SUSPENSE / ANSIEDADE - Fernando Pessoa (no 74º. aniversário da morte do poeta)

I dream, and strange dim powers
      My shining sleep assist;
A sound as of coming showers
      Creeps towards me, loudly hist;
And lo! all my forgotten hours
      Lie round me like a mist.

The ghosts of my dead selves
      Weave round me a false mesh;
My undreamed dreams, pale elves,
      Are now part of my flesh;
And all l am my unselfing shelves
      On dreams, out of my reach.

I touch impalpable things;
      I am sunny with past days;
Remote sounds, like near wings,
      Flank my blind spirit's ways;
And from the other side of the big hill rings
      A bell that summons to praise.

But l am sick of dreaming,
      Weary of being the same
Over desert spaces of seeming,
      Unwilling player of a game
With life, far star but gleaming
      On dead earths without name.

ANSIEDADE

Sonho, e estranhos poderes difusos
     Ajudam ao meu  sonho iluminado;
Um som como o de chuva iminente
      Rasteja ao meu encontro, alto silvando;
E eis que todas as horas esquecidas
      Me cercam como uma névoa envolvente.

Os fantasmas de meus perdidos eus
      Tecem à minha volta falsa malha;
Vagos elfos, meus sonhos insonhados,
      Fazem parte agora da minha carne;
E todo eu sou arquivos de sonhos
      De não-ser, de mim distanciados.

Posso tocar as coisas impalpáveis,
      Sinto-me ao sol de passados dias;
Sons remotos, como asas a voar;
      Rodeiam os caminhos do espírito;
E do outro lado da grande colina
      Um sino toca e chama p'ra rezar.

Mas eu estou cansado de sonhar,
      Cansado de ser eu mesmo sempre
Sobre espaços desertos de parecer,
      Jogador involuntário dum jogo
Com a vida, astro distante a brilhar
      Em terras mortas, sem um nome ter.

Trad. Luísa Freire

in Fernando Pessoa - Poesia Inglesa (I), Assírio & Alvim

FERNANDO António Nogueira PESSOA nasceu a 13 de Junho de 1888 e faleceu em Lisboa a 30 de Novembro de 1935).

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O guardador de rebanhos - X (Alberto Caeiro)
O guardador de rebanhos - XXI (Alberto Caeiro)
O guardador de rebanhos - XXVIII (ALlberto Caeiro)
O Tejo é mais belo ...
Não sei se é sonho se é realidade
Odes - Ricardo Reis
Cruz na porta da tabacaria
Fragmentos do Livro do desassossego - Bernardo Soares
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Todas as cartas de amor são...
Se te queres matar ...
Dai-me rosas e lírios...
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Conselho
Para além da curva da estrada (Alberto Caeiro)
Sopra demais o vento
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On this day in History - Nov. 30

• 30 BC - Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator dies.
• 0539 - Gregory of Tours was born (d. 0594). French bishop and historian.
• 1016 - Edmund II of England dies.
• 1340 - John, Duke of Berry was born (d. 1416). Son of John II of France.
• 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel was born (d. 1390). English soldier.
• 1466 - Andrea Doria was born (d. 1560). Italian naval leader.
• 1498 - Andrés de Urdaneta was born (d. 1568). Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer.
• 1508 - Andrea Palladio was born (d. 1580). Italian architect.
• 1554 - Philip Sidney was born (d. 1586). English courtier, soldier, and writer.
• 1580 - Richard Farrant dies. English composer.
• 1594 - John Cosin was born (d. 1672). English clergyman.
• 1603 - William Gilbert died (born 24 May 1544). English scientist, the "father of electrical studies" and a pioneer researcher into magnetism, who spent years investigating magnetic and electrical attractions.
• 1625 - Jean Domat was born (d. 1696). French jurist.
• 1626 - Thomas Weelkes dies. English composer.
• 1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont was born (d. 1698). French historian.
• 1654 - John Selden dies (b. 1584). English jurist and oriental scholar.
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift was born (d. 1745). Irish writer and satirist.
• 1670 - John Toland was born (d. 1722). Irish philosopher.
• 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore dies (b. 1605). Governor of Maryland.
• 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller was born (d. 1744). Austrian field marshal.
• 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
• 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny dies (b. 1672). French organist and composer.
• 1705 - Catherine of Braganza dies (b. 1638). Wife of Charles II of England.
• 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682) dies killed during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, east of Oslo Fjord, ending Sweden's “Age of Greatness.”
• 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was born (d. 1772). Princess of Wales.
• 1722 - Theodore Gardelle was born (d. 1761). Swiss painter and enameler.
• 1723 - William Livingston was born (d. 1790). Revolutionary Governor of New Jersey.
• 1756 - Ernst Chladni was born (d. 1827). German physicist.
• 1761 - John Dollond dies (b. 1706). British optician.
• 1765 - George Glas dies (b. 1725). British merchant and adventurer
• 1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki was born (d. 1837). Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist
• 1781 - Alexander Berry was born (d. 1873). British adventurer.
• 1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
• 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
• 1796 - Carl Loewe was born (d. 1869). German composer.
• 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
• 1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
• 1810 - Oliver Winchester was born (d. 1880). American gunsmith.
• 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann was born (d. 1890). French poet.
• 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan was born (d. 1888). French composer.
• 1817 - Theodor Mommsen was born (d. 1903). German author and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1821 - Frederick Temple was born (d. 1902). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1824 - First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
• 1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day of the sod turning.
• 1830 - Pope Pius VIII dies (b. 1761).
• 1835 - Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorn Clemens] was born in Florida (d. 1910). American writer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
• 1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) was born (d.1910). American writer.
• 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish was born (d. 1882). British politician.
• 1839 - Guilherme de Azevedo was born in Santarém (d. 1882). Portuguese writer.
• 1840 - Henry Birks was born (d. 1928). Canadian businessman.
• 1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was born (d. 1909). 7th President of Brazil.
• 1853 - Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.
• 1857 - José de Sampaio Bruno was born. Portuguese essayst and politician.
• 1857 - Bobby Abel was born (d. 1936). English test cricketer.
• 1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose was born (d. 1937). Indian physicist.
• 1863 - Andres Bonifacio was born (d. 1897). Head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK).
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin - The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
• 1868 - A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King's garden in Stockholm.
• 1869 - Gustaf Dalén was born (d. 1937). Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1870 - Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon was born (d. 1948).
• 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England (0-0).
• 1872 - Dr. John McCrae was born (d. 1918). Canadian physician, soldier, poet. Author of "In Flanders Fields".
• 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill was born in Oxfordshire, England (d. 1965). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery was born (d. 1942). Canadian author.
• 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian was born (d. 1977). British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published.
• 1898 - Firpo Marberry was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde dies in Paris (b. 1854). Irish writer.
• 1901 - Edward John Eyre dies (b. 1815). British explorer.
• 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
• 1904 - Clyfford Still was born (d. 1980). American painter.
• 1906 - Andrés Henestrosa was born (d. 2008). Mexican writer.
  
