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Soneto - No dia do aniversário do poeta Paulo Bomfim

Venho de longe, trago o pensamento
Banhado em velhos sais e maresias;
Arrasto velas rotas pelo vento
E mastros carregados de agonia.

Provenho desses mares esquecidos
Nos roteiros de há muito abandonados
E trago na retina diluídos
Os misteriosos portos não tocados.

Retenho dentro da alma, preso à quilha
Todo um mar de sargaços e de vozes,
E ainda procuro no horizonte a ilha

Onde sonham morrer os albatrozes...
Venho de longe a contornar a esmo,
O cabo das tormentas de mim mesmo.

Paulo Lébeis Bomfim (n. em São Paulo,30 de setembro de 1926)

A Mountain Nest - Rumi

Have you seen a fish dissatisfied
with the ocean? Have you seen a lover?

Have you seen an image
that tries to avoid the engraver?
Have you seen a word emptied of meaning?

You need no name.
You are the ocean.
I am held in your sway.

Fire in your presence
turns into a rosebush.

When I am outside you,
life is torment.

Then Solomon walks back into Jerusalem,
and a thousand lanterns illuminate.

The divine glory settles
into a mountain nest.

The emperor and the source of light,
Shams Tabriz, lives here,
with no location in my chest.

Translation by Coleman Barks

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), and popularly known as Mowlānā (Persian: مولانا) but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273)

On this day in History - Sep. 30

• 0420 - Saint Jerome dies. Translator of the Vulgate Bible.
• 0653 - Saint Honorius dies. Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan dies.
• 1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was born (d. 1273). Persian mystic and poet.
• 1227 - Pope Nicholas IV was born (d. 1292).
• 1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia dies (b. 1191).
• 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
• 1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn dies. English soldier and politician.
• 1452 - First printed book, the Johann Gutenberg Bible.
• 1487 - John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley dies (b. 1400). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• 1530 - Geronimo Mercuriali was born (d. 1606). Italian philologist and physician.
• 1550 - Michael Maestlin was born (d. 1631). German mathematician.
• 1551 - Ouchi Yoshitaka dies (b. 1507). Japanese warlord.
• 1560 - Melchior Cano dies (b. 1525). Spanish theologian.
• 1572 - St. Francis Borgia dies (b. 1510). Jesuit priest.
• 1581 - Hubert Languet dies (b. 1518). French diplomat and reformer.
• 1626 - Nurhaci dies (b. 1559). Manchurian chief.
• 1628 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke dies (b. 1554). English poet.
• 1631 - William Stoughton was born (d. 1701). American judge at the Salem witch trials.
• 1700 - Stanisław Konarski was born (d. 1773). Polish writer.
• 1710 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was born (d. 1771). Brotosh statesman.
• 1715 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was born (d. 1780). French philosopher.
• 1732 - Jacques Necker was born (d. 1804). French diplomat, finance minister of Louis XVI.
• 1743 - Jeronimo Francisco de Lima was born. Portuguese composer.
• 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
• 1765 - José María Morelos was born (d. 1815). Mexican revolutionary.
• 1770 - George Whitefield dies (b. 1714). English-born Methodist leader.
• 1770 - Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham dies. English politician and diplomat.
• 1772 - James Brindley dies (b. 1716). English engineer, pioneer canal builder, who constructed the first English canal of major economic importance.
• 1778 - Miguel de Bulhões e Sousa dies (b. 1706). Portuguese bishop.
• 1781 - American War of Independance: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
• 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.
• 1791 - The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
• 1800 - Decimus Burton was born (d. 1881). English architect.
• 1811 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar was born (d. 1890). Queen of Prussia and German Empress.
• 1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
• 1827 - Ellis H. Roberts was born (d. 1918). American politician.
• 1846 - Wilhelm Adolf Becker dies (b. 1796). German classical archaeologist, remembered for his works on the everyday life of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
• 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
• 1861 - William Wrigley Jr. was born (d. 1932). American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company).
• 1865 - Samuel David Luzzatto dies (b. 1800). Italian-Jewish scholar.
• 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.
• 1870 - Jean Baptiste Perrin was born (d. 1942). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1870 - Thomas W. Lamont was born (d. 1948). American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont.
• 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
• 1882 - Hans Geiger was born (d. 1945). German physicist.
• 1883 - Bernhard Rust was born (d. 1945). Nazi education minister.
• 1887 - Lil Dagover was born (d. 1980). Dutch-born German actress.
• 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
• 1888 - Elizabeth Stride dies (b. 1843). Widely believed to be the third victim of Jack the Ripper.
• 1888 - Catherine Eddowes dies (b. 1842). Widely believed to be the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper.
• 1891 - Georges Boulanger dies (b. 1837). French general and politician.
• 1893 - Lansdale Sasscer was born (d. 1964). American politician.
• 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
• 1895 - Lewis Milestone was born (d. 1980). Russian-born film director.
• 1897 - St Therese of Lisieux dies (b. 1873). Roman Catholic saint and mystic.
• 1898 - Renée Adorée was born (d. 1933). French actress.
• 1898 - Princess Charlotte of Monaco was born (d. 1977).
• 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
• 1902 - The "making of cellulose esters" was jointly patented by William H. Walker, Arthur D. Little and Harry S. Mork of Massachusetts. A month later, on 28 Oct 1902, they also patented artificial silk. Viscose was an early name for the product. The term rayon was adopted by the textile industry in 1924 to replace "artificial silk" and similar names.
• 1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
• 1904 - Waldo Williams was born (d. 1971). Welsh poet.
• 1905 - Nevill Francis Mott was born (d. 1996). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.
• 1908 - David Oistrakh was born (d. 1974). Ukrainian violinist.
• 1910 - Maurice Lévy dies (b. 1838). French engineer.
• 1912 - Kenny Baker was born (d. 1985). American singer and actor.
• 1913 - Bill Walsh was born (d. 1975). American film producer and writer.
• 1913 - Rudolf Diesel dies (b. 1858). German inventor.
• 1915 - Lester Maddox was born (d. 2003). Governor of Georgia.
• 1916 - Morreu, na Figueira da Foz, António Ramalho (n. 1858). Pintor português pertenceu à geração naturalista e distinguiu-se essencialmente como retratista.
• 1917 - Buddy Rich was born (d. 1987). American drummer.
• 1917 - Park Chunghee was born (d. 1979). President of South Korea.
• 1918 - Lewis Nixon was born (d. 1996). II World War Veteran.
• 1919 - Roberto Bonomi was born (d. 1992). Argentine racing driver.
• 1919 - Patricia Neway was born. American soprano.
• 1920 - Aldo Parisot was born. Brazilian-American musician and cellist.
• 1921 - Deborah Kerr was born. Scottish actress ( The King and I, From Here to Eternity, A Woman of Substance, The Night of the Iguana, Quo Vadis, Tea and Sympathy, Separate Tables).
• 1922 - Alan Stretton was born. Australian general.
• 1924 - Truman Capote was born (d. 25 Aug 1984). American author. In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s; actor: Murder by Death / Nascimento do escritor norte-americano Truman Capote (1924-1984), em Nova Orleães, no estado do Alabama. O seu nome de baptismo era Truman Streckfus Persons, tendo adoptado o apelido do padrasto. Conhecido sobretudo pelos seus livros Pequeno Almoço no Tiffany e A Sangue Frio.
• 1926 - Paulo Bomfim was born. Brazilian poet.
  
