On this day in History - Aug. 02

• 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
• 216 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae - The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro / O chefe cartaginês Haníbal (247 a.C.-183 a.C.), tendo atravessado os Alpes, e invadido a Itália com o seu exército, derrota um exército romano em Cannae. Morreram 50.000 legionários, um consul, 29 tribunos e 80 senadores, naquele que foi o maior desastre militar da história de Roma.
• 0461 - Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer
• 0640 - Severinus dies. Italian Pope.
• 0686 - Pope John V dies.
• 0924 - Ælfweard of Essex dies.
• 0932 - O califa omíada Abd al-Rahman III (891-961), fundador do Califado de Córdova, reocupou Toledo.
• 1100 - King William (Rufus) II of England dies killed in New Forest, Hampshire (b.c. 1056) / Morre Guilherme II de Inglaterra, num alegado acidente de caça (n. cerca 1056)
• 1222 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse dies (b. 1156).
• 1511 - Andrew Barton dies. Scottish naval leader.
• 1533 - Theodor Zwinger was born (d. 1588). Swiss scholar.
• 1589 - King Henry III of France dies stabbed the previous day by Jacques Clement (b. 1551)
• 1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
• 1611 - Kato Kiyomasa dies (b. 1562). Japanese daimyo and samurai.
• 1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was born (d. 1733). Swiss scholar.
• 1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans was born (d. 1723). Regent of France.
• 1675 - Inauguração da Sinagoga Portuguesa de Amsterdão.
• 1696 - Mahmud I was born (d. 1754). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon dies (b. 1630). Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe.
• 1703 - Lorenzo Ricci was born (d. 1775). Italian Jesuit leader.
• 1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant was born (d. 1825). French-born architect, city planner.
• 1760 - Pope Leo XII was born.
• 1766 - Alvará, concedido a Augusto Ludovico Thymme, para a criação, em Lisboa, de uma fábrica de folhetas para a cravação de diamantes.
• 1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea dies (b. 1689). English politician.
• 1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the Declaration_of Independence.
• 1776 - Louis François I, Prince of Conti dies (b. 1717). French military leader.
• 1788 - Leopold Gmelin was born (d. 1853). German chemist.
• 1788 - Thomas Gainsborough dies (b. 1727). English artist.
• 1790 - First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
• 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) concludes in an English victory
• 1799 - Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier dies (b. 1745). French inventor.
• 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack was born (d. 1894). German writer.
• 1815 - Guillaume Marie Anne Brune dies (b. 1763). French marshal.
• 1823 - Lazare Carnot dies (b. 1753). French general, politician, and mathematician.
• 1828 - Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque was born (d. 1895). Spanish general.
• 1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi was born (d. 1904). French sculptor.
• 1835 - Elisha Gray was born (d. 1901). American inventor and founder of Western Electric.
• 1838 - Portugal: O chefe guerrilheiro miguelista José Joaquim de Sousa Reis, conhecido pelo Remexido, é fuzilado. Tinha sido preso em 28 de Julho
• 1849 - Mehemet Ali dies. Paella of Egypt.
• 1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt dies (b. 1769).
• 1854 - Milan I was born. King of Serbia
• 1858 - Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont was born (d. 1934). Queen of the Netherlands.
• 1859 - Horace Mann dies (b. 1796). American educator and abolitionist.
• 1865 - Irving Babbitt was born (d. 1933). American literary critic.
• 1865 - John Radecki was born (d. 1955). Australian stained glass artist.
• 1868 - King Constantine I of Greece was born (d. 1923).
• 1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
• 1869 - Irving Babbitt, critic and teacher, leader of the movement in literary criticism known as New Humanism, is born in Dayton, Ohio. He will be educated at Harvard and the Sorbonne, and gather T. S. Eliot and George Santayana as followers.
• 1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
• 1871 - John French Sloan was born (d. 1951). American artist.
• 1872 - Manuel Pardo, founder of Partido Civilista, becomes President of Peru.
• 1875 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky was born (d. 1957). Russian artist.
• 1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok dies (b. 1837). American gunfighter.
• 1878 - Georg Hackenschmidt was born (d. 1968). Estonian wrestler.
• 1878 - Aino Kallas was born (d. 1956). Finnish - Estonian author.
• 1879 - Félix Pacheco [José Félix Alves Pacheco] was born in Teresina (PI) (d. 6 Sep 1935). Brazilian poet, journalist and politician.
• 1880 - Mercedes Mota was born in San Francisco de Macorís (d. 12 Mar 1964). Dominican writer and educator.
• 1882 - Red Ames was born (d. 1936). American baseball player.
• 1884 - Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas. Venezuelan writer and politician. President (elected) of Venezuela (1949-1952). In 1958 was awarded with The Nacional Prize for Literature.
• 1886 - John Alexander Douglas McCurdy was born (d. 1961). Canadian Aviator.
• 1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez dies in Buenos Aires (b. 15 Jul 1851). Argentinian novelist ( "Juan Moreira" "Santos Vega", "Hormiga negra" y "Croquis y siluetas militares" ).
• 1890 - Marin Sais was born (d. 1971). American actress.
• 1890 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann dies (b. 1813). French poet.
