On this day in History - Dec. 03

0741- Saint Zacharias begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
1048 - Al-Biruni dies. Mathematician
1154- Pope Anastasius IV dies
1158 - D. Mafalda dies. Queen of Portugal.
1265 - Odofredus dies. Italian jurist
1368 - King Charles VI of France was born (d. 1422)
1533 - Vasili III dies (b. 1479). Grand Prince of Moscow
1552 - St. Francis Xavier dies of fever off the coast of China. He was the leading Roman Catholic missionary of modern times
1560 - Jan Gruter was born (d. 1627). Dutch critic.
1586 - Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes from Colombia to England.
1596 - Nicolo Amati was born (d. 1684). Italian violin maker
1610 - Honda Tadakatsu dies (b. 1548). Japanese general.
1621 - Galileu, Italian astronomer, completed the first telescope.
1684 - Ludvig Holberg was born (d. 1754). Norwegian historian and writer
1721 - German composer Johann Sebastian Bach married his second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcken, daughter of a trumpeter at Weissenfels.

1753 - Samuel Crompton was born in Firwood, Greater Manchester, UK (d.1827). Inventor of the spinning-mule.
1755 - Gilbert Stuart was born (d. 1828). American painter
1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville dies (b. 1713). English cricketer.
1776 - Johann Spurzheim was born
(d. 1832). German neuroscientist
1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet dies (b- 1714). French painter
1805 - Lewis and Clark Expedition mark their explorations from the Missouri River overland to the Columbia River on a pine tree.
1815 - John Carroll dies (b. 1735). First Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S.
1818 - Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state
1826 - George McClellan was boorn (d. 1885). U.S. Civil War general
1828 - U.S. presidential election, 1828: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.
1838 - Cleveland Abbe was born (d. 1916). American meteorologist
1838 - Octavia Hill was born (d. 1912). English housing and open-space activist.
1842 - Ellen Swallow Richards was born (d. 1911).American scientist
1854 - Eureka Stockade: More than twenty goldminers at Ballarat, Australia were killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences. Claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy.
1857 - Joseph Conrad was born (d. 1924). Polish-born writer. Conrad would become one of the greatest English novelist and short-story, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story Heart of Darkness (1902).
1861 - In a battle during the American Civil War, Federal troops ousted the Confederates from Salem, Missouri.
1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait dies (b. 1811). Archbishop of Canterbury
1883 - Anton Webern was born (d. 1945). Austrian composer
1884 - Rajendra Prasad was born (d. 1963). First President of India
1886 - Manne Siegbahn was born (d. 1978). Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1887 - Sirhc Namyah was born (d. 1944). Composer
1888 - Carl Zeiss dies (b. 1816). German lens maker
1892 - Afanasy Fet dies (b. 1820). Russian poet
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson dies (b. 1850). Scottish writer.
1895 - Anna Freud was born (d. 1982). Austrian-born psychoanalyst
1899 - Ikeda Hayato was born (d. 1965). Prime Minister of Japan
1900 - Ulrich Inderbinen was born (d. 2004). Swiss mountain guide
1900 - Richard Kuhn was born (d. 1967).Austrian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1901 - US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
1902 - Robert Lawson dies (b. 1833). New Zealand architect
1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory.
1904 - Roberto Marinho was born (d. 2003). Brazilian journalist and business man.
1911 - Nino Rota was born (d. 1979). Italian composer
1912 - First Balkan War ends - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros dies (b. 1841). President of Brazil
1917 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).
1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies (b. 1841). French painter
1921 - Phyllis Curtin was born. American soprano
1922 - Sven Nykvist was born. Swedish cinematographer
1925 - Ferlin Husky, American singer
1925 - Kim Dae-jung was born. President of South Korea, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1925 - George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F is premiered at Carnegie Hall.
1927 - Andy Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa.
1928 - In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sunk near Cap Arcona with a group of people paying homage to Alberto Santos-Dumont on board.
1929 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover announces to U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy.
1930 - Jean-Luc Godard was born. French film director
1931 - Franz Josef Degenhardt was born. German author and singer
1932 - Corry Brokken was born. Dutch singer
1933 - Paul J. Crutzen was born. Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 - Viktor Gorbatko was born. Cosmonaut
1936 - Radio station WQXR is officially founded
1937 - The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, was first published.
1937 - Bobby Allison was born. American race car driver
1940 - Bugs Bunny was born. Wascally Wabbit
1940 - Manuela Ferreira Leite was born. Portuguese economist and politician
1941 - Christian Sinding dies (b. 1856). Norwegian composer
1942 - Alice Schwarzer was born. German journalist.
1943 - Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy began.
1944 - Greek Civil War starts in Athens
1944 - António Variações was born (d. 1984). Portuguese musician
1944 - Civil war breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between Communists and royalists.
1946 - Joop Zoetemelk was born. Dutch cyclist.
1946 - Poems (Alberto Caeiro) and Odes (Ricardo Reis) of de Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa, were published.
1947 - Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
1948 - Ozzy Osbourne was born. English singer
1949 - John Akii-Bua was born (d. 1997). Uganda athlete
1949 - Mickey Thomas was born. American singer (Jefferson Starship)
1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya dies (b. 1876).Russian-born actor
1951 - Rick Mears was born. American race car driver.

