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2009-04-29

Unite for Hunger and for Hope

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2009-04-28

Beijos do céu - Alberto de Oliveira

O Ateliê do Artista - Quadro de José Malhoa

O Ateliê do Artista (1893-1894) - Óleo sobre tela 93x127

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo
José Malhoa (n. em Caldas da Rainha a 28 de Abril de 1854; m. 26 Out.1933)

Sonhei-te assim, ó minha amante, um dia:
- Vi-te no céu; e, enamoradamente,
de beijos, a falange resplendente
dos serafins, teu corpo inteiro ungia...

Santos e anjos beijavam-te... Eu bem via,
beijavam todos o teu lábio ardente;
e, beijando-te, o próprio Onipotente,
o próprio Deus nos braços te cingia!

Nisto, o ciúme - fera que eu não domo -
despertou-me do sonho; repentino
vi-te a dormir tão plácida a meu lado...

E beijei-te também, beijei-te.., e, ai! como
achei doce o teu lábio purpurino,
tantas vezes assim no céu beijado!

Antônio Mariano Alberto de Oliveira (n. em Palmital de Saquarema, RJ, em 28 de Abril de 1857, e faleceu em Niteró, RJ, em 19 de Janeiro de 1937).

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Aspiração, Horas Mortas

On this day in History - Apr. 28

1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by Hashshashin.
1253 - Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1442 - King Edward IV of England was born (d. 1483).
1489 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland dies (b. c. 1449). English politician.
1526 - O famoso padre e escritor Francisco Álvares, deixa Maçuá, nas Terras do Preste João.
1533 - Nicholas West dies (b. 1461). English bishop and diplomat.
1545 - Yi Sun-sin was born (d. 1598). Korean admiral.
1611 - Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world.
1630 - Charles Cotton was born (d. 1687). English poet.
1669 - Canonização de Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzi (02 Abr 1566 - 25 Mai 1607).
1686 - Michael Brokoff was born (d. 1721). Czech sculptor.
1695 - Henry Vaughan dies (b. 1621). Welsh poet.
1710 - Thomas Betterton dies. English actor.

1715 - Franz Sparry was born (d. 1767). Composer.

1716 - Louis de Montfort dies (b. 1673). French catholic priest.

1726 – Thomas Pitt dies (b. 1653). British Governor of Madras.

1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie dies (b. 1668). Swedish General and statesman.

1753 - Franz Karl Achard was born (d. 20 Apr 1821). German chemist who invented a process for the large-scale extraction of table sugar (sucrose) from beets, and in 1801, opened the first sugar-beet factory, in Silesia (now Poland).

1758 - James Monroe was born in Westmoreland County, Va. (d. 1831). 5th President of the United States.

1764 - Marie Joseph Chenier was born. French poet and dramatist.

1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix was born. French mathematicien.

1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee dies (b. 1737). Royal physician of Christian VII of Denmark.

1774 - Francis Baily was born (d. 30 Aug 1844). English astronomer who detected the phenomenon called "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse of the Sun on 15 May 1836.

1781 - Cornelius Harnett dies (b. 1723). American delegate to the Continental Congress.

1788 - Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

1789 - Mutiny on the HMAV Bounty. Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors set adrift and rebel crew sets sail for Pitcairn Island.

1792 - France invades Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium), beginning the French Revolutionary War.

1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.

1799 - François Giroust dies. French composer.

1807 - Jacob Philipp Hackert dies (b. 15 Sep 1737). German painter, specialized in Landscapes.

1810 - Daniel Ullmann was born (d. 1892). American general.

1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov dies (b. 1745). Russian field marshal.

1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht dies (b. 1862). German philosopher.

1819 - Ezra Abbot was born (d. 1884). American bible scholar.

1831 - Peter Guthrie Tait was born (d. 4 Jul 1901). Scottish physicist and mathematician who helped develop quaternions, an advanced algebra that gave rise to vector analysis and was instrumental in the development of modern mathematical physics.

1838 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser was born (d. 29 Jul 1913). Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911.

1841 - Peter Chanel dies (b. 1803). French saint.

1842 - Sir Charles Bell dies (b. Nov 1774). Scottish anatomist whose New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain (1811) has been called the "Magna Carta of neurology."

1846 - Jöns Oskar Backlund was born (29 Aug 1916). Swedish astronomer.

1853 - Ludwig Tieck dies (b. 1773). German writer.

1855 - José Malhoa was born in Caldas da Rainha (d. 26 Oct 1933). Portuguese painter.

1857 - Alberto de Oliveira was born at Palmital de Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro (d. 19 Jan 1937). Brazilian poet.

1858 - Johannes Peter Müller dies (b. 14 Jul 1801). German physiologist and anatomist, one of the greatest of 19th century who, with Magendie, is credited for establishing the science of physiology in its modern form.

1862 - American Civil War: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana.

1863 – Josiah Thomas was born (d. 1933). Australian politician.

1864 - Zinovios Valvis assume (pela 2º vez) o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Grécia.

1865 - Vital Brazil was born (d. 08 May 1950). Brazilian phisician and scientist.

1865 - Samuel Cunard dies (b. 1787). Canadian-born British shipping magnate.

1868 - Lucy Booth was born (d. 1953). The fifth daughter of William and Catherine Booth.

1868 - Georgy Voronoy was born (d. 1908). Russian mathematician.

1874 - Karl Kraus was born (d. 1936). Austrian journalist and author.

1878 - Lionel Barrymore was born (d. 15 Nov 1954). Academy Award-winning actor: A Free Soul [1930-31]; Dr. Kildare, Camille, Captains Courageous, Duel in the Sun, It’s a Wonderful Life, Key Largo, The Little Colonel .

1879 - Edgard Tytgat, was born. Painter, printmaker, and writer, who sprouted in Brussels, where died on 10 Jan 1957.

