Em jornada difícil, ninguém do trio da frente cedeu

Resultados da 17ª. Jornada
29 Jan 20:45	Braga	1-0	Sporting
30 Jan 16:00	U. Leiria	2-0	Olhanense
30 Jan 16:00	Naval	1-0	Belenenses
30 Jan 17:00	Nacional	0-4	FC Porto
30 Jan 19:15	Benfica	3-1	V. Guimarães
31 Jan 16:00	V. Setúbal	2-2	Rio Ave
31 Jan 18:00	P. Ferreira	2-1	Académica
01 Fev 20:15	Leixões	-	Marítimo

Comentários da Jornada:

A jornada que se previa difícil para o trio da frente acabou por se converter em três triunfos dos favoritos, que assim afastam definitivamente a concorrência, e continuarão a lutar entre si para ver quem é o primeiro a fraquejar. De facto, já depois do Braga, na sexta-feira, se ter desenvencilhado do Sporting, graças a um golo solitário de Paulo César ainda na primeira parte, o Porto goleou na Madeira o Nacional por quatro a zero (com dois golos de Varela e outros dois de Falcão), mas com muito dedo - melhor dizendo, assobio - de Carlos Xistra: não assinalando aos 9' um penalty de Fucile, viria a marcar um inexistente a favor do Porto a que acreceu o segundo cartão amarelo e expulsão a Alex Bruno (29'). Depois o Porto aproveitou para tentar afastar um cenário de crise, que parece evidente.

Ao Benfica cabia a pressão de ganhar ao Guimarães, o que nos últimos anos não tem ocorrido com frequência, mesmo em casa. Depois de ganhar avanço por Aimar, teve na segunda parte que se empenhar para desfazer a igualdade que Nuno Assis obteve ainda na primeira parte. Dois golos de Carlos Martins, que viria a ser expulso, concretizaram o triunfo de uma equipa que tem muitas soluções mas que não esteve tão concentrada e eficaz como é costume (como é possível Cardozo falhar aquele golo?).

Numa jornada favorável às equipas que jogaram em casa, o Porto foi a única que venceu fora, e o Rio Ave empatou em Setúbal a duas bolas, com os quatro golos todos a surgirem de lances de «bola parada». Neste jogo os sadinos começaram por beneficiar de um penalty com 30 segundos de jogo e da expulsão do guarda-redes Carlos («mal» regressado da CAN), o que deu vantagem no marcador. Perto do fim da 1ª. parte Chidi obteve o empate numa recarga a um livre de Fábio Faria. Os vilacondenses viraram mesmo o resultado a seu favor, na sequência de penalty, e com expulsão para um defesa sadino, mas foi Chidi que obteve o golo na recarga, porque Wires não conseguiu enfiar a bola na baliza. Já 10 contra 10, Neca de livre deu um pontinho ao Setúbal, que ainda se viu em desvantagem de jogadores porque Ney foi o 3º. expulso do jogo. Apesar destas incidências registe-se os comentários positivos de ambos os treinadores à arbitragem de André Gralha.

A União de Leiria despachou o Olhanense mas só na segunda parte, com golos de Silas (61') e Vítor Moreno (89'), enquanto o Belenenses vai de mal a pior, afundando-se no último lugar. A Naval aproveitou o tal factor casa e venceu com um golo solitário de Godermeche aos 18' e respira muito melhor na classificação.

Falta uma referência ao jogo desta tarde na Mata Real onde a Académica esteve a ganhar com um golo de Berger no início do segundo tempo, mas os minutos finais foram fatais para os «estudantes». Aos 85' Ricardo empatou de cabeça e em tempos de desconto (90+3) Romeu Torres, rambém de cabeça, conseguiu o golo do triunfo dos pacenses, o quarto na competição.

Só amanhã a jornada fica completa com o Leixões a jogar no Estádio do Mar com o Marítimo.

Na próxima jornada o Braga vai ao Restelo defrontar o último classificado, o Benfica vai a Setúbal, que é penúltimo, e o Porto joga em casa frente à Naval. Mas a meio da semana há os jogos da Taça de Portugal com um Porto-Sporting no Dragão. O Benfica antecipou o jogo da 20ª. Jornada com a União de Leiria e joga na 4ª. feira na Luz. Oportunidade para ficar isolado na tabela.

Classificação

Lugar	Clube	Pontos	Golos
1.	Braga	42	24-6
1.	Benfica	42	47-10
3.	Porto	36	35-14
4.	Sporting	27	19-14
5.	União de Leiria	26	23-16
5.	Nacional	26	24-23
7.	Vit. de Guimarães	23	17-20
8.	Rio Ave	20	15-16
9.	Marítimo (*)	19	23-25
9.	Paços de Ferreira	19	16-18
11.	Naval 1º. de Maio	18	14-16
12.	Académica	16	21-27
13.	Olhanense	14	13-22
13.	Leixões (*)	14	16-27
13.	Vitória de Setúbal	14	11-31
16.	Belenenses	11	8-21

(*) Têm um jogo a menos defrontando-se amanhã no Estádio do Mar

Melhores Marcadores
1.	Cardozo	Benfica	15
2.	Falcão	FC Porto	13
3.	Edgar Silva	Nacional	10
4.	Saviola	Benfica	9
5.	Varela	FC Porto	7
5.	Songou	Académica	7
7.	João Tomás	Rio Ave	6
7.	William	Paços de Ferreira	6
7.	Liedson	Sporting	6

Jogos da 18ª. Jornada
6 Fev. 19:15	Sporting	-	Académica
6 Fev. 21:15	V. Setúbal	-	Benfica
7 Fev. 15:00	Olhanense	-	Nacional
7 Fev. 16:00	Rio Ave	-	Leixões
7 Fev. 16:00	Marítimo	-	U. Leiria
7 Fev. 18:00	V. Guimarães	-	Paços de Ferreira
7 Fev. 20:15	Porto	-	Naval 1º. Maio
8 Fev. 20:15	Belenenses	-	Braga

No centenário da morte de Luís Delfino - Cadáver de Virgem

A Morte da Virgem, 1606, Michelangelo Caravaggio

óleo sobre tela, 369x245 cm, Paris, Museu do Louvre

Estava num caixão como num leito,
palidamente fria e adormecida;
as mãos cruzadas sobre o casto peito
e em cada olhar sem luz um sol sem vida.

