Rosie - Reinaldo Ferreira

Eu, Rosie, eu se falasse eu dir-te-ia
Que partout, everywhere, em toda a parte,
A vida égale, idêntica, the same,
É sempre um esforço inútil,
Um voo cego a nada.
Mas dancemos; dancemos
Já que temos
A valsa começada
E o Nada
Deve acabar-se também,
Como todas as coisas.
Tu pensas
Nas vantagens imensas
De um par
Que paga sem falar;
Eu, nauseado e grogue,
Eu penso, vê lá bem,
Em Arles e na orelha de Van Gogh...
E assim entre o que eu penso e o que tu sentes
A ponte que nos une - é estar ausentes.

Extraído de Poemas Portugueses Antologia da Poesia Portuguesa do Séc. XIII ao Séc. XXI, Porto Editora

Reinaldo Edgar de Azevedo e Silva Ferreira (n. em Barcelona, a 20 de Março de 1922; m. em Moçambique a 30 de Junho de 1959).

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JANELA - CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ

Olhei pela janela ao raiar do dia e vi uma jovem
macieira, diáfana em meio à luz.
Quando olhei de novo ao raiar do dia lá estava
uma grande macieira, carregada de fruto.
Passaram-se decerto muitos anos, mas não me
lembro de nada do que aconteceu neste sonho.

(Berkeley, 1965)

CZESŁAW MIŁOSZ (nasceu em 30 de Junho de 1911 em Szetejny, na Lituânia, embora seja de nacionalidade polaca; m. Cracóvia, 14 de agosto de 2004). Foi Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1980

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On this day in History - Jun 30

