Happy birthday - Jaime Pressly

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Soberba - Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Noite estrelada - Arles, (1888) óleo sobre tela, Musée d'Orsay.
Van Gogh m. 29 Jul 1890 em Auvers-sur-Oise; (n. Zundert, 30 Março 1853)

Pedi-lhe um alto canto a suavizar
meu viver rude, monótono, sombrio
Ela deu-me a cotovia de uma rima encantada...
              Eu queria mil!

Pedi-lhe um exemplar do ritmo seguro
com que eu pudesse dirigir meu afã.
Deu-me um regato, um murmúrio nocturno...
              Eu queria um mar.

Pedi-lhe uma fogueira de ardor jamais extinto,
para que a meus sonhos concedesse calor.
E deu-me um pirilampo de minúsculo brilho...
              Eu queria um sol!

Que vã é a vida, que inútil meu impulso,
e o azul abril e o verdor do éden...
Oh tão sórdido guia da viagem nocturna:
              Eu quero morrer!

Trad. José Bento, in Rosa do Mundo 2001 Poemas para o Futuro, Assírio & Alvim

Porfirio Barba-Jacob, pseudónimo de Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, (n. 29 de Jul de 1883 em Santa Rosa de Osos; m. Ciudad de México, em 14 Jan 1942).

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SOBERBIA - Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Le pedí un sublime canto que endulzara
mi rudo, monótono y áspero vivir.

El me dio una alondra de rima encantada...
¡Yo quería mil!

Le pedí un ejemplo del ritmo seguro
con que yo pudiera gobernar mi afán.

Me dio un arroyuelo, murmullo nocturno...
¡Yo quería un mar!

Le pedí una hoguera de ardor nunca extinto,
para que a mis sueños prestase calor.

Me dio una luciérnaga de menguado brillo...
¡Yo quería un sol!

Qué vana es la vida, qué inútil mi impulso,
y el verdor edénico, y el azul Abril...

¡Oh sórdido guía del viaje nocturno!
¡Yo quiero morir!

Porfirio Barba-Jacob, pseudónimo de Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, (n. 29 de Jul de 1883, Santa Rosa de Osos; m. Ciudad de México, 14 Jan 1942)

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On this day in History - Jul 29

