Faetonte - Walflan de Queiroz

A Queda de Faetonte de Rubens

Zeus Olimpico recebeu Faetonte
Como outrora o Olimpo a Hercules,
Sob o perdão de Hera.
Já os Imortais esperavam de muito,
A palavra do Onipotente Zeus.
O Filho do Sol acordou então,
Sob o cântico das estrêlas,
Quando Zeus ordenou o perfeito.

Francisco WALFLAN DE QUEIROZ (nasceu em 31 de maio de 1930 na cidade serrana de São Miguel, no alto oeste do Rio Grande do Norte; faleceu no dia 13 de agosto de 1995)

Faz hoje 48 anos que o Benfica ganhou a sua 1ª. Taça dos Campeões Europeus

Benfica 3 - 2 Barcelona

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On This day in History - May 31

• 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
• 0455 - Valentinian III dies (b. 0419). Roman Emperor.
• 0455 - Petronius Maximus dies killed by a mob. Roman Emperor.
• 0526 - A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000.
• 1048 - Omar Khayyam was born (d. 1131). Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher.
• 1162 - Nascimento do conquistador mongol Gengis Khan.
• 1223 - Battle of the Kalka River between the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and East Slavic warriors.
• 1232 - O papa Gregório IX, através de uma bula, canoniza Santo António de Lisboa.
• 1246 - Isabella of Angouleme dies. Queen of John of England.
• 1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu dies (b. 1358). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1443 - Margaret Beaufort was born (d. 1509). Mother of Henry VII of England.
• 1469 - King Manuel I of Portugal was born (d. 1521).
• 1495 - Cecily Neville dies (b. 1415). Mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England
• 1535 - Alessandro Allori dies (b. 1607). Italian painter.
• 1557 - Feodor I dies (b. 1598). Tsar of Russia.
• 1578 - Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
• 1582 - Rei Felipe II assina alvará ordenado pagamento de pensão à mãe de Luíz Vaz de Camões.
• 1594 - Jacobo Robusti Tintoretto dies (b. 1518). Italian painter.
• 1613 - John George II, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1680).
• 1640 - Michał Wiśniowiecki, King of Poland was born (d. 1673).
• 1656 - Marin Marais was born. French composer and viol player.
• 1669 - Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
• 1678 - The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
• 1680 - Joachim Neander dies (b. 1650). Clergyman.
• 1727 - Royal Bank of Scotland is founded.
• 1732 - Count Hieronymus von Colloredo was born (d. 1812)., Archbishop of Salzburg.
• 1740 - King Friedrich Wilhem I of Prussia dies (b. 1688)
• 1747 - Andrei Osterman dies (b. 1686). Russian statesman.
• 1750 - Karl August of Hardenberg was born (d. 1822). Statesman and reformer.
• 1753 - Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud was born (d. 1793). French revolutionary.
• 1754 - Andrea Appiani was born (d. 1817). Italian painter.
• 1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
• 1773 - Ludwig Tieck was born (d. 1853). German poet and writer.
• 1775 - Patriots in Charlotte, North Carolina adopt the Mecklenburg Resolutions urging the American Colonies to declare independence from Great Britian.
• 1790 - Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
• 1790 - The first U.S. Copyright Law was enacted, protecting books, maps, and other original materials.
• 1790 - Por decisão régia, são criadas em Lisboa 18 escolas para raparigas. São as primeiras escolas femininas em Portugal.
• 1799 - Pierre Lemonnier dies (b. 1715). French astronomer.
• 1801 - Johann Georg Baiter was born (d. 1887). Swiss philologist.
• 1809 - Joseph Haydn died in Vienna (b. 1732). Austrian composer.
• 1809 - Jean Lannes died (b. 1769). French Marshal of Empire.
• 1813 - In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
• 1818 - John Albion Andrew was born (d. 1867). 25th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1819 - Walt Whitman was born (d. 26 Mar 1892). American poet (Leaves of Grass, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d, Passage to India, O Captain! My Captain!).
• 1831 - Samuel Bentham dies (b. 1757). British mechanical engineer.
• 1832 - Evariste Galois dies (b. 1811). French mathematician.
• 1835 - Hijikata Toshizō was born (d. 1869). Japanese military leader.
• 1837 - Joseph Grimaldi dies at 57. Greatest clown (king of pantomime).
• 1838 - Henry Sidgwick was born (d. 1900). English philosopher.
• 1842 - "Pour le Mérite" extended.
• 1846 - Philip Marheineke dies (b. 1780). German Protestant divine.
• 1847 - Rotterdam-Hague Railway opens
• 1847 - Thomas Chalmers dies (b. 1780). Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, author, and scientist.
• 1848 - Eugénie de Guérin dies (b. 1805). Writer.
• 1852 - Francisco Pascasio Moreno was born. Argentine scientist, naturalist and explorer.
• 1857 - Pope Pius XI (Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti) was born (d. 10 Feb 1939). 259th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1922-1939].
• 1859 - Big Ben Starts keeping time.
• 1860 - Walter Sickert was born (d. 1942). English painter.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
• 1863 - Francis Younghusband was born (d. 1942). British explorer.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Cold Harbor begins. The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade.
• 1866 - In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
• 1872 - Heath Robinson was born (d. 1944). English cartoonist.
• 1874 - Estreia, na Igreja de São Marcos de Milão, a Misa de Requiem que Verdi compôs para a morte do escritor Manzoni.
• 1875 - Eliphas Lévi dies. French writer and magician.
• 1876 - Austin McDowell Patterson was born (d. 1956). Chemist.
• 1878 - Naufraga na costa inglesa o encouraçado alemão Grosser-Kurfurst, causando a morte de 269 tripulantes.
• 1879 - Madison Square Garden opens its doors.
• 1880 - The League of American Wheelmen was formed in Newport, RI. It was the first national bicycle society to be organized in the United States.
• 1882 - Sándor Graf Festetics was born (d. 1956). Hungarian politician.
• 1883 - Lauri Kristian Relander was born (d. 1942). Finnish president.
• 1884 - John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes.
• 1884 - Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria.
  