1882 - Alberto Pirelli was born. Italian industrialist.

1884 - James Henry Neel Reed, known as Henry Reed, was born in Appalachian Mountains of Monroe County, West Virginia. Reed was a master fiddler, banjoist, and harmonica player whose amazing repertoire consisted of hundreds of tunes, as well as multiple performance styles.

1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay was born (d. 1913). Russian poet.

1886 - Inauguração do monumento aos Restauradores de 1640, no começo da Avenida da Liberdade, em Lisboa, actual Praça dos Restauradores.

1889 - António de Oliveira Salazar was born at Vimeiro, Santa Comba Dão (d. 1970). Premier, dictator of Portugal (1932-68).

1896 - Charlie Rivel was born (d. 1983). Clown.

1897 - Ye Jianying was born (d. 1986). Chinese general and politician.

1900 - Heinrich Müller was born (disappeared in 1945). Head of the Gestapo.

1900 - Bruno Apitz was born (d. 1979). German author.

1900 - Maurice Thorez was born. French comunist leader.

1900 - Jan Hendrik Oort was born (d. 5 Nov 1992). Dutch physicist and astronomer who was one of the most important figures in 20th-century efforts to understand the nature of the Milky Way Galaxy, who measured the rotation of the earth's galaxy and hypothesized an "Oort Cloud."

1902 - Using the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar preceded by the Julian calendar, the one billionth minute since the start of January 1, Year Zero occurred at 10:40 AM on this date.

1902 - Newton Heat LYR becomes Manchester United on this day.

1902 - Johan Borgen was born (d. 1979). Norwegian writer.

1903 - Josiah Willard Gibbs dies (b. 11 Feb 1839) . Theoretical physicist and chemist who was one of the greatest scientists in the U.S. in the 19th century. His application of thermodynamic theory converted a large part of physical chemistry from an empirical into a deductive science

1905 - Fitzhugh Lee dies (b. 1835). American Confederate general.

1905 - Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait dies (b. 05 Aug 1819). English /US painter, specialized in Animals.

1905 – Fitzhugh Lee dies (b. 1835). American Confederate general.

1906 - Kurt Gödel was born (d. 14 Jan 1978). Austrian-born US mathematician, logicien and author of Gödel's proof. He is best known for his proof of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (1931).

1906 - Bart J. Bok was born (d. 7 Aug 1983). Bok was an astronomer, expert on the Milky Way Galaxy and for his study of "Bok globules," small dark clouds observable against the background of bright nebulae.

1906 – Paul Sacher was born (d. 1999). Swiss conductor.

1908 - Oskar Schindler was born (d. 1974). Austrian businessman.

1910 - Theodore Brown Rasmussen was born in Provo, Utah (d. 23 Jan 2002). American neurologist.

1910 - Sam Merwin, Jr. was born (d. 1996). American mystery fiction writer.

1910 - Edouard (Joseph Loius-Marie) van Beneden dies (b. 5 Mar 1846). Belgian embryologist and cytologist best known for his discoveries concerning fertilization in sex cells and chromosome numbers in body cells.

1910 - Francisco Keil do Amaral was born. Portuguese architect.

1911 - Lee Falk was born (d. 1999). American comic strip writer.

1912 - Odette Sansom was born (d. 1995). French resistance worker.

1914 - Philip E. High was born (d. 2006). Science fiction author.

1915 - Salvador Viniegra y Lasso dies (b. 23 Nov 1862). Spanish artist. O governo português atribuiu-lhe o colar e placa da ordem de Santiago.

1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini was born (d. 20 Feb 1993). Italian automobile manufacturer who founded a luxury car company that produced some of the fastest, most expensive, and sought-after sports cars in the world.

1918 - Sidónio Pais is elected President of Portugal.

1919 - The first jump with the Army manually operated army parachute was made by Leslie LeRoy Irvin in Dayton, Ohio.

1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.

1921 - Rowland Evans was born (d. 2001). American journalist.

1922 – Alistair MacLean was born (d. 1987). Scottish novelist.

1922 - William Guarnere was born. WWII Veteran.

1923 - Horst-Eberhard Richter was born. Psychoanalyst.

1923 - The F.A cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was played at Wembley, soon named the White Horse Final/ Inauguração do Estádio de Wembley com a disputa da Final da Taça de Inglaterra : Bolton 2-0 West Ham. O avançado David Jack apontou o primeiro golo logo aos 2 minutos.

1923 - Maria Madalena Perdigão was born. Portuguese cultural animator.

1924 - Donatas Banionis was born. Lithuanian actor.

1924 - Kenneth Kaunda was born. President of Zambia.

1925 - T. John Lesinski was born. Lieutenant Governor of Michigan.

1926 - Blossom Dearie was born. American jazz singer.

1926 - Harper Lee was born. American writer (To Kill a Mockingbird - 1960).

1926 - Zip the Pinhead [William Henry Jonhson] dies (b. 1857). American freak show. performer.

1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker was born (d. 1997). American planetary scientist.

1928 – Yves Klein was born (d. 1962). French painter.

1928 - Brazil: Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira is founded.

1929 - Club Emelec (Empresa de Electricidade) is founded in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

1930 – Carolyn Jones was born (d. 1983). American actress.

1930 - James Baker was born. American politician

1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.

1934 - Lois Duncan was born. American novelist.

1935 - O Metro de Moscovo é inaugurado - Moscow underground opens (81 km long).

1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt dies (b. 1868).

1937 - The Museum of Costume Arts opens in New York City.

1937 - Saddam Hussein was born (d. 2006). President of Iraq.

1937 - The first animated-cartoon electric sign was displayed on a building on Broadway in New York City. The sign was the creation of Douglas Leigh. It consisted of several thousand light bulbs and presented a four-minute show that featured a cavorting horse and ball-tossing cats.

