923 - Fundação do Avaí Futebol Clube (SC)
1924 - Gonzalo S. Córdova assume a presidência do Equador
1924 - Nascimento de Gustavo Bueno Martínez . Filósofo espanhol.
1925 - Inauguração do Banco de México
1928 - Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1929 - Anne Ramsey was born (d. 1988). American actress.
1933 - Ann W. Richards was born. American politician
1933 - Conway Twitty was born (d. 1993). American country music singer.
1934 - José María Velasco Ibarra assume a presidência do Equador
1935 - Seiji Ozawa was born. Japanese conductor.

1937 - Nasce Francisco Pinto Balsemão. Jornalista, empresário e político português.
1939 - Lily Tomlin was born. American actress, comedienne
1939 - World War II: Nazi Germany attacks Poland, beginning the war. (See Polish September Campaign.)
1939 - George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 - The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht and SS soldiers is instituted.

1940 - Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río assume a presidencia do Ecuador.

1942 - Nascimento de António Lobo Antunes. Escritor português de enorme reconhecimento internacional.
1943 - Charles Atangana dies. Cameroonian chief
1944 - Leonard Slatkin was born. American conductor
1946 - Barry Gibb was born. Manx-Australian singer
1947 - Al Green was born. American politician
1948 - Galo Plaza Lasso assume a presidência do Equador
1949 - P.A. Sangma was born. Indian politician
1951 - Nicu Ceauşescu was born. Romanian politician
1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 - José María Velasco Ibarra assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Equador
1952 - Phil Hendrie was born. American radio personality
1954 - Paul "Bear" Bryant opens his infamous 10 day football mini-camp in Junction, Texas: The Junction Boys.
1955 - Billy Blanks was born. American martial artist
1955 - Bruce Foxton was born. English bassist (The Jam)
1956 - Camilo Ponce Enríquez assume a presidência do Equador
1957 - Gloria Estefan was born. Cuban singer.
1957 - Dennis Brain dies (b. 1921). English French horn player.
1960 - José María Velasco Ibarra assume (pela 4º vez) a presidência do Equador
1960 - Disgruntled railroad workers effectively halt operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad, marking the first shutdown in the history of the company.
1962 - Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Island

1962 - Ruud Gullit was born. Dutch footballer
1966 - Tim Hardaway was born. American basketball player
1967 - Siegfried Sassoon dies (b. 1886). English poet and author.
1968 - José María Velasco Ibarra assume (pela 5º vez) a presidência do Equador
1969 - A coup in Libya brings Col. Moammar Qaddafi to power, ousting King Idris I.
1969 - Drew Pearson dies (b. 1897). American newspaper columnist.
1970 - Francois Mauriac dies (b. 1885). French author. 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. 1970 - The last episode of the television sitcom I Dream of Jeannie airs on NBC. The show premiered on September 18, 1965.
1970 - Vanna was born. Croatian singer
1972 - In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky and becomes the world chess champion.
1974 - Anastásio Somoza é reeleito presidente da Nicarágua
1975 - The last original episode of the American television series Gunsmoke airs on CBS after a record 20 year run.
1976 - Aparicio Méndez assume a presidência do Uruguai
1976 - The Meadowlands racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey opens.
1977 - Aaron Schobel was born. American football player.
1977 - Ethel Waters dies (b. 1896). American singer and actress.
1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
1980 - Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea after the resignation of Choi Kyu-ha.
1981 - Gregorio Conrado Álvarez Armelino assume a presidência do Uruguai
1981 - Clinton Portis was born. American football player.
1981 - Albert Speer dies (b. 1905). Nazi official.
1983 - Henry M. Jackson dies (b. 1912). U.S. Senator from Washington.
1983 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1985 - Ciara-Camile Roque Velasco was born. American singers.

