On this day in History - Mar 02

• 0986 - Lothar,dies, King of the Franks, Holy Roman Emperor, (b. 0795).
• 0986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
• 1316 - King Robert II of Scotland, (1371-90) was born, (d. 1390) .
• 1452 - Nace Fernando el Católico, rey de Aragón.
• 1459 - Adrian VI [Adriaan F Boeyens], was born in Netherlands, Pope (1522-23).
• 1476 - D. Afonso V é derrotado em Toro pelo exército dos Reis Católicos .
• 1561 - El capitán Pedro del Castillo funda la ciudad argentina de Mendoza.
• 1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
• 1725 - Fallece el arquitecto José Benito de Churriguera.
• 1779 - Joel Roberts Poinsett, was born, U.S. statesman, botanist (d. 1851) .
• 1783 - Fallece el escultor e imaginero Francisco Salzillo y Alcaraz.
• 1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
• 1793 - Sam[uel] Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, President of the Republic of Texas,(1836-38, 1841-44) (d. 1863)
• 1801 - É iniciada a Guerra das Laranjas entre Espanha e Portugal. A França apóia os espanhóis após a recusa portuguesa de ceder grande parte de sua terra a Napoleão.
• 1807 - The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
• 1810 - Pope Leo XIII, Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci was born (d. 20 Jul 1903). Elected 256th pope on 20 February 1878 .
• 1819 - Territory of Arkansas organized.
• 1822 - Capitulación del caudillo uruguayo Rivera ante las fuerzas portuguesas.
• 1824 - Bedrich Smetana, was born, composer, (d. 1884) .
• 1829 - Carl Schurz, was born, German revolutionist and American statesman, (d. 1906) .
• 1836 - Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.
• 1840 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaüs Olbers (b. 11 Oct 1758). German astronomer and physician, born in Arbergen, Germany. While practising medicine at Bremen, he calculated the orbit of the comet of 1779, discovered the minor planets (asteroids) Pallas (1802) and Vesta (1807), and discovered five comets (all but one already observed at Paris).
• 1849 - Robert Means Thompson, was born, naval officer, (d. 1930) .
• 1855 - Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1859 - Sholom Aleichem, was born, novelist, (d. 1916) .
• 1861 - Nevada Territory and Dakota Territory are organized as political divisions of the United States.
• 1861 - Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia: Tsar Alexander II signed the emancipation reform into law.
• 1865 - Comienza en París la Conferencia Internacional para establecer un sistema de comunicaciones y de tarifas telegráficas.
• 1866 - Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut began making sewing machine needles.
• 1876 - Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, was born (d. 09 Oct 1958). 260th pope (1939-1958).
• 1877 - U.S. presidential election, 1876: The U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876 (Reconstruction ends).
• 1878 - Ignacio Veintemilla se proclama dictador de la República de Ecuador por segunda vez.
• 1879 - Muere John Eberhard Faber, industrial alemán.
• 1880 - Sir John MacNeill dies, civil engineer, (b. 1790) .
• 1882 - Roderick Maclean tenta assassinar a rainha Vitória em Windsor.
• 1887 - August Wilhelm Eichler, dies (b. 4 Apr 1839) German botanist who developed one of the first widely used natural systems of plant classification. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a one of the first systems of plant classification .
• 1887 - Harry E. Soref was born (d. 1 Mar 1957). Locksmith, inventor of the laminated steel padlock, and founder of Master Lock Company (1921).
• 1891 - Celebración en España de las primeras elecciones legislativas por sufragio universal.
• 1895 - Berthe Morisot, dies, Impressionist painter, (b. 1841) .
• 1896 - Henri Becquerel reported his discovery of the penetrating rays of a uranium compound to the French Academy of Sciences. The photographic plate, fogged by these rays, showing the outline of a metal cross lying between the compound and the plate, is the first recognition of the effects later known as radioactivity.
• 1898 - Nasceu a actriz e encenadora portuguesa Amélia Rey Colaço .
• 1899 - In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
• 1900 - Kurt Weill, was born, German composer, (d. 1950) .
• 1901 - The U.S. Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.
• 1902 - Moe Berg, was born, baseball player, spy .
• 1902 - Edward Uhler Condon was born (d. 26 Mar 1974). American physicist for whom the Franck-Condon principle was named (1928) and who applied quantum mechanics to an understanding of atomic, molecular and nuclear structure .
• 1903 - In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
• 1904 - Theodore Seuss Geisel “Dr. Seuss”, was born, in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 24 Sep 1991). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and three Academy Awards, Seuss was the author and illustrator of 44 children's books, some of which have been made into audiocassettes, animated television specials, and videos for children of all ages.
• 1908 - Gabriel Lippman introduced the new three-dimensional colour photography at the Academy of Sciences.
• 1908 - Walter Bruch, was born, engineer, (d. 1990) .
• 1909 - Mel Ott, was born, Baseball Hall of Famer, (d. 1958) .
• 1910 - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die .
• 1913 - Georgii Nikolaevich Flerov was born (d. 19 Nov 1990). Russian scientist who, in 1941, recognized that uranium undergoes spontaneous fission (needing no neutron bombardment). He was one of the early Russian investigators of nuclear fission.
• 1914- Martin Ritt, was born, director, (d. 1990) .
• 1915 - O aumento do preço do pão provocou tumultos e assaltos em todo o território português .
• 1916 - El poeta español Juan Ramón Jiménez contrae matrimonio con Zenobia Camprubi en Nueva York.
• 1917 - El Congreso de los Estados Unidos reforma el Acta Orgánica para que Puerto Rico pueda ser territorio de la Unión.
• 1917- The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
• 1917 - Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Michael.