1952 - Mel Smith was born. British comic actor and director, best known for 'Not The Nine o'Clock News' (1979-81) and 'Alas Smith and Jones' (1984-6) with Griff Rhys Jones.
1953 - The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Republic of China is signed in Washington, DC.
1955 - Steven Culp was born. American actor
1955 - María Izquierdo dies (b. 1902). Mexican painter.
1959 - Gustavo Barroso dies (b. 1888). Brazilian witer, journalist and politician. He was President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras
1960 - Daryl Hannah was born. American actress [ 'Splash' (1994) and 'The Gingerbread Man' (1997)].
1960 - Julianne Moore was born. American actress.
1963 - Nelson Mandela's treason trial begins in South Africa.
1964 - Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and massive sit-in at the administration building protesting the UC Regents' decision to forbid Vietnam War protests on UC property.
1965 - Steve Harris was born. American actor
1965 - Katarina Witt was born. German figure skater
1967 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky becomes the first human to receive a heart transplant, but dies 18 days later from double pneumonia. The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard.
1967 - The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City, New York to Chicago, Illinois (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).
1968 - Brendan Fraser was born. American actor
1970 - Christian Karembeu was born. French footballer
1970 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
1971 - Pakistan launches airstrikes on Indian airfields. Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as India retaliates with a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
1971 -President Nixon commuted Jimmy Hoffa's jail term.
1972 - Bill Johnson dies (b. 1872). American musician
1973 - Emile Christian dies (b. 1895). American musician
1973 - Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1973 - Jan Ullrich was born. German cyclist
1973 - Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, dies, Président of Mexico (1952-1958).
1975 - Colm Lohan was born. Irish thinker
1975 - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Republic proclaimed
1976 - Patrick Hillery becomes the sixth President of Ireland
1978 - Luis Herrera Campins is elected President of Venezuela.
1979 - Rainbow Sun Francks was born. Canadian actor
1979 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, a stampede for seats at Riverfront Coliseum during a Who concert kills eleven fans. 1980 - Bom Povo Português, film directed by Rui Simões is awarded with the Prizes of The Public and of The Critic in the IV International Movie Show of São Paulo (IV Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo).
1979 - Dhyan Chand dies (b. 1905). Indian hockey player.
1980 - Oswald Mosley dies (b. 1896). British politician
1982 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that would be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
1984 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures anywhere from 150,000 to 600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
1987 - Mariana Torres, born , Mexican actress
1989 -Fernando Martín Espina dies (age 27). Spanish basketball player
1989 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between their nations may be coming to an end (some commentators from both nations exaggerated the wording and independently declared the Cold War over).
1990 - At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 collides with a Boeing 727 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 299 on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers aboard flight 1482.
1992 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
1992 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
1993 - Frank Zappa dies. American guitarist and composer.
1995 - The US and Europe signed a trans-Atlantic trade and security accord in Madrid, Spain.
1995 - Luís Filipe Castro Mendes, Portuguese poet receives the Prize D. Dinis from Fundação da Casa de Mateus.
1997 - In Norway Dr. Christian Sandsdalen was convicted for the mercy killing in Jun 1996 of Bodil Bjerkmann (45), who suffered from multiple sclerosis. He was the first Norwegian tried for mercy killing
1997 - Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner exercised stock options for a profit of $565 million.
1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
1998 - The gravures of Foz Côa (Portugal) are declaraded World Heritage by Unesco.
1999 - After rowing for 81 days and 2,962 miles, Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
1999 - Madeline Kahn dies (b. 1942). American actor and comedian
1999 - Scatman John dies (b. 1942). American singer
2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks dies (b. 1917). American poet. He promoted an understanding of Black culture through her candid, compassionate poetry and became the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize.
2002 - Glenn Quinn dies (b. 1970). Irish actor.
2003 - David Hemmings dies (b. 1941). English actor
2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern dies (b. 1911). Chinese mathematician
Feast day of Saint Francis Xavier
Feast day also of Saint Birinus