• 1926 - Robin Roberts was born. American baseball player.
• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
• 1927 - W. S. Merwin was born. American poet.
• 1928 - Elie Wiesel was born. Romanian Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
• 1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• 1931 - Angie Dickinson was born. American actress ( Police Woman, Cassie and Company, Wild Palms, Dressed to Kill, Rio Bravo, Ocean’s 11). Hollywood’s Best Legs Award [1962]
• 1932 - Shintaro Ishihara was born. Japanese author and politician (governor of Tokyo).
• 1932 - Johnny Podres was born. American baseball player.
• 1933 - Cissy Houston was born. American gospel/r&b singer.
• 1933 - Barbara Knox was born. English actress.
• 1934 - Anna Kashfi was born. Welsh actress.
• 1934 - Udo Jürgens was born. Austrian singer.
• 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
• 1935 - "The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.
• 1935 - Johnny Mathis was born. American singer.
• 1935 - Z. Z. Hill was born (d. 1984). American blues singer.
• 1937 - Artur Portela Filho was born. Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1937 - Valentin Silvestrov was born. Ukrainian composer.
• 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
• 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
• 1939 - Jean-Marie Lehn was born. French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1939 - Martha Wollstein dies (b. 21 Nov 1868). American physician and investigator in pediatric pathology.
• 1940 - Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield dies (b. 28 Nov 1858). British metallurgist who developed manganese steel, an alloy of exceptional durability that found uses in the construction of railroad rails and rock-crushing machinery.
• 1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs are killed at Babi Yar on September 29 – 30, 1941.
• 1942 - Frankie Lymon was born (d. 1962). American singer.
• 1942 – Hans-Joachim Marseille dies (b. 1919). German fighter pilot.
• 1943 - Ian Ogilvy was born. British actor.
• 1943 - Johann Deisenhofer was born. German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1943 - Marilyn McCoo was born. American singer (The Fifth Dimension).
• 1943 - Franz Oppenheimer dies (b. 1864). German sociologist.
• 1944 - Diane Dufresne was born. French Canadian singer.
• 1945 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43.
• 1945 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha was born. 42nd Present Sufi Master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi order.
• 1945 - Bob Lassiter was born. American radio personality.
• 1945 - Ehud Olmert was born. Twelfth Prime Minister of Israel.
• 1946 - Claude Vorilhon was born. Founder of Raelism, a ufo religio.
• 1946 – Fran Brill was born. American actress, voice actress and puppeteer.
• 1946 - Héctor Lavoe was born (d. 1993). Puerto Rican singer.
• 1946 - Jochen Mass was born. German F1 car driver.
• 1946 - Paul Sheahan was born. Australian Test Cricketer 1967-1974.
• 1947 - Baseball: The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
• 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joined the United Nations; Public holiday.
• 1947 - Dave Arneson was born. American game designer.
• 1947 - Marc Bolan was born (d. 1977). British musician.
• 1947 - Rula Lenska was born. English actress.
• 1948 - Craig Kusick was born. Former major league baseball player.
• 1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.
• 1950 - Renato Zero was born. Italian musician.
• 1951 - Barry Marshall was born. Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1952 - Jack Wild was born (d. 2006). British actor.
• 1953 - Deborah Allen was born. American singer.
• 1953 - S.M. Stirling was born. Canadian-born American science fiction and fantasy author.
• 1953 - Victoria Tennant was born. Actress: Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance.
• 1953 - Lewis Fry Richardson dies (b. 11 Oct 1881). British physicist and psychologist who was the first to apply mathematical techniques to predict the weather accurately.
• 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
• 1954 - Barry Williams was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Basia Trzetrzelewska was born. Polish-born singer and songwriter.
• 1954 - Patrice Rushen was born. American musician.
• 1955 - Film icon James Dean dies from injuries suffered in a car crash (b. 1931). American actor (Giant, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause).
• 1957 - Fran Drescher was born. American actress.
• 1958 - Marty Stuart was born. Country music singer.
• 1959 - Ettore Messina was born. Italian basketball coach.
• 1959 - Ross Granville Harrison dies (b. 13 Jan 1870). American zoologist who developed the first successful animal-tissue cultures and pioneered organ transplantation techniques.
• 1960 - The last episode of "The Howdy Doody Show" airs on NBC.
• 1960 - The Flintstones made their debut on primetime.
• 1960 - Blanche Lincoln was born. American politician.
• 1961 - Mayor Snyder of Oregon writes a check for $1.96 to cover the cost of the tea lost in the Boston Tea Party.
• 1961 - Crystal Bernard was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Eric Stoltz was born. American actor ( Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Our Town, Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Glass Menagerie, Pulp Fiction, Once and Again).
• 1961 - Eric van de Poele was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1961 - Sally Yeh was born. Hong Kong singer and actress.
• 1961 - Onésime Gagnon dies (b. 1888). French Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Québec.
• 1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.
• 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
• 1962 - Frank Rijkaard was born. Dutch football player and manager.
• 1962 - Shaan was born. Indian singer.
• 1962 - Last episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar broadcast on CBS Radio, marking the end of The Golden Age of Radio.
• 1963 - David Barbe was born. American musician (Sugar).
• 1964 - Monica Bellucci was born. Italian actress.
• 1964 - Robby Takac was born. American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls).
• 1964 - Trey Anastasio was born. American musician (Phish).
• 1965 - General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto massacres over a million Indonesian communists.
• 1965 - Six generals of Indonesian National Army assassinated by counter-coup action known as 30 September Movement.
• 1965 - Kathleen Madigan was born. American comedian.
• 1965 - Omid Djalili was born. British stand-up comedian and actor.
• 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• 1966 – Gary Armstrong was born. Scotland rugby player.
• 1966 - Kerry G. Johnson was born. African American graphic designer and caricaturist.
• 1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
• 1967 - Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation is launched in Colombo; the station was formerly known as Radio Ceylon.
• 1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
• 1968 - Stanislaw Ponte Preta dies (b. 1923). Brazilian writer.
• 1969 - Chris Von Erich was born (d. 1991). American professional wrestler.
• 1969 - Mark Smith was born. English body builder, former Gladiators player.
• 1969 - Sir Frederic C. Bartlett dies (b. 20 Oct 1886). British psychologist best known for his studies of memory. Britain's most outstanding psychologist between the World Wars.