• 1891 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky was born (d. 1971). Russian literary historian, linguist.
• 1892 - Jack Warner was born (d. 1978). Canadian film producer.
• 1896 - Lorenzo Herrera was born (d. 1960). Venezuelan singer and composer.
• 1897 - Karl Otto Koch was born (d. 1945). German SS-officer.
• 1897 - Max Weber was born (d. 1974). Swiss Federal Councilor.
• 1899 - Charles Bennett was born (d. 1995). British screenwriter.
• 1900 - Helen Morgan was born (d. 1941). American actress.
• 1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
• 1903 - Edmond Nocard dies (b. 1850). French veterinarian.
• 1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann was born (d. 1963). German composer.
• 1905 - Myrna Loy was born (d. 1993). American actress.
• 1905 - Rudoplph Prack was born (d. 1981). Austrian actor.
• 1907 - Mary Hamman was born (d. 1984). American writer.
• 1910 - Roger MacDougall was born on Glasgow (d. 1993). Scottish writer.
• 1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic was born (d. 2001). Croatian statistician.
• 1912 - Ann Dvorak was born (d. 1979). American actress.
• 1914 - Beatrice Straight was born (d. 2001). American actress.
• 1914 - Félix Leclerc was born (d. 1988). Quebec singer, songwriter and writer.
• 1914 - Beatrice Straight was born (d. 2001). American actress.
• 1914 - Junji Kinoshita is born in Tokyo. Japanese playwright and leaderin the attempt to revitalize the post - Worl War II theater. Yuzuru (Twilight Crane, 1949) being an Kaeru Shoten ("Ascension of the Frog," 1951) and Shimpan (The Judgement, 1970).
• 1915 - Gary Merrill was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
• 1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
• 1920 - Ormer Locklear dies (b. 1891). American stunt pilot.
• 1921 - Enrico Caruso dies (b. 1873). Italian tenor.
• 1922 - Alexander Graham Bell dies in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia (b. 3 Mar 1847). Scottish inventor of the telephone.
• 1923 - Warren G. Harding dies (b. 1865). 29th President of the United States.
• 1924 - James Baldwin was born in Harlem Hospital, New York City (d. 1 Dec 1987). American author."The Fire the Next Time," "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and "Notes of a Native Son."
• 1924 - Carroll O'Connor was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1924 - Joe Harnell was born (d. 2005). American musician, composer and arranger.
• 1925 - Alan Whicker was born. British journalist and broadcaster.
• 1925 - John Dexter as born (d. 1990). English stage and film director.
• 1925 - John McCormack was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla was born. Argentinian dictator.
• 1926 - Betsy Bloomingdale was born. American socialite and namesake of the Bloomingdale department store chain.
• 1929 - Zeca Afonso was born in Aveiro (d. 23 Feb 1987). Portuguese composer and singer. /Nasce em Aveiro Zeca Afonso (José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos) músico de intervenção (Grândola Vila Morena)
• 1929 - Mae Costello dies (b. 1882). American actress.
• 1930 - Vali Myers (artist) was born (d. 2003). Australian painter.
• 1931 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work.
• 1931 - Pierre DuMaine was born. Catholic bishop.
• 1931 - Viliam Schrojf was born (d. 2007). Slovak footballer.
• 1932 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• 1932 - Lamar Hunt was born (d. 2006). American sports executive.
• 1932 - Peter O'Toole was born. Irish actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia).
• 1933 - Lorenzo Milam was born. Author and broadcaster.
• 1933 - Machel del Castillo is born in Madrid. He will become famous at 24 with the short novel, Tanguy (Child of Our Time), which, like The Diary of Anne Frank, told with the poignancy of a child's witness to cruel historical events, tells of his actual experiences as a political refugee and a prisoner in concentration camps.
• 1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• 1934 - Valery Bykovsky was born. Soviet cosmonaut
• 1934 - Paul von Hindenburg dies (b. 1847). German general and politician. / O general Hindenbourg (1847-1934) , presidente em exercício da Alemanha, morre com 87 anos. Será substituído nas funções presidenciais por Adolf Hitler, enquanto Fuhrer da Alemanha.
• 1935 - Hank Cochran was born. American country music singer and songwriter.
• 1936 - Louis Blériot dies (b. 1872). French aviation pioneer.
• 1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• 1937 - Billy Cannon was born. American football player.
• 1937 - Garth Hudson was born. Canadian musician (The Band).
• 1938 - Dave Balon was born (d. 2007). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1938 - Pierre de Bané was born. French Canadian politician.
• 1938 - Terry Peck was orn (d. 2006). Falkland Islander who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War.
• 1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• 1939 - John W. Snow was born. American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1939 - Wes Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio. American film director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream).
• 1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis dies (b. 1883). American Rosacrucian mystic, founder of AMORC.
• 1941 - Doris Coley was born (d. 2000). American singer (Shirelles).
• 1942 - Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru. Niece of the former Chilean president Salvador Allende. Chilean author (La casa de los espíritus - The House of the Spirits).
• 1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy saves all but two of his crew.
• 1943 - Max Wright was born. American actor.