Pés atados com fita em nó perfeito,
de roupas alvas de cetim vestida;
o torso duro, rígido, direito;
a face calma, lânguida, abatida...

O diadema das virgens sobre a testa;
níveo lírio entre as mãos, toda enfeitada,
mas como noiva que cansou da festa...

Por seis cavalos brancos arrancada,
onde vais tu dormir a longa sesta,
na mole cama em que te vi deitada?

LUÍS DELFINO dos Santos nasceu em Desterro, hoje Florianópolis (SC), a 25 de Agosto de 1834 e morreu no Rio a 31 de Janeiro de 1910. Diplomado em Medicina pela faculdade do Rio, chegou a ser senador da República por Santa Catarina, em 1891. Era liberal e abolicionista. A sua obra poética vai do Romantismo ao Simbolismo, passando pelo Parnasianismo, embora, no fundo, tenha sido sempre um romântico. Desdenhoso da glória, nunca publicou qualquer livro e foi o filho quem procedeu à recolha póstuma por jornais e revistas (uma dezena de vols.). O seu soneto pode ser comparado ao equivalente do português António Feijó: «Pálida e loira...».

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

Happy birthday - Patrícia Velasquez

Liga Sagres: Benfica ganha ao Guimarães e não desliga do Braga

Benfica

3 - 1

V. Guimarães


Carlos Martins foi decisivo com dois golos (e expulsão)

A jornada que se previa difícil para o trio da frente acabou por se converter em três triunfos dos favoritos, que assim afastam definitivamente a concorrência, e continuarão a lutar entre si para ver quem é o primeiro a fraquejar. De facto, já depois do Braga, na sexta-feira, se ter desenvencilhado do Sporting, o Porto goleou na Madeira o Nacional por quatro a zero (mas com dedo - melhor dizendo, assobio - de Xistra). Ao Benfica cabia a pressão de ganhar ao Guimarães, o que nos últimos anos não tem ocorrido com frequência, mesmo em casa.

Na primeira parte o jogo teve as feições esperadas com os vimaranenses mais povoados no seu meio-campo defensivo, mas jogando com Targino na direita e na criatividade de Nuno Assis para pôr problemas na defensiva encarnada. Com muitos cartões amarelos ainda com tanto tempo para jogar - 4 cartões amarelos para jogadores do Guimarães e 2 (Carlos Martins e David Luís) ao final da primeira parte - não era difícil adivinhar que o jogo não ia acabar com 22 jogadores em campo.

Quando o Benfica através de uma jogada individual de Aimar que ao pretender assistir
Cardozo, viu um defesa vimaranense pôr-lhe a bola na frente para a finalização vitoriosa, ficou em vantagem no marcador (17'), esperavam-se mais facilidades para a equipa da casa dada a capacidade e facilidade com que o Benfica constrói as transições ofensivas. Contudo, sem que tivesse ocorrido ameaças prévias o Vitória de Guimarães empataria o jogo aos 32'. Douglas desacompanhado na frente soube contemporizar para combinar com um colega, aparecendo depois Nuno Assis, em velocidade a bater a defesa benfiquista e a marcar perante a saída de Quim.

Esta primeira parte já dera para perceber que não era o dia de Cardozo, que mostrou-se lento na finalização de dois lances (um logo ao primeiro minuto e outro a não aproveitar uma bola na pequena área depois de incursão pela direoita até à linha final do ataqiue encarnado.

Na segunda parte o Benfica cedo voltou a ganhar vantagem no marcador. A equipa do Benfica nos primeiros dez minutos das segundas partes tem conseguido um número impressionante de golos e desta vez Carlos Martins aproveitando uma assistência de Aimar fez a bola entrar junto ao poste e tranquilizou os adeptos encarnados aos 50'.

O jogo ganhou dinamismo e ficou mais aberto e solto. Aos 60' uma bomba de Carlos Martins do «meio da rua» - grande golo - assegurava o triunfo encarnado, faltando saber em quantos ia ficar o resultado. Porém, o 3-1 fez mal ao Benfica que jogou pior; seja por descompressão do Guimarães que fez substituições para assumir uma postura mais ofensiva, seja por erros individuais motivados por falta de concentração: a expulsão de Carlos Martins (por mão na bola - segundo cartão amarelo), um jogador encarnado que adormeceu na área defensiva e Nuno Assis quase marcava e até em jogadas de ataque falhou o que era fácil - Cardozo partindo do meio-campo teve todo o tempo e espaço do mundo para marcar o 4-1 e rematou de modo a proporcionar a defesa de Nilson-.

O árbitro também demonstrou que é muito fraco quando Marquinhos agarrou a bola a duas mãos fazendo uma defesa de guarda-redes (pensando que a bola tinha transposto a linha lateral, o que ainda não acontecera) e livrou-se do cartão amarelo que o árbitro mostrara minutos antes a Carlos Martins.

O Guimarães esteve perto do 3-2 algumas vezes, uma das quais por Nuno Assis com Quim desta vez a levar a melhor, mas o Benfica também teve chances para o 4-1 (para além da perdida inacreditável de Cardozo), Éder Luís viu a bola de um remate que quiz colocado ser desviado por Nilsson e bater na barra.

Quarta-feira o Benfica volta a jogar em casa contra a União de Leiria em jogo antecipado da 20ª. Jornada e aí sim, em caso de vitória, a pressão passa para os lados de Braga!

Estádio da Luz com uma assistência superior a 50.000

BENFICA: Quim; Maxi Pereira, Luisão, David Luiz e Fábio Coentrão; Javi García, Carlos Martins, Di María e Pablo Aimar (Rúben Amorim, 74); Saviola (Éder Luís, 76) e Óscar Cardozo (Alan Kardec, 88).