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Porto empata com o Sporting na abertura da Jornada 13

Porto 1 - 1 Sporting

Empate que soube melhor a Paulo Bento... que ainda não perdeu

O Porto de Co Adriaanse não ganhou aos grandes em casa. Na primeira parte o jogo teve domínio ligeiro do Porto mas o Sporting em algumas ocasiões ameaçou, tendo feito a bola entrar na baliza de Baía mas com Deivid em fora de jogo bem assinalado. O jogo teve algumas oportunidades, não muito flagrantes, sendo a maior talvez a que Pepe após um cruzamento-remate para a área leonina a passar por toda a defesa, falhou ao não emendar a bola ao 2º. poste.

A 2ª. parte começa praticamente com o golo do Sporting (48'). Pepe à vontade faz um passe errado e Carlos Martins de primeira lança a bola para Deivid que à saída de Baía facturou. O Porto reagiu de imediato, o Sporting recuou e a saída de Carlos Martins lesionado (substituído por Wender) mais fez aumentar a pressão portista. Lisandro Lopez faz a bola entrar na baliza do Sporting mas o jogo já estava interrompido por falta marcada sobre um defesa leonino. Aos 62' corte da bola com o braço por Polga com Lucílio Baptista com dúvidas a esperar a decisão do juiz assistente que não marca o penalty que houve. O Porto continuava a carregar, o Sporting metido na grande área e um cruzamento da esquerda que parecia inofensivo fez a bola ir às três tabelas - primeiro num portista Jorginho e depois com dois desvios em defensores visitantes - até às malhas da baliza de Ricardo. Estava feito o empate, então já mais do que justificado. Esperava-se que o Sporting passasse por maus lençóis, mas com o resultado empatado a pressão portista diminuiu, o Sporting respirou e conseguiu voltar a apoquentar a defesa portista, que nunca revelou grande segurança.

Uma incursão no ataque de Polga deu-lhe um remate que César Peixoto, feito guarda-redes, defende com um braço para canto. Penalty que passou e o resultado manteve-se 1-1. Mais inconformismo do Porto, que meteu Hugo Almeida (mas tirou McCarthy), enquanto Paulo Bento meteu Pinilla (mas tirou Deivid). Nani em jogada de insistencia faz a bola entrar na baliza do Porto, mas também já depois do árbitro ter assinalado falta ao marcador.

O empate foi um resultado mais lisonjeiro para os leões, com Paulo Bento ainda imbatível enquanto Co Adriaanse ainda não ganhou aos "grandes" e já jogou com dois deles em casa.

A arbitragem que durante a primeira parte tinha estado bem, com o jogo mais quente da segunda cometeu os erros graves, repartidos, já enunciados. De resto apitou sempre a favor de quem defendia, marcando faltas aos ataques nem sempre visíveis.

Estádio do Dragão : 46.111 espectadores

Árbitro: Lucílio Baptista Aux - José Cardinal e Luís Marcelino

FC PORTO - Vítor Baía; Ricardo Costa, Pedro Emanuel, Pepe e César Peixoto; Paulo Assunção; Lucho Gonzalez e Jorginho (Diego aos 80'), Ricardo Quaresma, McCarthy (Hugo Almeida aos 80') e Lisandro.

