Braga no comando e grandes ganharam todos pela primeira vez

Resultados da Terceira Jornada
29 Ago 19:15	Paços de Ferreira	1-1	Vitória de Guimarães
29 Ago 21:15	Naval 1º. de Maio	1-3	FC Porto
30 Ago 17:00	Leixões	0-0	Rio Ave
30 Ago 17:00	União de Leiria	0-0	Marítimo
30 Ago 18:00	Braga	3-1	Belenenses
30 Ago 20:15	Académica	0-2	Sporting
31 Ago 19:00	Nacional	1-1	Olhanense
31 Ago 20:15	Benfica	8-1	Vitória de Setúbal

Num campeonato em que os empates vão prevalecendo esta terceira jornada teve este resultado em 50% dos jogos. Saude-se ao menos os golos, sendo a jornada das três disputadas a mais profícua, com 25 contribuindo (só) o jogo da Luz com nove.

Por falar em empates Paços de Ferreira em casa (no arranque da jornada em casa frente ao Vitória de Guimarães), Olhanense já hoje (fora na Madeira com o Nacional) e União de Leiria (em casa frente ao Marítimo) coleccionaram o terceiro empate em três jogos! Nem que para isso a equipa de Olhão tivesse que se estrear a marcar (e a sofrer naturalmente) um golo.

Em estreia esteve o Sporting a ganhar (depois de um empate e uma derrota) ao vencer em Coimbra a Académica por 2-0 com Liedson a desbloquear o score. Mal Jorge de Sousa em termos disciplinares ao deixar em campo Pedro Silva para depois expulsar Miguel Pedro.

O Braga colecciona vitórias e obteve a terceira em tantos jogos, comandando isolado a classificação. Também aqui houve o dedo ou melhor o apito do árbitro (João Ferreira) que aqui ao contrário do jogo da jornada passada no Dragão não teve um assistente a emendar o que ele não soube ver e que daria um penalty favorável ao Belenenses, que poderia dar o 2-2 perto do fim do jogo. Os bracarense viriam ainda a aumentar o score. Destaque para dois golos do ex-leão Hugo Viana.

O Rio Ave conseguiu um excelente empate no Estádio do Mar e colecciona cinco pontos enquanto os leixonenses começaram este campeonato de modo muito diverso do da época passada.

O Porto (sem Hulk mas com Falcão) foi vencer à Figueira da Foz a Naval por 3-1. O resultado não teve emoção porque quando sofreu o 1-2 logo de imediato o Porto chegou ao 3-1.

O Benfica conseguiu hoje uma goleada que já não se usa e ao intervalo já ganhava por 5-0. Chegou aos 8-0 mas no tempo de compensação o Setúbal estreou-se a marcar no campeonato.

O campeonato agora interrompe-se (mal começou...) porque a selecção vai ter os jogos decisivos que a podem pôr fora do Mundial da África do Sul, se os jogadores não arregaçarem as mangas e derem corda aos sapatos (e tiverem sorte porque com a situação delicada em que estão...).

Voltará no fim de semana de 13 de Setembro com o Braga a deslocar-se à Madeira para um confronto difícil com o Marítimo enquanto o Benfica joga no Restelo com o Belenenses e o Porto recebe o Leixões.

Classificação

Lugar	Clube	Pontos	Golos
1.	Braga	9	6-2
2.	Benfica	7	10-2
2.	Porto	7	7-2
4.	Marítimo	5	2-1
4.	Rio Ave	5	2-1
6.	Sporting	4	4-3
6.	Belenenses	4	3-3
8.	Paços de Ferreira	3	2-2
8.	União de Leiria	3	1-1
8.	Olhanense	3	1-1
11.	Leixões	2	0-1
11.	Vitória de Guimarães	2	0-1
11.	Nacional	2	2-5
14.	Académica	1	1-4
14.	Naval 1º. de Maio	1	1-5
14.	Vitória de Setúbal	1	1-9

Quarta Jornada - fim de semana de 13/9
	Vitória de Guimarães	-	Naval 1º. de Maio
	Vitória de Setúbal	-	União de Leiria
	Sporting	-	Paços de Ferreira
	Olhanense	-	Académica
	FC Porto	-	Leixões
	Belenenses	-	Benfica
	Marítimo	-	Braga
	Rio Ave	-	Nacional

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Benfica: Turbilhão de golos que já não se usa... nem no futebol de praia

Benfica

8-1

V. de Setúbal

São só 3 pontos é verdade... mas isto promete!

Velocidade, vontade, qualidade técnica, pressão sobre a bola e é verdade que este Setúbal é fraquinho... mas noutras ocasiões vimos dificuldades quase insuperáveis. O Benfica ao contrário do jogo com o Marítimo entrou para resolver cedo, o Setúbal só parava a enxurrada ofensiva com faltas e com a cedência de cantos e o jogo ficou cedo resolvido.

De pontapés de canto surgiramn os dois primeiros golos o terceiro de penalty, o Setúbal cvom 0-3 já tinha quatro jogadores com cartões amarelos (um deles bem podia ter sido vermelho directo!) o jogo estava totalmente decidido, nem vale pena contar a história dos golos.

A verdade é que também houve equívocos tácticos na equipa de Setúbal a jogar sem laterais deixando o Benfica, especialmente por Di Maria, entrar à linha e criar sucessivas jogadas de perigo. Quando a defesa setubalense recuperava a linha média encarnada recuperava a bola e nova jogada de ataque surgia...

A questão era apenas de saber qual o resultado final porque 5-0 já estavam ao intervalo. No início da segunda parte o Setúbal pareceu mais organizado mas ainda sem lateral direito. O Benfica também abrandou o Setúbal dispôs de uma oportunidade para fazer 5-1 mas de novo pontapé de canto surgiu o sexto golo em dois toques de cabeça o último de Cardozo e aí o público exigiu nova aplicação dos encarnados. Houve mais três golos: dois para os encarnados, porque Felgueiras ainda evitou outros tantos, e um para o Setúbal porque Quim (e David Luís) assim o permitiu. Enfim foi o momento em que os adeptos de Setúbal conseguiram ter finalmente um leve sorriso, perante um pesadelo... que espera-se venha a ser amenizado no futuro quando outros clubes cederem à máquina de golos encarnada. Assim o espero!