• 1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
• 1971 - Jenna Elfman was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Ari Behn was born. Norwegian author.
• 1972 - Jamal Anderson was born. American football player.
• 1972 – Shaan was born. Indian singer.
• 1973 - Peter Pitseolak dies (b. 1902). Inuit photographer and author.
• 1974 - Portugal: Tomada de posse do 3.º Governo Provisório, chefiado por Vasco Gonçalves.
• 1974 - Portugal: General Costa Gomes assume a Presidencia da Republica após a renúncia do presidente António de Spínola.
• 1974 - Daniel Wu was born. American-born Chinese film actor, director, and producer.
• 1974 – Jeremy Giambi was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 - Carlos Prats dies (b. 1915). Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor.
• 1975 - Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali fight (Thriller in Manila).
• 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache made its first flight.
• 1975 - Carlos Guillén was born. Vernezuelan baseball player.
• 1975 – Georges-Alain Jones was born. French singer.
• 1975 - Marion Cotillard was born. French actress.
• 1976 - Mary Ford dies (b. 1928). American singer.
• 1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
• 1977 - Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmeña III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
• 1977 - Maia Brewton was born. American actress.
• 1977 - Roy Carroll was born. Northern Irish football player.
• 1977 - Sun Jihai was born. Chinese football player.
• 1977 - Mary Ford dies (b. 1924). American singer (Les Paul and Mary Ford).
• 1978 - Candice Michelle was born. American female wrestler.
• 1978 – Róbinson Zapata was born. Colombian footballer. (goalkeeper).
• 1978 - Edgar Bergen dies (b. 1903). American actor and ventriloquist.
• 1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
• 1979 - Andy van der Meyde was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1979 – Cameron Bruce was born. Australian footballer.
• 1979 - Clio-Danae Othoneou was born. Greek actress, musician and pianist.
• 1979 - Vince Chong was born. Malaysian singer-songwriter.
• 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
• 1980 - Camilla D’Errico was born. Canadian comic book artist and painter.
• 1980 - Martina Hingis was born. Swiss tennis player.
• 1981 - The death penalty is abolished in France.
• 1981 - Brandon Watson was born. American baseball player.
• 1981 - Cecelia Ahern was born. Irish author.
• 1981 - Dominique Moceanu was born. American gymnast.
• 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol scare.
• 1982 - The TV sitcom Cheers premieres.
• 1982 - Kieran Culkin was born. American actor.
• 1982 - Lacey Chabert was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Michelle Marsh was born. British model.
• 1982 - Ryan Stout was born. American comedian.
• 1982 – Ryane Clowe was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1982 - Seth Smith was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Teal Redmann was born. American actress.
• 1982 – Tory Lane was born. American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress.
• 1982 – Yan Stastny was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1983 – Adam Jones was born. American football player.
• 1983 - Andreea Răducan was born. Romanian gymnast.
• 1984 - Keisha Buchanan was born. British singer (Sugababes).
• 1984 - Megan Ewing was born. American supermodel.
• 1984 - T-Pain was born. American rapper/singer.
• 1984 - Anna Świrszczyńska dies (b. 1909). Polish poet.
• 1985 - Adam Cooney was born. Australian footballer.
• 1985 - Simone Signoret dies (b. 1921). French actress.
• 1985 - Charles Richter dies (b. 26 Apr 1900). American seismologist and inventor of the Richter Scale that measures earthquake intensity which he developed with his colleague, Beno Gutenberg, in the early 1930's.
• 1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
• 1986 - Christian Zapata was born. Colombian footballer.
• 1986 – Martin Guptill was born. New Zealand Cricketer.
• 1987 - Denise Laurel was born. Filipino actress and singer.
• 1988 - Al Holbert dies (b. 1946). American race car driver and team owner.
• 1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
• 1989 - NBC airs its final edition of the Major League Baseball Game of the Week. The Toronto Blue Jays would clinch the American League Eastern divisional title against the Baltimore Orioles.
• 1989 - Virgil Thompson dies (b. 1896). American composer.
• 1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
• 1990 - Alice Parizeau dies (b. 1930). Quebec writer and journalist.
• 1990 - Patrick White dies (b. 1912). Australian writer, Nobel laureate.
• 1990 – Rob Moroso dies (b. 1968). American NASCAR driver.
• 1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.
• 1992 - José Eduardo dos Santos becomes President of Angola.
• 1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
• 1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closed upon September 30th, after eighty-eight years of service.
• 1994 - Andre Michael Lwoff dies (b. 1902). French microbiologist, Nobel laureate.
• 1997 - Origin Systems Inc. releases Ultima Online, the first true massively multiplayer game, opening the door for a new video gaming genre.
• 1998 - Dan Quisenberry dies (b. 1953). American baseball player.
• 1998 - Lisbon Expo-98 finishes.
• 1999 - German novelist Guenter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences credited Grass’ first novel, The Tin Drum, with restoring honor to German literature "after decades of linguistic and moral destruction."
• 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo. Workers overload a container with uranium, exposing workers and local residents to very high radiation levels.
• 2002 - Demolition of The Wembley Stadium begins (London, England).
• 2002 – Göran Kropp dies (b. 1966). Swedish adventurer and mountaineer.
• 2002 - Hans-Peter Tschudi dies (b. 1913). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 2003 - Robert Kardashian was born (d. 1944). Armenian-American lawyer.
• 2003 - Yusuf Bey dies (b. 1935). Black Muslim leader.
• 2004 - A Rússia aprova adesão ao Protocolo de Kyoto.
• 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
• 2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retires from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
• 2004 - Gamini Fonseka dies (b. 1936). Sri Lankan actor.
• 2004 – Jacques Levy dies (b. 1935). Jewish American songwriter, theatre director, and clinical psychologist.
• 2004 - Michael Relph dies (b. 1915). British film producer and director.
• 2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".
• 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
• 2006 - The daytime train, The Overlander express between the cities of Auckland and Wellington is discontinued due to lack of patronage by Tranz Scenic NZ.
• 2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.
• 2008 – Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam dies (b. 1926). Singapore Opposition Leader & former Secretary-General of Singapore's Worker's Party.
• RC Saints - Saint Jerome.
• Botswana - Independence Day (1966).
• São Tomé and Príncipe - Agricultural Reform (Nationalization) Day.
• French Republican Calendar - Panais (Parsnip) Day, ninth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• International Translation Day, introduced in 1991 by International Federation of Translators.

