O Amor do Vermelho (Nevrose de um lord) - Gomes Leal

A ideia de teu corpo branco e amado,
beleza escultural e triunfante,
persegue-me, mulher, a todo o instante,
- como o assassino o sangue derramado!

Quando teu corpo pálido, beijado,
abandonas ao leito - palpitante,
quem jamais contemplou, em noite amante,
tentação mais cruel, tom mais nevado?

No entanto - duro, excêntrico desejo!
- quisera, às vezes, que a dormir te vejo,
tranquila, branca, inerme, unida a mim...

que o teu sangue corresse de repente,
fascinação da Cor! - e estranhamente,
te colorisse, pálido marfim.

(Claridades do sul)
in Antologia de Poesia Portuguesa Erótica e Satírica, selecção prefácio e notas de Natália Correia; Antígona Frenes, Lisboa 2005

António Gomes Leal (n. em Lisboa a 6 Jun 1848; m. 29 Jan 1921)

Ler do mesmo autor, neste blog: Romantismo; Som e Cor; O Visionário ou Som e Cor III; Cantiga de Campo

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On this day in History - Jan. 29

• 0904 - Sergius III came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Pope Christopher.
• 1119 - Pope Gelasius II dies.
• 1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon dies (b. 1279).
• 1523 - Ulrico Zuinglio da a conocer sus 67 tesis para la reforma de la Iglesia.
• 1584 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange was born (d. 1647).
• 1595 - Romeo and Juliet, a famous play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young star-crossed lovers, was probably first performed.
• 1597 - Elias Ammerbach dies (b. 1530). German organist.
• 1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg dies (b. 1557).
• 1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees.
• 1632 - Johann Georg Graevius was born (d. 1703). German classical scholar and critic.
• 1635 - É fundada a Academia Francesa (Academie Française), uma das mais renomadas sociedades literárias da Europa.
• 1647 - Francis Meres dies (b. 1565). English writer.
• 1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
• 1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia dies (b. 1629).
• 1678 - Jeronimo Lobo dies (b. 1593). Portuguese Jesuit missionary.
• 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg was born (d. 29 Mar 1772). Swedish naturalist, philosopher and theologian.
• 1696 - Ivan V dies (b. 1666). Russian tsar.
• 1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset dies (b. 1638). English poet and courtier.
• 1711 - Giuseppe Bonno was born (d. 1788). Austrian composer.
• 1712 - Le congrès d'Utrecht. Les diplomates français et anglais se réunissent en congrès à Utrecht. Ils veulent en finir avec la guerre de la succession d'Espagne, qui épuise l'Europe .
• 1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil was born (d. 1777). Austrian composer.
• 1717 - Jeffrey Amherst was born (d. 1797). British Military leader.
• 1718 - Paul Rabaut was born (d. 1794). French Huguenot pastor.
• 1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia died of smallpox on the day set for his wedding (b. 1715).
• 1737 - Thomas Paine was born (d. 1809). Patriot, radical, pamphleteer.
• 1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney dies (b. 1666). British soldier.
• 1743 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus dies (b. 1653). Chief minister of France under Louis XV.
• 1749 - King Christian VII of Denmark was born (d. 1808).
• 1754 - Moses Cleaveland was born (d. 1806). Founder of the city of Cleveland.
• 1756 - Henry Lee III was born. American General.
• 1761 - Albert Gallatin was born. Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1763 - Louis Racine dies (b. 1692). French poet.
• 1782 - Daniel Auber was born (d. 1871). French composer.
• 1801 - Horatia Nelson was born (d. 1881). Illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.
• 1810 - Ernst Kummer was born (d. 1893). German mathematician.
• 1814 - France defeated Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
• 1814 - Johann Gottheb Fichte dies. Philosopher.
• 1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom dies (b. 1738).
• 1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras dies (b. 1755). French politician.
• 1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
• 1838 - João de Oliveira Penha Fortuna was born in Braga (d. 3 Feb 1919). Portuguese poet.
• 1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood.
• 1841 - Durante la Guerra del Opio, Gran Bretaña ocupa Hong Kong.
• 1843 - William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio (d. 1901). 25th President of the United States [1897-1901]. Was assassinated six months after the start of his second term, on 14 September, in Buffalo, New York.
• 1845 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time (New York Evening Mirror).
• 1846 - Karol Olszewski was born (d. 1915). Polish scientist.
• 1848 - Chile: se adopta el sistema métrico decimal.
• 1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
• 1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
• 1859 - William Cranch Bond dies (b. 9 Sep 1789). American astronomer who, with his son, George Phillips Bond (1825-65), discovered Hyperion, the eighth satellite of Saturn, and an inner ring called Ring C, or the Crepe Ring.
• 1860 - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born (d. 1904). Russian playwright and short story writer.
• 1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
• 1862 - Frederick Delius was born (d. 1934). English composer.
• 1863 - Bear River Massacre.
• 1866 - Romain Rolland was born (d. 1944). French writer, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.
• 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia (d. 1928). Spanish writer.
• 1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dies (b. 1797).
• 1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé dies (b. 1786). French-Canadian writer and Seigneur.
• 1874 - John D. Rockefeller Jr. was born (d. 1960). American entrepreneur.
• 1876 - Havergal Brian was born (d. 1972). British composer.
• 1877 - Georges Catroux was born (d. 1969). French general.
• 1880 - W.C. Fields was born (d. 1946). American actor.
• 1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1888 - Sydney Chapman, was born (d. 16 Jun 1970). English mathematician and physicist noted for his research in geophysics.
• 1889 - O rápido reconhecimento internacional do novo regime foi o primeiro objetivo do ministro Quintino Bocaiúva, responsável pela pasta das Relações Exteriores do Governo Provisório, sob a liderança do marechal Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca.
• 1890 - Os Estados Unidos reconhecem a República brasileira, proclamada em novembro de 1889.
• 1891 - Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
• 1891 - Elizaveta Gerdt was born (d. 1975). Russian ballerina.
• 1891 - R. Norris Williams was born (d. 1968). American tennis player, also a survivor of the RMS Titanic Disaster.
• 1893 - Sensacional robo en un hotel de París de cuadros de pintores famosos.
• 1895 - José Martí ordena el inicio del levantamiento por la independencia de Cuba de España.
• 1895 - Barão de Itararé was born (d. 1971). Brazilian journalist.
• 1895 - Muna Lee was born (d. 1965). American poet.
• 1898 - Angel Ortíz de Villajos Cano was born. Spanish musician and composer.
• 1899 - Alfred Sisley dies in Moret-sur-Loing (b. 1839). French painter.
• 1900 - The Baseball's American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• 1901 - Allen Du Mont was born (d. 1965). American scientist and inventor.
• 1901 - Milan I dies (b. 1855). King of Serbia.
• 1905 - Barnett Newman was born (d. 1970). American painter.
• 1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark dies (b. 1818) .
• 1908 - Piero Leonardi was born. Italian geologist and prehistorian, known for his research on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Triassic invertebrates (from 190-225 million years ago) and the Permian vertebrates (from 225-280 million years ago).
• 1910 - Colin Middleton was born (d. 1983). Northern Irish artist.
• 1911 - Peter von Siemens was born (d. 1986). German industrialist.
• 1913 - Daniel Taradash was born (d. 2003). American screenwriter.
• 1913 - Peter von Zahn was born (d. 2001). German journalist and writer.
• 1913 - Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1915 - John Serry, Sr. was born (d. 2003). American musician, composer, arranger.
• 1915 - Victor Mature was born (d. 1999). American actor.
• 1916 - World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1918 - John Forsythe was born. American actor.
• 1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin dies (b. 1861). Russian counter revolutionary.
• 1920 - José Luis de Villalonga was born (d. 2007). Spanish aristocrat, author, and actor.
• 1921 - Anthony George was born (d. 2005). American actor.
• 1921 - António Duarte Gomes Leal dies (b. 1848). Portuguese poet.
• 1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved.
• 1922 - Gerda Steinhoff was born (d. 1946). Nazi concetraation camp supervisor.
• 1923 - Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1923 - Paddy Chayefsky was born (d. 01 Aug 1981). Academy Award-winning playwright, (Marty [1955]; Paint Your Wagon, Altered States, Network).