1986 - Jorge Alessandri dies. President of Chile.
1988 - Luis Alvarez dies (b. 1911). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1989- A. Bartlett Giamatti dies (b. 1938). Baseball commissioner.
1991 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.
1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 74, including 10 on the ground.
2001 - Almost every single commercial television station in Vancouver, British Columbia switches network affiliations after a round of ownership changes in 2000 - the largest change in North Anerica.
2002 - Morte de sete estudantes argentinos em um deslizamento de neve em Cerro La Ventana
2003 - Sir Terry Frost dies (b. 1915). British artist.
2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro dies (b. 1915). Grand Mufti of Syria.
2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2004 - Martin Torrijos assume a presidência do Panamá.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the new liturgical year begins on September 1.
Constitution Day in Slovakia.

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A grande contratação do Benfica : Simão Sabrosa

Grande movimento também no Sporting. Marek Cech no Porto.

José Veiga declara que o Benfica fez três grandes contratações: Karagounis, Miccolli e o maior de todos Simão Sabrosa! Foi a mais cara de todas : 18.000.000 Euros pagos em cash!

O Benfica esticou a corda até aos 20 milhões, o Liverpool chegou aos 18, o Benfica foi intransigente, Simão não saiu e ficou a "perder" 3 milhões de euros/ano, livre de impostos!!

Fico contente em termos desportivos que Simão fique (desde que não falhe mais penalties), mas daí a dizer-se que foi o maior reforço do Benfica?! É de facto inacreditável o que os senhores do futebol conseguem dizer.

Entretanto o último dia de inscrições de jogadores foi agitado e o Sporting também registou grande movimentação. Rochemback saiu para o Middlesbrough. Wender, como já havíamos dito ontem, ingressou no Sporting, mas a novidade do dia foi a contratação de João Alves(ex- Sp. Braga) por três anos.

Mas o Porto também inscreveu um novo jogador na Liga, o eslovaco Marek Čech que representava o Sparta de Praga. Tem 22 anos, 1,80 e actua preferencialmente no meio-campo

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Rifoneiro Português

(Ed. Nº. 8 )

Por riqueza não te exaltes, por pobreza, não te rebaixes.

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Simão a caminho do Liverpool

O melhor jogador do Benfica está a ser negociado para o Liverpool que já chegou aos 15 milhões de euros. Luís Filipe Vieira aumentou a fasquia para os 20! É muito dinheiro, de facto.

A verdade é que terminando hoje as inscrições o Benfica em vez de se reforçar como precisava corre é o risco de perder o melhor jogador. Depois de Miguel, vai Simão.

No Benfica, quem falha um penalty vai embora, dizia humoristicamente um adepto!

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On this day in History - Aug 31

