Nothingandall: 2007/05

2007-05-31

Respostas imaginativas (e humorísticas) em exames

Não tenho condições de assegurar a veracidade, mas supostamente eis aqui alguns exemplos de respostas imaginativas dadas por não menos imaginativos alunos nos seus testes escolares. Estão separados por disciplina e escritos tal e qual no original. Seja como fôr, pelo menos algumas respostas são deliciosas no sentido de nos pôr «bem dispostos»

História

A História divide-se em 4: Antiga, Média, Moderna e Momentânea (esta, a dos nossos dias);
O Hino Nacional Francês chama-se La Mayonèse;
Tiradentes, depois de morto, foi decapitulado;
Entres os índios da América, destacam-se os aztecas, os incas, os pirineus, etc;
No começo os índios eram muito atrazados mas com o tempo foram-se sifilizando;
Com a morte de Jesus Cristo os apóstolos continuaram a sua carreira;
Entre os povos orientais os casamentos eram feitos "no escuro" e os noivos só se conheciam na hora h.

Geografia

A capital de Portugal é Luiz Boa;
O principal rio nos Estados Unidos é o Mininici;
A Geografia Humana estuda o homem em que vivemos;
Na América Central há países como a República do Minicana;
A Terra é um dos planetas mais conhecidos no mundo;
As constelações servem para esclarecer a noite;
As principais cidades da América do Norte são Argentina e Estados Unidos;

Ciências

Ecologia é o estudo dos ecos, isto é, da ida e vinda dos sons;
Solo é quando numa orquestra um dos músicos "capricha" sozinho e os outros ficam à escuta;
Assexuada é a pessoa que não está nem do lado de cá nem do lado de lá;
Trompa de Eustáquio é o instrumento musical de sopro, inventado pelo grande músico belga Eustáquio, de Bruxelas;
Newton foi um grande ginecologista e obstetra europeu que regulamentou a lei da gravidez e estudou os ciclos de Ogino-Knaus;

Português

Parentesis é o grau da família que existe entre os pais e filhos, tios e sobrinhos, avós e netos, primos e primas, etc;
Preposição, conforme diz a palavra pela sua própria entomologia, é aquela que é colocada antes da outra que é mais importante;
Conjunção é a grafia que se usa quando se quer conjugar um verbo;
Sujeito é a pessoa com quem a gente fala;
Concordância é quando nós estamos de acordo com o que o outro disse.

EXAMES - 2ª FASE

A febre amarela foi trazida da China por Marco Polo;
Os ruminantes distinguem-se dos outros animais porque o que comem, comem duas vezes;
O coração é o único órgão que não deixa de funcionar 24 horas por dia;
A arquitectura gótica notabilizou-se por fazer edifícios verticais
A diferença entre o Romantismo e o Realismo é que os românticos escrevem romances e os realistas nos mostram como está a situação do país;
As múmias tinham um profundo conhecimento de anatomia;
Na Grécia a democracia funcionavam muito bem porque os que não estavam de acordo envenenavam-se;
As plantas distinguem-se dos animais por só respirarem à noite;
Os estuários e os deltas foram os primitivos habitantes da Mesopotâmia;
A caixa de previdência assegura o direito à enfermidade colectiva;
A respiração anaeróbica é a respiração sem ar que não deve passar de três minutos;
Calor é a quantidade de calorias armazenadas numa unidade de tempo;
Antes de ser criada a Justiça, o mundo era injusto.

Exames nacionais do 9º. e 12º. anos

Lavoisier foi guilhotinado por ter inventado o oxigénio;
O nervo óptico transmite ideias luminosas ao cérebro;
O vento é uma imensa quantidade de ar;
Terramoto é um pequeno movimento de terras não cultivadas;
Os antigos egípcios desenvolveram a arte funerária para que os mortos pudessem viver melhor;
Péricles foi o principal ditador da democracia grega;
O problema fundamental do terceiro mundo é a superabundância de necessidades;
O petróleo apareceu há muitos séculos, numa época em que os peixes se afogavam dentro de água;
A principal função da raíz é enterrar-se;
O sol dá-nos luz, calor e turistas;
As aves têm na boca um dente chamado bico;
A unidade de força é o Newton, que significa a força que se tem de realizar num metro da unidade de tempo, no sentido contrário!

World No Tobacco Day - May 31, 2007

World No Tobacco Day is sponsored annually by the World Health Organization to call attention to the global health burden resulting from tobacco use. This year's observance focuses on secondhand smoke and highlights the progress that has been achieved around the world in protecting nonsmokers by making workplaces and public spaces smoke-free.

This year, the World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging health professionals to provide their patients information about the health consequences of smoking, help their smoking patients quit, and be role models who promote tobacco-free lifestyles.