SPORTING - Ricardo; Rogério, Tonel, Polga e Tello; Custódio e João Moutinho; Carlos Martins (Wender aos 59'), Sá Pinto (Luís Loureiro aos 90+1') e Nani; Deivid (Pinilla aos 72').

Acção Disciplinar:
10' Cartão Amarelo para Rogério ; aos 30' Cartão Amarelo para Ricardo Costa . Aos 55' cartão amarelo para Tello (Sporting) aos 55'. Cartão Amarelo para Paulo Assunção (72'). Aos 75' cartão amarelo para Sá Pinto.

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On this day in History - Dec. 2

• 1348 - Emperor Hanazono of Japan dies (b. 1297)
• 1381 - John of Ruysbroeck dies. Flemish mystic
• 1409 - The University of Leipzig opens.
• 1455 - D. Isabel dies. Queen of Portugal.
• 1463 - Archduke Albert VI of Austria dies (b. 1418)
• 1469 - Piero di Cosimo de' Medici dies (b. 1416). Ruler of Florence.
• 1515 - Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba dies (b. 1453). Spanish general and statesman.
• 1547 - Hernán Cortés dies (b. 1485). Spanish explorer and conqueror.
• 1552 - Francis Xavier dies (b. 1506). Spanish Catholic missionary.
• 1578- Agostino Agazzari was born (d. 1640). Italian composer and music theorist.
• 1594 - Gerardus Mercator dies (b. 1512). Flemish cartographer.
• 1665 - Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet dies (b. 1588). French socialite.
• 1694 - William Shirley was born (d. 1771). Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
• 1694 - Pierre Paul Puget dies (b. 1622). French artist.
• 1703 - Ferdinand Konscak was born (d. 1759). Croatian explorer
• 1710 - Bertinazzi was born (d. 1783). Italian actor and writer.
• 1719 - Pasquier Quesnel dies (b. 1634). French Jansenist theologian.
• 1723 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans dies (b. 1674). Regent of France.
• 1726 - Samuel Penhallow dies (b. 1665). English-born American colonist and historian.
• 1738 - Richard Montgomery was born (d. 1775). Irish-born American soldier.
• 1747 - Vincent Bourne dies (b. 1695). English classical scholar.
• 1748- Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset dies (b. 1662). English politician.
• 1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.
• 1760 - John Breckinridge was born (d. 1806). American politician.
• 1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola dies (b. 1720). German composer and organist.
• 1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years by Pope Pius VII.
• 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
• 1814 - Marquis de Sade dies (b. 1740). French writer.
• 1817 - Heinrich von Sybel was born (d. 1895). German historian.
• 1823 - Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.
• 1825 - Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was born (d. 1891)
• 1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
• 1846 - Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was born (d. 1904). French statesman
• 1848 - Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria.
• 1849 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen dies (b. 1792). Queen of William IV of the United Kingdom
• 1851 - Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
• 1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
• 1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry.
• 1859 - John Brown dies (hanged) (b. 1800). American abolitionist.
• 1859 - Georges Seurat was born (d. 1891). French painter and founder of Neoimpressionism
• 1863 - Charles Ringling was born (d. 1926). American circus owner.
• 1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
• 1884 - Ruth Draper was born in New York City. American monologuist and monodramatist
• 1885 - George Richards Minot was born (d. 1950). American physician and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 - Otto Dix was born (d. 1969). German painter and graphic artist.
• 1892 - Leo Ornstein was born (d. 2002). Russian-born American composer and pianist.
• 1892 - Jay Gould dies (b. 1836). American entrepreneur.
• 1895 - Harriet Cohen was born (d. 1967). British pianist.
• 1898 - Indra Lal Roy was born (d. 1918). Indian pilot.
• 1899 - John Barbirolli was born (d. 1970). British conductor.
• 1899 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
• 1901 - Raimundo Orsi was born (d. 1986). Argentinian/Italian international footballer and World Cup winner.
• 1906 - Peter Goldmark was born (d. 1977). Hungarian-born American Columbia Records engineer.
• 1914 - Adolph Green was born (d. 2002). American composer.
• 1914 - Ray Walston was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1918 - Edmond Rostand dies (b. 1868). French poet.
• 1923 - Maria Callas was born (d. 1977). American soprano.
• 1924 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr. was born. American politician.
• 1925 - Julie Harris was born. American actress.
• 1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
• 1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 1930 - Gary Becker was born. American economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1931 - Edwin Meese was born. American politician.
• 1931 - Vincent d'Indy dies (b. 1851). French composer.
• 1932 - Vítor Crespo was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1933 - Michael Larrabee was born (d. 2003).American athlete.
• 1933 - K.Veeramani was born. Indian leader of Dravidar Kazhagam.
• 1934 - Andre Rodgers was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