0012 - Caius Cæsar Caligula was born (d. 0041). 3rd Roman Emperor (0037-0041)
0161 - Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born (d. 0192). Roman Emperor (0180-0192).
0651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne dies. Irish bishop and missionary
1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies (b. 0981)
1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty
1057 - Leofric dies. Count of Mercia and husband of Lady Godiva.
1158 - Sancho III dies. King of Castilia.
1218 - Al-Malik ab-Adil, Saphadin, Saif al-Din, brother of Saladin, died.
1290 - Edward I, King of England, expels the Jews from England.
1346 - Edward III, King of England, lays siege to Calais.
1422 - King Henry V of England dies (b. 1387)in Vincennes, near Paris
1522 -Adrian VI (Netherlands) is crowned last non-Italian Pope until 1978.
1535 - Pope Paul II deposes and excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
1615 - Etienne Pasquier dies. French jurist and historian
1654 - Ole Worm dies (b. 1588). Danish physician
1663 - Guillaume Amontons was born (d. 1705). French physicist and instrument maker.
1688 - John Bunyan dies (b. 1628). English writer (Pilgrim's Progress)
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius dies (b. 1681). German jurist.
1772 - William Borlase dies (b. 1695). English naturalist and antiquary
1786 : Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), chimiste français
1795 - Philidor (François-André Danican) dies (b. 1726). French chess player.
1797 - Ramón Castilla, presidente peruano.
1805 - Dr. James Currie dies. Biographer of Burns, 1805, Sidmouth;
1817 - Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1817, Devonport.
1809 - Oswald Heer, géologue et naturaliste suisse († 27 Sep 1883)
1811 - Theophile Gautier was born (d. 1872). French poet and novelist. “Art for Art's Sake,”
1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville dies (b. 1729). French explorer.
1814 - Arthur Phillip dies (b. 1738). British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales.
1824 - Muere en Chile Juan Crisóstomo Lafinur, poeta y periodista nacido en San Luis, Argentina. Combatió junto al General Belgrano en la campaña al Alto Perú.
1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli was born (d. 1886). Italian composer.
1834 - Karl Ludwig Harding dies (b. 1765). German astronomer.
1864 - American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
1864 - Muere el político socialista y filósofo Ferdinand Lasalle.
1867 - Charles Baudelaire dies (b. 1821). French poet.
1870 - Maria Montessori was born (d. 1952). Italian educator.
1875 - Jesse James Jr. was born in Tennessee (d. 26 Mar 1951). American outlaw.
1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1878 - Frank Jarvis was born (d. 1933). American athlete.
1879 - Alma Mahler was born (d. 1964). Wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel.
1879 - Nasce a pedagoga italiana María Montessori (d. 1952). Foi a primeira mulher em Itália en a formar-se em Medicina. Escreveu uma série de ensaios sobre educação que tiveram grande influencia na educação de varias geracões.
1880 - Queen Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands was born (d. 28 Nov 1962). She reigned from 1890-1947.
1885 - DuBose Heyward was born (d. 1940). American playwright.
1886 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina
1888 - Mary Ann Nicholls is murdered. She is perhaps the first of Jack the Ripper's victims
1890. Começo da construção do Santuário do Sameiro, nos arredores de Braga.
1895 - John Brallier is paid US$10 plus expenses to play football for the Latrobe, Pennsylvania YMCA, making him the first professional football player.
1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie camera.
1897 - Fredric March was born (d. 1975). American actor.
1899 - Lynn Riggs, writer, was born. Her book “Green Grow the Lilacs” was adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein to become “Oklahoma.”
1901 - Começam a circular os primeiros carros eléctricos em Lisboa.
1903 - Arthur Godfrey was born (d. 1983). American television host.
1903 - Vladimir Jankélévitch was born († 10 Apr 1985) . French philosopher
1907 - William Shawn was born (d. 1992). American editor.
1907 - Ramon Magsaysay was born (d. 1957). President of the Philippines.
1907 - England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.
1908 - William Saroyan was born in Fresco, California (d. 1981). American novelist and playwright. (The Human Comedy; The Time of Your Life 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1913 - Ambrós was born (d. 1992). Graphic creator (El Capitán Trueno).
1914 - Richard Basehart was born (d. 1984). American actor.
1914 - Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 - Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1916 - Daniel Schorr was born. American journalist
1918 - Alan Jay Lerner was born (d. 1986). American composer.
1920 - First news radio program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.
1920 - Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 - Wilhelm Wundt dies (b. 1832). German philosopher and psycologist.
1921 - Emilinha Borba was born. Brazilian actress.
1924 - Buddy Hackett was born (d. 2003). American actor and comedian.