1938 - Madge Sinclair was born (d. 20 Dec 1995). Jamaican Emmy Award-winning actress [Gabriel’s Fire [1990-91], Trapper John M.D., Roots, Ohara, Me and the Boys, Grandpa Goes to Washington, A Century of Women, The End of Innocence, Coming to America, Convoy, Conrack] .

1941 - Ann-Margret was born in Valsjobya Sweden. Actress: Carnal Knowledge, Tommy, Viva Las Vegas, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Scarlett; singer: I Just Don’t Understand.

1941 - Iryna Zhylenko was born. Ukrainian poet.

1941 - K. Barry Sharpless was born. American chemist, Nobel laureate.

1941 - Lucien Aimar was born. French cyclist.

1941 – Nico Mastorakis was born. Greek filmmaker, director and radio producer.

1942 - Mike Brearley was born. English cricketer.

1943 - Jacques Dutronc was born. French singer and actor.

1944 - Alice Waters was born. American chef.

1944 - Elizabeth LeCompte was born. American theater director.

1944 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe was born. Belgian politician.

1944 - Bernardino Machado dies (b. 1851). President of Portugal.

1944 - Frank Knox dies (b. 1874). U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate.

1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot dead by members of the Italian resistance movement while trying to flee Italy.

1945 - Roberto Farinacci dies (b. 1892). Italian fascist.

1946 – The religious leader and civil rights activist Father Divine marries Sweet Angel Divine Edna Rose Ritchings in a secret Washington, D.C. ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Albert E. Shadd.

1946 - Ginette Reno was born. French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress.

1946 - Louis Bachelier dies (b. 1870). French mathematician.

1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.

1948 - Dorothée Berryman was born. French Canadian actress and singer.

1948 – Marcia Strassman was born. American actress.

1948 - Terry Pratchett was born. English author.

1949 – Former Philippine First Lady Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.

1949 - Bruno Kirby was born (d. 2006). American actor.

1949 – Indian Larry was born (d. 2004). American stuntsman.

1949 – Aurora Quezon dies shot (b. 1888). First Lady of the Philippines.

1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen, Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 19, 1949.

1950 - Jay Leno was born. American comedian and talk-show host.

1950 - Willie Colón was born. Puerto Rican salsa legend.

1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO in order to run for President of the United States.

1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.

1952 - Mary McDonnell was born. American actress.

1952 - Eduardo Viera dies. Argentinian writer.

1953 - Kim Gordon was born. American musician (Sonic Youth).

1953 – Roberto Bolaño was born. Chilean author and poet.

1954 – Ron Zook was born. American Football Coach.

1954 - Léon Jouhaux dies (b. 1879). French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1955 - Paul Guilfoyle was born. American actor.

1955 - Nicky Gumbel was born. British author and priest.

1955 – Paul Guilfoyle was born. American actor.

1956 - Jimmy Barnes was born. Scottish-born singer.

1957 - Wilma Landkroon was born. Dutch singer.

1957 – Heinz "Pritzl" Bär dies (b. 1913). German fighter pilot.

1958 - Hal Sutton was born. American golfer.

1960 - Ian Rankin was born. Scottish novelist.

1960 - Joel H. Rosenthal was born. American political scientist.

1960 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson was born (d. 1993). Icelandic strength athlete.

1960 - John Cerutti was born (d. 2004). Baseball player and announcer.

1960 - Walter Zenga was born. Italian footballer (goalkeeper).

1960 - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo dies. President of Chile (1927-31 e 1952-58).

1960 - French president Charles de Gaulle resigns after his proposals for constitutional reforms are defeated in a national referendum.

1961 - Futoshi Matsunaga was born. Japanese serial killer.

1963 - Brasil derrota os Estados Unidos por 10 - 0 em jogo de futebol nos Jogos Panamericanos (Adilton marca 7 golos!).

1963 - Lloyd Eisler was born. Canadian figure skater.

1964 - Yemen : New Constitution is promulgated.

1964 - Barry Larkin was born. American baseball player.

1964 - Mark Steven Robinson was born. American director.

1964 - Noriyuki Iwadare was born. Japanese composer.

1964 - Rolf de Maré dies (b. 1888). Swedish art collector.

1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate Americans.

1965 - Steve Blum was born. American voice actor.

1966 - John Daly was born. American golfer.

1966 - Too $hort was born. American rapper.

1966 - Margarida Pinto Correia was born. Portuguese media personality.

1966 - 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win.

1967 - Expo 67 opens in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

1967 - World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army for religious reasons; he is later convicted of draft evasion and stripped of his title.

1967 - Kari Wührer was born. American actress.

1968 – Andy Flower was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.

1968 - Daisy Berkowitz was born. American musician (Marilyn Manson).

1968 - Howard Donald was born. British musician.

1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

1969 - Terence O'Neill announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

1970 - Diego Simeone was born. Argentine footballer.

1970 - Nicklas Lidström was born. Swedish hockey player.

1971 - Dutch social democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election.

1971 – Bridget Moynahan was born. American actress.

1972 – Joseph Bruce was born. American musician.

1972 - Violent J was born. Musician (Insane Clown Posse).

1973 – Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate over the course of 18 hours in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures are damaged, and the town of Antelope, California ceases to exist, with every building being reduced to the foundation. This accident leads to the passing of the Transportation Safety Act of 1974 which makes the NTSB an independent agency.

1973 – Elisabeth Röhm was born. American actress.

1973 – Francisco Palencia was born. Mexican footballer.

1973 – Jorge Garcia was born. American actor

1973 - Pedro Pauleta [Pedro Miguel Correia Resendes Pauleta] was born in Ponta Delgada, Azores. Portuguese footballer.

1973 – Clas Thunberg dies (b. 1893). Finnish speed skater.

