Nothingandall: 2011/01

2011-01-31

Coisas, Pequenas Coisas - Fernando Namora

Fazer das coisas fracas um poema.

Uma árvore está quieta,
murcha, desprezada.
Mas se o poeta a levanta pelos cabelos
e lhe sopra os dedos,
ela volta a empertigar-se, renovada.
E tu, que não sabias o segredo,
perdes a vaidade.
Fora de ti há o mundo
e nele há tudo
que em ti não cabe.

Homem, até o barro tem poesia!
Olha as coisas com humildade.

(Mar de Sargaços 1939)

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

Fernando Namora (n. em Condeixa a 15 de Abril de 1919; m. em Lisboa a 31 Jan. 1989)

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Intimidade

BAKER ! - Luís de Montalvor

De qualquer ilha escondida
no quente mar colorista,
veio essa Baker trazida
pla mão da 5ª avenida:
o roteiro fantasista.

Essa negra Josefina
deixou Colombo vexado
ligando a terra-menina,
que é branca e Greco-latina,
ao continente sobrado...

Um demónio de negrura:
trópico aroma se exala...
Seu corpo a imagem e figura
de um brônzeo clima, em tontura,
cercando à noite a senzala!

O ritmo antigo é perdido,
outro mundo volverá.
Nesta Europa sem sentido
a Baker marca o ruído
e o mediano o Dekobrá!

Façam batuque, batuque!
plantem na Europa o Haiti.
- Caliça que a alma amachuque!
que caia o tecto de estuque
no Senhor de Valery!

Velha casa brazonada,
deu-lhe o vento de ruína.
A celta flôr desfolhada,
morreu de tédio, pisada
aos pés dessa Josefina!

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

LUÍS DE MONTALVOR era o pseudónimo literário de Luís Filipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos, que nasceu em São Vicente de Cabo Verde a 31 de Janeiro de 1891 e pereceu afogado no rio Tejo, em Lisboa, juntamente com a família, num acidente automóvel aparentemente suicida, a 2 de Março de 1947.

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Tarde; Infante - I

2011-01-30

PRELÚDIO - Alda Lara

"Mãe Negra" - José Bernardo Salazar
Museu de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo

Pela estrada desce a noite
Mãe-Negra, desce com ela…

Nem buganvílias vermelhas,
nem vestidinhos de folhos,
nem brincadeiras de guisos,
nas suas mãos apertadas.
Só duas lágrimas grossas,
em duas faces cansadas.

Mãe-Negra tem voz de vento,
voz de silêncio batendo
nas folhas do cajueiro…

Tem voz de noite, descendo,
de mansinho, pela estrada…

Que é feito desses meninos
que gostava de embalar?…

Que é feito desses meninos
que ela ajudou a criar?…
Quem ouve agora as histórias
que costumava contar?…

Mãe-Negra não sabe nada…

Mas ai de quem sabe tudo,
como eu sei tudo
Mãe-Negra!…

Os teus meninos cresceram,
e esqueceram as histórias
que costumavas contar…

Muitos partiram p’ra longe,
quem sabe se hão-de voltar!…
Só tu ficaste esperando,
mãos cruzadas no regaço,
bem quieta bem calada.

É a tua a voz deste vento,
desta saudade descendo,
de mansinho pela estrada.

Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, nasceu em Benguela, Angola, a 9 de Junho de 1930 e faleceu em Cambambe a 30 de Janeiro de 1962.

Ler da mesma autoria, neste blog: Regresso

Lundu de Pai João (séc. XIX)

“Quando iô tava na minha tera
Iô chamava capitão
Chega na terra dim baranco
Iô me chama – Pai João

Quando iô tava na minha terá
Comia mia garinha,
Chega na terra dim baranco
Carne seca com farinha.

Quando iô tava na minha tera
Iô chamava generá,
Chega na terra dim baranco
Pega o cêto vai ganhá.

Dizaforo dim baranco
Nó si póri atura
Tá comendo, tá drumindo.
Manda nego trabaiá.

Baranco dize quando more
Jesucrisso que levou,
E o pretinho quando more
Foi cachaça que matou

(...)

Baranco dize – preto fruta,
Preto fruta co rezão;
Sinhô baranco também fruta
Quando panha casião.

Nosso preto fruta garinha
Fruta saco de fuijão;
Sinhô baranco quando fruta
Fruta prata e patacão.

Nosso preto quando fruta
Vai pará na coreção,
Sinhô baranco quando fruta
Logo sai sinhô barão.”

Extraído de APOSTILA DE HISTÓRIA DO BRASIL III, Prof. Marcos Alvito

2011-01-29

A Um Corpo Perfeito - Gomes Leal

Nenhum corpo mais lácteo e sem defeito
Mais róseo, escultural e feminino,
Pode igualar-se ao seu, branco e divino
Imóvel, nú, sobre o comprido leito! -

Nada te iguala! O ferro do assassino
Podia, hoje, matá-la, que o meu peito
Seria o esquife embalsamado e fino
D'aquele corpo sem rival, perfeito.

Por isso é muito altiva e apetecida; -
E o gozo sensual de a ver vencida
Há-de ser forte, estranho e singular...

Como o das coisas dignas de castigo;
- Ou d'um amante sacerdote antigo,
Derrubando uma deusa d'um altar.

in 'Claridades do Sul'

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

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A Lady
Romantismo
Som e Cor
O Visionário ou Som e Cor III
Cantiga de Campo
À Janela do Ocidente

2011-01-28

Taça com asas / Copa com alas - José Martí

Uma taça com asas: quem a viu
Antes de mim? Vi-a ontem. Subia
Com lenta majestade, como quem verte
Óleo sagrado: em suas doces bordas
Meus delicados lábios apertava:
Nem uma gota sequer, nem uma gota
Do bálsamo perdi que houve em teu beijo!

Tua cabeça de negra cabeleira
-Lembras-te? - com minha mão pedia,
Pra que de mim teus lábios generosos
Não se afastassem. - Serena como o beijo
Que a ti me transfundia era a suave
Atmosfera em redor: a vida inteira

Senti que a mim, abraçando-te, abraçava!
Perdi de vista o mundo, e seus ruídos,
Sua invejosa e bárbara batalha!
Uma taça subia pelo espaço
E eu, em braços não vistos reclinado,
Atrás dela, nas doces bordas preso:
Pelo espaço azul eu ascendia!

Oh amor, oh imenso, oh artista perfeito!:
Em roda ou em carril funde o ferreiro o ferro:
Uma flor ou mulher ou águia ou anjo
Em ouro ou prata o ourives cinzela:
Apenas tu, só tu, sabes o modo
De reduzir o Universo a um beijo!