• 1885 - Alois Hudal was born (d. 1963). Bishop, helped Nazis escape trial.
• 1887 - Saint-John Perse was born (d. 1975). French diplomat and poet who was 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1889 - Johnstown Flood: Over 2200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
• 1892 - Gregor Strasser was born (d. 1934). German Nazi politician.
• 1892 - Michel Kikoine was born (d. 1968). Belarus painter.
• 1892 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was born (d. 1968). Russian writer.
• 1894 - Fred Allen was born (d. 1956). American comedian. He is best remembered for "Allen's Alley" radio program, 1932-49.
• 1894 - Konstantin Stoilov Konstantinov assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Bulgária.
• 1898 - William Ramsay and Morris William Travers discovered krypton (Kr, element 36)
• 1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was born (d. 1993). American clergyman who wrote "The Power of Positive Thinking," 1952.
• 1901 - Boer War : Boers kill 174 British during guerrilla raid at Vlakfontein (now called Derby).
• 1901 - Alfredo Antonini was born (d. 1983). American conductor and composer.
• 1902 - Second Boer War: The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the war, and ensuring British control of South Africa.
• 1905 - Florence Desmond was born (d. 1993). English actress and comedian.
• 1908 - Don Ameche [Dominic Felix Amici] was born (d. 6 Dec 1993). American academy award-winning actor: Cocoon [1985]; Trading Places, Corinna Corinna; inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame [1992].
• 1908 - Nils Poppe was born (d. 2000). Swedish actor.
• 1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette dies (b. 1839). French Canadian poet.
• 1909 - Aurore Gagnon was born (d. 1920). French Canadian victim of child abuse.
• 1910 - Creation of the Union of South Africa. Louis Botha assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da África do Sul
• 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell dies (b. 1821). First female physician in the United States.
• 1911 - The hull of the Titanic was launched in Belfast. At the ceremony, a White Star Line employee claimed, “Not even God himself could sink this ship.”
• 1911 - Maurice Allais was born. Franch economist who won in 1988 the Nobel Prize in Economics.
• 1912 - Alfred Deller was born (d. 1979). English countertenor.
• 1913 - The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing direct election of United States Senators, is declared ratified.
• 1914 - Akira Ifukube was born (d. 2006). Japanese composer.
• 1916 - World War I: The German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval battle of the war.
• 1916 - Bert Haanstra was born (d. 1997). Dutch filmmaker.
• 1921 - Tulsa Race Riot: More than 300 are killed in a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
• 1921 - Comedian Buster Keaton marries actress Natalie Talmadge.
• 1921 - Alida Valli was born (d. 2006). Italian actress.
• 1921 - Howard Reig was born. American radio and television announcer
• 1922 - Denholm Elliott was born (d. 6 Oct 1992). English actor (A Room with a View, The Bourne Identity, The Boys from Brazil, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Voyage of the Damned, Trading Places, Scorchers).
• 1923 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco was born (d. 6 Apr 2005). Head of state: Monaco; married American film star, Grace Kelly.
• 1924 - The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect
• 1924 - Lauri Ingman assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
• 1926 - Portugal: Bernardino Machado, presidente da República Portuguesa, apresenta a sua demissão do cargo, como consequência do golpe militar de 28 de Maio, que instaurara o Estado Novo.
• 1926 - James Kruss was born (d. 1997). Author.
• 1927 - The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
• 1928 - É fundada a Academia Nicaragüense de la Lengua.
• 1928 - Manuel de Oliveira Lima dies at 60. Brazilian historian.
• 1929 - Menahem Golan was born. Producer.
• 1930 - Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco. American actor, director, producer. The Bridges of Madison County, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
• 1930 - Walflan de Queiróz was born in São Miguel, Rio Grande do Norte (d. 13 Aug 1995). Brazilian poet.
• 1931 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
• 1931 - Shirley Verrett was born. American soprano.
• 1931 - John Robert Schrieffer was born. American physicist and winner (with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper) of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity
• 1931 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau dies (b. 1866). French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec.
• 1932 - Jay Miner was born (d. 1994). American microchip designer.
• 1935 - Um terremoto destrói a cidade de Quetta (Paquistão) e morrem mais de 56 mil pessoas.
• 1935 - Banco Central de la República Argentina is created.
• 1935 - Jim Bolger was born. 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1938 - Henry Armstrong defeated Barney Ross in New York City to win the welterweight boxing title.
• 1938 - Johnny PayCheck was born (d. 2003). American country music singer.
• 1938 - John Prescott was born. Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1938 - Peter Yarrow was born. American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary")
• 1939 - Terry Waite was born. British humanitarian.
• 1940 - Gilbert Shelton was born. American underground comics illustrator.
• 1941 - A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
• 1941 - Louis J. Ignarro was born. American pharmacologist who, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, was co-awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system, an entirely new mechanism by which blood vessels in the body relax and widen.
• 1942 - World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Coventry, England.
  