• 1943 - Tom Burgmeier was born. American baseball player.
• 1943 - Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
• 1944 - Jim Capaldi was born (d. 28 Jan 2005). British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic)
• 1944 - Naná Vasconcelos was born. Brazilian jazz musician.
• 1944 - Felix Nussbaum dies assassinated in Auschwitz . German painter.
• 1944 - Nasce Altamiro Barbosa Machado (m. 2001). Professor catedrático e director do Departamento de Sistemas de Informação (DSI) da Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
• 1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
• 1945 - Joanna Cassidy was born. American actress
• 1945 - Alex Jesaulenko was born. Australian footballer
• 1945 - Pietro Mascagni dies (b. 1863). Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana).
• 1947 - Maria de los Angeles Santamaria, “Massiel” was born. Spanish singer.
• 1947 - Tomás Berreta dies. Uruguay statesman.
• 1947 - Demite-se o Governo chileno: González Videla forma um novo com personalidades independentes.
• 1948 - Andy Fairweather Low was born. British guitarist.
• 1948 - Dennis Prager was born. American radio talk show host and author.
• 1949 - James Fallows was born. American journalist.
• 1950 - The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
• 1950 - Lance Ito was born. American judge
• 1950 - Sue Rodriguez was born (d. 1994). Canadian assisted suicide advocate.
• 1951 - Andrew Gold was born. American musician and songwriter.
• 1951 - Joe Lynn Turner ws born. American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
• 1951 - Freddie Wadling was born. Swedish actor and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
• 1951 - Per Westerberg was born. Swedish politician.
• 1953 - Butch Patrick was born. American actor.
• 1953 - Marjo was born. Quebec singer.
• 1954 - James Charles Kopp wa born. American citizen who murdered Barnett Slepian.
• 1954 - Sammy McIlroy was born. Northern Irish footballer and manager.
• 1955 - Velcro is patented.
• 1955 - Caleb Carr was born. American novelist and military historian
• 1955 - Tim Dunigan was born. American actor.
• 1955 - Alfred Lépine dies (b. 1901). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1955 - Fray Justino Russolillo dies. Religious.
• 1956 - Isabel Pantoja was born. Spanish singer.
• 1956 - Fulvio Melia was born. Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author.
• 1956 - Jim Neidhart was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1957 - Mojo Nixon was born. American musician and actor.
• 1957 - João Klèber was born. Brazilian TV presenter.
• 1959 - Victoria Jackson was born. American comedian.
• 1959 - Apollonia Kotero was born. American singer and actress.
• 1960 - David Yow was born. American musician (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard).
• 1960 - Neal Morse was born. American musician (Spock's Beard and Transatlantic).
• 1961 - Cold 187um was born. American rapper (Above the Law).
• 1961 - Linda Fratianne was born. American figure skater.
• 1963 - Oliver La Farge dies in Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 19 Dec 1901). American anthropologist who wrote novels and nonfiction books covering Native American life, and also spoke for the American Indian through his political actions. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1930 for Laughing Boy; [Laughing Boy (1929, novel) The Sparks Fly Upward (1931, novel) Long Pennant (1933, novel) All the Young Men (1935, short stories) The Enemy Gods (1937, novel)The Copper Pot (1942, novel)Raw Material (1945, memoir) A Pause in the Desert (1957, short stories)The Door in the Wall (1965, short stories, posthumous)].
• 1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy.
• 1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
• 1964 - Frank Biela was born. German race car driver.
• 1964 - Mary-Louise Parker was born. American actress.
• 1964 - José María Castro dies. Argentine musician.
• 1965 - French Riviera fires: At least 7,000 people, mostly holidaymakers, evacuate to a local beach as fires swept the hills between the Provence resorts of Hyeres and St Tropez.
• 1965 - Hisanobu Watanabe was born. Japanese baseball player and coach.
• 1966 - Tim Wakefield was born. American baseball player.
• 1967 - Aaron Krickstein was born. American tennis player.
• 1967 - Aline Brosh McKenna was born. American screenwriter.
• 1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
• 1968 - The 1968 Casiguran Earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
• 1968 - Stefan Effenberg was born. German footballer.
• 1969 - Fernando Couto was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1969 - Jan Axel Blomberg (Hellhammer) was born. Musician (Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem).
• 1969 - Richard Hallebeek was born. Dutch guitarist.
• 1970 - Tony Amonte was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1970 - Kevin Smith was born. American director and screenwriter.
• 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
• 1970 - Kevin Smith was born. Actor, director, and screenwriter (Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks).
• 1970 - Ocurrió el primer secuestro aéreo de la historia, con el de un avión Boeing 747 que, con 378 pasajeros, fue desviado hacia Cuba cuando volaba desde Nueva York a Puerto Rico
• 1971 - Michael Hughes was born. Irish footballer.
• 1972 - Jacinda Barrett was born. Australian model and actress.
• 1972 - Jimmy Pop was born. American musician (The Bloodhound Gang).
• 1972 - Justyna Steczkowska was born. Polish singer.
• 1972 - Mohamed Al-Deayea was born. Saudi Arabian footballer.
• 1972 - Daniele Nardello was born. Italian professional road racing cyclist.