No outro jogo da terceira jornada hoje disputado na Madeira e que antecedeu este o Olhanense foi coleccionar o terceiro empate no campeonato ao conseguir o resultado de 1-1 frente ao Nacional com Carlos Fernandes a igualar a partida aos 77' depois do goleador João Aurélio ter posto o Nacional em vantagem aos 55'.

Javi Garcia festeja o primeiro golo do jogo

Ficha do jogo:
Estádio do SL Benfica, em Lisboa; início às 20:15
Árbitro: Duarte Gomes (AF Lisboa)

BENFICA: Quim; Rúben Amorim, Luisão, David Luiz e Shaffer; Ramires, Javi Garcia, Di María, Aimar; Cardozo e Saviola.

Suplentes: Moreira, Luis Filipe, Sidnei, Fábio Coentrão, César Peixoto, Keirrison e Nuno Gomes.

V. SETÚBAL: Mário Felgueiras; Sandro, Zarabi, Djikiné; Lourenço, Bruno Monteiro, Kazmierczak, Álvaro Fernandez, Rúben Lima; Keita e Hélder Barbosa.

Suplentes: Matos, Vasco Varão, Luís Carlos, Joãozinho, Adul, Regula e Rui Fonte.

Golos: Javi Garcia (15), Luisão (20), Cardozo (28, g.p., 64, 74), Aimar (34), Ramires (36), Nuno Gomes (84); Hélder Barbosa (90+2).

Disciplina:
Cartão amarelo a Ruben Lima aos 15'
Cartão amarelo a Lourenço aos 18'
Cartão amarelo aos 21' para Bruno Monteiro por falta sobre Di Maria
Cartão amarelo a Keita aos 26' por falta feia sobre David Luís
Caretão amarelo aos 56' para Rúben Amorim por travar um contra ataque do Setúbal
Cartão amarelo para Alvaro Fernández, aos 62' por travar Ramires junto à lateral direita do ataque encarnado.

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Correspondências - Charles Baudelaire

A natureza é um templo em que vivos pilares
falas deixam fluir por incógnitas frestas
e onde o homem perpassa através de florestas
de símbolos, que o vêem com olhos familiares.

Como os ecos que além juntam os seus rumores
em uma tenebrosa e profunda unidade,
tão ampla como a noite e como a claridade,
correspondem-se os sons, os perfumes, as cores.

Há perfumes que são como a carne da infância,
meigos como os oboés, como a verde distância,
e outros, ricos, triunfais odores corrompidos,

que se expandem assim como as cousas sem fim
como o âmbar, o incenso, o almíscar e o benjoim
que cantam a embriaguês da alma e dos sentidos.

Trad. de Pedro da Silveira
in A Circulatura do Quadrado - Alguns dos Mais Belos Sonetos de Poetas cuja Mátria é a Língua Portuguesa, Unicepe

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (nasceu a 9 de Abril de 1821 em Paris, m. 31 de Agosto de 1867)

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Aug 31 - Blog Day 2009

«BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors. With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs».

My nominated five blogs in this day are as follows:
http://ceslava.com/blog/
http://blog.g2peru.com/
http://bettyvern.blogspot.com
http://www.blogueirascompulsivas.com/
http://www.legumesalteados.blogspot.com/

That's it. My obligation is observed and have a Nice BlogDay 2009!


blogday2009

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On this day in History - Aug. 31

• 0012 - Caius Cæsar Caligula was born (d. 0041). 3rd Roman Emperor (0037-0041).
• 0161 - Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus was born (d. 0192). Roman Emperor (0180-0192).
• 0651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne dies. Irish bishop and missionary.
• 1056 - Byzantine Empress Theodora dies suddenly (b. 0981) without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian dynasty.
• 1057 - Leofric dies. Count of Mercia and husband of Lady Godiva.
• 1142 - With the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the Iroquois tribes establish the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee.
• 1158 - Sancho III dies. King of Castilia.
• 1218 - Al-Malik ab-Adil, Saphadin, Saif al-Din, brother of Saladin, dies.
• 1234 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan dies (b. 1212).
• 1290 - Edward I, King of England, expels the Jews from England.
• 1346 - Edward III, King of England, lays siege to Calais.
• 1372 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford dies (b. 1301). English soldier.
• 1422 - Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
• 1422 - King Henry V of England dies (b. 1387) in Vincennes, near Paris.
• 1522 -Adrian VI (Netherlands) is crowned last non-Italian Pope until 1978.
• 1535 - Pope Paul II deposes and excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
• 1569 - Jahangir was born (d. 1627). Mughal Emperor of India.
• 1602 – Amalia von Solms was born (d. 1675). Countess of Solms-Braunfels.
• 1615 - Etienne Pasquier dies. French jurist and historian.
• 1645 - Francesco Bracciolini dies (b. 1566). Italian poet.
• 1654 - Ole Worm dies (b. 1588). Danish physician.
• 1663 - Guillaume Amontons was born (d. 1705). French physicist and instrument maker.
• 1688 - John Bunyan dies (b. 1628). English writer (Pilgrim's Progress).
• 1721 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol was born (d. 1775). British statesman.
• 1730 - Gottfried Finger dies. Czech composer.
• 1741 - Husein Gradaščević was born (d. 1834). Bosniak general.
• 1741 – Jean Paul Egide Martini was born (d. 1816). French composer.
• 1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius dies (b. 1681). German jurist.
• 1772 - William Borlase dies (b. 1695). English naturalist and antiquary.
• 1786 - Eugène Chevreul was born (d. 1889). French chemist.
• 1795 - Philidor (François-André Danican) dies (b. 1726). French chess player.
• 1797 - Ramón Castilla was born. Peruvian President.
• 1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin dies (b. 1720). French architect.
• 1803 - Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 o clock in the morning.
• 1805 - Dr. James Currie dies. Biographer of Burns, 1805, Sidmouth.
• 1809 - Oswald Heer was born († 27 Sep 1883). Swiss geologist and naturalist.
• 1811 - Louis Antoine de Bougainville dies (b. 1729). French explorer.
• 1814 - Arthur Phillip dies (b. 1738). British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales.
• 1817 - Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 1817, Devonport.
• 1821 - Hermann von Helmholtz was born (d. 1894). German physician.
• 1822 - Galusha A. Grow was birn (d. 1907). American politician.
• 1834 - Amilcare Ponchielli was born (d. 1886). Italian composer.
• 1834 - Karl Ludwig Harding dies (b. 1765). German astronomer.
• 1843 - Georg von Hertling was born (d. 1919). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1864 - During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1864 - Ferdinand Lasalle dies (b. 1825). German socialist political activist.
• 1867 - Charles Baudelaire dies (b. 1821). French poet.
• 1869 - Mary Ward dies (b. 1827). Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim.
• 1870 - Maria Montessori was born (d. 1952). Italian educator.
• 1871 - James E. Ferguson was born (d. 1944). American politician,Texan governor.
• 1875 - Jesse E. James «Tim» was born in Tennessee (d. 26 Mar 1951). American outlaw.
• 1876 - Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
• 1878 - Frank Jarvis was born (d. 1933). American athlete.
• 1879 - Alma Mahler was born (d. 1964). Wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel.
• 1880 - Queen Wilhelmina I of the Netherlands was born (d. 28 Nov 1962). She reigned from 1890-1947.
• 1885 - DuBose Heyward was born (d. 1940). American playwright.
• 1886 - Earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1888 - Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's known victims.
• 1890 - Começo da Construção do Santuário do Sameiro, nos arredores de Braga.
• 1893 - Lily Laskine was born (d. 1988). French harpist.
• 1894 - Albert Facey was born (d. 1982). Australian writer.
  