• 1917 - Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship.
• 1917 - Desi Arnaz, was born, actor, bandleader, musician, (d. 1986) Santiago Cuba, singer/actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy).
• 1918 - Sidónio Pais assiste a uma missa na Sé de Lisboa, reconciliando o regime com a Igreja.
• 1919 - Jennifer Jones, was born, actress) (Academy Award-winning actress: The Song of Bernadette [1943], Carrie, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Towering Inferno) .
• 1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
• 1921 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro dies, (b. 1841) .
• 1926 - Murray Rothbard, was born, American economist, (d. 1995) .
• 1929 - Jones Act attempts to strengthen Prohibition. Congress passes the Jones Act, the last effort at enforcing Prohibition. Since 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect, the United States had banned the production, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages; but the laws were ineffective at actually preventing the consumption of alcohol. The Jones Act served to strengthen the federal penalties for bootlegging.
• 1930 - D. H. Lawrence, dies, writer, (b. 1885) .
• 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, was born, former President of the Soviet Union .
• 1931 - Tom Wolfe, was born, journalist/author (Right Stuff) .
• 1933 - King Kong premieres in New York City.
• 1934 - Paul Joseph Cohen was born. American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the other axioms of set theory.
• 1937 - José Francisco Guerrero, nace, político salvadoreño.
• 1938 - Ricardo Lagos Escobar, nacimiento de, presidente de Chile .
• 1938 - Ben Harney, dies, US composer and ragtime pianist (b. 1871) .
• 1939 - Howard Carter, dies, (b. 9 May 1873). British archaeologist who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen.
• 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
• 1940 - Ricardo Miró, muere, poeta panameño.
• 1942 - 14th Academy Awards: "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper & Joan Fontaine win .
• 1942 - John Irving, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, author (The World According to Garp; The Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meaney... ) .
• 1942 - Lou Reed, was born, singer and guitarist(singer, songwriter, guitarist: group: Velvet Underground; solo: Walk on the Wild Side, Charley’s Girl; I Love You Suzanne; appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony) .
• 1943 - Peter Straub, was born, author .
• 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea - United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
• 1944 - 16th Academy Awards: The Outstanding Motion Picture was "Casablanca", directed by Michael Curtiz, who won an Oscar for his efforts. Best Actor of 1943 was Paul Lukas for "Watch on the Rhine" and Best Actor in a Supporting Role was Charles Coburn for "The More the Merrier". The Best Actress award was presented to Twenty-four-year-old Jennifer Jones for "The Song of Bernadette" and Best Actress in a Supporting Role was Katina Paxinou in "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
• 1944 - Uschi Glas, was born, actress .
• 1946 - Ho Chi Minh the Vietnamese Communist leader is elected the President of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Vietnam( North Vietnam).
• 1947 - Nelson Ned was born, Brasilien singer.
• 1948 - R. T. Crowley, was born, writer, pioneer of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) .
• 1948 - Jeff Kennett, was born, Australian politician, Victorian premier .
• 1949 - Eddie Money, was born, singer .
• 1949 - JPR Williams, was born, Welsh rugby player .
• 1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
• 1949 - A US B-50 Superfortress, the Lucky Lady II, lands at Fort Worth, Texas, completing the first nonstop round-the-world flight.
• 1949 - Soft-coal strike in US. The US's soft-coal workers, led by United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis, hit the picket line to protest the recent appointment of Dr. James Boyd as the head of the Federal Bureau of Mines.
• 1949 - the first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Conn.
• 1950 - Karen Carpenter, was born, singer and drummer, (d. 1983) .
• 1951 - Roberto Dañino Zapata, nacimiento de, peruano, Vicepresidente Senior del Banco Mundial.
• 1952 - Laraine Newman, was born, comedian .
• 1953 - Jim Lightbody, dies, American middle-distance runner, (b. 1882) .
• 1955 - Jay Osmond, was born, American pop star / drummer for "The Osmond Brothers" .
• 1955 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, King Norodom Suramarit.
• 1956 - Morocco declares its independence from France.
• 1956 - John Cowsill was born, (musician)/drummer, singer, The Cowsills and The Beach Boys .
• 1956 - Mark Evans, was born, bassist of AC/DC .
• 1958 - Antartic crossed for the first time by Dr Vivian Fuchs
• 1958 - Yemen announces that it will join the United Arab Republic .
• 1960 - Stanisław Taczak, dies ,Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) against the Germans (b.1874) .
• 1962 - In Hershey, Pennsylvania, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers scores 100 points against the New York Knicks, breaking several National Basketball Association records.
• 1962 - Charles de la Vallée Poussin, dies, mathematician.
• 1962 - In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup.
• 1962 - Morioka Hiroyuki, was born, writer, conlanger .
• 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, was born, singer, songwriter, and actor .
• 1963 - Release of Please Please Me in the United Kingdom, the first LP from The Beatles.
• 1965 - Bombing of North Vietnam starts. Operation Rolling Thunder begins with more than 100 United States Air Force jet bombers striking an ammunition depot at Xom Bang, 10 miles inside North Vietnam.
• 1967 - 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night & Michele win .
• 1967 - Muere el escritor José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín).
• 1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Concorde is conducted.
