Liga Sagres: Mantorras salva Benfica

Benfica

1-0

Rio Ave


No lago do Estádio da Luz, Mantorras foi o cisne

Mais de 20.000 espectadores estiverm no Estádio da Luz (ainda assim a pior assistência da época) para ver um jogo que pouco teve a ver com futebol. À chuva e ao péssimo estado do terreno foi a equipa do Rio Ave que se adaptou melhor na primeira parte.

A equipa vilacondense teve mais cantos (em todo o jogo do que o Benfica) e teve também a primeira oportunidade de golo por Yazalde qyue ganhopu a Luizão em velocidade para rematar cruzado mas por cima da barra. Só nos últimos cinco minutos da primeira parte o Benfica teve hipóteses de criar perigo por duas vezes. Na primeira Cardozo ganhou uma bola perdida na área e à meia volta de pé esquerdo atirou ao poste para Di Maria desperdiçar a recarga. O segundo lance foi um livre cruzado de Carlos Martins que o guarda redes vilacondense respondeu com excelente defesa.

Na segunda parte a equipa do Rio Ave colcocou-se mais recuada ou terá sido o Benfica a avançar mais. Quique fez entrar Reyes para o lugar de Di Maria (60') e passados cinco minutos Mantorras para o lugar de Nuno Gomes. Cardozo, entretanto, de cabeça a cruzamento da direita fizera a bola bater de novo no poste. E aos 70' os adeptos da Luz vibraram pela segunda vez (a primeira foi com a entrada do jogador angolano). A bola é de novo metida na área Cardozo cabeceia e Mantorras defende bem a posiçao e ganha a Niquinha para rematar à boca da baliza vitoriosamente.

Os minutos que se seguiram foram de sufoco. Então era ao Rio Ave que interessava avançar no terreno. Duas subsituições ofensivas e Pedro Moutinho teve o empate nos pés mas o desvio foi ligeiramente ao lado. Perto do fim umcruzamento rasteiro da direita, Moreira a dar uma palmada na bola para a frente e remate dum jogador do Rio Ave saiu mal.

Mais um mau jogo do Benfica, desta vez Quique tem as desculpas do mau tempo e do péssimo estado do relvado. Mas enfim...

O árbitro foi-se salvando marcando umas faltas e deixando passar outras mas num jogo dificil por causa do terreno, porém facilitado pelos jogadores.

Estádio da Luz
Árbitro Rui Costa (Porto)

Equipas:
BENFICA – Moreira; Maxi, Luisão, Sidnei e David Luiz; Ruben Amorim, Yebda, Carlos Martins (Binya, 79m) e Di Maria (Reyes, 60m); Nuno Gomes (Mantorras, 65m) e Cardozo.

RIO AVE – Paiva; Miguel Lopes, Gaspar, Bruno Mendes e Rogério Matias (Pedro Moutinho, 79m); Delson, Niquinha e Tarantini; Yazalde, Evandro e Fábio Coentrão (Chidi, 79m).

Golos: 1-0 Mantorras 70'
Acção disciplinar: Cartão amarelo a Miguel Lopes

Antes deste jogo o Sporting empatou na Trofa a zero golos, apesar da insistência no ataque em praticamente toda a segunda parte.

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INTIMIDADE de Fernando Namora que faleceu faz hoje 20 anos

foto de Fernando Namora

Que ninguém
hoje me diga nada.
Que ninguém venha abrir a minha mágoa,
esta dor sem nome
que eu desconheço donde vem
e o que me diz.
É mágoa.
Talvez seja um começo de amor.
Talvez, de novo, a dor e a euforia de ter vindo ao mundo.

Pode ser tudo isso, ou nada disso.
Mas não afirmo.
As palavras viriam revelar-me tudo.
E eu prefiro esta angústia de não saber de quê.

Fernando Namora (n. em Condeixa a 15 de Abril de 1919; m. em Lisboa a 31 Jan. 1989)

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On this day in History - Jan. 31

• 36 BC - Antonia Minor was born (d. 0038 AD). Daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor.
  
• 0314 - Pope Silvester I began his Papacy.
• 0743 - Muhammad al-Baqir dies (b. 0676). Shia Imam.
• 0877 - Taejo of Goryeo was born (d. 0943). Ruler of Korea.
• 1338 - King Charles V of France (d. 1380).
• 1398 - Emperor Suko of Japan dies (b. 1334).
• 1435 - Xuande dies (b. 1398). Emperor of China.
• 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon.
• 1512 - King Henry of Portugal was born (d. 1580)/ Nascimento do Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal.
• 1542 - Descoberta das Cataratas do Iguaçu, por Dom Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de Vaca.
• 1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu was born (d. 1616). Shogun of Japan.
• 1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise was born (d. 1588). French Catholic leader.
• 1558 - Descubrimiento de la Isla Grande de Chiloé en Chile, por una expedición española integrada por Alonso de Ercilla .
• 1561 - Bairam Khan dies. Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar.
  