• 1907 - Jacques Barzun was born. French-born historian and author.
• 1908 - A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania killed 154.
• 1909 - Robert Nighthawk was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1911 - Jorge Negrete was born (d. 1953). Mexican singer and actor.
• 1912 - Gordon Parks was born. American director and writer.
• 1915 - Brownie McGhee was born (d. 1996). American blues musician.
• 1915 - Henry Taube was born (d. 2005). Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1918 - Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom. Learn more about Iceland.
• 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born. American actor.
• 1920 - Virginia Mayo was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky dies (b. 1867). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm was born. American politician.
• 1924 - Allan Sherman was born (d. 1973). American comedian.
• 1924 - Elliott Blackstone was born (d. 2006). American gay and lesbian rights supporter.
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm was born (d. 2005). American politician, United States Representatives from New York.
• 1926 - Richard Crenna was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1927 - Robert Guillaume was born. American actor.
• 1928 - Joe B. Hall was born. American basketball coach.
• 1929 - Dick Clark was born. American television host.
• 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney was born. American children's television pioneer.
• 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy was born. Watergate operative.
• 1931 - Jack Ging was born. American actor.
• 1931 - Bill Walsh was born. American football coach.
• 1932 - Bob Moore was born. American bassist and orchestra leader.
• 1932 - Cho Namchul was born (d. 2006). South Korean professional Go player.
• 1933 - Norman Deeley was born (d. 2007). English footballer.
• 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie dies (b. 1875). Canadian general.
• 1934 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
• 1934 - Hélène Boucher was born (d. 1908). French aviatrix.
  