Suplentes: Júlio César, Miguel Vítor, Rúben Amorim, César Peixoto, Éder Luis, Alan Kardec e Nuno Gomes.

V. GUIMARÃES: Nilson; Alex (Roberto, 68), Moreno, Valdomiro e Leandro (Fábio Felício, 65); João Alves, Custódio, Targino (Marquinho, 34), Nuno Assis e Desmarets; Douglas.

Suplentes: Serginho, Paulo Oliveira, Carlitos, Jorge Gonçalves, Fábio Felício, Roberto e Marquinho.

Marcadores: 1-0 por Aimar (17), 1-1 por Nuno Assis (32), 2-0 e 3-0 por Carlos Martins (50 e 60).

Acção disciplinar: Amarelo para Leandro (18), Douglas (20), David Luiz (25), Moreno (39), Carlos Martins (42 e 72), Fábio Coentrão (63), Valdomiro (75).

Regresso - Alda Lara

(...)

Sim! Eu hei-de voltar,
tenho de voltar,
não há nada que mo impeça.
Com que prazer
hei-de esquecer
toda esta luta insana...
que em frente está a terra angolana,
a prometer o mundo
a quem regressa...

Ah! quando eu voltar...
Hão-de as acácias rubras,
a sangrar
numa verbena sem fim,
florir só para mim!...
E o sol esplendoroso e quente,
o sol ardente,
há-de gritar na apoteose do poente,
o meu prazer sem lei...
A minha alegria enorme de poder
enfim dizer:
Voltei!...

Poema extraído daqui

Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque(Benguela, em 9.6.1930 - Cambambe, 30.1.1962)

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• 1952 - Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
• 1952 - Doug Falconer was born. Canadian football player.
• 1955 - Curtis Strange was born. American golfer.
• 1955 - John Baldacci was born. American politician, governor of Maine.
  
• 1955 - Judith Tarr was born. American author.
• 1956 - American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1956 - Jeremy Gittins was born. British actor.
• 1956 - Keiichi Tsuchiya was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1956 - Jane Seymour dies at 56. Actress (Young Mr Bobbin).
• 1957 - Payne Stewart was born (d. 1999). American golfer.
• 1958 - Brett Butler was born. American actress and comedian.
• 1958 - Ernst Heinkel dies (b. 24 Jan 1888). German aircraft engineer who built the first rocket-powered aircraft .
• 1958 - Jean Crotti dies (b. 1878). Swiss artist.
• 1959 - Jody Watley was born. American singer.
• 1959 - Mark Eitzel was born. American singer and musician (American Music Club).
• 1960 - The women’s singles U.S. figure skating championship was won by Carol Heiss.
• 1960 - The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1960 - Clara Pinto Correia was born in Lisbon. Portuguese investigator and writer.
• 1961 - Dexter Scott King was born. American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
• 1962 - Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1962 - UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola).
• 1962 - King Abdullah II of Jordan was born.
• 1962 - Mary Kay Letourneau was born. American convicted statutory rapist.
• 1962 - Alda Lara dies in Cambambe (b. 9 Jun. 1930). Angolan poet.
  
• 1962 - Manuel de Abreu dies (b. 1894). Brazilian physician.
• 1963 - Tina Malone was born. English actress.
• 1963 - Francis Poulenc dies (b. 1899). French composer.
• 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon.
• 1965 - Julie McCullough was born. American model and actress.
• 1965 - Marcelo Bonfá was born. Brazilian musician (Legião Urbana).
• 1966 - Danielle Goyette was born. Quebec female ice hockey player.
• 1967 - Jay Gordon was born. American musician.
• 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
• 1968 - Prince Felipe of Spain was born.
• 1968 - Trevor Dunn was born. American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs3).
• 1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
• 1969 - Carolyn Kepcher was born. American businesswoman and reality TV show star.
• 1969 - Georges Pire dies (b. 1910). Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1970 - Hans Spark was born. Football (soccer) player (RKC).
• 1970 - Maria Luísa Mendonça was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1971 - Darren Boyd was born. British actor.
• 1971 - Kimo von Oelhoffen was born. American football player.
• 1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
• 1972 - Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth. The Iranian civilian government announced that the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to return.
• 1972 - Chris Simon was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1972 - Lupillo Rivera was born. Mexican singer.
• 1973 - Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player.
• 1973 - Holly Noelle Roehl was born. Miss Indiana USA (1996).
• 1973 - Jalen Rose was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Christian Bale was born. Welsh actor.
• 1974 - Jemima Khan was born. British socialite.
• 1974 - Olivia Colman was born. British actress.
• 1975 - First faroese stamp issued.
• 1975 - Juninho Pernambucano was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1975 - Yumi Yoshimura was born. Japanese singer Puffy Amiyumi.
• 1976 - George H. W. Bush becomes 11th director of the CIA.
• 1976 - Andy Milonakis was born. American comedian.
• 1977 - Dan Hinote was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Deltha O'Neal was born. American football player.
• 1978 - John Patterson was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 - Varig 707-323C freighter, flewn by the same commander of Varig Flight 820 disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return from exile in France.
• 1980 - Joãozinho was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1980 - Leilani Dowding was born. British glamour model.
• 1980 - Pavel Ponomaryov was born. Russian-Estonian actor.
• 1980 - Wilmer Valderrama was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Professor Longhair dies (b. 1918). American musician, King of New Orleans music.
• 1981 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins.
• 1981 - Garth Barrett's raiders, part of the South African Recce Operations, attack supposed MK cadres at Matola, Mozambique. A Portuguese engineer, Jose Ramos, is "mistakenly identified" as Joe Slovo, one of the raids main targets, by the South African forces and is shot at a roadblock.
• 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov was born. Bulgarian footballer.
• 1981 - Josh Kelley was born. American musician.
• 1981 - Mathias Lauda was born. Austrian racing driver.
• 1981 - Peter Crouch was born. English footballer.
• 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
• 1982 - Jorge Cantu was born. Mexican baseball player.
• 1982 - Lightning Hopkins dies (b. 1912). American musician.
• 1983 - Super Bowl XVII: The Washington Redskins defeat the Miami Dolphins, 27-17, thus winning their first NFL championship since 1942.
• 1984 - Jeremy Hermida was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 - Josh Harris was born. American videographer/musician.
• 1984 - Patrick Lee McCall dies. South African bank robber, member of Stander gang.
• 1985 - Aaadietya Pandey was born. Indian astrologer.
• 1985 - Trae Williams was born. American football player.
• 1986 - Nick Evans was born. American baseball player.
• 1986 - Sam Duckworth was born. British singer-songwriter.
• 1987 - Arda Turan was born. Turkish footballer.
• 1987 - Rebecca Knox was born. Irish professional wrestler.
• 1988 - Heather Baker was born. American socialite.
• 1988 - Laura Banks was born. Scottish Author, musician.
• 1988 - Rob Pinkston was born. American actor.
• 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
• 1989 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
• 1989 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins.
• 1989 - Khleo Thomas was born. American actor.
• 1990 - Eiza Gonzalez was born. Mexican actress/singer.
• 1990 - Jake Thomas was born. Actor (Lizzie McGuire).
• 1990 - Luca Sbisa was born. Swiss ice hockey player.
• 1991 - Clifton C. Edom dies (b. 1907). American photojournalism educator.
  
