Nothingandall: 2007/07

2007-07-31

Uefa Champions League 2007/08 - Second qualifying Round

Rangers and Shaktar in strong position to the next and decisive qualifying round before the Groups phase. Sarajevo also makes history beating Gent in Belgium.

Few goals and no more than two goals of advance in the matches played today

Second Qualifying Round - First Leg - Results

Today, July 31

Rangers 2 - 0 Zeta [David Weir 55', Lee McCulloch 73']
København 1- 0 Beitar Jerusalem [Allbäck 9']
Tampere 1 -0 Levski [Tomi Petrescu 16']
Pyunik 0-2 Shakhtar [Gladkyi 45', Brandão 48']
Debrecen 0-1 Elfsborg [Daniel Mobaek 64']
Zagłębie 0-1 Steaua [Goian 56']
Genk 1-2 Sarajevo [0-1 Admir Raščić; 1-1 Hans Cornelis 16' (pen); 1-2 Veldin Muharemović,

Tomorrow, August 1
Domžale - Dinamo Zagreb
Beşiktaş - Sheriff
Ventspils - Salzburg
Astana - Rosenborg
Hafnarfjördur - BATE
Crvena Zvezda - Levadia
Žilina - Slavia

The matches of the second leg are scheduled to next week: Aug 7 and Aug 8

New Blogger Archive Calendar

At the side bar, now you can see on Nothingandall a new system of archive : a calendar archive which substitutes the traditional archive provided by Blogger. This new feature makes easy to navigate throught the posts and looking for former posts and that only was possible thanks Phydeaux 3. That looks great and I'm very happy to have found this.

Thankx a lot Phydeaux.

Em Vagon - Augusto Gil

A chaminé vomita fumarada
a máquina assobia, parto enfim!
Na «gare» ao longe, a minha namorada
agita o lenço branco para mim.

Como recatas traçadas a nanquin
sobre um fundo cerúleo de aguada,
vejo no espaço nítidas, assim,
as linhas telegráficas da estrada

O sol, hóstia de luz resplandecente
vai-se elevando gloriosamente
na abóboda vastíssima dos céus

e dois choupos batidos pelo vento
curvam-se num ligeiro cumprimento,
cerimoniosos, a dizer-me adeus...

Augusto César Ferreira Gil (n. em Lordelo do Ouro, Porto a 31 de Jul. de 1873, m. na Guarda a 26 de Fev. de 1929)

in A Circulatura do Quadrado, Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa, Edições Unicepe, 2004

Não tinha - Angelo de Lima

Narcisos - Oleo/Lienzo (146x97), by Nanci Caro

Não tinha esse perfume, dos Narcisos!...
Nem o calor fervente dos Abraços!...

Aquela, a quem um dia abri os braços...
- que me encantava a alma de sorrisos!...

- Vi seus olhos, então!... - os lagos lisos
Não são mais cristalinos...nem mais frios!...

- Pobres Almas de Moços... - Balbucios
E Inocentes! - e ínscios!... - E indecisos!!!...

Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima (n. no Porto a 31 Jul 1872; m. em 14 Ago 1921).

