Nothingandall: 2008/10

2008-10-31

Não sei se é para preparar o terreno no caso do desenvolvimento da crise implicar o despedimento (também) do primeiro ministro, mas a verdade é que José Sócrates anda disposto a demonstrar a sua versatilidade como vendedor ou publicitário. Basta ver a propaganda que fez na Cimeira Ibero-Americana.

Afinal o Magalhães, «computador da última geração» é «uma espécie de Tintim: para ser usado desde os sete aos 77 anos». «Foi pensado para as crianças e por isso é resistente ao choque. O Presidente Chávez já o atirou ao chão e não o conseguiu partir». Crianças com 77 anos? Este apelo às crianças e até à banda desenhada quando se fala com os políticos funciona sempre maravilhosamente. Estou certo de que se não lhes tivesse sido oferecido um iriam imediatamente comprá-lo.

A língua lambe - Carlos Drummond de Andrade

A língua lambe as pétalas vermelhas
da rosa pluriaberta; a língua lavra
certo oculto botão, e vai tecendo
lépidas variações de leves ritmos.
E lambe, lambilonga, lambilenta,
a licorina gruta cabeluda,
e, quanto mais lambente, mais ativa,
atinge o céu do céu, entre gemidos,
entre gritos, balidos e rugidos
de leões na floresta, enfurecidos

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (n. em Itabira (Minas Gerais) a 31 de Out. de 1902; m. no Rio de Janeiro, a 17 de Ago de 1987)

Ler do mesmo autor neste blog: Quero; O amor antigo; Indagação; Amar; Quarto em desordem

On this day in History - Oct. 31

445 BC - Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 9:1, NLTse).
0475 - Romulus Augustus was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester dies. English politician.
1214 - Leonora of England dies (b. 1162). Queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
1291 - Philippe de Vitry was born (d. 1361). French composer.
1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal was born (d. 1383).
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal was born (d. 1438).
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland was born (d. 1444).
1448 - John VIII Palaeologus dies (b. 1390). Byzantine Emperor.
1451 - Nascimento do descobridor da América, Cristóvão Colombo (1451-1506), em Génova, Itália.
1512 - Vaticano: se inauguran los frescos de la Capilla Sixtina, pintados por Miguel Ángel.
1517 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo dies (b. 1472). Italian artist.
1538 - Caesar Baronius was born (d. 1607). Italian cardinal and historian.
1587 - Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1599 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles was born (d. 1680). English statesman and writer.
1618 - Santa Mariana de Jesus - Mariana de Jesus de Paredes y Flores - was born in Quito (d. 26 May 1644). Ecuadorian saint who was canonized on 9 Jul 1950.
1620 - John Evelyn was born († 1706). English diarist.
1622 - Pierre Paul Puget was born (d. 1694). French artist.
1632 - Johannes Vermeer date of baptism (d. 1675). Flemish painter.
1636 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria was born (d. 1679).
1641 - Cornelis Jol dies (b. 1597). Dutch admiral and privateer.
1659 - John Bradshaw dies (b. 1602). English judge.
1692 - Comte de Caylus was born (d. 1765). French archaeologist.
1705 - Pope Clement XIV was born (1774).
1711 - Laura Bassi was born (d. 1778). Italian scholar.
1723 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1642).
1724 - Christopher Anstey was born (d. 1805). English writer.
1732 - Victor Amadeus II of Savoy dies (b. 1666).

1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1676).

1737 - James Lovell was born (d. 1789). American educator.

1744 - Leonardo Leo dies (b. 1694). Italian composer.

1750 - Marquess of Alorna (D. Leonor de Almeida Lorena e Lencastre) was born. Portuguese writer.

1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland dies (b. 1721). English military leader.

1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini dies (b. 1690). Italian composer.

1784 - José Rafael de Gallegos y Alvarado was born. President of Costa Rica (1833-1835 and 1845-1846).

1784 - Jose Maria Perez de Urdininea was born. President of Bolivia (18 Apr 1828- 02 Aug 1828).

1795 - John Keats was born (d. 1821). British poet.

1815 - Karl Weierstraß was born (d. 1897). German mathematician.

1822 - Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempted to dissolve the Mexican Empire.

1825 - Charles Lavigerie was born (d. 1892). French cardinal.

1827 - Richard Morris Hunt was born (d. 1895). American educator.

1828 - Joseph Swan was born. English physicist and chemist, most famous for the development of the light bulb.

1831 - Paolo Mantegazza was born (d. 1910). Italian neurologist.

1835 - Krišjānis Barons was born (d. 1923). Latvian writer.

1835 - Adolf von Baeyer was born (d. 1917). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1838 - King Luís I de Portugal was born (d. 1889).

1848 - Boston Custer was born (d. 1876). Brother of George Armstrong Custer.

1851 – Lovisa of Sweden was born (d. 1926). Queen of Denmark.

1860 - Juliette Low was born. American founder of the Girl Scouts.

1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald dies (b. 1775). British admiral.

1861 - American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.

1863 - The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.

1864 - Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.

1875 - Eugene Meyer was born (d. 1954). American businessman and newspaper publisher

1875 - Vallabhbhai Patel was born (d. 1950). Indian freedom fighter and statesman.

1876 - A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths.

1879 - Sara Allgood was born (d. 1950). Irish actress.

1879 - Jacob Abbott dies (b. 1803). American author.

1879 - Joseph Hooker dies (b. 1814). American General.

1883 - Marie Laurencin was born (d. 1956). French painter.