• 1895 - John Brallier is paid US$10 plus expenses to play football for the Latrobe, Pennsylvania YMCA, making him the first professional football player.
• 1896 - Félix-Antoine Savard was born (d. 1982). French-Canadian priest and novelist.
• 1897 - Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
• 1897 - Fredric March was born (d. 1975). American actor.
• 1899 - Lynn Riggs was born. American author and playwright. Her book “Green Grow the Lilacs” was adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein to become “Oklahoma”.
• 1900 - Gino Lucetti was born (d. 1943). Italian anarchist.
  
• 1901 - Começam a circular os primeiros carros eléctricos em Lisboa.
• 1903 - Arthur Godfrey was born (d. 1983). American television host.
• 1903 - Vladimir Jankélévitch was born († 10 Apr 1985). French philosopher.
• 1905 - Sanford Meisner was born (d. 1997). American actor and teacher.
• 1907 - Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
• 1907 - England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente alliance.
• 1907 – Altiero Spinelli was born (d. 1986). Italian advocate of European federalism.
• 1907 - Augustus F. Hawkins was born (d. 2007). American politician.
• 1907 - Ramon Magsaysay was born (d. 1957). 7th President of the Philippines.
• 1907 - William Shawn was born (d. 1992). American editor.
• 1908 - William Saroyan was born in Fresco, California (d. 1981). American novelist and playwright (The Human Comedy; The Time of Your Life 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
• 1911 - Edward Brongersma was born (d. 1998). Dutch politician, writer and political activist.
• 1913 - Ambrós was born (d. 1992). Graphic creator (El Capitán Trueno).
• 1913 - Sir Bernard Lovell was born. British radio astronomer.
• 1913 - Helen Levitt was born (d. 2009). American photographer.
• 1914 - Richard Basehart was born (d. 1984). American actor.
• 1914 - Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1915 - Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1915 - Jimmy Lavender of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no hitter against the New York Giants.
• 1916 - Daniel Schorr was born. American journalist.
• 1916 – Danny Litwhiler was born. American baseball player and coach.
• 1916 – John S. Wold was born. American politician.
• 1918 - Alan Jay Lerner was born (d. 1986). American lyricist.
• 1919 - Amrita Preetam was born (d. 2005). Indian poetess and author.
• 1920 - First news radio program broadcast in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1920 - Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
• 1920 - Wilhelm Wundt dies (b. 1832). German philosopher and psycologist.
• 1921 - Emilinha Borba was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1921 -Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988)
• 1924 - Buddy Hackett was born (d. 2003). American actor and comedian.
• 1927 - Bill Daily was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1928 - Turkey accepts to adopt latin alphabet instead arabic.
• 1928 - James Coburn was born ( † 18 Nov 2002). American actor.
• 1931 - Production of Ford Motor Company's Model A ends, with 4.3 million produced.
• 1931 - Jean Béliveau was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1931 - Noble Willingham was born (d. 2004). American actor.
• 1934 - Nikos Xanthopoulos was born. Greek actor.
• 1935 - Frank Robinson was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1935 - Eldridge Cleaver was born (d. 1998). American political activist.
• 1936 - Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was born in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo. Portuguese military officer who was the chief strategist of the 25 April Revolution, and politician.
• 1937 – Bobby Parker was born. American musician.
• 1937 - Warren Berlinger was born. American actor.
• 1937 - Albert Heim dies (b. 1849). Swiss geologist.
• 1938 - Martin Bell was born. British journalist and politician.
• 1937 – Bobby Parker was born. American musician.
• 1938 – Martin Bell was born. British journalist.
• 1938 – Murray Gleeson was born. Chief Justice of Australia.
• 1939 - Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack Poland the following day, starting World War II.
• 1939 - Jerry Allison was born. American drummer (The Crickets).
• 1940 - Georges Gauthier dies (b. 1871). French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal.
• 1941 - William DeWitt, Jr. was born. American businessman.
• 1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva dies (b. 1892). Russian poet.
• 1942 - In Ternopil, western Ukraine, at 4.30 am, German SS organise the first deportation of Jews from Ternopil ghetto to death camp in Belzec, about 5,000 Jews were deported to face death in Belzec. When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city.
• 1943 - The USS Harmon the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
• 1943 - António de Vasconcelos Xavier was born. Portuguese biochemist.
• 1943 - Leonid Ivashov was born. Russian general.
• 1944 – Clive Lloyd was born. Guyanese West Indies cricketer.
• 1944 - Jos LeDuc was born (d. 1999). Canadian professional wrestler.
  