• 1935 - David Hackett Fischer was born. American historian.
• 1938 - Aurelio Mosquera Narváez assumes the Presidency of Ecuador.
• 1939 - Yael Dayan was born. Palestinian-born Israeli writer and politician.
• 1939 - Harry Reid was born. American politician.
• 1939 - New York City's La Guardia Airport opens.
• 1940 - Sanches Osório was born. Portuguese militar. Important revolutionary personality on 25 April 1974 movement.
• 1942 - Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• 1943 - Wayne Allard was born. American politician.
• 1944 - Botho Strauß was born. German author.
• 1944 - Josef Lhévinne dies (b. 1874). Russian pianist.
• 1944 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti dies (b. 1876). Italian fascist.
• 1945 - Pedras Rubras Airport (Portugal) is inaugurated.
• 1945 - Penelope Spheeris was born. American film director
• 1946 - Gianni Versace was born (d. 1997). Italian fashion designer.
• 1946 - John Banks was born. New Zealand politician
• 1947 - Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
• 1950 - Dinu Lipatti dies (b. 1917). Romanian pianist.
• 1952 - Michael McDonald was born. American musician.
• 1954 - Dan Butler was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
• 1957 - Dagfinn Høybråten was born. Norwegian politician.
• 1957 - Manfred Sakel dies (b. 1902). Polish psychiatrist.
• 1960 - Rick Savage was born. British bassist (Def Leppard) .
• 1961 - In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
• 1962 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
• 1962 - Tracy Austin was born. American tennis player.
• 1963 - Thomas J. Hicks dies (b. 1875). British-born American marathon runner and Olympic gold medalist.
• 1963 - Sabu Dastagir dies (b. 1924). Indian-born American actor.
• 1968 - Lucy Liu was born. American actress.
• 1968 - Nate Mendel was born. American bassist (Foo Fighters).
• 1968 - Chris Wedge was born. American animator.
• 1969 - Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov dies (b. 1881). Russian politician.
• 1970 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• 1970 - Sarah Silverman was born.American comedian.
• 1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1971 - Francesco Toldo was born in Padova. Italian football player (goal-keeper) Internazionale
• 1972 - Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years.
• 1972 - Edson Carneiro dies (b. 1912). Brazilian writer.
• 1973 - Monica Seles was born. Yugoslav-born American tennis player.
• 1973 - Jan Ullrich was born. German cyclist.
• 1973 - Virgínia Rau dies. Portuguese historian.
• 1974 - Max Weber dies (b. 1897). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1975 - Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
• 1976 - Danny Murtaugh dies (b. 1917). American baseball player and manager.
• 1978 - Nelly Furtado was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1979 - Yvonne Catterfeld was born. German singer and actress.
• 1980 - Romain Gary dies (b. 1914). Russian-born French writer.
• 1981 - Britney Spears was born. American singer.
• 1982 - Marty Feldman dies (b. 1933). British comedian.
• 1982 - At the University of Utah, Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• 1983 - Fifi d'Orsay dies (b. 1904). Canadian actress.
• 1985 - Aniello Dellacroce dies (b. 1914). American gangster.
• 1986 - Desi Arnaz dies (b. 1917). Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer.
• 1987 - Luis Federico Leloir dies (b. 1906). French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in 1970.
• 1987 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich dies (b. 1914). Russian physicist.
• 1987 - Juan Alberto Melgar Castro dies. President of Honduras (1975-1978) .
• 1988 - Tata Giacobetti dies. Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) .
• 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• 1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
• 1990 - António Dacosta dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1990 - Aaron Copland dies (b. 1900). American composer.
• 1991 - Apple release the first version of QuickTime.
• 1993 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
• 1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1993 - Pablo Escobar dies (b. 1949). Colombian drug dealer.
• 1995 - Robertson Davies dies (b. 1913). Canadian novelist.
• 1997 - Big Daddy (Shirley Crabtree) dies (b. 1930). British professional wrestler.
• 1998 - D. Américo do Couto Oliveira dies. Portuguese bishop (Bishop of Lamego).
• 1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive.
• 2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.
• 2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 2002 - Ivan Illich dies (b. 1926). Austrian priest and philosopher.
• 2002 - Arno Peters dies (b. 1916). German historian.
• 2003 - Alan Davidson dies (b. 1924). British author.
• 2004 - Brian Williams succeeds Tom Brokaw as host of NBC Nightly News.
• 2004 - Mona Van Duyn dies (b. 1921). American poet.
• 2004 - Alicia Markova dies (b. 1910). British ballerina.
• 2005 - New German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes her first official visit to Poland on Friday against the backdrop of simmering resentment about a controversial World War II memorial project.
• 2005 - Microsoft's Xbox 360 is launched in Europe.
• 2005 - Nguyen Truong Van's execution date (b. 1980) .
• Feast day of St Bibiana.