1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff dies (b. 1858). Russian painter.

1887 - Chiang Kai-shek was born (d. 1975). Nationalist Chinese leader, Republic of China president

1887 - Newsy Lalonde was born (d. 1970). Canadian ice hockey player.

1888 - Napoleon Lapathiotis was born (d. 1944). Greek poet.

1889 - Santa-Rita Pintor was born (d. 1918). Portuguese futurist painter.

1892 - Alexander Alekhine was born (d. 1946). Russian chess player.

1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

1895 - Basil Liddell Hart was born (d. 1970). British military historian.

1896 - Ethel Waters was born (d. 1977). American singer and actress.

1896 - Pedro de Freitas Branco was born. Portuguese conductor.

1902 - Carlos Drummond de Andrade was born (d. 1987). Brazilian cronist and poet.

1902 - Abraham Wald was born (d. 13 Dec 1950). Hungarian mathematician.

1902 - Guilherme Gomes Fernandes dies in Lisbon (b. 1849). Portuguese benemerit.

1912 - António Vilar was born in Lisbon (d. 16 Aug 1995). Portuguese actor.

1912 - The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith, debuts as the first gangster film.

1912 - Dominican Republic becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1912 - Dale Evans was born (d. 2001). American singer and actress.

1912 - Ollie Johnston was born. American animator.

1913 - Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across America.

1913 - William Evans-Gordon dies (b. 1857). British politician.

1914 - Joe Carcione was born (d. 1988). American consumer advocate.

1914 - John Hugenholtz was born (d. 1995). Dutch race track designer.

1915 - João de Scantimburgo was born im Dois Córregos, São Paulo. Brazilian journalist and writer

1916 - Charles Taze Russell dies (b. 1852). American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses

1917 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba - "last successful cavalry charge in history"

1917 - Thomas Hill was born. Canadian actor.

1918 - Hungary: The Faster Revolution triumphs in Budapest, and Count Mihály Károlyi becomes Prime Minister.

1918 - Banat Republic founded.

1918 - Ian Stevenson was born. American parapsychologist.

1918 - Egon Schiele dies (b. 1890). Austrian painter.

1919 – Magnus Wenninger was born. American priest, author of Polyhedron models.

1920 - Dick Francis was born. Welsh novelist.

1920 - Helmut Newton was born (d. 2004). German photographer.

1920 - Dedan Kimathi was born (d. 1957). Kenyan rebel leader.

1920 - Fritz Walter was born (d. 2002). German football player.

1920 - Alphonse Desjardins dies (b. 1854). Founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins.

1922 - Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest Premier in the history of Italy.

1922 – Anatoli Papanov was born (d. 1987). Soviet actor.

1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes was born (d. 2005). American actress.

1922 – Illinois Jacquet was born (d. 2004). American saxophonist.

1922 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia was born

1923 - 160 consecutive days of 100 degrees at Marble Bar, Australia begins.

1923 - National Institute of Post Office Banking in Milan is founded.

1924 - World Savings Day was announced in Milano/Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).

1925 - John Anthony Pople was born (d. 2004). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1925 - Max Linder dies (b. 1883). French actor, director and screenwriter.

1926 - Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.

1926 - Jimmy Saville was born. English entertainer.

1926 - Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured (b. 1874). Hungarian-born American magician.

1927 - Lee Grant was born. American actress.

1928 - Cleo Moore was born (d. 1973). American actress.

1929 - Bud Spencer was born. Italian actor.

1929 - Eddie Charlton was born (d. 1994). Australian snooker player.

1929 - José Relvas dies (b. 5 Mar 1858). Portuguese politician.

1929 - António José de Almeida dies (b. 27 Jul 1866). Portuguese proeminent republican personality and President of Portugal.

1930 - Michael Collins was born. American astronaut.

1931 - Dan Rather was born. American television journalist.

1933 - Phil Goyette was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1936 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.

1936 - Michael Landon was born (d. 1991). American actor.

1936 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.

1937 - Tom Paxton was born. American singer.

1937 - Claudete Soares was born. Brazilian singer.

1938 - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.

1939 - Ron Rifkin was born. American actor.

1939 - Tom O'Connor was born. British comedian.

1939 - Alui Farka Touré was born. Malian musician.

1939 - Otto Rank dies (b. 1884). Austrian psychologist.

1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain ends - The United Kingdom prevents Germany from invading Great Britain.

1941 - After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.

1941 - World War II: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

1941 - American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

1941 – Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield, England kills 49.

1941 - Derek Bell was born. British racing driver.

1941 – Dan Alderson was born. American scientist.

1942 - Dave McNally was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.

1942 - David Ogden Stiers was born. American actor.

1943 - World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar guided interception.

1943 - Brian Piccolo was born (d. 1970). American football player.

1943 - Paul Frampton was born. English physicist.

1943 - Max Reinhardt dies (b. 1873). German director.

1944 - Kinky Friedman was born. American musician and novelist.

1944 - Sally Kirkland was born. American actress.

1945 - Peru joins to United Nations.

1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray was born. American comedian and actor.1945 - Russ Ballard was born. English rock singer/songwriter, guitarist (Argent).

1946 - Norman Lovett was born. British actor.

1946 - Stephen Rea was born. Irish actor.

1947 - Deidre Hall was born. American actress.

1947 - Frank Shorter was born. American runner.

1949 - Bob Siebenberg was born. American drummer (Supertramp).

1950 – Antonio Taguba was born. US Army Major General.