• 1944 - Roger Dean was born. British artist.
• 1945 - The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
• 1945 - Itzhak Perlman was born. Israeli violinist.
• 1945 - Sérgio Godinho was born in Porto. Portuguese singer, composer and actor.
• 1945 - Van Morrison was born. Irish musician.
• 1946 - Jerome Corsi was born. American writer.
• 1947 - Carlos Gregório was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
• 1947 – Luca di Montezemolo was born. Italian businessman
• 1947 - Mona Marshall was born. American voice actress.
• 1947 - Somchai Wongsawat was born. Thai 26th Prime Minister.
• 1947 – Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
• 1948 - Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
• 1948 - Harald Ertl was born (d. 1982). Austrian racing driver.
• 1948 – Holger Osieck was born. German footballer and coach
• 1948 - Lowell Ganz was born. American screenwriter.
• 1948 – Rudolf Schenker was born. German guitarist (Scorpions)
• 1948 - Billy Laughlin dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 1949 - Richard Gere was born. American actor (Breathless, Cotton Club).
• 1949 - H. David Politzer was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1952 - Herbert Reul was born. German politician.
• 1952 - Henri Bourassa dies (b. 1868). French Canadian political leader.
• 1953 - György Károly was born. Hungarian author.
• 1953 - Miguel Ángel Guerra was born. Argentine racing driver.
• 1953 – Pavel Vinogradov was born. Russian cosmonaut.
• 1954 - Caroline Cossey was born. English model.
• 1954 - Julie Brown was born. American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter.
• 1955 - Edwin Moses was born. American athlete, gold medal in Olympics Montreal 76 and Los Ángeles 84.
• 1955 – Gary Webb was born (d. 2004). American journalist.
• 1956 - Maria Balazova was born. Slovak painter.
• 1956 - Masashi Tashiro was born. Japanese television performer.
• 1956 - Percy MacKaye dies in Cornish, New Hampshire. American writer: The Scarecrow (1908), a historical play; Caliban (1916), This Fine Pretty World (1923), The Mystery of Hamlet: King of Denmark (1945).
• 1957 - The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1957 -
  
• Colm O'Rourke was born. Irish footballer and commentator.
• 1957 - Gina Schock was born. American drummer (The Go-Go's).
• 1957 - Glenn Tilbrook was born. British musician (Squeeze).
• 1958 - Serge Blanco was born. French International rugby player.
• 1959 - Ralph Krueger was born. Canadian ice hockey coach.
• 1960 - Chris Whitley was born (d. 2005), American musician.
• 1960 - Hassan Nasrallah was born. Leader of Hizballah.
• 1960 - Vali Ionescu was born. Romanian long jumper.
• 1962 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
• 1962 - Dee Bradley Baker was born. American voice actor.
• 1963 - Walter Cronkite began his stint as anchor of the "CBS Evening News".
• 1963 - Reb Beach was born. American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake).
• 1963 – Sonny Silooy was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1963 - Sonny Silooy was born. Dutch football player.
• 1963 - Georges Braque dies (b. 1882). French painter.
• 1964 - Raymond P. Hammond was born. American poet and editor.
• 1965 - The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
• 1965 - Céline Bonnier was born. Quebec actress.
• 1965 - Daniel Bernhardt was born. Swiss actor.
• 1965 – Willie Watson was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1966 - Jan Einar Thorsen was born. Norwegian Alpine skier.
• 1967 – Anita Moen was born. Norwegian Cross-country skier.
• 1967 - Jonathan Cake was born. British actor.
• 1967 - Ilya Ehrenburg dies (b. 1891). Russian writer.
• 1968 - Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
• 1968 - Hideo Nomo was born. Baseball pitcher.
• 1968 - Todd Carty was born. British actor.
• 1968 – Valdon Dowiyogo was born. Nauruan politician and Australian football player.
• 1969 – Andrew Cunanan was born (d. 1997). American spree killer.
  