• 1942 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
• 1973 - Zoot Suit Riots begin.
• 1943 - Sharon Gless was born. Emmy Award-winning actress: Cagney & Lacey [1985-1986, 1986-1987]; Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Tales of the Unexpected
• 1943 - Joe Namath was born. American football player.
• 1945 - Bernard Goldberg‎ was born. American journalist.
• 1945 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born (d. 10 Jun 1982). German film director: Chinese Roulette, Querelle, Veronika Voss, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Beware of a Holy Whore; Marriage of Maria Braum;
• 1946 - Ted Baehr was born. American media critic
• 1946 - Steve Bucknor was born. West Indian Cricket Umpire.
• 1947 - MayAbd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an 11-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.
• 1947 - Mátyás Rákosi assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Hungria.
• 1948 - José Vianna da Motta dies. Portuguese pianist.
• 1948 - Syngman Rhee becomes President of South Korea
• 1948 - Duncan Hunter was born. American politician, 2008 presidential candidate
• 1948 - John Bonham was born (d. 25 Sep 1980). British musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin.
• 1949 - A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, (one of the five boroughs that make up New York City). McBride was celebrating her 15th year in radio.
• 1949 - Nancy Shade was born. American soprano.
• 1949 - Tom Berenger [Thomas Michael Moore], was born. Actor: One Life to Live, If Tomorrow Comes, Platoon, Sliver, The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers, Gettysburg, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, A Murder of Crows, In the Company of Spies, Turbulence II: Fear of Flying.
• 1950 - Gregory Harrison was born. American actor.
• 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army.
• 1952 - Karl Bartos was born. German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
• 1953 - Pirkka-Pekka Petelius was born. Finnish actor
• 1954 - Vicki Sue Robinson was born (d. 2000). American singer.
• 1954 - Thomas Mavros was born. Greek footballer
• 1955 - Tommy Emmanuel was born. Australian Guitarist CGP.
• 1956 - Fritz Hilpert was born. German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
• 1957 - Jim Craig was born. American hockey player.
• 1957 - Leopold Staff dies (b. 1878). Polish poet.
• 1959 - Aurora Cunha was born. Portuguese athlete.
• 1959 - Andrea de Cesaris wads born. Italian racing driver .
• 1960 - Greg C. Adams was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1960 - Chris Elliott was born. American comedian.
• 1960 - Walther Funk dies (b. 1890). Nazi leader.
• 1961 - Benfica wins 6th Champions Europe Cup in Bern beating Barcelona 3-2
• 1961 - Creation of the Republic of South Africa.
• 1961 - Dominican Republic President Trujillo assassinated.
• 1961 - Ray Cote was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1961 - Lea Thompson was born. American actress
• 1962 - The West Indies Federation dissolves.
• 1962 - Former Gestapo official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel / Executado em Tel Aviv, por crimes contra os judeus, o ex-coronel das SS Adolfo Eichman, que havia sido sequestrado na Argentina por agentes israelitas.
• 1962 - Corey Hart was born. Canadian musician.
• 1962 - Sebastian Koch was born. German actor.
• 1963 - Teresa Cheung was born. Hong Kong socialite.
• 1963 - Hugh Dillon was born. Canadian musician and actor.
• 1963 - Viktor Orbán was born. Hungarian politician.
• 1963 - Wesley Willis was born (d. 2000). American musician.
• 1964 - Leonard Asper was born. Canadian businessman.
• 1964 - Scotti Hill was born. American rock guitarist.
• 1964 - Darryl McDaniels was born. American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
• 1965 - Brooke Shields was born. American model: Ivory Snow baby and actress: The Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, Brenda Starr, The Seventh Floor, Backstreet Dreams, Stalking Laura, Suddenly Susan.
• 1966 - Monges budistas atearam fogo sobre seus próprios corpos em Saigão, como forma de protesto contra a política do governo militar do Vietname do Sul.
• 1966 - Jeremy Hotz was born. Canadian stand-up comedian.
• 1966 - Nick Scotti was born. American actor and singer.
• 1967 - The King of Jordan and President Abdel Nasser of Egypt sign a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel.
• 1967 - Sandrine Bonnaire was born. French actress.
• 1967 - Phil Keoghan was born. New Zealand television personality.
• 1967 - Kenny Lofton was born. American baseball player.
• 1967 - Vampiro was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1969 - Stevie Wonder’s My Cherie Amour was released by Tamla Records.
• 1970 - FIFA World Championship begins in Mexico.
• 1970 - The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
• 1971 - In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
• 1972 - Official IRA declares ceasefire: The Official IRA announces a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA says it will continue fighting until the British leave Northern Ireland.
• 1972 - Frode Estil was born. Norwegian cross-country skier.
• 1972 - Sarah Murdoch was born. English model.
• 1972 - Karl Geary was born. Irish actor.
• 1972 - Dave Roberts was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
• 1974 - Syria and Israel sign a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War