Happy Birthday Chandra North

On this day in History - Jul 31

0431 - Election of Pope Sixtus III.
0781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781)
0855 - Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal dies (b. 0780). Muslim Jurisprudent
0904 - Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city.
1009 - Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV
1099 - El Cid dies (b. 1044). Spanish warrior.
1108 - King Philip I of France dies.
1143 - Emperor Nijo of Japan was born (d. 1165)
1396 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy was born (d. 1467)
1396 - William Courtenay dies (b. 1342). Archbishop of Canterbury
1423 - Hundred Years War: Battle of Cravant - The French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne.
1451 - Jacques Cœur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France.
1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1508 - Na'od dies killed in battle (b. 1494). Emperor of Ethiopia.
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor was born (d. 1576)
1547 - King Francis I of France dies (b. 1494)
1556 - Ignatius Loyola dies in Rome (b. 1491). Spanish priest, founder of the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church.
1588 - The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1598 - Alessandro Algardi was born (d. 1654). Italian sculptor and architect.
1653 - Thomas Dudley dies (b. 1576). Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1655 - Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it would hold for six years.
1658 - Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India.
1667 - The Treaty of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1702 - Jean Denis Attiret was born (d. 1768). French Jesuit missionary and painter.
1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
1704 - Gabriel Cramer was born (d. 1752). Swiss mathematician.
1718 - John Canton was born (d. 1772). English physicist.
1724 - Noël François de Wailly was born (d. 1801). French lexicographer.
1726 - Nicolaus II Bernoulli dies (b. 1695). Swiss mathematician.
1741 - Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
1750 - King John V of Portugal dies (b. 1689)
1777 - The United States Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States."
1784 - Denis Diderot dies (b. 1713). French philosopher and encylopedist
1790 - First US patent issued; granted to inventor Samuel Hopkins.
1795 - Basílio da Gama dies in Lisbon (b. 22 Jul 1740 in São José do Rio das Mortes, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Poet.
1803 - John Ericsson was born (d. 1889). Swedish inventor and engineer.
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo dies. Mexican national heroe.
1816 - George Henry Thomas was born (d. 1870). American general.
1818 - Nikolay Novikov dies. Russian writer
1835 - Henri Brisson was born (d. 1912). French statesman.
1835 - Paul du Chaillu was born (d. 1903). French explorer.
1843 - Peter Rosegger was born (d. 1918). Austrian poet.
1856 - Christchurch, New Zealand chartered as a city.
1858 - Richard Dixon Oldham was born (d. 1936). British geologist.
1860 - Mary Vaux Walcott was born (d. 1940). American artist and naturalist.
1864 - Louis Hachette dies (b. 1800). French publisher.
1865 - Afonso de Bragança was born. Duke of Porto (Portugal)
1867 - Sebastian S. Kresge was born (d. 1966). American merchant and philanthropist.
1872 - Ângelo de Lima (Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima) was born in Oporto (d. 14 Ago 1921). Portuguese poet.
1873 - Augusto César Ferreira Gil was born at Lordelo do Ouro, Oporto (d. 26 Feb 1929). Portuguese poet.
1875 - Andrew Johnson dies (b. 1808). 17th President of the United States
1883 - Fred Quimby was born (d. 1965). American film producer.
1884 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was born (d. 1945). German politician.
1884 - Friedrich Robert Helmert was born (d. 15 Jun 1917). German geodesist and an important writer on the theory of errors.
1886 - Franz Liszt dies (b. 1811). Hungarian composer.
1887 - Hans Freyer was born (d. 1969). German sociologist.
1892 - Joseph Charbonneau was born (d. 1959). French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal.
1900 - José Manuel Cayetano Marroquín Ricaurte takes place as President of Colombia
1901 - Jean Dubuffet was born (d. 1985). French painter and sculptor.
1901 - Henriqueta Brieba was born in Barcelona (d. 18 Sep 1995). Spanish-born Brazilian actress
1904 - Brett Halliday was born (d. 1977). American mystery writer.
1911 - George Liberace was born (d. 1983). American musician.
1912 - Milton Friedman was born. American economist. Recipient of the 1976 "Nobel" Prize in economics
1912 - Irv Kupcinet was born (d. 2003). American newspaper columnist.
1913 - The Balkan States sign an armistice at Bucarest.
1913 - William Todman was born. Game show producer
1914 - Louis de Funès was born (d. 1983). French actor and comedian.
1914 - Jean Jaurès dies (b. 1859). French politician.
1916 - Billy Hitchcock was born (d. 2006). Baseball player, coach, and official.
1916 - Sibte Hassan was born. Pakistani activist, journalist, and writer