1950 - John Candy was born (d. 1994). Canadian comedian and actor.

1950 - Jane Pauley was born. American news anchor.

1950 – Jozef Stolorz was born. Polish art painter.

1950 – Zaha Hadid was born. British architect.

1951 – Nick Saban was born. American college football coach.

1952 - Bernard Edwards was born (d. 1996). American bass guitarist (Chic).

1952 - U Chit Hlaing dies (b. 1879). Burmese politician.

1953 - Michael J. Anderson was born. American actor.

1953 - John Lucas II was born. American basketball player and coach.

1954 - Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule.

1954 - Ken Wahl was born. American actor.

1956 - Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.

1956 - Anders Lago was born. Swedish Social Democratic politician.

1957 - Robert Pollard was born. American rocker.

1958 - Brian Stokes Mitchell was born. American singer and actor.

1958 - Sidney Rezende was born. Brazilian journalist.

1958 - Jeannie Longo was born. French cyclist.

1958 - John Jairo Torres de la Pava was born. Colombian singer.

1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to renounce his American citizenship at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR.

1959 - Mats Näslund was born. Swedish ice hockey player.

1959 - Neal Stephenson was born. American author.

1959 - Jean Cabannes dies (b. 1885). French physicist.

1960 - Luis Fortuño was born. Puerto Rican delegate to Congress.

1960 - Arnaud Desplechin was born. French film director.

1960 - Mike Gallego was born. American baseball player.

1960 - Reza Pahlavi was born. Former crown prince of Iran.

1961 - In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.

1961 – Alonzo Babers was born. American runner.

1961 – Kate Campbell was born. American musician.

1961 - Larry Mullen was born. Irish drummer (U2).

1961 - Peter Jackson was born. New Zealand film director.

1963 - Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Pepsi Coliseum) explosion in Indianapolis kills 74 people during an ice skating show. The mammoth explosion injured 400. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand was blamed.

1963 - Dunga was born. Brazilian footballer.

1963 - Fred McGriff was born. American baseball player.

1963 - Rob Schneider was born. American actor.

1963 - Mikkey Dee was born. Swedish musician, drummer for Motörhead.

1963 - Johnny Marr was born. English guitarist and songwriter (The Smiths).

1963 - Dermot Mulroney was born. American actor.

1964 - Colm O'Ciosoig was born. Irish drummer (My Bloody Valentine, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions).

1964 - Marco van Basten was born. Dutch footballer.

1964 - Marty Wright was born. American professional wrestler.

1964 - Darryl Worley was born. American country singer.

1965 - Annabella Lwin was born. British singer (Bow Wow Wow).

1965 – Rob Rackstraw was born. British voice actor.

1966 - Adam Horovitz was born. American singer (Beastie Boys).

1966 - Koji Kanemoto was born. Japanese professional wrestler.

1966 - Joseph Boyden was born. Canadian novelist.

1966 - Mike O'Malley was born. American actor.

1966 - Antonio de Arruda Carneiro Leão dies (b. 2 Jul 1887). Brazilian teacher, educator and essayist.

1967 - Vanilla Ice was born. American rapper.

1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.

1968 - Vanilla Ice was born. American rapper.

1968 - Antonio Davis was born. American basketball player.

1969 - David Coburn was born. American actor/voice actor.

1970 - Nicky Wu was born. Taiwanese actor and martial arts expert.

1970 - Linn Berggren was born. Swedish singer (Ace of Base).

1970 - Rogers Stevens was born. American guitarist (Blind Melon)

1970 - Mitch Harris was born. American guitarist (Napalm Death, among others).

1970 - Johnny Moeller was born. American blues guitarist.

1970 - Steve Trachsel was born. American baseball player.

1970 - Rogers Stevens was born. American guitarist (Blind Melon).

1971 - Alphonso Ford was born (d. 2004). American basketball player.

1971 - Ian Walker was born. English footballer.

1971 - Toby Anstis was born. British radio presenter.

1972 - Shaun Bartlett was born. South African footballer.

1972 - Bill Durnan dies (b. 1916). National Hockey League goaltender.

1973 - Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland after a hijacked helicopter landed in the exercise yard.

1973 - David Dellucci was born. American baseball player.

1973 - Grigorios Georgatos was born. Greek footballer.

1973 - Beverly Lynne was born. American erotic film actress.

1974 - Muzzy Izzet was born. Turkish footballer.

1975 - Queen released their most famous single Bohemian Rhapsody. It spent 9 weeks at number 1# in the UK charts. It has often been credited as the best song of all time.

1975 - SD Burman dies (b. 1906). Indian musician.

1976 - Piper Perabo was born. American actress.

1976 - José María Gutiérrez (Guti) was born. Spanish footballer.

1977 - Séverine Ferrer was born. French singer.

1977 - Sylviane Félix was botn. French athlete.

1978 - España: las Cortes aprueban la Constitución.

1978 - Emmanuel Izonritei was born. Nigerian boxer.

1978 - Martin Verkerk was born. Dutch tennis player.

1978 - Zachary Knighton was born. American actor.

1979 - Saaphyri Windsor was born. American reality tv figure

1979 - Simão Sabrosa was born at Constantim, Vila Real. Portuguese football player. See his personal page

1980 - Eddie Kaye Thomas was born. American actor.

1980 - Nicole Neumann [Nicole Unter Ruberbache Neumann] was born in Buenos Aires. Argentinian supermodel and actress.

1980 - Samaire Armstrong was born. American actress.