Tobacco use is one of the chief preventable causes of death in the world. WHO attributes about 5 million deaths a year to tobacco use, a figure expected to rise to about 10 million deaths a year by 2020, with 7 million of these deaths occurring in developing countries.

Há 46 anos o Benfica era campeão europeu de clubes

Benfica 3 - 2 Barcelona

A maior vitória do futebol português titulava o Diário de Notícias no dia seguinte.

O jogo disputou-se em Berna, precisamente no dia 31 de Maio de 1961 e perante 28 mil espectadores e sob a arbitragem do suíço Gottfie Dienst, as equipas apresentaram:

Benfica: Costa Pereira; Mário João e Ângelo, Neto, Germano e Cruz: José Augusto, Santana, José Águas, Coluna e Cavém

Barcelona: Rammallets; Foncho e Garay; Vergés, Gensana e Garcia; Kubala, Suarez, Evaristo, Kocsis e Czibor

Golos: 0-1 Czibor de cabeça aos 20'; 1-1 José Águas aos 30' ; 2-1 aos 31' após lançamento longo de Neto com a bola disputada por Santana e Gensana a ir parar ao fundo da baliza; 3-1 aos 55' por Mário Coluna. Com 3-1 ficou célebre o remate de Kubala ao poste com a bola a percorrer toda a linha de fundo bater no outro poste e ir parar às mãos de Costa Pereira. Aos 75' na sequencia de um canto, Czibor bisava para os espanhóis. Depois foi o sufoco do Barcelona que não chegou para evitar o primeiro triunfo na Taça dos Campeões Europeus.

No ano seguinte o Benfica voltaria a vencer agora frente ao Real Madrid perante 65000 espectadores por 5-3 em Amesterdão, no dia 2 de Maio de 1962.

E em 1963, terceira final consecutiva para defrontar o Milan em Wembley. O Benfica perdeu por 2-1 (dois golos de Altafini) estando a ganhar ao intervalo por 1-0 com um golo de Eusébio. No Milan jogava Trapattoni que teve um duelo de fazer faísca com Coluna. Os encarnados queixaram-se da permissividade do árbitro Ken Aston, de nacionalidade holandesa. ...