• 1972 - Helen Hoyt dies (b. 1887). American poet.
• 1972 - Brian Cole dies (b. 1942). American bass player (The Association).
• 1973 - A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• 1973 - Hiroyuki Goto was born. Japanese game designer.
• 1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville dies (b. 1917). French film director.
• 1974 - Jeremy Castle was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1974 - Angie Cepeda was born. Colombian actress.
• 1974 - W. Douglas Hawkes dies (b. 1893). British racing driver.
• 1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American. football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
• 1975 - Ingrid Rubio was born. Spanish actress.
• 1975 - Mineiro was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1975 - Xu Huaiwen was born. Chinese-born badminton player.
• 1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
• 1976 - Reyes Estévez was born. Spanish athlete.
• 1976 - Sam Worthington was born. Australian actor.
• 1976 - Fritz Lang dies (b. 1890). Austrian film director.
• 1976 - Stan Farr dies. Basketball player.
• 1977 - Edward Furlong was born. American actor.
• 1978 - Goran Gavrančić wa born. Serbian footballer.
• 1978 - Matt Guerrier was born. American baseball player.
• 1978 - Carlos Chávez dies (b. 1899). Mexican composer.
• 1978 - Oscar Viale dies (b. 2 Ago 1944). Actor and playwright.
• 1979 - Reuben Kosgei was born. Kenyan athlete.
• 1979 - Thurman Munson dies (b. 1947). American baseball player.
• 1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
• 1980 - Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling.
• 1980 - Ivica Banović was born. Croatian footballer.
• 1980 - Nadia Bjorlin was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Donald Stewart dies in London, England. American humorist, actor, playright, Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
• 1982 - John Malkovich /Glenne Headly marriage.
• 1982 – Grady Sizemore was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Hélder Postiga was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 1982 – Kerry Rhodes was born. American football player.
• 1982 – Sara Foster was born. American actress.
• 1983 - Nick Diaz was born. American MMA fighter.
• 1984 - Chiara Mastalli was born. Italian actress.
• 1984 - Giampaolo Pazzini was born. Italian footballer.
• 1985 - Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
• 1985 - Abortion law in Spain is legalised but with severe restrictions. Only women who have been raped, whose health is in severe danger or are carrying a badly-deformed foetus are legally entitled to an abortion.
• 1985 - Harry Smith was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1986 - Mathieu Razanakolona was born. Malagasy skier.
• 1986 - Roy Cohn dies (b.1927). American politician and anti-communist.
• 1986 - Mathieu Razanakolona was born. Malagasy skier.
• 1987 - Morre no Brasil o General João Sarmento Pimentel (n. 14 Jul 1888 em Mirandela). Um dos fundadores do Pertido Socialista. Grande lutador pela liberdade e democracia em Portugal.
• 1988 - Brittany Hargest was born. American singer (Jump5).
• 1988 - Joe Carcione dies (b. 1914). American consumer advocate.
• 1988 - Raymond Carver dies (b. 1938). American writer, poet.
• 1989 - Luiz Gonzaga dies in Recife (b. 13 Dec 1912). Brazilian composer.
• 1990 - Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to conflict with coalition forces.
• 1990 - Norman Mclean dies (b. 1902). American writer.
• 1991 - Pan-American Games begin in Cuba.
• 1992 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg was born. American actress.
• 1994 - Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
• 1996 - Michel Debré dies (b. 1912). French politician.
• 1996 - Mohamed Farrah Aidid dies (b. 1934). Somalian Warlord.
• 1996 - Obdulio Varela dies. Uruguayan football player, a simbol of the football of Uruguay who was World Champion in 1950.
• 1997 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
• 1997 - William S. Burroughs dies (b. 1914). America writer.
• 1998 - Shari Lewis dies (b. 1933). Puppeteer.
• 1999 - Gaisal trail disaster : Two trains carrying 2,500 people collided at the remote station of Gaisal, 310 miles from the city of Gauhati in Assam. The crash was at such high speeds that the trains actually exploded upon impact killing at least 285 people.
• 2000 - Cristiano Portela de Araújo Pena dies (b. 1913). Brazilian catholic bishop.
• 2001 - Ron Townson dies (b. 1933). American singer (The Fifth Dimension)
• 2002 - Fernando Bandeira Ferreira dies in Setubal (b. 2 Sep 1920). Portuguese archaelogist.
• 2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels declared the official end to their nearly three-decade old civil war.
• 2002 - Paulinho Nogueira dies (b. 1929). Brazilian composer.
• 2003 - A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
• 2003 - Don Estelle dies (b. 1933). British actor
• 2003 - Mike Levey dies (b. 1948). American television personality
• 2003 - Peter Safar dies (b. 1924). Austrian physician.
• 2004 - Monday demonstrations against social cutbacks began in Germany
• 2004 - Don Tosti dies (b. 1923). American musician.
• 2004 - François Craenhals dies (b. 1926). Belgian comics artist.
• 2005 - Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport outside Toronto, Canada, destroying the plane but resulting in no loss of life.
• 2006 - Jorge de Brito dies. President of Benfica.
• 2007 - Chauncey Bailey dies (b. 1950). American journalist and editor.
• 2007 - Holden Roberto dies (b. 1923). Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA.
• 2007 - Kay Dotrice dies (b. 1929). English repertory actress.
• 2008 – Fujio Akatsuka dies (b. 1935). Japanese cartoonist.
  
• Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels Day.
• Republic Day, also known as Ilinden. (Republic of Macedonia).
• Day of Day of Azerbaijani cinema.
  
• Day of Airborne Forces (Russia and Ukraine).
• Basil Fool for Christ in the Russian Orthodox Church.

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O Viajante Estrangeiro - Murilo Araújo

Minha viagem na terra
é a de um viajante num país desconhecido,
Não encontro ninguém do meu país.

Os que viajam comigo nesse trem estrangeiro
uns com os outros conversam como amigos...
Que falam eles? - Sei que falam uma linguagem
que, para mim, ai!, nada diz.

Todos podem comprar em aprazíveis paradas
frutos bons como beijos
ou braçadas de flor de um aroma tão bom!

Eu, porém, o forasteiro,
não obtenho esses gozos;
e olho-os, só com o Desejo,
imóvel, escutando a fuga surda do wagon.

Entram as jovens na estação. Que risos claros!
Não são, porém, do meu país.
E viajarei até o final sem nos falarmos,
sem conhecê-las, sem encontrar a frase-chave
com que dizer-lhes quanto me fariam feliz.

Sou de outro reino, onde se fala em melodia
intraduzível neste mundo para alguém.
Falo a música das ondas,
falo a música dos pássaros...
Uma estrela do céu, porém, me entenderia...
porque no céu é assim que se fala também.

Murilo Araujo (n. na cidade de Serro, Minas Gerais, Brasil, em 26 Out. 1894; m. no Rio de Janeiro a 1 Ago. 1980)

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Prado e Cofre - António Osório

foto: Cama

Prado e cofre,

testemunha discreta

do amor,

a cama.

Concha do sono,

companheira

dos partos,

do salto

e dor inicial

das crianças

Berço da nossa morte.

in Antologia da Poesia Portuguesa Contemporânea, Um Panorama; Organização de Alberto da Costa e Silva e Alexei Bueno, Lacerda Editores

António Gabriel Maranca Osório de Castro (n. em Setúbal a 1 Ago 1933, ~)

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Boavista completa 105 anos de vida. Parabéns!

O Boavista Futebol Clube está de parabéns pela passagem do seu 105º. aniversário já que foi fundado em 1 de Agosto de 1903.

A atravessar uma fase muito delicada da sua existência, quer pelo resultado das conclusões do Apito Final, que implicam a descida de divisão, quer pelas dívidas acumuladas, ontem o Boavista Futebol Clube - Futebol, Sad clube requereu junto do IAPMEI a abertura de um pediu Procedimento Extrajudicial de Conciliação procurando ultrapassar as graves dificuldades por que passa e que o impedem de inscrever jogadores.

Deixamos ao histórico Boavista os nossos parabéns e deixamos votos que consiga ultrapassar esta crise!

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On this day in History - Aug 01