• 0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
• 1109 - Alphonso VI dies (b. 1109). King of Castile.
• 1181 - Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester dies (b. 1147). English politician.
• 1286 - John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey was born (d. 1347). English politician.
• 1364 - Arnost of Pardubice dies (b. 1297). Archbishop of Prague.
• 1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
• 1470 - King Charles VIII of France was born (d. 1498).
• 1487 - Concebido o Pentateuco, na cidade de Faro, primeiro livro impresso em Portugal.
• 1503 - John Frederick, Elector of Saxony was born (d. 1554).
• 1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
• 1520 - Montezuma II dies (b. 1466). Aztec ruler.
• 1538 - Charles of Egmond dies (b. 1467). Duke of Guelders.
• 1559 - King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
• 1579 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović was born. Turkish Janissary.
• 1607 - Caesar Baronius dies (b. 1538). Italian cardinal and historian.
• 1651 - The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory.
• 1660 - William Oughtred dies (b. 1575). English mathematician.
• 1662 - Casamento de D. Catarina, filha de D. João IV, com Carlos II de Inglaterra.
• 1666 - Alexander Brome dies (b. 1620). English poet.
• 1670 - Henrietta Anne Stuart dies (b. 1644). Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
• 1685 - John Gay was born (d. 1732). English writer.
• 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann was born (d. 1766). Master builder.
• 1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
• 1704 - John Quelch dies hanged (b. 1665). Pirate.
• 1709 - Edward Lhuyd dies (b. 1660). Welsh scientist.
• 1755 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras was born (d. 1829). French politician.
• 1758 - Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl occurs.
• 1775 - Paul de Barras was born. Politician (d. 1829).
• 1785 - James Oglethorpe dies (b. 1696). English general and founder of the state of Georgia.
• 1789 - Horace Vernet was born (d. 1863). French painter and graphic artist.
• 1793 - Inaugurado o Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos - Lisboa, Portugal.
• 1794 - Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
• 1795 - A Academia das Ciências de Lisboa foi autorizada a nomear pessoas para a recolha de lápides e inscrições pelo reino.
• 1796 - Abraham Yates dies (b. 1724). American Continental Congressman.
• 1798 - Criação da Sociedade Real Marítima, Militar e Geográfica, com fins culturais e científicos , e sobretudo para apoio da feitura da Carta Geral do Reino.
• 1803 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born (d. 1849). English poet.
• 1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
• 1805 - Morreu o Intendente (Diogo Inácio da) Pina Manique , fundador da Casa Pia de Lisboa (n. 03 Out 1783).
• 1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer was born (d. 1887). Narrator, lyricist, and philosopher.
• 1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker was born (d. 1911). British botanist.
• 1823 - Dinshaw Maneckji Petit was born (d. 1901). Indian industrialist.
• 1843 - Ernest Mason Satow was born (d. 1929). British diplomat.
• 1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny dies (b. 1802). French naturalist.
• 1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• 1860 - Historic debate about evolution at the Oxford University Museum.
• 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• 1871 - Alfredo da Silva was born (d. 1942). Portuguese industrialist.
• 1882 - Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
• 1883 - The first appearance of The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson in "Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature".
• 1884 - Georges Duhamel was born (d. 1966). French author.
• 1886 - The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4 of the same year.
• 1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman dies (b. 1819). American composer.
• 1891 - Ed "Strangler" Lewis was born (d. 1966). American professional wrestler.
• 1891 - Man Mountain Dean was born (d. 1953). American professional wrestler.
• 1892 - Oswald Pohl was born (d. 1951). German Nazi leader.
• 1893 - Walter Ulbricht was born (d. 1973). German politician.
• 1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid.
• 1894 - London Tower Bridge opens.
• 1898 - Otto von Bismarck dies (b. 1815). German Leader.
• 1899 - Harry Shields was born (d. 1971). American jazz clarinetist.
• 1899 - Madge Bellamy was born (d. 1990). American actress.
• 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.
• 1906 - The U.S. Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• 1906 - Anthony Mann was born (d. 1967). American film actor and director.
• 1906 - Ralph Allen was born (d. 1981). English footballer.
• 1907 - Roman Shukhevych was born (d. 1950). Ukrainian politician.
• 1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia. Possibly the most powerful, natural explosion in recorded history occurred on this day in 1908 at 7:17 a.m. The site was the Tunguska section of Central Siberia.
• 1908 - Winston Graham was born (d. 2003). British writer.
• 1911 - Czesław Miłosz was born. Polish poet (d. 2004). Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1912 - The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
• 1913 - Harry Wismer was born (d. 1967). Owner of the New York Jets.
• 1913 - Alfonso López Michelsen was born (d. 2007). 32nd Colombian President.
• 1914 - Francisco da Costa Gomes was born (d. 2001). 16th President of Portugal / Portugal: Nasce em Chaves Francisco da Costa Gomes. Presidente da República (1974-1976) e marechal.
• 1917 - Susan Hayward was born (d. 14 Mar 1975). American Academy awarded actress. 1959 Best Actress in a Leading Role: I want to live; I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Valley of the Dolls).
• 1917 - Lena Horne was born. Actress and singer.
• 1917 - Susan Hayward was born (d. 1975). American actress.
• 1919 - Alfredo Ernesto de Sá Cardoso assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1919 - Ed Yost was born (d. 2007). American inventor.
• 1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh dies (b. 1842). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.
• 1926 - Paul Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York. American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He shared The Nobel Prize e Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA" with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger.
• 1927 - Shirley Fry was born. Tennis champion: Australian Open [1957], French Open [1951], Wimbledon [1956], U.S. Open [1956].
• 1929 - James Goldman was born (d. 1998). American screenwriter.
• 1931 - Bert Eriksson was born (d. 2005). Flemish neo-Nazi.
• 1931 - Andrew Hill was born (d. 2007). American jazz pianist.
• 1933 - Lea Massari was born. Italian actress.
• 1933 - Orval Tessier was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1934 -The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany takes place.
• 1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr. was born (d. 1997). American magician.
• 1934 - Kurt von Schleicher dies (b. 1882). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1934 - Ernst Röhm dies. Nazi government official.
• 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
• 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published.
• 1936 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Abbysinia appeals for aid to the League of nations against Mussolinis invasion of his country.
• 1936 - Nancy Dussault was born. American actress.
• 1936 - Dave Van Ronk was born (d. 2002). American folk singer/songwriter.
• 1938 - Apostolos Nikolaidis was born (d. 1999). Greek singer.
• 1939 - José Emilio Pacheco was born. Mexican poet.
• 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New York. American film director.
• 1940 - Mark Spoelstra wad born (d. 2007). American folksinger.
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
• 1941 - Peter Pollock was born. South African cricket player.
• 1942 - Robert Ballard was born. Oceanographer.
• 1942 - Ron Harris was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1943 - Florence Ballard was born (d. 1976). American singer (The Supremes).
• 1944 - The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
• 1944 - Raymond Moody was born. American parapsychologist.
• 1944 - Terry Funk was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1944 - Glenn Shorrock was born. Australian singer-songwriter; co-founding member of Little River Band.
• 1944 - Ron Swoboda was born. American baseball player.
• 1950 - Leonard Whiting was born. British actor.
• 1951 - Stanley Clarke was born. American musician.
• 1952 - The Guiding Light airs on television for the first time.
• 1952 - David Garrison was born. Broadway and television actor.
• 1952 - Athanassios S. Fokas was born. Greek mathematician.
• 1953 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• 1953 - Hal Lindes was born. British-American musician (Dire Straits).
• 1953 - Charles Miller dies (b. 1874). Father of football in Brazil.
• 1954 - Pierre Charles was born (d. 2004). Prime Minister of Dominica.
• 1955 - David Alan Grier was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing 128.
• 1957 - Sterling Marlin was born. American race car driver (NASCAR).
• 1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen was born. Finnish conductor and composer.
• 1959 - Brendan Perry was born. British musician (Dead Can Dance).
• 1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio was born in Brooklyn, New York. American actor.
• 1959 - Reinaldo Edgar de Azevedo e Silva Ferreira dies in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (b. in Barcelona 20 Mar 1922). Poet.
• 1959 - José Vasconcelos dies (b. 1882). Mexican writer and politician.
• 1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium, with Joseph Kasavubu as president and Patrice Lumumba as prime minister.
• 1960 - Murray Cook was born. Australian children's singer (The Wiggles).
• 1961 - Lee DeForest dies (b. 1873). American inventor.
• 1962 - Tony Fernandez was born. Baseball player.
• 1963 - Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
• 1963 - Pope Paul VI is crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen was born. Swedish guitarist.
• 1964 - Alexandra Christina Manley was born. Former Danish princess, now countess.
• 1965 - Mitch Richmond was born. American basketball player.
• 1965 - Steve Duchesne was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1965 - Gary Pallister was born. English footballer.
• 1966 - Marton Csokas was born. New Zealand actor.
• 1966 - Mike Tyson was born. World champion boxer.
• 1966 - Giuseppe Farina dies (b. 1906). Italian race car driver.
• 1968 – Credo of the People of God by Pope Paul VI.
• 1968 - Philip Anselmo was born. American musician.
• 1969 - Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
• 1969 - Dira Paes (Ecleitira Maria Fonseca Paes) was born in Abaetetuba-PA. Brazilian actress.
• 1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
• 1970 - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City.
• 1970 - Mark Grudzielanek was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
• 1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
• 1971 - Anette Michel was born. Mexican actress.
• 1971 - Monica Louise Potter is born in Cleveland, Ohio American actress ( The Young and the Restless, Without Limits, Patch Adams, Along Came a Spider).
• 1971 - Herbert Biberman dies (b. 1900). Jewish American screenwriter and film director.
• 1971 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolski and Vladislav Volkov die. Cosmonauts on Soyuz 11. The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through faulty valve.
• 1972 - One leap second was added to the UTC time system.
• 1972 - James Martin was born. English celebrity chef.
• 1973 - Chan Ho Park was born. Korean baseball pitcher.
• 1973 - Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R dies (b., 1903). Bishop and Martyr.
• 1974 - Melanie Lambert was born. American ice skater.
• 1974 - Vannevar Bush dies (b. 1890). American engineer and politician.
• 1975 - Ralf Schumacher was born. German race car driver.
• 1976 - Firpo Marberry dies (b. 1898). Major League Baseball pitcher.
• 1977 - Virginia Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British champion at the All England Club to date.
• 1978 - Willie McCovey becomes the 12th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1978 - Owen Lafave was born. Ex-husband of Debra Lafave.
• 1978 - Ben Cousins was born. Australian Football League player.
• 1979 - Matisyahu was born. Hasidic Jewish Reggae singer.
• 1979 - Rick Gonzalez was born. Hispanic-American actor.
• 1979 - Travis Minor was born. National Football League Runningback.
• 1980 - Na Islândia, Vigdis Fihnbogadotir foi a primeira mulher europeia a ser eleita Presidente da República.
• 1980 - Rade Prica was born. Swedish footballer.
• 1981 - Closing of the Majdanek Trial.
• 1981 - Can Artam was born. Turkish racing driver.
• 1981 - Matt Kirk was born. Canadian football player.
• 1981 - Karolina Sadalska was born. Polish kayaker.
• 1982 - Dan Jacobs was born. American guitarist (Atreyu).
• 1982 - Andy Knowles was born. British musician (Franz Ferdinand).
• 1982 - Mitch Maier was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Lizzy Caplan was born. American actress.
• 1983 - Colonel Muannar Kadhaffi president of Libya (officially his title since 2 March 1979 is 'Leader of the Revolution') flies to Rabat for talks with King Hassan II of Morocco (Mawlay al-Hasan II ibn Muhammad). Success ends a 14 year political rift between the two countries and leads to a period (1984-86) of strong political union between the two countries.
• 1983 - Brendon James was born. British drummer (Thirteen Senses).
• 1983 - Marlin Jackson was born. American football player.
• 1983 - Patrick Wolf was born. British musician.
• 1983 - Cheryl Cole was born. British singer (Girls Aloud).
• 1984 - Fantasia Barrino was born. American singer.
• 1984 - Gabriel Badilla was born. Costa Rican footballer.
• 1984 - Lillian Hellman dies (b. 1905). American playwright.
• 1984 - Diego Maradona é transferido para o Nápoles.
• 1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• 1985 - Cody Runnels was born. American wrestler.
• 1985 - Michael Phelps was born. American swimmer.
• 1985 - Fabiana Vallejos was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• 1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• 1986 – Allegra Versace was born. Italian heiress and stakeholder of the Versace empire
• 1986 – Freddy Guarín was born. Colombian footballer.
• 1986 – Nicola Pozzi was born. Italian footballer.
• 1986 - Victoria Crawford was born. American wrestler and model.
• 1987 - The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
• 1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.
• 1988 - Chacrinha dies (b. 1916). Brazilian radio and TV personality.
• 1989 - Miguel Vítor was born. Portuguese footballer (Benfica).
  
