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2006-05-28

Euro Sub 21 - Portugal eliminado ... leva consigo a Alemanha

Portugal 1 - 0 Alemanha

Portugal desiludiu neste Campeonato Europeu de Sub 21. A falta de uma equipa e de organização de jogo não foi superada pela vontade que ainda assim alguns jogadores revelaram. Na crónica que aqui fizemos logo após o jogo com a França já prenunciamos o fracasso que afinal o resultado de 0-1 não foi o pior. O pior era a incapacidade demonstrada, a falta de velocidade, a falta de colectivo.

Neste jogo pedia-se um milagre. Ganhar por 3-0 e esperar que a França batesse a Sérvia. Parece que os portugueses gostam mesmo de impossíveis e apareceram em Guimarães em grande número num entusiasmo que a selecção portuguesa nesta fase final nunca fez por merecer.

Portugal até apareceu com entusiasmo no jogo mas a capacidade física e tactica alemã nunca fez prenunciar a possibilidade de Portugal ganhar por três golos. Aliás por volta da meia hora já eram os alemães que dominavam para terminarem a primeira parte por cima.

Na segunda parte com notícias de Braga de que a Sérvia já perdia por 2-0 com a França, os alemães acomodaram-se ao empate perante a incapacidade ofensiva portuguesa. Portugal criava finalmente as primeiras oportunidades de golo. Pareceu-nos até que houve um penalty sobre Lourenço provocado pelo guarda-redes,que não foi não assinalado.

A confusão do costume também não podia faltar. Já nos dez minutos finais Quaresma não quiz evitar um choque com o guarda-redes e este respondeu de modo não mais violento porque os restantes jogadores não o permitiram. O árbitro israelita deu uma amarelo a cada um. A verdade é que o guarda-redes lesionado numa mão nesse lance teve mesmo que sair.

Já em tempo de desconto um "baile" de Nanni na esquerda trocando os olhos ao seu marcador permitiu um cruzamento para a finalização de primeira de Moutinho. Finalmente um golo em três jogos! Portugal vencia o jogo, não evitando o último lugar (merecido) do grupo mas arrastava consigo a Alemanha. Afinal, bastava ter perdido só por um com a Sérvia e a esta hora estávamos a pensar nas meias-finais...

Uma palavra de elogio para Raúl Meireles que foi o melhor português.

Preparation to World Championship Germany 2006

Results of Friendly Games

27 May

Évora, Portugal
Portugal 4 : 1 (2:1) Cape Vert

Cleveland, Ohio, Unites States of America
USA 2 :0 (1:0) Venezuela

Paris
France 1 : 0 (1 : 0) México

Germany 7 : 0 (3: 0) Luxembourg

Sérbia and Montenegro 1 : 1 (1 : 0) Uruguay

Switzerland 1 : 1 (1:0) Ivory Coast

Wales 2 : 1 Trinidad and Tobago

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25 May
Gothemburg
Sweden (SWE) 0:0 Finland (FIN)

Melbourne, Australia
Australia (AUS) 1:0 (1:0) Greece (GRE)

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24 May
Eat Rutherford, USA
Ecuador (ECU) 1:1 (0:0) Colombia (COL)

Oslo
Norway (NOR) 2:2 (1:0) Paraguay (PAR)

Genk, Belgium
Belgium (BEL) 3:3 (2:2) Turkey (TUR)

2006-05-27

Portugal vence Cabo Verde por 4-1

Hat-trick de Pauleta ... e há muitas afinações a fazer

Passava o primeiro minuto do jogo e já Portugal passava a ganhar. Bola metida directa por Ricardo Carvalho pelo centro e para as costas da defesa, aparecendo a desmarcação de Pauleta para marcar no primeiro toque que teve no jogo com a bola.

Este golo vinha de encontro com os optimistas que diziam que Portugal daria uma goleada, mas passados alguns minutos não foi difícil perceber que a selecção portuguesa não jogava bem. Insegurança defensiva, algumas mudanças de velocidade dos jogadores cabo-verdianos punham a defesa de Portugal em apuros e a verdade é que o golo do empate surgiu após uma aceleração de Cafú pela direira com o cruzamento a ser concluido por Fernando Meira para a baliza de Ricardo. É verdade um auto-golo dava o 1-1 e nos minutos seguintes viu-se Scolari inciomodado pelo modo como o jogo corria.