1973 - Jacques Maritain dies (b. 1882). French philosopher.

1974 - Mário Soares regressa a Portugal vindo do exílio em Paris, acompanhado de Tito de Morais e Ramos Costa.

1974 - Ricardo Araújo Pereira was born. Portuguese comedian (Gato Fedorento).

1974 - Penélope Cruz was born in Madrid. Spanish actress. See Penelope Cruz wallpaper here.

1974 - Richel Hersisia was born. Dutch boxer.

1974 - Vernon Kay was born. British TV/radio presenter.

1975 - Leopoldo Neves de Almeida dies. Portuguese sculptor.

1975 - Tom Donahue dies (b. 1928). American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio).

1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe being found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.

1977 - The Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.

1977 – Derrick Wayne Frazier was born (d. 2006). American convicted murderer.

1978 - President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan (b. 1909) is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by procommunist rebels.

1978 - Lauren Laverne was born. Disc jockey, television presenter and former singer

1978 - Nate Richert was born. American actor.

1978 – Sardar Mohammed Daoud dies (b. 1909). President of Afghanistan.

1979 - Bahram Radan was born. Iranian actor.

1980 - Josh Howard was born. Basketball player (Dallas Mavericks).

1981 - Galician current Statute of Autonomy.

1981 - Jessica Alba was born. American actress. See wallpaper here.

1982 - Manuel Félix Ribeiro dies. Founder of "Portuguese Cinemateca" (Cinemateca Portuguesa).

1982 - Nikki Grahame was born. Big Brother 7 Star.

1983 - Roger Johnson was born. English footballer.

1985 - Zhang Tianyi dies. Chinese writer.

1986 - Portugal: Maria Alberta Menéres, escritora portuguesa, recebe o Grande Prémio Gulbenkian da Literatura Infantil.

1986 - Mais de 6.000 estações de rádio mundiais tocam simultaneamente a música "We Are the World". Ken Kragen foi o promotor deste evento que arrecadou milhões de dólares para combater a fome na África.

1986 - United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve USS Coral Sea, on station across the "Line of Death" in the Gulf of Sidra off the coast of Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.

1986 - Russia announced the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (happened two days before).

1986 – George Nozuka was born. Canadian Singer/Songwriter.

1986 – Jennifer Palm Lundberg, reigning Miss World Sweden.

1986 – Roman Polák was born. Czech ice hockey player.

1986 - George Nozuka was born. Canadian singer/songwriter.

1987 - The 27-year old American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by US-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. His death sets off a fierce debate in the United States.

1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii a flight attendant is sucked out of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 and falls to her death when an upper part of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.

1988 - B.W. Stevenson dies (b. 1949). American country singer.

1990 - After 6,237 performances, the Broadway musical A Chorus Line closes.

1991 - Nasa lança missão espacial STS-39 . Retorna em 06 Mai 1991.

1991 - Steve Broidy dies (b. 1905). American motion picture executive.

1992 - O presidente italiano Francesco Cossiga renuncia oficialmente ao cargo, mergulhando o país em sua pior crise constitucional desde o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Giovanni Spadolini torna-se presidente-interino.

1992 - Francis Bacon dies (b. 1909). Anglo-Irish abstract painter.

1992 - Iceberg Slim dies (b. 1918). American writer.

1993 - Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die.

1993 - Jim Valvano dies (b. 1946). American basketball coach.

1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

1994 – Berton Roueché dies (b. 1910). American medical writer, The New Yorker magazine staff writer.

1995 - Argentina vence o Brasil por 2-0 e sagra-se Campeão do Mundo de Futebol - sub-20 no Qatar. Leonardo Biagini e Francisco Guerrero foram os marcadores dos golos.

1995 - Gas explosion in South Korean metro, 103 die.

1995 - Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die.

1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

1996 - In Tasmania, Australia, Martin Bryant goes on a shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.

1996 - Zanger Bob was born. Dutch singer.

1998 – Jerome Bixby dies (b. 1923). American writer.

1998 – Ramakant Desai dies (b. 1939). Indian cricketer.

1999 - Alf Ramsey dies (b. 1920). English football manager / Morte de Alf Ramsey, treinador da Inglaterra no Mundial de 1966, em que se sagrou Campeão do Mundo (com pena nossa de Portugal que perdeu 2-1 nas meias-finais).

1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow dies (b. 5 May 1921). American physicist who was a corecipient (with Nicolaas Bloembergen of the U.S. and Kai Siegbahn of Sweden) of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in developing the laser and in laser spectroscopy.

1999 – Rory Calhoun dies (b. 1922). American actor.

2000 – Jerzy Einhorn dies (b. 1925). Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician.

2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald dies (b. 1916). Writer.

2001 - Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.

2002 - Alexander Lebed dies (b. 1950). Russian General.

2002 – Lou Thesz dies (b. 1916). American wrestler.

2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store launches, selling 1 million songs in its first week.

2003 - Ildefonso Manuel Gil López dies. Spanish writer.

2005 - The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) enters into force.

2005 - Taraki Sivaram, a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka kidnapped in Colombo; his body was found the next day near the parliament.

2005 - Chris Candido dies (b. 1972). American wrestler.

2005 - Percy Heath dies (b. 1923). American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet).

2005 - Taraki Sivaram dies (b. 1959). Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka.

2007 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker dies (b. 1912). German physicist and philosopher.

2007 – Dabbs Greer dies (b. 1917). American actor.

2007 – Tommy Newsom dies (b. 1929). American bandleader.

Roman Empire - first day of the Floralia in honor of Flora.

Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Jamál (Beauty) - First day of the third month of the Bahá'í Calendar

World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

National Heroes Day - Barbados.

Workers Memorial Day - International Workers Memorial Day.