• 1935 - Fernando Pessoa dies in Lisbon (b. 13 Jun 1888). Portuguese poet. He used several heteronimous: Bernardo Soares, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos.
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire. It was the most spectacular fire seen in Britain for many years.
• 1936 - Abbie Hoffman was born (d. 1989). American activist.
• 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov was born. Russian mathematician.
• 1937 - Adeline Yen Mah was born. Chinese writer.
• 1937 - Paul Stookey was born. American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary).
• 1937 - Frank Ifield was born. Australian/British singer.
• 1937 - Ridley Scott was born. British film director.
• 1937 - Tom Simpson was born (d. 1967). British cyclist.
• 1938 - Jean Eustache was born. French filmmaker.
• 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• 1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1942 - World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
• 1943 - Terrence Malick was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1943 - Etty Hillesum dies executed (b. 1914). Dutch diarist.
• 1945 - Roger Glover was born. British bassist (Deep Purple).
• 1945 - Radu Lupu was born. Romanian concert pianist.
• 1947 - David Mamet was born. American playwright.
• 1947 - Sergio Badilla Castillo was born. Chilean poet.
• 1950 -Chris Claremont was born. British comic book writer.
• 1951 - Christian Bernard was born. Mystic.
• 1951 - June Chadwick was born. British actress.
• 1952 - Keith Giffen was born. American comic book writer and artist.
• 1952 - Mandy Patinkin was born. American actor and singer.
• 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 1953 - June Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).
• 1953 - Francis Picabia dies (b. 1857). French painter and poet.
• 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.4 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
• 1954 - Simonetta Stefanelli was born. Italian Actress (The Godfather).
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler dies (b. 1886). German conductor.
• 1955 - Kevin Conroy was born. American Actor (Batman in the DC animated universe).
• 1955 - Billy Idol was born. British musician.
• 1955 - Gordon Liu was born. Chinese actor.
• 1955 - Richard Burr was born. American politician.
• 1955 - Muricy Ramalho was born. Brazilian manager and former football player.
• 1955 - Josip Solcer-Slavenski dies (b. 1896). Croatian composer.
• 1957 - John Ashton was born. English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs).
• 1957 - Richard Barbieri was born. British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree).
• 1957 - Andrew Calhoun was born. American musician.
• 1957 - Joël Champetier was born. French Canadian author.
• 1957 - Colin Mochrie was born. British-born Canadian comedian.
• 1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8.
• 1957 - Beniamino Gigli dies (b. 1890). Italian tenor.
• 1958 - Juliette Bergmann was born. Dutch bodybuilder.
• 1958 - Stacey Q was born. American dance-pop singer.
• 1958 - Hubert Wilkins dies (b. 1888). Australian polar explorer.
• 1959 - Lorraine Kelly was born. British presenter and journalist.
• 1960 - Rich Fields was born. TV personality.
• 1960 - Gary Lineker was born. English international footballer.
• 1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
• 1962 - Bo Jackson was born. American football and baseball player.
• 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran was born. American writer.
• 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
• 1964 - The University of Patras is inaugurated.
• 1964 - Jushin Liger was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1964 - Michael Cudlitz ws born. American actor.
• 1965 - Aldair was born. Brazilian international footballer.
• 1965 - Ben Stiller was born. American actor and writer.
• 1965 - Lee Klein was born. American writer.
• 1965 - Prince Akishino of Japan was born.
• 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1966 - Ed Kemper was born.American actor.
• 1966 - Mika Salo was born. Finnish Formula 1 Driver.
• 1966 - Wil Mara was born. American author.
• 1966 - David Nicholls was born.English novelist and screenwriter.
• 1966 - Mika Salo was born. Finnish Formula 1 Driver.
• 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
• 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh dies (b. 1904). Irish poet.
• 1968 - Des'ree was born. British soul/pop singer.
• 1968 - Laurent Jalabert was born. French cyclist.
• 1969 - Amy Ryan was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Marc Goossens was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1970 - Robert Griffith was born. American football player.
• 1971 - Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
• 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez was born. Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.
• 1971 - Ray Durham was born. American baseball player.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
• 1972 - Abel Xavier was born. Portuguese international footballer.
• 1972 - Christopher Fitzgerald was born. American stage actor.
• 1973 - Jason Reso was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1973 - John Moyer was born. American bassist (Disturbed).
• 1973 - Lim Chang-jung was born. South Korean actor.
• 1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
• 1975 - Ben Thatcher was born. Welsh international football player.
• 1975 - Mindy McCready was born. American musican.
• 1976 - Cypher Zero was born. American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts).
• 1976 - Josh Lewsey was born. England national and London Wasps Rugby union player.
• 1977 - Sophia de Mello Breyner, Portuguese poet is laureate with The Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize.
• 1977 - Iván Guerrero wa born. Honduran footballer.
• 1977 - Kazumi Saitoh was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1977 - Olivier Schoenfelder was born. French ice dancer.
• 1977 - Terrence Rattigan dies (b, 1911). British writer and playwright.
  
• 1978 - Clay Aiken was born. American singer.
• 1978 - Emil Steiner was born. American writer.
• 1978 - Gael García Bernal was born. Mexican actor.
• 1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
• 1978 - Emil Steiner was born. American writer.
• 1979 - Andrés Nocioni was born. Argentine basketball player.
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• 1979 - Dania Ramírez was born. Dominican actress.
• 1980 - Jamie Ashdown was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
• 1981 - Rich Harden was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
• 1982 - Elisha Cuthbert was born. Canadian actress.
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• 1983 - Adrian Cristea was born. Romanian footballer.
• 1983 - Andy Akinwolere was born. English television presenter.
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• 1984 - Naima Mora was born in Detroit. American model.
• 1984 - Nigel de Jong was born. Dutch football player.
• 1984 - Omahyra Mota was born. Dominican model/actress
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• 1985 - Kaley Cuoco was born. American actress.
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• 1987 - Ian Hecox was born. American comedian and co-founder of Smosh.
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• 1987 - Vasilisa Bardina was born. Russian tennis player.
• 1987 - Simon Carmiggelt dies (b. 1913). Dutch journalist and writer.
• 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
• 1988 - Eduardo Lourenço, Portuguese essayist, wins the 1988 Charles Veillon Essay Prize.
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• 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen (b. 1930) is murdered by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
• 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
• 1989 - Chanel Iman was born. American supermodel.
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• 1989 - Daisy Rebecca Evans was born. Musician.
  