• 33 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
• 10 BC - Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Drusus) was born (d. 0054). Roman emperor.
• 0067 - As legiões romanas comandadas pelo imperador romano Tito ocupam Jerusalém e começam a destruir o Templo.
• 0126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor.
• 0371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli dies (b. c. 0283). Italian bishop.
• 0432 - Pope Celestine I dies.
• 0527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor after the death of Emperor Justin I (Flavius Iustinos) died on this day (b. c. 0540).
• 0607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
• 0902 - Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army.
• 1137 - King Louis VI of France dies (b. 1081)
• 1203 - Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran Fourth Crusade.
• 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa dies (b. 1179). The first of Shimazu clan and Japanese warlord.
• 1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
• 1313 - Emperor Kogon of Japan was born (d. 1364).
• 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan was born (d. 1433).
• 1402 - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York dies (b. 1341). Son of Edward III of England.
• 1457 - Lorenzo Valla dies (b. c. 1406). Italian humanist.
• 1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
• 1464 - Cosimo de' Medici dies (b. 1386). Ruler of Florence.
• 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
• 1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
• 1541 - Simon Grynaeus dies (b. 1493). German theologian.
• 1545 - Andrew Melville was born (d. 1622). Scottish theologian and religious reformer.
• 1546 - Peter Faber dies (b. 1506). French Jesuit theologian.
• 1555 - Edward Kelley was born (d. 1597). English spirit medium.
• 1557 - Olaus Magnus dies (b. 1490). Swedish writer.
• 1579 - Luís Vélez de Guevara was born (d. 1644). Spanish writer.
• 1580 - Albrecht Giese dies (b. 1524). German politician and diplomat.
• 1589 - Henry III of France stabbed by an assassin: King Henry III of France was stabbed by Jacques Clément, a Jacobin friar, and died the next day after acknowledging his Bourbon ally, Henry of Navarre (Henry IV), a Huguenot, as his successor.
• 1589 - Jacques Clément dies (b. 1567). French assassin of Henry III of France.
• 1598 - Abraham Ortelius dies (b. 1527). Belgian cartographer.
• 1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1630 - Thomas Clifford was born (d. 1673). 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman.
• 1664 - The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.
• 1675 - Weetamoo dies. Sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wamponoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War
• 1713 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born (d. 1780).
• 1714 - Richard Wilson was born (d. 1782). Welsh painter.
• 1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain dies (b. 1665). George I, of the House of Hanover succedeed her.
• 1738 - Jacques François Dugommier was born (d. 1794). French general.
• 1743 - Richard Savage (the subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson's Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage -1744), dies in Bristol.
• 1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born (d. 1829). French scientist.
• 1770 - William Clark was born (d. 1838). American explorer.
• 1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
• 1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
• 1779 - Francis Scott Key was born (d. 1843). American lawyer and lyricist.
• 1779 - Lorenz Oken was born (d. 1851). German naturalist.
• 1787 - Alphonsus Liguori dies (b. 1696). Italian founder of the Redemptionist order.
• 1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.
• 1796 - Robert Pigot dies (b. 1720). British army officer.
• 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a British fleet under the command of Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers in an unusual night action.
• 1798 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers is killed in battle (b. 1753). French admiral.
• 1800 - The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1808 - Começa a Guerra Peninsular com o desembarque do Duque de Wellington em Portugal
• 1812 - Yakov Kulnev is killed in battle (b. 1763). Russian general (killed in battle)
• 1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1882). American lawyer, politician, and author (Two Years Before the Mast).
• 1818 - Maria Mitchell was born (d. 1889). American astronomer.
• 1819 - Herman Melville was born (d. 1891). American writer (Moby Dick).
• 1819 - Nascimento de Manuel José Gonçalves Couto, missionário pedâneo, autor da Missão Abreviada.
• 1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.
• 1826 - Francisco Manuel Trigoso de Aragão Morato toma posse como ministro do reino de Portugal, substituindo José Correia de Lacerda.
• 1828 - Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic.
• 1831 - London Bridge opens.
• 1831 - Tomás António Ribeiro was born. Portuguese politician and writer.
• 1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.
• 1832 - Victor Meirelles de Lima was born. Brazilian painter.
• 1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
• 1837 - Mother Jones was born (d. 1930). American labor organizer.
• 1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
• 1838 - Queen Victoria I of England is crowned.
• 1842 - Lombard Street Riot erupts
• 1843 - Robert Todd Lincoln was born (d. 1926). Son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War
• 1851 - William Joseph Behr dies (b. 1775). German writer.
• 1858 - Gaston Doumergue was born (d. 1937). French President.
• 1858 - Hans Rott was born (d. 1884). Austrian composer.
• 1864 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
• 1866 - John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe) dies (b. 1790). Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
• 1871 - John Lester was born (d. 1969). American cricketer.
• 1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
• 1881 - Otto Toeplitz was born (d. 1940). German mathematician.
• 1881 - Rose Macaulay was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. Author of novels and travel books [ Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), Told by an Idiot (1923), Crewe Train (1926), Keeping Up Appearances (1928)].
• 1885 - George de Hevesy was born (d. 1966). Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1889 - Walter Gerlach was born (d. 1979). German physicist.
• 1889 - Maria Mitchell dies. American astronomer
• 1891 - Karl Kobelt was born (d. 1968). Swiss politician.
• 1893 - King Alexander I of Greece was born (d. 1920).
• 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
• 1894 - Ottavio Bottecchia was born (d. 1927). Italian cyclist.
• 1901 - Pancho Villa was born (d. 1925). Filipino world boxing champion.
• 1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.
• 1903 - Portugal: Boavista Football Club is founded / É fundado o Boavista Futebol Clube.
• 1903 - Calamity Jane dies (b. 1853). American frontierswoman.
• 1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
• 1910 - James Henry Govier was born (d. 1974). British artist.
