Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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2006-11-30
Poema de Canção Sobre a Esperança - Álvaro de Campos
I
Dá-me lírios, lírios,
E rosas também.
Mas se não tens lírios
Nem rosas a dar-me,
Tem vontade ao menos
De me dar os lírios
E também as rosas.
Basta-me a vontade,
Que tens, se a tiveres,
De me dar os lírios
E as rosas também,
E terei os lírios -
Os melhores lírios -
E as melhores rosas
Sem receber nada,
a não ser a prenda
Da tua vontade
De me dares lírios
E rosas também.
II
Usas um vestido
Que é uma lembrança
Para o meu coração.
Usou-o outrora
Alguém que me ficou
Lembrada sem vista.
Tudo na vida
Se faz por recordações.
Ama-se por memória.
Certa mulher fez-nos ternura
Por um gesto que lembra a nossa mãe.
Certa rapariga fez-nos alegria
Por falar como a nossa irmã.
Certa criança arranca-nos da desatenção
Porque amámos uma mulher parecida com ela
Quando éramos jovens e não lhe falávamos.
Tudo é assim, mais ou menos,
O coração anda aos trambolhões.
Viver é desencontrar-se consigo mesmo.
No fim de tudo, se tiver sono, dormirei.
Mas gostava de te encontrar e que falássemos.
Estou certo que simpatizaríamos um com o outro.
Mas se não nos encontrarmos, guardarei o momento
Em que pensei que nos poderíamos encontrar.
Guardo tudo,
Guardo as cartas que me escrevem,
Guardo até as cartas que não me escrevem -
Santo Deus, a gente guarda tudo mesmo que não queira,
E o teu vestido azulinho, meu Deus, se eu pudesse atrair
Através dele até mim!
Enfim, tudo pode ser...
És tão nova - tão jovem, como diria o Ricardo Reis -
E a minha visão de ti explode literariamente,
E deito-me para trás na praia e rio e como um elemental inferior,
Arre, sentir cansa e a vida é quente quando o sol está alto.
Boa noite na Áustrália
17/6/1929
in Álvaro de Campos Poesia -edição Teresa Rita Lopes, Assírio & Alvim
FernandoPessoa (n. Lisboa, 13 Jun 1888; m. Lisboa, 30 Nov 1935)
Aniversário da morte de Fernando Pessoa
Faz hoje 71 anos que Fernando Pessoa faleceu em Lisboa. Um dos maiores poetas de todos os tempos, tão grande que não cabendo em si teve de criar vários, sob os seus heterónimos. Por este blog dispersam-se fragmentos da sua obra.
Assim podem ler:
Tabacaria
Liberdade
O guardador de rebanhos - X (Alberto Caeiro)
O guardador de rebanhos - XXI (Alberto Caeiro)
O guardador de rebanhos - XXVIII (ALlberto Caeiro)
O Tejo é mais belo ...
Odes - Ricardo Reis
Cruz na porta da tabacaria
Fragmentos do Livro do desassossego - Bernardo Soares
Afinal a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir...
Todas as cartas de amor são...
Se te queres matar ...
Dai-me rosas e lírios...
Sou vil, sou reles como toda a gente...
Não sei se é amor que tens
O que há em mim é sobretudo cansaço
Mar português
Ode marcial - h
Lycanthropy
Conselho
Para além da curva da estrada (Alberto Caeiro)
Sopra demais o vento
Poema da Canção sobre a Esperança
On this day in History - Nov. 30
- 0539 - Gregory of Tours was born (d. 0594). French bishop and historian.
- 1016 - Edmund II of England dies
- 1340 - John, Duke of Berry was born (d. 1416). Son of John II of France
- 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel was born (d. 1390). English soldier.
- 1466 - Andrea Doria was born (d. 1560). Italian naval leader.
- 1508 - Andrea Palladio was born (d. 1580). Italian architect.
- 1554 - Philip Sidney was born (d. 1586). English courtier, soldier, and writer.
- 1580 - Richard Farrant dies. English composer
- 1594 - John Cosin was born (d. 1672). English clergyman.
- 1603 - William Gilbert died (born 24 May 1544). English scientist, the "father of electrical studies" and a pioneer researcher into magnetism, who spent years investigating magnetic and electrical attractions
- 1625 - Jean Domat was born (d. 1696). French jurist.