1928 - Turquía acuerda adoptar el alfabeto latino y abandonar el árabe.
1928 - James Coburn was born ( († 18 novembre 2002). American actor.
1931 - Noble Willingham was born (d. 2004). American actor.
1931 - Production of Ford Motor Company's Model A ends, with 4.3 million produced.
1935 - Frank Robinson was born. Baseball player and manager.
1935 - Eldridge Cleaver was born (d. 1998). American political activist.
1938 - Martin Bell was born. British journalist and politician.
1938 - Nasce Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. Militar e político português.
1937 - Albert Heim was born. Swiss geologist.
1939 - Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.
1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva dies (b. 1892). Russian poet.
1943 - The USS Harmon the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1945 - Sérgio Godinho was born in Oporto. Portuguese singer, composer and actor
1945 - Van Morrison was born. Irish musician
1945 - Itzhak Perlman was born. Israeli violinist
1947 - Carlos Gregório was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor
1948 - Lowell Ganz was born. American screenwriter
1948 - Rudolf Schenker was born. German guitarist (Scorpions)
1949 - Richard Gere was born. American actor (Breathless, Cotton Club),
1949 - H. David Politzer was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1955 - Edwin Moses was born. American athlet. ganador de la medalla de oro de los 400 metros con vallas en Montreal 76 y Los Ángeles 84.
1956 - Masashi Tashiro was born. Japanese television performer
1956 - Percy MacKaye dies in Cornish, New Hampshire. American writer: The Scarecrow (1908), a historical play; Caliban (1916), This Fine Pretty World (1923), The Mystery of Hamlet: King of Denmark (1945).
1957 - The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 - Edwin Moses was born. American athlete
1962 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1963 - Georges Braque dies (b. 1882). French painter.
1968 - Todd Carty was born. British actor.
1969 - Rocky Marciano dies (b. 1923). American boxer.
1970 - Deborah Gibson was born. American singer
1972 - Chris Tucker was born. American actor.
1972 - Bobby Fischer se corona campeón mundial de Ajedrez ante el sovietico Boris Spassky.
1972 - At the Munich Summer Olympics American swimmer Mark Spitz won his fourth and fifth gold medals, in the 100-meter butterfly and 800-meter freestyle relay.
1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, won Olympic gold medal in floor exercises and the balance beam.
1973 - John Ford dies (b. 1894). American film director.
1977 - Morre o cardeal-patriarca de Lisboa, Gonçalves Cerejeira
1977 - Craig Nicholls was born. Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Vines)
1977 - Jeff Hardy was born. American professional wrestler.
1978 -William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
1978 - Regiane (Kelly Lima) Alves was born in Santo André, São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
1979 - Sally Rand dies (b. 1904). American dancer and actress.
1979 - Vanessa Gleason was born in San Diego, California, USA. Playboy Playmate of the Month September 1998
1980 - The Solidarity trade union is formed in Poland.
1985 - A atleta portuguesa Aurora Cunha ganha a meia maratona internacional de Oslo.
1985 - Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" serial killer, is arrested in Los Angeles, California.
1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet dies (b. 1899). Australian biologist.
1986 - Henry Moore dies (b. 1898). English sculptor.
1986 - Urho Kekkonen dies (b. 1900). President of Finland.
1986 - An Aeroméxico Douglas DC-9 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 - The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 398.
1989 - Buckingham Palace officials confirm that Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are to be separated.
1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 - Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo after a multiparty presidential election, ending a long history of one-party oppressive rule under the Congolese Workers Party.
1992 - Dr. Florencio Escardó morre em Buenos Aires. Decano da Faculdade de Medicina e Vice-reitor da Universidade de Buenos Aires.
1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Perez fled.
1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales dies (car accident) (b. 1961)
1997 - Dodi Fayed dies (car accident) (b. 1955). Egyptian-born film producer.
1997 - Morre o locutor e animador argentino de radio e televisão Guillermo Brizuela Méndez.
1998 - North Korea reportedly launchs Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
1999 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
2002 - Lionel Hampton dies (b. 1908). American vibraphone player.
2004 - Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is released on DVD and VHS in stores across the United States, selling approximately 4.1 million copies by the end of the day.
2004 - Carl Wayne dies (b. 1943). English singer.
Malaysia: Hari Merdeka, a National Day
Independence Day for Trinidad and Tobago (1962)
Moldova: Day of Our Language (Limba Noastra)
BlogDay: International Day of Blogs and Bloggers