• 1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies.
• 1991 - 32 miners are killed when a coal mine fire in the Donbass region of the Ukraine released toxic gas.
• 1991 - Kaho was born. Japanese actress.
• 1992 - Fidel Ramos was sworn in as the new president of the Philippines. Joseph Estrada was elected vice-president with twice as many votes in a separate race.
• 1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
• 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland dies (b. 1928). American actor.
• 1993 - Wong Ka Kui dies (b. 1962). Hong Kong singer.
• 1994 - The U.S. Figure Skating Association strips Tonya Harding of the national championship and bans her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1995 - Gale Gordon dies (b. 1906). American actor.
• 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi dies (b. 1921). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1995 - Phyllis Hyman dies (b. 1949). American jazz vocalist.
• 1995 - Jorge Peixinho dies. Portuguese musician.
• 1997 - The first book in the award winning Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is published.
• 1997 - The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
• 1997 - Larry O'Day dies (b. 1944). Wrestler.
• 1997 - Luís Cristóvão dos Santos dies (b. 1916). Brazilian writer, journalist and folklorist.
• 2000 - Bilateral Open skies agreement USA - Portugal / Assinatura de acordo bilateral de "Céus Abertos" entre Estados Unidos e Portugal.
• 2001 - Doctors implant a dual-purpose pacemaker in U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's chest.
• 2001 - Chet Atkins dies (b. 1924). Country and western musician.
• 2001 - Joe Henderson dies (b. 1937). American jazz saxophonist.
• 2002 - Brazil defeats Germany 2-0 in Yokohama, Japan, to earn a record fifth title in the 17th Football World Cup. Ronaldo is the best scorer with 8 goals.
• 2002 - Chico Xavier dies (b. 1910). Popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement.
• 2003 - Buddy Hackett dies (b. 1924). American comic.
• 2003 - Robert McCloskey dies (b. 1915). Children's book writer and illustrator.
• 2004 - Portugal beat Netherlands 2-1 in Lisbon and is qualified to the final in 2004 Portugal Uefa EuroChampionship / Portugal vence a Holanda por 2-1 e assegura a presença na final do Euro 2004 (Campeonato da Europa de Futebol disputado em Portugal).
• 2004 - Brazil: Santo André wins Copa do Brasil (Brazil Cup the second most important competition) beating Flamengo, 2-0, in Maracanã.
• 2004 - António Sousa Freitas dies (b. 1921). Portuguese poet.
• 2005 - Frode Hallingbye is leaving Eli Lilly to fullfill his dream.
• 2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
• 2005 - Brazil wins Confedarations Cup in football.
• 2006 - World Cup in Germany: Quarter-Finals: Germany beat Argentina on penalty kicks decision after 1-1 and Italy won 3-0 against Ukraine.
• 2006 - Robert Gernhardt dies (b. 1937). German satirist.
• 2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
• 2007 - Sahib Singh Verma dies (b. 1943). Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi.
• 2007 – Ingmar Bergman dies (b. 1918). Swedish Film-maker.
• 2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni dies (b. 1912). Italian Film-maker.
• 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor.
• 2009 – Pina Bausch dies (b. 1940). German choreographer.
  
• Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• First Martyrs of the Church of Rome.
  

• First Martyrs of the See of Rome.

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2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa em imagens das fans

Já não veremos mais imagens como esta:

Mas podemos continuar a ver destas:

Telemóvel com sorte!

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2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Geralmente ganham os melhores ...e foi o que aconteceu! Ainda que através de um golo irregular...

Espanha

1-0

Portugal

Jogo decidiu-se com as substituições do minuto 59'

Queiroz insistindo em Ricardo Costa e Pepe mas com Hugo Almeida contra a Espanha esperada com Torres e David Villa na frente e o quarteto do meio-campo formado por Xavi e Xabi, Iniesta e Busquets.

Os espanhóis entraram a todo o gás e Portugal foi submetido a intensa pressão nos primeiros dez minutos com Eduardo a fazer três defesas difíceis. As marcações não funcionavam era dado muito espaço aos jogadores do meio-campo espanhol e chegou a pensar-se que o jogo ficaria perdido cedo. Mas não foi assim, Portugal com fugidas pelo lado esquerdo de Coentrão ganhou dois pontapés de canto consecutivos que também levaram a confusão à area espanhola e o tempo adiante mostrou Casillas nervoso. Num pontapé de fora da área de Tiago, Casillas defendeu e na recarga Hugo Almeida não conseguiu o golo. Depois num livre de longe de Cristiano Ronaldo o guarda redes espanhol voltou a largar a bola para a frente.

À maior posse de bola espanhola respondia agora Portugal com uma estrutura defensiva melhor organizada. Por volta dos trinta minutos Portugal equilibrava o jogo e a Espanha parecia intranquila com a oposição que lhe era oferecida.

No início da segunda parte o teor do jogo não se alteraria não se verificando o sufoco do início da partida. Aos 52' uma fugida de Hugo Almeida pela esquerda do ataque, desacompanhada é certo , quase dava golo para Portugal com a bola desviada por Puyol quase a entrar na baliza espanhola . As substituições do minuto 59' estragaram tudo para Portugal. Uma substituição vencedora - a de Torres por Llorente que logo fez estragos com a maior velocidade que apresentou a surgir por trás dos defesas de Portugal - outra, nitidamente perdedora: a do ponta de lança Hugo Almeida que estava a ter muita aplicação e a dar trabalho aos centrais espanhóis, por um centro campista Danny. Danny deveria ter substituído sim o inexistente Simão e não o esforçado e fisicamente robusto Hugo Almeida.

Não foi preciso muito para se ver o golo espanhol pré-anunciado. Eduardo faz enorme defesa a cabeceamento de Llorente à queima-roupa. Aos 61' um remate perigoso de David Villa com a bola a passar rente ao poste mais distante. E logo a seguir o golo. Bola no centro da entrada da área onde toda a gente é atraída e é colocada na esquerda para David Villa livre de marcação (onde está Ricardo Costa?), mas em posição um pouco adiantada relativamente à linha defensiva, ou seja em «off-side», o avançado chuta para uma primeira defesa com as pernas de Eduardo mas a bola sobra de novo para um dos melhores marcadores da prova que não perdoou.

Portugal não tinha plano B. Os espanhóis a ganhar continuaram a trocar a bola à vontade. Cristiano Ronaldo não se via (viria a sofrer falta já perto do final junto ao bico da área direita do ataque português que o árbitro argentino não assinalou). As substituições demoraram mas aos 72' lá entraram Liedson (a reposição de um ponta de lança numa equipa que estava a perder) e a saída de Pepe por Pedro Mendes.

Tem de se dizer que o 2-0 esteve mais perto de acontecer do que o empate. Só nos últimos cinco minutos Portugal se chegou à área de ataque - sem organizador de jogo ofensivo era pela ala esquerda que Coentrão tentava fazer chegar a bola ao ataque. Ainda houve lugar para um vermelho directo a Ricardo Costa por cotovelada na área espanhola a Capdevilla.

Já tínhamos dito que a presença de Ricardo Costa e Pepe no jogo com o Brasil era um erro de casting. Queiroz insistiu para este jogo com a Espanha e depois acabou por fazer desequilibrar a balança para o lado espanhol quando tirou Hugo Almeida. Portugal não jogou para ganhar mais uma vez e perdeu. Portugal fez quatro jogos e só num jogou para ganhar e ganhou, goleando até (é certo contra a equipa mais fraca do torneio, a Coreia do Norte); nos outros três jogos zero de risco: dois empates - Costa do Marfim e Brasil, e uma derrota Espanha. Saldo positivo? Não parece...