• 1923 - Ivo Robic was born (d. 2000). Croatian singer and songwriter.
• 1924 - Luigi Nono was born (d. 1990). Italian composer.
• 1924 - Marcelle Ferron was born (d. 2001). Quebec painter and stained glass artist.
• 1924 - Peter Voulkos was born (d. 2002). American artist.
• 1926 - Abdus Salam was born (d. 21 Nov 1996). Pakistani nuclear physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Lee Glashow.
• 1926 - Franco Cerri was born. Italian jazzman.
• 1927 - Edward Abbey was born (d. 1989). American environmentalist.
• 1927 - António Alçada Baptista was born in Covilhã. Portuguese writer.
• 1928 - João Abel Manta was born in Lisbon. Portuguese architect, painter, graphic artist and caricaturist.
• 1928 - Douglas Haig dies (b. 1861). British soldier.
• 1928 - Lee Shau Kee was born. Hong Kong SAR property developer.
• 1929 - Seeing Eye Dog organization is formed.
• 1929 - Gordon Solie was born (d. 2000). American wrestling announcer.
• 1930 - Derek Bailey was born (d. 2005). English guitar virtuoso.
• 1930 - John Junkin was born (d. 2006). English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.
• 1932 - Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1932 - George Allen was born. English footballer.
• 1932 - Tommy Taylor was born (d. 1958). English footballer.
• 1933 - President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
• 1933 - Paul Sally was born. American mathematician.
• 1933 - Ron Townson was born (d. 2001). American singer (The 5th Dimension).
• 1933 - Sacha Distel was born (d. 2004). French singer and guitarist.
• 1933 - Sara Teasdale dies (b. 1884). American poet.
• 1934 - Un temblor de tierra en Acapulco (México) daña el 90 por cien de los edificios.
• 1934 - Fritz Haber dies (b. 9 Dec 1868). German physical chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918) for his development of a method of synthesizing ammonia (1909) directly from nitrogen and hydrogen.
• 1936 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1936 - James Jamerson was born (d. 1983). American bass guitarist guitarist for Motown Records.
• 1938 - Armando Palacio Valdés dies. Spanish writer.
• 1939 - Germaine Greer was born. Australian feminist writer.
• 1940 - Three gasoline multiple units carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
• 1940 - Katharine Ross was born. American actress.
• 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi was born. Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver.
• 1941 - Robin Morgan was born. American feminist and activist.
• 1941 - Ioannis Metaxas dies (b. 1871). Greek general and dictator.
• 1942 - Claudine Longet was born. French singer and dancer.
• 1942 - World War II: North AfricaBenghazi, Libya, is taken by German and Italian forces.
• 1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determination); Ecuador y Perú firman el Tratado de Río de Janeiro, para el arreglo definitivo del pleito de límites en la zona amazónica fronteriza de ambos países, con Argentina, Brasil, Chile y EE.UU como garantes.
• 1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo- Mendez was born. Cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
• 1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
• 1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
• 1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
• 1944 - The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
• 1944 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing.
• 1944 - Patrick Lipton Robinson was born. Jamaican judge.
• 1944 - Yoweri Museveni was born. President of Uganda.
• 1945 - A Bola, a Portuguese sportiv newspaper, publishes its first number.
• 1945 - Jim Nicholson was born. Irish politician.
• 1945 - Tom Selleck was born in Detroit. American actor.
• 1946 - Harry Hopkins dies (b. 1890). American politician.
• 1947 - David Byron was born (d. 1985). English singer (Uriah Heep).
• 1947 - Linda B. Buck was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1947 - Marián Varga was born. Slovak musician.
• 1948 - Cristina Saralegui was born. American talk-show host.
• 1948 - Marc Singer was born. Canadian actor.
• 1948 - Pat Kenny was born. Irish TV presenter & radio host.
• 1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta dies (b. 1900). Italian aristocrat.
• 1949 - Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel.
• 1949 - Djavan was born. Brazilian singer.
• 1950 - Ann Jillian was born. American actress.
• 1950 - Jody Scheckter was born. South African racing driver and one-time F1 world champion .
• 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies (b. 1885). Emir of Kuwait.
• 1951 - Andy Roberts was born. West Indian cricketer.
• 1951 - Frank Tarrant dies (b. 1880). Australian cricketer.
• 1952 - Rupert Hanley was born. Former South African cricketer.
• 1952 - Tommy Ramone was born. Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
• 1953 - Hwang Woo-Suk was born. South Korean fiomedical scientist.
• 1953 - Louie Perez was born. Mexican-American drummer (Los Lobos).
• 1953 - Lynne McGranger was born. Australian actress.
• 1953 - Paulin Bordeleau was born. Quebec ice hockey player.
• 1953 - Teresa Teng was born (d. 1995). Taiwanese singer.
• 1954 - Doug Risebrough was born. Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
• 1954 - Oprah Winfrey was born. American talk show host and actress.
• 1954 - Richard Manitoba was born. American singer (The Dictators and MC5).
• 1954 - Terry Kinney was born. American actor.
• 1954 - Yukinobu Hoshino was born. Japanese mangaka.
• 1955 - Eddie Jordan was born. American basketball player and head coach.
• 1956 - H. L. Mencken dies (b. 1880). American journalist.
• 1957 - Grazyna Miller was born. Italian poet, translator and journalist.
• 1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wedding.
• 1958 - Police capture Charles Starkweather in Wyoming.
• 1958 - The Boston Herald printed a letter from Olga Owens Huckins attacking DDT pesticide as dangerous.
• 1959 - Sleeping Beauty, the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale, was first released.
• 1960 - Gia Carangi was born (d. 1986). American model.
• 1960 - Greg Louganis was born. American diver, Olympics gold medalist.
• 1960 - J. G. Thirlwell was born. Australian-born musician.
• 1960 - Matthew Ashford was born. American actor.
• 1960 - Sean Kerly was born. English field hockey player.
• 1960 - Steve Sax was born. American baseball player.
• 1962 - Nicholas Turturro was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Fritz Kreisler dies (b. 1975). Austrian violinist.
• 1963 - First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
• 1963 - Bob Holly was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1963 - Robert Lee Frost dies (b. 1874). US poet, 4 Pulitzers (b. 1874).
• 1963 - Isaías de Noronha dies (b. 06 Jul 1874). President of Brazil.
• 1964 - The IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1964 - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
• 1964 - Andre Reed was born. American football player.
• 1964 - Anna Ryder Richardson was born. British interior designer and television presenter.
• 1964 - Dimas de Carvalho was born in Acaraú, Ceará. Brazilian poet and ficcionist.
• 1964 - John Habyan was born. American baseball player.
• 1964 - Roddy Frame was born. Lead singer of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera.
• 1964 - Alan Ladd dies at 50 in Palm Springs, California. American actor (Shane).
• 1965 - Dominik Hasek was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1965 - Peter Lundgren was born. Swedish tennis coach.
• 1966 - The first of 608 performances of Sweet Charity opens at the Palace Theatre in New York City.
• 1966 - Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
• 1966 - Romário was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1966 - Pierre Mercure dies (b. 1927). French Canadian composer.
• 1967 - Cyril Suk was born. Czech tennis player.
• 1967 - Stacey King was born. American basketball player.
• 1968 - Edward Burns was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Sora Jung was born. Korean actress.
• 1968 - Susi Erdmann was vborn. German bobsledder and luger.
• 1969 - Britain refused entry into the European Economic Community.
• 1969 - Hyde was born. Japanese singer.
• 1969 - Allen Dulles dies (b. 1893). American CIA director.
• 1970 - Heather Graham was born. American actress, model.
• 1970 - Jörg Hoffmann was born. German swimmer.
• 1970 - Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was born. Indian shooter.
• 1970 - Basil Liddell Hart dies (b. 1895). British historian.
• 1973 - Jason Schmidt was born. American baseball player.
• 1974 - Kōji Wada was born. Japanese singer and songwriter.
• 1975 - Sara Gilbert was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Manuel Guimarães dies (b. 1915). Portuguese painter and film director.
• 1976 - Charles Divins was born. American model and actor.
• 1976 - Chris Castle was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1976 - Grigorios Paliouras was born. Canadian scientist.
• 1977 - Justin Hartley was born. American actor.
• 1977 - Buster Nupen dies (b. 1902). South African cricketer.
  