• 0238 - Pupienus and Balbinus die (assassinated). Roman emperors.
• 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.
• 1030 - Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad - King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
• 1030 - Olaf II of Norway dies (b. 995).
• 1099 - Pope Urban II dies (b. 1042).
• 1108 - King Philip I of France dies.
• 1166 - Henry II of Champagne was born (d. 1197).
• 1507 - Martin Behaim dies (b. 1459). Navigator and geographer.
• 1565 - Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1567 - James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
• 1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeats the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
• 1605 - Simon Dach was born (d. 1659). German poet.
• 1612 - Jacques Bongars dies (b. 1554). French scholar and diplomat.
• 1644 - Pope Urban VIII dies (b. 1568).
• 1693 - War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen - France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
• 1752 - Peter Warren dies. British admiral.
• 1763 - Philip Charles Durham was born (d. 1845). Royal Navy Admiral.
• 1781 - Johann Kies dies (b. 1713). German astronomer and mathematician.
• 1792 - René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou dies (b. 1714). Chancellor of France.
• 1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
• 1797 - Daniel Drew was born (d. 1879). American financier.
  1801 - George Bradshaw was born (d. 1853). English publisher.
  1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville was born (d. 1859). French historian and political scientist.
• 1813 - Jean-Andoche Junot dies (b. 1771). French general.
• 1830 - Abdication of Charles X of France.
• 1833 - William Wilberforce dies (b. 1759). English abolicionist.
• 1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
• 1839 - Gaspard de Prony dies (b. 1755). French mathematician.
• 1843 - Johannes Schmidt was born (d. 1901). German linguist.
• 1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart dies (b. 1791). Austriam composer.
• 1846 - Princess Isabel was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 14 Nov 1921).
• 1847 - Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
• 1848 - Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
• 1849 - Max Nordau was born (d. 1923). Austrian author, philosopher and Zionist leader.
• 1851 - Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
• 1856 - Robert Schumann dies (b. 1810). German composer.
• 1856 - Manuel Patrício de Bastos dies (b. c. 1800). Portuguese composer.
• 1857 - Thomas Dick dies (b. 1774). Scottish scientific teacher and writer.
• 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
• 1869 - Booth Tarkington was born (d. 1946). American author.
• 1872 - Eric Alfred Knudsen was born (d. 1957). American folklorist.
• 1874 - James Shaver Woodsworth was born (d. 1942). Canadian methodist minister, social worker and politician.
• 1876 - Maria Ouspenskaya was born (d. 1949). Russian-born actress.
• 1878 - Don Marquis was born (d. 1937). American author.
• 1883 - Benito Mussolini was born (d. 1945). Italian dictator.
• 1883 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob was born (d. 1942). Colombian poet and writer.
• 1884 - Ralph A. Bard was born (d. 1975). U.S. Navy Under Secretary.
• 1885 - Theda Bara was born (d. 1955). American film actress.
• 1887 - Sigmund Romberg was born (d. 1951). Hungarian-born composer.
• 1887 - Agostino Depretis dies (b. 1813). Italian statesman.
• 1890 - Vincent van Gogh dies (b. 1853). Dutch painter.
• 1892 - William Powell was born (d. 1984). American actor.
• 1897 - Sir Neil Ritchie was born (d. 1983) . British general.
• 1898 - Isidor Isaac Rabi was born (d. 1988). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1899 - The First Hague Convention was signed.
• 1899 - Walter Beall was born (d. 1959). American baseball player.
• 1900 - In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• 1900 - Eyvind Johnson was born (d. 1976). Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1900 - Don Redman was born (d. 1964). American musician.
• 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy dies (b. 1844).
• 1904 - J. R. D. Tata was born (d.1993). Indian industrialist.
• 1905 - Clara Bow was born (d. 1965). American actress.
• 1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld was born (d. 1961). Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General,.
• 1905 - Stanley Kunitz was born (d. 2006). American poet.
• 1905 - Thelma Todd was born (d. 1935). American actress.
• 1906 - Diana Vreeland was born (d. 1989). French-born fashion editor.
• 1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
• 1907 - Melvin Belli was born (d. 1996).American lawyer and actor.
• 1911 - Foster Furcolo was born (d. 1995). 60th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1911 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America was born (d. 2005).
• 1913 - Erich Priebke was born. Nazi war criminal.
• 1913 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser dies (b. 1838). Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1914 - Irwin Corey was born. American stand-up comedian.
• 1915 - Francis W. Sargent was born (d. 1998). 64th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1916 - Budd Boetticher was born (d. 2001). American film director.
• 1916 - Charlie Christian was born (d. 1942). American jazz guitarist.
• 1918 - Edwin O'Connor was born (d. 1968). American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• 1918 - Ernest William Christmas dies (b. 1863). Australian painter.
• 1920 - Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
• 1920 - Neville Jeffress was born (d. 2007). Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia.