• 1974 - William DeVaughn, a soul singer, songwriter and guitarist from Washington, DC, received a gold record for his only hit, Be Thankful for What You Got.
• 1974 - Chad Campbell was born. American golfer.
• 1974 - Zsolt Erdei was born. Hungarian light heavyweight boxer.
• 1974 - Adrian Tomine was born. American cartoonist.
• 1975 - ESA European Spacial Agency is founded.
• 1975 - Sienna Guillory was born. English actress.
• 1976 - Invasão e ocupação de Timor Leste pela Indonésia.
• 1976 - Jacques Monod dies (b. 9 Feb 1910). French biochemist who, with François Jacob, did much to elucidate how genes regulate cell metabolism by directing the biosynthesis of enzymes. The pair shared, along with André Lwoff, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
• 1976 - Colin Farrell was born. Irish actor.
• 1976 - Matt Harpring was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Martha Mitchell died in New York. She was the estranged wife of former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
• 1977 - The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is completed.
• 1977 - Eric Christian Olsen was born. American actor.
• 1977 - Theodoros Baev was born. Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player.
• 1977 - Debbie King was born. English TV presenter.
• 1977 - Scott Klopfenstein was born. American musician (Reel Big Fish).
• 1977 - William Castle dies (b. 1914). American director.
• 1980 - Andy Hurley was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy).
• 1981 - Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It was one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
• 1981 - Zia Rahman, president of Bangladesh, is assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.
• 1981 - Jake Peavy was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - David Hernandez was born. American singer.
• 1983 - Dustin Wells was born. New Zealand footballer.
• 1983 - Reggie Yates was born. English television presenter.
• 1983 - Jack Dempsey dies (b. 1895). American boxer.
• 1984 - Jason Smith was born. Australian actor.
• 1984 - Nate Robinson was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - United States-Canadian Outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• 1985 - Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
• 1985 - Ian Vouyoukas was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1986 - Robert Gesink was born. Dutch cyclist.
• 1986 - Sopho Khalvashi was born. Georgian musical artist.
• 1986 - Melissa McIntyre was born. Canadian actress.
• 1986 - James Rainwater dies (b. 9 Dec 1917) . American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
• 1987 - Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
• 1988 - Hope Partlow was born. American singer.
• 1990 - A little summer replacement TV show named Seinfeld debuted.
• 1990 - The French Government bans imports of British beef and live cattle because of fears over BSE or "mad cow" disease.
• 1991 - São firmados em Lisboa os acordos para pôr fim a 16 anos de guerra civil em Angola assinados pelos presidentes do MPLA e da UNITA e que acabaram por não ser cumpridos.
• 1994 - Morte do barão Marcel Bich. Criador das canetas Bic.
• 1994 - O croata Kresimir Zubak é proclamado primeiro presidente da recém criada Federação musulmano-croata na Bósnia.
• 1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel's election for prime minister, defeating incumbent Shimon Peres by nine-tenths of one percent.
• 1996 - Paul Peter Piech dies (b. 1920). Artist.
• 1996 - Timothy Leary dies (b. 1920). American professor and LSD advocate.
• 1997 - Canada's Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
• 1997 - James Bennett Griffin dies (b. 1905). American archaeologist.
  1998 - Charles Van Acker dies (b. 1912). Belgian racing driver,
• 2000 - Tito Puente dies (b. 1923). American musician.
• 2000 - Johnnie Taylor dies (b. 1938). American singer.
• 2001 - Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas is sentenced to six months in prison over the country's biggest political scandal in recent history.
• 2001 - Moderate PLO leader Faisal Husseini died at age 60.
• 2002 - The 17th Football World Cup, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, begins with a 1-0 upset of France by Senegal. The tournament ends on June 30, with Brazil winning a record fifth World Cup title.
• 2002 - Portugal ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto.
• 2002 - Tem início o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol organizado pela Coreia do Sul/ Japão. No primeiro jogo o Senegal vence a França por 1-0.
• 2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
• 2003 - Bomber Eric Rudolph is captured in Murphy, North Carolina.
• 2004 - A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
• 2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil dies (b. 1941). French songwriter and screenwriter.
• 2004 - Robert Quine dies (b. 1942). Punk rock guitarist.
• 2004 - Alberta Martin, 97, one of the last widows of a U.S. Civil War veteran, died. She had married Confederate veteran William Martin in 1927 when she was 21 and he was 81.
• 2005 - W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
• 2006 - Ryan Bennett dies (b. 1970). Broadcast commentator.
• 2006 - Miguel Berrocal dies (b. 1933). Sculptor.
• 2006 - Raymond Davis Jr. dies (b. 1914). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway dies (b. 1930). American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder.
• 2008 - Carlos Alhinho dies in an accident (b. 10 Jan 1949). Cape Verdean football coach.
  