- 1626 - Thomas Weelkes dies. English composer
- 1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont was born (d. 1698). French historian.
- 1654 - John Selden dies (b. 1584). English jurist and oriental scholar
- 1667 - Jonathan Swift was born (d. 1745). Irish writer and satirist.
- 1670 - John Toland was born (d. 1722). Irish philosopher.
- 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore dies (b. 1605). Governor of Maryland.
- 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller was born (d. 1744). Austrian field marshal.
- 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny dies (b. 1672). French organist and composer.
- 1705 - Catherine of Braganza dies (b. 1638). Wife of Charles II of England.
- 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden dies killed during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, east of Oslo Fjord, ending Sweden's “Age of Greatness.” (b. 1682)
- 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was born (d. 1772). Princess of Wales.
- 1722 - Theodore Gardelle was born (d. 1761). Swiss painter and enameler.
- 1723 - William Livingston was born (d. 1790). Revolutionary Governor of New Jersey.
- 1756 - Ernst Chladni was born (d. 1827). German physicist.
- 1761 - John Dollond dies (b. 1706). British optician
- 1765 - George Glas dies (b. 1725). British merchant and adventurer
- 1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki was born (d. 1837). Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist
- 1781 - Alexander Berry was born (d. 1873). British adventurer.
- 1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
- 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
- 1796 - Carl Loewe was born (d. 1869). German composer.
- 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
- 1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
- 1810 - Oliver Winchester was born (d. 1880). American gunsmith.
- 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann was born (d. 1890). French poet.
- 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan was born (d. 1888). French composer.
- 1817 - Theodor Mommsen was born (d. 1903). German author and Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1821 - Frederick Temple was born (d. 1902). Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1830 - Pope Pius VIII dies (b. 1761)
- 1835 - Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorn Clemens] was born in Florida (d. 1910). American writer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
- 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish was born (d. 1882). British politician.
- 1839 - Guilherme de Azevedo was born in Santarém (d. 1882). Portuguese writer.
- 1840 - Henry Birks was born (d. 1928). Canadian businessman.
- 1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was born (d. 1909). Brazilian president.
- 1857 - José de Sampaio Bruno was born. Portuguese essayst and politician.
- 1857 - Bobby Abel was born (d. 1936). English test cricketer.
- 1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose was born (d. 1937). Indian Physicist.
- 1863 - Andres Bonifacio was born (d. 1897). Head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK)
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin - The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
- 1868 - A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King's garden in Stockholm.
- 1869 - Gustaf Dalén was born (d. 1937). Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England (0-0) .
- 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill was born in Oxfordshire, England (d. 1965). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery was born (d. 1942). Canadian author.
- 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian was born (d. 1977). British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published.
- 1898 - Firpo Marberry was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.
- 1900 - Oscar Wilde dies in Paris (b. 1854). Irish writer.
- 1901 - Edward John Eyre dies (b. 1815). British explorer.
- 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
- 1904 - Clyfford Still was born (d. 1980). American painter.
- 1907 - Jacques Barzun was born. French-born historian and author.
- 1909 - Robert Nighthawk was born (d. 1967). American musician.
- 1912 - Gordon Parks was born. American director and writer.
- 1915 - Brownie McGhee was born (d. 1996). American blues musician.
- 1915 - Henry Taube was born (d. 2005). Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1918 - Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom. Learn more about Iceland.
- 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born. American actor.
- 1920 - Virginia Mayo was born (d. 2005). American actress.
- 1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky dies (b. 1867). Russian counter-revolutionary.
- 1924 - Shirley Chisholm was born. American politician.
- 1924 - Allan Sherman was born (d. 1973). American comedian.
- 1926 - Richard Crenna was born (d. 2003). American actor.
- 1927 - Robert Guillaume was born. American actor.
- 1929 - Dick Clark was born. American television host.
- 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney was born. American children's television pioneer.
- 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy was born. Watergate operative
- 1931 - Jack Ging was born. American actor.
- 1931 - Bill Walsh was born. American football coach.