1916 - Bill Todman was born (d. 1979). American game show producer.
1917 - The Third Battle of Ypres starts in Flanders.
1917 - Francis Ledwidge dies (b. 1881). Irish poet
1917 - Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans) dies (b. 1887). Welsh poet.
1918 - Paul D. Boyer was born. American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1918 - Hank Jones was born. American pianist.
1919 - German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution (to enter into force August 14)
1919 - Curt Gowdy was born. American sports announcer
1919 - Primo Levi was born (d. 1987). Italian author and chemist
1921 - Whitney Young was born (d. 1971). American Civil rights activist who was head of the National Urban League (1961–71).
1921 - Peter Benenson was born (d. 2005). Founder of Amnesty International
1923 - Ahmet Ertegün was born (d. 2006). Turkish-born record company executive
1928 - Kurt Sontheimer was born. Political scientist
1929 - Don Murray was born. American actor
1929 - José Santamaria was born. Uruguayan footballer
1929 - Lynne Reid Banks was born. British author
1930 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
1930 - Oleg Popov was born. Russian clown
1931 - Kenny Burrell was born. American guitarist
1931 - Nick Bollettieri was born. American tennis coach
1932 - The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1933 - Cees Nooteboom was born in The Hague. Dutch author, novelist ("Rituals" "Berlin Notes"). In 1993 he was awarded the European Prize for Literature.
1935 - Yvon Deschamps was born. French Canadian author, comedian and humorist
1936 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
1936 - Vic Davalillo was born. Baseball player
1936 - Sir Richard Greenbury was born. British retailing giant
1937 - Charles Martine dies. Apache scout.
1938 - Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanta (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia)
1939 - France Nuyen was born. French actress
1940 - A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading the opposite way, killing 43 people.
1941 - Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1941 - Amarsinh Chaudhary was born. Indian politician
1943 - William Bennett was born. 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1943 - Susan Flannery was born. American actress
1943 - Lobo was born. American singer and songwriter
1943 - William Bennett was born. Former U.S. Secretary of Education and drug czar
1943 - Susan Flannery was born. American actress.
1943 - Hedley Verity dies (b. 1905). English Test cricketer.
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin was born. American actress.
1944 - Jonathan Dimbleby was born. U.K. journalist and television presenter
1944 - Robert C. Merton was born. Leading Scholar and Nobel Prize Winner
1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery dies (b. 1900). French pilot and writer
1945 - Pierre Laval, fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.
1945 - John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison.
1945 - Gary Lewis was born. American drummer and vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1946 - Bob Welch was born. American musician
1946 - Karen Zerby was born. Current leader of Children of God
1948 - At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated.
1950 - Steve Miller was born. American writer
1950 - Guilhermina Suggia dies. Portuguese cellist
1951 - Japan Airlines is established.
1951 - Evonne Goolagong was born. ustralian tennis player
1951 - Barry Van Dyke was born. American actor
1952 - Chris Ahrens was born. American ice hockey player
1952 - João Barreiros was born. Portuguese writer
1952 - Alan Autry was born. American football player, actor, mayor of Fresno, California
1952 - Helmuts Balderis was born. Latvian ice-hockey player
1953 - James Read was born. American actor
1953 - Robert Taft dies (b. 1889). U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate
1954 - First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio.
1954 - Derek Smith was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1954 - Onofre Marimón dies (b. 1923). Argentine racing driver.
1956 - Jim Laker sets extraordinary record at Old Trafford in the fourth Test of taking nineteen wickets in a first-class match (the previous best was seventeen).
1956 - Michael Biehn was born. American actor
1957 - Daniel Ash was born. Gothic rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
1957 - Leon Durham was born. Baseball player
1958 - Bill Berry was born. American drummer (R.E.M.)
1958 - Mark Cuban was born. American businessman, producer, and basketball team owner (Dallas Mavericks)
1959 - Stanley Jordan was born. American jazz guitarist
1960 - Dale Hunter was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1961 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain.
1962 - John Chiang was born. American politician
1962 - Kevin Greene was born. Professional American football player
1962 - Wesley Snipes was born. American actor
1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
1964 - Jim Reeves dies (b. 1923). American singer.
1965 - John Laurinaitis was born. American professional wrestler