• 1977 - Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). American actor, comedian.
• 1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
• 1978 - Martin Schmitt was born. German ski jumper.
• 1978 - Rob Bironas was born. American football player.
• 1979 - Brenda Ann Spencer kills 9 people and wounds 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
• 1979 - Andrew Keegan was born. American actor.
• 1979 - April Scott was born. American actress and model.
• 1979 - Joseph Todd was born. Arena Football League player.
• 1979 - Sui Feifei was born. Chinese basketball player.
• 1980 - Ivan Klasnić was born. Croatian football player.
• 1980 - Yael Bar Zohar was born. Israeli actress and model.
• 1980 - Antonio Molina composer dies at 85 .
• 1980 - Jimmy Durante dies (b. 1893). Americsn actor, singer, comedian, vaudevillian.
• 1981 - España: Adolfo Suárez dimite de sus cargos de presidente del Gobierno y del partido de Unión de Centro Democrático.
• 1981 - Álex Ubago was born. Spanish musician.
• 1981 - Darío Lopilato was born. Argentine actor.
• 1981 - Jonny Lang was born. American musician.
• 1982 - Heidi Mueller was born. American actress.
• 1983 - Nedžad Sinanović was born. Bosnian basketball player.
• 1983 - 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win.
• 1983 - Portugal: In Lisboa at Coliseu dos Recreios, Zeca Afonso performs his last concert.
• 1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman.
• 1985 - Athina Onassis was born. French heiress.
• 1985 - Isabel Lucas was born. Australian actress.
• 1985 - Marc Gasol was born. Spanish basketball player.
• 1985 - Todd Herzog was born. American reality-show contestant.
• 1986 - The Height 611 UFO Incident.
• 1986 - Yoweri Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni's National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup removed Apollo Milton Obote from office. (The army's military rule had been particularly ineffectual, and lasted for just under a month.)
• 1986 - Chris Bourque was born. American pro hockey player.
• 1986 - Drew Tyler Bell was born. American actor.
• 1986 - Mark Howard was born. English football player.
• 1986 - Simon Vukčević was born. Montenegrin football player.
• 1986 - Leif Erickson dies (b. 1911). American actor.
• 1987 - Physician’s Weekly announces that the smile on the face of Leonardo DaVinci's Mona Lisa is caused by a "...facial paralysis resulting from a swollen nerve behind the ear."
• 1987 - Matthew Wilson was born. English world rally driver
• 1987 - Spencer Clark was born (d. 2006). American race car driver.
• 1987 - Josep V. Foix dies (b. 28 Jan 1893). Spanish poet.
• 1988 - Stephanie Gilmore was born. Australian professional surfer.
• 1989 - Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
• 1989 - The Orlando Arena, now titled the TD Waterhouse Centre, opens in Downtown Orlando. The TD Waterhouse Centre is currently the home to the Orlando Magic of the NBA and the Orlando Predators of the AFL.
• 1989 - 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (6-2, 6-2, 6-2).
• 1989 - Halina Konopacka dies (b. 1900). Polish athlete.
• 1990 - The trial of the former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, Joseph Hazelwood, begins in Anchorage, Alaska. He is accused of negligence that resulted in America's worst oil spill.
• 1990 - Jessica D. Stone was born. Actress.
• 1990 - O Congresso da Somália Unificada nomeia Alí Mahdi Mohamed como novo presidente do país.
• 1991 - Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor was born. Son of the British Duke of Westminster and heir-apparent to his father's estate
• 1991 - Yasushi Inoue dies (b. 1907). Japanese historian.
• 1992 - Willie Dixon dies (b. 1915). American composer and musician.
• 1992 - Manuel González Valcárcel dies. Spanish architect.
• 1993 - French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
• 1993 - Michelle Larcher De Brito was born. Portuguese tennis player.
• 1993 - Ron Kostelnik dies (b. 1940). American football player.
  