On this day in History - May 31

1279 BC - Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
0455 - Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman Emperor.
0455 - Petronius Maximus dies killed by a mob. Roman Emperor.
1048 - Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
1162 - Gengis Khan was born. Mongol conquerer
1223 - Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus, Kipchaks, Cumans, and Volga Bulgars warriors under Mstislav the Bold.
1232 - O papa Gregório IX, através de uma bula, canoniza Santo António de Lisboa.
1246 - Isabella of Angouleme dies. Queen of John of England.
1349 - Thomas Wake dies (b. 1297). English politician.
1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dies (b. 1358). Japanese shogun.
1410 - King Martin I of Aragon dies (b. 1356).
1443 - Margaret Beaufort was born (d. 1509). Mother of Henry VII of England.
1469 - King Manuel I of Portugal was born (d. 1521).
1495 - Cecily Neville dies (b. 1415). Mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England
1522 - Guido de Bres was born (d. 1587). Belgian theologian
1535 - Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1607). Italian painter.
1557 - Feodor I dies (b. 1598). Tsar of Russia.
1558 - Philip Hoby dies (b. 1505). English politician.
1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1582 - Rei Felipe II assina alvará ordenado pagamento de pensão à mãe de Luíz Vaz de Camões
1594 - Tintoretto dies (b. 1518). Italian painter.
1613 - John George II, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1680)
1640 - Michał Wiśniowiecki was born (d. 1673). King of Poland
1656 - Marin Marais was born. French composer and viol player.
1669 - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1678 - The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
1680 - Joachim Neander dies (b. 1650). German clergyman.
1727 - Royal Bank of Scotland is created.
1740 - King Friedrich Wilhem I of Prussia dies (b. 1688)
1747 - Andrei Osterman dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
1750 - Karl August of Hardenberg was born (d. 1822). Statesman and reformer.
1753 - Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was born (d. 1793). French revolutionary.
1754 - Andrea Appiani was born (d. 1817). Italian painter.
1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1773 - Ludwig Tieck was born (d. 1853). German poet and writer.
1775 - Patriots in Charlotte, North Carolina adopt the Mecklenburg Resolutions urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britian.
1790 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 - The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.
1790 - Por decisão régia, são criadas em Lisboa 18 escolas para raparigas. São as primeiras escolas femininas em Portugal.
1799 - Pierre Lemonnier dies (b. 1715). French astronomer.
1801 - Johann Georg Baiter was born (d. 1887). Swiss philologist.
1809 - Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna (b. 1732). Austrian composer.
1809 - Jean Lannes dies (b. 1769). French Marshal of Empire.
1813 - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1819 - Walt Whitman was born (d. 26 Mar 1892). American poet ( Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain! )
1831 - Samuel Bentham dies (b. 1757). British mechanical engineer.
1832 - Evariste Galois dies (b. 1811). French mathematician.
1837 - Joseph Grimaldi dies (b. 1779). British clown (king of pantomime).
1838 - Henry Sidgwick was born (d. 1900). English philosopher.
1842 - "Pour le Mérite" extended
1846 - Philip Marheineke dies (b. 1780). German Protestant divine.
1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
1847 - Thomas Chalmers dies (b. 1780). Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist.
1848 - Eugénie de Guérin dies (b. 1805). French writer.
1852 - Francisco Pascasio Moreno was born. Argentine scientist, naturalist and explorer.
1857 - Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) was born (d. 10 Feb 1939). 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939].
1860 - Walter Sickert was born (d. 1942). English painter.
1862 - American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) - Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1863 - Francis Younghusband was born (d. 1942). British explorer.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins.
1866 - In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
1872 - Heath Robinson was born (d. 1944). English cartoonist.
1874 - Estreia, na Igreja de São Marcos de Milão, a Misa de Requiem que Verdi compôs para a morte do escritor Manzoni.
1875 - Eliphas Lévi dies. French writer and magician.
1876 - Austin McDowell Patterson was born (d. 1956). Chemist.
1878 - Naufraga na costa inglesa o encouraçado alemão Grosser-Kurfurst, causando a morte de 269 tripulantes.
1879 - Madison Square Garden opens its doors
1880 - The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI. It was the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
1882 - Sándor Graf Festetics was born (d. 1956). Hungarian politician.
1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander was born (d. 1942). 2nd. Presidemt of Finland
1884 - John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
1885 - Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
1887 - Saint-John Perse was born (d. 1975). French diplomat and poet. Nobel Prize in Literature 1960.
1889 - Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1892 - Michel Kikoine was born (d. 1968). Belarus painter.
1892 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was born (d. 1968). Russian writer.
1894 - Fred Allen was born (d. 1956). American comedian. He is best remembered for "Allen's Alley" radio program, 1932-49.
1894 - Konstantin Stoilov Konstantinov assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Bulgária
1898 - William Ramsay and Morris William Travers discovered krypton (Kr, element 36)
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was born (d. 1993). American clergyman who wrote "The Power of Positive Thinking," 1952.
1901 - Boer War : Boers kill 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby)
1902 - Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
1905 - Florence Desmond was born (d. 1993). English actress and comedian.
1908 - Nils Poppe was born (d. 2000). Swedish actor.
1908 - Don Ameche [Dominic Felix Amici] was born (d. 6 Dec 1993). American academy award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna;
1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette dies (b. 1839). French Canadian poet.
1909 - Aurore Gagnon was born (d. 1920). French Canadian victim of child abuse.