1965 - J. K. Rowling was born. British novelist (her most famous character, Harry Potter was also born this day, but in 1980)
1965 - Scott Brooks was born. Former pro basketball player
1966 - Dean Cain was born. American actor.
1966 - Bud Powell dies (b. 1924). American jazz pianist.
1967 - Minako Honda was born (d. 2005). Japanese singer and musical actress.
1969 - David Cash was born. American professional wrestler
1969 - Kenneth D. Schisler was born. American politician
1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
1971 - Gus Frerotte was born. American football player
1971 - John Lowery (John 5) was born. American guitarist
1972 - Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day.
1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak dies (b. 1899). Prime minister of Belgium
1973 - A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89
1973 - Chandra North was born. American supermodel
1974 - Jonathan Ogden was born. American football player
1974 - Luca Tiengo was born. Italian guitar player. Member of Ledel
1974 - Emilia Fox was born. English actress
1975 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
1975 - Simon Hirst was born. British radio DJ (hit40uk)
1975 - Randy Flores was born. Baseball player
1975 - Mike Lincoln was born. Baseball player
1975 - Jody Ann Paterson was born in Balikpapan, Indonesia.Playboy Playmate of the Month October 1999.
1976 - Viking program: Viking 1 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo.
1976 - Joshua Cain was born. American guitarist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 - Paulo Wanchope was born. Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Annie Parisse was born. American actress
1977 - Tim Couch was born. American football quarterback
1978 - Justin Wilson was born. English race car driver
1978 - Will Champion was born. English drummer (Coldplay)
1979 - Jade Kwan was born. Hong Kong singer
1979 - Per Krøldrup was born. Danish footballer
1979 - J.J. Furmaniak was born. Professional baseball player
1979 - Carlos Marchena was born. Spanish football player.
1980 - Mils Muliaina was born. New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1980 - Mohd. Rafi dies (b. 1924). Indian playback singer
1980 - Pascual Jordan dies (b. 1902). German physicist.
1981 - General Omar Torrijos of Panama dies in a plane crash.
1981 - 42-day strike of Major League Baseball ends in the United States.
1981 - Ira Losco was born. Maltese singer.
1982 - Blessing Mahwire was born. Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 - Melanie Vallejo was born. Australian TV actress
1986 - Karl Lagerfeld receives the "Golden Fingerhut"
1986 - Evgeni Malkin was born. Russian hockey player
1986 - Chiune Sugihara dies (b. 1900). Japanese diplomat.
1986 - Teddy Wilson dies (b. 1912). American jazz pianist
1987 - A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
1988 - 32 people were killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapsed in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1988 - Francisco José dies. Portuguese singer.
1990 - Olga Galchenko was born. Russian juggler
1990 - Albert Leduc dies (b. 1902). French Canadian ice hockey player.
1992 - A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killg 113.
1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium dies (b. 1930) .
1994 - Portugal is the European Champion in football U-18, beating Germany on penalty kicks.
1994 - A UN Security Council resolution authorized the use of “all necessary means” to restore democracy to Haiti.
1995 - Henrique Santana dies. Portuguese actor.
1996 - MIL-STD-1750A is declared inactive for use in new designs.
1999 - Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
2001 - Poul Anderson dies (b. 1926). Science fiction author
2001 - Portugal - Francisco Costa Gomes dies in Lisbon (b. in Chaves, 1914). President of Portugal (1974-1976)
2002 - Portugal - Inicio da 2ª edição da Minho Campus Party.
2002 - O Prémio Camões é entregue à escritora portuguesa Maria Velho da Costa
2002 - South Africa signs Kyoto Protocol
2003 - WON is shut down
2003 - Guido Crepax dies (b. 1933). Italian comics artist
2004 - Virginia Grey dies (b. 1917). American actress.
2004 - Laura Betti dies (b. 1927). Italian actress.
2005 - Wim Duisenberg dies (b. 1935). Dutch banker and 1st president of the European Central Bank.
2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana [La Pequeña Habana in Spanish], Miami, Florida, where many Cuban-Americans participated.
2006 - Miminhos a Toda a Hora (blog) and Blog of Blogs (Directory of Blogs) are founded.
2006 - Paul Eells dies (b. 1935). "Voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks" sportscaster for 38 years.
La Hae Hawai‘i - Hawaiian Flag Day
Republic of the Congo - Upswing of the Revolution
Hari Pahlawan - Malaysian warrior's day.
Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
A few hardcore devotees of Harry Potter celebrate Harry James Potter's birthday on this date. The novelist J. K. Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter books, chose this date as the fictional character's birthday as it is her own birthday