• 1920 - Rodolfo Acosta was born (d. 1974). Mexican character actor.
• 1921 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
• 1921 - Richard Egan was born (d. 1987). American actor.
• 1923 - Gordon Mitchell was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1923 - Jim Marshall was born. Founder of Marshall Amplification.
• 1924 - Lloyd Bochner was born (d. 2005). Canadian actor.
• 1924 - Elizabeth Short was born (d. 1947). Victim in the Black Dahlia case.
• 1925 - Mikis Theodorakis was born. Greek composer.
• 1925 - Ted Lindsay was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1926 - Don Carter was born in Miami. American bowler, 6-time Bowler of Year, 1953-54, 57-58, 60-61.
• 1927 - Harry Mulisch was born. Dutch author.
• 1929 - Jean Baudrillard was born. French philosopher.
• 1930 - Paul Taylor was born. American dancer and choreographer.
• 1932 - Great Depression: In Washington, DC, US troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
• 1932 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker was born. U.S. Senator from Kansas.
• 1933 - Lou Albano was born. American pro wrestling manager.
• 1933 - Colin Davis was born. British racing driver.
• 1933 - Robert Fuller was born. American actor.
• 1934 - Didier Pitre dies (b. 1883). French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1935 - Peter Schreier was born. German tenor.
• 1936 - Elizabeth Dole was born. U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
• 1936 - Henrique Viana was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1936 - Roberto DaMatta was born. Brazilian anthropologist and sociologist.
• 1937 - Tongzhou Incident.
• 1937 - Daniel McFadden was born. American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1938 - Jean Rochon was born. Quebec politician.
• 1938 - Peter Jennings was born. Canadian-born television news anchor.
• 1938 - Nikolai Krylenko dies (b. 1885). Russian/Soviet jurist and politician.
• 1940 – Amarildo Tavares da Silveira was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1941 - David Warner was born. English actor.
• 1941 - Jennifer Dunn was born (d. 2007). American politician.
• 1942 - Tony Sirico was born. American actor.
• 1943 - David Taylor was born. English snooker player.
• 1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
• 1946 - Diane Keen was born. English actress.
• 1946 - Neal Doughty was born. American keyboardist (REO Speedwagon)
• 1947 - After being shut off on November 9, 1946 for a memory upgrade, ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
• 1947 - Dick Harmon was born (d. 2006). American golf instructor.
• 1948 - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics opened in London, United Kingdom.
• 1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
• 1950 - Joe Fry dies (b. 1915). British racing driver.
• 1951 - Dan Driessen was born. American baseball player.
• 1951 - Hozumi Shigeto dies (b. 1883). Japanese author.
• 1953 - Ken Burns was born. American television producer and director.
• 1953 - Geddy Lee was born. Canadian musician (Rush).
• 1953 - Patti Scialfa was born. American singer, guitarist and songwriter.
• 1953 - Tim Gunn was born. American television personality.
• 1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, is published in the UK.
• 1954 - Coen de Koning dies (b. 1879). Dutch speed skater.
• 1955 - Dave Stevens was born. American illustrator.
• 1955 - Jean-Hugues Anglade was born. French actor.
• 1956 - Teddy Atlas was born. American boxing trainer and commentator.
• 1956 - Ronnie Musgrove was born. Former Governor of Mississippi.
• 1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• 1957 - Nellie Kim was born. Russian gymnast.
• 1957 - Alessandra Marc was born. American operatic soprano.
• 1958 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• 1959 - First Congressional elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
• 1959 - Ruud Janssen was born. Dutch writer and artist.
• 1959 - Sanjay Dutt was born. Indian actor.
• 1959 - Ruud Janssen was born. Dutch writer and artist.
• 1959 - Dave LaPoint was born. American baseball player.
• 1959 - John Sykes was born. British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang).
• 1962 - Scott Steiner was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1962 - Vincent Rousseau was born. Belgian athlete.
• 1963 - Graham Poll was born. English football referee.
• 1963 - Jim Beglin was born. Irish football commentator.
• 1963 - Alexandra Paul was born. American actress.
• 1964 - Vean Gregg dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
• 1965 - Chang-Rae Lee was born. Korean-born author.
• 1965 - Dean Haglund was born. Canadian actor.
• 1965 - Luis Alicea was born. Baseball coach.
• 1965 - Gail Simone was born. Comic book writer.
• 1965 - Dean Haglund was born. Canadian actor.
• 1966 - Musician Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph motorcycle in upstate New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.
• 1966 - American magazine Datebook releases issue with the Beatles article from the London Evening Standard four months ago which includes John Lennon's "bigger than Jesus" statement, setting off a furor resulting the trashing and burning of Beatles records and merchandise and the banning of Beatles songs on radio.
• 1966 - Patrick Hogan was born. Marathon runner.
• 1966 - Martina McBride was born. American country singer.
• 1966 - Richard Steven Horvitz was born. American comic voice actor.
• 1967 - Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
• 1967 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela was shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
• 1968 - Paavo Lotjonen was born. Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica.