• 1989 - Alfred Herrhausen dies (b. 1930). German banker, murdered (Deutsche Bank).
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• 1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns.
• 1990 - Portugal: The last number of the newspaper " Diário de Lisboa" ( founded in 7 Apr 1921) is published.
• 1990 - Antoine N'Gossan was born. Ivory Coast footballer.
• 1990 - Magnus Carlsen was born. Norwegian chess player.
• 1991 - Carnell Breeding was born. Member of the boy band B5.
• 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1993 - Yuuri Chinen was born. Japanese actor and singer.
• 1993 - Sebastian Kappen dies (b. 1924). Indian theologian.
• 1993 - David Houston dies (b. 1938). American country music singer.
• 1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
• 1994 - Nyjah Huston was born. Skateboarder.
• 1994 - Guy Debord dies (b. 1931). French writyer and filmmaker.
• 1994 - Harry Saltzman dies (b. 1915). American film producer.
• 1994 - Lionel Stander dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
• 1995 - Fernando Assis Pacheco dies (b. 1937). Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch) dies (b. 1972). American musician.
• 1996 - A block of gray sandstone known as the Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been taken to England as war booty by King Edward I.
• 1996 - Tiny Tim dies (b. 1932). American entertainer.
• 1997 - Diana Almeida, 14 years old, Portuguese model, wins the Super Model of the World.
• 1997 - Kathy Acker dies (b. 1947). American author
• 1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch) dies (b. 1972). American musician.
• 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
• 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
• 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• 1999 - Charlie Byrd dies (b. 1925). American jazz guitarist.
• 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
• 2001 - Robert Tools, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky.; he had lived with the device for 151 days.
• 2002 - Tim Woods dies (b. 1934). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 - Gertrude Ederle dies (b. 1906). American swimmer.
• 2003 - António Jesus Correia dies (b. 1924). Portuguese footballer and roller hockey. One of the five violins (Cinco Violinos do Sporting Clube de Portugal).
• 2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
• 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
• 2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
• 2004 - Portuguese President, Jorge Sampaio, announces the decision to dissolve The Republic Assembly falling the Santana Lopes' government.
• 2004 - Pierre Berton dies (b. 1920). Canadian author.
• 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.
• 2005 - Jean Parker dies (b. 1915). American actress.
• 2006 - Elhadi Adam was born (d. 1927). Sudanese poet and lyricist.
• 2006 - Rafael Buenaventura dies (b. 1938). Former BSP Governor.
• 2007 - Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
• 2007 - Engin Arık dies (b. 1948). Turkish nuclear physicist.
• 2007 - Evel Knievel dies (b. 1938) American motorcycle daredevil.
• 2008– Munetaka Higuchi dies (b. 1958). Japanese drummer (Loudness).
  
• Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966) .
• Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day.
• Official End of the Hurricane Season.
• Cities for Life Day: hundreds of cities around the world celebrate the first abolition of the death penalty by a European state.
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal em Mesão Frio / Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Mesão Frio
• Calendar of Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle - St Andrew's day is the national day of Scotland, and as of 2007, a bank holiday.

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Liga Sagres - 11ª. Jornada: Porto regressa às vitórias enquanto rivais lisboetas empatam-se; Braga só joga amanhã e pode isolar-se no comando

Resultados da Décima Primeira Jornada
27 Nov 20:15	Olhanense	0-2	Vitória de Guimarães
28 Nov 17:00	Nacional	1-1	Naval 1º. de Maio
28 Nov 21:15	Sporting	0-0	Benfica
29 Nov 16:00	Académica	3-0	Vitória de Setúbal
29 Nov 16:00	Paços de Ferreira	1-1	Leixões
29 Nov 18:00	Belenenses	2-2	Marítimo
29 Nov 20:15	FC Porto	2-1	Rio Ave
30 Nov 20:15	Braga	-	União de Leiria

Comentários:

Com um jogo ainda por disputar - o Braga a receber a União de Leiria amanhã - a jornada 11 decorreu em tom de equilíbrio com quatro empates, dois triunfos caseiros e um dos visitantes. Tem de se destacar o segundo triunfo da Académica neste campeonato logo por três golos de avanço frente ao Vitória de Setúbal e com Songou a brilhar, deixando para os sadinos a lanterna vermelha do campeonato. O triunfo forasteiro foi para o Vitória de Guimarães, que vem numa boa sequência (após ter eliminado o Benfica da Taça de Portugal na Luz), e que na abertura da jornada derrotou o Olhanense por dois golos sem resposta, por Nuno Assis e Targino.

Agora vamos ao clássico da Luz: muita conversa durante a semana e pouco jogo. Na minha opinião foi um tanto decepcionante; as equipas (os treinadores?) não arriscaram, houve poucas oportunidades de golo e conclui-se que o Sporting tem margem de progresso na classificação, mas está praticamente arredado da discussão do título, enquanto o Benfica, sendo um dos grandes favoritos a contrariar a hegemonia dos últimos anos do Porto, não terá a superioridade que as primeiras jornadas ousaram prognosticar. Afinal a máquina dos golos da equipa encarnada encravou e nos últimos três jogos oficiais só marcou um golo (frente à Naval).