1910 - Creation of the Union of South Africa. Louis Botha assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da África do Sul
1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female physician in the United States.
1911 - Maurice Allais was born. Franch economist who won in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Economics.
1911 - The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, “Not even God himself could sink this ship.”
1912 - Alfred Deller was born (d. 1979). English countertenor.
1913 - The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
1916 - World War I: The German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.
1916 - Bert Haanstra was born (d. 1997). Dutch filmmaker
1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: More than 300 are killed in a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
1921 - Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
1921 - Alida Valli was born (d. 2006). Italian actress.
1922 - Denholm Elliott was born (d. 6 Oct 1992). English actor ( A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers).
1923 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco was born (d. 6 Apr 2005). Head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly.
1924 - The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
1924 - Lauri Ingman assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
1926 - Portugal: Bernardino Machado, presidente da República Portuguesa, apresenta a sua demissão do cargo, como consequência do golpe militar de 28 de Maio, que instaurara o Estado Novo.
1926 - James Kruss was born (d. 1997). Author.
1927 - The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1928 - É fundada a Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
1928 - Manuel de Oliveira Lima dies at 60. Brazilian historian.
1929 - Menahem Golan was born. Producer.
1930 - Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. American actor, director, producer. The Bridges of Madison County, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1931 - Shirley Verrett was born. American soprano.
1931 - John Robert Schrieffer was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Jay Miner was born (d. 1994). American microchip designer.
1935 - Um terremoto destrói a cidade de Quetta (Paquistão) e morrem mais de 56 mil pessoas.
1935 - Criação do Banco Central de la República Argentina
1935 - Jim Bolger was born. 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1937 - Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American singer.
1938 - Henry Armstrong defeated Barney Ross in New York City to win the welterweight boxing title.
1938 - Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American country music singer.
1938 - John Prescott was born. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 - Peter Yarrow was born. American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary")
1939 - Terry Waite was born. British humanitarian.
1940 - Gilbert Shelton was born. American underground comics illustrator (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat)
1941 - Louis J. Ignarro was born. American pharmacologist who, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen.
1942 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Coventry, England
1942 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1943 - Sharon Gless was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney &amp; Lacey [1985-1986, 1986-1987]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected
1943 - Joe Namath was born. American football star.
1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born (d. 10 Jun 1982). Film director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; Marriage of Maria Braum;
1945 - Laurent Gbagbo was born. President of Ivory Coast
1945 - Odilo Globocnik dies (b. 1904). Austrian nazi.
1946 - Ted Baehr was born. American media critic.
1947 - MayAbd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
1947 - Mátyás Rákosi assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria.
1948 - José Vianna da Motta dies. Portuguese pianist.
1948 - Syngman Rhee assume a presidência da Coréia do Sul
1948 - John Bonham was born (d. 25 Sep 1980). British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin.
1948 - Marília Gabriela was born. Brazilian journalist, actress and TV presenter.
1948 - Marco Nanini was born. Brazilian actor.
1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th year in radio.
1949 - Tom Berenger [Thomas Michael Moore] was born. Actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Murder of Crows, In the Company of Spies, Turbulence II: Fear of Flying.
1950 - Gregory Harrison was born. American television actor.
1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
1953 - Pirkka-Pekka Petelius was born. Finnish actor.
1954 - Vicki Sue Robinson was born (d. 2000). American singer.
1954 - Thomas Mavros was born. Greek footballer
1957 - Jim Craig was born. American hockey player.
1957 - Leopold Staff dies (b. 1878). Polish poet.
1959 - Aurora Cunha was born. Portuguese athlete.
1959 - Andrea de Cesaris was born. Italian racing driver.
1960 - Greg C. Adams was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1960 - Chris Elliott was born. American comedian
1960 - Walther Funk dies (b. 1890). Nazi leader.
1960 - Willem Elsschot dies (b. 1882). Flemish writer.
1961 - Benfica wins 6th Champions Europe Cup in Bern beating Barcelona 3-2
1961 - Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
1961 - Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated
1961 - Ray Cote was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - Lea Thompson was born. American actress
1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1962 - Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel / Executado em Tel Aviv, por crimes contra os judeus, o ex-coronel das SS Adolfo Eichman, que havia sido sequestrado na Argentina por agentes israelitas.
1962 - Corey Hart was born. Canadian musician
1962 - Sebastian Koch was born. German actor
1962 - Henry Fountain Ashurst dies (b. 1874). American politician.
1963 - Wesley Willis was born (d. 2003). American musician.
1963 - Teresa Cheung was born. Hong Kong socialite and actress.
1963 - Hugh Dillon was born. Canadian musician and actor
1963 - Viktor Orbán was born. Hungarian politican, prime minister (1998-2002)
1964 - Leonard Asper was born. Canadian businessman
1964 - Scotti Hill was born. American rock guitarist
1964 - Darryl McDaniels was born. American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1965 - Brooke Shields was born. American model: Ivory Snow baby and actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura, Suddenly Susan.