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UEFA Cup - Matchday 4 - Groups E - H

01 December 2005

Group E
Crvena Zvezda 3 - 1 Roma
Basel 4 - 3 Tromsø

Standing
1. Strasbourg 3 matches 7 points
2. Basel 3 m 6 p
3. Roma 3 m 4 p
4. Crvena Zvedza 3 m 3 p
5. Tromso 4 m 3 p

Group F
Dinamo Bucuresti 1 -0 CSKA Moskva
Levski 1 - 0 Marseille

Standing
1. Marseille 3 matches 7 points (Qualified)
2. CSKA Moskva 4 m 5 p
3. Levski 3 m 4 p
4. Dinamo Bucuresti 3 m 2 p
5. Heerenveen 3 m 2 p

Group G
Rennes 0 - 1 Shakhtar
Rapid 1 - 0 PAOK

1. Rapid 3 matches 9 points (Qualified)
2. Shaktar 4 m 9 p (Qualified)
3. Stuttgart 3 m 6 p (Qualified)
4. PAOK 3 m 0 p
5. Rennes 3 m 0 p

Group H
Sevilla 3 - 1 Guimarães (1-0 Saviola; 2-0 Saviola, 3-0 Adriano; 3-1 Benachour)
Beşiktaş 1 - 1 Zenit

1. Zenit 4 matches 7 points (Qualified)
2. Sevilla 3 m 6 p (Qualified)
3. Bolton 3 m 5 p
4. Besiktas 3 m 2 p
5. V. Guimarães 3 m 1 p.

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On this day in History - Dec. 1