• 1991 - John Bardeen dies (b. 1908). American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  
• 1991 - John McIntire dies (b. 1907). American actor.
• 1992 - Matthew Werkmeister was born. Australian actor.
• 1993 - Portuguese TV station TVI starts working. / Entra em funcionamento inaugural a TVI.
• 1993 - 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6, 6-3, 6-2).
• 1994 - Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess.
• 1994 - The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII.
• 1994 - Nirvana's final recording session takes place at Robert Lang Studios, with the song "You Know You're Right" being completed. It would become a #1 hit eight years later.
• 1994 - 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (6-0, 6-2).
• 1994 - 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (7-6, 6-4, 6-4).
• 1994 - Bahjat Talhouni dies. PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70).
• 1994 - Pierre Boulle dies (b. 1912). French author.
• 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
• 1995 - 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win.
• 1995 - Gerald Durrell dies (b. 7 Jan 1925) British naturalist and prolific author, known internationally for his pioneering, even controversial, role in preserving and breeding endangered species in zoos with the intention of eventually returning them to the wild.
• 1996 - Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
• 1996 - NBA superstar Magic Johnson plays the first game of his return to the Los Angeles Lakers. Magic retired in 1991 after contracting HIV.
• 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
• 1997 - Las cenizas de Mahatma Gandhi, padre de la India, son arrojadas al río Ganges después de cumplirse 49 años desde que fue asesinado en Nueva Delhi por un extremista.
• 1998 - Richard Cassilly dies (b. 1927). American tenor.
  
• 1999 - A 7-year old boy dies of choking on a Pokémon Power Bouncer ball toy.
• 1999 - Ed Herlihy dies (b. 1909). American broadcaster.
• 1999 - Huntz Hall dies (b. 1919). American actor.
  
• 2000 - In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16.
• 2000 - Off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• 2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont dies (b. 1911). French actor.
• 2001 - Johnnie Johnson dies (b. 1915). British fighter pilot.
  
• 2001 - Joseph Ransohoff dies (b. 1916). The father of modern neurosurgery.
• 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him.
• 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.
• 2005 - Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.
• 2005 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules is shot down over Iraq.
  
• 2005 - Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II was born. Prince of Jordan.
• 2005 - Martyn Bennet dies (b. 1971). Multi-instrumentalist and composer.
• 2005 - Wes Wehmiller dies (b. 1971). American musician.
• 2006 - Coretta Scott King dies (b. 1927). American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2007 - Microsoft releases its next Operating system, Windows Vista, a major milestone for the company.
• 2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos dies (b. 1934). Greek actor, artistic director of the Greek National Theater.
• 2007 - Sidney Sheldon dies (b. 1917). American author, playwright, and screenwriter.
• 2008 - Jeremy Beadle dies (b. 1948). British television host.
  
• 2008 - Marcial Maciel dies (b. 1920). Mexican religious leader.
  
• 2008 - Roland Selmeczi dies (b. 1969). Hungarian actor.
• 2009 – Ingemar Johansson dies (b. 1932). Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world.
• Brasil: Dia da saudade.
  
• Brasil: Dia Nacional dos Quadrinhos (Banda Desenhada).
• Dia Escolar da Não-Violência e da Educação pela Paz.
• Martyr Day, India - India. Also called Sarvodaya Day.
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs - This Feast honors the three great Fathers of the Eastern Church --St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom.

Braga ganha ao Sporting com golo de Paulo César

Braga

1-0

Sporting

Braga mostra porque é o mais forte opositor do Benfica na candidatura ao título...

Jogo grande e de enorme expectativa em Braga a iniciar a Jornada 17, segunda da segunda volta. Até que ponto o Braga confirma a capacidade de líder da tabela classificativa perante um Sporting (alegadamente) em melhoria de forma?

Jogo «fechado», muito disputado, sem criação de desiquilíbrios favorávereis às equipas nos lances de ataque, muita disputa de bola a meio-campo; um passe de calcanhar solta João Pereira na direita, mas o cruzamento é muito largo...

Aos 30' Paulo César arranca pela esquerda passa por Grimi, entra na área e remata com a bola a desviar em Tonel e a parar no fundo da baliza inaugurando o marcador.

Este golo «abriu» o jogo, finalmente há lances com jogadores libertos e a haver faltas para os travar dando amarelos disciplinares para Carriço (36') e Adrien Silva (44') ambos por travar Mossoró embalado no meio-campo adversário. Pelo meio uma bola metida na área bracarense tem uma intervennção deficiente de Eduardo que se embrulha com um colega da defesa, a bola sobra para Liedson de costas para a baliza e querendo finalizar rápido não consegue a direcção pretendida para a bola.