• Feast day of Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces.
• World No Tobacco day.
  
• Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti).
• Brunei: Royal Brunei Armed Forces Day.
  
• Castile-La Mancha: Castile-La Mancha Day.

O longe e o perto - Ribeiro Couto

Jardim à Noite Uploaded on flickr.com by kapa jota

Logo que a noite envolve em sombras o jardim
Parece que um mistério estranho me rodeia,
Bocas de flores se entreabrem para mim,
E não sei de quem são estes passos na areia
Nem este murmurar de uma queixa sem fim.


Como a seiva da terra alimenta as raízes,
Uma seiva secreta enche meu coração.
Deve ser o tal "gosto amargo de infelizes",
Plantinha sempre verde entre as pedras do chão,
Cujo travo provei em todos os países.


Tudo que pude fiz para não ser assim,
Mas não posso esquecer o longe pelo perto;
Os que amei e perdi dormem dentro de mim;
A culpa é minha, sou eu mesmo que os desperto,
Logo que a noite envolve em sombras o jardim.

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

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A Semana (III) - As instituições democráticas não ficam bem na fotografia

"Tenho de reconhecer que este impasse na eleição do Provedor de Justiça que se arrasta há muitos, muitos meses, atinge a credibilidade das instituições democráticas" diz o Presidente da República. Para além deste assunto lamentável que exterioriza a incapacidade do poder político fazer o seu trabalho (mínimo) e resolver os seus problemas a semana foi caracterizada pelo início da campanha eleitoral para as eleições europeias. E parafraseando o Presidente da República também aqui o tom da campanha é bem revelador de que "as instituições democráticas não ficam bem na fotografia". A campanha "atingiu um nível indigno". Esta campanha vai ser um duelo entre "a roubalheira do caso BPN" e "o caso Freeport". Saber quem ganha? Não... saber quem perde menos será mais adequado dizer...

É obvio que os portugueses têm problemas que cheguem, suficientemente agravados pelo estado que estes politicos colocaram, por acção ou omissão, o país e provavelmente vão deixar as urnas não desertas mas com um nível de abstenção que, prognostico eu, será provavelmente o mais alto de sempre.

Neste quadro lamentável se insere ainda a demissão voluntária (mas bem tardia) do Conselheiro de Estado Dias Loureiro, depois das primeiras declarações oficiais na Comissão Parlamentar de Inquerito do ex-secretário de Estado dos Assuntos Fiscais Oliveira e Costa.

Mudando de tema, a meio da semana o Barcelona, que não merecera chegar à final da Champions e não o conseguiria se já se tivesse adoptado os meios técnicos audio-visuais como meio de regulação das arbitragens, venceu categoricamente a final. Foi uma derrota avassaladora de Sir Alex Ferguson e uma vitória de Messi que até marcou de cabeça sobre Ronaldo que, todavia, tinha começado bastante bem o jogo.

Ainda em termos desportivos merece destaque a nossa "americana" Michelle Brito que só caiu na terceira ronda de Roland Garros tendo batido cinco adversários (três no qualifying), enquanto amanhã no Jamor se disputa a final da Taça de Portugal na qual o FC Porto é mais do que favorito a conquistar a dobradinha frente ao estreante Paços de Ferreira.

No campo das efemérides destaque para os 125 anos do Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa e para os 20 anos da Fundação de Serralves (e 10 do Museu de Arte Contemporânea), na cidade do Porto e que é um motivo de orgulho da cidade quanto à possibilidade de sucesso num casamento entre o Estado e a sociedade civil. Durante este fim-de-semana realiza-se o Serralves em Festa, um dos maiores festivais de expressão artística contemporânea da Europa.

Em jeito de conclusão é caso para dizer que o tempo aqueceu metereologica e politicamente... mas o melhor é ficar a descansar ou fazer uma visita cultural ao Zoo ou ao Museu de Serralves.

On this day in History - May 30

• 1010 - Emperor Renzong of China was born (d. 1063).
• 1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland dies (b. 1105).
• 1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon dies (b. 1198/1199?).
• 1416 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague (b. 1379) as a heretic.
• 1423 - Georg Purbach was born (d. 1461). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 1431 - Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal.
• 1431 - Joan of Arc dies (burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal) (b. 1412) . French commander and saint.
• 1434 - Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were defeated and almost annihilated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars.
• 1469 - Lope de Barrientos dies (b. 1382). A powerful bishop in Castile.
• 1527 - The University of Marburg was founded in Germany.
• 1536 - King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
• 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
• 1574 - Henry III becomes King of France.
• 1574 - King Charles IX of France dies (b. 1550).
• 1576 - Harada Naomasa dies. Japanese retainer and samurai under Oda Nobunaga.
• 1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
• 1593 - Christopher Marlowe dies (b. 1564). English playwright.
• 1607 - Sóror Violante do Céu [Violante da Silveira Montesino] was born in Lisbon (d. 28 Jan 1683]. Portuguese Dominican nun and poet.
• 1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater was born (d. 1686). English politician.
• 1635 - Thirty Years' War: Peace of Prague signed.
• 1640 - (O.S.) Peter Paul Rubens dies (b. 1577). German painter.
• 1642 - From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
• 1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria was born (d. 1676). Empress consort of Germany.
• 1662 - Casamento de D. Catarina, filha de D. João IV, com Carlos II de Inglaterra.
• 1672 - Peter the Great (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) was born (d. 1725). Tsar of Russia./ Nascimento de Pedro o Grande (1672-1725), imperador da Rússia. Foi responsável pela ocidentalização da Rússia, edificando a cidade de São Petersburgo.
• 1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell dies (b. 1638). First Lord of the British Admiralty
• 1713 - Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain was born (d. 1757).
• 1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire was born (d. 1793). English politician.
• 1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle dies (b. 1670). Dutch favorite of William III of England.
• 1719 - Roger Newdigate was born (d. 1806). English politician.
• 1730 - Arabella Churchill dies (b. 1648).English mistress of James II of England.
  