Trad. José Bento
in Rosa do Mundo, 2001 Poemas para o Futuro, Porto Editora

Versão original

Una copa con alas: quién la ha visto
antes que yo? Yo ayer la vi. Subía
con lenta majestad, como quien vierte
óleo sagrado: y a sus bordes dulces
mis regalados labios apretaba:?
Ni una gota siquiera, ni una gota
del bálsamo perdí que hubo en tu beso!

Tu cabeza de negra cabellera
?Te acuerdas?? con mi mano requería,
porque de mí tus labios generosos
no se apartaran. ?Blanda como el beso
que a ti me transfundía, era la suave
atmósfera en redor: La vida entera
sentí que a mí abrazándote, abrazaba!
Perdí el mundo de vista, y sus ruidos
y su envidiosa y bárbara batalla!
Una copa en los aires ascendía
y yo, en brazos no vistos reclinado
tras ella, asido de sus dulces bordes:
Por el espacio azul me remontaba!

Oh amor, oh inmenso, oh acabado artista:
en rueda o riel funde el herrero el hierro:
una flor o mujer o águila o ángel
en oro o plata el joyador cincela:
Tú sólo, sólo tú, sabes el modo
de reducir el Universo a un beso!

José Julián Martí Pérez (Havana, 28 Jan 1853 – Dos Ríos, 19 May 1895)

Amor e Razão - Filinto de Almeida

A Alberto Pereira Leite

Sempre a razão vencida foi de amor.
CAMÕES.

Por que me hei de importar? Se a Razão pede
Sacrifícios, com lágrimas os paga.
Se tenho no meu peito aberta chaga,
Ela nenhum alívio me concede.

"Pára, infeliz! Alguém teus passos mede...
Se em gozos a tua alma se embriaga,
Todos os teus sentidos prende e esmaga,
Que sentir e gozar o mundo impede!"

"Se tens um coração e nele oculta
Uma paixão qualquer, ou triste ou grata,
Fere-o, e no peito toda a dor sepulta."

Isto a Razão nos diz contra a Paixão.
Mas se esta nos dá vida, e aquela mata
Que vença o Amor, e esmague a Razão.

25 de dezembro de 1884.
(Lírica, 1887.)

Francisco Filinto de Almeida (n. no Porto em 4 Dez. 1857; m. no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, em 28 Jan. 1945).

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Último Apelo

On this day in History - Jan. 28

0028 - The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor.
0814 - Charlemagne dies (b. 742).
1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia dies (b. 1031).
1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas was born (d. 1274).
1271 - Isabella of Aragon dies (b. 1247). Queen of Philip III of France.
1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre was born (d. 1349).
1443 - Robert le Maçon dies. Chancellor of France.
1457 - King Henry VII of England was born (d. 1509).
1521 - The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen was born (d. 1610). German mathematician.
1547 - King Henry VIII of England dies (b. 1491). His nine year old son Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
1582 - John Barclay was born (d. 1621). Scottish writer.
1596 - Sir Francis Drake dies, explorer, soldier (b. ca. 1540).
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi dies (b. 1547). Italian composer.
1600 - Pope Clement IX was born (d. 1669).
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was born (d. 1679). Italian physiologist and physicist.
1611 - Johannes Hevelius was born (d. 1687). Astronomer.
1613 - Thomas Bodley dies (b. 1545). English diplomat and library founder.
1621 - Pope Paul V dies (b. 1550).
1622 - Adrien Auzout was born (d. 1691). French astronomer.
1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
1672 - Pierre Séguier dies (b. 1588). Chancellor of France.
1681 - Richard Allestree dies (b. 1619). English royalist churchman.
1687 - Johannes Hevelius dies (b. 1611). Polish astronomer.
1693 - Anna Ivanovna was born. Tsarina of Russia.
1693 - Sóror Violante do Céu dies in Lisbon (b. 30 May 1607). Portuguese nun and poet.
1697 - John Fenwick dies. English conspirator.

1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine was born (d. 1774). French mathematician and geographer.

1706 - John Baskerville was born. English printer, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method.

1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige was born (d. 1761). Japanese shogun.

1717 - Mustafa III was born (d. 1774). Ottoman Sultan.

1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel was born (d. 1749). German critic and poet.

1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.

1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia dies (b. 1672).

1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.

1754 - Ludvig Holberg dies (b. 1684). Norwegian historian and writer.

1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering was born (d. 1830). German physician.

1757 - Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab.

1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen was born (d. 1860). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.

1792 - Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap.

1800 - António Feliciano de Castilho was born (d. 1875). Portuguese writer.

1808 - D. João VI, assina na Bahia, o Decreto de Abertura dos Portos às Nações Amigas, que colocava fim ao pacto colonial entre Portugal e Brasil. A “Abertura dos Portos” suspendeu os séculos de monopólio comercial português, uma das bases do chamado Pacto Colonial.

1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

1818 - George S. Boutwell was born (d. 1905). 20th Governor of Massachusetts.
1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.

1822 - Alexander Mackenzie was born (d. 1892). Second Prime Minister of Canada.

1823 - Abdicación de Bernardo O'Higgins al cargo de Director Supremo de Chile.

1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard dies (b. 1769). French general.

1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon was born (d. 1885). British soldier and administrator.

1840 - Real orden por la que se crea en La Habana el Archivo General de la Real Hacienda, fundamento del Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba.

1841 - Henry Morton Stanley was born (d. 1904). Welsh-born explorer and journalist.

1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.

1853 - José Martí was born (d. 1895). Cuban revolutionary and poet.

1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.

1855 - William Seward Burroughs was born (d. 1898). Inventor of the calculator.

1856 - Bank of Spain is founded.

1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich dies (b. 1782). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1863 - Ernst William Christmas was born (d. 1918). Australian painter.

1864 - Charles W. Nash was born (d. 1948). Co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick.

1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart was born (d. 1927). English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine.

1864 - Émile Clapeyron dies (b. 1799). French engineer and physicist.

1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was born (d. 1952). First president of Finland.

1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai was born (d. 1928). Indian freedom fighter.

1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born. Spanish novelist.

1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.

1873 - Colette was born (d. 1954). French writer.

1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold was born (d. 1940). Russian theatre director.

1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.

1879 - Francis Picabia was born (d. 1953). French-born painter and poet.

1880 - Herbert Strudwick was born (d. 1970). English cricketer.

1884 - Auguste Piccard was born (d. 1962). Swiss physicist.

1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi was born (d. 1976). Japanese electrical engineer.

1886 - José Linhares was born. 23th President of Brazil (29 Oct 1945 - 31 Jan 1946).

1886 - Marthe Bibesco was born (d. 1973). Romanian writer.

1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick.

1887 - Se pone la primera piedra de la Torre Eiffel.

1887 - Artur Rubinstein was born (d. 1982). Polish pianist and conductor.

1890 - Robert Stroud was born (d. 1963). American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz.

1891 - Bill Doak was born (d. 1954). American baseball player.

1892 - Ernst Lubitsch was born (d. 1947). German-borm film director.

1894 - Fidela Campiña Ontiveros was born in Tijola (Almeria). Spanish opera singer.

1897 - Valentin Kataev was born (d. 1986). Russian writer.

1898 - Roberto Ivens dies (b. 12 Jun1850). Portuguese soldier and explorer.

1899 - Elias Simojoki was born (d. 1940). Finnish clergyman and politician.

1900 - Alice Neel was born (d. 1984). American artist.

1900 - Heinrich Kesten was born (d. 1996). Author.

1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.

1903 - Aleksander Kamiński was born. Polish writer.

1903 - Augusta Holmès dies (b. 1847). French composer.

1904 - Canuplin was born (d. 1979). Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer.

1908 - Se inicia en Portugal un movimiento revolucionario controlado tres días después.

1908 - Paul Misraki was born (d. 1998). French composer and songwriter.

1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.

1910 - Arnold Moss was born (d. 1989). American actor.

1910 - John Banner was born (d. 1973). Austrian actor.

1912 - Jackson Pollock was born (d. 1956). American painter, initiator of Dripping painting

1912 - Gustave de Molinari dies (b. 1819). Belgian economist.

1913 - Segismundo Moret dies. Spanish politician.

1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.

1915 - The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.

1915 - Nikolay Umov dies (b. 1846). Russian physicist.

1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

1916 - Vergílio Ferreira was born. Portuguese writer / Vergílio Ferreira nasceu neste dia, em Melo, concelho de Gouveia (Serra da Estrela), (O Caminho Fica Longe, Onde Tudo Foi Morrendo, Vagão «J», Mudança, Nitido Nulo, Em nome da Terra, Manhã Submersa, etc). «Há os livros que antes de lidos já estão lidos. «Há os que se lêem todos e ficam logo lidos todos. E há os que nos regateiam a leitura e a que pedimos humildemente que se deixem ler todos e não deixam e vão largando uma parte de si pelas gerações e jamais se deixam ler de uma vez para sempre.» (Vergílio Ferreira) .

1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa.

1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.

1918 - Finnish Civil War: Social democrats and communists seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland went underground.

1918 - Castro Gonzaga was born (d. 2007). Brazilian actor.

1918 - Harry Corbett was born (d. 1989). English puppeteer (Sooty).

1918 - Trevor Skeet was born (d. 2004). Zealand-born British politician.

1918 - John McCrae dies (b. 1872). Canadian poet.

1919 - Francis Gabreski was born (d. 2002). American fighter pilot.

1920 - Se funda en España la Legión.

1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.

1921 - Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.

1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington DC's biggest snowfall, causes Washington DC's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.

1922 - Robert W. Holley was born (d. 11 Feb 1993). American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall Warren Nirenberg and Har Gobind Khorana.

1923 - Ivo Robić was born (d. 2001). Croatian singer, Mister Morgen

1924 - Teófilo Braga dies in Lisbon (b. in Ponta Delgada, 24 Feb 1843). President of Portugal (29 Mai 1915 - 05 Aug 1915), writer and essayst.

1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara was born (d. 2001). Japanese film director.

1927 - Ronnie Scott was born (d. 1996). British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.

1928 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dies. Spanish writer.

1929 - Acker Bilk was born. English jazz clarinetist.

1929 - Claes Oldenbourg was born. Swedish-born artist.

1931 - Lucía Bosé was born. Italian actress.

1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.

1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during World War II

1933 - Jack Hill was born. American film director.

1934 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.

1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu was born (d. 1990). Argentine racing driver.

1934 - Mitr Chaibancha was born (d. 1970). Thai actor.

1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.

1935 - David Lodge was born. English author.

1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov dies (b. 1859). Russian composer.

1936 - A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.

1936 - Alan Alda was born. American actor, writer, and director.

1936 - Ismail Kadare was born. Albanian writer.

1937 - Anastasios Metaxas dies (b. 1862). Greek architect and shooter.

1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.

1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky was born. Russian weightlifter

1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer dies (b. 1909). German race car driver.

1939 - John M. Fabian was born. NASA astronaut.

1939 - William Butler Yeats dies (b. 1865). Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate in 1923.

1940 - Carlos Slim Helú was born. Mexican businessman.

1941 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.

1941 - French General Charles DeGaulle's Free French forces sack south Libya oasis.

1941 - Joel Crothers was born (d. 1985). American actor.

1942 - Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.

1943 - Dick Taylor was born. English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things).

1943 - Paul Henderson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1944 - John Tavener was born. English composer.

1944 - Susan Howard was born. American actress.

1945 - Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell.

1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.

1945 - John Perkins was born. American author and activist.

1945 - Marthe Keller was born in Basel. Swiss actress.

1945 - Robert Wyatt was born. English musician.

1945 - Filinto de Almeida dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 Dec 1957 in Porto). Portuguese poet.

1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.

1947 - Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues was born in Casal de Cinza, Guarda. Portuguese physicist (PoSAT-1).

1947 - Hans Aumeier dies executed (b. 1906). German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant.

1947 - Jeanne Shaheen was born. American politician.

1947 - Reynaldo Hahn dies (b. 1875). French composer.

1947 - Therese Brandl dies executed (b. 1902). Nazi concentration camp guard.

1948 - Charles Taylor was born. President of Liberia.

1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov was born. Russian dancer .

1948 - Charles Taylor was born. Former leader of Liberia.

1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel dies (b. 1901). Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp.

1949 - Los miembros de la Comunidad Europea crean el Consejo de Europa.

1949 - Gregg Popovich was born. NBA Basketball Coach.

1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille dies (b. 1908). French race car driver.

1950 - A Assembléia Francesa ratifica um acordo no qual o Vietnã, Cambodjia, e Laos tornam-se estados independentes dentro da União Francesa.

1950 - Barbi Benton was born. American actress.

1950 - Bob Hay was born. American songwriter and musician.

1950 - David C. Hilmers was born. NASA astronaut.

1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah was born. King of Bahrain.

1950 - Nikolai Luzin dies (b. 1883). Russian mathematician.

1951 - Brian Bilbray was born. American politician.

1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk was born. Ukrainian cosmonaut.

1951 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim dies (b. 1867). President of Finland.

1952 - Cándido Méndez was born. UGT General- Secretary.

1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) is hanged for a murder carried out by Christopher Craig.

1953 - Chris Carter was born. English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey).

1953 - Colin Campbell was born. Canadian ice hockey player and executive.

1953 - James Scullin dies (b. 1876). 9th Prime Minister of Australia.

1954 - Rick Warren was born. American pastor and author.

1955 -The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.

1955 - Fundación de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.

1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy was born. President of France.

1957 - Frank Skinner was born. English comedian.

1957 - Mark Napier was born. National Hockey League player.

1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.

1958 - The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz was born. German-born composer.

1959 - Dave Sharp was born. Welsh guitarist (The Alarm).

1959 - Randi Rhodes was born. American personality.

1959 - Frank Darabont was born. American filmmaker.

1959 - Walter Beall dies (b. 1899). American baseball player.

1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky was born. American cultural historian, writer, producer.

1960 - Maitê Proença was born. Brazilian actress.

1960 - Zora Neale Hurston dies (b. 1891). American author.

1961 - Normand Rochefort was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1962 - Creflo Dollar was born. American televangelist.

1962 - Keith Hamilton Cobb was born. American actor.

1962 - Sam Phillips was born. American singer.

1963 - António Filipe was born. Portuguese politician.

1963 - Dan Spitz was born. American musician, guitarist for Anthrax.

1963 - Gustave Garrigou dies (b. 1884). French cyclist.

1964 - The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.

1965 - Lynda Boyd was born. American actress.

1965 - Tich Freeman dies (b. 1888). English cricketer.

1965 - Maxime Weygand dies (b. 1867). French soldier.

1967 - Jan Lamb was born. Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian.

1968 - DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill).

1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper

1968 - Sarah McLachlan was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.

1968 - DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill).

1968 - Rakim was born. American rapper.

1969 - Kathryn Morris was born. American actress.

1969 - Linda Sanchez was born. American politician.

1969 - Mo Rocca was born. American writer and comedian.

1970 - Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo.

1971 - Anthony Hamilton was born. American soul singer.

1971 - Donald Winnicott dies (b. 1896). British psychoanalyst.

1972 - Nicky Southall was born. English footballer.

1973 - Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS.

1973 - John Banner dies (b. 1910). Austrian actor.

1974 - Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.

1974 - Jason Dancisin was born. Graphic designer.

1974 - Jermaine Dye was born. Baseball player.

1974 - Magglio Ordóñez was born. Venezuelan baseball player.

1974 - Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.

1975 - Anne Montminy was born. Quebec olympic diver.

1975 - David Zingler was born. American writer.

1975 - Junior Spivey was born. American baseball player.

1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans was born. English singer.

1975 - Susana Feitor was born. Portuguese race walker.

1975 - Terri Colombino was born. American actress.

1975 - Ola Raknes dies (b. 1887). Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist.

1976 - Emiko Kado was born (d. 1999). Japanese professional wrestler.

1976 - Jarrod Montague was born. American drummer (Taproot).

1976 - Lee Ingleby was born. British actor.

1976 - Mark Madsen was born. American basketball player.

1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis was born. Greek footballer.

1977 - Daunte Culpepper was born. American football player.

1977 - Joey Fatone was born. American singer (*NSYNC).

1977 - Lyle Overbay was born. American baseball player.

1977 - Matt DeVries was born. American guitarist (Chimaira).

1977 - Takuma Sato was born. Japanese Formula One driver.

1977 - Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). Actor.

1978 - Gianluigi Buffon was born. Italian football player (goalkeeper).

1978 - Jamie Carragher was born. English footballer.

1978 - Papa Bouba Diop was born. Senegalese footballer.

1979 - Pixie was born. English model.

1979 - Ali Boulala was born. Swedish skateboarder.

1979 - Eileen Shanahan dies (b. 1901). Irish poet.

1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Bay Florida and capsizes; killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.

1980 - Jesse James Hollywood was born. American drug dealer and fugitive.

1980 - Nick Carter was born. American singer (Backstreet Boys).

1981 - Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.

1981 - Elijah Wood was born. American actor.

1981 - Rick Razzano was born. American football player.

1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.

1983 - Billy Fury dies (b. 1940). British singer.

1983 - Frank Forde dies (b. 1890). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.

1984 - Andre Iguodala was born. American basketball player.

1984 - Stephen Gostkowski was born. American football player.

1985 - Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. /45 dos melhores músicos e compositores do mundo são convidados para produzir o álbum “USA for África”. O objetivo foi arrecadar fundos para aliviar a fome na Etiópia. A principal música gravada “We Are the World” chegou ao topo das paradas nos Estados Unidos e incluiu a participação de Michael Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Sting, Diana Ross, Paul Simon e Cyndi Lauper, dentre outros.

1985 - Arnold Mvuemba was born. French footballer.

1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard: Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939), Michael J. Smith (b. 1945), Judith Resnik (b. 1949), Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946), Ronald McNair (b. 1950), Greg Jarvis (b. 1944), Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) .

1986 - Alexis Texas was born. Porn star.

1986 - Jessica Ennis was born. English heptathlete.

1986 - Shruti Haasan was born. Indian actress.

1986 - Christa McAuliffe dies (b. 1948). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1986 - Ellison Onizuka dies (b. 1946). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1986 - Francis R. Scobee dies (b. 1939). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1986 - Greg Jarvis dies (b. 1944). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1986 - Judith Resnik dies (b. 1949). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1986 - Michael J. Smith dies (b. 1945). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1986 - Ronald McNair dies (b. 1950). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.

1987 – Chelsea Brummet was born. American actress.

1988 - Henry Mortensen was born. American actor.

1988 - Klaus Fuchs dies (b. 1911). German physicist.

1990 - Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned "Team of the 1980s" by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.

1991 – Calum Worthy was born. Canadian actor and musician.

1991 - Red Grange dies (b. 1903). American football player.

1993 - Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.

1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

1994 - O cristão democrata Giovanni Goria é o segundo primeiro-ministro da Itália a ser acusado de corrupção e julgado por um tribunal nacional.

1994 - Mechislav Grib is elected President of Belarus.

1994 - Hal Smith dies (b. 1916). American actor.

1996 - Super Bowl XXX: The Dallas Cowboys win their fifth Super Bowl title by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.

1996 - Burne Hogarth dies (b. 1911). American cartoonist.

1996 - Jerry Siegel dies (b. 1914). American cartoonist.

1996 - Joseph Brodsky dies (b. 1940). Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate.

1997 - Antonio Calado dies. Brazilian journalist and writer. / Falece o jornalista e escritor Antônio Callado. Um dos principais romancistas brasileiros do século 20, ele escreveu “Bar Don Juan”(1971), “Quarup”(1967), e “Reflexos do Baile”(1976).

1998 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion.

1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.

1999 - The creation of Element 114 is announced by scientists.

1999 - Markey Robinson dies (b. 1918). Irish painter.

1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt dies (b. 1908). Swedish sociologist and philosopher.

2001 - Super Bowl XXXV: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7.

2001 - Curt Blefary dies (b. 1943). American baseball player.

2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.

2002 - Astrid Lindgren dies (b. 1907). Swedish author.

2003 - Ariel Sharon is reelected Prime-Minister of Israel.

2003 - Cícero Dias dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.

2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.

2004 - Don Cholito dies (b. 1923). Puerto Rican radio host who hosted the longest running uninterrupted radio show.

2004 - Don Stansauk dies (b. 1936). American professional wrestler.

2004 - Elroy Hirsch dies (b. 1923). American football player.

2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher dies (b. 1927). U.S. Navy officer.

2004 - Joe Viterelli dies (b. 1937). American actor.

2005 - Jacques Villeret dies (b. 1951). French actor.

2005 - Jim Capaldi dies (b. 1944). English singer and songwriter.

2005 - Karen Lancaume dies (suicide) (b. 1973). French actress.

2006 - Henry McGee dies (b. 1929). English comedian.

2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri dies (b. c. 1900). Rabbi.

2007 - WWE's 20th annual Royal Rumble 2007 was held in San Antonio, Texas.

2007 - Carlo Clerici dies (b. 1929). Swiss professional road racing cyclist.

2007 - Father Robert Drinan dies (b. 1920). Roman Catholic Priest and American politician

2007 - Karel Svoboda dies (b. 1938). Czech composer of popular music.

2007 - Hsu Wei Lun dies (b. 1978). Taiwanese actress.

2007 - Emma Tillman dies (b. 1892). The world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007.

2007 - Father Robert Drinan dies (b. 1920).Roman Catholic Priest and American politician.

2007 - Yelena Romanova dies (b. 1963).Russian athlete.

2008 - Bengt Lindström dies (b. 1925). Swedish artist.

2008 - Christodoulos dies (b. 1939). Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

2009 – Billy Powell dies (b. 1952). American musician.

Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas.

World Leprosy Day.

Data Privacy Day.

2011-01-27

A VOZ DO TEMPO - Vasco da Gama Rodrigues

Num leito sensual de águas vivas
Um corpo virginal
vestido de azul sidério
Detem-se adormecido
Num poderoso manto de mistério!
Porém, leito e corpo
Arrancam às bocas lendas tenebrosas,
Suscitam rosários de presságios e medos!

As suas formas,
Que se espreguiçam voluptuosas
Entre lodos, areias e rochedos,
Num caos de estranho esquecimento,
E os caminhos,
Que o tempo tem ciosamente fechados,
Arrancam às bocas lendas tenebrosas,
Suscitam rosários de presságios e medos!

É ela uma formosa Princesa,
Entre laços de bruma, cativa,
Que esconde um tesoiro vasto e profundo,
Um vaso de néctar rutilante
Em lugar secreto e distante do Mundo!
Porém, seu corpo, leito e vaso ocultos
Arrancam ás bocas lendas tenebrosas,
Suscitam rosários de presságios e medos!

(in "Os Atlantes", Lisboa, 1961)

Vasco da Gama Rodrigues (nasceu em Paul do Mar, concelho da Calheta, Ilha da Madeira a 27 de Janeiro de 1909; m. em 3 de Maio de 1991).

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Ilha dos Amores

Estado de Sítio - Vera Sousa Silva

Que importância tem esta gente
que rouba, atraiçoa, mente
sem qualquer tipo de pudor?

Quanta fome aqui se passa
enquanto vive em estado de graça
o político sem valor?

Quantas mãos serão precisas
para que atitudes concisas
mudem o estado da nação?

Queremos fazer a mudança
criando rios de esperança...
Quantos braços se erguerão?

Vera Sousa Silva nasceu em Lisboa, a 27 de Janeiro de 1974.
Sítio da autora

On this day in History - Jan. 27

0098 - Nerva dies (b. 0035). Roman Emperor.
0098 -Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
0661 - Rashidun Caliphate ended with death of Ali.
0661 - Ali dies. The final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Iman.
0672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
0847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
0724 - Yezid II dies. Caliph Omeya.
1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, married Constance of Sicily and was crowned King of Burgundy, Germany and Italy.
1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1443 - Albert, Duke of Saxony was born (d. 1500).
1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa dies (b. 1435). Ashikaga shogun.
1540 - Saint Angela Merici dies (b. 1474). Italian religious leader and saint.
1546 - Joachim Friedrich born (d. 1608). Elector of Brandenburg.
1554 - Pedro de Heredia dies. Spanish navigator, founder of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia).
1573 - Portugal: Lagos is elevated to a city / 1573 - Lagos é elevada à categoria de cidade. da à categoria de cidade.
1585 - Hendrick Avercamp was born (d. 1634). Dutch painter.
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
1595 - Sir Francis Drake dies (b. c. 1540). European explorer.
1603 - Harbottle Grimston was born (d. 1685). English politician.
1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins and later ends in their execution on January 31.
1621 - Thomas Willis was born (d. 11 Nov 1675). British physician, leader of the English iatrochemists, who attempted to explain the workings of the body from current knowledge of chemical interactions.
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius dies (b. 1560). German composer.
1638 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses dies. Spanish novelist.
1662 - Richard Bentley was born (d. 1742). English classical scholar.
1687 - Balthasar Neumann was born (d. 1753). German architect.
1688 - Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang dies. Grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor in Qing Dynasty China.
1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. Mustafa rules until 1703.

1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was born (d. 1790). German historian and theologian.

1708 - Anna Petrovna of Russia was born (d. 1728).

1720 - Samuel Foote was born (d. 1777). English dramatist and actor.

1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori dies (b. 1655). Italian maker of musical instruments.

1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon dies (b. 1692). Prime Minister of France.

1741 - Hester Thrale was born (d. 1821). Welsh diarist.

1753 - Diego Francisco de Asís, "Diego Franco", dies. Mexican actor.

1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg (d. 1795). Austrian composer.

1757 - Gomes Freire de Andrade was born (d. 1817). Portuguese militar.

1763 - Com o desenvolvimento econômico do Brasil, Portugal cria um novo sistema administrativo para sua colônia, elevando a nação a Vice-Reinado.

1763 - A Capital do Brasil é transferida de Salvador para Rio de Janeiro.

1785 - Botanic Garden of Madrid is founded /Fundación del Jardín Botánico de Madrid.

1785 - The University of Georgia is founded.

1785 - F.W. Joseph Schillingwas born. German philosopher.

1794 - A frota espanhola do general Aristizábal toma a praça do Forte Delfim dos franceses, na ilha de Santo Domingo.

1801 - La revolución de los esclavos haitianos provoca en Santo Domingo el pavor entre los colonos blancos, y un antiguo esclavo, Toussaint Louverture, se convierte en dictador de la isla.

1805 - Maria Anna of Bavaria was born (d. 1877). Queen consort of Saxony.

1805 - Samuel Palmer was born (d. 1881). English artist.

1805 - Sophie of Bavaria was born (d. 1872). Archduchess of Austria.

1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga was born (d. 1826). Spanish composer.

1808 - João Caetano was born in Itaboraí. Brazilian actor and director of theatre.

1811 - João Crisóstomo was born. Portuguese politician and militar.

1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born (d. 1879). French architect.

1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte dies (b. 1761). German philosopher.

1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood dies (b. 1724). British admiral.

1821 - John Chivington was born (d. 1892). American officer.

1822 - Greece proclaimed its independence from Turkey.

1823 - Edouard Lalo was born (d. 1892). French composer.

1825 - US Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."

1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born (d. 1889). Russian writer.

1826 - Richard Taylor was born (d. 1879). American Confederate general.

1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin was born (d. 1889). Russian writer.

1829 - Isaac Roberts was born (d. 17 Jul 1904). British astronomer who was a pioneer in photography of nebulae. In 1885 he had built an observatory with a 20 inch reflector. Using this instrument Roberts was to make considerable progress in the newly developing science of Astro-photography.

1832 - Lewis Carroll was born (d. 14 Jan 1898). English author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born (d. 1895). Austrian writer.

1837 - Alexandr Pushkin dies (b. 1799). Russian poet.

1839 - Adolphe Marie Carnot was born (d. 1920). French chemist.

1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi was born (d. 1910). Russian painter.

1842 - Golpe de Estado orientado por Costa Cabral.

1843 - James Ward was born ( d. 4 Mar 1925). Philosopher and psychologist who exerted a major influence on the development of psychology in Great Britain.

1848 - Togo Heihachiro was born (d. 1934). Japanese admiral.

1850 - Samuel Gompers was born (d. 1924). American labor leader.

1850 - Edward J. Smith was born (d. 1912). English captain of the Titanic.

1850 - Samuel Gompers was born (d. 1924). American labor leader.

1851 - John James Audubon dies (b. 26 Apr 1785). French-American naturalist, ornithologist, painter; known for his drawings and paintings of North American birds.

1857 - Dorothea Lieven dies (b. 1785). Russian noblewoman.

1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany was born (d. 1941). Last German Emperor and Prussian king.

1860 - Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane dies (b. 23 Jul 1773) (Baronet) British soldier and astronomical observer for whom the city of Brisbane, Australia, is named. Mainly remembered as a patron of science, he built an astronomical observatory at Parramatta, Australia, and a combined observatory and magnetic station at Makerstoun, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

1860 - János Bolyai dies (b. 15 Dec 1802). The greatest Hungarian matematician and one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry - geometry that does not include Euclid's axiom that only one line can be drawn parallel to a given line through a point not on the given line.

1861 - Ralph Modjeski was born (d. 26 Jun 1940). Polish-born American bridge designer and builder, outstanding for the number, variety, and innovative character of his projects.

1865 - Início da Guerra do Paraguai.

1870 - The first women's fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.

1873 - Adam Sedgwick , dies (b. 22 Mar 1785) English geologist who first applied the name Cambrian to the geologic period of time, now dated at 570 to 505 million years ago.

1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

1880 - Edward Middleton Barry dies (b. 1830). English architect.

1885 - Eduard Künnecke was born (d. 1853). German composer.

1885 - Jerome Kern was born (d. 1945). American composer.

1885 - Maeda Seison was born (d. 1977). Japanese painter.

1887 - Carl (William) Blegen, was born (d. 24 Aug 1971) . Archaeologist who found striking

1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.

1888 - Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was born (d. 20 Mar 1947). Swiss-born Norwegian mineralogist and petrologist who laid the foundation of inorganic crystal chemistry and founded modern geochemistry.

1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg was born (d. 1967). Russian writer.

1892 - Clube Naval de Lisboa is founded.

1893 - Soong Ching-ling was born (d. 1981). One of the Soong sisters, wife of Sun Yat-sen.

1895 - Harry Ruby was born (d. 23 Feb 1974). American musician, composer (Duck Soup).

1895 - Cláudio Carneyro was born (d. 1963). Portuguese composer.

1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.

1900 - Hyman Rickover was born in Makow, Russia (now Poland) (d. 8 Jul 1986). American admiral; immigrated to the US 1906 he is known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy for his leadership to build the atomic-powered submarine, USS Nautilus (1954).

1901 - Art Rooney was born (d. 1988). American football team owner.

1901 - Willy Fritsch was born (d. 1973). Gernman actor.

1901 - Giuseppe Verdi dies (b. 1813). Italian composer.

1903 - John Carew Eccles was born (d. 1997). Australian research neuropsychologist, winner (with with Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley) of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963.

1903 - Otto P. Weyland was born (d. 1979). American military figure.

1905 - Howard McNear was born (d. 1969). American actor.

1906 - Tratado entre Inglaterra e França estabelece a divisão do arquipélago das Novas Hébridas.

1906 - Radamés Gnatalli was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (d. 13 Feb 1988). Brazilian composer and conductor.

1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page was born (d. 1954). American jazz trumpet.

1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr. was born (d. 1993). American newspaper magnate.

1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.

1910 - Thomas Crapper dies (b. 1836). English inventor.

1912 - Arne Næss was born (d. 12 Jan. 2009). Norwegian philosopher.

1915 - Primeira Guerra Mundial: Primeiro bombardeio aéreo massivo registrado pela história, realizado por aviões franceses contra as fábricas alemãs de explosivos.

1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti.

1918 - The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War, beginning the war.

1918 - Elmore James was born (d. 1963). American blues musician.

1918 - Skitch Henderson was born (d. 2005). English bandleadeer.

1918 - William Seawell was born (d. 2005). United States Army Brigadier General.

1919 - Ross Bagdasarian was born (d. 1972). American musician, actor.

1919 - Endre Ady dies (b. 1877). Hungarian poet.

1920 - Frankie Albert was born (d. 2002). American football star.

1920 - Helmut Zacharias was born (d. 2002). German violinist.

1920 - John Box was born (d. 2005). British film production designer and art director.

1921 - Donna Reed was born in Denison, Iowa (d.1986). America actress (From Here to Eternity, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Benny Goodman Story, The Donna Reed Show).

1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley dies (b. 1891). Australian winner of the Victoria Cross.

1922 - Giovanni Verga dies in Catania (b. 2 Sep 1840). Italian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, most important of the Italian verismo (Realist) school of novelists.

1922 - Nellie Bly dies (b. 1864). American journalist and writer.

1923 - Primeiro Congresso do Partido nacional-socialista da Alemanha, em Munique.

1924 - Rauf Denktaş was born. Turkish political figure.

1924 - Sabu Destagir was born (d. 2 Dec. 1963). Indian actor (A Tiger Walks, The Treasure of Bengal, The Jungle Book, Arabian Nights, The Thief of Bagdad, The Elephant Boy).

1925 - Waldir Azevedo was born. Brazilian musician and composer.

1926 - Fritz Spiegl was born (d. 2003). Journalist.

1926 - Ingrid Thulin was born (d. 2004). Swedish actress.

1926 - John Logie Baird of Scotland, demonstrates the first television broadcast.

1927 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dies. Writer.

1927 - Georgios Grivas dies. Cyprus-born general of the Greek Army.

1927 - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz) dies. Lithuanian bishop.

1928 - Hans Modrow was born. German politician, premier of East Germany.

1928 - Michael Craig was born. British actor.

1929 - Gastón Suárez was born in Tupiza (d. 1984). Bolivian novelist and dramatist.

1930 - Bobby Blue Bland was born. American blues singer.

1931 - Mordecai Richler was born (d. 2001). Canadian author.

1932 - Boris Shakhlin was born. Soviet gymnast.

1933 - Ary Fontoura was born in Curitiba, Paraná. Brazilian actor.

1933 - Mohamed Al-Fayed was born. Egyptian billionaire businessman.

1934 - Firmado pacto em que Alemanha e Polônia se obrigam mutuamente a renunciar a todo acto de agressão durante 10 anos.

1934 - Federico Mayor Zaragoza was born in Barcelona. Director-General of UNESCO.

1934 - George Follmer was born. American race car driver.

1936 - Troy Donahue was born (d. 2001). American actor.

1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting was born. American physicist who shared, with Burton Richter, the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976 for his discovery of a new subatomic particle, the J/psi particle.

1937 - John Ogdon was born (d. 1989). English pianist.

1939 - United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.

1939 - First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

1940 - James Cromwell was born. American actor.

1940 - Terry Harper was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1940 - Isaac Babel dies (b. 1894). Ukrainian writer.

1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins Following the capture of Tobruk 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursues the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna.

1942 - John Witherspoon was born. American actor.

1942 - Kate Wolf was born (d. 1986). American folk singer and songwriter.

1942 - Stewart Raffill was born. American film director.

1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu dies (b. 1888). Estonian Prime Minister.

1943 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).

1944 - World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

1944 - Mairéad Corrigan was born. Northern Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1944 - Nick Mason was born. English drummer (Pink Floyd).

1944 - Peter Akinola was born. Nigerian religious leader.

1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and liberated the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered.

1945 - Harold Cardinal was born (d. 2005). Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer.

1946 - Nedra Talley was born. American singer, member of the Ronettes.

1947 - Björn Afzelius was born (d. 1999). Swedish singer.

1947 - Vyron Polydoras was born. Greek politician.

1947 - Paul Percy Harris dies. American founder of Rotary International.

1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic wire recorder.

1948 - Jean-Philippe Collard was born. French pianist.

1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov was born. Russian dancer and choreographer.

1949 - Djavan was born in Maceió, Alagoas. Brazilian composer and popular singer.

1949 - Ethan Mordden was born. American author.

1950 - Science magazine announced the new antibiotic terramyacin. Made by Charles Pfizer & Co., it was isolated from Indiana soil, and found effective against pneumonia, dysentery, and other infections .

1950 - Amos Grunebaum was born. Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist.

1950 - Derek Acorah was born. English spirit medium.

1950 - Augusto D'Halmar dies. Chilean poet and writer.

1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.

1951 - Brian Downey was born. Irish musician (Thin Lizzy).

1952 - Prime Minister Mustafa Nahhas is removed by King Farouk for failing to keep the peace. He is replaced by Ali Mahir.

1952 - Billy "White Shoes" Johnson was born. American football player.

1954 - Ed Schultz was born. Radio talk show host.

1954 - Joko Ninomiya was born. Japanese martial artist.

1954 - Peter Laird was born. American comic-book artist.

1955 - Alexander Stuart was born. British author.

1955 - Brian Engblom was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1955 - John Roberts was born. 17th Chief Justice of the United States.

1955 - Koji Ushikubo was born. Japanese racing driver.

1956 - Mimi Rogers was born. American actress.

1956 - Erich Kleiber dies (b. 1890). German conductor.

1957 - Frank Miller was born. American comic book author and film director.

1957 - Frank Skinner was born. English writer and Comedian.

1957 - Janick Gers was born. English musician (Iron Maiden).

1958 - James Grippando was born. American novelist.

1958 - Kadri Mälk was born. Estonian artist and jewelry designer.

1958 - Susanna Thompson was born. American actress.

1959 - Cris Collinsworth was born. American football player.

1959 - Göran Hägglund was born. Swedish politician.

1959 - Keith Olbermann was born. American news correspondent, sportscaster.

1960 - Juan Domingo Perón abandona la República Dominicana y se traslada a España.

1960 - Queda abolida la pena de muerte en Bolivia.

1960 - Osvaldo Aranha dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 15 Nov 1894 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul). Brazilian politician.

1961 - Dina Bonnevie was born. Filipino actress.

1961 - Gillian Gilbert was born. British musician (New Order).

1961 - Margo Timmins was born. Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies).

1961 - Narciso Rodriguez was born. American fashion designer.

1962 - Neno was born. Cape Verdean footballer.

1962 - Roberto Paci Dalò was born. Italian director and composer.

1963 - Sérgio Cabral Filho was born. Brazilian politician and journalist.

1964 - France established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

1964 - E.I. duPont de Nemours Co. introduced Corfam. This hydrocarbon-based, synthetic substitute for leather was flexible, with tiny pores, for uses such as shoes, handbags, belts and suitcases. Shoes put on sale with Corfam uppers were supposed to give consumers the look, feel and durability of leather.

1964 - Bridget Fonda was born. American actress (Point of No Return, The Godfather, Part 3, Aria, 21 Jump Street); daughter of actor Peter Fonda and actress, Susan Brewer, granddaughter of actor, Henry Fonda, niece of actress, Jane Fonda.

1965 - Alan Cumming was born. Scottish stage, television and film actor.

1965 - Mike Newell was born. English football manager.

1966 - Caterina Albert i Paradís (Víctor Català) dies. Writer.

1967 - More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.

1967 - The Doors self titled debut album is released.

1967 - Astronauts Edward White (b. 1930), Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926), and Roger Chaffee (b. 1935), die in a fire during a test of the capsule AS-204, which was later designated Apollo 1.

1967 - Bobby Deol was born. Indian actor.

1967 - Byron Mann was born. Hong Kong actor.

1967 - Dave Manson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.

1967 - Alphonse Juin dies (b. 1888). Marshal of France.

1967 - Edward White (b. 1930), Roger Chaffee (b. 1935) and Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926) die. Crew of Apollo 1.

1968 - Mike Patton was born. American lead singer of several bands in USA.

1968 - Patrick Blondeau was born. French footballer.

1968 - Tricky was born. English rapper.

1969 - The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000KVA was completed and placed in operation.

1969 - 14 men, nine of them Jews, were executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.

1969 - Cornelius was born. Musician (Flipper's Guitar)

1969 - Michael Kulas was born. Canadian singer/songwriter (James (band)).

1969 - Patton Oswalt was born. American actor and writer.

1970 - Emmanuel Pahud was born. French-Swiss flautist.

1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey was born. American TV persnality.

1970 - Mark Trojanowski was born. American musician (Sister Hazel).

1970 - Rita Angus dies (b. 1908). New Zealand painter.

1971 - Fann Wong was born. Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights).

1971 - Lil Jon was born. American rapper and producer

1971 - Patrice Brisebois was born. Canadian ice hockey player

1971 - Jacobo Arbenz dies (b. 1913). President of Guatemala (b. 1913) .

1972 - Guillermo was born. Mexican-born American TV personality.

1972 - Janine Ilitch was born. Australian netballer.

1972 - Keith Wood was born. Irish rugby player.

1972 - Mark Owen was born. English pop singer.

1972 - Mahalia Jackson dies (b. 1911). American singer.

1972 - Richard Courant dies (b. 8 Jan 1888). German-born American mathematician and educator who made significant advances in the calculus of variations.

1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

1973 - William Nolde dies (b. 1929). Last American combat casualty of Vietnam War

1974 - Brisbane river floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City in the 20th Century.

1974 - Andrei Pavel was born. Romanian tennis player.

1974 - Chaminda Vaas was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.

1974 - Vera Sousa e Silva was born in Lisbon. Portuguese poet.

1974 - ZP Theart was born. South African-born English singer (Dragonforce).

1975 - Bill Walsh dies (b. 1913). American producer, writer.

1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan was born. Korean football player.

1976 - Clint Ford was born. American voice actor.

1976 - Ruby Lin was born. Taiwanese actress and singer.

1976 - Todd MacCulloch was born. American basketball player.

1976 - Zoriah Miller was born. American photojournalist and war photographer.

1977 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.

1978 - Proclamada a Declaração Universal dos Direitos dos Animais na assembléia da UNESCO, em Bruxelas.

1978 - Leopold Sedar Senghor is reelected President of Senegal.

1978 - Lt Marilyn R. Koon, 161st Aerial Refueling Squadron, Arizona Air National Guard, becomes first female Air National Guard Pilot.

1978 - Pete Laforest was born. Canadian baseball player.

1979 - Daniel Vettori was born. New Zealand cricketer.

1979 - Liesbet Van Breedam was born. Belgian beach volleyball player.

1979 - Mario Fatafehi was born. American-born Canadian Football League player.

1979 - Rosamund Pike was born. British actress.

1979 - Qalander Ba Ba Auliya dies (b. 1898). Founder of Azeemia sufi order.

1979 - Victoria_Ocampo dies (b. 1890). Argentine intelectual, writer and publisher.

1980 - Robert Gabriel Mugabe returns to Rhodesia, after a five year exile, in preparation for the first elections in a soon to be independent Zimbabwe.

1980 - Chanda Gunn was born. American ice hockey player.

1980 - Marat Safin was born. Russian tennis player.

1981 - In Indonesia, 500 people died when the motor ferry Tampomas II sank in the Java Sea, following a fire.

1981 - Alicia Molik was born. Australian tennis player.

1983 - Pilot shaft of World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō breaks through.

1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.

1983 - Carlo Colaiacovo was born. Canadian hockey player.

1983 - Gavin Floyd was born. American baseball player.

1983 - Mike Zagurski was born. American baseball player.

1983 - Meyer Fortes dies (b. 25 Apr 1906). British social anthropologist known for his investigations of West African societies.

1983 - Louis de Funès dies (b. 1914). French actor.

1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.

1984 - Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp while filming a commercial for Pepsi.

1984 - Davetta Sherwood was born. American actress.

1985 - Rúben Amorim was born. Portuguese footballer (SL Benfica).

1986 - Lilli Palmer dies (b. 1914). German-born actress.

1987 - Ashley Perez Moza was born. Mexican singer (Ha*Ash).

1987 - Lily Donaldson was born. British model.

1987 - Katy Rose was born. American pop singer.

1987 - Zuleidy was born. Spanish porn star.

1988 - Spanish banks Bilbao and Vizcaya merged.

1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza was born. Brazilian footballer.

1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté dies (b. 1938). Malian author.

1989 - Bayani Casimiro dies (b. 1918). Filipino dancer and actor.

1989 - Sir Thomas Sopwith dies (b. 18 Jan 1888). British aircraft designer whose firm was famous for such British World War I military aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and Triplane.

1989 - El cohete europeo "Ariane", lanzado desde la base francesa de Kuru (Guayana), pone en órbita con éxito el satélite de comunicaciones Intelsat V F-15 (servicios de tv y

telefonía).

1990 - Adriana de Oliveira dies (b. 1969). Brazilian top model.

1991 - Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu (Madagascar).

1991 - Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.

1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.

1993 - André the Giant dies (b. 1946). Professional wrestler and actor.

1994 - Claude Akins dies (b. 1918). American actor.

1994 - Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi became the highest-ranking politician committed for trial in Italy's graft scandal.

1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.

1996 - Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.

1996 - Ralph Yarborough dies (b. 1903). American Senator and Texas politician.

1996 - Olga Havlová dies (b. Šplíchalová 1933). Czech First Lady.

1997 - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.

1997 - Gerald Marks dies (b. 1900). American songwriter (All of Me).

1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.

1999 - Gonzalo Torrente Ballester dies. Writer.

2000 - Friedrich Gulda dies (b. 1930). Austrian pianist.

2001 - Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado.

2001 - Stavros Damianides dies (b. 1941). Greek musician.

2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.

2003 - Henryk Jabłoński dies (b. 1909). President of communist People's Republic of Poland.

2003 - Louis Archambault dies (b. 1915). Quebec actor.

2004 - William Hung auditioned for the American Idol.

2004 - Jack Paar dies (b. 1918). American television show host.

2004 - Salvador Laurel dies (b. 1928). 9th Vice President of the Philippines.

2006 - Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.

2006 - Disappearance of Jean-Christophe Lafaille (b. 1965). French mountaineer.