Na segunda parte a incapacidade de criação de lances ofensivos de perigo por parte do sPOR Sporting foi evidente. Poder-se dizer que, mesmo com uma postura prudente no campo, foi na segunda parte que a equipa bracarense justifica o triunfo no jogo. Um meio-campo sportinguista com unidades defensivas a mais (Miguel Veloso, Adrien) para quem está a perder , Izmailov a mnmenos e um Saleiro a perder gás levam o treinador do Sporting a mexer na equipa. Primeiro a entrada de Yanick Djaló (54') para a saída do russo, seis minutos depois a entrada de Matias Fernandez para a saída de Adrien Silva. Uma teórica aposta numa maior postura ofensiva, mas as coisas não resultaram bem. Já depois de mais um cartão amarelo para Miguel Veloso por travar em falta progressão perigosa de Paulo César (nessa altura 3-1 em cartões já que Meyong também já vira um) foi a vez de Domingos reforçar o meio-campo tirando Paulo César e Meyong, dois avançados, para entrarem Luís Aguiar e Matheus - um centro-campista ainda que ofensivo e um avançado. Eduardo ia tendo uma noite tranquila até porque a terceira substituição no Sporting (saída de Saleiro por Pongole) também não resultou muito bem com o reforço leonino substituto de Caicedo a fazer mais jus ao nome de «Centratarde» do que a «golo» já que por duas vezes demorou na definição do lance deixando a bola ultrapassar a lk«inha final do campo antes da realização dos cruzamentos. Aos 80' Eduardo a sair a uma bola no limite da área perseguida por Pongole lesionou-se com aparente gravidade (e então os bracarenses já tinham as substituições esgotadas porque entrara Renteria para o lugar de Mossoró) e aí gerou-se alguma expectativa sobre a eventual necessidade de ir um jogador de campo para a baliza. O guarda-redes bracarense depois de uma interrupção longa do jogo recuperou o lugar na baliza e foi só no tempo de desconto (sete minutos justificados) que o Sporting fez perigar o triunfo do Braga com Eduardo a defender um remate de cabeça de Matías a centro de Grimi e especialmente quando Veloso de fora da área disparou um remate que levava a direcção da baliza mas com a bola a desviar num defesa e a sair ao lado da baliza sem que João Ferreira assinalasse o pontapé de canto.

Triunfo feliz mas justo dos bracarenses perante um Sporting de cor (ainda) pálida incapaz de reacção significativa à desvantagem.

A arbitragem teve apenas alguns erros menores, estando bem, em particular, no aspecto disciplinar.

No final do jogo Domingos falou em candidatura ao título se mantiver o primeiro lugar quando faltar dez jornadas (o que é já daqui a 3 jogos) enquanto Carvalhal deve ter visto jogo diferente ao concluir que o Sporting podia ter ganho... poder podia, se tivesse jogado melhor!

Árbitro: João Ferreira

Sp. Braga: Eduardo; Filipe Oliveira, Moisés, Rodriguez, Evaldo; Vandinho, Hugo Viana, Mossoró (Renteria, 76); Alan, Meyong (Luís Aguiar, 62) e Paulo César (Matheus, 62)

Suplentes: Kieszek, Paulão, Luís Aguiar, Miguel Garcia, Renteria, Adriano e Matheus

Sporting: Rui Patrício; João Pereira, Tonel, Daniel Carriço, Grimi; Adrien (Matias, 60), Izmailov, Miguel Veloso, João Moutinho; Carlos Saleiro (Pongolle, 70) e Liedson.

Suplentes: Tiago, Polga, Pedro Silva, Matias, Yannick, Pongolle e Postiga.

Marcador: 1-0 por Paulo César (30)

Disciplina: Cartão amarelo para Daniel Carriço 37' e Adrien Silva 45' por rasteirarem Mossoró; cartão amarelo para Meyong 56' , Miguel Veloso 62' por travar jogada perigosa de Paulo César, Saleiro 66' por falta por trás, Mossoró 68' e ainda a Polga (no banco) aos 88'

A Lady - Gomes Leal

Lady Sherly 1622. Oil on canvas.
Anthony van Dyck. National Trust,
Petworth House, Sussex, UK from here

Aquela que me tem, agora, presa
Minha alma, meus sentidos, meus cuidados...
E me faz sonhar sonhos desmanchados,
É uma altiva e olímpica inglesa.

Nunca tipo ideal de mais pureza
Vi nos góticos quadros mais prezados.
Seus doces olhos castos e velados
Têm um ar, infinito, de tristeza.

Tem uns gestos de deusa que caminha
Fonte grega, e um ar grande de Rainha,
E umas mãos como as ladies de Van Dyck...

Segue-a sempre um lacaio, e tristemente,
É por ela que eu morro, lentamente...
E ponho no bigode cosmétique

in Cem Sonetos Portugueses, selecção, organização e introdução de José Fanha e José Jorge Letria, Terramar.

António Gomes Leal (n. em Lisboa a 6 Jun 1848; m. 29 Jan 1921)

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Romantismo; Som e Cor; O Visionário ou Som e Cor III; Cantiga de Campo