Uefa Champions League: Benfica perde com erros defensivos na segunda parte

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Benfica

Ainda não foi desta que o Benfica ganhou na Alemanha

O Benfica foi jogar ao campo de uma equipa que tem bons jogadores mas que está classificada nos fundos da tabela da Bundesliga e que esta época ainda não ganhara oficialmente em casa. Jesus optou pelo mesmo onze inicial do jogo da Madeira, surpreendendo um tanto a ausência de Aimar, (esteve no banco) e a realidade é que os encarnados entraram bem no jogo conseguindo realçar uma certa falta de confiança e até algumas tremuras defensivas da equipa alemã, especialmente do seu lado direito qm que o lateral de nacionalidade japonesa era ultrapassado com aparente facilidade.

Foram de bolas paradas os lances de maior perigo e o Benficas esteve perto de marcar por duas ocasiões; numa delas Luisão ao primeiro poste num canto da esquerda apontado por Carlos Martins mostrou porque Neuer é o guarda-redes da selecção alemã, e a outra de um lançamento lateral a bola sobrou para o segundo poste com Saviola em boa posição mas a rematar ao lado.

A equipa alemã também criou perigo em lances de bola parada e até introduziu a bola por duas vezes na baliza encarnada mas em situações de fora de jogo evidentes que o assistente assinalou.

A medida que o tempo decorria o Benfica foi perdendo o controlo do jogo e subiu a confiança dos homens da casa que já terminaram a primeira parte em ascensão desfrutando mesmo da maior oportunidade de golo com um remate de Raul ao poste e Roberto através de grande defesa a evitar o golo na recarga de Rakitic.

Na segunda parte que se iniciou com Salvio no lugar do "amarelado" Gaitán, os alemães jogavam com mais velocidade e o cartão amarelo exibido ao lateral direito Ushida acabou por ser manifestação da providência porque o treinador substitui-o por Sarpei e a ala direita alemã tornou-se mais perigosa com destaque para Aí o erro do Benfica teve a ver com o seu futebol standard de logo que ganha a bola querer partir para transições rápidas de ataque, mesmo numa fase em que já estava a ser ultrapassado em termos de domínio de jogo, o que recomendaria a prática de um futebol mais pausado e de maior controlo, de contemporizações que, esta equipa do Benfica não faz. Este aspecto associado ao dos defesas terem ganho a mania de querer sair a jogar com fintas em zonas perigosas ditou a derrota encarnada.

No primeiro golo em jogada de insistência ou seja de ataque planeado germânico os jogadores do Benfica tiveram por duas vezes a bola à sua disposição com um corte de cabeça de Luisão que sobrou para um encarnado que logo quis construir a tal jogada de ataque. Perdeu e, na tão famigerada segunda bola, o cruzamento da esquerda apanhou ainda César Peixoto muito no centro da área mal posicionado e falhando a intervenção de cabeça, surgindo então Farfán (poderoso e bom jogador) a fazer o golo num remate cruzado.

Nessa altura já Jesus tinha esgotado as substituições pois Jesus fizera sair Saviola para a entrada de Aimar e pouco depois perdera Cardozo lesionado (ao que parece com de modo impeditivo para os próximos jogos) para entrar Kardec. O Benfica apagou-se e sofreria o segundo golo em mais uma perde de bola, neste caso de David Luís que tem de perder a mania de pensar que é Maradona e sair da defesa a fintar. Ficou desposionada a defesa encarnada, as compensações não ocorreram eficazmente e Huntelaar só encostou na assistência da esquerda de Jones, após abertura desequilibradora de Raul.