O Porto venceu com dificuldades em casa o Rio Ave por 2-1. Ao primeiro golo de Hulk numa jogada individual com sucessão de ressaltos, respondeu de imediato o Rio Ave com João Tomás a igualar de cabeça. Na segunda parte Falcão atirou à barra um penalty, mal assinalado, na nossa opinião por Paulo Costa, mas face ao recuo dos vilacondenses e na sequência de um canto, Varela marcou o golo do triunfo a menos de dez minutos do fim. Ainda assim os portistas estiveram melhor do que nos últimos jogos da Liga e tiveram muito jogo ofensivo.

O Leixões foi conquistar um ponto a Paços de Ferreira: William inaugurou o marcador para a equipa da casa aos 50', mas Hugo Morais fez o empate de grande penalidade aos 71,' a castigar mão na bola de Danielson.

A Naval 1º. de Maio, ainda no sábado, foi empatar à Madeira com o Nacional mas o empate soube a frustração porque esteve a ganhar desde o final da primeira parte (golo de Camora) até perto do "cair do pano". Um golo de Mateus deu o empate à equipa do Nacional.

Hoje no Restelo disputou-se o jogo com mais golos da jornada, quatro, todos na segunda parte e repartidos pelas duas equipas: Belenenses e Marítimo. A equipa da casa esteve a ganhar por 2-0, mas perdeu o controlo do jogo e em dois lances de bola parada o Marítimo acabou por conseguir empatar. Os golos do Belenenses foram marcados por Lima, a inaugurar de penalty (e Peçanha guarda-redes do Marítimo expulso) e a aumentar a vantagem ao bisar aos 69'. A equipa de João Carlos Pereira mal classificada mesmo em vantagem numérica perdeu uma grande hipótese de conquistar os três pontos, com Manu a assegurar a dois minutos do fim o empate para os insulares depois de já ter tido papel fundamental no primeiro golo.

Amanhã o Braga recebe a União de Leiria e em caso de triunfo isola-se novamente no comando da classificação.

A próxima jornada também é recheada de jogos de interesse. O Guimarães recebe na cidade berço o Porto enquanto o Benfica recebe a Académica na Luz. O Sporting desloca-se a Setúbal para defrontar o Vitória local. O Braga vai ao Estádio do Mar

Classificação

Lugar	Clube	Pontos	Golos
1.	Benfica	26	31-7
2.	Braga	25	15-5
3.	Porto	23	21-9
4.	Nacional	18	15-18
5.	Marítimo	16	16-13
6.	Sporting	15	12-10
6.	Rio Ave	15	12-10
8.	União de Leiria	14	14-9
9.	Vitória de Guimarães	13	10-11
10.	Paços de Ferreira	11	10-12
10.	Naval 1º. de Maio	11	8-16
12.	Académica	10	13-15
12.	Belenenses	9	7-15
12.	Leixões	9	10-20
12.	Olhanense	8	5-12
16.	Vitória de Setúbal	7	4-21

(*) Braga e União de Leiria têm menos um jogo defrontando-se amanhã na Luz para completar a 11ª. Jornada

Melhores Marcadores
1.	Cardozo	Benfica	11
2.	Falcão	Porto	7
2.	Edgar	Nacional	7
4.	João Tomás	Rio Ave	6
5.	Kerrouche	Naval 1º. de Maio	5
5.	Carlão	União de Leiria	5

Calendário da Décima Segunda Jornada
04 Dez 20:15	Vitória de Guimarães	-	FC Porto
05 Dez 17:00	Naval 1º. de Maio		Paços de Ferreira
05 Dez 19:15	Rio Ave	-	Belenenses
05 Dez 21:15	Leixões		Braga
06 Dez 16:00	Marítimo	-	Olhanense
06 Dez 20:15	Benfica	-	Académica
07 Dez 20:15	União de Leiria	-	Nacional
07 Dez 20:15	Vitória de Setúbal	-	Sporting

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On this day in History - Nov. 29

• 0741 - Pope Gregory III dies.
• 1223 - Franciscan Order Recognised.
  