• 1969 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
• 1969 - the Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft made its maiden flight.
• 1970 - Rhodesia gains independence .
• 1970 - American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747.
• 1971 - Bangladesh se declara independiente de Pakistán.1970 American Airlines' first flight of a Boeing 747.
• 1971 - Amber Smith Tampa FL, actress (Faithful, Funeral, Mirror Has 2 Faces) .
• 1972 - The Pioneer 10 spaceprobe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
• 1974 - 16th Grammy Awards: Killing Me Softly & Bette Midler win
• 1974 - Stevie Wonder got five Grammy Awards for his album, "Innervisions" and his hit songs, "You Are The Sunshine of My Life" and "Superstition".
• 1974 - The worldwide hit single Seasons in the Sun first hits #1 on the U.S. Billboard charts.
• 1974 - Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up
• 1977 - Bette Davis is 1st woman to receive Life Achievement Award
• 1977 - Los líderes comunistas europeos se reúnen en Madrid.
• 1977 - Heather McComb, was born, actress .
• 1978 - Edward Griffith Begle dies (b. 27 Nov 1914). American mathematician, a topologist, who was a leader in the development of "new math" after the launch of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviet Union in 1957 raised concerns about the adequacy of science and mathematics education in American schools.
• 1978 - Morreu o poeta português João Cabral do Nascimento
• 1978 - Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• 1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard, was born, actress .
• 1982 - Ben Roethlisberger, was born, American football quarterback .
• 1982 - Philip K. Dick, dies, science fiction author, (b. 1928) .
• 1985 - Robert Iler, was born, actor .
• 1985 - El Presidente de Pakistán, Mohamed Zia Ulk Haq, anuncia el restablecimiento de la Constitución, derogada tras un golpe de estado.
• 1985 - TV anime series Mobile Suit Z Gundum broadcasts its first episode in Japan.
• 1986 - The British Queen signs a proclamation giving Australia legal independence .
• 1986 - Corazon Aquino was sworn into office as president of the Philipines. Her first public declaration was to restore the civil rights of the citizens of her country.
• 1987 - Chrysler acquires American Motors .
• 1987 - Randolph Scott, dies, actor, (b. 1898) .
• 1988 - 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley win .
• 1989 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
• 1989 - Liam Hogan, was born, comedian .
• 1990 - Nelson Mandela elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
• 1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, dies, singer, (b. 1928) .
• 1992 - Sandy Dennis, dies, actress .
• 1992 - Moldova joins the UN .
• 1994 - Sofía de Grecia Reina de España recibe el Premio Wiesenthal de Derechos Humanos por su compromiso continuo en favor de la tolerancia y de la lucha contra el antisemitismo y el racismo.
• 1995 - Nick Leeson is arrested for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.
• 1995 - Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed .
• 1996 - Falecem, num acidente aéreo, os integrantes do conjunto musical “Mamonas Assassinas”.
• 1996 - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is reelected president of the Socialist Party of Serbia by 1795 out of 1799 party delegates. Milosevic's government continues to hinder opposition parties, which nevertheless gain increasing support.
• 1996 - Jacobo Majluta President of Dominican Republic (1982), dies at 61.
• 1997 - Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple Computer
• 1997 - Nick Faldo wins Nissan Golf Open .
• 1997 - Carson Mark, dies (b. 6 Jul 1913). Canadian-born American scientist who, as head of the theoretical division at the Los Alamos (N.M.) Scientific Laboratory, was instrumental in the development of the hydrogen bomb.
• 1998 - US Justice Department files antitrust brief against Microsoft The Justice Department declared an antitrust war on Microsoft on this day in 1998. The department filed a court brief alleging that Microsoft's Windows 95 licensing requirements violated the terms of a 1995 settlement and that its practice of bundling its Web browser with Windows 95 stifled competition.
• 1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spaceprobe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
• 1998 - El presidente del Gobierno central de Nicaragua, Arnold Alemán, alcanza una victoria muy ajustada en las elecciones parlamentarias regionales, que tuvieron una abstención del 50%.
• 1999 - Dusty Springfield, dies (b. 1939), singer, ("Wishin’ and Hopin’", "The Look of Love", "Son of a Preacher Man").
• 2000 - O ex-ditador chileno, General Augusto Pinochet deixa a Grã-Bretanha e volta ao seu país, horas após ter sido declarado mentalmente incapaz de ser julgado por abuso aos direitos humanos.
• 2001 - John Diamond, dies, British journalist, (b. 1953) .
• 2001 - The Talibanbegan the destruction of ancient Budha statues in Afghanistan.
• 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, ending on March 19) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 allied troop fatalities.
• 2003 The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.
• 2003 - Hank Ballard, dies, singer, composer .
• 2003 - Malcolm Williamson, dies, Australian composer, (b. 1931) .
• 2004 - Voters in the U.S. state of Georgia vote on a referendum concerning its Confederacy-derived flag.
• 2004 - Disgruntled by the state's education act (Act 60), residents of Killington, Vermont vote to become part of New Hampshire.
• 2004 - War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
• 2004 - War in Iraq: A United Nations report from the weapons inspection teams states that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction of any significance after 1994, despite widespread belief to the contrary before the invasion.
• 2004 - Mercedes McCambridge, dies, actress (b. 1918), Oscar winner for All the King's Men; later became the raspy voice of demon-possessed girl in The Exorcist.
• 2004 -Marge Schott, dies, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds (b. 1928).