1981 - In the Harry Potter novels Voldemort kills James & Lily Potter.

1981 - Irina Denezhkina was born. Russian Generation Y writer

1981 - Frank Iero was born. American musician (My Chemical Romance, Leathermouth, Pencey Prep; founder of Skeleton Crew)

1981 - Selina (Jiaxuan) Ren was born. Member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E

1981 - Jon Crocker was born. American songwriter.

1982 - Tomáš Plekanec was born. Czech ice hockey player.

1982 - The Cheeky Girls weas born. British-Romanian singers.

1983 - Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour premieres on NBC

1983 - George Halas dies (b. 1895). American football player, coach, and team owner.

1983 - Raúl Alfonsin is elected President of Argentina

1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (b. 1917) is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).

1984 - Eduardo de Filippo dies (b. 1900). Italian actor and screenwriter .

1984 - Indira Gandhi dies (b. 1917). Prime Minister of India.

1985 - Nikos Engonopoulos dies (b. 1907). Greek painter and poet.

1985 - Anton Christoforidis dies (b. 1918). Greek boxer.

1985 - Poul Reichhardt dies (b. 1913). Danish actor.

1986 - The 5th congress of the Communist Party of Sweden is inaugurated. During the course of the congress the party name is changed to the Solidarity Party and the party ceases to be a communist party.

1986 - Chris Alajajian was born. Australian racing driver.

1986 - Christie Hayes was born. Australian actress.

1986 - Robert S. Mulliken dies (b. 1896). American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1987 - Joseph Campbell dies (b. 1904). American author and expert on mythology.

1988 - Sébastien Buemi was born. Swiss racing driver.

1988 - John Houseman dies (b. 1902). Romanian-born actor and director.

1988 - Alfred Pellan dies (b. 1906). Québécois painter.

1989 - Turquey: Turgut Ozal becomes President.

1990 - Lil' JJ was born. American comedian.

1991 - A three day long snow and ice storm, dubbed the Halloween Blizzard, begins over portions of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

1991 - Jordan-Claire Green was born. American actress.

1991 - Joseph Papp dies (b. 1921). American theatrical producer.

1991 - Gene Anderson dies (b. 1933). American professional wrestler.

1993 - Federico Fellini dies (b. 1920). Italian director.

1993 - River Phoenix dies (drug overdose) (b. 1970). American actor.

1994 - An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers.

1994 - Em Lusaca, assinatura de um acordo de Paz entre o Governo de Luanda e a UNITA.

1995 - Rosalind Cash dies (b. 1938). American actress.

1996 - A Brazilian TAM Fokker-100 crashes into several houses in São Paulo, Brazil killing 98 including 2 on the ground.

1996 - Jean Chrétien becomes UN special envoy to the African Great Lakes.

1996 - Marcel Carné dies(b. 1906). French film director.

1997 - Entrada em vigor das sanções da ONU à UNITA, por este movimento não cumprir as acções necessárias para implementar o acordo de Lusaca.

1997 - Um desabamento de lama, provocado por intensas chuvadas, causa a morte a 29 pessoas, na localidade de Ribeira Quente, em S. Miguel, Açores.

1997 - 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison.

1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.

1998 - Elmer Vasko dies (b. 1935). National Hockey League defenceman.

1999 - EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board.

1999 - Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.

1999 - Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.

1999 - Greg Moore dies (b. 1975). Canadian race car driver

2000 - Ikram Antaki dies (9 Jul 1948). Sirian-born Mexican writer.

2000 - A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and 4 crew members.

2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50

2000 - The last Multics machine was shut down.

2000 - Watanabe Kazuki dies (b. 1981). Japanese musician (Raphael).

2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr. dies (b. 1915). American screenwriter.

2001 - Régine Cavagnoud dies (b. 1970). French skier.

2002 - A federal grand jury in Houston formally indicted former Enron Corp. chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

2002 - Lionel Poilâne dies (b. 1945).French baker and entrepreneur.

2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos dies (b. 1903). Greek politician, former president of Greece.

2002 - Raf Vallone dies (b. 17 Feb 1916). Italian actor.

2003 - A bankruptcy court approves MCI's reorganization plans, essentially clearing the telecommunications company to exit bankruptcy.

2003 - Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia after 22 years in power.

2003 - Dharmsamrat Paramhans Swami Madhavananda dies (b. 1923). Indian guru.

2003 - Richard Neustadt dies (b. 1919). American political historian.

2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer dies (b. 1908). Indian singer.

2004 - Tabaré Vázquez is elected President of Uruguay

2004 - Passenger airline service ends at Mirabel International Airport in Montreal, Canada.

2005 - President George W. Bush nominates Appeals court judge Samuel Alito to join the Supreme Court of the United States.

2005 - Infanta Leonor of Spain was born. Daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and Letizia, Princess of Asturias.

2005 - Mary Wimbush dies (b. 1924). English actress.

2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan dies (b. 1974). American drummer (Bayside)

2005 - Hal Anger dies (b. 1920). American biophysicist.

2006 - NASA is expected to announce whether or not there will be a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. If the decision is made to fly the mission, designated STS-125, the crew will also be announced.

2006 - Pieter Willem Botha dies (b. 1916). President of South Africa.

2007 - Ray Gravell dies (b. 1951). Welsh rugby union footballer.