• 1561 - Menno Simons dies (b. 1496). Dutch Mennonite leader.
• 1580 - King Henry of Portugal dies on the day of his 68th birthday (b. 1512)/ Cardeal-rei Henrique I de Portugal faleceu no dia do 68º. aniversário.
• 1597 - John Regis was born (d. 1640). French saint.
• 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes (b. 1570), Ambrose Rokewood and Thomas Wintour (b. 1571) are executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
• 1615 - Claudio Aquaviva dies (b. 1543). Italian Jesuit.
• 1624 - Arnold Geulincx was born (d. 1669). Flemish philosopher.
• 1632 - Joost Bürgi dies (b. 1552). Swiss clockmaker and mathematician.
• 1665 - Johannes Clauberg dies (b. 1622). German theologian and philsopher.
• 1673 - Louis de Montfort was born (d. 1716). French catholic priest and saint.
• 1676 - Se funda en Guatemala de la Real Universidad de San Carlos.
• 1686 - Hans Egede was born (d. 1758). Norwegian Lutheran missionary.
• 1686 - Jean Mairet dies (b. 1604). French dramatist.
• 1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford dies (b. 1654). English privy councilor.
• 1729 - Jakob Roggeveen dies (b. 1659). Dutch explorer.
• 1736 - Bruno Mauricio de Zabala dies. Founder of Montevideo (Uruguay).
• 1736 - Filippo Juvara dies (b. 1678). Italian architect.
• 1747 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital.
• 1752 - Gouverneur Morris was born (d. 1816). American lawmaker and diplomat.
• 1759 - François Devienne was born (d. 1803). French composer.
• 1788 - Charles Edward Stuart dies (b. 1720). Pretender to the British throne.
• 1790 - Thomas Lewis dies (b. 1718). Irish-born Virginia settler.
• 1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot dies (b. 1711). British admiral.
• 1797 - Franz Schubert was born (d. 1828). Austrian composer who was one of the most gifted musicians of the 19th century.
• 1814 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
• 1815 - José Félix Ribas dies (b. 1775). Venezuelan independentist leader.
• 1820 - William B. Washburn was born (d. 1887). 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
• 1828 - Alexander Ypsilantis dies (b. 1792). Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence.
• 1835 - William Charles Lunalilo was born (d. 1874). Monarch of Hawaii.
  
• 1836 - John Cheyne dies (b. 1777). British physician, surgeon and author.
  
• 1841 - Se constituye la República de El Salvador, al disolverse la Federación de las Provincias Unidas de Centroamérica.
• 1841 - Sam Loyd was born (d. 10 Apr 1911). Samuel Loyd was an American puzzlemaker who was best known for composing chess problems and games, including Parcheesi, in addition to other mathematically based games and puzzles.
• 1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand dies (b. 1773). French general.
• 1846 - After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 1848 - John C. Fremont court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
• 1849 - Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
• 1851 - David Spangler Kaufman dies (b. 1813). American politician.
• 1857 - George Jackson Churchward was born (d. 1933). GWR Chief mechanical engineer.
• 1862 - Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University.
• 1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
• 1865 - The House of Representatives approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery in the United States.
• 1865 - Henri Desgrange was born (d. 1940). Founder of the Tour-de-France.
• 1865 - Shastriji Maharaj was born (d. 1951). Indian spiritual leader.
• 1866 - Lev Shestov was born (d. 1938). Russian philosopher.
• 1867 - Maronite nationalist leader Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
• 1868 - Theodore William Richards was born (d. 1928). American chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemics laureate in 1914.
• 1872 - Zane Grey was born born in Zanesville, Ohio. American writer and pioneer of Western as a new literary genre .
• 1876 - The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
• 1881 - Anna Pavlova was born (d. 1931). Russian ballerina.
  
• 1881 - Irving Langmuir was born (d. 1957). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1881 - Joseph Augustine Cushman was born (d. 16 April 1949). U.S. paleontologist and geologist known for his work on paleoecology as shown by Foraminifera (marine protozoans). He was the most well-known foraminiferologist of his time.
• 1884 - Theodor Heuss was born (d. 1963). German politician and publicist.
• 1888 - John Bosco dies (b. 1815). Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society / Dom João Bosco, faleceu em Turim (n. 16 Ago 1815). Religioso, educador e escritor italiano. Criou a ordem dos Salesianos em Turim no ano de 1859, com 22 outros religiosos. Foi canonizado em 1 de Abril de 1934.
• 1889 - Frank Foster was born (d. 1958). English cricketer.
• 1891 - The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1891 - Luís de Montalvor (Luís Felipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos) was born in S. Vincent, Cape Vert (d. 2 Mar 1947, in Lisbon). Portuguese poet and editor.
• 1892 - Eddie Cantor was born (d. 1964). American actor and singer.
• 1892 - Charles Spurgeon dies (b. 1834). English preacher and evangelist.
• 1894 - Isham Jones was born (d. 1956). American jazz musician.
• 1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya was born (d. 1966). Russian mathematician.
• 1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is shot dead in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
• 1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz was born in Karlsruhe (d. 10 Oct 1974 in Rome). German writer.
• 1902 - Alva Myrdal was born (d. 1986). Swedish politician , diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1902 - Julian H. Steward was born (d. 6 Feb 1972). American anthropologist best known as one of the leading neoevolutionists of the mid-20th century and as the founder of the theory of cultural ecology
• 1902 - Tallulah Bankhead was born (d. 1968). American actress.
• 1905 - John O'Hara was born (d. 1970). American novelist and short-story writer.
• 1907 - Timothy Eaton dies (b. 1834). Canadian department store founder.
• 1908 - Roberto Chavero ("Atahualpa Yupanqui") was born. Argentine singer and guitarist.
• 1910 - The Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of Porto.
• 1910 - F. Castro Soromenho was born in Vila de Chinde. Mozambican journalist and writer.
• 1911 - Eddie Byrne was born (d. 1981). British actor.
• 1913 - Don Hutson was born (d. 1997). American football player.
• 1914 - Carey Loftin was born (d. 1977). American actor and stuntman.
• 1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott was born (d. 1994). American boxer.
• 1914 - Sri Daya Mata was born. Hindu religious figure.
  
• 1915 - World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russians.
• 1915 - Alan Lomax was born (d. 2002). American singer and musicologist.
• 1915 - Garry Moore was born (d. 1993). American comedian.
  