- 1932 - Bob Moore was born. American bassist and orchestra leader
- 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie dies (b. 1875). Canadian general.
- 1935 - Fernando Pessoa dies in Lisbon (b. 13 Jun 1888). Portuguese poet. He used several heteronimous: Bernardo Soares, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis e Álvaro de Campos.
- 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire. It was the most spectacular fire seen in Britain for many years.
- 1936 - Abbie Hoffman was born (d. 1989). American activist.
- 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov was born. Russian mathematician
- 1937 - Paul Stookey was born. American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
- 1937 - Frank Ifield was born. Australian/British singer
- 1937 - Ridley Scott was born. British film director.
- 1942 - World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
- 1943 - Etty Hillesum dies executed (b. 1914). Dutch diarist.
- 1943 - Terrence Malick was born. American screenwriter and producer.
- 1945 - Roger Glover was born. British bassist (Deep Purple)
- 1947 - David Mamet was born. American playwright.
- 1951 - Christian Bernard was born. Mystic.
- 1951 - June Chadwick was born. British actress.
- 1952 - Mandy Patinkin was born. American actor and singer.
- 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
- 1953 - June Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).
- 1953 - Francis Picabia dies (b. 1857). French painter and poet.
- 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.4 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
- 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler dies (b. 1886). German conductor.
- 1955 - Josip Solcer-Slavenski dies (b. 1896). Croatian composer.
- 1955 - Billy Idol was born. British musician.
- 1957 - Colin Mochrie was born. British-born Canadian comedian.
- 1957 - Andrew Calhoun was born. American musician.
- 1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 .
- 1957 - Beniamino Gigli dies (b. 1890). Italian tenor.
- 1958 - Juliette Bergmann was born. Dutch bodybuilder.
- 1958 - Stacey Q was born. American dance-pop singer
- 1958 - Hubert Wilkins dies (b. 1888). Australian polar explorer.
- 1959 - Lorraine Kelly was born. British presenter and journalist
- 1960 - Rich Fields was born. TV personality
- 1960 - Gary Lineker was born. English international footballer.
- 1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
- 1962 - Bo Jackson was born. American football and baseball player.
- 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran was born. American writer.
- 1964 - Jushin Liger was born. Japanese professional wrestler
- 1965 - Ben Stiller was born. American actor and writer.
- 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1966 - Ed Kemper was born.American actor
- 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
- 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh dies (b. 1904). Irish poet.
- 1968 - Des'ree dies. British soul/pop singer
- 1968 - Laurent Jalabert dies. French cyclist
- 1969 - Marc Goossens dies. Belgian racing driver
- 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez was born. Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.
- 1971 - Ray Durham was born. American baseball player
- 1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
- 1972 - Abel Xavier was born. Portuguese international footballer.
- 1973 - Jason Reso was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
- 1973 - John Moyer was born. American bassist (Disturbed)
- 1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 1975 - Ben Thatcher was born. Welsh international football player.
- 1975 - Mindy McCready was born. American musican.
- 1976 - Josh Lewsey was born. England national and London Wasps Rugby union player
- 1977 - Sophia de Mello Breyner, Portuguese poetess is laureate with The Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize.
- 1978 - Clay Aiken was born. American singer.
- 1978 - Gael Garcia Bernal was born. Mexican actor
- 1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
- 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
- 1981 - Rich Harden was born. Canadian baseball player
- 1982 -Elisha Cuthbert was born. Canadian actress.
- 1984 - Naima Mora was born in Detroit. American model.
- 1984 - Nigel de Jong was born. Dutch football player
- 1984 - Alan Hutton was born. Scottish football player
- 1985 - Kaley Cuoco was born. American actress.
- 1986 - Jordan Farmar was born. American basketball player
- 1987 - Dougie Poynter was born. British singer and bassist (McFly)
- 1987 - Simon Carmiggelt dies (b. 1913). Dutch journalist and writer.
- 1988 - Eduardo Lourenço, Portuguese essayist wins the 1988 Charles Veillon Essay Prize.
- 1988 - Henrique Medina dies. Portuguese painter.
- 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen (b. 1930) is murdered by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
- 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
- 1989 - Carlos Alexandre dies (b. 1957). Brazilian singer and composer.
- 1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns.