2009-04-27

BLUE - Cassiano Nunes

imagem daqui

Versos, como os que escrevi,
outros escreverão.

Canções, como as que cantei,
outros cantarão.

Já me substituiu
artesão mais hábil
na oficina.

Outras bocas te revelarão
volúpia mais fina.

Tudo o que morrer comigo
em mais bela forma
o mundo verá.

Perdoem-me
pela parcela mínima
—porém única!—
que não se repetirá.

Cassiano Nunes (n. em Santos, 27 de abril de 1921 - m. Brasília 15 Out. 2007)

On this day in History - Apr. 27

0399 BC - Socrates dies (poison via hemlock) (b. 470 bc). Philosopher.
0630 - Ardashir III dies. King of Persia (King the Sassanid dynasty).
1076 - Willem bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies.
1124 - David becomes King of Scotland.
1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
1386 - D. Leoner Teles dies (b. 1350). Queen of Portugal (1372 - 1383).
1404 - Philip the Bold dies (b. 1342). Duke of Burgundy.
1494 - Sûleyman, llamado el Magnífico, was born. Sultán otomano .
1509 - Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
1521 - Battle of Mactan: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro dies (b. 1458). Italian poet.
1539 - Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1554 - Naufrágio do galeão português São Bento.
1565 - Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1578 - Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
1599 - Maeda Toshiie dies (b. 1538). Japanese general.
1605 - Pope Leo XI [Alessandro O de' Medici] dies (b. 1535). Italian Pope.
1613 - Robert Abercromby dies (b. 1532). Scottish jesuit.
1623 - Johann Adam Reinken was born (d. 1722). German organist.
1625 - Mori Terumoto dies (b. 1553). Japanese warrior.
1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
1656 - Jan van Goyen dies (b. 1596). Dutch painter.
1656 - Gerard van Honthorst, "Gherardo della Notte", dies (b. 04 Nov 1592). Dutch painter and draftsman addicted to night scenes
1667 - The blind, impoverished English poet John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1668)
1695 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [Asbaje] dies at 44. Mexican poetress and nun.
1695 - John Trenchard dies (b. 1640). English statesman.
1701 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia was born (d. 1773).

1702 - Jean Bart dies (b. 1651). French admiral.

1718 - Thomas Lewis was born (d. 1790). Irish-born Virginia settler.

1733 - Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter was born (d. 12 Nov 1806). German botanist who was a pioneer in the study of plant hybrids. He was first to develop a scientific application of the discovery, made in 1694 by the German botanist Rudolph Jacob Camerarius, of sex in plants.

1737 - Edward Gibbon was born (d. 16 Jan 1794). English historian, author "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

1744 - Morte de Bernardo Filipe Neri de Távora (2º conde de Alvor - Portugal)

1749 - First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.

1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval was born (d. 1836). French mathematician.

1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft was born (d. 1797). English author.

1773 - The British Parliament passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.

1782 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot dies (b. 1710). English politician.

1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse was born (d. 2 Apr 1872). Painter and Inventor. Morse was a well-known painter who gained a wide reputation as a portrait artist.was a founder of the National Academy of Design in 1826 and became professor of painting and sculpture at New York University in 1832-a position he held until his death in 1872. Morse invented the first practical recording telegraph in America and developed the Morse code, revolutionizing communication.

1805 - First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).

1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.

1812 - Friedrich von Flotow was born (d. 1883). German composer.

1812 - William W. Snow was born (d. 1886). American politician.

1813 - War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Ontario).

1813 - Zebulon Pike dies (b. 1779). American frontiersman and explorer.

1820 - Herbert Spencer was born (d. 8 Dec 1903). English sociologist and philosopher who was an early adherent of evolutionary theory.

1822 - [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio (d. 1885). 18th President of the United States (1869-77, Republican) .

1827 - The Petrel, Australian Coal carrying ship sinks in stormy seas, off Hope Bay, Tasmania.

1828 - The London Zoo opened in Regent's Park.

1829 - Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier was born (d. 25 Apr 1898). Swiss painter.

1834 - Thomas Stothard dies (b. 17 Aug 1755). English Neoclassical painter, designer, and illustrator.

1840 - Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

1840 - Edward Whymper was born. English mountain climber, writer, and illustrator.

1840 - Niccolò Paganini dies. Violinist.

1842 - Emil Jakob Schindler was born (d. 09 Aug 1892). Austrian Impressionist painter specialized in landscapes.

1850 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler was born (d. 1921). German general.

1853 - Jules Lemaître was born (d. 1914). French critic and dramatist.

1856 - Richard Thomas Moynan was born (d. 10 Apr 1906). British artist.

1859 - "Pomona" sank in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard.

1861 - After Virginia secedes from the United States, West Virginia secedes from Virginia and forms its own state.

1861 - President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

1865 - The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.

1865 - The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.

1865 -Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz was born (d. 10 May 1936). Russian anthropologist whose study of the Chukchi people of northeastern Siberia ranks among the classic works of ethnography.

1873 - William Charles Macready dies (b. 1793). English actor.

1875 - Maurice de Broglie was born (d.1 4 Jul 1960). French physicist who made many contributions to the study of X rays .

1878 - Frank Alvin Gotch was born (d. 1917). American wrestler.

1878 - Charles Victor Thirion dies (b. 30 Mar 1833). French artist.

1880 - Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.

1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson dies (b. 1803). American essayist.

1882 - Ferdinand Reich was born. German chemist.

1886 - Louis-Eugène-Gabriel Isabey, French painter and printmaker, one of Louis-Philippe’s principal court painters; equally notable for his land- and seascapes, he represents a link between the artists of the Rococo revival and the birth of Romanticism ( La Tentation de Saint Antoine L'arrivée du duc d'Alba à Rotterdam en 1567).

1888 - Florence La Badie was born (d. 1917). Pioneer actress.