• 1969 – Javagal Srinath was born. Indian cricketer
• 1969 – Jonathan LaPaglia was born. Australian actor.
• 1969 – Nathalie Bouvier was born. French alpine skier.
• 1969 – Tore O. Sandvik was born. Norwegian politician.
• 1969 - Rocky Marciano dies (b. 1923). American boxer.
• 1970 – Amy Stein, American photographer
• 1970 – Arie van Lent was born. Dutch-German footballer.
• 1970 - Deborah Gibson was born. American singer.
• 1970 - Zack Ward was born. Canadian actor.
• 1970 - Queen Rania was born. Queen of Jordan.
• 1971 - Padraig Harrington was born. Irish professional golfer.
• 1972 - Chris Tucker was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Bobby Fischer se corona campeón mundial de Ajedrez ante el sovietico Boris Spassky.
• 1972 - At the Munich Summer Olympics American swimmer Mark Spitz won his fourth and fifth gold medals, in the 100-meter butterfly and 800-meter freestyle relay.
• 1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, won Olympic gold medal in floor exercises and the balance beam.
• 1972 - Chris Tucker was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Mighty Taco was founded in Buffalo, NY.
• 1973 - Scott Niedermayer was born. Hockey player.
• 1973 - John Ford dies (b. 1894). American film director.
• 1974 - Andriy Medvedev was born. Ukrainian tennis player.
• 1974 - William Pershing Benedict dies. American pilot.
• 1974 - Norman Kirk dies (b. 1923). New Zealand prime minister.
• 1975 - Craig Cumming was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1975 - Daniel Harding was born. British conductor.
• 1975 - Gabe Kapler was born. American baseball player and manager.
• 1975 - John Grahame was born. American-born Canadian hockey player.
• 1975 – Sara Ramirez was born. American actress.
• 1975 – Takahiro Suwa was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1975 – Yuvan Shankar Raja was born. Indian film music composer.
• 1976 - Radek Martinek was born. Czechoslovakian ice hockey player.
• 1976 – Roque Júnior was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1976 - Vincent Delerm was born. French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
• 1977 - Craig Nicholls was born. Australian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Vines).
• 1977 - Ian Harte was born. Irish footballer.
• 1977 - Jeff Hardy was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1978 -William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
• 1978 - Philippe Christanval was born. French footballer.
• 1978 - Phina Oruche was born. British actress.
• 1978 - Regiane Alves was born in Santo André, São Paulo. Brazilian actress.
• 1978 - John Wrathall dies (b. 1913).President of Rhodesia.
• 1979 - Clay Hensley was born. Professional baseball player.
• 1979 – Mark Johnston was born. Canadian swimmer.
• 1979 - Mickie James was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1979 – Ramón Santiago was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1979 – Simon Neil was born. Scottish musician (Biffy Clyro).
• 1979 – Yuvan Shankar Raja was born. Indian film music composer.
• 1979 - Vanessa Gleason was born in San Diego, California, USA. Playboy Playmate of the Month September 1998.
• 1979 - Sally Rand dies (b. 1904). American dancer and actress.
• 1980 - Zimbabwe establishes diplomatic relations with Algeria.
• 1980 - The Solidarity trade union is formed in Poland.
• 1980 - Joe Budden was born. American rapper.
• 1981 - 40 Cal was born. American rapper.
• 1981 - 40 Cal was born. American rapper.
• 1981 - Dwayne Peel was born. Welsh International rugby player.
• 1981 – Joe Swanberg was born. American filmmaker
• 1981 – Steve Saviano was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1982 - Alexei Mikhnov was born. Ukrainian-born ice hockey player.
• 1982 – Chris Duhon was born. American basketball player.
• 1982 – G. Willow Wilson was born. American journalist and comic book writer.
• 1982 – José Reina was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1982 – Josh Kroeger was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 – Lien Huyghebaert was born. Belgian athlete.
• 1982 – Michele Rugolo was born. Italian racing driver.
• 1982 – Patrick Nuo was born. Swiss singer.
• 1983 - Larry Fitzgerald was born. American football player.
• 1983 - Fernanda Nobre was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1983 - Maria Flor was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1984 – Charl Schwartzel was born. South African golfer.
• 1984 - Matti Breschel was born. Danish road bicycle racer.
• 1984 – Ted Ligety was born. American alpine skier.
• 1985 - A atleta portuguesa Aurora Cunha ganha a meia maratona internacional de Oslo.
• 1985 - Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" serial killer, is arrested in Los Angeles, California.
• 1985 - Andrew Foster was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet dies (b. 1899). Australian biologist.
• 1986 - Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
• 1986 - The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 398.
• 1986 - Feng Tianwei was born. Singaporean table tennis player.
• 1986 - Henry Moore dies (b. 1898). English sculptor.
• 1986 - Urho Kekkonen dies (b. 1900). President of Finland.
• 1987 - Petros Kravaritis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1989 - Buckingham Palace officials confirm that Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are to be separated.
• 1991 - Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 - Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo after a multiparty presidential election, ending a long history of one-party oppressive rule under the Congolese Workers Party.
• 1992 - Dr. Florencio Escardó morre em Buenos Aires. Decano da Faculdade de Medicina e Vice-reitor da Universidade de Buenos Aires.
• 1993 - Venezuela president Carlos Perez fled.
• 1993 - HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission.
• 1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
• 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales dies in a car crash in Paris (b. 1961)
• 1997 - Dodi Fayed dies (car accident) (b. 1955). Egyptian-born film producer.
• 1997 - Guillermo Brizuela Méndez dies. Argentinian TV and radio presenter.
• 1998 - North Korea reportedly launchs Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
• 1999 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
• 1999 - A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
• 2002 - Lionel Hampton dies (b. 1908). American vibraphone player.
• 2002 - George Porter dies (b. 1920). English chemist, Nobel laureate.
• 2004 - Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is released on DVD and VHS in stores across the United States, selling approximately 4.1 million copies by the end of the day.
• 2004 - Carl Wayne dies (b. 1943). English singer.
• 2005 - A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
• 2005 - Joseph Rotblat dies (b. 1908). Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2005 - Michael Sheard dies (b. 1940). British actor.
• 2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
• 2006 – Derrick Wayne Frazier dies (b. 1977). American convicted murderer.
  
• 2006 - Mohamed Abdelwahab dies (b. 1983). Egyptian footballer.
  
• 2006 – Tom Delaney dies (b. 1911). British racing driver.
  
• 2007 - Gay Brewer dies (b. 1932). American golfer.
• 2007 – Karloff Lagarde dies (b. 1928). Mexican professional wrestler.
  
• 2008 – Ike Pappas dies (b. 1933). American news correspondent.
  
• 2008 – Victor Yates dies (b. 1939). New Zealand rugby player.
  
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• Malaysia: Hari Merdeka, a National Day.
• Independence Day for Trinidad and Tobago (1962).
• Moldova: Day of Our Language (Limba Noastra).
• Roman Catholic Saints - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Saint Abundius, Saint Raymond Nonnatus.
• Poland, Europe - Day of Solidarity and Freedom, on the anniversary of August Agreement from 1980.
• Kyrgyzstan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).

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Sporting vence pela primeira vez ao 7º. jogo oficial

Académica

0-2
Sporting

Liedson voltou a marcar e o Sporting a ganhar

Sporting sob pressão deslocou-se a Coimbra para defrontar a Académica que também ainda não ganhara no campeonato. O jogo na primeira parte foi equilibrado mas com poucos remates e oportunidades de golo.

Registámos como momentos principais uma grande confusão na área sportinguista logo aos 6' e poucos minutos depois um toque de Carriço em plena área defensiva nos calcanhares de um avançado da Académica que o árbitro não considerou faltoso. Do lado do Sporting foi Yanick que protagonizou em excelente jogada individual o lance de maior perigo ao flectir da direita para o centro fugindo a adversários para rematar à barra; logo de seguida Yannick isolou-se pelo centro mas o guarda-redes adivinhando saiu da baliza e chegou primeiro à bola colmatando o perigo.