- 1990 - Portugal: The last number of the newspaper " Diário de Lisboa" ( founded in 7 Apr 1921) is published.
- 1990 - Magnus Carlsen was born. Norwegian chess player.
- 1991 - Carnell Breeding was born. Member of the boy band B5
- 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
- 1993 - Sebastian Kappen dies (b. 1924). Indian theologian.
- 1993 - David Houston dies (b. 1938). American country music singer.
- 1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
- 1994 - Nyjah Huston was born. Skateboarder
- 1994 - Guy Debord dies (b. 1931). French writyer and filmmaker.
- 1995 - Fernando Assis Pacheco dies (b. 1937). Portuguese journalist and writer.
- 1996 - A block of gray sandstone known as the Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been taken to England as war booty by King Edward I.
- 1996 - Tiny Tim dies (b. 1932). American entertainer.
- 1997 - Diana Almeida, 14 years old, Portuguese model, wins the Super Model of the World.
- 1997 - Kathy Acker dies (b. 1947). American author
- 1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch) dies (b. 1972). American musician.
- 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
- 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
- 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
- 1999 - Charlie Byrd dies (b. 1925). American jazz guitarist.
- 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
- 2001 - Robert Tools, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky.; he had lived with the device for 151 days.
- 2002 - Tim Woods dies (b. 1934). American professional wrestler.
- 2003 - Gertrude Ederle dies (b. 1906). American swimmer
- 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
- 2004 - Portuguese President, Jorge Sampaio, announces the decision to dissolve The Republic Assembly falling the Santana Lopes' government
- 2004 - Pierre Berton dies (b. 1920). Canadian author.
- 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.
- 2005 - Jean Parker dies (b. 1915). American actress.
- R.C. Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle.
- Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966) .
- Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day .
- Official End of the Hurricane Season .
- Cities for Life Day. 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty.
- Portugal: Feriado Municipal em Mesão Frio / Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Mesão Frio
2006-11-29
Uefa Cup - Matchday 4
Groups A - D
Auxerre and Sevilla starred
Livorno 1-1 M. Haifa [1-0 Lucarelli 20'; 1-1 Colautti 90+3']
Partizan 1-4 Auxerre [1-0 Neb. Marinković 5; / Cheyrou 18', D. Niculae 24', Akalé 36', Pieroni 82' ]
2. M. Haifa 7 (4)
Group B
Dinamo Bucuresti 2-1 Leverkusen
Beşiktaş 2-1 Club Brugge
Group C
Grasshoppers 0-4 Sevilla
AZ 2-2 Liberec
Group D
Lens 1-2 Parma
Osasuna 3-1 OB
Tomorrow - 30 November
Group E
Nancy 19:45 Feyenoord
Wisła 19:45 Basel
Group F
Ajax 19:45 Espanyol
Austria 19:45 Sparta
Group G
Mladá Boleslav 19:45 PSG
Panathinaikos 20:45 Rapid Bucuresti
Group H
Celta 19:45 Fenerbahçe
Eintracht 19:45 Newcastle
O Milagre das Rosas - Campos de Figueiredo
Trazia ouro aos Pobres... dava estrelas,
que no jardim azul do céu colhera,
mas, quando El-Rei Dinis desejou vê-las,
floriu, no seu regaço, a primavera.
- «Vêde», são rosas brancas, fui colhê-las
para os gafos, Senhor! Julgáveis que era
dinheiro em vez de flores? A Deus prouvera
que em oiro e pão pudesse convertê-las!»
Repete-se o milagre, eternamente:
caem do céu, às horas do poente,
rosas de oiro, vermelhas, a sangrar...
E à noite, é Ela sempre que, na treva,
sobre a linda Cidade medieva,
desfolha rosas brancas, ao luar!
José Campos de Figueiredo (n. Sernache, Coimbra, a 6 Mai 1899; m. em Coimbra a 29 Nov 1965)
Felicitaciones, Congratulations, Parabéns, Barcelona
Barcelona was founded on this day in 1899, by Hans Gamper and eleven more enthusiasts. See more here.
On this day in History - Nov. 29
- 0741 - Pope Gregory III dies.