1081 - King Louis VI of France was born (d. 1137)
1083 - Anna Comnena was born (d. 1153). Byzantine historian.
1135 - Henry I of England dies at St. Denis le Fermont in Normandy of food poisoning from a surfeit of lampreys.
1135 - Henry I of England dies
1241 - Isabella of England dies (b. 1214). Wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden dies (b. 1316)
1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan dies (b. 1377)
1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti dies (b. 1378). Italian artist and metal smith.
1521 - Takeda Shingen was born (d. 1573). Japanese warlord.
1521 - Pope Leo X dies (b. 1475)
1525 - Tadeáš Hájek was born (d. 1600). Czech physician and astronomer
1530 - Margaret of Austria dies (b. 1480). Regent of the Netherland.
1575 - Diogo de Paiva de Andrade dies. Portuguese sacro orator and theologian.
1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was born (d. 1637). French astronomer
1580 - Giovanni Morone dies (b. 1509). Italian cardinal
1581 - Edmund Campion dies martyred (b. 1540). English Jesuit.
1581 - Ralph Sherwin dies (b. 1550). English Catholic saint.
1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki dies (b. 1582). Japanese samurai and warlord
1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain dies (b. 1566)
1640 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king.
1660 - Pierre d'Hozier dies (b. 1592). French historian.
1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke was born (d. 1764). Lord Chancellor of England
1707 - Jeremiah Clarke dies (b. 1674). British composer.
1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara dies (b. 1644). Austrian preacher.
1716 - Etienne-Maurice Falconet was born (d. 1791). French sculptor.
1723 - Susanna Centlivre dies. British dramatist and actress
1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi dies (b. 1665). Italian-born French astronomer.
1743 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth was born (d. 1817). German chemist.
1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr dies (b. 1671). German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer
1755 - Maurice Greene dies (b. 1696). British composer.
1764 - Palacio Real de Madrid is inaugurated by Carlos III .
1766 - Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was born (d. 1826). Russian writer.
1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan dies (b. 1710). British Freemason.
1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was born (d. 1856). Russian mathematician.
1814 - General Andrew Jackson, commander of the U.S. Army of the Southwest, hastened to defend New Orleans, Louisiana, against British invasion; a series of skirmishes over the next few weeks culminated in the Battle of New Orleans.
1822 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil.
1824 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia dies (b. 1777)
1830 - Pope Pius VIII dies (b. 1761)
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales
1844 - Alexandra of Denmark was born (d. 1925). Queen of Edward VII of the United Kingdom
1866 - George Everest dies. British geodesist who gave his name to the well known mount.
1868 - First number of the newspaper "O Primeiro de Janeiro" (Porto, Portugal) is published.
1873 - Valery Bryusov was born (d. 1924). Russian poet.
1884 - American Old West - Near Frisco (now Reserve), New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff German artist noted for his landscapes and nudes, cofounded in 1905 Die Brücke, a group of German painters and printmakers who were pivotal to the development of Expressionism.
1885 - Although the exact date is unknown, the US Patent Office acknowledges December 1st of this year as the first day Dr Pepper was served.
1886 - Rex Stout was born (d. 1975). American author.
1887 - Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao.
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet."
1895 - Henry Williamson was born (d. 1977). British author.
1901 - Ilona Feher was born (d. 1988). Hungarian-born Israeli violinist.
1904 - the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis closed after seven months and some 20 million visitors. 1909 - Alberto Sampaio dies. Portuguese historian.
1910 - Alicia Markova was born (d. 2004). British ballerina
1911 - Walter Alston was born (d. 1984). American baseball manager.
1911 - Calvin Griffith was born (d. 1999). American baseball executive.
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki was born (d. 1986). American architect (World Trade Center de New York )
1913 - Mary Martin was born (d. 1990). American actress and singer.
1913 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1918 - Iceland becomes a self-governing kingdom, yet remains united with Denmark.
1918 - Transylvania unites with Romania, following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina.
1918 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 - Lady Astor becomes first the female member of Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
1922 - Paul Picerni was born. American actor
1923 - Morris was born († 2001) . Belgian cartoonist who was the criator of Lucky Luke.
1923 - Stansfield Turner was born. American admiral and Central Intelligence Agency director
1925 - World War I aftermath: - The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establshing post-war territorial settlements.
1926 - Maria Fernanda Botelho was born. Portuguese writer.
1928 - José Eustasio Rivera dies (b. 1888). Colombian writer.
1930 - Joachim Hoffmann was born (d. 2002). German historian.
1931 - Vincent d'Indy dies. French composer.
1932 - Matt Monro was born. British singer.
1934 - Sergei Kirov, a member of Politburo, was assassinated in Leningrad, by Leonid Nikolayev resulting in a massive purge. (It is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder).
1934 - Benny Goodman debuts on radio. Jazz clarinet pioneer Benny Goodman debuts as a regular on radio variety show Let's Dance. Goodman, who was white, became one of the first bandleaders to use both black and white musicians.
1934 - Billy Paul was born in Philadelphia. Singer ( Me and Mrs. Jones).
1934 - Pedro Tamen was born. Portuguese poet and translator.
1934 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.