A segunda parte já com Vukcevic no lugar de Pereirinha iniciou-se logo com uma jogada de perigo paraa Académica com Paulo Sérgio de cabeça a rematar ao lado na sequência de um livre. Respondeu o Sporting com Liedson a fazer o mesmo falhando em boa posição a direcção no cabeceamento. Foi por Vukcevic, aliás, que o Sporting começou a desiquilibrar. Numa jogada pela esquerda levantou a bola sobre o lateral direito contrário e foi buscar a bola à frente para o cruzamento que Liedson cabeceou cruzado e letal para os interesses da equipa local, inaugurando o marcador aos 64'.

A Académica quiz reagir mas viu-se prejudicada pela dualidade de critérios do árbitro Jorge Sousa: primeiro não exibe o segundo amarelo a Pedro Silva (imediatamente antes mostrara a Miguel Veloso numa jogada a saída da área da Académica) para pouco tempo a seguir expulsar Miguel Pedro numa jogada dividida com Polga à saída da áres do Sporting. Em inferioridade no resultado e em jogadores estava dificil a vida para a equipa de Coimbra tendo o jogo ficado resolvido com o segundo golo leonino, após assistência de Saleiro para Yanick à boca da baliza aumentar a vantagem do Sporting.

O Sporting geriu então o tempo e o resultado perante a Académica que dispôs de seis pontapés de canto contra zero do Sporting, mas que falhou no lance do primeiro golo, o que viria a ser decisivo na inclinação do jogo para o lado dos visitantes.

A arbitragem foi fraca com prejuízo para a Académica.
Árbitro: Jorge Sousa

ACADÉMICA – Ricardo; Pedrinho, Luiz Nunes, Orlando e Pedro Costa; André Fontes (Éder, 70m), Paulo Sérgio e Cris; Liça (Tiero, 79m), Miguel Pedro e Lito (Sougou, 62m).

SPORTING – Rui Patrício; Pedro Silva (Caneira, 71m), Daniel Carriço, Polga e André Marques (Saleiro, 57m); Pereirinha (Vukcevic, 46m), Miguel Veloso, Matías Fernandez e João Moutinho; Liedson e Yannick.

Golos: 0-1, Liedson (64m); 0-2, Yannick (84m)

Acção disciplinar: Cartão amarelo a Miguel Pedro (segundo cartão amarelo e respectivo vermelho aos 76 minutos), André Fontes, Pedro Silva, André Marques, João Moutinho, Miguel Veloso, Carriço.

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On this day in History - Aug. 30

• 30 a.C. - Cleópatra VII do Egipt dies (suicide).
• 0526 - Theodoric the Great dies (b. 0454).
• 0711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
• 1158 - King Sancho III of Castile dies (b. 1134).
• 1181 - Rolando Bandinelli (Pope Alexander III) dies.
• 1334 - King Peter I of Castile was born (d. 1369). King of Castile (1349-1369).
• 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
• 1377 - Shah Rukh was bron (d. 1447). Ruler of Persia and Transoxonia.
• 1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan dies. (b. 1401).
• 1464 - Pope Paulo II begins his Papacy.
• 1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423). King of France (1461-1483).
• 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
• 1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy dies (b. 1528).
• 1585 - Andrea Gabrieli dies. Italian composer.
• 1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590).
• 1617 - Rose of Lima dies (b. 1586). Peruvian saint.
• 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro dies (b. 1535). Japanese samurai and warlord.
• 1705 - David Hartley was born (d. 1757). English philosopher.
• 1720 - Samuel Whitbread was born (d. 1796). English brewer.
• 1748 - Jacques-Louis David was born (d. 1825). French painter.
• 1751 - Christopher Polhem dies (b. 1661). Swedish scientist and inventor.
• 1768 -Joseph Dennis was born (d. 1812). American writer
• 1773 - Nicolau Nasoni dies. Italian architect who has several important works in Portugal.
• 1791 - HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
• 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born (d. 1851). English writer (Frankenstein).
• 1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1808 - The Convention of Sintra is signed during the Peninsular War. The Peninsular War os Spanish Wart of Indfependence was a contest between First French Empire and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Kingdom of Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. By the agreement, the defeated French were allowed to evacuate their troops from Portugal without further conflict. The agreemment was signed in Queluz National Palace in Sintra / Assinatura da convenção de Sintra, que põe termo à Primeira Invasão Francesa.
• 1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria was born (d. 1892).
• 1811 - Théophile Gautier was born (d. 23 Dec 1872). French poet and miscellaneous writer.
  
• 1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
• 1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
• 1813 - Princess Mathilde of Bavaria wasd born (d. 1862).
• 1818 - Alexander H. Rice was born (d. 1895). 30^th Governor of Massachusetts.
  