1891 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born (d. 5 Mar 1953). Russian composer.

1893 - Dragoljub Mihailović was born (d. 1946). Commandant of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland.

1893 - Allen Sothoron, was born (d. 1939). American baseball player.

1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky was born (d. 1995). Russian-born musicologist and composer.

1894 - George Petty was born (d. 1975). WWII Pin-Up Artist.

1895 - The popular periodical Harper's Weekly carried a story on the World Transportation Commission's visit to Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka.

1896 - Wallace Hume Carothers was born (d. 29 Apr 1937). American chemist who developed nylon (1935), the first synthetic polymer fibre to be spun from a melt.

1896 - Rogers Hornsby was born (d. 1963). American baseball player and manager.

1896 - Henry Parkes dies (b. 1815). Known as the Father of Federation

1897 - Grant's Tomb is dedicated.

1898 - Matanzas Mule Day, the day during the Spanish-American War (1898) that the U.S. bombarded Matanzas, Cuba, resulting in one lone casualty—a mule.

1900 - Walter Lantz was born (d. 1994). American cartoonist, who created the fun-loving slighly maniac bird Woody Woodpecker. Academy Award winning animator.

1900 - Martin Beheim-Schwarzenbach was born (d. 1985). Narrator, lyricist and essayist.

1900 - Walter Lantz was born (d. 1994). American cartoonist.

1903 - Horace Stoneham was born (d. 1990). American Major league baseball owner.

1903 - Hans Walter Kosterlitz was born (d. 26 Oct 1996). German-born British pharmacologist who had already retired from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, when he discovered (1975), with John Hughes, enkephalins, two potent naturally occurring opiates in the brain.

1904 - The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.

1904 - Cecil Day-Lewis was born (d. 1972). Irish poet and writer.

1906 - Yórgos Theotokás was born (d. 1966). Greek novelist.

1908 - The 1908 Summer Olympics open in London.

1909 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Murat V.

1910 - Ranieri Mazzilli (Paschoal Ranieri Mazzilli) was born in Caconde, São Paulo (d. 21 Apr 1975). 31th and 34th President of Brazil

1910 -Julien Mamet realiza o primeiro vôo de avião em Portugal

1911 - Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

1911 - Nelson Werneck was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 13 Jan 1999). Brazilian writer, historian and marxist politician

1913 - Philip Hauge Abelson was born (d. 1 Aug2004). American physicist, co-discoverer (with the U.S. physicist Edwin M. McMillan) of Neptunium. He proposed the gas diffusion process for separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 which was essential to the development of the atomic bomb.

1914 - Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1915 - Alexander Scriabin dies (b. 1872). Russian composer.

1916 - Enos Slaughter was born (d. 2002). American bBaseball Hall of Famer .

1918 - Sten Rudholm was born. Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy

1920 - Edwin Morgan was born. Scottish poet.

1920 - Mark Krasnosel'skii was born (d. 1997). Russian-Ukrainian mathematician.

1920 - Guido Cantelli was born (d. 1956). Italian conductor.

1921 - Cassiano Nunes was born in Santos (d. 15 Oct. 2007). Brazilian poet

1921 - Arthur Mold dies (b. 1863). Controversial Lancashire fast bowler and alleged "chucker".

1922 - Jack Klugman was born. Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders: Blacklist [1963-1964], The Odd Couple [1970-1971, 1972-1973]; Quincy, M.E., Twelve Angry Men, Days of Wine and Roses, Goodbye Columbus.

1924 - Inauguración del estadio de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. Enfrenta a Estudiantil Porteño, a quien le gana 3 - 0.

1925 - Raymundo Faoro was born (d. 15 May 2003). Brazilian historian and writer.

1927 - Chile, fundación de Carabineros de Chile por el presidente Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.

1927 - Mauricio Borensztein, "Tato Bores" was born. Actor and comedian.

1927 - Coretta Scott King was born. American civil-rights leader (1927). Wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King.

1927 - Karl Alexander Müller was born. Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1927 - Sheila Scott was born (d. 1988). English aviatrix.

1928 - Manuel de Brito was born (d. 2005). Portuguese art collector and founder of Galery 111 in Lisbon.

1931 - Igor Oistrakh was born. Ukrainian violinist.

1932 - Anouk Aimée (Françoise Sorya Dreyfus) was born. Actress: La Dolce Vita, Lola, A Man and a Woman, Dr. Bethune, Ready to Wear

1932 - Casey Kasem was born. American disc jockey

1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota was born (d. 1999). Mathematician and philosopher.

1932 - Anouk Aimée was born. French actress.

1932 - Pik Botha was born. South African politician

1932 - Casey Kasem was born. American disc jockey

1932 - Gian-Carlo Rota was born (d. 1999). Italian-born mathematician and philosopher.

1932 - Hart Crane dies drowned after jumping from a steamer while en route to New York (suicide) (b. 1899). Writer.

1933 - Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London.

1933 - Se firma el Pacto Roca-Runciman entre Argentina y Gran Bretaña, por el que este último país se compromete a comprar carne argentina a cambio de la protección a empresas británicas en el país americano .

1933 - Se estrena "Tango", de Luis Moglia Barth, primera película sonora del cine argentino.

1933 - Rafael Guillén was born. Spanish poet.

1935 - Brussel's World Expo opens.

1936 - The United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1936 - Karl Pearson dies (b. 27 Mar 1857). English mathematician, one of the founders of modern statistics. From 1893 to 1912 he wrote a series of 18 papers entitled Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution, which contained much of his most valuable work, including the chi-square test of statistical significance.

1937 - In the United States, the first social security checks were distributed.

1937 - Bombing of Guernica During the Spanish Civil War, the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica on this day in 1937, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica.

1937 - Antonio Gramsci dies (b. 22 Jan 1891). Italian philosopher, writer and theorist of Socialism, Communism and Anti-Fascism.