1966 - Monges budistas atearam fogo sobre seus próprios corpos em Saigão, como forma de protesto contra a política do governo militar do Vietname do Sul.
1966 - Jeremy Hotz was born. Canadian stand-up comedian
1966 - Nick Scotti was born. American actor and singer
1967 - The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
1967 - Kenny Lofton was born. Baseball player
1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire was born. French actress
1967 - Vampiro was born. Canadian professional wrestler
1967 - Phil Keoghan was born. New Zealand television personality
1969 - Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records.
1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Give Peace a Chance, the first single recorded by a solo Beatle, from their hotel bed.
1970 - The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1970 - World Championship in Football (FIFA) begins in Mexico.
1970 - Terry Sawchuk dies (b. 1929). Hockey player.
1971 - In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1972 - Official IRA declares ceasefire : The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.
1972 - Frode Estil was born. Norwegian cross-country skier.
1972 - Sarah Murdoch was born. English model.
1972 - Karl Geary was born. Irish actor.
1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1974 - Syria and Israel sign a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War
1974 - William DeVaughn, a soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from Washington, DC, received a gold record for his only hit, Be Thankful for What You Got
1974 - Adrian Tomine was born. American cartoonist.
1974 - Zsolt Erdei was born. Hungarian light heavyweight boxer.
1975 - ESA (European Spacial Agency) is established / Constituição da Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA).
1975 - Sienna Guillory was born. English actress
1976 - East Timor is invaded and ocuppied by Indonesia.
1976 - Colin Farrell was born. Irish actor
1976 - Jacques Monod dies (b. 9 Feb 1910). French biochemist who, with François Jacob, did much to elucidate how genes regulate cell metabolism by directing the biosynthesis of enzymes. The pair shared, along with André Lwoff, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
1976 - Martha Mitchell died in New York. She was the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
1977 - Debbie King was born. English TV presenter.
1977 - Scott Klopfenstein was born. American musician (Reel Big Fish, The Littlest Man Band)
1977 - Theodoros Baev was born. Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player.
1977 - William Castle dies (b. 1914). American director.
1978 - József Bozsik dies (b. 1925). Hungarian footballer.
1980 - Andy Hurley was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 - Zia Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
1983 - Dustin Wells was born. New Zealand footballer.
1983 - Reggie Yates was born. English television presenter.
1983 - Jack Dempsey dies (b. 1895). American boxer.
1984 - Jason Smith was born. Australian actor.
1985 - The US-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1985 - Ian Vouyoukas was born. Greek basketball player.
1986 - Melissa McIntyre was born. Canadian actress.
1986 - Sopho Khalvashi was born. Georgian musical artist.
1986 - Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) dies (b. 1918). American artist.
1986 - James Rainwater dies (b. 9 Dec 1917). American physicist, Nobel laureate (shared) in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
1987 - John Abraham (Director) dies. Indian film director
1987 - Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
1990 - The pilot episode of Seinfeld premieres.
1990 - The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or "mad cow" disease.
1991 - São firmados em Lisboa os acordos para pôr fim a 16 anos de guerra civil em Angola assinados pelos presidentes do MPLA e da UNITA e que acabaram por não ser cumpridos.
1994 - Marcel Bich dies. Bic pens creator.
1994 - O croata Kresimir Zubak é proclamado primeiro presidente da recém criada Federação musulmano-croata na Bósnia.
1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel's election for prime minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of one percent.
1996 - Paul Peter Piech dies (b. 1920). Artist.
1996 - Timothy Leary dies (b. 1920). American professor and LSD advocate.
1997 - Canada's Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
1997 - James Bennett Griffin dies (b. 1905). American archaeologist.
2000 - Tito Puente dies (b. 1923). American musician.
2000 - Johnnie Taylor dies (b. 1938). American singer.
2001 - Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country's biggest political scandal in recent history.
2001 - Moderate PLO leader Faisal Husseini died at age 60.
2002 - The 17th Football World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, begins with a 1-0 upset of France by Senegal. The tournament ends on June 30, with Brazil winning a record fifth World Cup title.
2002 - Portugal ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto.
2002 - The United States Secretary of the Navy issued Instruction 10520.6 directing all United States Navy ships to fly the First Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign will be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism.
2002 - A series of major storms blew through Western Pennsylvania, killing 1 person when the Whip pavillion at Kennywood collapses.
2002 - Tem início o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol organizado pela Coreia do Sul/ Japão. No primeiro jogo o Senegal vence a França por 1-0.
2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
2003 - Bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
2003 - 1996 Atlanta Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
2004 - A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
2004 - Robert Quine dies (b. 1942). American guitarist.
2004 - Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil dies (b. 1941). French songwriter and screenwriter.
2005 - W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
2006 - Raymond Davis Jr. dies (b. 1914). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
2006 - Ryan Bennett dies (b. 1970). Broadcast commentator.
2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway dies (b. 1930). American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder
Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
The Godiva procession
World No Tobacco day
Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti)