Este Benfica cometeu, assim, erros com alguma similute aos de Braga no jogo de ontem. O Benfica tem de perceber que às vezes importa parar o jogo, alterar a feição dos acontecimentos para depois poder retomar o ritmo normal. Erros defensivos, maior disponibilidade física dos alemães e muitos passes errados na segunda parte são as causas da derrota.

O árbitro italiano esteve bem em termos disciplinares e nos foras de jogo falhando, a meu ver, em algumas faltas em desfavor do Benfica. Mas talvez sejam os critérios europeus mais largos aos que estamos por cá habituados...

No próximo jogo o Benfica volta a jogar fora em Lyon (que ganhou em Telavive e comanda o grupo) e a situação fica muito complicada se não trouxer pelo menos um empate de França.

SCHALKE: Neuer; Uchida (Sarpei 58'), Papadopoulos, Metzelder e Schmitz; Farfán, Matip e Rakitic (Jones 65'); Huntelaar, Jurado (Kluge 78') e Raúl

BENFICA: Roberto; Maxi Pereira, Luisão, David Luiz e César Peixoto; Javi García; Carlos Martins, Gaitán (Salvio 45') e Fábio Coentrão; Saviola (Aimar 63'), Cardozo (Kardec 71')

Golos: Farfán 75'; Huntelaar 85'
45' Cartão Amarelo para Gaitán (Benfica).
49' Cartão Amarelo para Salvio (Benfica)
56' Cartão Amarelo para Javi García (Benfica), por falta sobre Farfá
57' Cartão Amarelo para Uchida (Schalke), por falta sobre Saviola.
63' Cartão Amarelo para Farfán (Schalke).

Uefa Champions League: Groups Stage, second round: Kobenhavn is the surprise

Today, 29 September 2010

Group A				Group B
Tottenham	4-1	Twente		H. Tel-Aviv	1-3	Lyon
Inter	4-0	W. Bremen		Schalke	2-0	Benfica
Group C				Group D
Valencia	0-1	M. United		Rubin	1-1	Barcelona
Rangers	1-0	Bursaspor		Panathinaikos	0-2	Kobenhavn

Standings

Group A					Group B
Inter	2	4	6-2		O. Lyon	2	6	4-1
Bordeaux	2	4	6-3		Schalke	2	3	2-1
Twente	2	1	3-6		Benfica	2	3	2-2
Werder Bremen	2	1	2-6		H. Tel-Aviv	2	0	1-5
Group C					Group D
Man. United	2	4	1-0		Kobenhavn	2	6	3-0
Rangers	2	4	1-0		Barcelona	2	4	6-2
Valencia	2	3	4-1		Rubin Kazan	2	1	1-2
Bursaspor	2	0	0-5		Panathinaikos	2	0	1-7

Yesterday, 28 September 2010

Group E				Group F
Basel	1-2	Bayern		Spartak	3-0	Zilina
Roma	2-1	Cluj		Chelsea	2-0	Marseille
Group G				Group H
Auxerre	0-1	Real Madrid		Partizan	1-3	Arsenal
Ajax	1-1	Milan		Braga	0-3	Shakhtar

Standings

Group E					Group F
Bayern München	2	6	4-1		Chelsea	2	6	6-1
AS Roma	2	3	2-3		Spatak Moskva	2	6	4-0
CFR 1907 Cluj	2	3	3-3		Marseille	2	0	0-3
Basel	2	0	2-4		Zilina	2	0	1-7
Group G					Group H
Real Madrid	2	6	3-0		Arsenal	2	6	9-1
AC Milan	2	4	3-1		Shakhtar	2	6	4-0
Ajax	2	1	1-3		Partizan	2	0	1-4
Auxerre	2	0	0-3		Braga	2	0	0-9

The Twenty One PL Principles

1. Life is art
2. Man's life is a succession of self-expressions
3. Man is a manifestation of God
4. Man suffers if he fails to express himself
5. Man's true self is lost when swayed by feelings and emotions
6. Man's true self is revealed when his ego is effaced
7. All things exist in mutual relationship to one another
8. Live radiantly as the sun
9. All men are equal
10. Strive for creating mutual happiness
11. Have true faith in God
12. There is a way (function) peculiar to every "name" (existence)
13. There is a way for men, and there is another for women
14. All is for world peace
15. All is a mirror
16. All things progress and develop
17. Comprehend what is most essential
18. At every moment man stands at the crossroads of good and evil
19. Act when your intuition dictates
20. Live in a perfect unity of mind and matter
21. Live in Perfect Liberty

Do you know what these rules are? They are the 21 Precepts announced by Tokuchika Miki on September 29, 1947 whitch became the basic teachings of the Church of Perfect Liberty or PL Kyodan.

Os Pratos Da Balança - Luís Miguel Nava

Balança cenográfica imagem daqui

Por entre as rochas um rapaz, nas mãos levando uma balança, avança em direcção ao mar. Vai procurar pesá-lo. Num dos pratos, o mar há-de revolver-se, debater-se, rebentar, há-de trazer à superfície a força das entranhas e atrair o céu, há-de-o fazer precipitar-se até com ele se confundir, e as próprias rochas através das quais o rapaz segue hão-de pesar no prato ferozmente. Imperturbável, o rapaz colocará no outro prato o seu sorriso.