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Fast or slow? What is better?

Recebi esta mensagem por email. Não sei qual é o autor original. Não obstante, divulgo-a aqui por que nos coloca questões muito sérias ... e dá para pensar. Caso conheçam o autor da missiva informem que imediatamente passarei a referir a fonte.

"Já vai para 18 anos que estou aqui na Volvo, uma empresa sueca. Trabalhar com eles é uma convivência, no mínimo, interessante. Qualquer projeto aqui demora dois anos para se concretizar, mesmo que a ideia seja brilhante e simples. É regra. Então, nos processos globais, causa em nós aflitos por resultados imediatos (brasileiros, americanos, australianos, asiáticos)uma ansiedade generalizada, porém, nosso senso de urgência não surte qualquer efeito neste prazo. Os suecos discutem, discutem, fazem "n" reuniões, ponderações... E trabalham num esquema bem mais "slow down." O pior é constatar que, no final, acaba sempre dando certo no tempo deles com a maturidade da tecnologia e da necessidade: bem pouco se perde aqui...

Na Suécia:

1. O pais é do tamanho de São Paulo;

2. O pais tem 2 milhões de habitantes;

3. Sua maior cidade, Estocolmo, tem 500.000 habitantes (compare comCuritiba que somos 2 milhões);

4. Empresas de capital sueco: Volvo, Scania, Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB,Nokia, Nobel Biocare, ...

Nada mal, não? Para ter uma ideia, a Volvo fabrica os motores propulsores para os foguetes da NASA. Digo para os demais nestes nossos grupos globais: os suecos podem estar errados, mas são eles que pagam nossos salários. Entretanto, vale salientar que não conheço um povo, como povo mesmo, que tenha mais cultura colectiva do que eles...

Vou contar para vocês uma breve só para dar noção... A primeira vez que fui para lá, em 90, um dos colegas suecos me pegava no hotel toda manhã. Era Setembro, frio leve. Chegávamos cedo na Volvo e ele estacionava o carro bem longe da porta de entrada (são 2000 funcionários de carro). No primeiro dia não disse nada, no segundo, no terceiro... Depois, com um pouco mais de intimidade, numa manhã perguntei: "Vocês têm lugar marcado para estacionar aqui? Notei que chegámos cedo, o estacionamento vazio e você deixa o carro lá no final..." e ele me respondeu simples assim: "É que chegámos cedo, então temos tempo de caminhar - quem chegar mais tarde já vai estar atrasado, é melhor que fique mais perto da porta. Você não acha?" Olha a minha cara! Ainda bem que tive esta na primeira... Deu para rever bastante os meus conceitos.

Há um grande movimento na Europa hoje, chamado Slow Food. A Slow Food International Association - cujo símbolo é um caracol -, tem sua base na Itália (o site é muito interessante. Veja-o). O que o movimento Slow Food prega é que as pessoas devem comer e beber devagar, saboreando os alimentos, "curtindo" seu preparo, no convívio com a família, com os amigos, sem pressa e com qualidade. A ideia é a de se contrapôr ao espírito do Fast Food e o que ele representa como estilo de vida. A surpresa, porém, é que esse movimento do Slow Food está servindo debase para um movimento mais amplo chamado Slow Europe como salientou a revista Business Week em sua última edição européia. A base de tudo está no questionar da "pressa" e da "loucura" gerada pela globalização, pelo apelo à "quantidade do ter" em contraposição à qualidade de vida ou à "qualidade do ser". Segundo a Business Week, os trabalhadores franceses, embora trabalhem menos horas, (35 horas / semana) são mais produtivos que seus colegas americanos ou ingleses. E os alemães, que em muitas empresas instituíram uma semana de 28,8 horas de trabalho, viram sua produtividade crescer nada menos que 20%. Essa chamada "slow attitude" está chamando a atenção até dos americanos, apologistas do "Fast" (rápido) e do "Do it Now" (faça já). Portanto, essa "atitude sem-pressa" não significa fazer menos, nem menor produtividade. Significa, sim, fazer as coisas e trabalhar com mais "qualidade" e "produtividade" com maior perfeição, atenção aos detalhes e com menos "stress". Significa retomar os valores da família, dos amigos, do tempo livre, do lazer e das pequenas comunidades. Do "local", presente e concreto, em contraposição ao "global" -indefinido e anónimo. Significa a retomada dos valores essenciais do ser humano, dos pequenos prazeres do cotidiano, da simplicidade de viver e conviver e até da religião e da fé. Significa um ambiente de trabalho menos coercivo, mais alegre, mais "leve" e, portanto, mais produtivo, onde seres humanos felizes fazem, comprazer, o que sabem fazer de melhor. Nesta semana, gostaria que você pensasse um pouco sobre isso.