• 1969 - Adele Stevens was born. English model and erotic actress.
• 1970 - John Barbirolli dies (b. 1899). English conductor.
• 1970 - George Szell dies. Hungarian conductor.
• 1971 - Lisa Ekdahl was born. Swedish singer songwriter.
• 1971 - Monica Calhoun was born. American actress.
• 1972 - Wil Wheaton was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Stephen Dorff was born. American actor.
• 1973 - Wanya Morris was born. American singer (Boyz II Men).
• 1973 - Norm Smith dies (b. 1915). Australian rules footballer and coach.
• 1973 - Roger Williamson dies (b. 1948). English racing driver.
• 1974 - Josh Radnor was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Steve-O was born. Musician and actor.
• 1974 - Cass Elliot dies (b. 1941). American musician.
• 1974 - Erich Kästner dies (b. 1899). German author.
• 1975 - Corrado Grabbi was born. Italian footballer.
• 1975 - James Blish dies (b. 1921). American writer.
• 1976 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one person and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
• 1976 - Josh Radnor was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Mickey Cohen dies (b. 1913). American gangster.
• 1979 - Abs Breen was born. English singer.
• 1979 - Karim Essediri was born. Tunisian footballer.
• 1979 - Ronald Murray was born. American basketball player.
• 1979 - Bill Todman dies (b. 1916). American game show producer.
• 1979 - Herbert Marcuse dies (b. 1898). German philosopher.
• 1980 - Fernando González was born. Chilean tennis player.
• 1980 - Rachel Miner was born. American actress.
• 1980 - Ryan Braun was born. Canadian baseball player.
• 1981 - Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.
• 1981 - Fernando Alonso was born. Spanish two time formula 1 world champion.
• 1981 - Andrés Madrid was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1981 - Troy Perkins was born. American soccer player.
• 1981 - Robert Moses dies (b. 1888). American urban planner.
• 1982 - Jônatas Domingos was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1982 - Janez Aljančič was born. Slovenian footballer.
• 1982 - Allison Mack was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Harold Sakata dies (b. 1920). Japanese-American actor.
• 1982 - Vladimir Zworykin dies (b. 1889). Russian physicist and inventor.
• 1983 - Alexei Kaigorodov was born. Russian hockey player.
• 1983 - David Niven dies (b. 1910). English actor.
• 1983 - Raymond Massey dies (b. 1896). Canadiian actor.
• 1983 - Luis Buñuel dies (b. 1900). Spanish film director.
• 1984 - Chad Billingsley was born. American baseball player.
• 1984 - Fred Waring dies (b. 1900). American band leader and inventor.
• 1986 - Criação da Associação Portuguesa de Jovens Empresários - ANJE.
• 1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
• 1987 - Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issue.
• 1987 - Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay dies (b. 1894). Bengali author.
• 1990 - Bruno Kreisky dies (b. 1911). Chancellor of Austria.
• 1990 - Pedro Lopes was born. Portuguese cyclist.
• 1991 - Miki Ishikawa was born. American actress and singer. 1992 - Michel Larocque dies (b. 1952). French Canadian ice hockey goaltender.
• 1993 - The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
• 1993 - Munro Chambers was born. Canadian actor.
• 1994 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin dies (b. 1910). British chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1994 - Megan Kanka dies (b. 1986). Rape victim, basis of Megan's Law.
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• 1994 - Mussum dies (b. 1941). Brazilian musician and humourist.
• 1995 - Les Elgart dies (b. 1917). American jazz musician and bandleader.
• 1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a US federal court.1996 - Ric Nordman dies (b. 1919). Canadian politician.
• 1996 - Jason Thirsk dies (b. 1967). American bassist (Pennywise).
• 1996 - Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies (b. 1920). French mathematician.
• 1998 - Jorge Pacheco Areco dies. President of Uruguay (1967-1972).
• 1998 - Uruguay signs the Kyoto Protocol (V. Status of Kyoto Protocol).
• 1998 - Jerome Robbins dies (b. 1918). American choreographer.
• 2001 - Edward Gierek dies (b. 1913). Polish politician.
• 2001 - Henryk Jablonski dies. President of Poland.
• 2001 - Wau Holland dies (b. 1951). German hacker.
• 2003 - Foday Sankoh dies (b. 1937). Sierra Leonean rebel leader.
• 2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou dies (b. 1923). Greek actress and singer.
• 2004 - U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris, a possible tenth planet.
• 2007 - Mike Reid dies (b. 1940). English comedian and actor.
• 2007 - Michel Serrault dies (b. 1928). French actor.
• 2007 - Tom Snyder dies (b. 1936). American television personality.
• 2007 - Marvin Zindler dies (b. 1921). American television reporter.
• Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
• National Anthem Day in Romania.
• Norway - St. Olav's Day - Feast of Saint Olaf (Olaf II of Norway), patron of woodcarvers.
• Feast of Saint Martha, sister of Lazarus, patron of cooks and dieticians.

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28 de Julho e grandes compositores

Hoje 28 de Julho é um dia associado a grandes compositores. Ora vejamos:

Em 1741 desaparecia Antonio Vivaldi, com 63 anos. Esse mesmo o das «Quatro Estações»

Nove anos mais tarde, em 28 de Julho de 1750, desaparecia, com 65 anos, o grandíssimo compositor Johann_Sebastian_Bach.

Em 1802 desaparecia Giuseppe_Sarti.

Em 1914 despoletava-se a I Grande Guerra Mundial.

Vá lá uma notícia menos deprimente. Neste dia do ano de 1965 nasceu Daniela Mercury.

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