• 1744 - Alexander Pope dies (b. 1688). English poet and writer.
• 1746 - Abade de Faria was born. Portuguese scientist.
• 1770 - François Boucher dies (b. 1703). French painter.
• 1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth was born (d. 1844). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1778 - Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) dies (b. 1694). French philosopher, author.
• 1779 - D. Fernando de Sousa e Silva é nomeado 4º Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa.
• 1783 - The first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called "The Pennsylvania Evening Post".
• 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
• 1814 - The First Treaty of Paris is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon I of France is exiled to Elba on the same day.
• 1814 - Michael Bakunin was born (d. 1876). Russian anarchist.
• 1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan was born (d. 1894). Belgian mathematician.
• 1819 - William McMurdo was born (d. 1894). British army officer.
• 1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau was born (d. 1890). French Canadian politician.
• 1826 - Germanos of Patras dies (b. 1771). Greek Metropolitan bishop who proclaimed the Greek War of Independence.
• 1834 - Portugal: As ordens religiosas masculinas são extintas e os seus bens nacionalizados. A medida é da responsabilidade de D. Pedro, enquanto regente, e de Joaquim António de Aguiar, que passa por isso a ser conhecido por «o Mata-Frades».
• 1845 - King Amadeo I of Spain was born (d. 1890).
• 1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé was born (d. 1920). Russian goldsmith and jeweler.
• 1848 - W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer.
• 1849 - Pedro Santana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência da República Dominicana.
• 1850 - Nasceu o republicano português, fundador de "O Século", Sebastião de Magalhães Lima.
• 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
• 1854 - Wenceslau de Moraes was born (d. 1 Jul 1929). Portuguese writer.
• 1858 - Siegfried Alkan was born (d. 1941). German composer.
• 1865 - John Catron dies. Associate justice of the United States.
• 1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclaimation on May 5).
• 1868 - Souji Okita dies (b. 1823). 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi.
• 1871 - The Paris Commune falls.
• 1871 - Olga Engl was born (d. 1946). Austrian actress.
• 1875 - Giovanni Gentile was born (d. 1944). Italian philosopher.
• 1875 - Palmira Bastos was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
• 1878 - Mike Donlin was born (d. 1933). Baseball player.
• 1879 - New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
• 1879 - An F4 tornado struck Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
• 1879 - Colin Blythe was born (d. 1917). Kent and England left arm spinner.
• 1881 - Georg von Küchler was born (d. 1968). German field marshal.
• 1882 - Wyndham Halswelle was born. British runner.
• 1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.
• 1886 - Randolph Bourne was born (d. 1918). American writer.
• 1892 - Fernando Amorsolo was born (d. 1972). Filipino painter.
• 1895 - Maurice Tate was born (d. 1956). Sussex and England all-rounder.
• 1896 - Howard Hawks was born (d. 26 Dec 1977). American film director : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monkey Business, Hatari, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Sergeant York, A Song is Born, The Thing.
• 1899 - Irving Thalberg was born (d. 1936). American film producer.
• 1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner was born (d. 1979). Broadway producer, writer, director, and actress.
• 1901 - Victor D'Hondt dies (b. 1841). Belgian mathematician.
• 1902 - Stepin Fetchit was born (d. 1985). American dancer and actor.
• 1903 - Countee Cullen was born (d. 1946). American writer.
• 1904 - Ernesto Guardia Navarro was born. President of Panamá (1956-1960).
• 1906 - Bruno Gröning was born (d. 1959). German faith healer.
• 1907 - Elly Beinhorn was born (d. 2007). German pilot.
• 1907 - Germaine Tillion was born (d. 2008). French anthropologist, member of French Resistance.
• 1908 - Hannes (Olof Gösta) Alfvén was born (d. 2 Apr 1995). Swedish astrophysicist, one of the founders of the field of plasma physics (the study of ionized gases) and winner, with Louis Néel of France, of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics "for fundamental work in magnetohydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics."
• 1908 - Mel Blanc was born (d. 1989). American voice actor.
• 1909 - Benny Goodman was born (d. 1986). American clarinetist and Swing-era bandleader.
• 1910 - Inge Meysel was born (d. 2004). German actress.
• 1910 - Ralph Metcalfe was born (d. 1978). American athlete.
• 1911 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
• 1912 - Julius Axelrod was born. American biochemist, 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine laureate (with British biophysicist Sir Bernard Katz and Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler).
• 1912 - Joseph Stein was born. Playwright.
• 1912 - The U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
• 1912 - Hugh Griffith was born (d. 1980). Welsh actor.
• 1912 - Erich Bagge was born. German physicist.
• 1912 - Wilbur Wright dies (b. 1867). Aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers).
• 1913 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
• 1914 - New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
• 1918 - Bob Evans was born (d. 2007). American restaurateur.
• 1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor was born (d. 2000). Mexican poet.