Será que os velhos ditados "Devagar se vai ao longe" ou ainda "A pressa é inimiga da perfeição" não merecem novamente nossa atenção nestes tempos de desenfreada loucura? Será que nossas empresas não deveriam também pensarem programas sérios de "qualidade sem-pressa" até para aumentar aprodutividade e qualidade de nossos produtos e serviços sem a necessária perda da "qualidade do ser"? No filme "Perfume de Mulher", há uma cena inesquecível, em que um personagem cego (vivido por Al Pacino) tira uma moça para dançar e ela responde: "Não posso, porque meu noivo vai chegar em poucos minutos." "Mas em um momento se vive uma vida" - responde ele, conduzindo-a num passo de tango. E esta pequena cena é o momento mais bonito do filme.

Algumas pessoas vivem correndo atrás do tempo, mas parece que só alcançam quando morrem com enfarte, ou algo assim. Para outros, o tempo demora a passar; ficam ansiosos com o futuro e esquecem-se de viver o presente, que é o único tempo que existe. Tempo todo mundo tem por igual. Ninguém tem mais nem menos que 24 horas por dia. A diferença é o que cada um faz do seu tempo. Precisamos saber aproveitar cada momento, porque, como disse John Lennon... "A vida é aquilo que acontece enquanto fazemos planos para o futuro".

Parabéns por ter lido até ao final... Muitos não irão ler esta mensagem até ao final, porque não podem "perder" o seu tempo neste mundo globalizado.

Pense e reflita: até que ponto vale a pena deixar de curtir sua família, de ficar com a pessoa amada, com os amigos, de ir à missa nos domingos de manhã, ir pescar no fim de semana...? Poderá ser tarde demais...".

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On this day in History - Mar 01