Luís Miguel de Oliveira Perry Nava (nasceu em Viseu, 29 de Setembro de 1957 — m. Bruxelas, 10 de Maio de 1995)

On this day in History - Sep. 29

• 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.
• 480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.
• 106 BC - Pompey was born (d. 48 BC). Roman statesman and general.
• 0061 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
• 0048 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.
• 0048 BC - Pompey, the Great dies assassinated (b. 106 BC). Roman general.
• 0440 - Leo I becomes Pope.
• 0855 - Pope Benedict III becomes Pope.
• 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.
• 1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.
• 1240 - Margaret of England was born (d. 1275). Queen consort of Scotland.
• 1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu was born (d. 1387). French soldier.
• 1328 - Joan of Kent was born (d. 1385).
• 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
• 1364 - Charles, Duke of Brittany dies.
• 1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence was born (d. 1421). Second son of Henry IV of England.
• 1402 - Nasce Fernando de Portugal, o Infante Santo († 1443).
• 1511 - Miguel Servet was born († 1553). Spanish humanist.
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes was born († 1616). Spanish author.
• 1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria was born (d. 1626).
• 1560 - King Gustav I of Sweden dies (b. 1496).
• 1561 - Adriaan van Roomen was born (d. 1615). Flemish mathematician.
• 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
• 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.
• 1571 - Caravaggio was born (d. 1610). Italian artist.
• 1636 - Thomas Tenison was born (d. 1715). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1637 - Lorenzo Ruiz dies. Filipino saint.
• 1639 - Lord William Russell was born (d. 1683). English politician.
• 1640 - Antoine Coysevox was born (d. 1720). French sculptor.
• 1642 - René Goupil dies (b. 1608). French Catholic missionary, one of Canadian Martyrs.
• 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.
• 1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles was born (d. 1766). French soldier.
• 1691 - Richard Challoner was born (d. 1781). English Catholic prelate.
• 1703 - François Boucher was born (d. 1770). French painter.
• 1703 - Charles de Saint-Évremond dies (b. 1610). French soldier.
• 1717 – An earthquake struck Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture and making authorities consider moving the capital to a different city.
• 1725 - Robert Clive was born (d. 1774). British general and statesman.
• 1758 - Horatio Nelson was born (d. 1805). British admiral.
• 1766 - Charlotte, Princess Royal was born (d. 1828). German queen.
• 1786 - Guadalupe Victoria was born (d. 1843). First president of Mexico.
• 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
• 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.
• 1800 - Michael Denis dies (b. 1729). Austrian poet.
• 1801 - Tratado de paz entre Portugal e a República francesa, assinado em Madrid, em consequência da «Guerra das Laranjas», pelo qual Portugal se obriga a fechar os portos aos britânicos.
• 1803 - Jacques Charles François Sturm was born (d. 1850). French mathematician.
• 1803 - Mercator Cooper was born (d. 1872). American sea captain.
• 1804 - Michael Hillegas dies (b. 1728). First Treasurer of the United States.
• 1808 - Henry Bennett was born (d. 1868). American politician.
• 1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell was born (d. 1865). British novelist.
• 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.
• 1833 - King Fernando VII of Spain dies (b. 1784).
• 1842 - Louis J. Weichmann was born (d. 1902). Chief witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
• 1843 - Mikhail Skobelev was born (d. 1882). Russian general.
• 1844 - Miguel Juárez Celman was born. Argentine politician.
• 1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.
• 1849 - Dom Francisco do Rego Maia was born († 1928). Brazilian bishop.
• 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
• 1853 - Princess Thyra was born (d. 1933). Daughter of Christian IX of Denmark.
• 1863 - Hugo Haase was born (d. 1919). German politician and jurist.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
• 1864 - Alexandra Kitchin was born (d. 1925). British model for Lewis Carroll.
• 1864 - Miguel de Unamuno was born (d. 1936). Spanish writer and philosopher.
• 1876 - Charlie Llewellyn was born (d. 1964). South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1911. 1881 - Ludwig von Mises was born († 1973). Austrian economist.
• 1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world was opened in Blackpool, England.
• 1887 - Bernhard von Langenbeck dies (b. 1810). German surgeon.
• 1889 - Louis Faidherbe dies (b. 1818). French general.
• 1890 - Maria Matos was born. Portuguese actress and theatre entrepreneur.
• 1895 - J.B. Rhine was born (d. 1980). American parapsychologist.
• 1895 - Roscoe Turner was born (d. 1970). American aviator and racer.
• 1897 - Herbert Agar was born (d. 1980). American journalist and historian.
• 1898 - Trofim Lysenko was born (d. 1976). Stalinist biologist.
• 1900 - Miguel Alemán Valdés was born (d. 1983). President of Mexico.
• 1901 - Enrico Fermi was born (d. 1954). Italian physicist, Nobel Prize in Phisics laureate, in 1938.
• 1901 - Lanza del Vasto was born (d. 1981). Italian philosopher, poet, and activist.
• 1902 - Impresario David Belasco's first Broadway theater opens.
• 1902 - William Topaz McGonagall dies (b. 1825). Scots/Irish poet.
• 1902 - Émile Zola dies (b. 3 Apr 1840). French writer.
• 1904 - Greer Garson was born (d. 1996). British actress.
• 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
• 1907 - Gene Autry was born (d. 1998). American actor and businessman.
• 1907 - George W. Jenkins was born (d. 1996). American businessman.
• 1908 - Eddie Tolan was born (d. 1967). American athlete.
• 1908 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis dies (b. 21 Jun 1839). Brazilian writer.
• 1910 - Virginia Bruce was born (d. 1982). American actress.
• 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni was born. Italian film director.
• 1913 - Trevor Howard was born (d. 1988). English actor.
• 1913 - Stanley Kramer was born (d. 2001). American film director.
• 1915 - Brenda Marshall was born (d. 1992). American film actress.
• 1915 - Vincent DeDomenico was born (d. 2007). American entrepreneur.
• 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
• 1916 - Antonio Buero Vallejo was born. Spanish dramatist. 1918 - World War I: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
• 1920 - Peter D. Mitchell was born. English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1922 - Lizabeth Scott was born. American actress.
• 1923 - Stan Berenstain was born (d. 2005). American children's author.
• 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.
• 1924 - Steve Forrest was born. American actor.
• 1925 - Léon Bourgeois dies. French politician. Nobel Prize for Peace laureate in 1920.
• 1927 - Willem Einthoven dies (b. 1860). Dutch physician, Nobel laureate.
• 1927 - Nascia Adhemar Ferreira da Silva († 2001). Bicampeão olímpico brasileiro no triplo salto
• 1930 - Colin Dexter was born. British author of Inspector Morse novels.
• 1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin dies (b. 1844). Russian painter.
• 1931 - Anita Ekberg was born. Swedish actress.
• 1931 - James Watson Cronin was born. American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1980.
• 1932 - Robert Benton was born. American screenwriter and director.
• 1933 - Samora Machel was († 1986). First President of Mozambique.
• 1934 - Lance Gibbs was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1934 - Mihály Csíkszentmihályi was born. Psychology professor
• 1934 – Skandor Akbar was born. American professional wrestler and manager.
• 1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis was born. American musician.
• 1936 - Silvio Berlusconi was born. Italian politician, leader of Forza Italia and former Prime Minister of Italy.
• 1937 - Ray Ewry dies (b. 1873). American athlete.
• 1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 1938 - Wim Kok was born. Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• 1939 – Jim Baxter was born (d. 2001). Scottish footballer.
• 1939 - Larry Linville was born (d. 2000). American actor.
• 1939 - Molly Haskell was born. American film critic.
• 1939 – Rhodri Morgan was born. 2nd First Minister for Wales.
• 1939 - Tommy Boyce was born. American songwriter, Boyce and Hart, The Monkees.
• 1939 - Poland is divided between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
• 1940 - Nicola Di Bari was born. Italian singer.
• 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941. / 33.771 Judeus são mortos durante o massacre de Babi Yar, perto de Kiev, na Ucrânia, no começo da invasão alemã da União Soviética.
• 1941 - Fred West was born. British serial killer.
• 1942 - Bill Nelson was born. U.S. Senator from Florida.
• 1942 - Felice Gimondi was born. Italian cyclist.
• 1942 - Ian McShane was born. British actor.
• 1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty was born. French jazz violinist.
• 1942 - Madeline Kahn was born (d. 1999). American actress.
• 1942 - Steve Tesich was born (d. 1996). Serbian screenwriter.
• 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice. aboard the British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta.
• 1943 - Gary Boyd Roberts was born. American genealogist.
• 1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland was born. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1944 - Mike Post was born. American composer.
• 1943 - Mohammad Khatami was born. Former President of Iran.
• 1945 - Kyriakos Sfetsas was born. Greek composer.
• 1946 - Celso Pitta was born. Brazilian politician.
• 1947 - Church of Perfect Liberty (PL Kyodan) is founded.
  