- 1223 - Franciscan Order Recognised
- 1268 - Pope Clement IV dies
- 1314 - King Philip IV of France dies (b. 1268)
- 1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March dies (b. 1287). De facto ruler of England.
- 1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1368). Son of Edward III of England.
- 1342 - Michael of Cesena dies (b. 1270). Italian Franciscan leader.
- 1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1316).
- 1427 - Zhengtong was born (d. 1464). Emperor of China.
- 1484 - Joachim Vadian was born (d. 1551). Swiss humanist.
- 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey dies. Adviser to King Henry VIII of England.
- 1577 - Cuthbert Mayne dies (b. 1543). English saint.
- 1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin dies (b. 1547). German philologist and poet.
- 1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga dies (b. 1533). Basque soldier and poet.
- 1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield dies. German soldier
- 1627 - John Ray was born (d. 1705). English naturalist.
- 1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1596)
- 1643 - William Cartwright dies (b. 1611). English dramatist.
- 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi dies (b. 1567). Italian composer.
- 1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus dies (b. 1565). Swedish theologian and astronomer.
- 1661 - Brian Walton dies (b. 1600). English clergyman and scholar.
- 1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst was born (d. 1747). Father of Catherine II of Russia
- 1694 - Marcello Malpighi dies (b. 1628). Italian physician.
- 1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair dies (b. 1619). Scottish lawyer and statesman.
- 1699 - Patrick Gordon dies (b. 1635). Scottish general.
- 1752 - Jemima Wilkinson was born (d. 1819). American preacher.
- 1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli dies (b. 1687). Swiss mathematician.
- 1762 - Pierre-Andre Latreille was born (d. 1833). French zoologist.
- 1777 - San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
- 1780 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dies (b. 1717)
- 1781 - The slave ship Zong dumps its living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance.
- 1781 - Andrés Bello was born in Caracas (d. 1865). Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist.
- 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti was born (d. 1848). Italian composer.
- 1797 - Samuel Langdon dies (b. 1723). American President of Harvard University.
- 1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott was born (d. 1888). American writer and educator.
- 1803 - Christian Doppler was born (d.1853). Austrian physicist.
- 1803 - Gottfried Semper was born (d. 1879). German architect.
- 1813 - Franz von Miklosich was born (d. 1891). Slovenian linguist.
- 1816 - Morrison Waite was born (d. 1888). 7th Chief Justice of the United States
- 1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot was born (d. 1893). French neurologist.
- 1825 - Latino Coelho was born in Lisbon (d. 29 Aug 1891). Portuguese journalist, politician and historian
- 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
- 1832 - Louisa May Alcott was born (d. 1888). American writer, known for her children's books, especially Little Women.
- 1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
- 1847 - Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
- 1847 - Marcus Whitman dies (b. 1802). Washington state pioneer.
- 1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming was born (d. 1945). American physicist.
- 1850 - Prussia and Austria signed the Punctation of Olmütz, an agreement regulating the two powers' relations.
- 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg was born (d. 1921). Chancellor of Germany
- 1864 - Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
- 1874 - Egas Moniz was born (d. 1955). Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1874 - Francis Dodd was born (d. 1949). Artist.
- 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross was born (d. 1977). American politician.
- 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- 1881 - Julius Raab was born (d. 1954). Chancellor of Austria
- 1890 - In West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
- 1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.
- 1894 - Lucille Hegamin was born (d. 1970). American singer and entertainer.
- 1895 - Busby Berkeley was born (d. 1976). American film director, and choreographer.
- 1895 - William Tubman was born (d. 1971). President of Liberia
- 1896 - Yakima Canutt was born (d. 1986). American actor and stuntman.
- 1898 - C. S. Lewis was born (d. 1963). Irish writer.
- 1899 - Spanish football club FC Barcelona founded.
- 1899 - Andrija Artuković was born (d. 1988). Croatian war criminal.
- 1901 - Mildred Harris was born (d. 1944). American actress.
- 1904 - Egon Eiermann was born (d. 1970). German architect.
- 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was born (d. 1972). American civil rights leader and politician.
- 1910 - Antanas Škėma was born (d. 1961). Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director.
- 1911 - Mario Lago was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
- 1915 - Billy Strayhorn was born (d. 1967). American musician and composer.