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Karagounis e Miccolli no Benfica. Wender no Sporting

Não há fome que não dê em fartura. O Benfica contratou dois "números 10" isto é dois jogadores de apoio ao ponta de lança. Ponta de lança é que não foi possível arranjar!

Karagounis representava o Inter e assinou contrato por três temporadas a "custo zero". Foi o marcador do 1º. golo do Euro 2004 e é Campeão da Europa pela Grécia (tal como Fyssas que o Benfica, dispensou!). Giorgios Karagounis nasceu a 6 de Março de 1977 em Pyrgos, na Grécia, é centrocampista. Tem 1,76m e cerca de 74 Kg. Desde 1998/99 representou o Panathinaikos, passando para o Inter em 2003/2004

Foi difícil convencer a Juventus a emprestar Miccolli ao Benfica por uma época, tendo o Benfica a opção de compra do jogador no fim do empréstimo por cerca de 5 milhões de Euros. Fabrizio Miccolli nasceu no dia 27 de Junho de 1979 em S. Donato, província de Lecce; tem 1,68 m e 64 Kg é avançado. Miccolli jogou na época 2002/03 no Perugia tendo marcado 9 golos em 34 jogos.

Na época seguinte passou para a Juventus onde participou em 25 jogos, marcando 8 golos na prova nacional e fez 6 jogos na Liga dos Campeões marcando 1 golo. Na época passada representou a Fiorentina tendo obtido 12 golos em 35 jogos. É um jogador de baixa estatura (tipo Rui Barros) forte no um para um. Em 2004 num jogo particular entre a selecção de Portugal e Itália marcou um dos golos da vitória italiana por 2-1.

Entretanto no mercado interno o bracarense Wender sempre acabou por ir parar a Alvalade, assegurando o Sp. de Braga por sua vez o brasileiro Rossato que estava ao serviço da Real Sociedade.

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On this day in History - Aug 30