• 1994 - Ulrike Maier dies in a downhill skiing accident (b. 1967). Austrian alpine skiing world champion.
• 1995 - Super Bowl XXIX: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first NFL team to win five Super Bowl titles.
• 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear testing.
• 1996 - La Fenice, the opera house of Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.
• 1996 - First release of Duke Nukem 3D.
• 1996 - Megan Jossa was born. English actress.
• 1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
• 1998 - Sierra Marcoux was born. American actress.
• 1998 - Joseph Alioto dies (b. 1916). Mayor of San Francisco.
• 1999 - Estados Unidos: el cuadro Santa Rufina, del pintor sevillano Diego Velázquez es adquirido por un coleccionista anónimo por 1166 millones de pesetas en Nueva York.
• 1999 - Lili St. Cyr dies (b. 1918). American dancer.
  
• 2000 - A BOLA passa a ter divulgação através da Internet.
• 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 2001 - El juez Juan Guzmán dicta una orden de procesamiento y arresto domiciliario contra el dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet.
• 2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil.
• 2002 - Daniel Pearl dies (b. 1963). Journalist.
• 2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane dies (b. 1928). American football player.
• 2002 - Harold Russell dies (b. 1914). Canadian-born actor.
• 2003 - Solicitor Sally Clark, aged 38, jailed for life for murdering her two baby sons, was freed by the Court of Appeal.
• 2003 - Frank Moss dies (b. 1911). American politician.
  
• 2004 - Cannabis and cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in United Kingdom.
• 2004 - Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2004 - M. M. Kaye dies (b. 1908). British writer.
• 2004 - Janet Frame dies (b. 1924). New Zealand writer.
• 2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.
• 2005 - Ephraim Kishon dies (b. 1924). Israeli satirist.
  
• 2005 - Eric Griffiths dies (b. 1940). Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen).
• 2006 - Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of Kuwait.
• 2006 - ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are severely injured in Iraq following a car blast.
• 2007 - Barbaro dies (b. 2003). American thoroughbred racehorse.
• 2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim dies (b. 1970). Leader of the Iraqi cult Soldiers of Heaven.
• 2008 - Raymond Jacobs dies (b. 1925). American soldier.
  
• 2008 - Philippe Khorsand dies (b. 1948). French actor.
  
• Roman Catholic saints - Valerius of Trèves.
• Brazil: Journalist Day /Brasil: Dia do Jornalista.
• National Corn Chip Day.
• Gibraltar - Constitution Day.

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Taça de Portugal: Porto está nas meias finais

FC Porto

1-0

Leixões


Golo logo aos 5' de Mariano fez o resultado...

O Porto entrou bem no jogo e colocou-se cedo em posição de vencedor por Mariano Gonzales em jogada por ele protagonizada pela estquerda com um cruzamento para o meio da baliza que Lizandro e um defesa do Leixões disputaram para a bola sobrar para Mariano Gonzalez que finalizou vitoriosamente. O mais difícil para o Porto nos jogos em casa (adquirir vantagem) estava conseguido.

O Leixões reagiu à desvantagem, não sabemos como seria o jogo se o 0-0 tivesse permanecido, e portanto qual o plano inicial da equipa de Matosinhos, mas o certo é que o Leixões respondeu no campo todo, evidenciando até em períodos longos da primeira parte maior vantagem territorial sobre o adversário. Nuno foi obrigado a fazer defesa difícil para manter a vantagem.