Mais surpresa do que o golo de Cabo Verde foi o «time-out» por volta dos 23' (meio da meia-parte e que se repetiria a meio da segunda parte) que o árbitro decidiu conceder às equipas para se refrescarem do calor intenso.

O 1-2 esteve à vista e ironia do destino, na jogada imediata Portugal ganha um canto. Figo centra da direita e Pauleta de cabeça bisa.

Ao intervalo o resultado até era lisonjeiro para a equipa portuguesa tão boa foi a réplica de Cabo Verde também apoiada por grande número de espectadores.

No início da segunda parte quatro alterações ocorreram na equipa portuguesa (Figo, Maniche Deco e Caneira sairam para entrarem Paulo Ferreira, Costinha, Simão e HélderPostiga) esta surgiu mais dominadora com os africanos agora mais defensivos. Uma jogada de insistencia portuguesa foi concluida, após um corte deficiente para a entrada da área, com um pontapé forte de Petit a fazer o 3-1.

Uma insistencia de Ricardo Carvalho no ataque deu um livre que Pauleta em remate em jeito concluiu com exito fazendo um hat-trick e estabelecndo o resultado final.

Os craques da primeira parte jogaram pouco, a defesa mostrou insegurança, Cristiano Ronaldo mereceu ser expulso ao pontapear um adversário que o estava a incomodar não o deixando jogar sózinho (como é possível este comportamento ?) são situações que merecen aqui referencia e que merecem ser afinadas até ao Mundial

Enquanto Angola joga com a Argentina, México joga com a França (com quem perdeu por 1-0) e com a Holanda (na próxima 5ª. feira) Portugal faz estes jogos com equipas que de longe estão ao nível das que encontraremos no Mundial e mesmo assim não convence...

O árbitro holandês para além dos time-outs que até parecem uma boa ideia mas que não estão nas regras do futebol, perdoou a expulsão a Ronaldo e um ou outro amarelo a jogadores de Cabo Verde. Os assistentes pararam ainda duas jogadas portuguesas de golo iminente (uma em cada parte), por foras de jogo inexistentes.