• 286 - Diocleciano eleva Maximiano a César, ou seja, Imperador romano júnior.
• 293 - Diocleciano e Maximiano nomeiam Constâncio Cloro e Galério como Césares. Considera-se esta data o início da Tetrarquia.
• 0705 - John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope .
• 1104/5 - Alfonso VII,was born, king of Castile (d. 1157).
• 1160 - Foi fundada a cidade de Tomar .
• 1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, dies, eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200) .
• 1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy, dies, Count of Savoy (b. 1334) .
• 1445 - Sandro Botticelli, was born Italian painter (d. 1510) .
• 1474 (?) - Angela Merici,was born, Italian religious leader and saint (d. 1540) .
• 1493 - La carabela "La Pinta" atraca en el puerto de Bayona (Pontevedra) de regreso de América. Se dio la primicia del éxito de la expedición de Colón.
• 1498 - Vasco da Gama desembarca no país hoje conhecido por Moçambique, em sua viagem à Índia .
• 1510 - Morreu o primeiro Vice-Rei da Índia, D. Francisco de Almeida .
• 1546 - George Wishart, dies, Scottish religious reformer (b 1513) .
• 1562 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Vassy, France marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
• 1565 - Estácio de Sá fundou São Sebastião, actual Rio de Janeiro .
• 1611 - John Pell was born (d. 1685) . English mathematician who introduced the division sign (obelus, ÷) into England. The obelus was first used by Johann Rahn (1622-1676) in 1659 in Teutsche Algebra.
• 1620 - Thomas Campion, dies, English poet and composer (b. 1567) .
• 1628 - Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
• 1633 - Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
• 1633 - George Herbert, dies, English poet and orator (b. 1593) .
• 1642 - Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine) becomes the first incorporated city in America.
• 1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, dies,Italian keyboard composer. (b. 1583) .
• 1661 - Richard Zouch, dies, English jurist (b. 1590) .
• 1692 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony with the charging of four women with witchcraft.
• 1697 - Francesco Redi, dies, Italian physician (b. 1626) .
• 1700 - Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar, then reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and then introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
• 1734 - Roger North, dies, English biographer (b. 1653) .
• 1760 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot,was born, French revolutionary (suicide) (d. 1794) .
• 1767 - Carlos III expulsa os Jesuítas de Espanha.
• 1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, dies, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
• 1769 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, was born, French general (d. 1796) .
• 1781 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 - The first United States census is authorized.
• 1792 - Leopold II, dies, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747) .
• 1799 - Coalición de Gran Bretaña, Austria y Rusia contra Francia.
• 1802 - Se inaugura en Buenos Aires la Escuela de Medicina.
• 1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
• 1805 - Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate.
• 1807 - Wilford Woodruff,was born, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898) .
• 1810 - Frédéric Chopin,was born (d. 1849), Polish-French composer and pianist, (d. 1849) .
• 1811 - Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
• 1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
• 1819 - USS Columbus launched.
• 1821 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, was born, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896) .
• 1828 - En la guerra entre salvadoreños y guatemaltecos, éstos derrotan al Ejército de El Salvador en la batalla de Chalchuapa.
• 1836 - Convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos to deliberate independence from Mexico.
• 1837 - William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, editor, politician, (d. 1920) .
• 1840 - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
• 1843 - Zürich issues stamps, making it the second type of stamp in the world.
• 1843 - Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco se declara en Lima Director Supremo de la República de Perú.
• 1845 - President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1851 - Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United States of Europe several times.
• 1852 - Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland .
• 1852 - Comienza en Uruguay la presidencia de Juan Francisco Giró, apoyado por el Partido Blanco.
• 1842 - Fermín Salvochea,was born, anarquista español.
• 1852 - Théophile Delcassé,was born, French statesman (d. 1923) .
• 1852 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, was born, Premio Nobel de Medicina.
• 1854 - German pyschologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in the canal near Charlottenburg.
• 1858 - Julián Castro ocupa la Presidencia de Venezuela.
• 1858 - Georg Simmel, was born, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918) .
• 1862 - Peter Barlow, dies, English mathematician (b. 1776) .
• 1865 - Abe Iso,was born, Japanese politician (d. 1949) .
• 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
• 1870 - Muere Francisco Solano López, dictador paraguayo.
• 1871 - Napoleón III es depuesto como emperador de Francia.
• 1871 - Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938) .
• 1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
• 1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, start production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1873 - José Ellausi accede a la Presidencia de la República de Uruguay.
• 1876 - Henri de Baillet-Latour,was born, Belgian IOC president, (d. 1942) .
• 1879 - Bolivia declara la guerra a Chile, en la que el primero de estos países perdió todo su litoral del Pacífico.
• 1879 - Aparece la segunda parte de Martín Fierro, popularmente conocida como "La vuelta".
• 1879 - Joachim Heer, dies, Swiss politician (b. 1825) .
• 1880 - Sir Isaac Shoenberg was born (d. 25 Jan 1963). Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the world's first public high-definition telecast (from London, 1936).
• 1880 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (d. 1932) .
• 1881 - Foi fundada a Livraria Lello & Irmão .
• 1884 - Isaac Todhunter, dies, English mathematician (b. 1820) .
• 1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, was born, Austrian painter, graphic artist, and poet, (Erasmus Prize 1960) (d. 1980) .
• 1889 - Watsuji Tetsuro, was born, Japanese ethicist and philosopher (d. 1960) .
• 1890 - Nace el artista plástico argentino Benito Quinquela Martín.
• 1891 - Se firma en España el laudo arbitral sobre los límites entre Venezuela y Colombia.
• 1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, was born, Japanese writer (d. 1927) .
• 1893 - Mercedes de Acosta, was born, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968) .
• 1894 - Na primeira eleição direta para presidente do Brasil, o País elege Prudente de Morais.
• 1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, was born, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (d. 1960) .
• 1896 - Battle of Adowa, in which Ethiopia defended its independence against Italy, begins.
• 1896 - The Italian invasion, with 100,000 troops, was defeated.