Na segunda parte o Porto conseguiu controlar melhor o jogo e apesar de um período de assédio do Leixões por volta do segundo quarto de hora da segunda parte com muitos cantos ganhos e outra oportunidade criada num cabeceamento, porém, frouxo, de Zé Manuel que Nuno defendeu, a equipa portista viu uma jogada de insistência bater na barra da baliza de Beto.

Bom jogo e interessante; no regresso de João Ferreira à arbitragem (após ausencia por motivos profissionais fora do país - é militar) não houve casos. Podia ter havido no referido lance que terminou na barra da baliza do Leixões porque foi precedido de uma falta de um avançado portista (não assinalda) que se atirou deliberadamente para cima de um defesa leixonense.

No outro jogo dos quartos de final disputado esta tarde o Paços de Ferreira venceu a Naval 1º. de Maio por 5-3 e por isso também marcará presença nas meias-finais da Taça de Portugal cujo sorteio realiza-se 5ª. feira.

Amanhã joga o Atlético de Valdevez com o Nacional enquanto o V. Guimarães-E. Amadora só se disputa no dia 17 de Fevereiro, pelas 18h45.

Ficha de jogo:
Estádio do Dragão, no Porto
Árbitro João Ferreira, de Setúbal

FC PORTO – Nuno; Fucile, Stepanov, Bruno Alves e Benitez; Lucho, Raul Meireles e Guarin; Mariano (Tomás Costa, 75'), Hulk (Rodriguez, 62') e Lisandro.

LEIXÕES – Beto; Laranjeiro, Nuno Silva, Elvis e Angulo (Nwoko, 65'); Roberto Sousa, Bruno China e Hugo Morais; José Manuel, Chumbinho e Diogo Valente (Sandro, 80').

Golos: Mariano Gonzaléz 5'

Acção disciplinar: cartão amarelo a Roberto Sousa, Raul Meireles, Bruno China e Sandro.

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A Song - Iossif Brodskij

sofa image from here

I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here.
I wish you sat on the sofa
and I sat near.
the handkerchief could be yours,
the tear could be mine, chin-bound.
Though it could be, of course,
the other way around.

I wish you were here, dear,
I wish you were here.
I wish we were in my car,
and you'd shift the gear.
we'd find ourselves elsewhere,
on an unknown shore.
Or else we'd repair
To where we've been before.

I wish you were here, dear,
I wish you were here.
I wish I knew no astronomy
when stars appear,
when the moon skims the water
that sighs and shifts in its slumber.
I wish it were still a quarter
to dial your number.

I wish you were here, dear,
in this hemisphere,
as I sit on the porch
sipping a beer.
It's evening, the sun is setting;
boys shout and gulls are crying.
What's the point of forgetting
If it's followed by dying?

Joseph Brodsky (gebürtig Iossif Alexandrowitsch Brodskij, russisch Иосиф Александрович Бродский; b. 24. Mai 1940 in Leningrad; † 28. Jan, 1996 in New York)

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On this day in History - Jan. 28