30 a.C. - Cleópatra VII do Egipto dies (suicide)
0711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state
1158 - King Sancho III of Castile dies (b. 1134)
1181 - Rolando Bandinelli (Pope Alexander III) dies
1334 - King Peter I of Castile was born (d. 1369) . King of Castile (1349-1369)
1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan dies. (b. 1401)
1464 -Início do pontificado do Papa Paulo II
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423) . King of France (1461-1483)
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
1585 - Andrea Gabrieli dies. Italian composer.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590).
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro dies (b. 1535). Japanese samurai and warlord.
1748 - Jacques-Louis David was born (d. 1825). French painter
1751 - Christopher Polhem dies (b. 1661). Swedish scientist and inventor
1773 - Nicolau Nasoni dies. Italian architect who has several important works in Portugal.
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born (d. 1851). English writer ( Frankenstein).
1808 -Assinatura da convenção de Sintra, que põe termo à Primeira Invasão Francesa.
1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1820 - Aprovação da Constituição da Colômbia
1839 - Gulstan Ropert was born (d. 1903). French Catholic prelate.
1848 - Costa Rica proclama su independencia. José María Castro Madriz se convierte en el primer presidente de Costa Rica (1848-49). Se lo considera fundador de la República.
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born (d. 1911). Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was born (d. 1937). New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett dies (b. 1811). English writer
1857 - Inauguración de la primera línea ferroviaria en la República Argentina: La Porteña
1862 - Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
1862 - Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
1870 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1879 - John Bell Hoodv dies (b. 1831). American Confederate general
1883 - Angela Peralta was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
1884 - Theodor Svedberg was born (d. 1971). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1893 - Huey Long was born (d. 1935). American politician
1896 - Raymond Massey was born (d. 1983). Canadian actor
1896 - Nascimento de Luiz Damasco Penna. Educador brasileiro.
1898 - Shirley Booth was born (d. 1992). American actress
1901 - Roy Wilkins was born (d. 1981). American civil rights leader
1902 - Nace en Buenos Aires el poeta, escritor, periodista y director de teatro Leónidas Barletta (m. 15 Mar 1975), perteneciente al Grupo Boedo. En 1930 fundó el Teatro del Pueblo, precursor del teatro indepeniente "Los pobres", "La ciudad de un hombre" e "Historia de perros". En 1930 fundó el Teatro del Pueblo, precursor del teatro independiente.
1903 - Muere en Buenos Aires el historiador Vicente Fidel López (n. 24 Abr 1815). "La novia del hereje" "Autobiografía".
1904 - Se funda el club Atlético Uruguay, de Concepción del Uruguay, provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina.
1906 - Se funda el club Argentino de Merlo, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1906 - Joan Blondell was born (d. 1979). American actress.
1907 - Richard Mansfield dies (b. 1857). American actor and manager
1908 - Fred MacMurray was born (d. 1991). American actor
1908 - Se funda el club Gimnasia y Esgrima 1908, de Mendoza, Argentina.
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell was born (d. 1997). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg
1916 - Se funda el club Independiente, de Trelew, Chubut, Argentina.
1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompted the decree for Red Terror.
1918 - Ted Williams was born (d. 2002). B baseball player (d. 2002)
1919 - Kitty Wells was born. American singer
1921 - António Joaquim Granjo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
1922 - Lionel Murphy was born. Australian politician and judge
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff was born. French writer and illustrator
1927 - Geoffrey Beene was born. American fashion designer
1928 - Wilhelm Wien dies (b. 1864). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1906.
1930 - Warren Buffett was born. American entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian was born. American basketball coach
1935 - John Phillips was born. American singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
1935 - Henri Barbusse dies (b. 1873). French novelist and journalist.
1939 - John Peel was born. English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1940 - J.J. Thomson dies (b. 1856). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Ben Jones was born. was born. American actor and politician
1941 - Nélson Xavier was born. Brazilian actor
1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins
1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa began
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy was born.French skier
1943 - R. Crumb was born. American cartoonist.
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout dies (b. 1890). Dutch Catholic priest.
1944 - Molly Ivins was born. American political humorist
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Forces
1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1947 - Peggy Lipton was born. American actress
1948 - Lewis Black was born. American comedian
1951 - Timothy Bottoms was born. American actor
1951 - Dana (singer) was born. Irish singer and politician
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko was born. President of Belarus
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson was born. Australian footballer and actor
1961 - España, Ladislao Kubala se retira como jugador de fútbol.
1961 - Charles Coburn dies (b. 1877). American actor.
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation
1963 - Paul Oakenfold was born. British disc jockey
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball
1965 - Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influencial album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1970 - Paulo Sousa was born. Portuguese footballer.
1972 - Cameron Diaz was born. American actress .
1972 - Kaya Brüel was born. Danish actress.
1972 - Pavel Nedved was born. Czech footballer
1974 - Aaron Barrett was born. American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish)
1975 - Vasco Gonçalves é demitido do cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1975 - Francisco Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1979 - Nascimento de Juan Ignacio Chela (tenista argentino)
1981 - Atentado mata o presidente do Irã, Mohammad Ali Rajai.
1981 - Vera-Ellen dies (b. 1921). American actress.
1982 - Andy Roddick was born. American tennis player.
1985 - Taylor Caldwell dies (b. 1900). English-born author.
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
1991 - Jean Tinguely dies (b. 1925). Swiss painter and sculptor.
1991 - Lançamento do satéllite japonês Yohkoh
1992 - Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
1993 - El rey Hassan II de Marruecos inaugura en Casablanca la Gran Mezquita que lleva su nombre, la mayor después de la de La Meca.
1994 - Lindsay Anderson dies (b. 1923). English film director.
1995 - Agepê dies (b. 1942). Brazilian singer.