• 1915 - Thomas Merton was born (d. 1968). American monk and author.
• 1917 - World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
• 1917 - Los científicos alemanes Otto Hahn y Lise Meitner descubren el protactinio, elemento radiactivo
• 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
• 1919 - The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1919 - Jackie Robinson was born (d. 1972). American baseball player.
• 1921 - Carol Channing was born. American actress.
• 1921 - E. Fay Jones was born. American architect.
• 1921 - John Agar was born (d. 2002). American actor.
  
• 1921 - Mario Lanza (Alfredo Cocozza Lanza) was born (d. 1959). Operatic singer, actor .
• 1922 - Joanne Dru was born (d. 1996). American actress.
• 1923 - Norman Mailer was born. American writer and journalist
• 1923 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski dies (b. 1869). Assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz.
• 1925 - Ajmed Zogu is elected President of Albania.
• 1925 - Benjamin Hooks was born. American head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• 1926 - Tom Alston was born (d. 1993). American baseball player.
• 1928 - Chuck Willis was born (d. 1958). American singer and songwriter.
• 1929 - The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
• 1929 - Jean Simmons was born. British actress.
• 1929 - Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer was born. German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1961, with Robert Hofstadter of the United States, for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma-rays and his discovery in this connection of the Mössbauer effect.
• 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• 1930 - Joakim Bonnier was born (d. 1972). Swedish racecar driver.
  
• 1930 - Lynn Carlin was born. American actress
• 1931 - Christopher Chataway was born. English athlete, newscaster and politician.
• 1931 - Ernie Banks was born. American baseball player.
• 1933 - Bernardo Provenzano was born. Mafia boss
• 1933 - Camille Henry was born (d. 1997). National Hockey League player.
• 1933 - John Galsworthy dies (b. 1867). English writer Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
• 1934 - Bob Turner was born (d. 2005). Canadian ice hockey player.
  
• 1934 - James Franciscus was born (d. 1991). American actor.
• 1935 - Kenzaburo Oe was born. Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• 1937 - Andrée Boucher was born (d. 2007). Canadian politician.
  
• 1937 - Philip Glass was born. American composer
• 1937 - Regimantas Adomaitis was born. Lithuanian actor.
• 1937 - Suzanne Pleshette was born (d. 2008). American actress.
  