2007-07-30

Musical suggestions of the Day - Rui Veloso

Rui Veloso was born in July 30, 1957 in Lisbon, Portugal

Porto Sentido

O Primeiro Beijo

Não há Estrelas no Céu

Nunca me Esqueci de Ti

Ah! Os Relógios - Mário Quintana

Amigos, não consultem os relógios
quando um dia eu me for de vossas vidas
em seus fúteis problemas tão perdidas
que até parecem mais uns necrológios...

Porque o tempo é uma invenção da morte:
não o conhece a vida - a verdadeira -
em que basta um momento de poesia
para nos dar a eternidade inteira.

Inteira, sim, porque essa vida eterna
somente por si mesma é dividida:
não cabe, a cada qual, uma porção.

E os Anjos entreolham-se espantados
quando alguém - ao voltar a si da vida -
acaso lhes indaga que horas são...

Mário de Miranda Quintana (n. em Alegrete, (RS) a 30 de Jul 1906, m. em Porto Alegre (RS) a 5 de Mai de 1993)

O Perfume - António Correia de Oliveira

O que sou eu? – O Perfume,
Dizem os homens. – Serei.
Mas o que sou nem eu sei...
Sou uma sombra de lume!

Rasgo a aragem como um gume
De espada: Subi. Voei.
Onde passava, deixei
A essência que me resume.

Liberdade, eu me cativo:
Numa renda, um nada, eu vivo
Vida de Sonho e Verdade!

Passam os dias, e em vão!
– Eu sou a Recordação;
Sou mais, ainda: a Saudade.

António Correia de Oliveira (n. em S. Pedro do Sul a 30 de Jul 1879; m. em Belinho, Esposende a 20 de Fev. 1960)

In Cem Poemas Portugueses do Adeus e da Saudade
Org. de José Fanha e José Jorge Letria, Lisboa, Terramar, 20

Mais Poemas de António Correia de Oliveira

António Correia de Oliveira e Mário Quintana dois grandes poetas da língua portuguesa nasceram em 30 de Julho

Em 1879, neste dia 30 de Julho, nascia em S. Pedro do Sul o poeta António Correia de Oliveira. A sua poesia quer patriótica quer religiosa é de inspiração popular.

Convictamente monárquico, transforma-se num dos poetas oficiosos do Estado Novo, com inúmeros textos escolhidos para os livros únicos de língua portuguesa do sistema de ensino primário e secundário. Talvez por isso lembro-me ainda de alguns excertos de poemas que constavam da Antologia da Literatura Portuguesa que em tempos de estudante era adoptada para o ensino de Português.

Foi o primeiro Português a ser nomeado para o prémio Nobel e a própria concorrente vencedora, Gabriela Mistral, declarou publicamente, no acto solene, que não merecia o prémio, estando presente o autor do «Verbo Ser e Verbo Amar».

Faleceu em Belinho, Esposende em 20 de Fevereiro de 1960, onde viveu aliás, desde 1912.

Em 30 de Julho de 1906 nasceu Mário de Miranda Quintana em Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul. Um grande poeta brasileiro que dedicou-se também à tradução nomeadamente de Marcel Proust (Em Busca do Tempo Perdido), Voltaire, Maupassant...

É o poeta das coisas simples. Despreocupado em relação à crítica, faz poesia porque "sente necessidade", segundo suas próprias palavras. «A sua poesia é caracterizada pelo humanismo, intimismo, coloquialismo, uma diáfana ternura melancólica, subtileza, sugestão e magia».

Faleceu em Porto Alegre a 5 de Maio de 1993

Naturalmente, para além dos pemas destes autores já publicados neste blog, ilustraremos esta efeméride com a divulgação de pelo menos mais um de cada autor.