On this day in History - May 27

0866 - Ordoño I, dies. King of Asturias
0927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria dies
1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1498 - Vasco da Gama descobre o caminho marítimo para as Índias. Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail from Europe, round Africa, to India. He landed in Southwest India, on the 27th or 28th of May, 1498, just north of the then prosperous port of Calicut.
1508 - Ludovico Sforza, dies (1452). Duke of Milan
1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, dies (b. 1374). Daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (executed).1564 - John Calvin, dies (b. 1509). Religious reformer.
1610 - Ravaillac dies (b. 1578). Assassin who killed Henry IV of France.
1647 - The first recorded execution of a witch in America takes place in Massachusetts.
1652 - Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orléans), was born (d. 1722). Duchesse d'Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV.
1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, dies - was beheaded. Scottish Covenanter1690 - Morte do compositor italiano Giovanni Legrenzi
1707 - Marquise de Montespan, dies (b. 1641). Mistress of Louis XIV of France.
1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, was born (d. 1796). American politician.
1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, was born (d. 1877). Entrepreneur.
1797 - François-Noël Babeuf, dies (b. 1760). French revolutionary and early socialist.
1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1818 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born (d. 30 Dec 1894). Women’s rights advocate and social reformer; newspaper publisher: The Lily; social reformer; led cause for more sensible dress for women: bloomer panties named after her.
1819 - Julia Ward Howe was born (d. 1910). Author and reformer, composer ("The Battle Hymn of the Republic") .
1821 - Morte de Francisco da Silveira Pinto da Fonseca Teixeira. 1º conde de Amarante - Portugal.
1823 - Sublevação militar dirigida pelo infante D. Miguel, filho de D. João VI, conhecida pela Vila-Francada. Terminou com a primeira experiência liberal portuguesa, iniciada com a Revolução de 1820.
1831 - Jedediah Smith dies (b. 1799). American explorer.
1834 - D. Pedro IV é apupado no Teatro de S. Carlos, quando assistia à representação do Il Pirata, de Belini, devido à amnistia proclamada pela Concessão de Évora-Monte. Terá um ataque de hemoptises e adoecerá. Morrerá em Setembro seguinte.1835 - João Carlos Gregório Domingues assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.1836 - Jay Gould, was born (d. 1892). American financier.1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, was born (d. 1876). Gunfighter.
1837 - Wild Bill Hickok was born. Frontiersman, marksman, and law enforcement officer
1840 - Nicolò Paganini dies (b. 1782). Italian violinist and composer.
1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station, London opened.
1855 - Nascimento de Bernardo Pinheiro Correia de Melo . Conde de Arnoso - Portugal.
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily as part of the Italian Unification.
1862 - Nascimento de Manuel Teixeira Gomes, político, diplomata e escritor português (m. 1941)
1864 - Ante Trumbić was born (d. 1938). Croat politician.
1867 - Arnold Bennett was born (d. 1931). British novelist.
1871 - Georges Rouault was born (d. 1958). Painter and graphic artist.
1878 - Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco (d. 14 Sep 1927). Dancer. Revolutionized the concept of dance: changing ballet into interpretive dance; killed in freak accident [strangled when her scarf became entangled in a wheel of a Bugatti sports car she was riding in]
1879 - Karl Bühler was born (d. 1963). Psychologist.
1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1883 - Wolfgang Ostwald was born (d. 22 Nov 1943). German chemist who devoted his life as a teacher, researcher, editor and one of the founders of colloid chemistry.He was the second child of 1909 Nobel Laureate Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald.
1884 - Max Brod was born (d. 1968). Author.
1887 - Kasimir Fajans was born. Polish-born American chemist and physicist.
1888 - Louis Durey was born (d. 1979). French composer.
1893 - Hermann Dornemann was born. World's oldest man from November 19, 2004
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born (d. 1961). French writer.
1894 - Dashiell Hammett was born (d. 1961). American author.
1895 - Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for sodomy.
1896 - The F5-strength East St. Louis Tornado hits in East Saint Louis, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, killing 255 people.
1897 - Sir John Douglas Cockcroft was born (d. 18 Sep 1967). British physicist, joint winner (with Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland) of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for pioneering the use of particle accelerators in studying the atomic nucleus.
1901 - In New Jersey, the Edison Storage Battery Company is founded.
1904 - Chuhei Nambu was born. Japanese athlete.
1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.1
1907 - Rachel Carson was born (d. 1964). American ecologist.
1910 - Robert Koch dies (b. 11 Dec 1843). German physician, a founder of the science of bacteriology, who discovered the tubercle bacillus (1882) and the cholera bacillus (1883). Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine laureate in 1905, "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis."
1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey was born (d. 13 Jan 1978). 38th Vice President of the United States.
1911 - Teddy Kollek was born. Mayor of Jerusalem
1911 - Vincent Price was born in Saint Louis, Missouri-EUA (d. 1993). Actor.
1912 - John Cheever was born (d. 1982). Author.
1912 - Sam Snead was born (d. 2002). Golf champion.
1913 - Wols was born. German painter.
1915 - Herman Wouk was born. Writer
1917 - Yasuhiro Nakasone was born. Prime Minister of Japan.
1918 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia
1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1920 - Joana d'Arc é canonizada
1921 - Caryl Chessman was born (d. 1960). Murderer.
1922 - Christopher Lee was born. Actor
1923 - Henry Kissinger was born. American diplomat and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1973
1923 - Sumner Redstone was born. Entrepreneur
1923 - The first 24 hours of Le Mans race ends.
1924 - The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded.
1925 - Tony Hillerman was born. Mystery writer