• 1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was born.
• 1938 - James G. Watt was born. American politician.
• 1938 - Constitui-se oficialmente em Burgos o primeiro governo espanhol presidido pelo general Franco, que substitui a Junta Técnica do Estado.
• 1939 - Claude Gauthier was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1940 - Kitch Christie was born (d. 1998). South African rugby union coach.
• 1941 - Layforce set sail.
• 1941 - Jessica Walter was born. American actress.
• 1941 - Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt was born. American politician.
• 1941 - Charles V. Chapin dies (b. 17 Jan 1856). American physician and epidemiologist who, with Gardner T. Swarts, established the first municipal bacteriological laboratory in the U.S. (1888) in Providence, Rhode Island.
• 1942 - Daniela Bianchi was born. Italian actress.
• 1942 - Derek Jarman was born (d. 1994). American director and writer.
• 1942 - Henry Larkin dies (b. 1860). Baseball player.
• 1943 - As forças militares alemãs cercadas em Stalinegrado rendem-se ao exército soviético. Durante a Batalha de Stalingrado 160.000 alemães morreram e 90.000 foram feitos prisioneiros, incluindo o marechal de campo von Paulus, o primeiro marechal alemão a render-se.
• 1944 - World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
• 1944 - World War II: Anzio campaign. (Darby's Rangers) 1st Ranger Battalion The entire 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy.
• 1944 - Charlie Musselwhite was born. American musician
• 1944 - Jean Giraudoux dies (b. 1882). French writer.
• 1945 - US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed, the first American soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion.
• 1945 - Joseph Kosuth was born. American conceptual artist.
• 1945 - Eddie Slovik dies (b. 1920). American soldier.
• 1946 - Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
• 1946 - Terry Kath was born (d. 1978). American musician.
• 1947 - Jonathan Banks was born. American actor.
• 1947 - Nolan Ryan was born. American baseball player.
• 1948 - Muneo Suzuki was born. Japanese politician.
• 1949 - Johan Derksen was born. Dutch footballer and sports journalist.
• 1949 - Ken Wilber was born. American philosopher.
• 1950 - President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
• 1950 - Alexander Korzhakov was born. Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard.
• 1951 - Dave Benton was born. Aruban-born singer.
• 1951 - Harry Wayne Casey was born. American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band).
• 1951 - Phil Manzanera was born. English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801).
• 1952 - Nadya Rusheva was born (d. 1969). Russian painter.
• 1952 - Pedro Prado, faleceu, escritor chileno, Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile em 1949.
• 1953 - A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
• 1954 - Adrian Vandenberg was born. Dutch musician (Whitesnake).
• 1954 - Edwin Howard Armstrong dies (b. 1890). American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio.
• 1955 - John Mott dies (b. 1865). American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1956 - Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1956 - Juscelino Kubitschek becomes President of Brazil.
• 1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten was born. English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.).
• 1956 - A. A. Milne dies (b. 1882). English author.
• 1957 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 1 - The first successful launch of an American American satellite into orbit.
• 1958 - James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
• 1958 - Dave Finlay was born. Professional wrestler
• 1959 - Anthony LaPaglia was born. Australian actor.
• 1959 - Kelly Lynch was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Kelly Moore was born. American stock car driver
• 1960 - Grant Morrison was born. British comic book author and chaos magician
• 1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
• 1961 - Lloyd Cole was born. British singer and songwriter
• 1961 - Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. The U.S. launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
• 1961 - Jânio Quadros, tendo como vice João Goulart, foi empossado presidente do Brasil ao ser eleito com 48% dos votos da população.
• 1961 - Nuno Morais Sarmento was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1962 - Cuba es expulsada de la Organización de Estados Americanos.
• 1962 - Sophie Muller was born. Music video director.
• 1964 - Billey Shamrock was born. Swedish singer.
• 1964 - Jeff Hanneman was born. American guitarist (Slayer).
• 1964 - Sylvie Bernier was born. Quebec olympic diver.
• 1966 - The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
• 1966 - Dr Umar Alisha was born. A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
• 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival dies (b. 1887). British Army Officer.
• 1966 - Dirk Brouwer dies (b. 1 Sep 1902). Dutch-born U.S. astronomer and geophysicist known for his achievements in celestial mechanics, especially for his pioneering application of high-speed digital computers for astronomical computations.
• 1967 - Fat Mike was born. American musician.
• 1967 - Irene Wan was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1967 - Joey Wong was born. Taiwanese actress.
• 1967 - Eddie Tolan dies (b. 1908). American athlete.
• 1968 - Mauritius breaks from Britain after days of rioting (Independence is officially achieved on 12 March 1968.)
• 1968 - Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon.
• 1968 - Nauru declares independence from Australia.
• 1968 - Matt King was born. British actor and comedian.
• 1968 - Patrick Stevens was born. Belgian athlete.
• 1969 - Meher Baba dies (b. 1894). Indian guru.
• 1970 - A Saskatchewan Court convicts 17 year old hippie, David Milgaard of murder; he is sentenced to life in prison. He spent 23 years in jail until April 14, 1992 when DNA evidence proves him innocent of all charges.
• 1970 - Minnie Driver was born. British actress.
• 1970 - Slim Harpo dies (b. 1924). American singer.
• 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission - Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
• 1971 - The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1971 - Dimitris Markos was born. Greek footballer.
• 1971 - Lee Young Ae was born. South Korean actress.
• 1971 - Patrick Kielty was born. Northern Irish comedian and television presenter.
• 1971 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky dies (b. 1891). Russian literary historian, linguist.
• 1973 - Portia de Rossi was born. Australian actress.
• 1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch dies (b. 1895). Norwegian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner.
• 1974 - Ariel Pestano was born. Cuban baseball player.
• 1974 - Wil Anderson was born. Australian comedian.
• 1974 - Samuel Goldwyn dies (b. 1882). American film studio executive.
• 1975 - Fred Coleman was born. Former National Football League wide receiver.
• 1975 - Jackie O was born. Australian radio host.
• 1975 - Preity Zinta was born. Indian actress.
• 1976 - Buddy Rice was born. American race car driver.
• 1976 - Traianos Dellas was born. Greek footballer
• 1976 - Ernesto Miranda dies (b. 1941). American litigant.
• 1977 - Jim Kleinsasser was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Kate Shindle was born. American actress
• 1977 - Kerry Washington was born. American actress.
• 1977 - Mark Dutiaume was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1977 - Shingo Katori was born. Japanese actor and singer (SMAP).
• 1978 - Brad Rutter was born. Jeopardy! champion.
• 1978 - Fabián Caballero was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1978 - Ray Shah was born. Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter.
• 1979 - Daniel Tammet was born. British autistic savant
• 1980 - Thirty-nine people burned to death in the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala.
• 1980 - James Adomian was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Ryan Kienle was born. American musician.
• 1980 - Tiffany Limos was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Amrita Arora was born. Indian actress.
• 1981 - Julio Arca was born. Argentinian soccer player.
• 1981 - Justin Timberlake was born. American singer.
• 1981 - Sergio D. Acosta was born. Chicano filmmaker.
• 1981 - Cozy Cole dies (b. 1909). American jazz drummer.
• 1982 - Andreas Görlitz was born. German footballer.
• 1982 - Brad Thompson was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Bruno Nogueira was born. Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host.
• 1982 - Elena Paparizou was born. Greek singer.
• 1982 - Jānis Sprukts was born. Latvian ice hockey player.
• 1982 - Yuniesky Betancourt was born. Major League Baseball shortstop.
• 1982 - Inocêncio Romeiro Enes dies (b. 1892). Portuguese (Azorian) religious.
• 1983 - James Sutton was born. British television actor.
• 1983 - Tom Vangeneugden was born. Belgian swimmer.
• 1984 - Jeremy Wariner was born. American 400m runner.
• 1983 - Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer.
• 1984 - Vernon Davis was born. NFL player.
• 1985 - Adam Federici was born. Australian footballer.
• 1985 - Mario Williams was born. NFL player.
• 1986 - Yves Makabu-Makalambay was born. Belgian football goalkeeper.
• 1987 - Yves Allégret dies (b. 1907). French film director.
• 1988 - Super Bowl XXII: The Washington Redskins win their second championship of the 1980s, 42-10.
• 1988 - In Aveiro (Portugal), Diogo Freitas do Amaral is elected President of CDS (Center Democratic and Social) during the VIII Congress of the party.
• 1989 - Fernando Namora dies (b. 15 Apr 1919). Portuguese writer /Fernando Namora morre em Lisboa (n. 15 Abr 1919 em Condeixa-a-Nova). Médico e escritor português era até então o autor português mais traduzido em todo o mundo. Em Condeixa foi criada a Casa Museu Fernando Namora. Casa da Malta (1945), Minas de S. Francisco (1946), Retalhos da Vida de um Médico (1949-1963, em dois volumes), Domingo à Tarde (1961), Rio Triste (1982) e Sentados na Relva (1986).
• 1990 - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
• 1990 - Kota Yabu was born. Japanese actor and singer.
• 1990 - Rashad Khalifa dies stabbed (b. 1935). Egyptian-born imam.
• 1990 - Salvador Barata Feyo dies (b. 5 Dec 1899 in Moçamedes, Mozambique). Portuguese sculptor, essayst and pedagogue.
• 1991 - Márcio Mello dies (b. 1906). Brazilian politician.
• 1992 - Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American musician.
• 1993 - Super Bowl XXVII: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills, 52-17.
• 1994 - Um incêndio destrói o Grande Teatro de Liceo, de Barcelona, construído em 1847.
• 1995 - President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
• 1995 - Dragon Ball Z ends its run in Japan.
• 1995 - George Abbott dies (b. 1887). American stage director and producer.
• 1995 - George Robert Stibitz dies (b. 30 April 1904). U.S. mathematician who was regarded by many as the "father of the modern digital computer."
• 1996 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1.400.
• 1997 - John Joseph Scanlan dies (b. 1930). Irish Catholic prelate.
• 1999 - Super Bowl XXXIII: The Denver Broncos defeat the Atlanta Falcons, 34-19.
• 1999 - Norm Zauchin dies (b. 1929). American baseball player.
• 2000 - Gil Kane dies (b. 1926). Latvian-born comic book writer.
• 2000 - An Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California killing 131.
• 2001 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crash into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• 2001 - Gordon R. Dickson dies (b. 1923). Canadian writer.
• 2002 - A large section of the Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, eventually consuming about 3,250 km² (1,254 miles²) over a 35-day period.
• 2002 - Francis Gabreski dies (b. 1919). American fighter pilot.
• 2003 - The Waterfall train disaster occurs near Waterfall, New Sout Wales, Australia.
• 2004 - Mystery Science Theater 3000 ends its run on the Sci-Fi Channel.
• 2004 - Eleanor Holm dies (b. 1913). American swimmer.
• 2005 - The child molestation trial of superstar Michael Jackson begins in California.
• 2006 - Samuel A. Alito Jr. assumes office as the 110th Supreme Court justice of the United States.
• 2006 - António Monteiro dies (b. 1944). Portuguese diplomat and politician.
• 2006 - Moira Shearer dies (b. 1926). Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina.
• 2007 - Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
• 2007 - Kirka Babitzin dies (b. 1950). Finnish singer.
• 2007 - Molly Ivins dies (b. 1944). American political columnist and author.
• 2007 - Lee Bergere dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 2007 - Adelaide Tambo dies (b. 1929). South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo.
• 2008 - Zeltim Odie Peterson dies (b. 1997). Famous pug.
• 2009 - Nagesh dies. Indian comedian actor in Kollywood.
• Catholicism - Feast day of St. John Bosco, Saint Pedro Nolasco, Saint Marcella, Saint Geminianus, Blessed Ludovica.