• 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
• 1898 - Campos Salles, candidato único, é eleito Presidente da República (Brasil).
• 1898 - George Bruce Malleson, dies, English officer in India, author (b. 1825) .
• 1899 - In Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
• 1901 - Pietro Spiggia, Italian poet was born.
• 1902 - Rodrigues Alves vencia as eleições presidenciais do Brasil, sucedendo a Campos Salles.
• 1904 - Glenn Miller, American bandleader: Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Perfidia; led WWII U.S. Army Air Force Band; presumed dead after his plane disappeared over the English Channel ( Dec 15, 1944) .
• 1905 - Aparece en Argentina el diario "La Razón", fundado por Emilio Morales.
• 1906 - Pham Văn Ðong,was born, Prime Minister of North Vietnam (d. 2000) .
• 1906 - José María de Pereda, muere, novelista español.
• 1909 - David Niven,was born (d. 29 Jul 1983) English actor, (Academy Award-winning actor: Separate Tables [1958]; The Moon is Blue, Paper Tiger, The Pink Panther, The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, Casino Royale ) .
• 1910 - Archer John Porter Martin was born (d. 28 Jul 2002). British biochemist who was awarded (with R.L.M. Synge) the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1952 for development of paper partition chromatography using two different liquids moving at right angles .
• 1910 - No Brasil, Marechal Hermes é eleito presidente, vencendo Rui Barbosa, por 403 mil a 223 mil votos.
• 1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1852) .
• 1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan. (b. 1847) .
• 1912 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
• 1912 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe.
• 1914 - Muere Jorge Newbery al estrellarse su avión cerca de Mendoza.
• 1914 - Ralph Ellison,was born, American writer, (d. 1994) .
• 1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto dies (b. 1845) .
• 1917 - Robert Lowell,was born, American poet, (d. 1977) .
• 1917 - Harry Caray,was born, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998) .
• 1917 - U.S. government releases the plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
• 1917 - Japanese city Omuta, Fukuoka is founded.
• 1918 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island.
• 1918 - Joao Goulart,was born, president of Brazil (1961-March 31, 1964) (d. 1976) .
• 1918 - Roger Delgado, was born, British actor (d. 1973) .
• 1919 - March 1st Movement against Japanese colonial rule in Korea.
• 1919 - Entra en vigor en Uruguay la nueva Constitución redactada por la Asamblea Constituye .
• 1920 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (b. 1842) .
• 1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, early Zionist activist (b. 1880) .
• 1921 - the city Kiryu, located in Gunma, Japan, is founded.
• 1921 - Richard Wilbur, was born, American poet .
• 1921 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, was born, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (d. 1983) .
• 1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, was born (d. 1995), Prime Minister of Israel (1992-1995). Nobel 1994.
• 1922 - William Gaines,was born, American publisher, founder of MAD Magazine, (d. 1992) .
• 1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, (Pichichi) dies, Spanish football player (b. 1892) .
• 1923 - Rui Barbosa, morre, político brasileiro .
• 1923 - Kuczka Péter, was born, Hungarian writer, poet and Science Fiction editor (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Deke Slayton,was born, astronaut (d. 1993) .
• 1924 - China: los comunistas son admitidos en el Kuomintang.
• 1924 - Louise-Marie Amélie, dies, daughter of Leopold II of Belgium, wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1858) .
• 1925 - Em Lisboa, Abílio Nunes dos Santos Júnior realizou as primeiras emissões regulares de rádio neste dia.
• 1926 - Morreu de tuberculose o poeta português Camilo de Almeida Pessanha (Clepsidra) (n. em Coimbra em 1867) .
• 1926 - Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, was born, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) (d. 1996) .
• 1927 - Harry Belafonte,was born, American musician and actor.
• 1927 - Robert Bork,was born, American law professor .
• 1928 - Jacques Rivette, was born, French director .
• 1928 - Dr. Seymour Papert,was born, South African mathematician, artificial intelligence researcher. Computer scientist who invented the Logo computer programming language, an educational computer programming language for children.
• 1929 - Georgi Markov, was born, Bulgarian dissident, (d. 1978) .
• 1932 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12 .
• 1932 - Se funda el Danubio Footbal Club, de Montevideo, Uruguay.
• 1932 - Frank Teschemacher, dies, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist .
• 1932 - Ramón Casas, muere, pintor y cartelista español.
• 1933 - Jakob Maria Mierscheid,was born, fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 1983
• 1934 - China: Pu Yi coronado emperador por las fuerzas japonesas.
• 1935 - Robert Conrad,was born, American actor .
• 1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1937 - Jed Allan, was born, American actor.
• 1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (b. 1863) .
• 1939 - Warren Davis, was born, The Monotones .
• 1940 12th Academy Awards: "Gone with the Wind", Robert Donat & Vivien Leigh win .
• 1941 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
• 1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station.
• 1942 - Richard Bowman Myers,was born, General of the United States Air Force, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff .
• 1943 - Gil Amelio, was born, American CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer and venture capitalist .
• 1944 - Roger Daltrey,was born, English rock musician (The Who)( Pinball Wizard, Won’t Get Fooled Again; solo: Without Your Love, Giving It All Away; actor: Tommy, Lisztomania, The Legacy and McVicar) .
• 1944 - Mike D'Abo,was born, rock vocalist of band Mannfred Mann .
• 1944 - John Breaux, was born, United States Senator from Louisiana .
• 1945 - Dirk Benedict,was born, American movie and television actor .
• 1945 - O Irão declarou guerra ao Japão e à Alemanha .
• 1946 Panamá accepts its new constitution .
• 1946 - The Bank of England passes into private ownership.
• 1947 - The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
• 1947 - Tomás Berreta es elegido presidente de Uruguay.
• 1948 - Se realiza el acto simbólico del traspaso al Estado de los ferrocarriles ingleses en Argentina.
• 1948 - Winston Rodney, aka Burning Spear, was born, Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician .
• 1949 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
• 1950 - Alfred Korzybski dies (b. 3 July 1879). Polish-born American scientist and philosopher .
• 1950 - Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by giving them top secret atomic bomb data.
• 1952 Egyptian government-Ali Maher Pasja resigns .
• 1952 - Steven Barnes, was born, science fiction writer .
• 1952 - Mariano Azuela, muere, escritor mexicano.
• 1953 - Richard Bruton, was born, Irish Fine Gael politician and economist .
• 1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
• 1953 - Evacuación de las últimas tropas británicas de la India.
• 1954 - Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
• 1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