Saudemos os grandes jogadores da selecção de Portugal: Eduardo e Fábio Coentrão. Cristiano Ronaldo mais uma vez esteve em plano inferior.

A arbitragem já se temia, não foi muito evidente a inclinação mas se temos o jogo resolvido com um golo em fora de jogo, uma expulsão e um critério largo nas faltas (não marcando uma perigosa sobre Cristiano)!...

Voltamos amanhã à discussão das portagens nas Scuts, à inconstitucionalidade dos aumentos dos impostos, à crise, à queda das cotações na Bolsa, ao desemprego... e passemos a torcer pelo Brasil!

A Espanha nos quartos de final defronta o Paraguai que se apurou na decisão pelos pontapés da marca de grande penalidade depois de 0-0 contra o Japão.

ESPANHA: Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Gerard Piqué, Puyol, Capdevila, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Xabi Alonso (Marchena 90'), Iniesta, David Villa (Pedro Rodríguez 87'), Fernando Torres (Llorente 59')

PORTUGAL: Eduardo, Ricardo Costa, Ricardo Carvalho, Bruno Alves, Fábio Coentrão, Pepe (Pedro Mendes 72'), Raúl Meireles, Tiago, Simão (Liedson 72'), Hugo Almeida (Danny 59'), Cristiano Ronaldo

Golos: 1-0 David Villa (63')
Disciplina: 74' Cartão Amarelo para Xabi Alonso (Espanha).
80' Cartão Amarelo para Tiago (Portugal).
89' Cartão Vermelho para Ricardo Costa (Portugal).

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Nova técnica de contratação: o Método T. (de Tijolo)

O mundo mudou e os métodos para seleccionar colaboradores nas empresas também.

O método T. de tijolo, dizem os gurus da psicologia social promete revolucionar o processo de recrutamento.

Como funciona? Os candidatos são trancados num armazém e cada um recebe 500 tijolos sem qualquer orientação. Seis horas depois o júri analisa os resultados:
1. Os que contaram os tijolos, contrate-os como contabilistas;
2. Os que contaram e em seguida recontaram os tijolos, são auditores;
3. Os que espalharam os tijolos pela sala são engenheiros;
4. Os que tiverem arrumado os tijolos de maneira muito estranha e bizarra vão para a secção de Planeamento, Projectos e Controle de Produção;
5. Os que arremessaram os tijolos uns aos outros, coloque-os em Operações Especiais;
6. Os que se limitaram a dormir vão para a Segurança e os que passaram o tempo a conversar vão para os Recursos Humanos;
7. Os que picaram os tijolos em pedacinhos e estiverem tentando montá-los novamente, vão para Tecnologias de Informação;
8. Os que disserem que fizeram de tudo para diminuir o stock mas a concorrência está desleal e será preciso pensar em maiores facilidades, são vendedores natos;
9. Os que já tiverem saído antes do fim da sessão são administradores;
10. Os que estiverem a olhar pela janela com o olhar perdido no infinito, são os responsáveis pelo Planeamento Estratégico;
11. Os que afirmarem não estar a ver tijolo algum no armazém são advogados;
12. Os que reclamarem que os tijolos estão uma porcaria, sem identigficação e com medidas erradas, coloque-os no Controlo de Qualidade;
13. Os que estiverem a chamar os demais de "companheiros", ou "camaradas" elimine-os imediatamente antes que criem um sindicato.

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Concurso ibero-americano de Fotografia Universitária

http://foto.universia.pt/verfoto/Sossego-Matosinhos

http://foto.universia.pt/verfoto/Jardim-Botanico

O pessoal cá da casa concorreu com três fotos duas das quais se apresentam acima. Assim, não deixe de votar e atribuir a cotação máxima, pois claro, porque elas merecem!

http://foto.universia.pt/verfoto/Viagem-pelo-campo

Basta seguir as hiperligações fornecidas e escolher a pontuação que se pretende atribuir. Obrigado!

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O decisivo jogo Portugal - Espanha de logo...

No jogo com o Brasil Carlos Queiroz dispôs a equipa de tal modo que não assumiu qualquer risco. Entre assegurar um empate a zero (e ter probabilidade quase nula de ganhar) e a alternativa de discutir a vitória, fazendo um jogo mais aberto, mas correndo mais riscos de perder, preferiu a primeira opção e o resultado foi um empate a zero. A constituição do onze inicial é bem representativa relativamente à opção tomada.

Assim o nosso destino nos oitavos de final ficou traçado, ou se quisermos, dependente da proeza de terceiros travarem os espanhóis. Claro que não houve surpresas, a Espanha venceu o Chile e cá está um confronto ibérico.

Porquê esta introdução? Para deixar claro que Carlos Queiroz fez pouco para afastar a Espanha do nosso caminho. Confronto que qualquer adepto já temia que pudesse ocorrer.

Uma das maiores alegrias desportivas que tive na minha vida foi no Euro 2004 quando Portugal eliminou a Espanha ganhando por 1-0 no Estádio de Alvalade, com um golo de Nuno Gomes. Fui um dos cerca de 50.000 presentes. Esse jogo estava na fronteira entre uma decepcionante participação e o passaporte para uma presença positiva e quem sabe até um grande feito. Chegámos à final, como se sabe, que perdemos com a Grécia, mas não há dúvida sobre um saldo altamente positivo para a selecção das quinas.

O jogo do final da tarde (já é de logo!) tem, na minha apreciação, enquadramento semelhante e é bastante perigoso, naturalmente. A Espanha é a selecção número 2 do ranking mundial, é a Campeã da Europa. Não se iludam com a derrota que teve com a Suiça. Acabou em primeiro lugar no Grupo. Portugal não perdeu nenhum dos três jogos (mas empatou dois) e terminou em segundo. Pela lógica, até porque não temos o factor casa que tivemos em 2004 a Espanha é favorita. Dos seis jogos já disputados nos oitavos de final o vencedor foi lógico em cinco deles. Todos os primeiros classificados de um grupo ganharam aos segundos classificados do outro grupo, que por sinal, eram equipas pior classificadas no ranking. A excepção foi a da selecção do Gana, única equipa africana ainda em prova, que derrotou os Estados Unidos da América esta que tendo ganho o grupo em que participou está também melhor classificada no ranking FIFA.

Uma derrota de Portugal significa que tem de se atribuir nota negativa no saldo final da participação: dois empates a zero, uma única vitória (contundente é certo mas perante a pior equipa das 32 em prova) e uma derrota. Ganhando significa que não perdemos com as selecções numero 1 e 2 do ranking mundial ou seja passamos para um saldo positivo tanto mais que nos quartos de final jogaremos com o vencedor do Paraguai-Japão e aí teremos possibilidades de chegar às meias-finais. Estaríamos na pior das hipóteses com um comportamento semelhante ao do Mundial de 2006 em que ficamos em quarto lugar!

Concluindo, amanhã é o jogo que divide o Inferno do Céu. E logo a Espanha parceiro de Portugal na candidatura para organização do Mundial de 2018 e vizinhos na crise...