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Free(?)Port converte-se numa Pino

imagem daqui

O Sol na Edição deste Sábado traz mais notícias sobre o Caso Freeport. E o «Pinocchio» é considerado um dos homens-chave do processo. Sabe quem é?

Sendo assim a investigação até está facilitada. Basta nos próximos dias estar atento aos narizes...

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Palpites... ou mais alguma coisa?

Hoje que se soube que Katsouranis foi castigado um jogo pelos comentários que fez no final do jogo com o Nacional a somar ao castigo que teve Nuno Gomes, castigos que se sucedem ao «roubo» de dois pontos na classificação... - tudo obra de um tal Pedro Henriques - enquanto nada aconteceu ao treinador do Braga que disse o que disse após o jogo do Braga na Luz e que passado uma semana disse muito menos sobre o muito mais que aconteceu (mas aí o adversário foi o Porto) em Braga frente ao Porto, surgiram-me espontaneamente uns palpites...

- Que Luisão não vai jogar contra o Porto
- Que Suazo não vai jogar contra o Porto
- Que Bertino Miranda vai estar a assistente no Porto-Benfica
- Que o Bruno Alves vai fazer das suas
- Que o Benfica vai acabar o jogo com menor número de jogadores

Prefiro dizer antes... assim depois posso saber que palpites são estes! Quem sabe se ainda vou ser convidado para o programa de magia do Luís de Matos?

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Depois de Ler a Ode I de Horácio - Mário de Alencar

«Entre árvores ao pé de água corrente» imagem daqui

Nem tudo, sábio Horácio, o que aspiravas
E a Mecenas pedias, é o que aspiro.
A mim basta-me um plácido retiro,
Entre árvores, ao pé da água corrente,
Ouvindo a voz das musas que invocavas.
Com isso apenas viverei contente.

Longe da turba inquieta que aborreço,
Nem teria ambições, nem cuidaria
De haver glórias da terra. Na poesia
É o grande prêmio dela o vago sonho,
Com que eu, vivendo embora, a vida esqueço
E num mundo melhor viver suponho.

Tão alto não irei no imenso espaço
Que toque os astros como tu, amigo.
Mas sei que astros e céus tenho comigo
Enquanto com estes sonhos bons me iludo;
E como as aves cantam, versos faço.
Isso - que vale o mais? - vale-me tudo.

Mário Cochrane de Alencar (n. no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 30 de Janeiro de 1872, e faleceu na mesma cidade em 8 de Dezembro de 1925).

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Jan. 30 - School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The "School Day of Non-violence and Peace" (DENIP), founded in 1964 and also known as World or International Day of Non-violence and Peace, is a pioneering, non-state, non-governmental, non-official, independent, free and voluntary initiative of Non-violent and Pacifying Education, which is now practised in schools all over the world and in which centres of education, teachers and students of all levels and from all countries are invited to take part.

The "School Day of Non-violence and Peace" is held on January 30 every year, on the anniversary of the martyrdom in 1948 of Mahatma Gandhi, the great apostle of non-violence.