• 1910 - Walter Scharf was born (d,. 2003). American composer.
• 1912 - Henry Jones was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
• 1914 - J. Lee Thompson was born (d. 2002). British film director.
• 1916 - Anne Hébert was born (d. 2000). French Canadian author and poet.
• 1917 - Frank Little dies lynched. (b. 1879). American labor organizer.
• 1918 - John Riley Banister dies (b. 1854). American cowboy and Texas Ranger.
• 1919 - The flag of Poland, as it is today, is adopted.
• 1920 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak dies (b. 1856). Indian nationalist leader.
• 1921 - Jack Kramer was born. American tennis player
• 1922 - Arthur Hill was born. Canadian Tony Award-winning actor.
• 1922 - Pat McDonald was born (d. 1990). Australian actress.
• 1924 - Johanna Döbereiner, scientist, receives the Science Prize Bernardo Houssay, from OEA (Organización de Estados Americanos).
• 1924 - Georges Charpak was born. Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 - Marcia Mae Jones was born (d. 2007). American actress.
• 1925 - Domingos Leite Pereira sworn as Prime-Minister of Portugal/ Domingos Leite Pereira toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo António Maria da Silva.
• 1925 - Ernst Jandl was born (d. 2000). Austrian writer.
• 1926 - Theo Adam was born. German bass-baritone
• 1926 - Israel Zangwill dies (b. 1864). English writer.
• 1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
• 1927 - Raymond Leppard was born. English conductor.
• 1929 - Ann Calvello was born (d. 2006). Roller Derby Queen.
• 1929 - Syd Gregory dies (b. 1870). Australian cricketer.
• 1930 - Julie Bovasso was born (d. 1991). American actor and writer.
• 1930 - Pierre Bourdieu was born (d. 2002). French sociologist.
• 1930 - Lionel Bart was born (d. 1999). English song-writer.
• 1931 - Tom Wilson was born. American cartoonist.
• 1932 - Meena Kumari was born (d. 1972). Indian film actress.
• 1932 - Meir Kahane was born (d. 1990). American founder of the Jewish Defense League
• 1933 - António Osório de Castro was born in Setúbal. Portuguese poet.
• 1933 - Dom DeLuise was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1933 - Jesse Corti was borm. Venezuelan-born actor and comedian.
• 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1933 - Dušan Třeštík was born (d. 2007). Czech historian.
• 1935 - Inauguração oficial das transmissões da Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão, actual RDP
• 1936 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games - The Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin.
• 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent was born. French fashion designer.
• 1937 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 1937 - Al D'Amato was born. U.S. Senator from New York .
• 1939 - Synthetic vitamin K was produced for the first time.
• 1940 - John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept, a critical account of the British military that became a best seller, was published.
• 1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
• 1941 - Étienne Roda-Gil was born (d. 2004). French songwriter and screenwriter.
• 1941 - Ney Matogrosso was born. Brazilian musician.
• 1942 - André Gagnon was born. Quebec pianist and composer.
• 1942 - Giancarlo Giannini was born. Italian actor.
• 1942 - Jerry Garcia was born (d. 1995). American musician (The Grateful Dead) .
• 1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra was born. Dutch figure skater.
• 1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
• 1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
• 1945 - Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
• 1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1945 - Sandi Griffiths was born. American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show
• 1946 - Fiona Stanley was born. Australian epidemiologist
• 1946 - Boz Burrell was born (d. 2006). British bass guitarist (King Crimson - Bad Company)
• 1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
• 1947 - Chris L. Barnard was born. Welsh footballer.
• 1947 - Dennis Zine was born. Los Angeles City Councilman.
• 1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
• 1949 - Kurmanbek Bakiyev was born. President of Kyrgyzstan
• 1950 - Jim Carroll was born. American poet and actor.
• 1951 - Tommy Bolin was born (d. 1976). American guitarist.
• 1951 - Pete Mackanin was born. American baseball player
• 1952 - Bruna Lombardi was born. Brazilian model, actress and writer
• 1952 - Zoran Đinđić was born (d. 2003). Prime Minister of Serbia
• 1953 - Robert Cray was born. American singer
• 1953 - Charles Gilpin was born (d. 1998). American Scientist.
• 1953 - Howard Kurtz was born. American journalist.
• 1953 - Robert Cray was born. Blues singer.
• 1955 - Trevor Berbick was born. Jamaican boxer.
• 1956 - Tom Leykis was born. American radio personality.
• 1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
• 1958 - Adrian Dunbar was born. Northern Irish actor
• 1958 - Rob Buck was born (d. 2000). American musician (10,000 Maniacs).
• 1958 - Ilídio José Ramos Vieira da Silva was born in Valbom, Gondomar. Portuguese economist.
• 1958 - Tor Håkon Holte was born. Norwegian cross country skier.
• 1958 - Kiki Vandeweghe was born. American basketball player.
• 1958 - Michael Penn was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1959 - Joe Elliott was born. English musician (Def Leppard).
• 1959 - Otomo Yoshihide was born. Japanese musician.
• 1960 - Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
• 1960 - Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal.
• 1960 - Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
• 1960 - Chuck D was born. American rapper (Public Enemy)
• 1960 - Felipe Camargo was born. Brazilian actor.
• 1960 - Richard Roeper was born. American newspaper columnist and film critic
• 1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
• 1962 - Jacob Matlala was born. South African boxer.
• 1962 - Robert Clift was born. British field hockey player.
• 1963 - Coolio was born. American rapper.
• 1963 - Dean Wareham was born. New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta)
• 1963 - Demián Bichir was born. Mexican actor.
• 1963 - John Carroll Lynch was born. American actor.
• 1964 - The Republic of the Congo (the former Belgian Congo, not to be confused with Congo-Brazzaville) is renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1964 - Adam Duritz was born. American musician (Counting Crows)
• 1964 - Johnny Burnette dies (b. 1934). American singer.
• 1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
• 1965 - Sam Mendes was born. British stage and film director.
• 1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
• 1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• 1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1967 - Gregg Jefferies was born. American baseball player
• 1967 - Richard Kuhn dies (b. 1900). Austrian chemist, 1938 Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1968 - The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
• 1968 - Dan Donegan was born. American musician (Disturbed).
• 1968 - Stacey Augmon was born. American basketball player.
• 1969 - Kevin Jarvis was born. American baseball player.
• 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