1926 - Srečko Kosovel dies. Slovenian poet.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
1928 - Portugal ganha ao Chile por 4-2 no Estadio Olímpico de Amsterdam, no primeiro jogo dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1928. Aos 16 minutos de jogo Portugal perdia por 2-0.
1930 - John Barth was born. Novelist
1930 - Gabriel Miró dies (b. 28 Jul 1879). Spanish writer.
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1933 - New Deal: In America The Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1933 - The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
1934 - Harlan Ellison was born. Science fiction author.
1934 - Início do Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol realizado na Itália
1935 - Lee Meriwether, was born. Catwoman actress and former Miss America
1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1936 - The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.
1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., was born. Actor
1937 - Allan Carr was born (d. 1999). Producer, writer.
1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, after five years of construction
1940 - World War II: 97 out of 99 members of a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are massacred while trying to surrender at Dunkirk. The German commander, Captain Fritz Knochlein, is eventually hanged for war crimes.
1941- World War II: In America President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300 men.
1943 - Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) was born . Singer: You’re My World
1943 - Bruce Weitzactor was born. Actor: Hill Street Blues, Death of a Centerfold, The Liar’s Club, The O.J. Simpson Story, Molly and Gina
1945 - Bruce Cockburn was born. Musician
1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was born (d. 2005). Jazz musician.
1947 - Branko Oblak was born. Slovenian football player.1950 - Indonésia passa a ser membro da UNESCO
1955 - Eric Bischoff was born. WWE performer.
1956 - Alianza Lima supera a Universitario por 2 goles a 1 y se proclama campeon de Peru en fútbol
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux was born. Musician ("Siouxsie and the Banshees ")
1958 - Neil Finn was born. New Zealand singer and songwriter
1958 - Linnea Quigley was born. 'B' Movie actress.
1960 - In Turkey, General Cemal Gürsel leads a military coup d'état removing President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government.
1960 - James Montgomery Flagg dies (b. 1877). Illustrator.
1961 - Peri Gilpin, was born. Actress1961 - Fiorentina wins 1st Europe Cup Winners Cup in Florence
1963 - Folk music singer Bob Dylan releases The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta is elected as Kenya's first prime minister, he will be inaugurated on 1 June.
1963 - Aquilino Ribeiro dies (b. 13 Sep 1885 at Sernancelhe). Portuguese writer.
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office (b. 1889). Prime Minister of India.
1964 - Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Champions Cup in Vienna beating RealMadrid 3 -1
1965 - Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Champions Cup in Milan beating Benfica 1-0
1965 - Vietnam War: United States warships begin bombardments of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam for the first time.
1965 - Adam Corola was born. Radio Personality.
1966 - Rafael Paasio assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Finlândia.
1967 - Paul John Gascoigne was born. English footballer
1968 - Jeff Bagwell was born. Baseball star
1968 - Frank Thomas was born. Baseball star.
1968 - Future American president George W. Bush enlists in the Texas Air National Guard.
1970 - Joseph Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. English actor.
1970 - Estudiantes de La Plata se proclama tricampeón de Copa Libertadores al igualar sin goles frente a Peñarol, en Montevideo. En el partido de ida, había vencido por 1 gol a 0
1971 - Paul Bettany was born in London. Actor
1971 - Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes was born (d. 2002). Singer.
1971 - President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a 15-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
1972 - Nasce em Juazeiro - BA , Ivete Sangalo cantora da MPB
1973 - Ilona Kabos dies. Hungarian pianist.
1974 - Danny Wuerffel was born. American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
1974 - Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France.
1974 - É fixado em decreto o primeiro salário mínimo nacional, Esc. 3.300$00 mensais.
1975 - Jamie Oliver, British celebrity chef and TV personality (The Naked Chef) .
1975 - Elijah Mudenda assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro da Zâmbia.
1977 - 2 Boeing 747s by Pan Am and KLM collide in Canary Islands, killing 582
1980 - É restabelecida, em Coimbra, a tradicional festa da Queima das Fitas. A festa tinha deixado de se realizar em 1969.
1986 - Maxwell Kinney was born. Airman.
1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi dies (b. 1921). Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar.
1987 - John Howard Northrop, dies (b. 5 Jul 1891). American biochemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry-1946 laureate (with James B. Sumner and Wendell M. Stanley) for successfully purifying and crystallizing certain enzymes, thus enabling him to determine their chemical nature.
1987 - FC Porto win their first European Champions Cup, beating 2-1 Bayern München , in Prater Stadium,Wien, with goals scored by Madjer (famous goal) and Juary.
1988 - Ernst (August Friedrich) Ruska dies (b. 25 Dec 1906). German electrical engineer who invented the electron microscope. For "his fundamental work in electron optics and for the design of the first electron microscope" he was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986 (with Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig).1991 - Leopold Nowak, dies (b. 1904). Musicologist.
1991 - Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die.
1993 - Werner Stocker dies. Actor.
1994 - Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to live in his native Russia after 20 years in exile.
1995 - In Charlottesville, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war.
1997 - The F5-strength Jarrell Tornado slams into the small town of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
1997 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, dies (b. 1917). British Governor of Hong Kong.
2000 - Maurice Richard dies (b. 1921). Ice hockey player.
2003 - Luciano Berio dies (b. 1925). Italian composer.Lag Ba'omer in Judaism (2005)