• 0028 - The Roman Emperor Nerva names Trajan, an army general, as his successor.
• 0814 - Charlemagne dies (b. 742).
• 1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia dies (b. 1031).
• 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• 1225 - Saint Thomas Aquinas was born (d. 1274).
• 1271 - Isabella of Aragon dies (b. 1247). Queen of Philip III of France.
• 1312 - Queen Joan II of Navarre was born (d. 1349).
• 1443 - Robert le Maçon dies. Chancellor of France.
• 1457 - King Henry VII of England was born (d. 1509).
• 1521 - The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
• 1540 - Ludolph van Ceulen was born (d. 1610). German mathematician.
• 1547 - King Henry VIII of England dies (b. 1491). His nine year old son Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
• 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
• 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 1582 - John Barclay was born (d. 1621). Scottish writer.
• 1596 - Sir Francis Drake dies, explorer, soldier (b. ca. 1540).
• 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi dies (b. 1547). Italian composer.
• 1600 - Pope Clement IX was born (d. 1669).
• 1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was born (d. 1679). Italian physiologist and physicist.
• 1611 - Johannes Hevelius was born (d. 1687). Astronomer.
• 1613 - Thomas Bodley dies (b. 1545). English diplomat and library founder.
• 1621 - Pope Paul V dies (b. 1550).
• 1622 - Adrien Auzout was born (d. 1691). French astronomer.
• 1624 - Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
• 1672 - Pierre Séguier dies (b. 1588). Chancellor of France.
• 1681 - Richard Allestree dies (b. 1619). English royalist churchman.
• 1687 - Johannes Hevelius dies (b. 1611). Polish astronomer.
• 1693 - Anna Ivanovna was born. Tsarina of Russia.
• 1693 - Sóror Violante do Céu dies in Lisbon (b. 30 May 1607). Portuguese nun and poet.
• 1697 - John Fenwick dies. English conspirator.
• 1701 - Charles Marie de La Condamine was born (d. 1774). French mathematician and geographer.
• 1706 - John Baskerville was born. English printer, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method.
• 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige was born (d. 1761). Japanese shogun.
• 1717 - Mustafa III was born (d. 1774). Ottoman Sultan.
• 1719 - Johann Elias Schlegel was born (d. 1749). German critic and poet.
• 1724 - The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• 1725 (O.S.) - Tsar Peter I of Russia dies (b. 1672).
• 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 1754 - Ludvig Holberg dies (b. 1684). Norwegian historian and writer.
• 1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering was born (d. 1830). German physician.
• 1757 - Ahmed Shah, the first King of Afghanistan, occupies Delhi and annexes the Punjab.
• 1760 - Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
• 1784 - George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen was born (d. 1860). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1788 - The first penal colony is founded at Botany Bay, Australia.
• 1792 - Rebellious slaves in Santo Domingo launch an attack on the city of Cap.
• 1800 - António Feliciano de Castilho was born (d. 1875). Portuguese writer.
• 1808 - D. João VI, assina na Bahia, o Decreto de Abertura dos Portos à Nações Amigas, que colocava fim ao pacto colonial entre Portugal e Brasil. A “Abertura dos Portos” suspendeu os séculos de monopólio comercial português, uma das bases do chamado Pacto Colonial.
• 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• 1818 - George S. Boutwell was born (d. 1905). 20th Governor of Massachusetts.
  1820 - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1822 - Alexander Mackenzie was born (d. 1892). Second Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1823 - Abdicación de Bernardo O'Higgins al cargo de Director Supremo de Chile.
• 1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard dies (b. 1769). French general.
• 1833 - Charles George 'Chinese' Gordon was born (d. 1885). British soldier and administrator.
• 1840 - Real orden por la que se crea en La Habana el Archivo General de la Real Hacienda, fundamento del Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba.
• 1841 - Henry Morton Stanley was born (d. 1904). Welsh-born explorer and journalist.
• 1846 - Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
• 1853 - José Martí was born (d. 1895). Cuban revolutionary.
• 1855 - The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific on the Panama Railway.
• 1855 - William Seward Burroughs was born (d. 1898). Inventor of the calculator.
• 1856 - Bank of Spain is founded.
• 1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich dies (b. 1782). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1863 - Ernst William Christmas was born (d. 1918). Australian painter.
• 1864 - Charles W. Nash was born (d. 1948). Co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick.
• 1864 - Herbert Akroyd Stuart was born (d. 1927). English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine.
• 1864 - Émile Clapeyron dies (b. 1799). French engineer and physicist.
• 1865 - Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg was born (d. 1952). First president of Finland.
• 1865 - Lala Lajpat Rai was born (d. 1928). Indian freedom fighter.
• 1867 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born. Spanish novelist.
• 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
• 1873 - Colette was born (d. 1954). French writer.
• 1874 - Vsevolod Meyerhold was born (d. 1940). Russian theatre director.
• 1878 - The Yale News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
• 1879 - Francis Picabia was born (d. 1953). French-born painter and poet.
• 1880 - Herbert Strudwick was born (d. 1970). English cricketer.
• 1884 - Auguste Piccard was born (d. 1962). Swiss physicist.
• 1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi was born (d. 1976). Japanese electrical engineer.
• 1886 - José Linhares was born. 23th President of Brazil (29 Oct 1945 - 31 Jan 1946).
• 1886 - Marthe Bibesco was born (d. 1973). Romanian writer.
• 1887 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick.
• 1887 - Se pone la primera piedra de la Torre Eiffel.
• 1887 - Artur Rubinstein was born (d. 1982). Polish pianist and conductor.
• 1890 - Robert Stroud was born (d. 1963). American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz.
• 1891 - Bill Doak was born (d. 1954). American baseball player.
• 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch was born (d. 1947). German-borm film director.
• 1894 - Fidela Campiña Ontiveros was born in Tijola (Almeria). Spanish opera singer.
• 1897 - Valentin Kataev was born (d. 1986). Russian writer.
• 1898 - Roberto Ivens dies (b. 12 Jun1850). Portuguese soldier and explorer.
• 1899 - Elias Simojoki was born (d. 1940). Finnish clergyman and politician.
• 1900 - Alice Neel was born (d. 1984). American artist.
• 1900 - Heinrich Kesten was born (d. 1996). Author.
• 1902 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• 1903 - Aleksander Kamiński was born. Polish writer.
• 1903 - Augusta Holmès dies (b. 1847). French composer.
• 1904 - Canuplin was born (d. 1979). Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer.
• 1908 - Se inicia en Portugal un movimiento revolucionario controlado tres días después.
• 1908 - Paul Misraki was born (d. 1998). French composer and songwriter.
• 1909 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War.
• 1910 - Arnold Moss was born (d. 1989). American actor.
• 1910 - John Banner was born (d. 1973). Austrian actor.
• 1912 - Jackson Pollock was born (d. 1956). American painter, initiator of Dripping painting
• 1912 - Gustave de Molinari dies (b. 1819). Belgian economist.
• 1913 - Segismundo Moret dies. Spanish politician.
• 1915 - An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
• 1915 - The German navy attacks the U.S. freighter William P. Frye, loaded with wheat for Britain.
• 1915 - Nikolay Umov dies (b. 1846). Russian physicist.
• 1916 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
• 1916 - Vergílio Ferreira was born. Portuguese writer / Vergílio Ferreira nasceu neste dia, em Melo, concelho de Gouveia (Serra da Estrela), (O Caminho Fica Longe, Onde Tudo Foi Morrendo, Vagão «J», Mudança, Nitido Nulo, Em nome da Terra, Manhã Submersa, etc). «Há os livros que antes de lidos já estão lidos. «Há os que se lêem todos e ficam logo lidos todos. E há os que nos regateiam a leitura e a que pedimos humildemente que se deixem ler todos e não deixam e vão largando uma parte de si pelas gerações e jamais se deixam ler de uma vez para sempre.» (Vergílio Ferreira) .
• 1917 - United States ends search for Pancho Villa.
• 1917 - Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco.
• 1918 - Finnish Civil War: Social democrats and communists seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland went underground.
• 1918 - Castro Gonzaga was born (d. 2007). Brazilian actor.
• 1918 - Harry Corbett was born (d. 1989). English puppeteer (Sooty).
• 1918 - Trevor Skeet was born (d. 2004). Zealand-born British politician.
• 1918 - John McCrae dies (b. 1872). Canadian poet.
• 1919 - Francis Gabreski was born (d. 2002). American fighter pilot.
• 1920 - Se funda en España la Legión.
• 1921 - A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honour the unknown dead of World War I.
• 1921 - Albert Einstein startles Berlin by suggesting the possibility of measuring the universe.
• 1922 - Knickerbocker Storm, Washington DC's biggest snowfall, causes Washington DC's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
• 1922 - Robert W. Holley was born (d. 11 Feb 1993). American biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall Warren Nirenberg and Har Gobind Khorana.
• 1923 - Ivo Robić was born (d. 2001). Croatian singer, Mister Morgen
• 1924 - Teófilo Braga dies in Lisbon (b. in Ponta Delgada, 24 Feb 1843). President of Portugal (29 Mai 1915 - 05 Aug 1915), writer and essayst.
• 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara was born (d. 2001). Japanese film director.
• 1927 - Ronnie Scott was born (d. 1996). British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner.
• 1928 - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dies. Spanish writer.
• 1929 - Acker Bilk was born. English jazz clarinetist.
• 1929 - Claes Oldenbourg was born. Swedish-born artist.
• 1931 - Lucía Bosé was born. Italian actress.
• 1932 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
• 1933 - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and by a group of Cambridge University Students and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement of the formal Indian Independence Act 1947 during World War II
• 1933 - Jack Hill was born. American film director.
• 1934 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont.
• 1934 - Juan Manuel Bordeu was born (d. 1990). Argentine racing driver.
• 1934 - Mitr Chaibancha was born (d. 1970). Thai actor.
• 1935 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.
• 1935 - David Lodge was born. English author.
• 1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov dies (b. 1859). Russian composer.
• 1936 - A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death.
• 1936 - Alan Alda was born. American actor, writer, and director.
• 1936 - Ismail Kadare was born. Albanian writer.
• 1937 - Anastasios Metaxas dies (b. 1862). Greek architect and shooter.
• 1938 - The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.
• 1938 - Leonid Zhabotinsky was born. Russian weightlifter
• 1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer dies (b. 1909). German race car driver.
• 1939 - John M. Fabian was born. NASA astronaut.
• 1939 - William Butler Yeats dies (b. 1865). Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate in 1923.
• 1940 - Carlos Slim Helú was born. Mexican businessman.
• 1941 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
• 1941 - French General Charles DeGaulle's Free French forces sack south Libya oasis.
• 1941 - Joel Crothers was born (d. 1985). American actor.
• 1942 - Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.
• 1943 - Dick Taylor was born. English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things).
• 1943 - Paul Henderson was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1944 - John Tavener was born. English composer.
• 1944 - Susan Howard was born. American actress.
• 1945 - Chiang Kai-shek renames the Ledo-Burma Road the Stilwell Road, in honor of General Joseph Stilwell.
• 1945 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
• 1945 - John Perkins was born. American author and activist.
• 1945 - Marthe Keller was born in Basel. Swiss actress.
• 1945 - Robert Wyatt was born. English musician.
• 1945 - Filinto de Almeida dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 Dec 1957 in Porto). Portuguese poet.
• 1946 - Bluenose, Canada's greatest sailing ship, founders on a Haitian reef.
• 1947 - Fernando Carvalho Rodrigues was born in Casal de Cinza, Guarda. Portuguese physicist (PoSAT-1).
• 1947 - Hans Aumeier dies executed (b. 1906). German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant.
  