• 1820 - Aprovação da Constituição da Colômbia.
• 1821 - Anita Garibaldi was born (d. 1849). Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters).
• 1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
• 1839 - Gulstan Ropert was born (d. 1903). French Catholic prelate.
• 1842 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia was born (d. 1849).
• 1848 - Costa Rica proclama su independencia. José María Castro Madriz se convierte en el primer presidente de Costa Rica (1848-49). Se lo considera fundador de la República.
• 1848 - Andrew Onderdonk was born (d. 1905). Canadian railway contractor.
• 1850 - Marcelo H. del Pilar was born (d. 1896). Filipino writer, journalist and revolutionary.
• 1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born (d. 1911). Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge was born (d. 1927). German physicist.
• 1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett dies (b. 1811). English writer.
• 1857 - Inauguración de la primera línea ferroviaria en la República Argentina: La Porteña.
• 1860 - Isaac Levitan was born (d. 1900). Russian artist.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
• 1862 - Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.
• 1870 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo becomes Prime-Minister of Portugal.
• 1870 - Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia was born (d. 1891).
• 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was born (d. 1937). New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
• 1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
• 1879 - John Bell Hoodv dies (b. 1831). American Confederate general.
• 1883 - Angela Peralta was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
• 1884 - Theodor Svedberg was born (d. 1971). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1890 - Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson was born (d. 1918). British fighter ace.
• 1893 - Huey Long was born (d. 1935). American politician.
• 1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
• 1896 - Raymond Massey was born (d. 1983). Canadian actor.
• 1896 - Luiz Damasco Penna was born. Brazilian educator.
• 1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1898 - Shirley Booth was born (d. 1992). American actress.
• 1901 - Roy Wilkins was born (d. 1981). American civil rights leader.
• 1901 - John Gunther was born (d. 1970). American writer.
• 1902 - Nace en Buenos Aires el poeta, escritor, periodista y director de teatro Leónidas Barletta (m. 15 Mar 1975), perteneciente al Grupo Boedo. En 1930 fundó el Teatro del Pueblo, precursor del teatro indepeniente "Los pobres", "La ciudad de un hombre" e "Historia de perros". En 1930 fundó el Teatro del Pueblo, precursor del teatro independiente.
• 1903 - Vicente Fidel López dies in Buenos Aires (b. 24 Apr 1815). Argentinian historian ("La novia del hereje" "Autobiografía").
• 1904 - Se funda el Club Atlético Uruguay, de Concepción del Uruguay, provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina.
• 1906 - Club Argentino de Merlo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded.
• 1906 - Joan Blondell was born (d. 1979). American actress.
• 1906 - Hans Auer dies (b. 1847). Swiss architect.
• 1907 - Richard Mansfield dies (b. 1857). American actor and manager.
• 1908 - Fred MacMurray was born (d. 1991). American actor.
• 1908 - Club Gimnasia y Esgrima 1908, in Mendoza, Argentina, is founded.
• 1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 1912 - Edward Mills Purcell was born (d. 1997). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1912 - Nancy Wake was born. New Zealand-born World War II secret agent.
• 1913 - Richard Stone was born (d. 1991). Bank of Sweden Prize winner.
• 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg.
• 1915 - Robert Strassburg was born (d. 2003). American composer.
• 1916 - Se funda el club Independiente, de Trelew, Chubut, Argentina.
• 1917 - Denis Healey was born. British politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• 1918 - Fanny Kaplan, an assassin, shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompted the decree for Red Terror.
• 1918 - Billy Johnson was born (d. 2006). American baseball player.
• 1918 - Ted Williams was born (d. 2002). American baseball player.
• 1919 - Kitty Wells was born. American singer.
• 1921 - António Joaquim Granjo becomes Prime-Minister in Portugal.
• 1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
• 1922 - Lionel Murphy was born (d. 1986). Australian politician and judge.
• 1922 – Regina Resnik was born. American mezzo-soprano.
• 1923 - Barbara Mary Ansell was born (d. 2001). UK founder of paediatric rheumatology.
• 1923 - Charmian Clift was born (d. 1969). Australian writer and essayist.
• 1923 - Vic Seixas was born. American tennis player.
• 1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff was born. French writer and illustrator.
• 1927 - Geoffrey Beene was born. American fashion designer.
• 1928 - Lloyd Casner was born (d. 1965). American racecar driver and owner.
• 1928 - Wilhelm Wien dies (b. 1864). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1906.
• 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian was born. American basketball coach.
• 1930 – Noel Harford was born (d. 1981). New Zealand cricketer.
• 1930 - Warren Buffett was born. American entrepreneur.
• 1931 - Jack Swigert was born (d. 1982). American astronaut.
• 1933 - Don Getty was born. Canadian politician
• 1934 - Baloo Gupte was born (d. 2005). Indian cricketer.
• 1935 - John Phillips was born (d. 2001). American singer (The Mamas and the Papas).
• 1935 - Henri Barbusse dies (b. 1873). French novelist and journalist.
• 1937 - Bruce McLaren was born (d. 1970). New Zealand car racer and manufacturer.
• 1938 - Max Factor dies (b. 1877). Make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer.
• 1939 - Elizabeth Ashley was born. American actress.
• 1939 - John Peel was born (d. 2004). English radio disc jockey.
• 1940 - J.J. Thomson dies (b. 1856). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
• 1941 - Ben Jones was born. American actor and politician.
• 1941 - Nélson Xavier was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen dies (b. 1874). Danish engineer and physicist.
• 1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
• 1942 - Pervez Sajjad was born. Pakistani cricketer.
• 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy was born. French skier.
• 1943 - Robert Crumb was born. American cartoonist.
• 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout dies (b. 1890). Dutch Catholic priest.
• 1944 - Molly Ivins was born. American political humorist.
• 1944 - Tug McGraw was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Forces.
• 1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
• 1946 - Peggy Lipton was born. American actress.
• 1946 - Queen Anne-Marie of Greece was born.
• 1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky dies executed (b. 1907). Russian fascist.
• 1946 - Grigory Semyonov dies executed (b. 1890). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1947 - Allan Rock was born. Canadian politician and diplomat.
• 1948 - Donnacha O'Dea was born. Irish poker player and swimmer.
• 1948 – Fred Hampton was born. Black Panther leader, murdered in 1969 Chicago Police raid.
• 1948 - Lewis Black was born. American comedian.
• 1949 - Christopher Collins was born (d. 1994). American actor and comedian.
• 1949 - Don Boudria was born. Canadian politician.
• 1949 - Peter Maffay was born. German musician.
• 1949 - Ted Ammon was born (d. 2001). American financier.
• 1949 - Arthur Fielder dies (b. 1877). English cricketer.
• 1951 - Dana (singer) was born. Irish singer and politician.
• 1951 - Timothy Bottoms was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Horace Panter was born. British musician (The Specials and General Public).
• 1953 - Robert Parish was born. American basketball player.
• 1953 - Robin Harris was born (d. 1990). American comedian.
• 1953 - Ron George was born. American politician.
• 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko was born. President of Belarus.
• 1954 - David Paymer was born. American actor.
• 1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
• 1958 - Anna Politkovskaya was born (d. 2006). Russian journalist.
• 1958 - Martin Jackson was born. British drummer (Swing out Sister).
• 1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson was born. Australian rules footballer and actor.
• 1960 - Chalino Sanchez was born (d. 1992). Mexican musician.
• 1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon was born (d. 1993). Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
• 1960 - Guy A. Lepage was born. Quebec humorist, television host and producer.
• 1961 - Ladislao Kubala retires from fooball player.
• 1961 - Charles Coburn dies (b. 1877). American actor.
• 1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• 1962 - Alexander Litvinenko was born (d. 2006). Russian KGB officer.
  