• 1253 - Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria.
• 1268 - Pope Clement IV dies.
• 1314 - King Philip IV of France dies (b. 1268).
• 1330 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March dies (b. 1287). De facto ruler of England.
• 1338 - Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1368). Son of Edward III of England.
• 1342 - Michael of Cesena dies (b. 1270). Italian Franciscan leader.
• 1378 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor dies (b. 1316).
• 1427 - Zhengtong was born (d. 1464). Emperor of China.
• 1484 - Joachim Vadian was born (d. 1551). Swiss humanist.
• 1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey dies. Adviser to King Henry VIII of England.
• 1577 - Cuthbert Mayne dies (b. 1543). English saint.
• 1590 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin dies (b. 1547). German philologist and poet.
• 1595 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga dies (b. 1533). Basque soldier and poet.
• 1626 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield dies. German soldier
• 1627 - John Ray was born (d. 1705). English naturalist.
• 1632 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine dies (b. 1596)
• 1643 - William Cartwright dies (b. 1611). English dramatist.
• 1643 - Claudio Monteverdi dies (b. 1567). Italian composer.
• 1646 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus dies (b. 1565). Swedish theologian and astronomer.
• 1661 - Brian Walton dies (b. 1600). English clergyman and scholar.
• 1690 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst was born (d. 1747). Father of Catherine II of Russia.
• 1694 - Marcello Malpighi dies (b. 1628). Italian physician.
• 1695 - James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair dies (b. 1619). Scottish lawyer and statesman.
• 1699 - Patrick Gordon dies (b. 1635). Scottish general.
• 1752 - Jemima Wilkinson was born (d. 1819). American preacher.
• 1759 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli dies (b. 1687). Swiss mathematician.
• 1762 - Pierre-Andre Latreille was born (d. 1833). French zoologist.
• 1777 - San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
• 1780 - Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dies (b. 1717).
• 1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
• 1781 - Andrés Bello was born in Caracas (d. 1865). Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher and sociologist.
• 1797 - Gaetano Donizetti was born (d. 1848). Italian composer.
• 1797 - Samuel Langdon dies (b. 1723). American President of Harvard University.
• 1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott was born (d. 1888). American writer and educator.
• 1803 - Christian Doppler was born (d.1853). Austrian physicist.
• 1803 - Gottfried Semper was born (d. 1879). German architect.
• 1813 - Franz von Miklosich was born (d. 1891). Slovenian linguist.
• 1816 - Morrison Waite was born (d. 1888). 7th Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1825 - Jean-Martin Charcot was born (d. 1893). French neurologist.
• 1825 - Latino Coelho was born in Lisbon (d. 29 Aug 1891). Portuguese journalist, politician and historian.
• 1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
• 1832 - Louisa May Alcott was born (d. 1888). American writer, known for her children's books, especially Little Women.
• 1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
• 1847 - Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
• 1847 - Marcus Whitman dies (b. 1802). Washington state pioneer.
• 1849 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming was born (d. 1945). American physicist.
• 1850 - Prussia and Austria signed the Punctation of Olmütz, an agreement regulating the two powers' relations.
• 1856 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg was born (d. 1921). Chancellor of Germany.
  
• 1864 - Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
• 1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• 1874 - Egas Moniz was born (d. 1955). Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1874 - Francis Dodd was born (d. 1949). Artist.
• 1876 - Nellie Tayloe Ross was born (d. 1977). American politician.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
• 1881 - Julius Raab was born (d. 1954). Chancellor of Austria.
  
• 1890 - The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan and the first Diet convenes.
• 1890 - In West Point, New York, the United States Naval Academy defeats the United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game.
• 1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, was founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.
• 1894 - Lucille Hegamin was born (d. 1970). American singer and entertainer.
• 1895 - Busby Berkeley was born (d. 1976). American film director, and choreographer.
• 1895 - William Tubman was born (d. 1971). President of Liberia.
• 1896 - Yakima Canutt was born (d. 1986). American actor and stuntman.
• 1898 - C. S. Lewis was born (d. 1963). Irish writer.
• 1899 - Spanish football club FC Barcelona founded.
• 1899 - Andrija Artuković was born (d. 1988). Croatian war criminal.
• 1901 - Mildred Harris was born (d. 1944). American actress.
• 1904 - Egon Eiermann was born (d. 1970). German architect.
• 1908 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was born (d. 1972). American civil rights leader and politician.
• 1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine.
• 1910 - Antanas Škėma was born (d. 1961). Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director.
• 1911 - Mario Lago was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor.
• 1915 - Billy Strayhorn was born (d. 1967). American musician and composer.
• 1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island in California.
• 1916 - Fran Ryan was born (d. 2000). American actress.
• 1917 - Merle Travis was born (d. 1983). American singer.
• 1918 - Madeleine L'Engle was born. American author.
• 1920 - Yegor Ligachev was born. Soviet politician
• 1921 - Dagmar was born (d. 2001). American television personality.
• 1922 - Minnie Miñoso was born. Baseball player.
• 1922 - Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
• 1924 - Giacomo Puccini dies (b. 1858). Italian composer.
• 1925 - The newspaper "O Povo de Silves" - Silves, Portugal is founded.
• 1927 - George Giffen dies (b. 1859). Australian cricketer.
• 1927 - Vin Scully was born. Baseball announcer.
• 1928 - Paul Simon was born (d. 2003). U.S. Senator.
• 1928 - Tahir Salahov was born. Azerbaijani painter.
• 1929 - U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
• 1929 - Laurie Main was born. English actor and host of Welcome to Pooh Corner from 1983-1987.
• 1929 - Jackie Stallone was born. American astrologer and personality.
• 1930 - Shirley Porter was born. Dame Commander of the British Empire.
• 1931 - Shintaro Katsu was born (d. 1997). Japanese actor, star of Zatoichi movies.
• 1932 - Jacques Chirac was born. President of France.
• 1932 - Diane Ladd was born. American actress.
• 1933 - James Rosenquist was born. American artist.
• 1933 - John Mayall was born. British blues musician.
• 1933 - Francisco Cuoco was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1939 - Fernando Pessoa is hospitalized in Lisbon.
  