On this day in History - Jul 30

0578 - Jacob Baradaeus dies. Bishop of Edessa
0579 - Pope Benedict I dies.
0657 - Pope St. Vitalian is consecrated and enthroned as Catholic Pope
1178 - Fredrick "Barbarossa" crowned King of Burgundy
1233 - Assassination of Conrad of Marburg and Gerhard Lutelholb
1291 - Haifa falls to the Mameluks
1371 - Massacre of the Compagnia del Bruco in Florence, Italy
1419 - First Defenestration of Prague: Beginning of the Hussite Wars
1470 - Hongzhi was born (d. 1505). Emperor of China.
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1511 - Giorgio Vasari was born (d. 27 Jun 1574). Italian painter
1523 - Juan de Anchieta was born. Spanish composer.
1538 - Newfoundland reached by Sir Humphrey Gilbert
1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici was born (d. 1609). Grand Duke of Tuscany.
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1565 - Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, duke of Albany.
1588 - Howard sails from Plymouth
1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1609 - Iroquois Indians defeated by their first sight of firearms
1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1641 - Regnier de Graaf was born (d. 1673). Dutch physician and anatomist.
1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie dies (b. 1624). 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier.
1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory dies (b. 1634). Irish naval commander.
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain dies (b. 1638). Queen of Louis XIV of France.
1691 - Brendan Byrne was born (d. 1949). Irish writer.
1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof dies (b. 1639). German writer and scholar.
1715 - Nahum Tate dies (b. 1652). Irish poet.
1718 - William Penn dies (b. 1644). English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1763 - Samuel Rogers was born in Stoke Newington. English poet (The Pleasures of Memory). He will be best remembered as a witty conversationalist and friend of many greater poets.
1766 - Carta régia que proíbe, no Brasil, as indústrias de ourives, fiadores de ouro, de sedas e algodões tecidos.
1771 - Thomas Gray dies (b. 1716). English poet and letter-writer ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard") .
1784 - Denis Diderot dies. French wryter and encyclopedist.
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1818 - Emily Brontë was born (d. 1848). English novelist.
1825 - Malden Island discovered.
1835 - Vicente Rocafuerte ocupa la presidencia de Ecuador.
1848 - A iluminação a gás é inaugurada em Lisboa.
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was born (d. 1919). German industrialist
1857 - Thorstein Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929). Economist (The Theory of the Leisure Class).
1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn was born (d. 1939). English humanitarian.
1863 - Henry Ford was born (d. 1947). American industrialist / Nascimento de Henry Ford (1863-1947), no Michigan, Estados Unidos da América. Foi o inventor da linha de montagem para produção de automóveis.
1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1875 - George Pickett dies (b. 1825). American Confederate general.
1879 - António Correia de Oliveira was born on S. Pedro do Sul (b. 1960). Portuguese poet
1881 - Smedley Butler was born (d. 1940). American Marine general.
1889 - Franz Masereel was born (d. 1972). Belgian painter and graphic artist.
1889 - Vladimir Zworykin was born (d. 1982). Russian physicist and inventor, often called the "Father of Television" for inventing the iconoscope.
1890 - Casey Stengel was born (d. 1975). Baseball Hall of Famer.
1893 - Fatima Jinnah was born (d. 1967). Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
1894 - Walter Pater dies in Oxford.
1895 - Wanda Hawley was born (d. 1963). American actress.
1898 - Henry Moore was born (d. 1986). English sculptor.
1898 - Otto von Bismarck dies (b. 1815). German chancellor
1899 - Gerald Moore was born (d. 1987). English pianist.
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies (b. 1844).
1901 - Alfred Lépine was born (d. 1955). Quebec ice hockey player and coach
1904 - Salvador Novo was born (d. 1974). Mexican writer.
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia was born (d. 1918)
1906 - Mario Quintana was born (1994). Brazilian poet / Mário Quintana nascia em Alegrete (RS) (d. 5 Mai 1994). Poeta brasileiro (A Rua dos Cataventos)
1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson was born (d. 1993). British historian and writer.
1910 - Edgar de Evia was born (d. 2003). American mountain climber
1912 - Emperor Meiji dies (b. 1852). Japanese emperor.
1914 - Lord Killanin was born (d. 1999). Irish International Olympic Committee president.
1916 - Dick Wilson was born. American actor