- 1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.
- 1916 - Fran Ryan was born (d. 2000). American actress.
- 1917 - Merle Travis was born (d. 1983). American singer.
- 1918 - Madeleine L'Engle was born. American author.
- 1921 - Dagmar was born (d. 2001). American television personality.
- 1922 - Minnie Miñoso was born. Baseball player
- 1922 - Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
- 1924 - Giacomo Puccini dies (b. 1858). Italian composer.
- 1925 - The newspaper "O Povo de Silves" - Silves, Portugal is founded.
- 1927 - Vin Scully was born. Baseball announcer.
- 1928 - Paul Simon was born (d. 2003). U.S. Senator.
- 1928 - Tahir Salahov was born. Azerbaijani painter.
- 1929 - Laurie Main was born. Actor, Host of Welcome To Pooh Corner from 1983-1987
- 1929 - U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
- 1930 - Shirley Porter was born. Dame Commander of the British Empire
- 1932 - Jacques Chirac was born. President of France.
- 1932 - Diane Ladd was born. American actress.
- 1933 - John Mayall was born. British blues musician.
- 1933 - Francisco Cuoco was born. Brazilian actor.
- 1939 - Peter Bergman was born. American comedian.
- 1939 - Gene Okerlund was born. American wrestling interviewer
- 1939 - Meco was born. American record producer and musician
- 1939 - Philipp Scheidemann dies (b. 1865). Chancellor of Germany.
- 1940 - Chuck Mangione was born. American musician.
- 1941 - Bill Freehan was born. American baseball player
- 1941 - Denny Doherty was born. American musician (Mamas and the Papas)
- 1942 - Diane Ladd was born. American actress
- 1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher was born. Swiss baritone
- 1943 - Sue Miller was born. American author
- 1943 - The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
- 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
- 1944 - Felix Cavaliere was born. American musician and producer
- 1944 - World War II: Albania is liberated from German occupation
- 1945 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
- 1946 - Silvio Rodriguez was born. Cuban poet, singer and songwriter.
- 1947 - Petra Kelly was born († 01 Oct 1992). German politician and founder of the Green party.
- 1949 - Wayne Cowan was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1949 - Jerry Lawler was born. American professional wrestler and commentator
- 1949 - Garry Shandling was born. American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director.
- 1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
- 1951 - Barry Goudreau was born. American musician (Boston)
- 1951 - Jean Schmidt was born. U.S. congresswoman
- 1952 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
- 1953 - Alex Grey was born. American artist
- 1953 - Sam De Grasse dies (b. 1875). American actor.
- 1953 - Milt Gross dies (b. 1895). American comic book illustrator and animator.
- 1954 - Dink Johnson dies (b. 1892). American musician.
- 1954 - Joel Coen was born. American film director, producer, and writer.
- 1954 - Steve Rogers was born. Australian rugby league player.
- 1955 - Howie Mandel was born. Canadian actor
- 1956 - Hinton Battle was born. American dancer
- 1956 - Leo Laporte was born. American television personality.
- 1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold dies (b. 1897). Austrian composer.
- 1958 - María Elena Moyano Delgado was born in Lima (d. 1992). Peruvian politician and women right activist ( Founder of “Micaela Bastidas”).
- 1958 - Michael Dempsey was born. American musician (The Cure)
- 1959 - Neal Broten was born. American ice hockey player
- 1960 - Cathy Moriarty was born. American actress
- 1961 - The U.S. spacecraft Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
- 1961 - Kim Delaney was born. American actress.
- 1961 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor
- 1962 - Andy LaRocque was born. Swedish guitarist (King Diamond) and record producer
- 1963 - The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain.
- 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- 1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
- 1963 - Andrew McCarthy was born. American actor
- 1964 - Don Cheadle was born. American actor
- 1965 - José Campos de Figueiredo dies in Coimbra (b. 6 May 1899 in Sernache, Coimbra). Portuguese poet (Navio na Montanha - which won the Antero de Quental Prize -, Obed). He was laureate with the Prize «Ricardo Malheiros» in 1957 by the Academia das Cioencias de Lisboa.
- 1965 - Ellen Cleghorne was born. American comedian.