1937 - Sandy Dennis was born in Nebraska (d. 2 Mar 1992). Academy Award-winning actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff [1966]; The Execution, Splendor in the Grass;

1938 - Es creada la Asociación Uruguaya de Jugadores Profesionales con la supervisión of José Nasazzi, quien actuará como Presidente.

1938 - Geraldine Apponyi was the first American woman to become a Queen. She married King Zog of Albania.

1938 - Earl Anthony was born (d. 2001). American bowler.

1938 - Edmund Husserl dies (b. 08 Apr 1859). German writer and philosopher (See table of facts in Husserl's life)

1939 - Judy Carne was born. British actress and comedian

1939 - Stanislaw Dziwisz was born. Polish Cardinal.

1940 - Com a presença do Presidente do Brasil Getúlio Vargas, é inaugurado o Estádio Municipal de Pacaembú.

1940 - En Buenos Aires, es inaugurado el estadio de Argentinos Juniors .

1940 - Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp .

1941 - World War II: German troops enter Athens.

1941 - Lee Roy Jordan was born. American football player.

1941 - Penelope Delta dies (b. 1874). Greek author.

1942 - Tornado destroys Pryor, Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300

1942 - Bob Foster was born. International Boxing Hall of Famer: light heavyweight champion [1968-74]: won 56 of 65 professional fights.

1942 - Jim Keltner was born. American drummer.

1942 - Jonathan Ferber was born. American agricultural tycoon

1944 - Cuba Gooding, Sr. was born. American musician (The Main Ingredient)

1945 - The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication.

1945 - World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland). The day is the national war veteran day in Finland.

1945 - 2nd Republic of Austria forms.

1945 - Italian partisans captured Mussolini.

1945 - August Wilson was born (d. 2005). American playwright.

1947 - Ann Peebles was born. American singer.

1947 - Peter Ham was born (d. 1975). Welsh singer and songwriter (Badfinger).

1947 - Keith Magnuson was born (d. 2003). Canadian ice hockey player.

1948 - Kate Pierson was born. American singer (The B-52's)

1947 - Babe Ruth Day is celebrated at Yankee Stadium.

1950 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.

1950 - The modern state of Israel was officially recognized by the British government.

1951 - Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia

1951 - Ace Frehley was born. American musician (Kiss)

1952 - George Gervin was born. American basketball player.

1952 - Ari Vatanen was born. Finnish rally driver.

1952 - Guido Castelnuovo dies (b. 1865). Italian mathematician.

1953 - 1st general elections in British Guyana, won by Jagans PPP.

1953 - Arielle Dombasle was born. French singer and actress.

1954 - The film White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, premieres.

1956 - Rocky Marciano retired as undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion.

1956 - El gobierno de la Revolución Libertadora anula la Constitución de 1949 y reimplanta la de 1853, por decreto-ley del presidente Pedro E. Aramburu.

1957 - Eric Bristow was born. English darts player

1959 - The last Canadian missionary leaves China.

1959 - Sheena Easton [Sheena Shirley Orr] was born. Scottish singer: Modern Girl, Morning Train, One Man Woman, When He Shines, For Your Eyes Only, We Got Tonight, Strut, Sugar Walls .

1959 - Liu Sjau-chi elected President of People's Rebublic of China.

1959 - Louis Lortie was born. French Canadian concert pianist

1960 - Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.

1960 - 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee.

1960 - South Korean President Syngman Rhee resigns.

1961 - Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.

1961 - La NASA lanza el satélite Explorer 11.

1962 - El nadador Luis Alberto Nicolao - de solo 17 años - obtiene un resonante triunfo en Río de Janeiro: en 57¨ supera el récord mundial de los 1000 metros estilo mariposa.

1963 - Icograda, the world body for graphic design, was founded

1963 - Cali Timmins was born. Canadian actress.

1964 - "Love Me Do" by the Beatles was #1 for one week in the US.

1965 - Edward R. Murrow dies (b. 1908). American journalist.

1967 - Expo '67 opens in Montreal, Quebec.

1967 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands was born. Crown prince of Netherlands.

1967 - Jason Whitlock was born. American sportswriter

1968 - Muhammad Ali’s successor was finally decided after an eight-month runoff. Jimmy Ellis defeated Jerry Quarry of Atascadero, CA for the World Boxing Association’s heavyweight title.

1968 - Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands.

1968 - Jimmy Ellis defeated Jerry Quarry of Atascadero, CA for the World Boxing Association’s heavyweight title.

1969 - Darcey Bussell was born. UK ballerina.

1969 - Mica Paris was born. UK singer and presenter.

1969 - Cory Booker was born. Mayor of Newark, New Jersey

1969 - Darcey Bussell was born. British ballerina.

1969 - Mica Paris was born. British singer and presenter

1970 - The discovery of hahnium, element 105, was announced at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. The work was done by Albert Ghiorso at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, California.

1970 - Kylie Travis was born. English actress and model

1970 - Arthur Shields dies (b. 1896). Irish actor.

1971 - Tess Daly was born. British television presenter.

1971 - Eneida de Moraes dies (b. 1904). Brazilian writer.

1972 - Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.

1972 - Apollo XVI splashs down on Pacific Ocean (launched on April 16)

1972 - Kwame Nkrumah dies (b. 1909). First post-independence leader of Ghana.

1973 - Sébastien Lareau was born. French Canadian professional tennis player

1974 - Portugal: na sequência da Revolução de 25 de Abril é apresentado o Programa do Movimento das Forças Armadas.

1974 - Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107.

1974 - 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Nixon

1974 - Johnny Devine was born. Canadian professional wrestler.

1974 - Bear Grylls was born. British author and presenter

1975 - Chris Carpenter was born. American baseball player

1975 - Patrícia de Sabrit was born in São Paulo. Brazilian actress and model

1976 - Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi.