• 1919 - René Barrientos was born. President of Bolívia (1964-1969).
• 1920 - Franklin Schaffner was born (d. 1989). American film director.
• 1920 - Ralph Metcalfe was born (d. 1978). American athlete.
• 1922 - Hal Clement was born (d. 2003). American science fiction writer.
• 1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. Daniel Chester French created the famous sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, titled Seated Lincoln. Lincoln is in meditation, seated in a large armchair. Both French and the Piccirilli brothers completed the sculpture. On this day in 1922 the memorial in which the statue is permanently seated was dedicated, although the cornerstone was laid in 1915.
• 1925 -Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol is founded.
• 1925 - In China, protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
• 1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck dies (b. 1876). German historian.
• 1926 - Christine Jorgensen was born (d. 1989). Transsexual activist.
• 1926 - O primeiro governo saído do golpe militar de 28 de Maio entra em funções. É presidido pelo comandante Mendes Cabeçadas, herói da Revolução de 5 de Outubro de 1910.
• 1927 - Clint Walker was born. American actor.
• 1928 - Agnès Varda was born. French director.
• 1928 - Pro Hart was born (d. 2006). Australian artist.
• 1928 - Gustav Leonhardt was born. Dutch musician, musicologist and conductor.
• 1934 - Aleksei Leonov was born. Russian cosmonaut and first person to walk in space.
• 1934 - Alketas Panagoulias was born. Greek footballer and coach.
• 1934 - Togo Heihachiro dies (b. 1848). Japanese admiral.
• 1935 - Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.
• 1936 - Keir Dullea was born. American actor.
• 1936 - Glória de Matos was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1939 - Michael J. Pollard was born. American actor.
• 1939 - Floyd Roberts dies (b. 1904). Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500.
• 1940 - Gilles Villemure was born. Quebec ice hockey player.
• 1940 - José Mestre Baptista was born (d. 1985). Portuguese rider bullfighter.
• 1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
• 1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
• 1941 - Prajadhipok dies (b. 1893). Rama VII, king of Thailand.
• 1942 - World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• 1943 - Gale Sayers was born. American football player.
• 1943 - James Chaney was born (d. 1964). American civil rights activist.
• 1944 - Meredith MacRae was born (d. 2000).American actress.
• 1946 - Louis Slotin dies (b. 1910). Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos.
• 1947 - Vashti Murphy McKenzie was born. African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop.
• 1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa was born. French Canadian LPGA golfer.
• 1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp dies (b. 1880). World War I Austrian submarine commander.
• 1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
• 1950 - Bertrand Delanoë was born. French politician.
• 1950 - Paresh Rawal was born. Indian actor.
• 1951 - Fernando Lugo was born. Paraguayan politician.
• 1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky was born. American actor.
• 1951 - Zdravko Čolić was born. Bosnian singer.
• 1951 - Hermann Broch dies (b. 1886). Austrian author.
• 1953 - Colm Meaney was born. Irish actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine).
• 1953 - Dooley Wilson dies (b. 1886). American musician and actor.
• 1954 - Susan Kelly-Gilbert was born. Vice-President of Advertising and Marketing at the Colorado Springs Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 1955 - Topper Headon was born. British musician, drummer with The Clash.
• 1955 - Bill Vukovich dies (b. 1918). Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500.
• 1956 - Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen premieres his piece Gesang der Jünglinge in Cologne.
• 1958 - Memorial Day: The bodies of several unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1958 - Marie Fredriksson was born. Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette).
• 1959 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge was officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 1960 - Boris Pasternak dies (b. 1890). Russian author. Nobel Prize 1958.
• 1961 - Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic.
• 1961 - Harry Enfield was born. British comedian.
• 1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo dies (b. 1891). Dictator of the Dominican Republic.
• 1962 - World Championship Football (FIFA) begins in Chile.
• 1962 - Kevin Eastman was born. American comic book creator.
• 1963 - Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto dies in Paris (b. 12 Mar 1898). Brazilian poet.
• 1964 - Wynonna Judd was born. American singer.
• 1964 - Tom Morello was born. American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine).
• 1964 - Andrea Montermini was born. Italian racing driver.
• 1964 - Leó Szilárd dies (b. 1898). Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
• 1964 - Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald die killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1927). American auto racers.
• 1966 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1966 -Thomas Hassler was born. German footballer.
• 1966 - Stephen Malkmus was born. American musician (Pavement).
• 1967 - At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
• 1967 - The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
• 1967 - Claude Rains dies (b. 1889). English actor.
• 1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui was born. French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao.
  