1995 -Mário Soares recebe o Prémio Príncipe das Astúrias de Cooperação Internacional.
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
2002 - China ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 - O marroquino Jaouad Gharib vence a maratona do Mundial de Atletismo - Paris - França.
2003 - Charles Bronson dies (b. 1921). American actor
2003 - Donald Davidson dies (b. 1917). American philosopher
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple dies (b. 1906). American astronomer.
2004 - O jogador Luís Fabiano (São Paulo) assina contrato com o Porto, Portugal
Victory Day in Turkey (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922)
Saint Rose of Lima's Day in Peru and Philipines

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Declarações explosivas de Toni sobre o Benfica

Toni não diz nada de especial que qualquer leitor atento ao fenómeno recente do futebol do Benfica não veja. Mas vindo de quem vem, de um assumido benfiquista, treinador de futebol e que sempre foi ponderado nas suas afirmações a situação é objecto de relevância especial - é sinal de que o Benfica está mesmo muito mal.

«Koeman não tem modelo de jogo»;

«Os problemas do Benfica não serão resolvidos por um número nove e um número dez. Andar com um saco de caramelos para comprar jogadores num mercado de milhões é realmente difícil, é impensável para o Benfica»;

«O Benfica não tem um modelo de jogo, não tem ainda uma ideia de jogo, e isso é que é mais preocupante. O treinador tinha um sistema táctico definido mas não um modelo de jogo";

" A partir do encontro com o Chelsea o Benfica parece que regrediu"

são algumas das declarações de Toni.

Koeman tem efectivamente revelado que nada sabe do futebol português. Tem um sistema tactico e à força quer aplicá-lo no Benfica independentemente de não ter jogadores com as características requeridas pelo mesmo.

Pois é, Trapattoni nem sabes o que fizeste pelo Benfica. Nunca te vi queixar de jogadores que faltavam. O que é certo é que foste campeão. O Benfica não jogava bem?

Pois temo que o Benfica dentro de mais 2 jogos tenha a época arrumada. O próximo jogo é com o Sporting e pode ficar a 8 pontos (ou 7 se empatar) do Porto e do próprio Sporting. Depois joga em casa com o Lille e se não ganha esse jogo pode dizer adeus à continuidade na Liga dos Campeões.
Depois será ver o resto do campeonato (por isso, quase o campeonato todo) com o Estádio da Luz "às moscas". Adeus "kits" de sócio : o prazo de validade está-se a esgotar.

Quanto às promessas dos "craques" subscrevo o que se escreve em Benfica do futuro: O Benfica está mal. Mas se só há "um saco de caramelos" porque motivo prometeram 3 ou 4 jogadores de grande categoria, categoria essa que até íamos ficar admirados. Vejam lá!

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On this day in History - Aug 29

0708 - Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708)
0886 - Basil I dies (b. 0811). Byzantine Emperor.
1093 - Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy dies (b. 1057).
1261 - Urban IV becomes Pope, the last man to do so without being a Cardinal first.
1395 - Duke Albert III of Austria dies (b. 1349).
1435 - Isabeau de Bavière dies (b. 1371). Queen of Charles VI of France.
1471 - D. Afonso V, rei de Portugal, conquista Tânger, em Marrocos.
1475 - Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England
1484 - Pope Innocent VIII, a staunch supporter of the Spanish Inquisition, is elected Pope
1521 - The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade
1526 - Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia
1533 - Atahualpa dies. Last Inca ruler of Peru.
1541 - The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom .
1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born (d. 1683). French minister of finance.
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath was born (d. 1701). English royalist statesman.
1632 - John Locke was born (d. 1704). English philosopher.
1657 - John Lilburne dies. English dissenter.
1712 - Gregory King dies (b. 1648). English statistician.
1730 - Nascimento de Antonio Francisco Lisboa (Aleijadinho). Escultor brasileiro.
1756 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde was born (d. 1845). Austrian field marshal and statesman
1769 - Edmund Hoyle dies (b. 1672). English author and teacher.
1780 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot dies (b. 1713). French architect.
1780 - Jean Ingres was born (d. 1867). French painter.
1786 - Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1799 - Pope Pius VI [Giovanni A Braschi] dies (b. 1717). Italian Pope (1775-99).
1805 - Frederick Maurice was born (d. 1872). English theologian.
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was born (d. 1894). American physician and writer.
1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi was born in Tucumán (d. 1884). Argentine politician and writer (“Bases y punto de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina").
1825 - Reconhecimento da independência do Brasil por Portugal.
1842 - Tratado de Nanking, que abre a China à penetração estrangeira.
1842 - The Tokugawa shogunate orders the local daimyō to begin providing foreign ships with fresh water and supplies when requested. (Traditional Japanese date: July 24, 1842)
1843 - David B. Hill was born (d. 1910). Governor of New York.
1862 - Andrew Fisher was born (d. 1928). Fifth Prime Minister of Australia
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck was born (d. 1949). Belgian writer who was the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
1862 - Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1871- Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871)
1871 - Albert Lebrun was born. President of France (1932-1940)
1874 - Manuel Machado was born. Spanish poet.
1876 - Charles F. Kettering was born (d. 1958). American inventor.
1877 - Brigham Young dies (b. 1801). American religious leader and western settler
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle.