1976 - Isobel Campbell was born. Scottish singer and composer.

1976 - Walter Pandiani was born. Uruguayan footballer.

1977 - 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.

1977 - Rafael Alberti regresa a España después de 38 años de exilio.

1977 - Portugal sign the European Convention on Social and Medical Assistance.

1977 - Khalid Zoubaa was born. French runner.

1977 - Stanley Adams dies (b. 1915). American actor.

1978 - Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

1978 - Mohammed Daud, premier/president of Afghanistan, murdered.

1978 - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup.

1979 - Will Boyd was born. American musician.

1980 - Christian Lara was born. Ecuadorian footballer.

1980 - Ananda Mikola was born. Indonesian racing driver.

1980 - Sybille Bammer was born. Austrian tennis player.

1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

1981 - Former Beatle Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach at the Marylebone Registry Office in London. Paul McCartney and wife Linda, George Harrison and Harry Nilsson were in attendance.

1981 - Fabrizio Faniello was born. Maltese singer.

1981 - Patrik Gerrbrand was born. Swedish footballer.

1983 - Pitcher Nolan Ryan surpassed Walter Johnson’s strikeout record—one that had held since 1927.

1983 - Ariel Geltman Graynor was born in Boston, Massachussetes, USA. Actress.

1984 - Sale de la cadena de montaje de Seat en Barcelona el primer Ibiza .

1984 - Patrick Stump was born. American musician (Fall Out Boy)

1986 - Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) hijacks HBO's satellite and transmits his own message to HBO viewers.

1986 - Elena Risteska was born. Macedonian singer.

1987 - The U.S. Justice Department bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

1987 - William Moseley was born. British actor.

1987 - Elliott Shriane was born. Australian speed skater

1987 - Lucas Salatta was born in São Paulo. Brazilian swimmer.

1988 - David Scarboro dies (b. 1968). British actor.

1989 - Raúl Sendic dies. fundador y dirigente de los tupamaros uruguayos.

1989 - Konosuke Matsushita dies (b. 27 Nov 1894). Japanese industrialist who founded the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., the largest manufacturer of consumer electric appliances in the world.

1989 - Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500 .

1992 - Portuguese architect Siza Vieira is laureate with The Pritzker Architecture Prize. ("The architecture of Alvaro Siza is a joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit. Each line and curve is placed with skill and sureness..." (citation for the Prize).

1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1992 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is proclaimed, comprising of Serbia and Montenegro.

1992 - Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

1992 - Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics win entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1992 - Olivier Messiaen dies (b. 1908). French composer.

1992 - Gerard K. O'Neill dies (b. 6 Feb 1927). American physicist who invented the colliding-beam storage ring and was a leading advocate of space colonization. He experimented with ways to increase the energy output of particle accelerators .

1993 - All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

1994 - South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens vote.

1994 - The funeral of former U.S. President Richard Nixon is held in Nixon's hometown of Yorba Linda, California. Several foriegn dignitaries and all five living U.S. presidents attend.

1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans dies (b. 1921). Dutch writer.

1996 - The Israeli military operation in Lebanon, Operation Grapes of Wrath, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing.

1996 - William Colby dies (b. 1920). American director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

1997 - Andrew Cunanan murders Jeffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree that will last until July and terminate with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.

1998 - Carlos Castañeda dies in Los Angeles (b. 25 Dez 1925). Peruvian born /USA author.

1998 - John Bassett dies (b. 1915). Canadian publisher and media baron.

1998 - Dominique Aury dies (b. 1907). French novelist.

1999 - Al Hirt, "The King of the Trumpet," dies in New Orleans at age 76 (b. 1922). American musician.

1999 - Rolf William Landauer dies (b. 4 Feb 1927). German-born American physicist whose discovery of what came to be known as Landauer's principle (that the erasing of computer information causes a loss of energy) led to the development of more efficient computers.

1999 - Mark David Weiser dies (b.23 July 1952). American computer scientist and visionary who developed the pioneering idea for what he referred to as "ubiquitous computing," He coined that term in 1988 to describe a future in which PC's will be replaced with tiny computers embedded in everyday "smart" devices

2000 - In Uganda workers in Ggaba, a residential area south of Kampala, exhumed the bodies of 55 more people associated with the Movement for the Restoration of Ten Commandments. Total deaths stood at 979.

2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson dies (b. 1954). American singer.

2002 - The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10.

2002 - O Sporting empata (2 x 2) com o Vitória de Setúbal e vence o título português de futebol 2001/2002 .

2002 - George Alec Effinger dies (b. 1947). American author.

2002 - Ruth Handler dies (b. 1916). American toy manufacturer, co-founder of Mattel and creator of the Barbie doll (1959).

2002 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza dies (b. 1921). Swiss industrialist and art collector.

2003 - In Argentina former President Carlos Menem (72) finished first in presidential elections but failed to win an outright victory in his comeback bid, setting up a runoff vote with Nestor Kirchner, governor of Patagonia.

2003 -In Beijing theaters, cafes and karaoke bars were closed as 126 new SARS cases were reported. Total confirmed cases in China rose to 2,914 with 131 deaths. 26 of China's 31 provinces were infected.

2004 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and EU officials signed an accord extending the EU-Russia partnership accord to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta, which join May 1.

2005 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus 380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

2006 - Julia Thorne dies (b. 1944). Ex-wife of John Kerry.

2007 - Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.

2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich dies (b. 1927). Russian cellist and conductor.

World Graphic Design Day.

Slovenia: Day of Uprising Against Occupation.

South Africa: Freedom day .

Independence Day: Togo, 1960;

Catalonia: Montserrat's Day.

Finland: Veterans' Day

Sierra Leone: Republic Day.