2007-05-30

No Jardim em Penumbra - Ribeiro Couto

foto: Jardim silencioso

Na penumbra em que jaz o jardim silencioso
A tarde triste vai morrendo... desfalece...
Sobre a pedra de um banco um vulto doloroso
Vem sentar-se, isolado, e como que se esquece.

Deve ser um secreto, um delicado gozo
Permanecer assim, na hora em que a noite desce,
Anônimo, na paz do jardim silencioso,
Numa imobilidade extática de prece.

Em lugar tão propício à doçura das almas
Ele vem meditar muitas vezes, sozinho,
No mesmo banco, sob a carícia das palmas.

E uma só vez o vi chorar, um choro brando...
Fiquei a ouvir... Caíra a noite, de mansinho...
Uma voz de menina ao longe ia cantando.

Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto (n. Santos, São Paulo a 12 Mar 1898; m. em Paris a 30 de Mai de 1963)

Que suspensão, que enleio .... - Sóror Violante do Céu

foto: Cupido

Que suspensão, que enleio, que cuidado
É este meu, tirano deus Cupido?
Pois tirando-me enfim todo o sentido
Me deixa o sentimento duplicado.

Absorta no rigor de um duro fado,
Tanto de meus sentidos me divido,
Que tenho só de vida o bem sentido
E tenho já de morte o mal logrado.

Enlevo-me no dano que me ofende,
Suspendo-me na causa de meu pranto
Mas meu mal (ai de mim!) não se suspende.

Ó cesse, cesse, amor, tão raro encanto
Que para quem de ti não se defende
Basta menos rigor, não rigor tanto.

Sóror Violante do Céu (n. em Lisboa a 30 de Mai. 1607; m. em Lisboa a 28 de Jan. de 1693)