On this day in History - Jan. 29

• 0904 - Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher.
• 1119 - Pope Gelasius II dies.
• 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon dies (b. 1279).
• 1523 - Ulrico Zuinglio da a conocer sus 67 tesis para la reforma de la Iglesia.
• 1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1647).
• 1595 - Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers, was probably first performed.
• 1597 - Elias Ammerbach dies (b. 1530). German organist.
• 1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1557).
• 1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees.
• 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius was born (d. 1703). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1635 - É fundada a Academia Francesa (Academie Française), uma das mais renomadas sociedades literárias da Europa.
• 1647 - Francis Meres dies (b. 1565). English writer.
• 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia dies (b. 1629).
• 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo dies (b. 1593). Portuguese Jesuit missionary.
• 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg was born (d. 29 Mar 1772). Swedish naturalist, philosopher and theologian.
• 1696 - Ivan V dies (b. 1666). Russian tsar.
• 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset dies (b. 1638). English poet and courtier.
• 1711 - Giuseppe Bonno was born (d. 1788). Austrian composer.
• 1712 - Le congrès d'Utrecht. Les diplomates français et anglais se réunissent en congrès à Utrecht. Ils veulent en finir avec la guerre de la succession d'Espagne, qui épuise l'Europe .
• 1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born (d. 1777). Austrian composer.
• 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst was born (d. 1797). British Military leader.
• 1718 - Paul Rabaut was born (d. 1794). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia died of smallpox on the day set for his wedding (b. 1715).
• 1737 - Thomas Paine was born (d. 1809). Patriot, radical, pamphleteer.
• 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney dies (b. 1666). British soldier.
• 1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus dies (b. 1653). Chief minister of France under Louis XV.
• 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark was born (d. 1808).
• 1754 - Moses Cleaveland was born (d. 1806). Founder of the city of Cleveland.
• 1756 - Henry Lee III was born. American General.
• 1761 - Albert Gallatin was born. Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1763 - Louis Racine dies (b. 1692). French poet.
• 1782 - Daniel Auber was born (d. 1871). French composer.
• 1801 - Horatia Nelson was born (d. 1881). Illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.
• 1810 - Ernst Kummer was born (d. 1893). German mathematician.
• 1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1814 - Johann Gottheb Fichte dies. Philosopher.
• 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1738).
• 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras dies (b. 1755). French politician.
• 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1838 - João de Oliveira Penha Fortuna was born in Braga (d. 3 Feb 1919). Portuguese poet.
• 1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood.
• 1841 - Durante la Guerra del Opio, Gran Bretaña ocupa Hong Kong.
• 1843 - William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1901). 25th President of the United States [1897-1901]. Was assassinated six months after the start of his second term, on 14 September, in Buffalo, New York.
• 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
• 1846 - Karol Olszewski was born (d. 1915). Polish scientist.
• 1848 - Chile: se adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1859 - William Cranch Bond dies (b. 9 Sep 1789). American astronomer who, with his son, George Phillips Bond (1825-65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
• 1860 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born (d. 1904). Russian playwright and short story writer.
• 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1862 - Frederick Delius was born (d. 1934). English composer.
• 1863 - Bear River Massacre.
• 1866 - Romain Rolland was born (d. 1944). French writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
• 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia (d. 1928). Spanish writer.
• 1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1797).
• 1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé dies (b. 1786). French-Canadian writer and Seigneur.
• 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born (d. 1960). American entrepreneur.
• 1876 - Havergal Brian was born (d. 1972). British composer.
• 1877 - Georges Catroux was born (d. 1969). French general.
• 1880 - W.C. Fields was born (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1888 - Sydney Chapman, was born (d. 16 Jun 1970). English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics.
• 1889 - O rápido reconhecimento internacional do novo regime foi o primeiro objetivo do ministro Quintino Bocaiúva, responsável pela pasta das Relações Exteriores do Governo Provisório, sob a liderança do marechal Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca.
• 1890 - Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República brasileira, proclamada em novembro de 1889.
• 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt was born (d. 1975). Russian ballerina.
• 1891 - R. Norris Williams was born (d. 1968). American tennis player, also a survivor of the RMS Titanic Disaster.
• 1893 - Sensacional robo en un hotel de París de cuadros de pintores famosos.
• 1895 - José Martí ordena el inicio del levantamiento por la independencia de Cuba de España.
• 1895 - Barão de Itararé was born (d. 1971). Brazilian journalist.
• 1895 - Muna Lee was born (d. 1965). American poet.
• 1898 - Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano was born. Spanish musician and composer.
• 1899 - Alfred Sisley dies in Moret-sur-Loing (b. 1839). French painter.
• 1900 - The Baseball's American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1901 - Allen Du Mont was born (d. 1965). American scientist and inventor.
• 1901 - Milan I dies (b. 1855). King of Serbia.
• 1905 - Barnett Newman was born (d. 1970). American painter.
• 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark dies (b. 1818) .
• 1908 - Piero Leonardi was born. Italian geologist and prehistorian, known for his research on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Triassic invertebrates (from 190-225 million years ago) and the Permian vertebrates (from 225-280 million years ago).
• 1910 - Colin Middleton was born (d. 1983). Northern Irish artist.
• 1911 - Peter von Siemens was born (d. 1986). German industrialist.
• 1913 - Daniel Taradash was born (d. 2003). American screenwriter.
• 1913 - Peter von Zahn was born (d. 2001). German journalist and writer.
• 1913 - Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1915 - John Serry, Sr. was born (d. 2003). American musician, composer, arranger.
• 1915 - Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1918 - John Forsythe was born. American actor.
• 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin dies (b. 1861). Russian counter revolutionary.
• 1920 - José Luis de Villalonga was born (d. 2007). Spanish aristocrat, author, and actor.
• 1921 - Anthony George was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1921 - António Duarte Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet.
• 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved.
• 1922 - Gerda Steinhoff was born (d. 1946). Nazi concetraation camp supervisor.
• 1923 - Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky was born (d. 01 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning playwright, (Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network).
• 1923 - Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1924 - Luigi Nono was born (d. 1990). Italian composer.
• 1924 - Marcelle Ferron was born (d. 2001). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.
• 1924 - Peter Voulkos was born (d. 2002). American artist.
• 1926 - Abdus Salam was born (d. 21 Nov 1996). Pakistani nuclear physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow.
• 1926 - Franco Cerri was born. Italian jazzman.
• 1927 - Edward Abbey was born (d. 1989). American environmentalist.
• 1927 - António Alçada Baptista was born in Covilhã. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 - João Abel Manta was born in Lisbon. Portuguese architect, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
• 1928 - Douglas Haig dies (b. 1861). British soldier.
• 1928 - Lee Shau Kee was born. Hong Kong SAR property developer.
• 1929 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1929 - Gordon Solie was born (d. 2000). American wrestling announcer.
• 1930 - Derek Bailey was born (d. 2005). English guitar virtuoso.
• 1930 - John Junkin was born (d. 2006). English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.
• 1932 - Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1932 - George Allen was born. English footballer.
• 1932 - Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 - Paul Sally was born. American mathematician.
• 1933 - Ron Townson was born (d. 2001). American singer (The 5th Dimension).
• 1933 - Sacha Distel was born (d. 2004). French singer and guitarist.
• 1933 - Sara Teasdale dies (b. 1884). American poet.
• 1934 - Un temblor de tierra en Acapulco (México) daña el 90 por cien de los edificios.
• 1934 - Fritz Haber dies (b. 9 Dec 1868). German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia (1909) directly from nitrogen and hydrogen.
• 1936 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1936 - James Jamerson was born (d. 1983). American bass guitarist guitarist for Motown Records.
• 1938 - Armando Palacio Valdés dies. Spanish writer.
• 1939 - Germaine Greer was born. Australian feminist writer.
• 1940 - Three gasoline multiple units carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
• 1940 - Katharine Ross was born. American actress.
• 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi was born. Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver.
• 1941 - Robin Morgan was born. American feminist and activist.
• 1941 - Ioannis Metaxas dies (b. 1871). Greek general and dictator.
• 1942 - Claudine Longet was born. French singer and dancer.
• 1942 - World War II: North AfricaBenghazi, Libya, is taken by German and Italian forces.
• 1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination); Ecuador y Perú firman el Tratado de Río de Janeiro, para el arreglo definitivo del pleito de límites en la zona amazónica fronteriza de ambos países, con Argentina, Brasil, Chile y EE.UU como garantes.
• 1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo- Mendez was born. Cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
• 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
• 1944 - The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing.
• 1944 - Patrick Lipton Robinson was born. Jamaican judge.
• 1944 - Yoweri Museveni was born. President of Uganda.
• 1945 - A Bola, a Portuguese sportiv newspaper, publishes its first number.
• 1945 - Jim Nicholson was born. Irish politician.
• 1945 - Tom Selleck was born in Detroit. American actor.
• 1946 - Harry Hopkins dies (b. 1890). American politician.
• 1947 - David Byron was born (d. 1985). English singer (Uriah Heep).
• 1947 - Linda B. Buck was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1947 - Marián Varga was born. Slovak musician.
• 1948 - Cristina Saralegui was born. American talk-show host.
• 1948 - Marc Singer was born. Canadian actor.
• 1948 - Pat Kenny was born. Irish TV presenter & radio host.
• 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta dies (b. 1900). Italian aristocrat.
• 1949 - Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel.
• 1949 - Djavan was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1950 - Ann Jillian was born. American actress.
• 1950 - Jody Scheckter was born. South African racing driver and one-time F1 world champion .
• 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies (b. 1885). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1951 - Andy Roberts was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1951 - Frank Tarrant dies (b. 1880). Australian cricketer.
• 1952 - Rupert Hanley was born. Former South African cricketer.
• 1952 - Tommy Ramone was born. Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk was born. South Korean fiomedical scientist.
• 1953 - Louie Perez was born. Mexican-American drummer (Los Lobos).
• 1953 - Lynne McGranger was born. Australian actress.
• 1953 - Paulin Bordeleau was born. Quebec ice hockey player.
• 1953 - Teresa Teng was born (d. 1995). Taiwanese singer.
• 1954 - Doug Risebrough was born. Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
• 1954 - Oprah Winfrey was born. American talk show host and actress.
• 1954 - Richard Manitoba was born. American singer (The Dictators and MC5).
• 1954 - Terry Kinney was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Yukinobu Hoshino was born. Japanese mangaka.
• 1955 - Eddie Jordan was born. American basketball player and head coach.
• 1956 - H. L. Mencken dies (b. 1880). American journalist.
• 1957 - Grazyna Miller was born. Italian poet, translator and journalist.
• 1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wedding.
• 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1958 - The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous.
• 1959 - Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
• 1960 - Gia Carangi was born (d. 1986). American model.
• 1960 - Greg Louganis was born. American diver, Olympics gold medalist.
• 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell was born. Australian-born musician.
• 1960 - Matthew Ashford was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Sean Kerly was born. English field hockey player.
• 1960 - Steve Sax was born. American baseball player.
• 1962 - Nicholas Turturro was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Fritz Kreisler dies (b. 1975). Austrian violinist.
• 1963 - First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1963 - Bob Holly was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1963 - Robert Lee Frost dies (b. 1874). US poet, 4 Pulitzers (b. 1874).
• 1963 - Isaías de Noronha dies (b. 06 Jul 1874). President of Brazil.
• 1964 - The IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
• 1964 - Andre Reed was born. American football player.
• 1964 - Anna Ryder Richardson was born. British interior designer and television presenter.
• 1964 - Dimas de Carvalho was born in Acaraú, Ceará. Brazilian poet and ficcionist.
• 1964 - John Habyan was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 - Roddy Frame was born. Lead singer of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera.
• 1964 - Alan Ladd dies at 50 in Palm Springs, California. American actor (Shane).
• 1965 - Dominik Hasek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1965 - Peter Lundgren was born. Swedish tennis coach.
• 1966 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1966 - Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
• 1966 - Romário was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1966 - Pierre Mercure dies (b. 1927). French Canadian composer.
• 1967 - Cyril Suk was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1967 - Stacey King was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Edward Burns was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Sora Jung was born. Korean actress.
• 1968 - Susi Erdmann was vborn. German bobsledder and luger.
• 1969 - Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community.
• 1969 - Hyde was born. Japanese singer.
• 1969 - Allen Dulles dies (b. 1893). American CIA director.
• 1970 - Heather Graham was born. American actress, model.
• 1970 - Jörg Hoffmann was born. German swimmer.
• 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was born. Indian shooter.
• 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart dies (b. 1895). British historian.
• 1973 - Jason Schmidt was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 - Kōji Wada was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.
• 1975 - Sara Gilbert was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Manuel Guimarães dies (b. 1915). Portuguese painter and film director.
• 1976 - Charles Divins was born. American model and actor.
• 1976 - Chris Castle was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1976 - Grigorios Paliouras was born. Canadian scientist.
• 1977 - Justin Hartley was born. American actor.
• 1977 - Buster Nupen dies (b. 1902). South African cricketer.
  