• 1970 - David James was born. English footballer.
• 1970 - Frances Farmer dies (b. 1913). American actress.
• 1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg dies (b. 1883). German physicist. Nobel Prize for Medicina in 1931.
• 1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
• 1971 - Concert for Bangladesh.
• 1972 - Devon Hughes was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1972 - Nicke Royale was born. Swedish musician (The Hellacopters).
• 1972 - Tanya Reid was born. Canadian actress
• 1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe was born. American actress.
• 1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero dies (b. 1882). Italian composer.
• 1973 - Walter Ulbricht dies (b. 1893). German communist statesman.
• 1974 - Beckie Scott was born. Canadian cross-country skiing athlete.
• 1974 - Ildebrando Antoniutti dies (b. 1898). Italian Catholic cardinal.
• 1975 - CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1976 - XXI Olympic Games begin in Montreal, Canada.
• 1976 - Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash : F1 racing driver Niki Lauda is in a critical condition in hospital after crashing at the German Grand Prix.
• 1976 - Nwankwo Kanu was born. Nigerian footballer.
• 1976 - Kevin Joseph was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles
• 1977 - Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.
• 1977 - Marc Denis was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1977 - Damien Saez was born. French Musician, Songwriter, & Author.
• 1977 - D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira (Cardinal Cerejeira) dies (b. 1888). Portuguese Cardinal / Morre o Cardeal Cerejeira (D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira) (n. 29 Nov. 1888). Cardeal patriarca de Lisboa.
• 1977 - Gary Powers dies (b. 1929). American spy plane pilot.
• 1978 - Edgerrin James was born. American football player.
• 1978 - Dhani Harrison was born. British musician.
• 1979 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becomes the firsty woman to bePrime- Monister in Portugal / Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo torna-se a primeira mulher a ocupar o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Carlos de Mota Pinto.
• 1979 - Junior Agogo was born. Ghanan footballer.
• 1979 - Jason Momoa was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
• 1980 - Alessandro Faiolhe Amantino Mancini was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1980 - Patrick Depailler dies (b. 1944). French Formula 1 driver.
• 1980 - Strother Martin dies (b. 1919). American actor.
• 1980 - Murillo Araujo dies (b. 1894). Brazilian poet.
• 1981 - MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
• 1981 - Taylor Fry was born. American actress.
• 1981 - Stephen Hunt was born. Irish footballer.
• 1981 - Paddy Chayefsky dies (b. 1923). American writer.
• 1982 - Ai Tominaga was born. Japanese model and actress
• 1984 - Valery Ortiz was born. Puerto Rican actress.
• 1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger was born. German footballer.
• 1985 - Bernardino de Souza Pereira dies. Brazilian painter.
• 1988 - Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally in the United States as a two hour radio show.
• 1998 - Khamani Griffin was born. American child actor.
• 1989 - Britain's oldest person turns 112 Charlotte Marion Hughes from Cleveland celebrates her birthday - and enters the record books.
• 1989 - John Ogdon dies (b. 1937). English pianist.
• 1990 - Graham Young dies (b. 1947). British serial killer.
• 1990 - Norbert Elias dies (b. 1897). German sociologist.
• 1993 - The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. The Mississippi River crested at St. Louis, hitting a record 49.58 feet above flood stage. The Missouri River would peak the next day (August 2) in St. Charles, Missouri at a record 39.6 feet above flood stage.
• 1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
• 1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
• 1996 - Frida Boccara dies (b. 1940). French singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• 1996 - Tadeus Reichstein dies (b. 1897). Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1996 - Lucille Teasdale-Corti dies (b. 1929). Canadian physician and international aid worker.
• 1997 - Sviatoslav Richter dies (b. 1915). Ukrainian pianist.
• 1998 - Eva Bartok dies (b. 1927). Hungarian-born actress.
• 1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri dies (b. 1897). Anglo-Indian writer.
• 2001 - England: Boy 'held prisoner for eight years' : Officers from Scotland Yard's Child Protection Team are investigating a boy's claims he was held captive in his own home for eight years.
• 2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia.
• 2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
• 2001 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2-1/2 ton Ten Commandments monument installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 2001 - Korey Stringer dies (b. 1974). American football player.
• 2003 - Hutton inquiry begins : The judge investigating the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly says his first task is to flesh out "a fuller picture of the facts".
• 2003 - Guy Thys dies (b. 1922). Belgian football coach.
• 2003 - Marie Trintignant dies (b. 1962). French actress.
• 2004 - A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 2004 - A bomb attack occurs in front of Prague's Casino Royal.
• 2004 - Philip Hauge Abelson dies (b. 1913). American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
  
• 2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 to be formally implemented.
• 2005 - Al Aronowitz dies (b. 1928). American music journalist.
• 2005 - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies (b. 1923), succeeded by his half-brother Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
• 2005 - Constant Nieuwenhuys dies (b. 1920). Dutch painter.
• 2005 - Wibo dies (b. 1918). Dutch cartoonist.
• 2006 - Scouting celebrates its 100th birthday with worldwide celebrations.
• 2006 - Bob Thaves dies (b. 1924). American cartoonist.
• 2006 - Iris Marion Young dies (b. 1949). American feminist and political scientist.
• 2006 - Jason Rhoades dies (b. 1965). American installation artist.
• 2007 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour.
• 2007 - Tommy Makem dies (b. 1932). Irish folk singer.
• Orthodox Christianity - Procession of the Cross.
• Angola - Armed Forces Day.
• Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day.
• Benin - National Day.
• People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army
• Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day.
• Nicaragua - Fiesta Day.
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
• Switzerland - National Day.
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar.
• Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
• Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas.
• Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh).
• World Scout Day - anniversary of the first day of the Brownsea Island Camp in 1907, where Robert Baden-Powell began scouting.
• Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Day.

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