1935 - Woody Allen was born. American Academy-award film director, actor, and comedian (Annie Hall [1977]; Radio Days, Alice, New York Stories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Manhattan, Bananas, etc);
1935 - Lou Rawls was born. American singer
1938 - Sandy Nelson was born. American drummer
1939 - Lee Trevino was born. American golfer
1940 - Richard Pryor was born. American actor and comedian
1941 - World War II: Mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, and the director of the Office of Civilian Defense, sign an order creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1942 - John Crowley was born. American author.
1943 - President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin concluded their Teheran Conference
1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab dies (b. 1862). Thai prince and historian.
1944 - John Densmore was born. American drummer (The Doors)
1944 - Edward Stettinius Jr. becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration. 1945 - Bette Midler was born. American actress
1946 - Gilbert O'Sullivan was born. Irish singer.
1947 - Aleister Crowley dies (b. 1875). British occultist.
1948 - George Foster was born. American baseball player
1949 - Sebastián Piñera was born. Chilean businessman and presidential candidate
1950 - Keith Thibodeau was born. American actor and drummer.
1950 - E. J. Moeran dies (b. 1894). British composer.
1951 - Jaco Pastorius was born (d. 1987). American bassist.
1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1953 - Anselmo Vasconcelos was born. Brazilian actor.
1953 - First number of Playboy with Marilyn Monroe.
1954 - O Estádio da Luz ("The Stadium of Light") of Sport Lisboa e Benfica is inaugurated in Lisbon.
1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1958 - The Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
1958 - A fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.
1958 - Charlene Tilton was born. Actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas)
1959 - Cold War: The Antarctic Treaty is signed, setting aside Antarctica as a scientific reserve and banning military activity on the continent.
1959 - Wally Lewis was born. Australian international rugby league player
1960 - Carol Alt was born. Actress and model (Amazon, Beyond Justice, Thunder in Paradise, Private Parts, Grownups)
1961 - Jeremy Northam was born. British actor
1961 - The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
1963 - Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India
1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga was born. Sri Lankan test cricketer
1964 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1964 - Salvatore Schillaci was born. Italian footballer.
1964 - J. B. S. Haldane dies (b. 1892). British geneticist.
1965 - The Border Security Force is formed in India.
1968 - Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela
1969 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held.
1970 - Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as President of México
1971 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1971 - Emily Mortimer was born. British actress
1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia.
1973 - David Ben-Gurion dies (b. 1886). Polish-born first Prime Minister of Israel
1974 - TWA Flight 514 crashes northwest of Washington Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on-board.
1974 - Costinha (Francisco José da Costa) was born. Portuguese international footballer
1975 - Long-running soap opera The Edge of Night switches networks to ABC after 19 years on CBS.
1975 - Nellie Fox dies (b. 1927). American baseball player.
1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt dies (b. 1906). American radio personality.
1975 - Alya Rohali was born. Miss Universe-Indonesia (1996)
1975 - Sandra Maidana was born. Miss Universe-Uruguay (1996)
1976 - Matthew Shepard was born (d. 1998). American murder victim.
1976 - Angola admitted to United Nations
1977 - Brad Delson was born. American guitarist (Linkin Park)
1980 - Mohammad Kaif was born. Indian test cricketer
1981 - A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing 178.
1982 - Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado inaugurated as President of México
1982 - Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"
1985 - Alvin Ailey dies (b. 1931). American dancer and choreographer.
1986 -The President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, inaugurated the new Musée d'Orsay in Paris and it opened to the public on December 9th.
1987 - James Baldwin dies (b. 1924). American writer.
1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies who are awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.
1987 - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland after 19 Years.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 - Ashley Monique Clark was born. Actress.
1988 - Carlos Salinas de Gortari sworn as President of Mexico
1989 - Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
1990 - Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
1991 - Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - George Joseph Stigler dies (b. 1911). American economist and Nobel Prize laureate.
1994 - Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León inaugurated as President of Mexico (succeeding to Carlos Salinas de Gortari ).
1995 - The NATO alliance chose Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana to be its new secretary-general
1996 - 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2)
1997 - Stéphane Grappelli dies (b. 1908). French jazz violinist.
1997 - Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases. President Bush pulled the U.S. out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
1998 - Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet.
2000 - Vicente Fox is sworn-in as President of Mexico, ending the 75 year control of the PRI.
2001 - Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines
2001 - Jean-Pierre Chabrol dies. French writer
2003 - Clark Kerr dies (b. 1911). First Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands dies (b. 1911)
Portugal - Restauration of Independence Day
Iceland Independence Day (1918)
Ancient Latvia - Barbes Diena observed
Feast day of St Eligius
Romania - Union Day (the national holiday)
Angola's Pioneers' Day
World AIDS Day

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