• 1947 - Jeanne Shaheen was born. American politician.
• 1947 - Reynaldo Hahn dies (b. 1875). French composer.
• 1947 - Therese Brandl dies executed (b. 1902). Nazi concentration camp guard.
  
• 1948 - Charles Taylor was born. President of Liberia.
• 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov was born. Russian dancer .
• 1948 - Charles Taylor was born. Former leader of Liberia.
• 1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel dies (b. 1901). Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp.
  
• 1949 - Los miembros de la Comunidad Europea crean el Consejo de Europa.
• 1949 - Gregg Popovich was born. NBA Basketball Coach.
• 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille dies (b. 1908). French race car driver.
• 1950 - A Assembléia Francesa ratifica um acordo no qual o Vietnã, Cambodjia, e Laos tornam-se estados independentes dentro da União Francesa.
• 1950 - Barbi Benton was born. American actress.
• 1950 - Bob Hay was born. American songwriter and musician.
• 1950 - David C. Hilmers was born. NASA astronaut.
• 1950 - Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah was born. King of Bahrain.
• 1950 - Nikolai Luzin dies (b. 1883). Russian mathematician.
• 1951 - Brian Bilbray was born. American politician.
• 1951 - Leonid Kadeniuk was born. Ukrainian cosmonaut.
• 1951 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim dies (b. 1867). President of Finland.
• 1952 - Cándido Méndez was born. UGT General- Secretary.
• 1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) is hanged for a murder carried out by Christopher Craig.
• 1953 - Chris Carter was born. English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey).
• 1953 - Colin Campbell was born. Canadian ice hockey player and executive.
• 1953 - James Scullin dies (b. 1876). 9th Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1954 - Rick Warren was born. American pastor and author.
• 1955 -The U.S. Congress passes a bill allowing mobilization of troops if China should attack Taiwan.
• 1955 - Fundación de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española.
• 1955 - Nicolas Sarkozy was born. President of France.
• 1957 - Frank Skinner was born. English comedian.
• 1957 - Mark Napier was born. National Hockey League player.
• 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.
• 1958 - The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 1959 - Burkhard Dallwitz was born. German-born composer.
• 1959 - Dave Sharp was born. Welsh guitarist (The Alarm).
• 1959 - Randi Rhodes was born. American personality.
• 1959 - Frank Darabont was born. American filmmaker.
• 1959 - Walter Beall dies (b. 1899). American baseball player.
  