2006-05-26

On this day in History - May 26

0604 - Augustine of Canterbury dies
0818 - Ali ar-Rida dies (b. 0766). Shia Imam
0946 - King Edmund I of England dies (b. 921)
1055 - Margrave Adalbert of Austria dies
1264 - Prince Koreyasu was born (d. 1326). 7th Kamakura shogun of Japan.
1328 - William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII.
1538 - Geneva expels John Calvin.
1566 - Mehmed III was born (d. 1603). Ottoman Emperor.
1595 - Morre Filipe Néri, padre italiano, fundador da Congregação do Oratório.
1637 - Pequot War: an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, killing approximately 500 inhabitants.
1648 - Vincent Voiture dies (b. 1597) . Poet.
1650 - John Churchill was born (d. 1722). 1st Duke of Marlborough.
1667 - Abraham de Moivre was born (d. 1754). Mathematician.
1670 - In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, ending hostilities between their kingdoms.
1700 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf was born (d. 1760). German religious and social reformer.
1703 - Samuel Pepys dies (b. 1633). English civil servant, famous for his diary.
1736 - Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
1764 - Edward Livingston was born (d. 1836). Jurist and statesman.
1771 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense was born ( † 07 Mar 1833). Gerrman writer.
1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin was born (d. 1837). Russian author.
1805 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France is crowned King of Italy.
1822 - Edmond de Goncourt was born (d. 1896). French writer.
1824 - Capel Lofft dies (b. 1751). Writer.
1828 - Mysterious foundling Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg, Germany.
1830 - The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1834 - Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates / Concessão de Évora-Monte. Conhecida por Convenção de Évora-Monte este acordo tenta, com base na deposição das armas por parte dos miguelistas, uma pacificação geral da sociedade portuguesa. A D. Miguel era concedida uma pensão, não podendo regressar a Portugal.
1862 - Juana Azurduy dies (b. 12 Jul 1780). Argentine revolutionary.
1864 - Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1865 - Robert W. Chambers was born (d. 1933). Artist.
1867 - Mary of Teck was born (d. 1953). Queen Consort of King George V of the United Kingdom.
1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1873 - Olaf Gulbransson was born (d. 1958). Painter.
1874 - Henri Farman was born. French aviator and aircraft builder.
1874 - Joaquim António de Aguiar dies. Portuguese politician.
1878 - Isadora Duncan was born (d. 1927). American dancer.
1879 - Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1881 - Jakob Bernays dies (b. 1824). Philologist.
1883 - Edward Sabine dies (b. 1788). Astronomer.
1886 - Al Jolson was born (d. 1950). American singer.
1887 - Paul Lukas was born (d. 1971). Actor.
1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public
1893 - Norma Talmadge was born (d. 1957). Actress.
1894 - Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
1895 - Dorothea Lange was born (d. 1965). American photographer.
1896 - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1896 - Michael Simpson murders six people in Campbell, California.
1897 - Bram Stoker's novel Dracula goes on sale in London.
1902 - Almon Strowger dies (b. 1839). Developed the Strowger switch.
1906 - Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1907 - Rachel Carson was born (d. 1964). American environmental write.
1907 - John Wayne was born (d. 1979). American actor.
1907 - Ida McKinley dies (b. 1847). First Lady of the United States.
1908 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad dies (b. 1839). Founder of the Ahmadi sect.
1908 - Robert Morley was born (d. 1992). Actor.
1908 - At Masjid-al-Salaman in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
1909 - Adolfo López Mateos was born (d. 1969). President of Mexico.
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1911 - Ben Alexander was born (d. 1969). Actor.
1911 - A Câmara de Deputados do México elege como presidente interino Francisco León de la Barra.
1912 - Jay Silverheels was born (d. 1980). American actor.
1913 - Peter Cushing was born (d. 1994). Actor.
1916 - Henriette Roosenburg was born (d. 1972). Journalist.
1917 - A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 persons and injuring 689. It was the world´s longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
1918 - The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1920 - Peggy Lee was born (d. 2002). American singer.
1920 - Rúben A. was born. Portuguese writer.
1922 - Ernest Solvay dies. Belgium chemist.
1923 - James Arness was born. Actor.
1923 - Roy Dotrice was born. Actor.
1924 - Victor Herbert dies (b. 1859). Operetta composer.
1926 - Lebanon adopts constitution
1926 - Simon Petlyura dies (b. 1879). Ukrainian independence fighter, known mostly by the pogroms done when he ruled Ukraine.
1926 - Miles Davis was born (d. 1991). American musician.
1928 - Jack Kevorkian was born. American physician.
1930 - Sivuca was born. Brazilian musician.
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers dies (b. 1897). Singer.