Ninguém espere facilidades. O favorito é a Espanha. Por todas as razões e mais uma. O árbitro é argentino. Mais, o Presidente do Comité de Arbitragem é espanhol (e o vice é brasileiro). Não bastando os erros graves a que assistimos nos jogos de domingo, não será preciso muito para que hermanos argentinos facilitem a vida aos nuestros hermanos (se isso for necessário). Acham que é por acaso que apanhámos quatro árbitros sul-americanos nos quatro jogos que vamos disputar? Não sejam ingénuos. Porque será que David Villa não foi punido apesar da agressão a um jogador das Honduras (Izaguirre)?

Porque razão a FIFA não quer o uso de meios tecnológicos e pactua com a vigarice que foi, entre outros:
(i) a qualificação da França
(ii) o golo com duas vezes mão do Brasil frente à Costa de Marfim
(ii)o golo não assinalado da Inglaterra frente aos alemães
(iii) o golo em fora de jogo da Argentina contra o México ?

É por acaso que foram sempre erros em que a equipa melhor posicionada no ranking saiu beneficiada?...

Todos os portugueses depois de um dia de trabalho vão estar, mais logo, expectantes e absorvidos pelo desenrolar do jogo. O país vai parar a partir das 19:30...

Queiroz vai apostar no futebol científico de (tentativa de) anulação das mais-valias espanholas. Defesa, médios defensivos e mais médios defensivos e Cristiano Ronaldo na frente a fazer uns raids? Com o Brasil resultou, mas com uma diferença fundamental é que o empate também servia aos brasileiros que ganhariam o grupo como ganharam e tiraram a Espanha da sua frente, (pelo menos até à final). Se dessem de mão beijada um desempate por penalties Queiroz não desdenharia.

Se perdermos, enfim, é o nosso destino de pobrezinhos... que pelo menos no futebol o ranking Fifa pretende desmentir. Voltaremos à crise, às portagens nas Scuts, ao aumento dos impostos... Se ganharmos (probabilidade muito mais remota, na minha opinião) estaremos eufóricos. Eu também... Oxalá!

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O Poema da Casa Que Não Existe - Afonso Schmidt (nos 120 anos do nascimento do autor)

Onde a cidade acaba em chácaras quietas
e a campina se alarga em sulcados caminhos
achei a solidão amiga dos poetas
numa casa que é ninho, entre todos os ninhos.

Térrea, branquinha, com portadas muito largas,
desse azul português das antiquadas vilas
e uma decoração de laranjas amargas
que perfumam da tarde as aragens tranqüilas.

Ergue-se no pendor suave da colina,
escondida por trás dos eucaliptos calmos;
tem jardim, tem pomar, tem horta pequenina,
solar de Liliput que a gente mede aos palmos ...

Neste ponto, a ilusão, a miragem, se some;
olho para você, eu triste, você triste.
Enganei uma boba! O bairro não tem nome,
a estrada não tem sombra, a casa não existe!

Afonso Schmidt nasceu em Cubatão, Estado de São Paulo, a 29 de junho de 1890, m. em São Paulo aos três de abril de 1964)
Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog:
Cubatão
Chromo

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VELUT UMBRA - Da Costa e Silva (relembrando o poeta do Piauí na passagem do 60º. aniversário da sua morte)

Na passagem do 60º. aniversário da sua morte relembramos António Francisco da Costa e Silva, autor da letra do Hino do Piauí e poeta simbolista. Começou a compor versos por volta de 1896, para procissões em Amarante (ainda cantados, com modificações, nas festas religiosas do Piauí). Em 1901 foram publicados seus primeiros poemas na Revista do Grêmio Literário Amarantino. O seu primeiro livro de poesia, Sangue, lançado em 1909, foi marcada por um grande sucesso, sendo a primeira obra da última geração simbolista. Nas décadas seguintes exerceu vários cargos como funcionário do Tesouro Nacional e colaborou nos periódicos Diário de Minas, Estado do Amazonas, Ilustração Brasileira e O Malho. Em 1927 ocorreu a publicação do livro Verônica, escrito sob o impacto da perda de sua mulher, Alice, em 1919. Em 1931 foi afastado do Tesouro Nacional; dois anos depois, foi indicado como candidato à Assembléia Nacional Constituinte pelo Partido Republicano Liberal do Piauí, mas não disputou eleições. Entre 1931 e 1945 esteve à disposição da Presidência da República, a pedido de Getúlio Vargas. "Zodíaco" a sua segunda obra poética, demonstrava, entretanto, uma nova tendência para o parnasianismo. Pandora (1919), Antologia (1934) e os póstumos Poesias Completas (1950) e Saudades (1956) completam a sua obra poética. Poeta da Saudade, segundo Alberto da Costa e Silva, seus poemas apresentam "fluente e rica musicalidade de uma linguagem em que existe exata correspondência entre som e sentido e em que cada palavra possui um preciso valor no cantar do verso. (Fonte)

"O que perturba e intimida
O meu espírito forte
Não é a certeza da morte,
Mas a incerteza da vida"

VELUT UMBRA

Vivo sempre a seguir-te em toda a parte
A todo o tempo, a todo o transe e em tudo;
E tanto mais me esforço em procurar-te
Mais de te conseguir me desiludo.

Busca-te o meu ideal num sonho de arte;
E sem te ouvir, nem te falar, contudo
Eu não me canso em vão de desejar-te,
Cego para te ver e, ao ver-te, mudo...

Vendo-te ou não, o meu olhar divaga
Sempre a seguir-te; e as vezes que te vejo,
Como que te diluis, visão pressaga!

Quando te encontro, num fortuito ensejo,
Sinto que és uma sombra que se apaga
Ao sol crepuscular do meu desejo.

Poema extraído daqui onde poderá conhecer mais sobre o autor e a sua obra

Antonio Francisco da Costa e Silva (nasceu na cidade de Amarante, em 23 de novembro de 1885 e faleceu em 29 de junho de 1950)

Em Nothingandall pode também ler do mesmo autor:
Madrigal de um louco
Saudade

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On this day in History - Jun 29