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On this day in History - Jan. 30

• 58 BC Livia Drusilla (d. AD 29). Political wife of Emperor Augustus.
• 0133 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor.
• 1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine dies (b. 0969).
• 1077 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV.
• 1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan dies (b. 1161).
• 1384 - Louis II of Flanders dies (b. 1330).
• 1505 - Thomas Tallis was born (d. 1585). English composer.
• 1563 - Franciscus Gomarus was born (d. 1641). Dutch theologian.
• 1566 - Alessandro Piccinini was born. Composer.
• 1574 - Damião de Góis dies (b. 1502). Portuguese philosopher.
• 1580 - Maria de Aragão dies (b. 1482). Second wife of King of Portugal D. Manuel I.
• 1592 - Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII.
• 1606 - Everard Digby dies (b. 1578). English conspirator.
• 1615 - Thomas Rolfe was born (d. 1675). American colonial settler.
• 1648 - The Treaty of Münster is signed, ending the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
• 1649 - King Charles I of England dies beheaded (b. 1600).
• 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
• 1661 - Charles Rollin was born (d. 1741). French historian.
• 1667 - Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty.
• 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect.
• 1697 - Johann Joachim Quantz was born (d. 1773). German flutist and composer.
• 1720 - Charles De Geer was born (d. 1778). Swedish industrialist and entomologist.
• 1726 - Se funda la ciudad de Montevideo por el general español Bruno Mauricio de Zabala.
• 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia dies at 14. Emperor of Russia (1727-30).
• 1754 - John Lansing, Jr. was born (d. 1829). American statesman.
• 1774 - Jean-Pierre Guignon dies at 71. Composer.
• 1781 - Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
• 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso was born (d. 1838). German poet.
• 1790 - The first boat specialized as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
• 1806 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, was open.
• 1814 - Jean-Baptist Capronnier was born. French/Belgian glass painter.
• 1816 - Nathaniel Prentice Banks was born (d. 1894). 24th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1820 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland.
• 1822 - Franz Ritter von Hauer was born (d. 1899). Austrian geologist.
• 1826 - The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
• 1832 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier was born (d. 1897).
• 1835 - In the first assassination attempt against an USA President, a mentally ill man named Richard Lawrence attempts to assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
• 1836 - Betsy Ross dies (b. 1752). American seamstress.
• 1839 - Samuel Armstrong was born (11 May 1893). American founder of Hampton Institute.
• 1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1841 - Félix Faure was born (d. 1899). 6th President of France.
• 1847 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
• 1858 - The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
• 1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck dies (b. 1778). Dutch zoologist.
• 1859 - Edward Martyn was born (d. 5 Dec 1923). Irish dramatist.
• 1859 - Tony Mullane was born (d. 1944). Irish-born American baseball player.
• 1860 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto dies at 44. Composer.
• 1861 - Charles Martin Loeffler was born (d. 1935). American composer.
• 1862 - The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
• 1867 - Emperor Komei of Japan dies (b. 1831).
• 1869 - William Carleton dies (b. 1794). Irish novelist.
• 1873 - Georges Ricard-Cordingley was born in Lyon (d. 1939). French painter.
• 1878 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare was born (d. 1940). Estonian author.
• 1879 - French President MacMahon resigns.
• 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, N. Y. (d. 1945). President of the United States.
• 1889 - Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (b. 1858), heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in Mayerling. How they died remains a mystery.
• 1889 - Jaishankar Prasad was born (d. 1937). Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist.
• 1894 - Charles B. King of Detroit, earned himself a patent for the pneumatic hammer.
• 1894 - Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria was born (d. 1943).
• 1899 - Max Theiler was born (d. 11 Aug 1972). South-African microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on yellow fever.
• 1900 - United Kingdom forces fighting Boers in South Africa ask for reinforcements.
• 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola was born (d. 1959). German driver of racing cars.
• 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner was born (d. 1983). German-born art historian.
• 1908 - José Manuel Soares Louro (Pepe) was born in Lisbon (d. 24 Oct. 1931). Portuguese football player. One of the best football players of his time, Pepe represented the colours of Belenenses.
• 1910 - C Subramaniam was born (d. 2000). Indian politician.
• 1911 - The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
• 1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
• 1911 - Roy Eldridge was born (d. 1989). American jazz musician.
• 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman was born (b. 1989). American historian.
• 1912 - Francis Schaeffer was born (d. 1984). American Evangelical theologian and pastor.
  
• 1912 - Werner Hartmann was born (d. 1988). German physicist.
  
• 1913 - The United Kingdom's House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
• 1913 - Percy Thrower was born (d. 1988). British television gardener.
• 1914 - David Wayne was born (d. 1995). American actor.
• 1914 - John Ireland was born (d. 1992). Canadian actor (Gunfight at the OK Corral [1957], Little Big Horn, Spartacus, All the King’s Men, Marilyn: The Untold Story, Messenger of Death).
• 1915 - Joachim Peiper was born (d. 1976). German military leader.
• 1915 - John Profumo was born. British cabinet minister.
• 1917 - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded a classic for Columbia Records titled, The Darktown Strutters’ Ball. It was one of the first jazz compositions recorded.
• 1917 - Paul Frère was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1918 - David Opatoshu was born (d. 1996). American television actor.
• 1919 - Nikolay Glazkov was born (d. 1979). Russian poet.
• 1920 - Carwood Lipton was born (d. 2001). American WWII veteran.
  
• 1920 - Delbert Mann was born. American film director.
• 1922 - Nuno Teotónio Pereira was born. Portuguese architect.
• 1922 - Dick Martin was born. American Emmy Award-winning comedian.
• 1924 - Jayme Caetano Braun was born (d. 1999). Brazilian poet.
• 1924 - Lloyd Alexander was born. American writer.
• 1925 - The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
• 1925 - Dorothy Malone was born. American actress (Written on the Wind, Beach Party, Basic Instinct, Battle Cry, Man of a Thousand Faces).
• 1925 - Douglas Engelbart was born. American computer scientist.
• 1926 - Barbara La Marr dies (b. 1896). American actress.
• 1927 - Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana was born (d. 2005). Indian dermatologist.
  