• 1947 - Martin Ferrero was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Bryant Gumbel was born. American television personality.
• 1948 - Mark Farner was born. American guitarist Grand Funk.
• 1948 - Theo Jörgensmann was born. German jazz clarinetist.
• 1949 - The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
• 1949 - George Dalaras was born. Greek singer.
• 1951 - Michelle Bachelet was born. President of Chile.
• 1951 - Andrés Caicedo was born (d. 1977). Colombian writer.
• 1951 - Maureen Caird was born. Australian hurdler.
• 1951 – Michelle Bachelet was born. President of Chile.
• 1951 - Mike Enriquez was born. Philippine broadcaster.
• 1952 – Gabor Csupo was born. Hungarian-born animator.
• 1952 - Max Sandlin was born. American politician.
• 1953 - Drake Hogestyn was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Jean-Claude Lauzon was born (d. 1977). Quebec film director.
• 1953 - Warren Cromartie was born. Major League Baseball player.
• 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.1954 – Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the World Series.
• 1955 - Benoît Ferreux was born. French actor.
• 1955 - Nasce, em Repeses, concelho de Viseu, Francisco José Ferreira Rebelo Fernandes. Economista e fiscalista português.
• 1956 - Sebastian Coe was born. British athlete.
• 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant.
• 1957 - Andrew Dice Clay was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1957 – Chris Broad was born. English cricketer and match referee.
• 1957 - Luís Miguel Nava was born in Viseu (d. 10 May 1995). Portuguese writer.
• 1957 – Mark Nicholas was born. English cricketer and sports presenter.
• 1957 - Sokratis Malamas was born. Greek singer and composer.
• 1958 - First cinema exhibitions in Cinemateca Portuguesa
RTP article about this
• 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
• 1960 – Alan McGee was born. British music industry mogul and musician.
• 1960 – David Sammartino was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1960 – John Paxson was born. American Basketball Player and GM.
• 1961 - Rebecca DeMornay was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Stephanie Miller was born. American comedian and liberal talk show host.
• 1961 - The New York Times publishes music critic Robert Sheldon's review of a performance from little known singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which will lead to Dylan's discovery by Columbia Records representative John Hammond.
• 1961 – Julia Gillard was born. Australian politician.
• 1961 – Stephanie Miller was born. American comedian and talk radio host.
• 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite is launched.
• 1962 – Al Pitrelli was born. American musician and guitarist.
• 1962 - Roger Bart was born. American actor.
• 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens. 1963 – The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, England.
• 1963 - Dave Andreychuk was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1963 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
• 1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
• 1964 - Les Claypool was born. American bassist (Primus).
• 1964 - Tom Sizemore was born. American actor.
• 1965 - The NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
• 1965 - Rino Levi dies (b. 1901). Brazilian architect.
• 1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
• 1966 – Hersey Hawkins was born. American basketball player.
• 1966 - Jill Whelan was born. American actress.
• 1967 - The first episode of Captain Scarlet is aired on Television.
• 1967 - Brett Anderson was born. British musician/singer (Suede,The Tears).
• 1967 - Carson McCullers dies (b. 1917). American author.
• 1968 – Alex Skolnick was born. American thrash metal and jazz guitarist.
• 1968 – Luke Goss was born. English actor.
• 1968 - Patrick Burns was born. Television presenter.
• 1968 – Samir Soni was born. Indian film actor.
• 1969 - Aleks Syntek was born. Mexican singer.
• 1969 – Angelo Barretto was born. Filipino race car driver.
• 1969 - Erika Eleniak was born. American actress and Playboy Playmate.
• 1970 - Emily Lloyd was born. British actress.
• 1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner was born. American actress.
• 1970 – Nicolás Pereira was born. Venezuelan tennis player.
• 1970 - Yoshihiro Tajiri was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1970 - Edward Everett Horton dies (b. 1886). American actor.
• 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.
• 1971 – Mackenzie Crook was born. British actor and comedian.
• 1971 - Sibel Tüzün was born. Turkish singer.
• 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• 1972 – Oliver Gavin was born. British racing car driver.
• 1972 - Robert Webb was born. British actor, comedian, and writer.
• 1972 – Togi Makabe was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1973 – Athanasios Michalopoulos was born. Greek volleyball player.
• 1973 – Joe Hulbig was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1973 – Scout Niblett was born. British singer/songwriter.
• 1973 - W. H. Auden dies (b. 1907). English poet.
• 1974 - Alexis Cruz was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Brian Ash was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
• 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
• 1975 - Casey Stengel dies. Baseball player and manager
• 1976 - Andriy Shevchenko was born. Ukrainian football player.
• 1976 - Darren Byfield was born. English football player.
• 1976 - Oscar Sevilla was born. Spanish cyclist.
• 1977 - Portugal: As Bases da muralha de Cascais, a Bateria Alta, as Cortinas de Atiradores, o Forte de São Teodósio e o Forte do Guincho são classificados como imóveis de Interesse Público
• 1977 - União Soviética lança estação espacial Salyut 6
• 1977 - Debelah Morgan was born. American R&B singer.
• 1977 – Jake Westbrook was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 – Wade Brookbank was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 - Gunner McGrath was born. American vocalist and guitarist (Much The Same).
• 1978 - Kurt Nilsen was born. Norwegian singer.
• 1978 - Mohini Bhardwaj was born. American gymnast.
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
• 1979 - Beau Zimmer was born. Telejournalist
• 1981 - Siarhei Rutenka was born. Belarussian handball player.
• 1981 - Bill Shankly dies (b. 1913). Scottish football manager.
• 1982 - 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begins when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
• 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
• 1982 - Ariana Jollee was born. American actress and director.
• 1982 - Monty Stratton dies (b. 1912). Baseball player.
• 1983 - Mário Botas dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1984 - Per Mertesacker was born. German football player.
• 1986 - Benoit Pouliot was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1987 - Henry Ford II dies (b. 1917). President of Ford Motor Company.
• 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.
  