R.C. Saints - October 31 is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Arnulf, St. Bega, St. Quentin, St Urban, St. Wolfgang

Protestant Church - Reformation Day: Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenberg church on this day in 1517

October 31th is Halloween / Dia das Bruxas

International Savings Day/ Dia Mundial da Poupança

Cornwall - Allantide

Wikipedia - Wikipedia: Tim Starling Day

2008-10-30

Humor (negro): Falências na Hora

O Governo Português apostado que está na desburocratização lançou um grande projecto de Modernização Administrativa, objectivo prioritário para cativar o investimento. Este projecto tem uma rede de balcões distribuída por todo o país, tecnologicamente equipada com computadores de última geração «Magalhães». Consta ainda que o financiamento deste projecto é feito à custa das coimas que cobra às empresas por falta de entrega do IVA ainda que não tenha sido recebido do cliente. O nome do projecto é «Falências na Hora».

(Artigo de ficção inspirado pela crise e nesta notícia)

Apagou-se, por fim, o incerto lume ... - Alfredo Guisado

Lume imagem daqui

Apagou-se, por fim, o incerto lume,
que, em volta do meu ser, ainda ardia,
e o velho alfange, de inquietante gume,
cortou o voo que meu sonho erguia.

Apagou-se, por fim, o lume incerto…
e fiquei-me entre as urzes, hesitante,
no local que pr’a o além era o mais perto
e pr’a voltar a mim o mais distante.

Abandonada, então, essa charneca,
vestida de silêncio, árida e seca,
rodeou-me a minha alma sonhadora.

Afastei-me. Acabei por me perder:
sem poder atingir o que quis ser
e sem poder voltar ao que já fora.

Alfredo Pedro de Meneses Guisado nasceu a 30 de Outubro de 1891 em Lisboa, onde faleceu a 2 de Dezembro de 1975. De ascendência galega, completou o curso de Direito, em 1921, na sua cidade natal, mas nunca exerceu a advocacia, dedicando-se antes ao jornalismo e à intervenção cívica: deputado do Partido Republicano Português, chegou a ser governador civil substituto e director-adjunto do diário «República». Colaborador da revista «Orpheu», foi um poeta paúlico e sensacionista, mais afim de Sá-Carneiro do que de Pessoa. Bilingue, tanto escrevia em português («Distância», 1914) como em galego («Xente d' Aldea», 1921) e ora assinava Alfredo Guisado ora Pedro de Meneses.

Soneto e nota biobibliográfica extraídos de «A Circulatura do Quadrado - Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa. Introdução, coordenação e notas de António Ruivo Mouzinho. Edições Unicepe - Cooperativa Livreira de Estudantes do Porto, 2004.

Decadência - Raul de Leoni

Afinal, é o costume de viver
Que nos faz ir vivendo para a frente.
Nenhuma outra intenção, mas, simplesmente
O hábito melancólico de ser...

Vai-se vivendo... é o vício de viver...
E se esse vício dá qualquer prazer à gente,
Como todo prazer vicioso é triste e doente,
Porque o Vício é a doença do Prazer...

Vai-se vivendo... vive-se demais,
E um dia chega em que tudo que somos
É apenas a saudade do que fomos...

Vai-se vivendo... e muitas vezes nem sentimos
Que somos sombras, que já não somos mais nada
Do que os sobreviventes de nós mesmos!...

Raul de Leoni Ramos (n. Petropolis, 30 Out 1895; m. Itaipava, a 21 Nov 1926)

Ler outros poemas de Raul Leoni no Nothingandall

On this day in History - Oct. 30

0637 - Antioch surrendered to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge.
1137 - Battle of Rignano between Ranulf of Apulia and Roger II of Sicily.
1218 - Emperor Chukyo was born (d. 1234). Emperor of Japan.
1270 - The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis end by an agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1340 - Battle of Rio Salado (Ler em português).
1459 - Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini dies (b. 1380). Italian humanist.
1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
1485 - Henry VII of England crowned.
1500 - Portuguese King Manuel I marries Maria de Aragão, his second wife.
1502 - Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut for the second time.
1513 - Jacques Amyot was born (d. 1593). French writer.
1522 - Jean Mouton dies. French composer.
1534 - The English parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church.
1553 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck dies (b. 1489). German statesman and reformer.
1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard dies (b. 1528). French poet.
1611 - King Charles IX of Sweden dies (b. 1550).
1624 - Paul Pellisson was born (d. 1693). French writer.
1626 - Willebrord Snell dies (b. 1580). Dutch astronomer and mathematician
1632 - Henri II de Montmorency dies (b. 1595). French naval officer and Governor of Languedoc.
1654 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan dies (b. 1633).
1668 - Sophia Charlotte of Hanover was born (d. 1705). Queen in Prussia.
1680 - Antoinette Bourignon dies (b. 1616). Flemish mystic.
1685 - Michel le Tellier dies (b. 1603). French statesman.
1700 - Gaspar Molina Rocha was born (d. 4 Dec 1760). Spanish bishop.
1733 - Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses dies (b. 19 Oct 1626). Portuguese noble:1st Marquis of Abrantes.
1735 - John Adams was born (d. 1826). American revolutionary leader and President of the United States.

1739 - Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky dies. Russian mathematicien.

1751 - Richard Sheridan was born (d. 1816). Irish playwright.

1762 - André Chénier was born (d. 1794). French writer.

1786 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé was born (d. 1871). French Canadian writer and politician.

1799 - Ignace Bourget was born (d. 1885). Bishop of Montreal.

1809 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland dies (b. 1738). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1816 - Frederick I of Württemberg dies (b. 1754).