• 1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
• 1963 - Guy Burgess dies (b. 1911). English-born Soviet spy.
• 1963 - Michael Chiklis was born. American actor.
• 1963 - Paul Oakenfold was born. British disc jockey.
• 1964 - Gavin Fisher was born. British engineer.
• 1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball.
• 1965 - Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influencial album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone".
• 1966 - Michael Michele was born. American actress.
• 1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• 1967 - Justin Vaughan was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1968 - Vladimir Malakhov was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Dimitris Sgouros was born. Greek pianist.
• 1969 - Paulo Vinícius Coelho was born. Brazilian journalist.
• 1970 - Paulo Sousa was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang was born. Chinese Malaysian singer.
• 1970 - Del Moore dies (b. 1916). American comedian.
• 1971 - Lars Frederiksen was born. American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs).
• 1971 - Nathan Leopold dies (b. 1904). American murderer.
• 1972 - Cameron Diaz was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Kaya Brüel was born. Danish actress.
• 1972 - Pavel Nedved was born. Czech footballer.
• 1973 - Lisa Ling was born. American journalist.
• 1974 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
• 1974 – Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
• 1974 - Aaron Barrett was born. American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish).
• 1974 - Javier Otxoa was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1974 - Mark Gottlieb was born. American game designer and web columnist.
• 1975 - Vasco Gonçalves is deposed from Prime-Minister of Portugal.
• 1975 - Francisco Morales Bermúdez becomes President of Peru.
• 1975 - Radhi Jaidi was born. Tunisian footballer.
• 1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
• 1976 - Lillo Brancato Jr. was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Mike Koplove was born. American baseball player.
• 1976 – Sarah-Jane Potts was born. English actress.
• 1977 – Elden Henson was born. American actor.
• 1977 - Kamil Kosowski was born. Polish footballer.
• 1977 - Jens Ludwig was born. German guitarist.
• 1977 - Marlon Byrd was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Shaun Alexander was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Cliff Lee was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Swizz Beatz was born. Rapper/producer.
• 1999 - Referendum in East-Timor decides for the Independency.
  
• 1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela was born. Argentine tennis player.
• 1979 - Leon Lopez was born. British actor.
• 1979 - Niki Chow was born. Hong Kong actress and singer.
• 1979 – Scott Richmond was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1979 - Tavia Yeung was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1981 - Germán Legarreta was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai dies (b. 1933). Iranian statesman.
• 1981 - Vera-Ellen dies (b. 1921). American actress.
• 1982 - Andy Roddick was born. American tennis player.
• 1982 - Will Davison was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1983 - Gustavo Eberto was born (d. 2007). Argentine footballer.
  
• 1983 - Jonne Aaron was born. Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative.
• 1983 - Jun Matsumoto was born. Japanese singer and actor.
• 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• 1984 - Anthony Ireland was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.
• 1985 – Eamon Sullivan was born. Australian swimmer.
• 1985 – Leisel Jones was born. Australian swimmer.
• 1985 - Richard Duffy was born. Welsh footballer.
• 1985 - Steven Smith was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1985 - Taylor Caldwell dies (b. 1900). English-born author.
• 1986 - Ryan Ross was born. American guitarist and lyricist (Panic! At The Disco).
• 1988 - Ernests Gulbis was born. Latvian tennis player.
• 1988 – Laura Põldvere was born. Estonian singer.
• 1988 - Michael Cavanaugh was born. American professional gamer.
• 1989 - Seymour Krim dies (b. 1922). American journalist, essayist, and literary critic.
• 1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
• 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.
• 1991 - Lançamento do satéllite japonês Yohkoh.
• 1991 - Liam Cooper was born. Scottish footballer (Hull City).
• 1991 - Jean Tinguely dies (b. 1925). Swiss painter and sculptor.
• 1992 - Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
• 1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
• 1993 - El rey Hassan II de Marruecos inaugura en Casablanca la Gran Mezquita que lleva su nombre, la mayor después de la de La Meca.
• 1993 - Richard Jordan dies (b. 1938). American actor.
• 1994 - Lindsay Anderson dies (b. 1923). English film director.
• 1995 - Agepê dies (b. 1942). Brazilian singer.
• 1995 - Mário Soares recebe o Prémio Príncipe das Astúrias de Cooperação Internacional.
• 1995 - Sterling Morrison dies (b. 1942). American guitarist (The Velvet Underground).
• 1995 - Fischer Black dies (b. 1938). American economist.
• 1996 - Christine Pascal dies (b. 1953). French actress and director.
• 1999 - Raymond Poïvet dies (b. 1910). French comics artist.
• 2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
• 2002 - China ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto.
• 2002 - J. Lee Thompson dies (b.1914). English film director.
• 2003 - O marroquino Jaouad Gharib vence a maratona do Mundial de Atletismo - Paris - França.
• 2003 - Charles Bronson dies (b. 1921). American actor.
• 2003 - Donald Davidson dies (b. 1917). American philosopher.
• 2004 - Luís Fabiano (São Paulo) signs contrat with FC Porto, Portugal.
• 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple dies (b. 1906). American astronomer.
• 2004 - Indian Larry (b. 1949). American motorcycle builder and stuntman.
• 2006 - Glenn Ford dies (b. 1916). Canadian-born American actor.
• 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz dies (b. 1911). Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon dies (b.1926). New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords.
• 2007 – Charles Vanik dies (b. 1918). American politician.
• 2007 - Hilly Kristal dies (b. 1932). Owner of CBGBs.
• 2007 - Michael Jackson dies (b. 1942). British beer and whiskey author/expert.
• 2008 – Killer Kowalski dies (b. 1926). Canadian professional wrestler
• Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day.
• Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922).
• International Day of the Disappeared.
• Feast day of Felix and Adauctus.

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