1934 - Portugal - Tem início o 1.º Congresso da União Nacional (decorreu até 28 de Maio), que se realiza na Sociedade de Geografia. No seu decurso, cimenta-se a ideologia conservadora e autoritária do partido único do Estado Novo que orientará, durante quatro décadas, o destino de Portugal.
1936 - In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sat down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
1937 - A Exposição Universal é inaugurada em Paris.
1938 - William Bolcom was born. American composer.
1938 - Teresa Stratas was born. Canadian soprano.
1938 - The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1939 - Brent Musburger was born. American sports broadcaster.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Dunkirk - In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk.
1941 - Cliff Drysdale was born. Tennis star.
1942 - Levon Helm was born. Musician (The Band) .
1943 - Edsel Ford dies (b. 1893). President of the Ford Motor Company .
1946 - Mick Ronson was born (d. 1993). Guitarist.
1946 - Na Checoslováquia, os comunistas ganham as eleições para a Assembléia Constituinte.
1948 - Stevie Nicks was born. Songwriter and actress.
1948 - The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1949 - Philip Michael Thomas was born. Actor.
1949 - Hank Williams Jr. was born. American singer.
1949 - Ward Cunningham was born. American inventor of Wiki.
1951 - Sally Ride was born. Astronaut.
1951 - Lincoln Ellsworth dies (b. 1880). American scientist and polar explorer.
1953 - Michael Portillo was born. Politician.
1954 - Alan Hollinghurst was born. British novelist
1954 - Lionel Conacher dies (b. 1900). Canadian athlete.
1955 - Alberto Ascari dies (b. 1918). Italian race car driver.
1955 - Morimoto Masaharu was born. Japanese chef
1955 - Alberto Ascari dies (b. 1918). Italian race car driver.
1957 - Margaret Colin was born. Actress .
1958 - Pete Michaels was born. Actor, comedian, and ventriloquist.
1962 - Bobcat Goldthwait was born. Actor and comedian.
1963 - The Organisation of African Unity is formed.
1963 - 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth win.
1964 - Lenny Kravitz was born. Guitarist and singer.
1965 - Os generais Alfredo Ovando e René Barrientos assumem a presidência da Bolívia.
1966 - Helena Bonham Carter was born. Actress.
1966 - British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1968 - Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark was born.
1969 - O Pacto Andino, programa de integração econômica para criar em onze anos um mercado comum, é firmado em Caracas entre os representantes da Bolívia, Colômbia, Chile, Equador e Peru.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki was born. Manga-ka
1971 - Matt Stone was born . Co-creator of South Park
1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1972 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1973 - Bahrain adopts it's constitution
1974 - Lars Frölander was born. Swedish swimmer
1974 - Sílvio Moser dies (b. 24 Apr 1941). Swiss F1 car racer
1976 - Martin Heidegger dies (b. 1889). German philosopher.
1977 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
1982 - Yoko Matsugane was born. Japanese model.
1982 - Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Champions Cup in Rotterdam
1985 - O Iraque bombardeia seis cidades iranianas.
1986 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
1987 - Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
1989 - É admitida a primeira mulher nos quadros de oficiais do exército português.
1991 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 - Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
1993 - Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Champions Cup in Munich
1994 - Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
1994 - A cidade mexicana de Zacatecas é declarada Património Cultural da Humanidade.
1995 - Friz Freleng dies (b. 1889). Animator.
1996 - Attilio Veronese dies. Italian painter.
1999 - Waldo Semon dies (b. 1898). American inventor.
1999 - Paul Sacher dies (b. 1906). Swiss conductor.
1999 - Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League to complete an unprecedented treble.
2002 - Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2002 - Mamo Wolde dies (b. 1932). Marathon runner.
2003 - Kathleen Winsor dies (b. 1919). Novelist.
2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
2003 - Carlos Eduardo Dolabella dies (b. 11 Jun 1937). Brazilian actor.
2004 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 - FC Porto vence o Mónaco por 3-0 e conquista a Liga dos Campeões Europeus em Futebol, a 2ª. da sua história, depois de na época anterior já ter vencido a Taça Uefa.
2004 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh dies (b. 1931). Russian astronomer.
2004 - Dullah Omar dies (b. 1934). South African lawyer and politician.
2005 - Eddie Albert dies (b. 1906). American actor.
2005 - Chico Carrasquel dies (b. 1928). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
2006 - Europe's Biggest Station to Open in Berlin in Time for World Cup. Chancellor Angela Merkel is opening Europe's largest train station in Berlin.
2006 - Lisbon : Rock in Rio (II Edition) in Lisbon begins.
Poland - Mother's Day
Georgia - National Day
Australia - National Sorry Day