• 1939 - Peter Bergman was born. American comedian.
• 1939 - Gene Okerlund was born. American wrestling interviewer.
• 1939 - Meco was born. American record producer and musician.
• 1939 - Philipp Scheidemann dies (b. 1865). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1940 - Chuck Mangione was born. American musician.
• 1940 - Denny Doherty was born (d. 2007). Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas).
• 1941 - Bill Freehan was born. American baseball player.
• 1942 - Diane Ladd was born. American actress.
• 1942 - Philippe Huttenlocher was born. Swiss baritone.
• 1943 - Sue Miller was born. American author.
• 1943 - The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
• 1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
• 1944 - Felix Cavaliere was born. American musician and producer.
• 1944 - World War II: Albania is liberated from German occupation.
• 1945 - The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
• 1946 - Silvio Rodriguez was born. Cuban poet, singer and songwriter.
• 1947 - The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
• 1947 - Petra Kelly was born († 01 Oct 1992). German politician and founder of the Green party.
• 1949 - Wayne Cowan was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1949 - Jerry Lawler was born. American professional wrestler and commentator.
• 1949 - Garry Shandling was born. American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director.
• 1949 - Stan Rogers was born (d. 1983). Canadian folk musician and songwriter.
• 1950 - Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
• 1951 - Barry Goudreau was born. American musician (Boston).
• 1951 - Jean Schmidt was born. U.S. congresswoman.
• 1951 - Roger Troutman was born (d. 1999). Funk musician and master of the talkbox.
• 1952 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
• 1953 - Alex Grey was born. American artist.
• 1953 - Christine Pascal was born. French actress, director and screenwriter.
• 1953 - Sam De Grasse dies (b. 1875). American actor.
• 1953 - Milt Gross dies (b. 1895). American comic book illustrator and animator.
• 1954 - Dink Johnson dies (b. 1892). American musician.
• 1954 - Joel Coen was born. American film director, producer, and writer.
• 1954 - Steve Rogers was born. Australian rugby league player.
• 1955 - Howie Mandel was born. Canadian actor.
• 1956 - Eric Laakso was born. Retired Miami Dolphins NFL Offensive tackle.
• 1956 - Hinton Battle was born. American dancer.
• 1956 - Leo Laporte was born. American television personality.
• 1957 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold dies (b. 1897). Austrian composer.
• 1958 - María Elena Moyano Delgado was born in Lima (d. 1992). Peruvian politician and women right activist ( Founder of “Micaela Bastidas”).
• 1958 - Michael Dempsey was born. American musician (The Cure).
• 1958 - Kim Delaney was born. American actress.
• 1959 - Neal Broten was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1960 - Cathy Moriarty was born. American actress.
• 1960 - Howard Johnson, American baseball player.
• 1961 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission - Enos, a chimpanzee, launched into space (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).
• 1961 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1961 - Masayoshi Yamashita was born. Japanese bassist.
• 1962 - Andy LaRocque was born. Swedish guitarist (King Diamond) and record producer.
• 1963 - The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain.
• 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.
• 1963 - Andrew McCarthy was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Cork Graham was born. American journalist, actor and author.
• 1964 - Don Cheadle was born. American actor.
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1965 - Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.
• 1965 - José Campos de Figueiredo dies in Coimbra (b. 6 May 1899 in Sernache, Coimbra). Portuguese poet (Navio na Montanha - which won the Antero de Quental Prize -, Obed). He was laureate with the Prize «Ricardo Malheiros» in 1957 by the Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa.
• 1965 - Ellen Cleghorne was born. American comedian.
• 1965 - Yutaka Ozaki was born (d. 1992). Japanese singer, songwriter.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
• 1967 - John Layfield was born. American professional wrestler, color commentator, and financial analyst.
• 1968 - Jonathan Knight was born. American singer (New Kids on the Block).
• 1969 - Alves Redol dies in Lisbon (b. 29 Dec 1911). Portuguese writer. Barranco de Cegos (1962) is his masterpiece.
• 1969 - Kasey Keller was born. American soccer player.
• 1969 - Mariano Rivera was born. Panamanian baseball player.
• 1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk was born. Dutch international footballer.
• 1970 - Mark Pembridge was born. Welsh international footballer.
• 1970 - President Felix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire, is re-elected for a third term.
• 1970 - Bruno Garcia was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1970 - Maria Paula was born in Brasilia. Brazilian actress and TV personality.
• 1970 - Mark Pembridge was born. Welsh footballer.
• 1971 - Gena Lee Nolin was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Gregory Byrne was born. American college administrator.
• 1972 - Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) released Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
• 1972 - Brian Baumgartner was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Jamal Mashburn was born. American basketball player.
• 1972 - Larry Joe Campbell was born. American actor.