• 1954 - Ron Howard,was born, American actor, director, producer (Emmy Award-winning producer: From the Earth to the Moon [1998]; actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, American Graffiti; director: Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13) .
• 1954 - Catherine Bach, was born, American actress .
• 1955 - Na África do Sul, o apartheid foi alargado ao ensino primário
• 1956 - The International Air Transport Association finalises a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
• 1956 - Promulgación en Guatemala de una nueva Constitución.
• 1958 - Nik Kershaw was born in Bristol England, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good) .
• 1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, appointed Pro-Perfect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia .
• 1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• 1961 - First elections held in Uganda and it becomes self-governing.
• 1962 - Antonio Harrison es elegido presidente de Uruguay.
• 1962 - O Paquistão anuncia uma nova constituição, estabelecendo um sistema de governo presidencialista.
• 1963 - Dan Michaels, was born, producer, saxophonist, member of the rock band The Choir and also The Swirling Eddies, owner of Galaxy21 Music.
• 1964 - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was born, suspected military head of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda (his birth date is also reported to be April 14, 1965) .
• 1965 - Un terremoto causa la muerte de 400 personas en Valparaíso (Chile).
• 1965 - Stewart Elliott, was born, Canadian jockey .
• 1966 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• 1966 - The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
• 1966 - Horacio Acavallo gana el título mundial de boxeo al vencer a Takayama.
• 1966 - Fritz Houtermans, dies, physicist (b. 1903) .
• 1967 - Aron Winter, was born, Dutch soccer player .
• 1968 - Country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter got married on this day .
• 1969 - During a performance at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, Jim Morrison of the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
• 1969 - John Kerry officially leaves active duty in Vietnam.
• 1969 - Javier Bardem, was born, Spanish actor .
• 1969 - Dafydd Ieuan, was born, Welsh drummer with the band Super Furry Animals .
• 1970 - Lucille Hegamin, dies, U.S. singer and entertainer (b. 1894) .
• 1971 - Bomb explodes in men's room in the White House - Weather Underground claims responsibility.
• 1971 - Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
• 1971- Tyler Hamilton, was born, American cyclist .
• 1972 - Thai province of Yasothon created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province .
• 1973 - Ryan Peake, was born,guitarist with the band Nickelback .
• 1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, was born, American actor .
• 1974 - Bobby Timmons, dies, jazz pianist (b. 1935) .
• 1974 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
• 1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia .
• 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win .
• 1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
• 1979 - Mustafa Barzani, dies, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (b. 1903) .
• 1979 - España: elecciones generales. Vence la Unión de Centro Democrático de Adolfo Suárez.
• 1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists.
• 1981 - Daniel Ortega es nombrado coordinador de la Junta de Gobierno de Nicaragua.
• 1985 - Julio Mario Sanguinetti jura su cargo de presidente constitucional de Uruguay.
• 1983 - Swatch introduce their first timepieces.
• 1984 - Jackie Coogan, dies, actor (b. 1914) .
• 1985 - A Suécia foi a primeira nação a legislar sobre a inseminação artificial .
• 1988 - Joe Besser, dies, member of the Three Stooges (b. 1907) .
• 1989 - The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1990 - Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• 1991 - Edwin Herbert Land, dies (b. 7 May 1909) . American inventor and physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing photographs culminated in a revolution in photography unparalleled since the advent of roll film. He founded the Polaroid Company.
• 1991 - España: el Tribunal Constitucional exige el idioma catalán para los funcionarios de la Generalidad de Cataluña.
• 1992 - Bosnia-Herzegovina declara su independencia de Yugoslavia.
• 1994 - Nace la Europa de los Quince: Suecia, Austria y Finlandia se incorporan como nuevos socios de la Unión Europea.
• 1994 - 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win .
• 1994 - Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland .
• 1995 - Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy .
• 1995 - Daniel Sleator announces his intentions to commercialize the Internet Chess Server (ICS) himself, renames it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charges a yearly membership fee of $49 to howls of protest .
• 1995 - Vladislav Listyev, dies, Russian journalist, anchor, and director of ORTV (b. 1956) .
• 1995 - Georges J.F. Köhler dies (b. 17 Apr 1946). German immunologist who in 1984, with César Milstein and Niels K. Jerne, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work in developing the technique for producing unlimited amounts of extremely pure proteins known as monoclonal antibodies.
• 1996 - Faleceu, em Lisboa, o escritor Vergílio Ferrreira. Foi sepultado em Melo, “virado para a serra” como sempre desejou.
• 1998 - Cláudio Villas-Boas dies (b. 8 Dec 1916). Brazilian anthropologist and activist whose life was dedicated to the search for and protection of the country's indigenous people as their lands were taken over and developed; he and his brother Orlando aided in the creation of the Xingu National Park reservation in 1961 and the National Indian Foundation six years later .
• 1999 - Hutu rebels kill eight tourists in Uganda.
• 1999 - The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes into force.
• 2000 - The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
• 2000 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
• 2000 - Dennis Danell dies, guitarist of band Social Distortion .
• 2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: In eastern Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda begins.
• 2002 - The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800km above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500kg.
• 2002 - Space Shuttle Columbia flies Hubble Space Telescope service mission (STS-109).
• 2002 - Peseta discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro (€).
• 2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, dies, former president of El Salvador (1967-1972) (b. 1917).
• 2003 - the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the United States Customs Service, and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former President of Haiti, announces that his resignation on February 29 was forced, and that he was forced to leave the country by American soldiers.
• 2004 - Terry Nichols convicted of state murder charges and accomplice to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has his trial started in McAlester, Oklahoma.
• 2004 - Punycode adopted by the national registrars of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
• 2004 - Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq .

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