• 0067 - St. Peter dies crucified. Apostle and and 1st Bishop of Rome.
• 0512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland.
• 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony dies.
• 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din.
• 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
• 1252 - King Abel of Denmark dies (b. 1218).
• 1312 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned.
• 1315 - Ramon Llull dies (b. 1235). Spanish philosopher.
• 1397 - John II of Aragon was born (d. 1479).
• 1444 - An Ottoman invasion force is defeated by Skanderbeg at Torvioll.
• 1482 - Maria of Aragon was born (d. 1517). Queen of Portugal.
• 1509 - Margaret Beaufort dies (b. 1443). Mother of Henry VII of England.
• 1517 - Rembert Dodoens was born (d. 1585). Flemish physician.
• 1529 - Emperor Karel V and Pope Clemens VII sign Treaty of Barcelona.
• 1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
• 1540 - Thomas Cromwell was sentenced to death. English ex-chancellor.
• 1596 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan was born (d. 1680).
• 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, burned down during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
• 1620 - John Aerts dies. Flemish sculptor.
• 1641 - Portugal assinou com a Suécia o Tratado de Estocolmo.
• 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil.
• 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrianian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
• 1725 - Arai Hakuseki dies (b. 1657). Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer.
• 1744 - André Campra dies (b. 1660). French composer.
• 1746 - Joachim Heinrich Campe was born (d. 1818). German writer, linguist and educator.
• 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island).
• 1764 - Ralph Allen dies (b. 1693). English businessman and politician.
• 1767 - The British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts.
• 1776 - The Virginia constitution was adopted and Patrick Henry was made governor.
• 1779 - Anton Raphael Mengs dies. Painter.
• 1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
• 1798 - Giacomo Leopardi was born (d. 1837). Italian poet.
• 1801 - Pietro Alfieri was born. Italian composer.
• 1803 - John Newton Brown was born (d. 1868). American publisher.
• 1837 - William IV dies. King of England.
• 1847 - Assinatura da Convenção do Gramido que põe fim à guerra civil da Patuleia, firmando a derrota das forças revoltosas da junta do Porto, compostas por uma aliança de setembristas, miguelistas e dissidentes cartistas, e consagrando a vitória do governo cartista do marechal Saldanha.
• 1849 - John Hunn was born (d. 1926). American businessman.
• 1850 - Coal discovered on Vancouver Island.
• 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece.
• 1852 - Juan de Dios Peza was born. Mexican writer.
• 1852 - Henry Clay dies (b. 1777). U.S. Senator.
• 1855 - John Gorrie dies (b. 1802). American scientist.
• 1858 - Julia Clifford Lathrop was born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1932). American social worker, head of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1912-1921).
• 1858 - George Washington Goethals was born (d. 1928). American army engineer (Chief Engineer of Panama Canal).
• 1861 - Dr. William Mayo was born (d. 1939). American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic.
• 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies (b. 1806). English poet.
• 1863 - George Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brigadier-general.
• 1863 - Wilbert Robinson was born (d. 1934). American baseball player and hall-of-famer.
• 1864 - Ninety-nine people killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire.
• 1865 - Shigechiyo Izumi was born (d. 1986). Japanese supercentenarian.
• 1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky was born (d. 1934). Ukrainian statesman.
• 1868 - George Ellery Hale was born (d. 1938). American astronomer.
• 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt dies (b. 1824). Bengali poet.
• 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
• 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria dies (b. 1793).
• 1878 - Teixeira de Vasconcellos dies (b. 1 Nov 1816). Portuguese writer and journalist.
• 1880 - France annexes Tahiti.
• 1880 - Ludwig Beck was born (d. 1944). German general.
• 1881 - Chuchle battle, a student brawl fought in a Chuchle restaurant resulting in several wounds, a swatch of Czech and German chauvinism in the late 19th century.
• 1881 - Curt Sachs was born (d. 1959). German musicologist.
• 1881 - Harry Frazee was born (d. 1929). Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923.
• 1886 - Robert Schuman was born (d. 1963). French politician.
• 1886 - James Van Der Zee was born (d. 1983). American photographer.
• 1886 - Robert Schuman was born (d. 1963). French Prime-Minister.
• 1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
• 1888 - Realizada a primeira operação ao apêndice, pelo cirurgião inglês Frederik Treves.
• 1889 - Willie MacFarlane was born (d. 1961). Scottish golfer, US Open winner 1925.
• 1890 - Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper was born. World's oldest woman.
• 1890 - Constituição da primeira Federación de Trabajadores de la República Argentina.
• 1890 - Afonso Schmidt was born in Cubatão, São Paulo (d. 3 Apr 1964). Brazilian poet and journalist (Janelas Abertas - 1912).
• 1891 - National Forest Service is organized.
• 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa commences operation.
• 1893 - Aarre Merikanto was born (d. 1958). Finnish composer.
• 1893 - Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born (d. 1972). Indian scientist and statistician.
• 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1895 - Floriano Peixoto (Marechal Floriano) dies. President of Brazil (1891-1894).
• 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley dies (b. 1825). English scientist.
• 1897 - Fulgence Charpentier was born (d. 2001). French Canadian journalist.
• 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born (d. 1944). French pilot and writer.
• 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin dies (b. 1900). Russian mathematician.
• 1901 - Nelson Eddy was born (d. 1967). American singer and actor.
• 1903 - Alan Blumlein was born (d. 1942). English electronics engineer.
• 1905 - Manuel Altolaguirre was born. Spanish poet and publisher (La lenta libertad).
• 1905 - Moonlight Graham makes his only major league baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.
• 1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky was born (d. 1945). Russian general.
• 1906 - Manuel Altolaguirre was born. Spanish poet.
• 1906 - Albert Sorel dies (b. 13 Ago 1842). French historian.
• 1908 - Leroy Anderson was born (d. 1975). American composer.
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead was born (d. 1993). American baseball player.
• 1910 - Frank Loesser was born (d. 1969). American composer.
• 1911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was born (d. 2004).
• 1911 - Bernard Herrmann was born (d. 1975). American film composer.
• 1911 - Eudóxio César Azedo Gneco dies (b. 1849). Portuguese journalist, founder of Portuguese Socialist Party on 10 Jan 1875.
• 1912 - Émile Peynaud was born (d. 2004). French oenologist.
• 1912 - John Toland was born (d. 2004). American historian.
• 1913 - Beginning of the 2nd Balkan War. Bulgaria defeated Greek and Serbian troops.
• 1914 - Portugal: A Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes é reconhecida como instituição de utilidade pública.
• 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• 1914 - Christos Papakyriakopoulos was born (d. 1976). Greek mathematician.
• 1914 - Rafael Kubelík was born (d. 1996). Czech conductor.
• 1915 - Ruth Warrick was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for first time.
• 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
• 1917 - The Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia.
• 1918 - Vitorino Magalhães Godinho was born. Portuguese historian and professor.
• 1919 - Lloyd Richards was born (d. 2006). American director.
• 1919 - Slim Pickens [Louis Bert Lindley Jr.], was born (d. 8 Dec 1983). American actor, cowboy. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Howling, The Apple Dumpling Gang, In Harm’s Way, One-Eyed Jacks, The Outlaws, Hee Haw; Cowboy Hall of Famer.
• 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández dies (b. 1864). Venezuelan physician.
• 1920 - O Madrid Foot Ball Club ganha o título de 'Real' do rei Alfonso XIII.
• 1920 - Ray Harryhausen was born. American filmmaker.
• 1921 - Reinhard Mohn was born. Publisher.
• 1921 - Frédéric Dard was born (d.2000). French writer.