• 1972 - Minoru Tanaka was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1972 - Carl Stalling dies (b. 1888). American composer.
• 1973 - Ryan Giggs was born. Welsh international football player.
• 1973 - Sarah Jones was born. American playwright, poet and actress.
• 1974 - Lin Chi-ling was born. Taiwanese model.
• 1974 - Pavol Demitra was born. Slovak ice hockey player.
• 1974 - James J. Braddock dies (b. 1905). American heavyweight boxer.
• 1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
• 1975 - Younis Khan was born. Pakistani cricketer.
• 1975 - Graham Hill dies (b. 1929). British motor racing driver and Formula 1 world Champion.
• 1976 - Anna Faris was born. American actress.
• 1976 - Ehren McGhehey was born. American actor and skateboarder.
• 1976 - Michalis Kakiouzis was born. Greek basketball player.
• 1976 - Maja Vučić was born. Croatian singer.
• 1976 - José da Costa Nunes dies (b. 1880). Portuguese cardinal.
• 1977 - Maria Petrova was born. Russian figure skater.
• 1977 - Younis Khan was born. International Cricketer for Pakistan.
• 1978 - Alessandro Fei was born. Italian volleyball player.
• 1978 - Dimitrious Konstantopolous was born. Greek footballer.
• 1978 - Lauren German was born. American actress.
• 1978 - Ludwika Paleta was born. Polish-Mexican actress.
• 1979 - Francis Beltrán was born. Professional baseball player.
• 1979 - The Game (Jayceon Terrell Taylor) was born. American rapper.
• 1979 - Zeppo Marx dies (b. 1901). American actor and comedian.
• 1980 - Dorothy Day dies. American journalist, turned social activist, and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1981 - Nicholas Teo was born. Taiwanese singer, actor.
• 1981 - Ringo Garza was born. American drummer (Los Lonely Boys).
• 1981 - Fredric Wertham dies (b. 1895). German-born psychologist.
• 1981 - Actress Natalie Wood (b. 1938) dies drowned during a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California.
• 1982 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 1982 - Ashley Force was born. American race car driver.
• 1982 - Krystal Steal was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1982 - Lucas Black was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Percy Williams dies (b. 1908). Canadian athlete.
• 1983 - Tanner Glass was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1984 - Sitti Navarro was born. Philippine bossa nova artist.
• 1984 - Gotthard Günther dies (b. 1900). German philosopher.
• 1985 - Shannon Brown was born. American basketball player.
• 1985 - Taguchi Junnosuke was born. Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN).
• 1986 - Cary Grant dies (b. 1904). British-born American actor.
• 1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
• 1987 - Stephen O'Halloran was born. Irish footballer.
• 1988 - Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect is distinguished with the 1988 European Architecture Prize.
• 1988 - Six Kansas City firefighters are killed in an explosion at a construction site.
• 1988 - Saleh Ahmed was born. Law Lord.
• 1990 - Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
• 1990 - Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit was born. American actors.
• 1990 - Diego González was born. Mexican singer and actors.
• 1991 - Frank Yerby dies (b. 1916). American author.
• 1991 - Ralph Bellamy dies (b. 1904). American actor.
• 1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is temporarily paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
• 1992 - Jean Dieudonné dies (b. 1906). French mathematician.
• 1996 - Dan Flavin dies (b. 1933). American artist.
• 1998 - Frank Latimore dies (b. 1925). American actor.
• 1998 - Martin Ruane dies (b. 1947). English professional wrestler.
• 1999 - Gene Rayburn dies (b. 1917). American game show host.
• 2001 - George Harrison dies (b. 1943). British singer, guitarist and songwriter.
• 2001 - John Knowles dies (b. 1926). American author.
• 2001 - Mic Christopher dies (b. 1969). Irish singer and songwriter.
• 2002 - Daniel Gélin dies (b. 1921). French actor.
• 2003 - Moondog Spot dies (b. 1952). Wrestler.
• 2004 - Anne Samson dies (b. 1891). Oldest-ever nun documented.
• 2004 - John Drew Barrymore dies (b. 1932). American actor.
• 2004 - Harry Danning dies (b. 1911). American baseball player.
• 2005 - New Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
• 2005 - David di Tommaso dies (b. 1979). French soccer player.
• 2005 - Manuel de Brito dies (b. 1928). Art collector and founder of Galeria 111 in Lisbon, Portugal.
• 2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber dies (b. 1958). American actress.
• 2006 - Allen Carr dies (b. 1934). English anti-smoking campaigner.
• 2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
• 2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad.
• 2007 - Henry Hyde dies (b. 1924). American politician.
• 2007 - James Barber dies (b. 1923). Canadian chef and writer.
  
• 2007 - Ralph Beard dies (b. 1927). American basketball player.
  
• 2007 - Roger Bonham Smith dies (b. 1925). American automobile executive.
• 2007 - Tom Terrell dies (b. 1950). American musicologist.
• 2008 – Jørn Utzon dies (b. 1918). Danish architect.
• Feast days of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: Saint Saturninus, Saint Cuthbert Mayne, Martyr, Radbod, Brendan of Birr or Brendan the Younger; Denis of the Nativity and Redemptus of the Cross.
• Israel - Kaftet be-November (commemoration of the U.N. decision in 1947 to partition Palestine).
• International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
• Liberation Day (Dita e Çlirimit) in Albania.
• Republic Day in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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