• 1927 - Olof Palme was born (d. 1986). Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-76 and 1982-86).
• 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  
• 1928 - Hal Prince was born. American stage producer, director (West Side Story, Evita).
• 1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger dies (b. 1867). Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1929 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti was born (d. 1996). Canadian surgeon and international aid worker.
  
• 1929 - Roger Newland Shepard was born. American psychologist who was awarded the National Medal of Science (1995) for his research work that provided major new insights into the nature of mental processes, previously considered impossible to study.
• 1929 - La Goulue dies (b. 1866). French Cancan dancer.
• 1930 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
• 1930 - Gene Hackman was born. American Academy Award-winning actor (The French Connection [1971], Bonnie and Clyde, Hawaii, Mississippi Burning, The Poseidon Adventure, Postcards from the Edge, Superman, The Firm, Crimson Tide).
• 1930 - Magnus Malan was born. South African politician.
• 1930 - Samuel J. Byck was born (d. 1974). American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon.
• 1930 - Sandy Amorós was born (d. 1992). Cuban baseball player.
  
• 1931 - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater.
• 1931 - Allan W. Eckert was born. American historian, naturalist and author.
• 1931 - John Crosbie was born. Canadian politician.
• 1931 - Shirley Hazzard was born. Australian-American author.
• 1932 - Knock Yokoyama was born. Japanese comedian and politician .
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time.
• 1933 - Louis Rukeyser was born (d. 2006). American journalist.
• 1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday dies (b. 1862). American publisher.
• 1935 - Richard Brautigan was born (d. 1984). American writer and poet.
• 1936 - F. Vernon Boozer was born. American politician.
• 1936 - Horst Jankowski was born (d. 1998). German popular pianist.
• 1936 - Patrick Caulfield was born (d. 2005). British painter and printmaker.
  
• 1937 - Boris Spassky was born. Russian chess player.
• 1937 - Ed Hansen was born (d. 2005). American film director and editor.
• 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave was born. English actress.
• 1938 - Islom Karimov was born. President of Uzbekistan.
• 1938 - Norma Jean was born. American country singer.
• 1939 - Alejandro Toledo was born. President of Peru.
  
• 1941 - Dick Cheney was born. Politician, 46th Vice President of the United States.
• 1941 - Gregory Benford was born. American author and scientist.
• 1941 - Tineke Lagerberg was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1941 - World War II: North AfricaThe 6th Australian Division, of Lieutenant-General Dick O'Connor's XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fighting.
• 1942 - Marty Balin was born. American musician.
• 1943 - Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.
• 1943 - Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: German Gestapo organises mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
• 1943 - Davey Johnson was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1944 - World War II: United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
• 1945 - The Wilhelm Gustloff sinks in the Baltic Sea in the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000.
• 1945 - World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
• 1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler).
• 1945 - Michael Dorris was born (d. 1997). American writer.
• 1947 - Les Barker was born. English poet.
• 1947 - Steve Marriott was born (d. 1991). English musician (The Small Faces).
• 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869) is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
• 1948 - Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz.
• 1948 - Nick Broomfield was born. English film- and documentary-maker.
• 1948 - Paul Magee was born. Provisional Irish Republican Army member.
• 1948 - Júlio Mário Salusse dies in Rio de aneiro (b. in Bom Jardim on 30 Mar. 1872). Brazilian poet.
• 1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi dies (b. 1869). Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter.
  
• 1948 - Orville Wright dies (b. 1871). American aviation pioneer.
• 1949 - Peter Agre was born. American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1950 - Trinidad Silva was born (d. 1988). American actor.
  
• 1951 - Bobby Stokes was born (d. 1995). English former footballer.
  
• 1951 - Charles S. Dutton was born. American actor.
• 1951 - Phil Collins was born in London. English musician (Genesis).
• 1951 - Ferdinand Porsche dies (b. 1875). Austrian automotive engineer.
• 1952 - Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
• 1952 - Doug Falconer was born. Canadian football player.
• 1955 - Curtis Strange was born. American golfer.
• 1955 - John Baldacci was born. American politician, governor of Maine.
  