• 1921 - Otto Seeck dies (b. 1850). German classical historian.
• 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
• 1922 - Vasko Popa was born (d. 1991). Yugoslavian poet.
• 1923 - Chou Wen-chung was born. Chinese-American composer.
• 1924 - Ezra Laderman was born. American composer.
• 1924 - Flo Sandon's was born (d. 2006). Italian singer.
• 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England.
• 1925 – Cara Williams was born. American actress
• 1925 – Chan Parker was born (d. 1999). American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods.
• 1925 - Giorgio Napolitano was born. Italian politician.
• 1925 - Hale Smith was born. American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor.
• 1925 - Cara Williams was born. American actress.
• 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1926 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was born (d. 2006). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller.
• 1928 - The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York both opened.
• 1928 - Ian Bannen was born (d. 1999). Scottish actor.
• 1928 – Radius Prawiro was born (d. 2005). Indonesia Finance Minister.
• 1929 - Oriana Fallaci was born (d. 2006). Italian journalist and author.
• 1929 - Pat Crawford Brown was born. American actress.
• 1930 - Viola Léger was born. Acadian-Canadian actress.
• 1930 - Robert Evans was born. American film producer and actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown).
• 1931 - Ed Gilbert was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin dies (b. 1850). Quebec poet.
• 1932 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton was born. British Law Lord.
• 1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
• 1933 - Bob Shaw was born. American baseball player.
• 1933 - John Bradshaw was born. American theologian.
• 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle dies (b. 1887). American actor.
• 1934 - Corey Allen was born. American filmmaker and actor.
• 1935 - Katsuya Nomura was born. Japanese baseball player and manager.
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill dies (b. 1873). American baseball player.
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew was born. American baseball player.
• 1936 - Henrique Viana was born in Lisbon. Portuguese actor and comedian.
• 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
• 1938 - Acácio de Almeida was born at Souto, Portugal. Cinematographer. Founder of production company "Inforfilmes".
• 1939 - Alan Connolly was born. Australian cricketer.
• 1939 - Lo Lieh was born (d. 2002). Hong Kong martial arts actor.
• 1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov was born. Russian composer.
• 1940 - Paul Klee dies (b. 1879). Swiss artist.
• 1941 - John Boccabella ws born. American baseball player.
• 1941 - Stokely Carmichael was born (d. 1998). Black Panther member.
• 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski dies (b. 1860). Polish pianist and composer.
• 1941 - Kwame Ture (born "Stokeley Carmichael"), was born. Civil rights activist.
• 1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th Symphony, premieres.
• 1942 - Mike Willesee was born. Australian television presenter.
• 1942 - Tristão da Cunha (José Maria Leitão da Cunha, Fº.) dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 13 Mar 1878). Brazilian poet and writer (Torre de Marfim 1901).
• 1943 - Little Eva was born (d. 2003). American singer.
• 1944 - Gary Busey was born. American actor.
• 1944 - Sean O'Malley was born. Current Archbishop of Boston.
• 1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.
• 1945 - Chandrika Kumaratunga was born. President of Sri Lanka.
• 1946 - Egon von Furstenberg was born (d. 2004). Swiss fashion designer.
• 1946 - Ernesto Pérez Balladares was born. President of Panama from 1994 to 1999.
• 1947 - Michael Carter was born. British actor.
• 1947 - Richard Lewis was born. American comedian.
• 1948 - Ian Paice was born. English drummer (Deep Purple).
• 1949 - Ann Veneman was born. 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture.
• 1949 - Joan Clos i Matheu was born. Current mayor of Barcelona.
• 1950 - In football (soccer), United States defeats England 1-0 in the Football World Cup.
• 1950 -António Francisco da Costa e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1885). Brazilian poet (Sangue -1908).
• 1951 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, is ordained as a priest.
• 1951 - Don Rosa was born. American illustrator Donald Duck.
• 1952 - Joe Johnson was born. English snooker player.
• 1953 - Colin Hay was born. Scottish-Auistralian guitarist and singer.
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt was born. American baseball player.
• 1955 - Charles J. Precourt was born. Deputy Manager, International Space Station Program.
• 1955 - Terence M. O'Sullivan was born. American activist.
• 1956 - Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Asher Miller in a London ceremony.
• 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
• 1956 - Charles Dumas cleared the high jump, which was set at 7’ 1/2", at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Dumas became the first athlete to break the seven-foot barrier.
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero was born. Dominican baseball player.
• 1956 - Pedro Santana Lopes was born. Prime Minister of Portugal.
• 1957 - María Conchita Alonso was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba. She raised in Venezuela. After she was crowned Miss Teenager of the World, (1971) and Miss Venezuela, (1975), - 6th in Miss World 1975- she became a popular actress and singer (Roosters, Texas, Predator 2, Vampire’s Kiss, Colors, The Running Man, Extreme Prejudice, Blood Ties, Moscow on the Hudson, One of the Boys).
• 1957 - Michael Nutter was born. American politician.
• 1957 - Robert Forster was born. Australian musician.
• 1958 - Brazil finally win their first FIFA World Cup with a 5-2 victory against hosts Sweden in Stockholm. Vava and Pele score a brace each with Zagallo - who went on to coach Brazil to victory in the 1970 finals - scoring the other / O Brasil conquista o seu primeiro Campeonato do Mundo de futebol ao bater na final a Suécia em Estocolmo por 5-2 ( COPA 1958, na Suécia).
• 1958 - Jeff Coopwood was born. American actor, broadcaster and singer.
• 1958 - Rosa Mota was born. Olympics: 1984 bronze Marathon, 1988 Gold Marathon. Worlds: 1987 Gold Marathon. European: 1982, 1986 & 1990 Gold Marathon. Nascimento da grande atleta portuguesa, Rosa Mota, uma das maiores figuras do desporto português de todos os tempos.
• 1958 - Charles Spencelayh dies (b. 1865). English painter.
• 1960 - Frank Patrick dies (b. 1885). Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• 1961 - Se inaugura el Estadio San Martín de Porras, propiedad de Sporting Cristal de Lima, Perú.
• 1961 - Greg Hetson was born. American punk-rock guitarist.
• 1961 - Kimberlin Brown was born. Emmy Award-nominated American actress.
• 1961 - Sharon Lawrence was born. American actress.
• 1962 - Amanda Donohoe was born. British actress.
• 1962 - George Zamka was born. American astronaut.
• 1963 - Anne-Sophie Mutter was born. German violinist.
• 1963 - Khalid El-Masri was born. German mistaken for a suspected terrorist.
• 1964 - Eric Dolphy dies (b. 1928). American jazz musician.
• 1964 - Stedman Pearson was born. British singer.
• 1965 - Tripp Eisen was born. American musician.
• 1966 - John Part was born. Canadian darts player.
• 1966 – Yoko Kamio was born. Japanese manga artist.
• 1967 - Jeff Burton was born. American auto racer.
• 1967 - Melora Hardin was born. American actress, singer.
• 1967 - Murray Foster was born. Canadian musician.
• 1967 - Jayne Mansfield dies (b. 1933). American actress.
• 1967 - Primo Carnera dies (b. 1906). Italian boxer.
• 1967 - José Leitão de Barros dies (b. 1896). Portuguese film director.
• 1968 - Theoren Fleury was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1969 - Claude Béchard was born. Quebec politician.
• 1969 - Ilan Mitchell-Smith was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Toru Hashimoto was born. Japanese politician.
• 1969 - Moise Thsombe dies (b. 1919). Premier of Congo.
• 1969 - Shorty Long dies (b. 1940). American singer.
• 1970 - Premiere of "A party for Boris". In Hamburg Thomas Bernhard’s first play premiered.
• 1970 - Emily Skinner was born. American actress and singer.
• 1970 - Mike Vallely was born. American skateboarder and singer (Revolution Mother).
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton was born. English snooker player.
• 1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley was born. American pornographic actress.
• 1971 - Matthew Good was born. Canadian rock musician and activist.
• 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