• 1988 - Forças de Paz das Nações Unidas recebem Prémio Nobel da Paz.
• 1988 - Justin Nozuka was born. American/Canadian singer-songwriter.
• 1988 - Kevin Durant was born. American basketball player.
• 1988 - Charles Addams dies (b. 1912). American cartoonist.
• 1989 - Sebastian Elmaloglou was born. Australian soap actor.
  
• 1989 - Theo Adams was born. British performance artist.
• 1989 - Luís Dourdil dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 - Washington National Cathedral finished.
• 1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• 1990 - Doug Brochu was born. American actor.
• 1990 - Lena Wermelt was born. German footballer.
• 1991 - Military coup in Haiti. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti, is deposed.
• 1992 - Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
• 1992 - Erotica (song) released by Madonna.
• 1992 - Lançamento do álbum Dirt da banda norte-americana Alice in Chains.
• 1992 - Primeiras eleições em Angola cujos resultados não são aceites pela UNITA.
• 1994 - Cheb Hasni dies (b. 1968). Algerian singer.
• 1995 - Khaled Kelkal is killed by the French Police.
• 1995 - The United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers.
• 1996 - Super Mario 64, a revolutionary platformer game for the Nintendo 64, is released in the United States.
• 1997 - Roy Lichtenstein dies (b. 1923). American artist.
• 1998 - Tom Bradley dies (b. 1917). Mayor of Los Angeles, California.
• 1998 - Jacyra Sampaio dies (b. 1922). Brazilian actress.
• 1999 - Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón was born. Spanish royal.
• 2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu dies (b. 1923). President of South Vietnam.
• 2001 - The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.
• 2003 - Hurricane Juan makes landfall at Nova Scotia.
• 2004 - The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
• 2004 - The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, thereby halfway to winning the prize.
• 2004 - Baseball: The Montreal Expos play their last game at Olympic Stadium.
• 2004 - Richard Sainct dies (b. 1970). French motorcycle rally rider.
• 2005 - US Senate confirms John Roberts to be the next Chief Justice of the United States.
• 2005 - Amnesty referendum in Algeria.
• 2005 - Austin Leslie dies (b. 1938). Considered by many the "Godfather of Fried Chicken".
• 2005 - Sérgio Correia da Costa dies (b. 1919). Brazilian historian and diplomat.
• 2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
• 2006 - Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 total people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis.
• 2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL, dies killed in Iraq. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
• 2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen dies (b. 1976). Norwegian singer.
• 2006 - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique dies (b. 1926). Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic.
• 2006 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon dies (b. 1912). French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec.
• 2006 - Walter Hadlee dies (b. 1915). New Zealand cricketer.
• 2007 - Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
• 2007 - Lois Maxwell dies (b. 1927). Canadian actress. 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
• 2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
• 2008 - Emma Tallulah Behn was born. Member of the extended Norwegian royal family.
• 2009 - An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
• 2009 - Pavel Popovich dies (b. 1930) Soviet cosmonaut.
• 2009 - Sperantza Vrana dies. Greek actress.
• RC Saints - Michaelmas - Christian feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael.
• England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
• Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.
• Portugal: Municipal holidays in Cabeceiras de Basto and Fornos de Algodres.