On this day in History - May 30

1010 - Emperor Renzong of China, was born (d. 1063)
1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland dies (b. 1105)
1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon dies (b. 1198/1199?)
1416 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague (b. 1379) as a heretic.
1423 - Georg Purbach was born (d. 1461). German mathematician and astronomer.
1431 - In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal.
1431 - Joan of Arc dies (burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal) (b. 1412) . French commander and saint.
1434 - Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were defeated and almost annihilated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars.
1469 - Lope de Barrientos dies (b. 1382). A powerful bishop in Castile
1527 - The University of Marburg was founded in Germany.
1536 - King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 - Henry III becomes King of France.
1574 - King Charles IX of France dies (b. 1550).
1576 - Harada Naomasa dies. Japanese retainer and samurai under Oda Nobunaga
1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1593 - Christopher Marlowe dies (b. 1564). English playwright.
1607 - Sóror Violante do Céu [Violante da Silveira Montesino] was born in Lisbon (d. 28 Jan 1683]. Portuguese Dominican nun and poetess.
1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater was born (d. 1686). English politician
1635 - Peace of Prague (1635) signed (30 Years War)
1640 - (O.S.) Peter Paul Rubens dies (b. 1577). German painter.
1662 - Casamento de D. Catarina, filha de D. João IV, com Carlos II de Inglaterra.
1672 - Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) was born (d. 1725). Tsar of Russia./ Nascimento de Pedro o Grande (1672-1725), imperador da Rússia. Foi responsável pela ocidentalização da Rússia, edificando a cidade de São Petersburgo.
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell dies (b. 1638). First Lord of the British Admiralty
1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire was born (d. 1793). English politician.
1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle dies (b. 1670). Dutch favorite of William III of England
1719 - Roger Newdigate was born (d. 1806). English politician.
1730 - Arabella Churchill dies (b. 1648).English mistress of James II of England
1744 - Alexander Pope dies (b. 1688). English poet and writer.
1746 - Abade de Faria was born. Portuguese scientist.
1770 - François Boucher dies (b. 1703). French painter.
1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth was born (d. 1844). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1778 - Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) dies (b. 1694). French philosopher, author.
1779 - D. Fernando de Sousa e Silva é nomeado 4º Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa
1783 - The first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called "The Pennsylvania Evening Post"
1806 - Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1814 - The First Treaty of Paris is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba on the same day.
1814 - Michael Bakunin was born (d. 1876). Russian anarchist.
1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan was born (d. 1894). Belgian mathematician.
1819 - William McMurdo was born (d. 1894). British army officer.
1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau was born (d. 1890). French Canadian politician.
1826 - Germanos of Patras dies (b. 1771). Greek Metropolitan bishop who proclaimed the Greek War of Independence.
1834 - Portugal: As ordens religiosas masculinas são extintas e os seus bens nacionalizados. A medida é da responsabilidade de D. Pedro, enquanto regente, e de Joaquim António de Aguiar, que passa por isso a ser conhecido por «o Mata-Frades».
1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé was born. Russian jeweller.
1848 - W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer.
1849 - Pedro Santana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência da República Dominicana
1850 - Nasceu o republicano português, fundador de "O Século", Sebastião de Magalhães Lima.
1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1854 - Wenceslau de Moraes was born (d. 1 Jul 1929). Portuguese writer.
1858 - Siegfried Alkan was born (d. 1941). German composer.
1865 - John Catron dies. Associate justice of the United States
1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclaimation on May 5).
1868 - Souji Okita dies (b. 1823). 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi.
1871 - The Paris Commune falls.
1875 - Giovanni Gentile was born (d. 1944). Italian philosopher.
1875 - Palmira Bastos was born. Portuguese actress.
1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1878 - Mike Donlin was born (d. 1933). Baseball player.
1879 - New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1879 - An F4 tornado struck Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1879 - Colin Blythe was born (d. 1917). Kent and England left arm spinner.
1881 - Georg von Küchler was born (d. 1968). German field marshal
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle was born. British runner
1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.
1886 - Randolph Bourne was born (d. 1918). American writer.
1895 - Maurice Tate was born (d. 1956). Sussex and England all-rounder.
1896 - Howard Hawks was born (d. 26 Dec 1977). American film director : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monkey Business, Hatari, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Sergeant York, A Song is Born, The Thing.
1899 - Irving Thalberg was born (d. 1936). American film producer.
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner was born (d. 1979). Broadway producer, writer, director, and actress.
1901 - Victor D'Hondt dies (b. 1841). Belgian mathematician.
1902 - Stepin Fetchit was born (d. 1985). American dancer and actor.
1904 - Ernesto Guardia Navarro was born. President of Panamá (1956-1960).
1906 - Bruno Gröning was born (d. 1959). German faith healer.
1907 - Elly Beinhorn was born. German pilot.
1908 - Hannes (Olof Gösta) Alfvén was born (d. 2 Apr 1995). Swedish astrophysicist, one of the founders of the field of plasma physics (the study of ionized gases) and winner, with Louis Néel of France, of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics "for fundamental work in magnetohydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics."
1908 - Mel Blanc was born (d. 1989). American voice actor.
1909 - Benny Goodman was born (d. 1986). American clarinetist and Swing-era bandleader.
1910 - Inge Meysel was born (d. 2004). German actress.
1911 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1912 - Julius Axelrod was born. American biochemist. Received the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1970 (with British biophysicist Sir Bernard Katz and Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler).
1912 - Joseph Stein was born. Playwright
1912 - The U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
1912 - Hugh Griffith was born (d. 1980). Welsh actor.
1912 - Erich Bagge was born. German physicist
1912 - Wilbur Wright dies (b. 1867). Aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers).
1913 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 - New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor was born (d. 2000). Mexican poet.
1919 -René Barrientos was born. President of Bolívia (1964-1969).
1920 - Franklin Schaffner was born (d. 1989). American film director
1920 - Ralph Metcalfe was born (d. 1978). American athlete.
1922 - Hal Clement was born (d. 2003). American science fiction writer.
1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. Daniel Chester French created the famous sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, titled Seated Lincoln. Lincoln is in meditation, seated in a large armchair. Both French and the Piccirilli brothers completed the sculpture. On this day in 1922 the memorial in which the statue is permanently seated was dedicated, although the cornerstone was laid in 1915.
1925 -Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol is founded.
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck dies (b. 1876). German historian.
1926 - Christine Jorgensen was born (d. 1989). Transsexual activist.