• 1977 - Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). American actor, comedian.
• 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
• 1978 - Martin Schmitt was born. German ski jumper.
• 1978 - Rob Bironas was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
• 1979 - Andrew Keegan was born. American actor.
• 1979 - April Scott was born. American actress and model.
• 1979 - Joseph Todd was born. Arena Football League player.
• 1979 - Sui Feifei was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1980 - Ivan Klasnić was born. Croatian football player.
• 1980 - Yael Bar Zohar was born. Israeli actress and model.
• 1980 - Antonio Molina dies (b. 1894). Filipino composer.
• 1980 - Jimmy Durante dies (b. 1893). American actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian.
• 1981 - España: Adolfo Suárez dimite de sus cargos de presidente del Gobierno y del partido de Unión de Centro Democrático.
• 1981 - Álex Ubago was born. Spanish musician.
• 1981 - Darío Lopilato was born. Argentine actor.
• 1981 - Jonny Lang was born. American musician.
• 1982 - Heidi Mueller was born. American actress.
• 1983 - Nedžad Sinanović was born. Bosnian basketball player.
• 1983 - 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win.
• 1983 - Portugal: In Lisboa at Coliseu dos Recreios, Zeca Afonso performs his last concert.
• 1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman.
• 1985 - Athina Onassis was born. French heiress.
• 1985 - Isabel Lucas was born. Australian actress.
• 1985 - Marc Gasol was born. Spanish basketball player.
• 1985 - Todd Herzog was born. American reality-show contestant.
• 1986 - The Height 611 UFO Incident.
• 1986 - Yoweri Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni's National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army's military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month).
• 1986 - Chris Bourque was born. American pro hockey player.
• 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell was born. American actor.
• 1986 - Mark Howard was born. English football player.
• 1986 - Simon Vukčević was born. Montenegrin football player.
• 1986 - Leif Erickson dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 1987 - Physician’s Weekly announces that the smile on the face of Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa is caused by a "...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."
• 1987 - Matthew Wilson was born. English world rally driver
• 1987 - Spencer Clark was born (d. 2006). American race car driver.
• 1987 - Josep V. Foix dies (b. 28 Jan 1893). Spanish poet.
• 1988 - Stephanie Gilmore was born. Australian professional surfer.
• 1989 - Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
• 1989 - The Orlando Arena, now titled the TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA and the Orlando Predators of the AFL.
• 1989 - 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-2, 6-2, 6-2).
• 1989 - Halina Konopacka dies (b. 1900). Polish athlete.
• 1990 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
• 1990 - Jessica D. Stone was born. American actress.
• 1990 - O Congresso da Somália Unificada nomeia Alí Mahdi Mohamed como novo presidente do país.
• 1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor was born. Son of the British Duke of Westminster and heir-apparent to his father's estate.
• 1991 - Yasushi Inoue dies (b. 1907). Japanese historian.
• 1992 - Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American composer and musician.
• 1992 - Manuel González Valcárcel dies. Spanish architect.
• 1993 - French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
• 1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito was born. Portuguese tennis player.
• 1993 - Ron Kostelnik dies (b. 1940). American football player.
  