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix plays at Berkeley Community Theatre one of the last live performances before his death.
• 1970 - Flora Chan was born. Hong Kong television actress.
• 1970 - Ness Wadia was born. Indian industrialist.
• 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
• 1971 - Idina Menzel was born. American actress and singer.
• 1971 - Marcel Dupré dies (b. 1886). French composer.
• 1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
• 1972 - In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 1972 - Manny Ramirez was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1973 - Leigh Francis (aka Avid Merrion) was born. British comedian.
• 1974 - Cee-Lo was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Big L was born (d. 1999). American rapper.
• 1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias was born. Greek footballer.
• 1974 - Shin Ha-kyun was born. South Korean actor.
• 1974 - David Wilkie was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1975 - Bob Watson, of the Houston Astros scores the 1,000,000th run in baseball history.
• 1975 - Andrew Farrell was born. English rugby league and union footballer.
• 1975 - Michel Simon dies (b. 1895). French actor.
• 1975 - Steve Prefontaine dies (b. 1951). American distance runner.
• 1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku dies (b. 1908). Founder of Isshinryu karate.
• 1976 - Magnus Norman was born. Swedish tennis player.
• 1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič was born. Slovenian basketball player.
• 1977 - Rachael Stirling was born. British actress.
• 1977 - Fabrice Akwá was born. Angolan footballer.
• 1979 - Mike Bishai was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1979 - Kugimiya Rie was born. Japanese seiyuu (voice actress).
• 1979 - Fabian Ernst was born. International German footballer, 24 games for National team 1 goal. He wears the colours of Schalke 04.
• 1980 - Steven Gerrard was born. English footballer.
• 1980 - Carl Radle dies (b. 1942). American bass guitarist.
• 1981 - Portugal : No Porto, no teatro Carlos Alberto, estreia o bailado Romeu e Julieta, pela primeira vez representado por portugueses, pertencentes à Companhia Nacional de Bailado.
• 1981 - Devendra Banhart was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1981 - Gianmaria Bruni was born. Italian racing driver.
• 1981 - Blake Bashoff was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Don Ashby dies (b. 1955). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1981 - Ziaur Rahman dies (b. 1936). President of Bangladesh.
• 1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
• 1982 - Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak will end on September 20, 1998.
• 1984 - Matt Maguire was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1985 - Justin Pasfield was born. Australian soccer player.
• 1986 - Perry Ellis dies. Fashion designer.
• 1986 - Claudia Beni was born. Croatian singer.
• 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• 1992 - Antoni Zygmund dies (b. 26 Dec 1900). Polish-born mathematician who created a major analysis research centre at Chicago, and recognized in 1986 for this with the National Medal for Science.
• 1993 - Sun Ra dies (b. 1914). American musician.
• 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson dies. President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• 1994 - Marcel Bich dies (b. 1914). French industrialist (Société Bic).
• 1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti dies. Writer.
• 1995 - Ted Drake dies (b. 1912). Former English footballer.
• 1995 - Lofty England dies (b. 1911). English automotive engineer and race team manager.
• 1995 - Bobby Stokes dies (b. 1951). Former English footballer.
• 1997 - The Norway national football team beats Brazil 4-2. They still have never lost to Brazil, and remain the only team that hasn't.
• 1998 - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
• 1998 - Geri Halliwell announced she was leaving the Spice Girls.
• 1999 - Kenny Bräck wins the 83rd Indianapolis 500.
• 2000 - Tex Beneke dies (b. 1914). Bandleader, singer, saxophone player .
• 2002 - Mário Lago dies (b. 1911). Brazilian actor, writer and composer.
• 2000 - Doris Hare dies (b. 1905).Welsh actress.
• 2003 - Mickie Most dies (b. 1938). English musician.
• 2003 - Hans Peter Willberg dies. Literature critic.
• 2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
• 2004 - Buddy Rice wins a rain-shortened 88th Indianapolis 500.
• 2004 - St. Isabel Bridge is inaugurated in Coimbra, Portugal / Inauguração da ponte de Santa Isabel, em Coimbra.
• 2005 - Fazal Mahmood dies (b. 1927). Pakistani cricketer.
• 2005 - Tomasz Pacyński dies (b. 1958). Polish writer.
• 2006 - Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha receives the Pritzker Prize.
• 2006 - Shohei Imamura dies (b. 1926). Japanese film director.
• 2006 - Robert Sterling dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 2006 - David Lloyd dies (b. 1938). New Zealand biologist.
• 2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy dies (b. 1933). French actor, director and author.
• 2007 - Gunturu Seshendra Sarma dies (b. 1927). Indian poet.
• 2008 - Lorenzo Odone dies (b. 1978). American medical figure.
• 2008 - Noel Moore dies (b. 1928). British civil servant.
• Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).
• Peru – National Potato Day.
• United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May).
• Canary Islands – Canary Islands' Day.
• Portugal - Dia Nacional de Prevenção do Cancro Cutâneo.