1817 - Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp was born (d. 20 Feb 1892). German chemist and historian of chemistry whose studies of the relation of physical properties to chemical structure pioneered physical organic chemistry.

1820 - Sir John William Dawson was born (d. 20 Nov 1899). Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology.

1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky was born (d. 1881). Russian writer.

1823 - Edmund Cartwright dies (b. 24 Apr 1743). English inventor of the power loom. He also invented a machine for combing wool.

1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.

1839 - Alfred Sisley was born (d. 1899). Landscape painter.

1842 - Allan Cunningham dies (b. 1784). Scottish poet and author.

1844 - Harvey W. Wiley was born (d. 1930). American chemist.

1847 - Galileo Ferraris was born (d. 1897). Italian physicist.

1853 - Pietro Raimondi dies (b. 1786). Italian composer.

1857 - Georges Gilles de la Tourette was born (d. 1904). French neurologist.

1861 - Antoine Bourdelle was born (d. 1929). French sculptor.

1863 - Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.

1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends: Duke Frederick and the Danish Crown recognize Prussia's and Austria's annexation of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.

1864 - Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch".

1867 - Louis Winslow Austin was born (d. 27 Jun 1932). American physicist known for research on long-range radio transmissions. In 1904 he began work on radio transmissions for the U.S. Bureau of Standards.

1868 - António Cabreira was born in Tavira (d. 21 Nov 1953). Portuguese mathematician, journalist and publicist.

1871 - Paul Valery was born (d. 1945). French poet.

1871 - Buck Freeman was born (d. 1949). Baseball player.

1872 - John Chubb dies (b. 1816). English locksmith and safe maker.

1873 - Francisco I. Madero was born (d. 1913). President of Mexico (1911-1913).

1878 - Luís Guimarães Filho was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 19 Apr. 1940). Brazilian poet and diplomat.

1881 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts was born (d. 1941). American poet and author.

1882 - Günther von Kluge was born (d. 1944). German field marshal.

1882 - William Halsey, Jr was born (d. 1959). American admiral.

1883 - Robert Volkmann dies (b. 1815). German composer.

1885 - Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho (d. 1972). American poet, critic and translator.

1886 - Zoe Akins was born (d. 1958). American playwright.

1888 - Konstantinos Tsiklitiras was born (d. 1913). Greek athlete and Olympic champion.

1891 - Alfredo Pedro de Meneses Guisado was born in Lisbon (d. 2 Dec 1975). Portuguese poet and journalist.

1893 - Charles Atlas was born (d. 1972). Italian-born bodybuilder.

1893 - Roland Freisler was born (d. 1945). German Nazi politician.

1893 - John Joseph Caldwell Abbott dies (b. 1821). Third Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - Domenico Menegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially.

1894 - Jean Rostand was born (d. 1977). French biologist.

1894 - Honoré Mercier dies (b. 1840). Politician, Premier of Quebec.

1895 - Gerhard Domagk was born (d. 24 Apr 1964). German bacteriologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery (announced in 1932) of the antibacterial effects of Prontosil, the first of the sulfonamide drugs.

1895 - Dickinson W. Richards was born (d. 23 Feb 1973). American physiologist who was one of three who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system".

1895 - Raul de Leoni was born in Petrópolis RJ (d. 1926). Brazilian poet (Luz mediterrânea).

1896 - Ruth Gordon was born (d. 1985). American actress and playwright.

1896 - Kostas Karyotakis was born (d. 1928). Greek poet.

1897 - Rex Cherryman was born (d. 1928). American actor.

1898 - Bill Terry was born (d. 1989). Baseball player.

1899 - William Henry Webb dies (b. 1816). American industrialist and philanthropist.

1900 - Ragnar Granit was born (d. 1991). Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who was a corecipient (with George Wald and Haldan Hartline) of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his analysis of the internal electrical changes that take place when the eye is exposed to light.

1901 - José Leandro Andrade was born (d. 1957). Brazilian football player.

1905 - Csar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.

1906 - Alexander Gode was born (d. 1970). German-American linguist.

1906 - Giuseppe Farina was born (d. 1966). Italian race car driver who was the first F1 World Champion.

1907 - Sol Tax was born (d. 4 Jan 1995). American cultural anthropologist, founder of the Current Anthropology journal and initiator of the Fox Project, a study of the culture of the Fox and Sauk Indians.

1908 - Patsy Montana was born. American country music singer and songwriter.

1909 - Homi J. Bhabha was born (d. 1966). Indian physicist, nuclear scientist.

1910 - Miguel Hernández was born (d. 1942). Spanish poet.

1910 - Henry Dunant dies (b. 1828). Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1911 - Fancisco Clementino de San Tiago Dantas was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 6 Sep 1964). Brazilian journalist and politician.

1911 - Ruth Hussey was born (d. 2005). American actress.

1912 - James S. Sherman dies (b. 1855). Vice President of the United States.

1914 - Anna Wing waqs born. English actress.

1914 - Richard E Holz was born. American composer.

1915 - Fred Friendly was born (d. 1998), American journalist and network executive.

1915 - Charles Tupper dies (b. 1821). Sixth Prime Minister of Canada.

1916 - Leon Day was born (d. 1995). American baseball player.

1917 - Bobby Bragan was born. American baseball player.

1917 - Maurice Trintignant was born (d. 2005). French race car driver.

1917 - Nikolai Vasilievich Ogarkov was born (d. 1994). Soviet field marshal.

1917 - Talbot Mercer Papineau dies (b. 1883). Quebecois lawyer and soldier.