• 1955 - Judith Tarr was born. American author.
• 1956 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1956 - Jeremy Gittins was born. British actor.
• 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1956 - Jane Seymour dies at 56. Actress (Young Mr Bobbin).
• 1957 - Payne Stewart was born (d. 1999). American golfer.
• 1958 - Brett Butler was born. American actress and comedian.
• 1958 - Ernst Heinkel dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft .
• 1958 - Jean Crotti dies (b. 1878). Swiss artist.
• 1959 - Jody Watley was born. American singer.
• 1959 - Mark Eitzel was born. American singer and musician (American Music Club).
• 1960 - The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss.
• 1960 - The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1960 - Clara Pinto Correia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese investigator and writer.
• 1961 - Dexter Scott King was born. American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
• 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola).
• 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau was born. American convicted statutory rapist.
• 1962 - Manuel de Abreu dies (b. 1894). Brazilian physician.
• 1963 - Tina Malone was born. English actress.
• 1963 - Francis Poulenc dies (b. 1899). French composer.
• 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
• 1965 - Julie McCullough was born. American model and actress.
• 1965 - Marcelo Bonfá was born. Brazilian musician (Legião Urbana).
• 1966 - Danielle Goyette was born. Quebec female ice hockey player.
• 1967 - Jay Gordon was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain was born.
• 1968 - Trevor Dunn was born. American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs3).
• 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher was born. American businesswoman and reality TV show star.
• 1969 - Georges Pire dies (b. 1910). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1970 - Hans Spark was born. Football (soccer) player (RKC).
• 1970 - Maria Luísa Mendonça was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1971 - Darren Boyd was born. British actor.
• 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen was born. American football player.
• 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
• 1972 - Chris Simon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1972 - Lupillo Rivera was born. Mexican singer.
• 1973 - Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player.
• 1973 - Holly Noelle Roehl was born. Miss Indiana USA (1996).
• 1973 - Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Christian Bale was born. Welsh actor.
• 1974 - Jemima Khan was born. British socialite.
• 1974 - Olivia Colman was born. British actress.
• 1975 - First faroese stamp issued.
• 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura was born. Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi.
• 1976 - George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of the CIA.
• 1976 - Andy Milonakis was born. American comedian.
• 1977 - Dan Hinote was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Deltha O'Neal was born. American football player.
• 1978 - John Patterson was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flewn by the same commander of Varig Flight 820 disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile in France.
• 1980 - Joãozinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1980 - Leilani Dowding was born. British glamour model.
• 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov was born. Russian-Estonian actor.
• 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Professor Longhair dies (b. 1918). American musician, King of New Orleans music.
• 1981 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins.
• 1981 - Garth Barrett's raiders, part of the South African Recce Operations, attack supposed MK cadres at Matola, Mozambique. A Portuguese engineer, Jose Ramos, is "mistakenly identified" as Joe Slovo, one of the raids main targets, by the South African forces and is shot at a roadblock.
• 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov was born. Bulgarian footballer.
• 1981 - Josh Kelley was born. American musician.
• 1981 - Mathias Lauda was born. Austrian racing driver.
• 1981 - Peter Crouch was born. English footballer.
• 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
• 1982 - Jorge Cantu was born. Mexican baseball player.
• 1982 - Lightning Hopkins dies (b. 1912). American musician.
• 1983 - Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942.
• 1984 - Jeremy Hermida was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 - Josh Harris was born. American videographer/musician.
• 1984 - Patrick Lee McCall dies. South African bank robber, member of Stander gang.
• 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey was born. Indian astrologer.
• 1985 - Trae Williams was born. American football player.
• 1986 - Nick Evans was born. American baseball player.
• 1986 - Sam Duckworth was born. British singer-songwriter.
• 1987 - Arda Turan was born. Turkish footballer.
• 1987 - Rebecca Knox was born. Irish professional wrestler.
• 1988 - Heather Baker was born. American socialite.
• 1988 - Laura Banks was born. Scottish Author, musician.
• 1988 - Rob Pinkston was born. American actor.
• 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1989 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
• 1989 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins.
• 1989 - Khleo Thomas was born. American actor.
• 1990 - Eiza Gonzalez was born. Mexican actress/singer.
• 1990 - Jake Thomas was born. Actor (Lizzie McGuire).
• 1990 - Luca Sbisa was born. Swiss ice hockey player.
• 1991 - Clifton C. Edom dies (b. 1907). American photojournalism educator.
  
• 1991 - John Bardeen dies (b. 1908). American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  
• 1991 - John McIntire dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister was born. Australian actor.
• 1993 - Portuguese TV station TVI starts working. / Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI.
• 1993 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6, 6-3, 6-2).
• 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
• 1994 - The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.
• 1994 - Nirvana's final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song "You Know You're Right" being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later.
• 1994 - 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (6-0, 6-2).
• 1994 - 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4).
• 1994 - Bahjat Talhouni dies. PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70).
• 1994 - Pierre Boulle dies (b. 1912). French author.
• 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 1995 - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win.
• 1995 - Gerald Durrell dies (b. 7 Jan 1925) British naturalist and prolific author, known internationally for his pioneering, even controversial, role in preserving and breeding endangered species in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild.
• 1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 1996 - NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV.
• 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
• 1997 - Las cenizas de Mahatma Gandhi, padre de la India, son arrojadas al río Ganges después de cumplirse 49 años desde que fue asesinado en Nueva Delhi por un extremista.
• 1998 - Richard Cassilly dies (b. 1927). American tenor.
  
• 1999 - A 7-year old boy dies of choking on a Pokémon Power Bouncer ball toy.
• 1999 - Ed Herlihy dies (b. 1909). American broadcaster.
• 1999 - Huntz Hall dies (b. 1919). American actor.
  
• 2000 - In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16.
• 2000 - Off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont dies (b. 1911). French actor.
• 2001 - Johnnie Johnson dies (b. 1915). British fighter pilot.
  
• 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff dies (b. 1916). The father of modern neurosurgery.
• 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him.
• 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
• 2005 - Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.
• 2005 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down over Iraq.
  
• 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II was born. Prince of Jordan.
• 2005 - Martyn Bennet dies (b. 1971). Multi-instrumentalist and composer.
• 2005 - Wes Wehmiller dies (b. 1971). American musician.
• 2006 - Coretta Scott King dies (b. 1927). American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2007 - Microsoft releases its next Operating system, Windows Vista, a major milestone for the company.
• 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos dies (b. 1934). Greek actor, artistic director of the Greek National Theater.
• 2007 - Sidney Sheldon dies (b. 1917). American author, playwright, and screenwriter.
• 2008 - Jeremy Beadle dies (b. 1948). British television host.
  
• 2008 - Marcial Maciel dies (b. 1920). Mexican religious leader.
  
• 2008 - Roland Selmeczi dies (b. 1969). Hungarian actor.
  
• Brasil: Dia da saudade.
  
• Brasil: Dia Nacional dos Quadrinhos (Banda Desenhada).
• Dia Escolar da Não-Violência e da Educação pela Paz.
• Martyr Day, India - India. Also called Sarvodaya Day.
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs - This Feast honors the three great Fathers of the Eastern Church --St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom.

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