1891 - Morre, em Sintra, José Maria Latino Coelho (n. 29 Nov 1825). Historiador e deputado português.
1895 - The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
1895 - Francisco Navarro Villoslada dies. Spanish writer and ideologist.
1896 - Chop suey is invented in New York City
1898 - Goodyear tire company is founded.
1898 - Preston Sturges was born (d. 1959). American screenwriter.
1904 - Werner Forssman was born. German urologist (Nobel 1956) .
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1904 - Murad V dies (b. 1840). Ottoman Sultan
1907 - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers
1910 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
1911 - Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with whites, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California
1914 - Alfonso Quiñónez Molina assume a presidência de El Salvador
1915 - Ingrid Bergman was born (d.29 Aug 1982). Swedish actress.
1916 - George Montgomery was born (d. 2000). American actor.
1917 - Isabel Sanford was born (d. 2004). American actress.
1920 - Charlie Parker was born (d. 1955). American jazz saxophonist and composer
1923 - The Lord Attenborough was born. English film director.
1924 - Dinah Washington was born (d. 1963). American singer.
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez was born (d. 2005)., Mexican songwriter.
1926 - Fada Santoro was born. Brazilian actress.
1929 - El dirigible alemán Graf Zeppelin realiza el primer vuelo alrededor del mundo.
1930 - the last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda voluntarily evacuated to Scotland.
1930 - William Archibald Spooner dies (b. 1844). English writer.

1933 - Portugal: É criada a Polícia de Vigilâncioa e Defesa do Estado (PVDE), antepassada da PIDE-DGS.
1933 - Arnold Koller was born. Swiss Federal Councilor.
1935 - Queen Astrid of Belgium dies (b. 1905)
1936 - John McCain was born. American politician
1937 - James Florio was born. Governor of New Jersey
1938 - Robert Rubin was born. United States Secretary of the Treasury
1938 - Elliott Gould was born. American actor
1939 - William Friedkin was born. American film director
1939 - Joel Schumacher was born. American film director
1940 - Gary Gabelich was born. Race car driver and land world speed record holder
1941 - Robin Leach was born. English television host.
1943 - Edu Lobo (Euardo de Góis Lobo) was born. Brazilian music, songwriter and singer.
1943 - German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves Danish government
1944 - Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazi rulers.
1945 - Adolfo Castelo was born. Argentine journalist and television host.
1946 - Bob Beamon was born. American jumper
1947 - James Hunt was born in Sutton, Surrey (d. 14 Jun 1993). English F1 car racer (1973 - 1979): 92 GPs (10 times winner); World Champion.
1947 - Manolete dies (b. 1917). Spanish bullfighter
1949 - Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk,