Futebol: Liga portuguesa - 8ª. Jornada

- 8ª. Jornada -
27 Out 20:30	Beira-Mar	3 - 3	Sporting
28 Out 17:00	União de Leiria	2 - 0	Académica
28 Out 19:45	Porto	3 - 2	Benfica
29 Out 15:00	Desp. Aves	0 - 1	Belenenses
29 Out 16:00	Nacional	1 - 1	Naval 1º. de Maio
29 Out 16:00	Est. da Amadora	1 - 0	Vitória de Setúbal
29 Out 18:30	Braga	1 - 4	Marítimo
30 Out 19:45	Paços de Ferreira	-	Boavista

Comentário da Jornada:

O Porto foi o grande vencedor da jornada ao derrotar o Benfica por 3-2 e beneficiar do empate do Sporting em Aveiro e da derrota caseira do Braga. Comanda agora isolado o campeonato ainda que o clássico do Dragão tenha implicado a perda do criativo Anderson para os próximos três meses.

O jogo de Aveiro foi espectacular (talvez o melhor jogo do campeonato) e o do Porto também teve (quem diria isso aos 20 minutos!) o vencedor decidido no último minuto depois de uma recuperação do Benfica que chegou a ameaçar sair vencedor do jogo.

Destaque para o Estrela da Amadora que conseguiu o primeiro triunfo ao jogar pela 1ª. vez na sua verdadeira casa. Nacional e Naval duas equipas que estão a praticar bom futebol repartiram pontos, colocando a equipa da Figueira da Foz em grande destaque neste princípio de campeonato.

Ao invés o Desportivo das Aves sofreu nova derrota caseira e agora classifica-se no último lugar da tabela.

Com o Boavista a jogar amanhã tendo Jaime Pacheco de novo no comando da equipa, o dia de hoje terminou com o Marítimo a ir vencer de forma convincente o Braga por 4-1 (tendo chegado aos 4-0) aumentando assim para dois os visitantes vencedores da jornada.

Place	Club	Points	Goals
1.	Porto	19	18-6
2.	Sporting	17	13-7
3.	Naval 1º de Maio	15	9-6
4.	Braga	14	10-8
5.	Benfica (*)	13	15-9
5.	Nacional	13	11-6
5.	Marítimo	13	10-9
5.	União de Leiria	13	9-11
9.	Belenenses (*)	11	7-5
10.	Paços de Ferreira (*)	9	7-8
11.	Vitória de Setúbal	8	6-9
12.	Boavista	7	9-11
12.	Académica	7	9-12
14.	Beira Mar	6	11-17
15.	Estrela da Amadora	4	3-13
16.	Desp. das Aves	2	4-14

(*) Estas equipas têm sete jogos disputados ou seja menos um que as restantes equipas:

Benfica - Belenenses (da 1ª. Jornada) está em atraso e amanhã completa-se a jornada 8 com o jogo Paços de Ferreira-Boavista.

- 9ª. Jornada -
3 Nov 20:30	Belenenses	-	União de Leiria
4 Nov 19:15	Boavista	-	Desportivo das Aves
5 Nov 16:00	Nacional	-	Paços de Ferreira
5 Nov 16:00	Académica	-	Estrela da Amadora
5 Nov 16:00	Naval 1º. de Maio	-	Marítimo
5 Nov 19:45	Benfica	-	Beira Mar
6 Nov 19:15	Sporting	-	Sp. Braga
6 Nov 20:30	Vitória de Setúbal	-	Porto

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On this day in History - Oct. 29

• 0437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. This unifies the two branches of the House of Theodosius
• 0969 - Byzantine troops occupy Antioch Syria
• 1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor was born (d. 1056)
• 1038 - Aethelnoth dies. Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1061 - Emperor disposes of Bishop Cadalus & Pope Honorius II
• 1138 - Bolesław III Krzywousty dies (b. 1086). Duke of Poland
• 1268 - Conradin dies executed (b. 1252). Duke of Swabia
• 1268 - Frederick I, Margrave of Baden dies beheaded (b. 1249)
• 1268 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Catholic church.
• 1340 - Batalha do Salado, pela defesa da Península Ibérica da invasão dos mouros (veja também Reconquista)
• 1422 - Charles VII of France becomes king in succession to his father Charles VI of France
• 1463 - Alessandro Achillini was born. Italian physician and philosopher.
• 1467 - Battle of Brusthem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege
• 1590 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert dies (b. 1522). Dutch politician and theologian.
• 1591 - Início do pontificado do Papa Inocêncio IX
• 1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
• 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh dies executed (b. 1554). English explorer
• 1650 - David Calderwood dies (b. 1575). Scottish historian
• 1656 (O.S.) - Edmond Halley was born (d. 1742). English astronomer
• 1658 - Action of 29 October 1658 (Naval battle)
• 1666 - Edmund Calamy the Elder dies (b. 1600). English Presbyterian leader.
• 1666 - James Shirley dies (b. 1596). English dramatist.
• 1675 - Leibniz makes the first use of the long s, ∫, for integral.
• 1682 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was born (d. 1761). French historian
• 1690 - Martin Folkes was born (d. 1754). English antiquarian
• 1704 - John Byng was born (d. 1757). British admiral
• 1740 - James Boswell was born (d. 1795). Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson
• 1762 - André-Marie Chenier was born. French poet (Elegies).
• 1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies (b. 1717). French mathematician and encyclopædist.
• 1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
• 1792 - Mt. Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
• 1815 - Daniel Emmett was born (d. 1904). American composer.
• 1822 - Mieczysław Cardinal Ledóchowski was born (d. 1902). Polish Catholic Cardinal
• 1827 - Marcellin Berthelot was born (d. 1907). French chemist.
• 1853 - Pierre Joseph Guillaume Zimmermann dies. Composer.
• 1855 - Paul Bruchési was born (d. 1939). Archbishop of Montreal.
• 1861 - Andrei Ryabushkin was born (d. 1904). Russian painter.
• 1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie - Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant ward-off a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• 1870 - António José de Ávila assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1873 - Guillermo Valencia was born. Colombian poet.
• 1877 - Wilfred Rhodes was born (d. 1973). English cricketer
• 1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest dies (b. 1821). American Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1879 - Alva B. Adams was born (d. 1941). American politician.
• 1879 - Franz von Papen was born (d. 1969). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1880 - Abram Ioffe was born (d. 1960). Soviet physicist.
• 1881 - The Judge (US magazine) first published.
• 1882 - Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was born. President of El Salvador (1931-1934 e 1935-1944)
• 1882 - Jean Giraudoux was born (d. 1944). French writer. His plays included “Eglantine” and “Provinciales.”
• 1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
• 1891 - Fanny Brice was born (d. 1951). American singer and comedienne
• 1897 - Joseph Goebbels was born (d. 1945). Nazi Minister of Propaganda
• 1899 - Akim Tamiroff was born (d. 1972). Russian actor
• 1901 - In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
• 1901 - Capital punishment: Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
• 1901 - Leon Czolgosz dies (b. 1873). American assassin of U.S. President William McKinley
• 1902 - Flávio Rodrigues da Silva was born. Portuguese musician (fado)
• 1905 - Étienne Desmarteau dies (b. 1873). Canadian athlete.
• 1907 - Edwige Feuillère was born (d. 1998). French film actress.
• 1910 - Alfred Ayer was born (d. 1989). British philosopher
• 1911 - Joseph Pulitzer dies (b. 1847). Hungarian-born newspaper publisher.
• 1914 - Peyo Yavorov dies. Bulgarian dramatist and poet
• 1914 - Edmond Polynice assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência do Haiti.
• 1915 - William Berenberg was born (d. 2005). American physician and Harvard professor
• 1917 - Eddie Constantine was born (d. 1993). American actor/singer
• 1919 - A. B. Simpson dies (b. 1843). Canadian founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.
• 1920 - Baruj Benacerraf was born. Venezuelan-born immunologist, Nobel laureate
• 1920 - Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Didymos I was born. Indian Catholic
• 1921 - Bill Mauldin was born (d. 2003). American cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-winning [1945, 1959], created G.I. Joe and Willie
• 1921 - The Link River Dam, a part of the Klamath Reclamation Project, is completed.
• 1922 - Neil Hefti was born. American jazz trumpeter.
• 1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1923 - Carl Djerassi was born. Austrian chemist
• 1925 - Dominick Dunne was born. American author
• 1926 - Jon Vickers was born. Canadian tenor
• 1927 - Russian archaeologist Peter Kozloff uncovered the tomb of Genghis Khan in the Gobi Desert.
• 1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression. The market crashed.
• 1930 - Omara Portuondo was born. Cuban singer.
• 1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle was born (d. 2002). French sculptor.
• 1932 - Joseph Babiński dies (b. 1857). Polish-French neurologist.
• 1933 - Albert Calmette dies (b. 1863). French physician.
• 1933 - Paul Painlevé dies (b. 1853). French mathematician and politician
• 1935 - Takahata Isao was born. Japanese director of animated movies
• 1936 - O primeiro grupo de prisioneiros políticos chega ao Campo de concentração do Tarrafal, constituída por 157 deportados, formado por dirigentes anarquistas, comunistas e sindicais.
• 1936 - Akiko Kojima was born. Japanese model
• 1938 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was born. President of Liberia
• 1938 - Luis Ricardo Rizo Avellaneda was born. Argentine militar.
• 1938 - Ralph Bakshi was born. Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
• 1940 - Connie Mack was born. U.S. Senator from Florida
• 1940 - Frida Boccara was born (d. 1996). French singer
• 1940 - José Ulises Macías Salcedo was born. Catholic bishop
• 1942 - Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.
• 1944 - Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division
• 1944 - Denny Laine was born. English musician (Moody Blues,Wings)
• 1944 - Claude Brochu was born. Major League Baseball executive (Montreal Expos)
• 1944 - Otto Wiesheu was born. German minister
• 1945 - Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil, resigns.
• 1946 - Peter Green was born. English guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss was born. Academy award winning actor ( The Goodbye Girl [1977]; Valley of the Dolls, Jaws, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lost in Yonkers, Nuts, American Graffiti, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Graduate, Postcards from the Edge, In Mama’s House, Karen, The Education of Max Bickford)
• 1948 - Kate Jackson was born. American actress
• 1948 - Safsaf massacre
• 1948 - Manuel A. Odría assume a presidência do Peru
• 1949 - G. I. Gurdjieff dies (b. 1872). Armenian mystic.
• 1950 - King Gustav V of Sweden dies (b. 1858)
• 1953 - Denis Potvin was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 - William Kapell dies (b. 1922). American pianist.
• 1955 - The Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
• 1955 - Roger O'Donnell was born. English musician (The Cure)
• 1956 - Suez Crisis begins: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
• 1956 - Tangier Protocol signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
• 1956 - Wilfredo Gomez was born. Puerto Rican boxer
• 1957 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
• 1957 - Dan Castellaneta was born. American actor
• 1957 - Louis B. Mayer dies (b. 1885). American film producer.
• 1957 - Rosemarie Nitribitt dies (b. 1933). German call girl.
• 1958 - Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel prize for literature. Pasternak's novel “Dr. Zhivago” was on the best seller list in the west.
• 1958 - David Remnick was born. American writer and editor of The New Yorker
• 1958 - Zoe Akins dies (b. 1886). American playwright.
• 1959 - Mike Gartner was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
• 1960 - Finola Hughes was born. British actress
• 1961 - Randy Jackson was born. American musician
• 1961 - Joel Otto was born. National Hockey League player
• 1963 - Adolphe Menjou dies (b. 1890). American actor.
• 1964 - Yasmin Le Bon was born. British model
• 1964 - A collection of irreplaceable gems, including the 565 carat (113 g) Star of India, is stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
• 1966 - Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich dies. President of Costa Rica (1962-1966)
• 1967 - Joely Fisher was born. American actress
• 1967 - Rufus Sewell was born. English actor
• 1968 - Johann Olav Koss was born. Norwegian speed skater
• 1969 - The first computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET.
• 1970 - Philip Cocu was born. Dutch football player
• 1970 - Edwin van der Sar was born. Dutch football player
• 1971 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest level since January 1966)
• 1971 - Winona Ryder was born. American actress (Little Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Lucas )
• 1971 - Duane Allman dies (b. 1946). American musician.
• 1971 - Arne Tiselius dies (b. 1902). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1972 - Takafumi Horie was born. Japanese entrepreneur
• 1972 - Florencia Raggi was born. Argentine model and actress
• 1973 - Gabrielle Union was born. American actress
• 1973 - Robert Pirès was born. French football player
• 1974 - Michael Vaughan was born. English cricketer
• 1975 - Kelly Lin was born. Chinese actress
• 1976 - Stephen Craigan was born. Northern Irish footballer
• 1977 - Brendan Fehr was born. Canadian actor
• 1978 - Travis Henry was born. American football player
• 1979 - Simone Spoladore was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1980 - Ben Foster was born. American actor
• 1980 - Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
• 1980 - B.J. Sams was born. American football player
• 1981 - Amanda Beard was born. American swimmer
• 1981 - Jonathan Brown was born. Australian football player
• 1981 - Georges Brassens dies (b. 1921). French singer.
• 1982 - Chelan Simmons was born. Canadian actress
• 1983 - Dana Eveland was born. American baseball player
• 1983 - Richard Brancatisano was born. Australian actor
• 1983 - Maurice Clarett was born. American football player.
• 1983 - Ana Cristina César dies (b. 1952). Brazilian poetess.
• 1983 - Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting album of all time when it logged its 491st week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
• 1984 - Golfing great Tom Watson won his sixth PGA Player of the Year title
• 1984 - Eric Staal was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1985 - Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multiparty election in Liberia.
• 1985 - Portugal: Aníbal Cavaco Silva é indigitado para o cargo de primeiro-ministro.
• 1987 - Makoto Ogawa was born. Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
• 1987 - Woody Herman dies (b. 1913). American musician.
• 1988 - In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
• 1989 - After years of delays, the 63rd Street Tunnel opens for service, the first expansion of the New York City subway system since 1967.
• 1991 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
• 1992 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
• 1993 - Masahiro Makino dies. Japanese film director.
• 1994 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
• 1994 - Em Moçambique, Joaquim Chissano e a FRELIMO obtêm a maioria nas eleições.
• 1995 - Terry Southern dies in New York City (b.1924). Writer (Candy, The Magic Christian). He wrote the screenplays for Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1966), Casino Royale (1967), Easy Rider (1969).
• 1996 - Graham Swift won the Booker Prize for his comic novel “Last Orders.”
• 1997 - Anton LaVey dies (b. 1930). American founder of the Church of Satan
• 1998 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
• 1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962.
• 1998 - While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he was landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• 1998 - In Freehold Borough, New Jersey, Melissa Drexler pleads guilty to aggravated manslaughter for killing her baby moments after delivering him in the bathroom at her senior prom, and is sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
• 1998 - Hurricane Mitch made landfall in Honduras.
• 1998 - In Goteberg, Sweden, a fire burned a discotheque with hundreds of teenagers and 63 people were killed. In 2000 four young men were sentenced to prison terms of 3-8 years.
• 1998 - Paul Misraki dies (b. 1908). French songwriter.
• 1999 - Michel Regnier (Greg) dies (b. 1931). Belgian comic-book writer and artist (Achille Talon).
• 2003 - Hal Clement dies (b. 1922). American writer
• 2003 - Franco Corelli dies (b. 1921). Italian tenor
• 2004 - The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
• 2004 - In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
• 2004 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc dies (b. 1923). Dominican politician
• 2004 - Peter Twinn dies (b. 1916). English mathematician and World War II code-breaker.
• 2004 - Jacinto João dies (b. 1944). Portuguese football player (V. Setúbal)
• 2004 - Vaughn Meader dies (b. 1936). American comedian.
• 2005 - 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
• 2005 - Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.
• 2006 - Presidential elections on Brazil (2nd. round)
• October 29th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Narcissus, Diwali in 1989, St. Abraham of Rostov, St. Anne , St. Bond, St. Zenobius, St. Terence of Metz, St. Theodore, St. Colman of Kilmacduagh, St. Donatus of Corfu, Douai Martyrs, St. Elfleda, St. Hyacinth, St. John of Autun, Bl. Martyrs of Douai, St. Maximilian.
• Republic Day in Turkey (1923)
• Dia Nacional do Livro (Brasil) (Lei 5191/66).

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Porto isola-se no campeonato ao ganhar no último minuto

Porto 3 - 2 Benfica

Uns marcam golos do nada... outros falham golos feitos!

Sorte de Euromilhões para o Porto e vitória para quem ganhava aos 20 minutos por 2-0 e que aos 92' empatava 2-2.

O primeiro golo surge de um remate torto de Postiga que ia claramente ao lado e desviou em Lisandro para fazer o 1-0. O Porto dominava e a vantagem cedo adquirida dava-lhe tranquilidade enquanto o Benfica parecia surpreendido.

O 2-0 surge após uma falta sobre Petit não assinalada por Lucílio Baptista nas imediações da área do Porto que saiu para o ataque e a classe de Quaresma a fintar Nélson e a rematar ao segundo poste num grande golo, quando é certo que minutos antes já havia ensaiado jogada identica.

O Benfica ficou abalado mas começou a reagir e à medida que o tempo passsava começou a equilibrar a partida. Em lance começado no lado esquerdo (sempre o mais activo ou único activo) do ataque do Benfica, Kikin no miolo da área a dominar no peito e com tudo para marcar rematou para Helton fazer grande defesa. Poucos minutos depois também do lado esquerdo a foi atrasada para remate de Paulo Jorge para nova defesa de Helton.

Nessa altura o Porto já jogava com Raul Meireles em vez de Anderson que saiu lesionado após corte de carrinho de Katsouranis.

Importantes na segunda parte as mexidas em ambas as equipas. No Benfica Nuno Assis (em vez de Paulo Jorge) e mais tarde Mantorras (em vez de Kikin) entraram bem, enquanto o Porto perdia o seu segundo criativo (Quaresma) substituido aos 74'.

Num canto por Simão o Benfica marcou por Karagounis de cabeça ao primeiro poste aos 62' e aos 81' chegava ao empate. Finalmente uma jogada da direita com cruzamento e Nuno Gomes de carrinho a desviar a bola para o fundo da baliza. Estava o Benfica por cima, mas esta equipa não tem consistência (e com Léo fora de campo) de um lançamento de linha lateral com vários ressaltos e o guarda-redes passivo, Bruno Moraes chegou ao triunfo final.

Da arbitragem não se esperava melhor e por isso como não houve ao menos penalties e foras de jogo já não foi mal.

Estádio do Dragão, no Porto

Árbitro: Lucílio Baptista (Setúbal) Aux - Bertino Miranda e Venâncio Tomé

FC PORTO – Helton; Fucile, Pepe, Bruno Alves e Marek Cech; Paulo Assunção (Bruno Moraes, 83 m), Lucho Gonzalez, e Anderson (Raul Meireles, 30 m); Lisandro Lopez, Hélder Postiga e Ricardo Quaresma (Tarik, 73 m).

BENFICA – Quim; Nélson, Luisão, Ricardo Rocha e Léo; Petit e Katsouranis; Paulo Jorge (Nuno Assis, 53 m), Nuno Gomes e Simão; Kikin Fonseca (Mantorras, 61 m).

Golos: 1-0, Lisandro Lopez (12 m); 2-0, Ricardo Quaresma (20 m); 2-1, Katsouranis (62 m); 2-2, Nuno Gomes (81 m); 3-2, Bruno Moraes (90 m).

Acção Disciplinar:
Cartão amarelo para Fucile 76'
Cartão amarelo para Paulo Assunção 80'.

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On this day in History - Oct. 28

• 0306- Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
• 0312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine the Great defeats the forces of Maxentius.
• 1017 - Henry III was born. Roman Catholic German emperor, 1046-56
• 1225 - Jien dies (b. 1155). Japanese poet and historian
• 1412 - Margaret I of Denmark dies (b. 1353). Queen of Haakon VI of Norway
• 1485 - Rodolphus Agricola dies (b. 1443). Dutch humanist.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba.
• 1510 - St. Francis Borgia was born (d. 1572). Spanish duke and Jesuit priest
• 1516 - Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
• 1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia dies. Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
• 1531 - Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
• 1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
• 1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide dies (b. 1539). Japanese shogun.
• 1585 - Cornelius Jansen was born (d. 1638). French bishop and religious reformer.
• 1627 - Jahangir dies (b. 1569). Mughal Emperor of India.
• 1628 - The Siege of La Rochelle, which had been ongoing for 14 months, ends with Huguenot surrender
• 1636 - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
• 1639 - Stefano Landi dies (b. 1587). Italian composer.
• 1646 - William Dobson dies (b. 1610). English painter.
• 1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana died (b. 1518). Spanish playwright.
• 1664 - The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot later to be known as the Royal Marines is established.
• 1676 - Jean Desmarets dies (b. 1595). French writer.
• 1691 - Peder Tordenskjold was born (d.1720). Norwegian naval hero
• 1703 - Antoine Deparcieux was born (d. 1768). French mathematician.
• 1703 - John Wallis died (b. 1616). English mathematician.
• 1704 - John Locke died (b. 1632). English philosopher.
• 1708 - Prince George of Denmark died (b. 1653). Consort of Queen Anne of England
• 1716 - Stephen Fox died (b. 1627). English politician.
• 1718 - Ignacije Szentmartony was born (d. 1793). Croatian geographer
• 1740 - Ivan VI becomes czar of Russia
• 1740 - Anna Ivanova Romanova dies (b. 1693). Empress of Russia (1730-40)
• 1746 - Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
• 1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn dies (b. 1708). German poet.
• 1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier dies (b. 1689). French composer.
• 1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl dies (b. 1700). German statesman.
• 1768 - Michel Blavet died (b. 1700). French flutist.
• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains - British forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
• 1792 - Paul Möhring dies (b. 1710). German physician and scientist
• 1793 - Eliphalet Remington was born (d. 1861). American firearms manufacturer.
• 1794 - John Smeaton dies (b . 1724). English civil engineer
• 1800 - Artemas Ward dies (b. 1727). American politician and soldier
• 1804 - Pierre François Verhulst was born (d. 1849). Belgian mathematician.
• 1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith dies (b. 1749). English poet and novelist.
• 1818 - Abigail Adams dies (b. 1744). First Lady of the United States
• 1834 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
• 1841 - Johan August Arfwedson dies (b. 1792). Swedish chemist.
• 1841 - Nasce José Fontana, iniciador do movimento operário em Portugal.
• 1846 - Georges Auguste Escoffier was born (d. 1935). French chef.
• 1848 - The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
• 1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac dies (b. 1802). French soldier and politician.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends - Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
• 1868 - Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
• 1875 - Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was born (d. 1966). American geographer and editor (National Geographic Society).
• 1877 - Joe Adams was born (d. 1952). Baseball player.
• 1877 - Robert Swinhoe died (b. 1835). British naturalist.
• 1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud died (b. 1799). French writer.
• 1885 - Velimir Khlebnikov was born (d. 1922). Russian poet
• 1886 - In New York Harbor, US President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• 1892 - Dink Johnson was born (d. 1954). American musician
• 1894 – Américo de Oliveira Durão was born in Coruche (d. in Lisbon, 7 Mar 1969). Portuguese dramatist and poet.
• 1896 - Howard Hanson was born (d. 1981). American composer
• 1897 - Hercules Robinson dies (b. 1824). British colonial administrator.
• 1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler dies (b. 1854). German-born inventor
• 1900 - Max Müller dies (b. 1823). German-born orientalist
• 1902 - Elsa Lanchester was born (d. 1986). British-born actress.
• 1903 - Evelyn Waugh was born (d. 1966). English writer.
• 1907 - Edith Head was born (d. 1981). American costum designer.
• 1907 - John Hewitt was born (d. 1987). Northern Irish poet.
• 1908 - Arturo Frondizi was born (d. 1995). President of Argentina
• 1909 - Francis Bacon was born (d. 1992). Irish painter.
• 1909 – Antonio Ruy de Noronha was born in Mozambique (d. 25 Dec 1943). Portuguese journalist and poet
• 1912 - Richard Doll was born (d. 2005). English epidemiologist.
• 1914 - The single largest one-day percentage decline of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the recorded history of the New York stock market.
• 1914 - Jonas Salk was born (d. 1995). American medical scientist
• 1914 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge was born (d. 1994). English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1914 - Glenn Robert Davis was born (d. 1988). U.S. Congressman,
• 1915 - Paul Jarrico was born (d. 1997). American screenwriter.
• 1916 - Oswald Boelcke dies (b. 1891). German pilot
• 1916 - Cleveland Abbe dies (b. 1838). American meteorologist
• 1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg died (b. 1831)
• 1918 - Ulisse Dini died (b. 1845). Italian mathematician
• 1918 - Czechoslovakia gains its independence from Austria-Hungary.
• 1918 - New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe).
• 1919 - Prohibition begins: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
• 1920 - Natércia Freire was born in Benavente (d. 2004). Portuguese poetess.
• 1922 - March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march
  on Rome and take over the Italian government with the assistance of the Catholic Church; pope Pius XI declares that "Mussolini is a man sent by divine providence."
• 1922 - Gershon Kingsley was born. German composer
• 1922 - Simon Muzenda was born (d. 2003). Zimbabwean politician
• 1924 - Tony de Matos was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1926 - Bowie Kuhn was born. Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• 1927 - Dame Cleo Laine was born. British jazz/scat singer
• 1928 - Ion Mihai Pacepa was born. Romanian general
• 1929 - Joan Plowright was born. British actress
• 1929 - Marcel Bozzuffi was born (d. 1988). French actor (d. 1988)
• 1929 - John Hollander was born. American poet
• 1929 - Bernhard von Bülow dies (b. 1849). Chancellor of Germany
• 1930 - Bernie Ecclestone was born. English racing official
• 1932 - Suzy Parker was born (d. 2003). American actress
• 1933 - Garrincha was born (d. 1983).Brazilian football player.
• 1936 - Charlie Daniels was born. American musician.
• 1936 - Curtis Lee was born. American singer
• 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on
  its 50th anniversary.
• 1937 - Charlie Daniels was born. American musician
• 1938 - Anne Perry was born. English-born novelist
• 1939 - Jane Alexander was born. American actress
• 1939 - Miroslav Cerar was born. Yugoslav gymnast
• 1940 - World War II: Italy invades Greece through Albanian and is the selected anniversary of Greece's entry into World War II. It is celebrated
  in Greece as "OXI" Day.
• 1940 - Susan Harris was born. American TV writer and producer
• 1941 - Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania: German SS forces arrange the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of Kaunas ghetto. All Jews, men, women, children at 6 am, assembled on the big Demokratu square to be shot and buried later into the gigantic ditches.
• 1941 - John Hallam was born. Irish actor
• 1942 - Holocaust: 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Cracow are deported by Germans to Belzec death camp.
• 1942 - Holocaust: SS directive orders all Jewish children's mittens and stockings to be sent from the death camps to the SS families.
• 1942 - The Alaska Highway is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
• 1942 - Kees Verkerk was born. Dutch speed skater
• 1943 - Conny Froboess was born. German singer
• 1943 - The Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occured.
• 1944 - Dennis Franz was born. American actor
• 1944 - Anton Schlecker was born. German billionaire
• 1944 - Coluche was born (d. 1986). French comedian and actor.
• 1945 - Wayne Fontana, English singer (The Mindbenders)
• 1946 - Wim Jansen was born. Dutch football player and coach
• 1948 - Telma Hopkins was born.American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
• 1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1948 - Flag of Israel is adopted
• 1949 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1949 - Bruce Jenner was born. American athlete
• 1950 - The Jack Benny Show, starring Jack Benny, premiers (it ran for 15 years).
• 1950 - Sihem Bensedrine was born. Tunisian human rights activist
• 1952 - Annie Potts was born. American actress
• 1952 - Billy Hughes dies (b. 1862). Seventh Prime Minister of Australia
• 1953 - Pierre Boivin was born. French Canadian businessman and National Hockey League executive (Montreal Canadiens)
• 1954 - Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature.
• 1954 - The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.
• 1955 - Bill Gates was born. American software pioneer.
• 1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born. President of Iran
• 1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg dies (b. 1881). German physican and scientist
• 1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope and takes the name Pope John XXIII.
• 1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos dies (b. 1932). Cuban revolutionary
• 1962 - Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants became the third quarterback in NFL history to throw seven touchdown passes in one game.
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
• 1962 - Daphne Zuniga was born. American actress
• 1963 - Verónica Gamba was born in Buenos Aires. Playmate, November, 1983
• 1963 - Eros Ramazzotti was born. Italian pop musician, songwriter, Adesso Te
• 1963 - Lauren Holly was born. American actress
• 1965 - Jami Gertz was born. American actress
• 1965 - French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow.
• 1965 - Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.
• 1965 - In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic (catenarian) steel Gateway Arch is completed.
• 1965 - Earl Bostic died (b. 1913). American saxophonist
• 1966 - Steve Atwater was born. American football player
• 1967 - Julia Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia. American actress Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman
• 1967 - John Romero was born. American video game designer
• 1967 - Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein was born.
• 1968 - Ben Harper was born. American musician
• 1970 - The land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
• 1972 - Terrell Davis was born. American football player
• 1973 - Sergio Tofano dies (b. 1883). Italian actor
• 1973 - Taha Hussein dies (b. 1889). Egyptian writer
• 1974 - Joaquin Phoenix was born. Puerto Rican-born actor
• 1974 - Dayanara Torres was born. Puerto Rican model and former Miss Universe
• 1975 - Georges Carpentier dies (b. 1894). French boxer
• 1976 - John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic policy adviser of President Nixon and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeastern Arizona.
• 1976 - Karl Tremblay was born. Québécois singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
• 1977 - Lara Antunes was born. Miss Portugal 1997 , model
• 1977 - Miguel Mihura dies (b. 21 Jun 1905). Spanish dramatist, humourist and writer.
• 1979 - Aki Hakala was born. The drummer of The Rasmus
• 1980 - Alan Smith was born. English football player
• 1980 - Christy Hemme was born. American female professioonal "wrestler"
• 1981 - The heavy metal band Metallica is founded in San Francisco.
• 1981 - Milan Baros was born. Czech football player.
• 1982 - Felipe González torna-se o primeiro primeiro-ministro socialista em Espanha, após ter obtido grande maioria eleitoral.
• 1984 - 14th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
• 1984 - 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
• 1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
• 1986 - Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews and is given five life sentences.
• 1986 - John Braine dies (b. 1922). English novelist
• 1987 - André Masson dies (b. 04 Jan 1896). French Surrealist painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, illustrator, stage designer, and writer.
• 1988 - Pietro Annigoni dies (b. 7 Jun 1910). Italian painter.
• 1988 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam dies (b. 1908). American actor and comedian
• 1997 - The bulls come running back as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points to close at 7,498.32. The massive rally comes a day after a 554 point drop. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
• 1998 - An Air China jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan. After landing the plane safely, Yuan Bin was arrested.
• 1998 - Ted Hughes dies (b. 1930). English poet
• 2000 - Lída Baarová dies (b. 1914). Czech actress.
• 2000 - Carlos Guastavino dies (b. 1912). Argentine composer
• 2001 - Gerard Hengeveld dies (b. 1910). Dutch composer
• 2002 - Margaret Booth dies (b. 1898). American film editor
• 2002 - Erling Persson dies (b. 1917). Swedish entrepreneur
• 2004 - Jimmy McLarnin dies (b. 1907). Irish-born boxer
• 2005 - Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
• 2005 - Eugene K. Bird dies (b. 1926). German prison director.
• 2005 - Bob Broeg dies (b. 1918). American sports writer.
• 2005 - Raymond Hains dies (b. 1926). French artist.
• 2005 - Tony Jackson dies (b. 1942). American basketball player.
• 2005 - Fernando Quejas dies (b. 1922). Cape Verdean singer and musician
• 2005 - Richard Smalley dies (b. 1943). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2005 - Ljuba Tadić dies (b. 1929). Serbian actor.
• Feast day of Saint Jude the Thaddaeus (also known as Saint Thaddaeus)
• Feast day of Saint Simon the Canaanite
• Greece - Oxi (No) Day
• Czech Republic - Independence Day (Founding Day)
• Dia do Funcionário Público

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