1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.

1918 - Robert C. Seamans, Jr. was born. American aeronautical engineer who pioneered in the development of advanced systems of flight control, fire control, and guidance for modern aircraft.

1918 - Egon Schiele dies (b. 1890). Austrian painter.

1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East

1920 - The Communist Party of Australia founded in Sydney.

1922 - Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy.

1922 - Jane White was born. American actress and singer.

1923 - Andrew Bonar Law dies (b. 1858). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1924 - Jean-Michel Charlier was born (d. 10 Jul 1989). Belgian cartoonist and ilustrator.

1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.

1926 - Jacques Swaters was born. Belgian racing driver.

1927 - Joe Adcock was born (d. 1999). Major League Baseball player.

1928 - Daniel Nathans was born (d. 1999). American microbiologist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1978 (with American Hamilton Othanel Smith and Swiss scientist Werner Arber).

1929 - The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.

1930 - Clifford Brown was born (d. 19456). Noted and highly influential American jazz trumpeter.

1930 - Nestor Almendros was born (d. 1992). Spanish cinematographer.

1931 - Vince Callahan was born. Representative of the 34th district in the House of Delegates.

1932 - Barun De was born. Indian historian.

1932 - Louis Mallé was born (d. 1995). French film director.

1934 - Frans Brüggen was born. Dutch flutist, recorder player, and conductor.

1935 - Agota Kristof was born. Hungarian writer.

1935 - Michael Winner was born. British film director.

1935 - Jim Perry was born. American baseball player.

1935 - Robert Caro was born. American biographer.

1936 - Polina Astakhova was born (d. 2005). Ukrainian gymnast.

1937 - Claude Lelouch was born. French film director.

1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

1939 - Grace Slick was born. American singer (Jefferson Airplane).

1939 - Leland H. Hartwell was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1939 - Edward Holland, Jr. was born. American singer and songwriter.

1940 - Ed Lauter was born. American actor.

1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.

1941 - 1.500 Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) were sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.

1941 - Otis Williams was born. American singer.

1941 - Theodor W. Hänsch was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1942 - António de Morais Barreto was born. Portugueses politician and sociologist.

1942 - Francisco Xavier Ferreira Marques dies in Salvador (b. in Itaparica on 3 Dec 1861). Brazilian journalist, politician and poet.

1943 - Joanna Shimkus was born. Canadian actress.

1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1944 - Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered.

1945 - Henry Winkler was born. American actor.

1945 - Ignacio Zuluaga dies (b. 1870). Spanish painter.

1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.

1946 - William Paul Thurston was born. American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1983 for his work in topology.

1947 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.

1947 - Timothy B. Schmit was born. American musician (Eagles).

1948 - Rusty Goffe was born. British actor.

1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.

1951 - Harry Hamlin was born. American actor.

1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.

1953 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.

1953 - Charles Martin Smith was born. American actor.

1954 - Mario Testino was born. Peruvian-born English fashion photographer.

1956 - Juliet Stevenson was born. English actress.

1956 - Pio Baroja dies. Spanish writer.

1957 - Andy Archer was born. Scottish dramatist.

1957 - Kevin Pollak was born. American actor.

1957 - Fred Beebe dies (b. 1880). American baseball player.

1958 - Joe Delaney was born (d. 1983). American football player.

1958 - Ramona d'Viola was born. American cyclist.

1958 - Stefan Dennis was born. Australian actor.

1959 - Jim Mollison dies. Scotish aviation pioneer.

1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

1960 - Diego Armando Maradona was born. Argentine football player.

1960 - Lídia Brondi was born in Campinas, São Paulo. Brazilian actress

1961 - Luigi Einaudi dies. Italian politician.

1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in Moscow.

1961 - Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.

1961 - Scott Garrelts was born. American baseball player.

1962 - Courtney Walsh was born. West Indian cricketer.

1963 - Kristina Wagner was born. American actress.

1963 - Michael Beach was born. American actor.

1964 - Howard Lederer was born. American poker player.

1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.

1965 - Gavin Rossdale was born. English musician.

1966 - The Zodiac killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California.

1966 - Geert Blanchard was born. Belgian ice skyier.

1966 - Scott Innes was born. American voice actor.

1966 - Yórgos Theotokás dies (b. 1906). Greek novelist.

1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, on charges stemming from demonstrations in 1963.

1967 - Brad Aitken was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1968 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.

1968 - Jack Plotnick was born. American actor.

1968 - Ramon Novarro dies (b. 1899). Mexican actor.

1968 - Rose Wilder Lane dies (b. 1886). American journalist and author.

1968 - Conrad Richter dies (b. 1890). American novelist and short story writer.

1969 - Masanori Hikichi was born. Japanese composer.

1969 - Pops Foster dies (b. 1892). American musician.

1970 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

1970 - Ben Bailey was born. American host of the game show Cash Cab.

1970 - Ekaterini Voggoli was born. Greek discus thrower.

1970 - Maja Tatic was born. Bosnia singer.

1970 - Nia Long was born. American actress.

1970 - Tory Belleci was born. American TV Mythbuster.

1971 - Ahn Jae Wook was born. South Korean actor and singer.

1971 - Suzan van der Wielen was born. Dutch hockey-international.

1972 - US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.

1972 - A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago, Illinois kills 45 and injures 332.

1973 - The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.

1973 - Adam Copeland was born. Canadian professional wrestler.

1973 - Michael Oakes was born. English footballer.

1973 - Silvia Corzo was born. Colombian newsreader.