1918 - Joyce Kilmer dies in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. American poet.
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle was born. Half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 - Grant Johannesen was born (d. 2005). American pianist.
1925 - Alexander Trocchi was born (d. 1984). Scottish writer.
1925 - Jacques Sernas was born. French actor (La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
1926 - Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1927 - Richard Johnson was born. English actor.
1928 - George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S.
1928 - Eunice Muñoz was born. Portuguese actress.
1929 - Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, He)
1929 - Sid Krofft was born. Canadian children's television producer
1929 - Werner Tübke was born. German painter.
1930 - Thomas Sowell was born. American economist
1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. / Em Montevideu, os donos da casa vencem a Argentina por 4 a 2 e conquistam o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.
1930 - Hans Gamper dies. Founder of Futbol Club Barcelona
1932 - The X Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.
1932 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
1933 - Edward Byrnes was born. American actor (77 Sunset Strip, holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
1934 - Ben Piazza was born (d. 1991). American actor (Guilty by Suspicion, The Hanging Tree)
1934 - Bud Selig was born. Baseball team owner and commissioner
1934 - Kurt von Schuschnigg was named Austrian chancellor following the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss.
1936 - Buddy Guy was born. American guitarist and singer
1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain was born.
1937 - Keizo Obuchi was born (d. 2000). 84th Prime Minister of Japan.
1938 - Hervé de Charette was born. French politician
1938 - Joe Nuxhall was born. Baseball: Cincinnati Reds pitcher: youngest major-league player [15yrs, 314 days])
1939 - Eleanor Smeal was born. Feminist activist.
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich was born. American film director (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What's Up Doc?)
1940 - Patricia Schroeder was born. American politician, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado (1973-1977)
1940 - Nicolau Breyner was born in Serpa. Portuguese actor.
1940 - Clive Sinclair was born. British entrepreneur.
1941 - Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) was born. American sword swallower
1941 - Paul Anka was born. Canadian singer and composer
1943 - Henri-François Gautrin was born. Quebec politician
1945 - World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy.
1945 - David Sanborn was born. American musician, Grammy award winning
1946 - Neil Bonnett was born (d. 1994). NASCAR driver.
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger was born. American actor and politician, 38th Governor of California
1947 - William Atherton was born. American actor
1947 - Joseph Cook dies (b. 1860). Sixth Prime Minister of Australia
1948 - Jean Reno was born. Moroccon-born French actor
1949 - Dwight White (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
1950 - Willie Harper was born. Football: San Francisco '49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI)
1950 - Frank Stallone was born. American singer and actor
1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
1954 - Ken Olin was born. Actor (Hill Street Blues, Thirtysomething)
1956 - A Joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God We Trust" as the U.S. national motto.
1956 - Delta Burke was born. American actress (Designing Women, Filthy Rich)
1956 - Anita Hill was born. American law professor, author
1956 - Réal Cloutier was born. Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Nery Pumpido was born. Argentine football goalkeeper
1957 - Rat Scabies was born. British musician
1957 - Colm Imbert was born. Trinidadian politician
1957 - Clint Hurdle was born. American baseball player and manager
1957 - Rui Veloso was born. Portuguese singer, rock musician.
1958 - Kate Bush was born. English singer.
1958 - Richard Burgi was born. Actor
1958 - Kate Bush was born. British musician
1958 - Daley Thompson was born. English decathlete
1960 - Richard Linklater was born. American director
1961 - Laurence Fishburne was born. American actor
1961 - Neal McCoy was born. Country singer
1962 - Alton Brown was born. American television host and chef
1963 - Lisa Kudrow was born. American actress
1963 - Chris Mullin was born. Basketball player
1964 - Vivica A. Fox was born. American actress (Independence Day)
1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann was born. German football player and manager