• 1972 - Nawal Al Zoghbi was born. Lebanese singer.
• 1972 - Samantha Smith was born. American social activist and child actress.
• 1973 - George Hincapie was born. American cyclist.
• 1973 - Germán Valdés dies (b. 1915). Mexican actor.
• 1974 - Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband President Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
• 1974 - Ferreira de Castro dies (b. 1898). Portuguese writer /Morreu o escritor português Ferreira de Castro (n. 24 Mai 1898). Emigrantes (1928 ). A Selva (1930), Eternidade (1932),Terra Fria (1934), Tempestade (1940).
• 1975 - Danton Mello (Danton Figueiredo Melo) was born in Passos, Minas Gerais. Brazilian actor.
• 1975 - Independiente se proclama campeón de Copa Libertadores por cuarta vez consecutiva. Lo hace venciendo a Unión Española de Chile, por 2 a 0, en el estadio Defensores del Chaco en Asunción, Paraguay.
• 1975 - Dionisio Ridruejo dies (b. 12 Out 1912). Spanish poet.
• 1975 - Tim Buckley dies (b. 1947). American singer-songwriter.
• 1976 - The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1976 - Bret McKenzie was born. New Zealand musician.
• 1976 - Sandhya Chib was born. Miss Universe-India (1996).
• 1977 – DealZ was born. American singer.
• 1977 - Oleg Korenfeld was born. Russian-born poet.
• 1977 - Zuleikha Robinson was born. English actress.
• 1977 - Magda Lupescu dies (b. 1895). Consort of King Carol II of Romania.
• 1978 - Nicole Scherzinger was born. American singer, dancer and actress.
• 1978 - Sam Farrar was born. American bassist.
• 1978 - Bob Crane dies murdered (b. 1928). American actor.
• 1979 - Abs Breen was born. English singer.
• 1979 - Barış Akarsu was born (d. 2007). Turkish singer and actor.
• 1979 - Liliana Castro was born. Equatorian-born Brazilian actress.
• 1979 - Marleen Veldhuis was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1979 - Matthew Bode was born. Australian rules football player.
• 1979 - Lowell George dies (b. 1945). American musician.
• 1980 - Elections are held for all the members of Parliament following premature
  dissolution of this body. No presidential candidate won the absolute majority
  of votes required to capture this post outright. It was thus again for the newly-elected Congress to designate a President; it planned to do so on 4 August. Before this scheduled meeting, however, military leaders effected a coup d'Etat on 17 July,
  assuming power and annulling the recent elections. Army General Luis Garcia Meza
  became the new President on 18 July.
• 1980 - James Courtney was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1980 - Katherine Jenkins was born. Welsh soprano.
• 1980 - Martin Truex Jr was born. American race car driver.
• 1980 - Mel Peachey was born. British television personality.
• 1981 - Joe Johnson was born. American basketball player.
• 1981 - Maria Maya was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1981 - Nicolás Vuyovich was born (d. 2005). Argentine racing driver.
• 1981 - Mohammed Hussein Beheshti dies murdered. Iran ayatollah, politician.
• 1982 - Andrea Butjko was born. Hungarian porn star.
• 1982 - Henry King dies (b. 1886). American film director.
• 1982 - Pierre Balmain dies (b. 1914). French fashion designer.
• 1983 - Aundrea Fimbres was born. American singer (Danity Kane).
• 1984 – Christopher Egan was born. Australian actor.
• 1984 – Derek Lee Rock was born. American drummer.
• 1984 - Han Ji-hye was born. South Korean actress and model.
• 1985 - Quintin Demps was born. American football player.
• 1986 - In Mexico City Argentina wins the Football World Cup defeating Germany 3-2. This was the second world title for Argentine. Inspired by an outstanding Diego Maradona, the South Americans race into a 2-0 lead by halftime, but Germany claw their way back into the match to draw level 2-2 through Rudi Voeller's 82nd minute strike. Jorge Burrachaga scores just three minutes later though to give Argentina their second world championship.
• 1986 - Austin Drage was born. English singer.
• 1986 - Iya Villania was born. Filipina actress.
• 1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille brought in $20.6 million at an auction in London, England.
• 1987 – Ana Free was born. Portuguese singer/songwriter.
• 1987 - Yasuka Saitou was born. Japanese actor.
• 1988 - Éver Banega was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1990 - Irving Wallace dies (b. 1916). American author and screenwriter (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac).
• 1992 - Adam G. Sevani was born. American actor.
• 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf dies assassinated (b. 1919). Algerian president.
• 1993 - George Sampson was born. English dancer.
• 1993 - Héctor Lavoe dies (b. 1946). Puerto Rican salsa music singer.
• 1994 - Mexican businessman and banker Alfredo Harp Helú is released after his family agreed to pay a $30 million ransom. Helu became the focus of international attention on March 14, 1994, when he was kidnapped by a group of Mexican guerillas on his way to work.
• 1994 - Saaed Owairan scores one of the best goals in World Cup history. The Saudi Arabian striker gets the ball in his own half in the fifth minute, beats half the Belgian side before slotting home. The Middle East side holds on to a historic 1-0 victory.
• 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn dies (b. 1908). German conductor.
• 1994 - Ray Crane dies. Trumpeter.
• 1995 - George Foreman loses IBF boxing title, refused to fight Axel Schulz.
• 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time).
• 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
• 1995 - Lana Turner dies (b. 1921). American actress. ("A successful man is one who make more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man").
• 1997 - William Hickey was born (d. 1927). American actor.
• 1998 - Horst Jankowski was born (d. 1936). German pianist.
• 1999 - Allan Carr dies (b. 1937). American film producer, writer.
• 2000 - Vittorio Gassman dies (b. 1922). Italian actor.
• 2002 - Hakan Sukur becomes the scorer of the fastest goal at the World Cup finals. The Turkish striker finds the net 11 seconds into the Third Place playoff against South Korea. His side win the match 3-2 and sensationally finish in third place.
• 2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
• 2002 - Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
• 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl dies (b. 1931). Computer scientist.
• 2002 - Rosemary Clooney dies (b. 1928). American singer and actress.
• 2002 - François Périer dies (b. 1919). French actor.
• 2003 - Thirteen are killed in a porch collapse in Chicago.
• 2003 - Katharine Hepburn dies (b. 1907). American actress.
• 2004 - José Durão Barroso é oficialmente indicado para presidir à Comissão Europeia.
• 2004 - A UN helicopter crashed in Sierra Leone and all 24 aboard were killed.
• 2004 - Yara Lins dies (b. 1930). Brazilian actress.
• 2004 - Bernard Babior dies (b. 1935). American biochemist.
• 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.
• 2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
• 2006 - Randy Walker dies (b. 1954). American football coach.
• 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky dies (b. 1959).Argentinean film director.
• 2006 - Lloyd Richards dies (b. 1919). American actor and director.
• 2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• 2007 - Apple Inc. released the iPhone for the United States market.
• 2007 - Edward Yang dies (b. 1947). Taiwanese film director.
• 2007 - Joel Siegel dies (b. 1943). American film critic.
• 2008 – Prince Aristides Stavros of Greece and Denmark, son of Crown Prince Pavlos.
• 2008 - Don S. Davis dies (b. 1942). American actor and artist.
• 2009 – Joe Bowman dies (b. 1925). American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, famed bootmaker & master showman.
• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints). O S. Pedro é uma festa popular também festejada em muitas localidades portuguesas. É famosa a festa de S. Pedro da Afurada, pequena povoação piscatória situada na foz e margem esquerda do rio Douro, em frente à cidade do Porto, Portugal.
• Seychelles - Independence Day.
• The Netherlands - Veterans Day.
• Malta - l-Imnarja.
• Haro Wine Festival (Haro, La Rioja)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Seychelles from United Kingdom in 1976.
• Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, i.e., the Apostles Peter and Paul of Tarsus; also a local holiday in Rome, of which they are patron saints, as well as of the Antiochian Orthodox Church and diamond workers.
• Brasil - Dia do Pescador (Recanto do Pescador).
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal de Bombarral.

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