- 1965 - Yutaka Ozaki was born (d. 1992). Japanese singer, songwriter.
- 1965 - Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.
- 1967 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
- 1967 - John Layfield was born. American professional wrestler, color commentator, and financial analyst.
- 1968 - Jonathan Knight was born. American singer (New Kids on the Block)
- 1969 - Alves Redol dies in Lisbon (b. 29 Dec 1911). Portuguese writer. Barranco de Cegos (1962) is his masterpiece
- 1969 - Mariano Rivera was born. Panamanian baseball player
- 1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk was born. Dutch international footballer
- 1970 - Mark Pembridge was born. Welsh international footballer.
- 1970 - President Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire, is re-elected for a third term.
- 1970 - Bruno Garcia was born. Brazilian actor
- 1970 - Maria Paula was born in Brasilia. Brazilian actress and TV personality.
- 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin was born. American actress.
- 1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
- 1972 - Larry Joe Campbell was born. American actor.
- 1972 - Jamal Mashburn was born. American basketball player.
- 1972 - Minoru Tanaka was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
- 1972 - Carl Stalling dies (b. 1888). American composer.
- 1973 - Ryan Giggs was born. Welsh international football player.
- 1973 - Sarah Jones was born. American playwright, poet and actress
- 1974 - James J. Braddock dies (b. 1905). American heavyweight boxer.
- 1974 - Lin Chiling was born. Beautiful Taiwan model.
- 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
- 1975 - Graham Hill dies (b. 1929). British motor racing driver and Formula 1 world Champion.
- 1976 - Anna Faris was born. American actress.
- 1976 - Ehren McGhehey was born. American actor and skateboarder
- 1976 - Maja Vučić was born. Croatian singer
- 1976 - José da Costa Nunes dies (b. 1880). Portuguese cardinal.
- 1977 - Maria Petrova was born. Russian figure skater.
- 1979 - Francis Beltrán was born. Professional baseball player
- 1979 - Zeppo Marx dies (b. 1901). American actor and comedian.
- 1981 - Nicholas Teo was born. Taiwanese Singer, Actor.
- 1981 - Ringo Garza was born. American drummer (Los Lonely Boys)
- 1981 - Fredric Wertham dies (b. 1895). German-born psychologist.
- 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood (b. 1938) dies drowned during a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California.
- 1982 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
- 1982 - Ashley Force was born. American race car driver.
- 1982 - Krystal Steal was born. American pornographic actress
- 1982 - Percy Williams dies (b. 1908). Canadian athlete.
- 1984 - Gotthard Günther dies (b. 1900). German philosopher.
- 1986 - Cary Grant dies (b. 1904). British-born American actor.
- 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
- 1988 - Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect is distinguished with the 1988 European Architecture Prize.
- 1988 - Six Kansas City firefighters are killed in an explosion at a construction site.
- 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
- 1990 - Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit was born. American actors
- 1990 - Diego González was born. Mexican Singer and Actor
- 1991 - Frank Yerby dies (b. 1916). American author.
- 1991 - Ralph Bellamy dies (b. 1904). American actor.
- 1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is temporarily paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 1992 - Jean Dieudonné dies (b. 1906). French mathematician.
- 1998 - Martin Ruane dies (b. 1947). British professional wrestler.
- 1999 - Gene Rayburn dies (b. 1917). American game show host.
- 2000 - Daniel Gélin dies (b. 1921). French actor.
- 2001 - George Harrison dies (b. 1943). British singer, guitarist and songwriter
- 2001 - John Knowles dies (b. 1926). American author.
- 2003 - Moondog Spot dies (b. 1952). Wrestler.
- 2004 - Anne Samson dies (b. 1891). Oldest-ever nun documented.
- 2004 - John Drew Barrymore dies (b. 1932). American actor.
- 2004 - Harry Danning dies (b. 1911). American baseball player.
- 2005 - New Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
- 2005 - David di Tommaso dies (b. 1979). French soccer player.
- 2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber dies (b. 1958). American actress.
- Feast days of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Saint Saturninus, Saint Cuthbert Mayne, Martyr, Radbod , Brendan of Birr or Brendan the Younger
- Denis of the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross
- International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
- Liberation Day (Dita e Çlirimit) in Albania