1926 - O primeiro governo saído do golpe militar de 28 de Maio entra em funções. É presidido pelo comandante Mendes Cabeçadas, herói da Revolução de 5 de Outubro de 1910.
1927 - Clint Walker was born. American actor.
1928 - Agnès Varda was born. French director.
1928 - Pro Hart was born (d. 2006). Australian artist.
1928 - Gustav Leonhardt was born. Dutch musician, musicologist and conductor
1934 - Aleksei Leonov was born. Russian cosmonaut and first person to walk in space.
1934 - Alketas Panagoulias was born. Greek footballer and coach.
1934 - Togo Heihachiro dies (b. 1848). Japanese admiral.
1935 - Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.
1936 - Keir Dullea was born. American actor
1936 - Glória de Matos was born. Portuguese actress.
1939 - Michael J. Pollard was born. American actor.
1939 - Floyd Roberts dies (b. 1904). Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500.
1940 - Gilles Villemure was born. Quebec ice hockey player.
1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
1941 - Prajadhipok dies (b. 1893). Rama VII, king of Thailand.
1942 - World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1943 - Gale Sayers was born. American football player
1943 - James Chaney was born (d. 1964). American civil rights activist.
1944 - Meredith MacRae was born (d. 2000).American actress.
1946 - Louis Slotin dies (b. 1910). Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos.
1947 - Vashti Murphy McKenzie was born. African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop
1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa was born. French Canadian LPGA golfer
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp dies (b. 1880). World War I Austrian submarine commander.
1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1950 - Bertrand Delanoë was born. French politician.
1950 - Paresh Rawal was born. Indian actor.
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky was born. American actor.
1951 - Zdravko Čolić was born. Bosnian singer.
1951 - Hermann Broch dies (b. 1886). Austrian author.
1953 - Colm Meaney was born. Irish actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine)
1953 - Dooley Wilson dies (b. 1886). American musician and actor.
1954 - Susan Kelly-Gilbert was born. Vice-President of Advertising and Marketing at the Colorado Springs Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1955 - Topper Headon was born. British musician, drummer with The Clash
1955 - Bill Vukovich dies (b. 1918). Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500.
1956 - Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen premieres his piece Gesang der Jünglinge in Cologne.
1958 - Memorial Day: The bodies of several unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 - Marie Fredriksson was born. Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
1960 - Boris Pasternak dies (b. 1890). Russian author. Nobel Prize 1958.
1961 - Harry Enfield was born. British comedian.
1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo dies (b. 1891). Dictator of the Dominican Republic .
1962 - World Championship Football (FIFA) begins in Chile
1962 - Kevin Eastman was born. American comic book creator
1963 - Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto dies in Paris (b. 12 Mar 1898). Brazilian poet.
1964 - Wynonna Judd was born. American singer
1964 - Tom Morello was born. American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1964 - Andrea Montermini was born. Italian racing driver
1964 - Leó Szilárd dies (b. 1898). Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
1964 - Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald die killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1927). American auto racers.
1966 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 - Thomas Hassler was born. German footballer.
1966 - Stephen Malkmus was born. American musician (Pavement)
1967 - Claude Rains dies (b. 1889). English actor.
1967 - At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
1967 - The Nigerian state of Biafra secedes, sparking a civil war.
1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui was born. French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
1970 - Jimi Hendrix plays at Berkeley Community Theatre one of the last live performances before his death.
1970 - Flora Chan was born. Hong Kong television actress
1970 - Ness Wadia was born. Indian industrialist.
1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
1971 - Idina Menzel was born. American actress and singer.
1971 - Marcel Dupré dies (b. 1886). French composer.
1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1972 - In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1972 - Manny Ramirez was born. Dominican baseball player
1973 - Leigh Francis (aka Avid Merrion) was born. British comedian.
1974 - Cee-Lo was born. American musician.
1974 - Big L was born (d. 1999). American rapper.
1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias was born. Greek footballer
1974 - Shin Ha-kyun was born. South Korean actor
1974 - David Wilkie was born. American ice hockey player
1975 - Bob Watson, of the Houston Astros scores the 1,000,000th run in baseball history.
1975 - Andrew Farrell was born. English rugby league and union footballer.
1975 - Michel Simon dies (b. 1895). French actor.
1975 - Steve Prefontaine dies (b. 1951). American distance runner.
1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič was born. Slovenian basketball player.
1977 - Rachael Stirling was born. British actress.
1977 - Fabrice Akwa was born. Angolan footballer.
1979 - Mike Bishai was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
1979 - Kugimiya Rie was born. Japanese seiyuu (voice actress).
1979 - Fabian Ernst was born. International German footballer, 24 games for National team 1 goal. He wears the colours of Schalke 04
1980 - Steven Gerrard was born. English footballer.
1980 - Carl Radle dies (b. 1942). American bass guitarist.
1981 - Portugal : No Porto, no teatro Carlos Alberto, estreia o bailado Romeu e Julieta, pela primeira vez representado por portugueses, pertencentes à Companhia Nacional de Bailado.
1981 - Devendra Banhart was born. American singer and songwriter
1981 - Gianmaria Bruni was born. Italian racing driver.
1981 - Blake Bashoff was born. American actor
1981 - Don Ashby dies (b. 1955). Canadian ice hockey player.
1981 - Ziaur Rahman dies (b. 1936). President of Bangladesh.
1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
1982 - Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak will end on September 20, 1998.
1984 - Matt Maguire was born. Australian rules footballer.
1985 - Justin Pasfield was born. Australian soccer player
1986 - Perry Ellis dies. Fashion designer
1986 - Claudia Beni was born. Croatian singer
1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1992 - Antoni Zygmund dies (b. 26 Dec 1900). Polish-born mathematician who created a major analysis research centre at Chicago, and recognized in 1986 for this with the National Medal for Science.
1993 - Sun Ra dies (b. 1914). American musician.
1994 - Marcel Bich dies (b. 1914). French industrialist (Société Bic).
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti dies. Writer.
1997 - The Norway national football team beats Brazil 4-2. They still have never lost to Brazil, and remain the only team that hasn't.
1998 - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
1998 - Geri Halliwell announced she was leaving the Spice Girls.
1999 - Kenny Bräck wins the 83rd Indianapolis 500
2000 - Tex Beneke dies. Bandleader, singer, saxophone player .
2002 - Mário Lago dies. Brazilian actor, writer and composer
2003 - Mickie Most dies (b. 1938). English musician
2003 - Hans Peter Willberg dies. Literature critic
2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
2004 - Buddy Rice wins a rain-shortened 88th Indianapolis 500
2004 - St. Isabel Bridge is inaugurated in Coimbra, Portugal / Inauguração da ponte de Santa Isabel, em Coimbra.
2005 - Tomasz Pacyński dies (b. 1958). Polish writer.
2006 - Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha receives the Pritzker Prize
2006 - Shohei Imamura dies (b. 1926). Japanese film director.
Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).
Peru – National Potato Day
United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May).
Canary Islands – Canary Islands' Day