• 1994 - Ulrike Maier dies in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967). Austrian alpine skiing world champion.
• 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 - First release of Duke Nukem 3D.
• 1996 - Megan Jossa was born. English actress.
• 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 1998 - Sierra Marcoux was born. American actress.
• 1998 - Joseph Alioto dies (b. 1916). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1999 - Estados Unidos: el cuadro Santa Rufina, del pintor sevillano Diego Velázquez es adquirido por un coleccionista anónimo por 1166 millones de pesetas en Nueva York.
• 1999 - Lili St. Cyr dies (b. 1918). American dancer.
  
• 2000 - A BOLA passa a ter divulgação através da Internet.
• 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2001 - El juez Juan Guzmán dicta una orden de procesamiento y arresto domiciliario contra el dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.
• 2002 - Daniel Pearl dies (b. 1963). Journalist.
• 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane dies (b. 1928). American football player.
• 2002 - Harold Russell dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born actor.
• 2003 - Solicitor Sally Clark, aged 38, jailed for life for murdering her two baby sons, was freed by the Court of Appeal.
• 2003 - Frank Moss dies (b. 1911). American politician.
  
• 2004 - Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in United Kingdom.
• 2004 - Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2004 - M. M. Kaye dies (b. 1908). British writer.
• 2004 - Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
• 2005 - Ephraim Kishon dies (b. 1924). Israeli satirist.
  
• 2005 - Eric Griffiths dies (b. 1940). Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen).
• 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
• 2006 - ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
• 2007 - Barbaro dies (b. 2003). American thoroughbred racehorse.
• 2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim dies (b. 1970). Leader of the Iraqi cult Soldiers of Heaven.
• 2008 – Margaret Truman dies (b. 1924). American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman.
  
• 2008 - Philippe Khorsand dies (b. 1948). French actor.
• 2008 - Raymond Jacobs dies (b. 1925). American soldier.
• 2009 – Bill Frindall dies (b. 1939). English cricket scorer and statistician.
  
• 2009 – Hélio Gracie dies (b. 1913). Brazilian martial artist.
  
• 2009 – John Martyn dies (b. 1948). Scottish singer and songwriter.
  
• Roman Catholic saints - Valerius of Trèves.
• Brazil: Journalist Day /Brasil: Dia do Jornalista.
• National Corn Chip Day.
• Gibraltar - Constitution Day.