1964 - Dwayne O'Brien was born. Country musician (Little Texas)
1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1965 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1966 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2. / Em Londres, os donos da casa vencem a Alemanha por 4 a 2 e conquistam a Copa do Mundo de Futebol.
1966 - President Johnson signed the Medicare bill on this day in 1966.
1968 - Robert Korzeniowski was born. Polish athlete
1968 - Sean Moore was born. Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders.
1969 - Simon Baker was born. American actor
1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
1970 - Christopher Nolan was born. British film director
1970 - George Szell dies (b. 1897). Hungarian conductor
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1971 - Pan-American Games started in Colombia
1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162
1971 - Tom Green was born. Canadian comedian, actor
1971 - Christine Taylor was born. American actress (The Brady Bunch Movie)
1971 - Kenneth Slessor dies (b. 1901). Australian poet
1973 - Markus Naslund was born. Swedish icehockey player
1973 - Sonu Nigam was born. Indian singer/actor
1974 - Radostin Kishishev was born. Bulgarian footballer
1974 - Hilary Swank was born. American Academy Award winning actress
1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
1975 - Representatives of 35 countries convened in Helsinki, Finland, for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the "Helsinki Accords." The conference was aimed at ensuring peace in Europe.
1975 - Graham Nicholls was born. British artist
1975 - Cherie Priest was born. American writer
1975 - James Blish dies. Author
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa, labour leader, disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1976 - O Cruzeiro, de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brasil , ganha a Copa Libertadores da América, vencendo o River Plate, da Argentina, por 3 a 2.
1977 - Jaime Pressly was born. American actress
1979 - Graeme McDowell was born. Northern Irish professional golfer
1979 - Ian Watkins was born. Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.
1980 - Sara Anzanello was born. Italian volleyball player
1981 - Nicky Hayden was born. American motorcycle racer
1982 - Matthew Johnson was born. American rapper
1983 - Sean Dillon was born. Irish footballer
1983 - Lynn Fontanne dies (b. 1887). English actress.
1983 - Howard Dietz dies (b. 1896). American lyricist.
1984 - West German swimmer Michael Gross became the first double gold winner of the 1984 Summer Olympics, while the United States picked up three gold medals in swimming and shooting.
1984 - Mobutu Sese Seko is reelected Presidente of Zaire.
1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle was born. American basketball player
1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm was born. Norwegian footballer
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson dies (b. 1919). American mathematician.
1986 - Adam Nelson was born. English conductor.
1988 - Chacrinha dies (b. 1916). Brazilian TV presenter and radialist,
1989 - Lane Frost dies (b. 1963). American bull rider.
1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1992 - Joe Shuster dies (b. 1914). Canadian comic book artist.
1992 - Brenda Marshall dies (b. 1915). American actress.
1996 - Claudette Colbert dies in Barbados at age 92. French-American actress
1997 - A double suicide bombing kills 14 people in Jerusalem,Israel.
1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
1997 - Bao Dai dies (b. 1913). Last empereur of Vietnam
2000 - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election (59,05% dos votos) against Francisco Arias (38,04%).
2002 - Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie is the first woman to dunk in a basketball game.
2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush
2002 - Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2003 - 490,000 Rock Fans attend Sarsfest concert at Downsview park in Toronto, Canada, Headlined by The Rolling Stones, AC/DC Rush, The Tea Party, and 12 other major rock acts.
2003 - Sam Phillips dies (b. 1923). American record producer.
2004 - A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.
2004 - Andre Noble dies (b. 1979). Canadian actor.
2005 - Ray Cunningham dies (b. 1905). Baseball player.
2005 - John Garang dies (b. 1945). Vice President of Sudan
2005 - Anthony Walker dies (b. 1987). Hate crime murder victim
2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show has aired for 42 years.
2006 - At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre.
2006 - Al Balding dies (b. 1924). Canadian professional golfer.
2006 - Murray Bookchin dies (b. 1921). American libertarian socialist.
Vanuatu - Independence Day