1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire ("rumble in the jungle") to regain his world heavyweight title.

1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

1975 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz dies (b. 1887). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1975 - Ian D'Sa was born. Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent.

1975 - Maria Thayer was born. American actress.

1976 - Maurice Taylor was born. American basketball player.

1976 - Stern John was born. Trinidadian footballer.

1977 - Eefke Mulder was born. Dutch hockey-international.

1977 - Jason Adelman was born. American actor.

1978 - Amanda Swafford was born. American model.

1978 - Martin Dossett was born. American football player.

1978 - Natália Lage was born. Brazilian actress.

1978 - Edgar Bergen dies (b. 1903). American ventriloquist.

1979 - Jason Bartlett was born. American baseball player.

1979 - Yukie Nakama was born. Japanese actress.

1979 - Sir Barnes Wallis dies (b. 26 Sep 1887). British aeronautical designer and military engineer, famous for his "dambuster" bombs.

1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini dies (b. 1890). Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini.

1980 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

1980 - Choi Hong-man was born. South Korean kickboxer.

1980 - Sarah Carter was born. Canadian actress.

1980 - Choi Hong-man was born. South Korean kickboxer.

1981 - Euthanasia chief jailed over suicides: The secretary of the UK's pro-euthanasia group Exit is sentenced to two and a half years for aiding and abetting suicide.

1981 - Ian Snell was born. American baseball player.

1981 - Ivanka Trump was born. American model, daughter of Donald Trump.

1981 - Jun Ji-hyun was born. South Korean actress.

1982 - Andy Greene was born. American ice hockey player.

1982 - Manny Parra was born. American baseball player.

1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

1983 - Iain Hume was born. Canadian football player.

1983 - Trent Edwards was born. American football player.

1984 - Eva Pigford was born. American model and actress.

1984 - Pro-Solidarity priest is murdered: Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of Poland's banned trade union, is found dead 11 days after he was kidnapped.

1985 - The portuguese jesuits Silvio Moreira and João de Deus Kamtedza are killed in Mozambique

1985 - Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

1985 - Kirby Grant dies (b. 1911). American actor.

1986 - Thomas Morgenstern was born. Austrian ski jumper

1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.

1987 - Junaid Siddique was born. Bangladeshi cricketer.

1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.

1988 - Ayrton Senna wins in Suzuka, Japan, his first Formula 1 World Championship.

1988 - Janel Parrish was born. American actress.

1988 - T. Hee dies (b. 1911). American animator.

1989 - Nastia Liukin was born. American gymnast.

1989 - Seth Adkins was born. American actor.

1989 - Adam Mitchell dies. Australian drummer.

1991 - The Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.

1993 - In reprisal for a bombing seven days previous, British Loyalists shoot seven dead in a village pub. Greysteel, Northern Ireland.

1993 - Paul Grégoire dies (b. 1911). Archbishop of Montreal.

1994 - José Evandro Pires de Carvalho (Evandro do Bandolim) dies (b. 1932). Brazilian musician.

1995 - Over 80 people, including former U.S. Rep. Jim Jontz, arrested at Sugarloaf Mountain in southern Oregon during a massive direct action to prevent corporate clear cutting of old growth forests on public land.

1995 - Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).

1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.

1997 - Samuel Fuller dies (b. 1912). American film director.

1999 - Miss Saigon closes in London after 4264 performances.

2000 - Steve Allen dies (b. 1921). American comedian, TV host, author and composer.

2001 - George W. Bush throws out the first pitch at Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, in what was intended to be a defiant gesture, coming just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.

2001 - Michael Jordan returns to the National Basketball Association with the Washington Wizards after 3 1/2 years (the Wizards lose 93-91 to the New York Knicks).

2002 - British Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the United Kingdom.

2002 - Jam Master Jay dies murdered (b. 1965). American rapper and musician (Run DMC)

2002 - Juan Antonio Bardem dies (b. 1922). Spanish director and screenwriter.

2003 - Wicked the Musical opened on Broadway at the George Gershwin Theatre.

2004 - A 163-metre high radio mast in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK collapses in a fire.

2004 - In Punjab, India the expelled BSP leader Satnam Singh Kainth launches Bahujan Samaj Party (Kainth).

2004 - Peggy Ryan dies in Las Vegas (b. 1924). American actress-dancer.

2005 - The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.

2005 - Al Lopez dies (b. 1908). Baseball player and manager.

2005 - Shamsher Singh Sheri dies (b. 1942). Indian communist leader.

2006 - Nothingandall (blog) reaches 500.000 visitors.

2006 - Junji Kinoshita dies (b. 1914). Japanese playwright.

2006 - Clifford Geertz dies (b. 1926). American anthropologist.

2007 - Brazil is chosen by FIFA to organize WorldChampionship in 2014.

2007 - John Woodruff dies (b. 1915). American athlete.

2007 - Linda Stein dies (b. 1945). Ramones manager and real estate broker.

2007 - Robert Goulet dies (b. 1933). American entertainer.

2007 - Washoe dies (b. 1965). Chimpanzee trained in American Sign Language.
Calendar of Saints - October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: Bl. Angelus of Acri, St. Alfonso Rodríguez, St. Arilda, St. Artemas, St. Dorothy of Montau, St. Herbert, Bl. John Slade, St. Macarius, St. Marcel, St. Maximus, St. Saturninus, St. Serapion, St. Talacrian, St. Theonestus, St. Zenobius & Zenobia.

International Orthopaedic Nurses Day.

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states.