• 1960 - Robert von Dassanowsky was born. American cultural historian, writer, producer.
• 1960 - Maitê Proença was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1960 - Zora Neale Hurston dies (b. 1891). American author.
• 1961 - Normand Rochefort was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1962 - Creflo Dollar was born. American televangelist.
• 1962 - Keith Hamilton Cobb was born. American actor.
• 1962 - Sam Phillips was born. American singer.
• 1963 - António Filipe was born. Portuguese politician.
• 1963 - Dan Spitz was born. American musician, guitarist for Anthrax.
• 1963 - Gustave Garrigou dies (b. 1884). French cyclist.
• 1964 - The Soviets down a U.S. jet over East Germany killing three.
• 1965 - Lynda Boyd was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Tich Freeman dies (b. 1888). English cricketer.
• 1965 - Maxime Weygand dies (b. 1867). French soldier.
• 1967 - Jan Lamb was born. Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian.
• 1968 - DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill).
• 1968 - Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
• 1968 - Sarah McLachlan was born. Canadian singer and songwriter.
• 1968 - DJ Muggs was born. American musician (Cypress Hill).
• 1968 - Rakim was born. American rapper.
• 1969 - Kathryn Morris was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Linda Sanchez was born. American politician.
• 1969 - Mo Rocca was born. American writer and comedian.
• 1970 - Israeli fighter jets attack the suburbs of Cairo.
• 1971 - Anthony Hamilton was born. American soul singer.
• 1971 - Donald Winnicott dies (b. 1896). British psychoanalyst.
• 1972 - Nicky Southall was born. English footballer.
• 1973 - Barnaby Jones premieres on CBS.
• 1973 - John Banner dies (b. 1910). Austrian actor.
• 1974 - Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.
• 1974 - Jason Dancisin was born. Graphic designer.
• 1974 - Jermaine Dye was born. Baseball player.
• 1974 - Magglio Ordóñez was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1974 - Tony Delk was born. American basketball player.
• 1975 - Anne Montminy was born. Quebec olympic diver.
• 1975 - David Zingler was born. American writer.
• 1975 - Junior Spivey was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Lee Latchford-Evans was born. English singer.
• 1975 - Susana Feitor was born. Portuguese race walker.
• 1975 - Terri Colombino was born. American actress.
• 1975 - Ola Raknes dies (b. 1887). Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist.
  
• 1976 - Emiko Kado was born (d. 1999). Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1976 - Jarrod Montague was born. American drummer (Taproot).
• 1976 - Lee Ingleby was born. British actor.
• 1976 - Mark Madsen was born. American basketball player.
• 1976 - Miltiadis Sapanis was born. Greek footballer.
• 1977 - Daunte Culpepper was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Joey Fatone was born. American singer (*NSYNC).
• 1977 - Lyle Overbay was born. American baseball player.
• 1977 - Matt DeVries was born. American guitarist (Chimaira).
• 1977 - Takuma Sato was born. Japanese Formula One driver.
• 1977 - Freddie Prinze dies (b. 1954). Actor.
• 1978 - Gianluigi Buffon was born. Italian football player (goalkeeper).
• 1978 - Jamie Carragher was born. English footballer.
• 1978 - Papa Bouba Diop was born. Senegalese footballer.
• 1979 - Pixie was born. English model.
• 1979 - Ali Boulala was born. Swedish skateboarder.
• 1979 - Eileen Shanahan dies (b. 1901). Irish poet.
• 1980 - USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Bay Florida and capsizes; killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• 1980 - Jesse James Hollywood was born. American drug dealer and fugitive.
• 1980 - Nick Carter was born. American singer (Backstreet Boys).
• 1981 - Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 1981 - Elijah Wood was born. American actor.
• 1981 - Rick Razzano was born. American football player.
• 1982 - US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces after 42 days of captivity under the Red Brigades.
• 1983 - Billy Fury dies (b. 1940). British singer.
• 1983 - Frank Forde dies (b. 1890). Fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1984 - Andre Iguodala was born. American basketball player.
• 1984 - Stephen Gostkowski was born. American football player.
• 1985 - Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief. /45 dos melhores músicos e compositores do mundo são convidados para produzir o álbum “USA for África”. O objetivo foi arrecadar fundos para aliviar a fome na Etiópia. A principal música gravada “We Are the World” chegou ao topo das paradas nos Estados Unidos e incluiu a participação de Michael Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Sting, Diana Ross, Paul Simon e Cyndi Lauper, dentre outros.
• 1985 - Arnold Mvuemba was born. French footballer.
• 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes just after takeoff killing all seven astronauts onboard: Francis R. Scobee (b. 1939), Michael J. Smith (b. 1945), Judith Resnik (b. 1949), Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946), Ronald McNair (b. 1950), Greg Jarvis (b. 1944), Christa McAuliffe (b. 1948) .
• 1986 - Alexis Texas was born. Porn star.
• 1986 - Jessica Ennis was born. English heptathlete.
• 1986 - Shruti Haasan was born. Indian actress.
• 1986 - Christa McAuliffe dies (b. 1948). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
  
• 1986 - Ellison Onizuka dies (b. 1946). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
  
• 1986 - Francis R. Scobee dies (b. 1939). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
  
• 1986 - Greg Jarvis dies (b. 1944). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
  
• 1986 - Judith Resnik dies (b. 1949). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
  
• 1986 - Michael J. Smith dies (b. 1945). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1986 - Ronald McNair dies (b. 1950). Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1988 - Henry Mortensen was born. American actor.
• 1988 - Klaus Fuchs dies (b. 1911). German physicist.
• 1990 - Super Bowl XXIV: The San Francisco 49ers are crowned "Team of the 1980s" by defeating the Denver Broncos, 55-10.
• 1991 - Red Grange dies (b. 1903). American football player.
• 1993 - Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.
• 1994 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
• 1994 - O cristão democrata Giovanni Goria é o segundo primeiro-ministro da Itália a ser acusado de corrupção e julgado por um tribunal nacional.
• 1994 - Mechislav Grib is elected President of Belarus.
• 1994 - Hal Smith dies (b. 1916). American actor.
• 1996 - Super Bowl XXX: The Dallas Cowboys win their fifth Super Bowl title by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.
• 1996 - Burne Hogarth dies (b. 1911). American cartoonist.
  
• 1996 - Jerry Siegel dies (b. 1914). American cartoonist.
• 1996 - Joseph Brodsky dies (b. 1940). Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize Laureate.
• 1997 - Antonio Calado dies. Brazilian journalist and writer. / Falece o jornalista e escritor Antônio Callado. Um dos principais romancistas brasileiros do século 20, ele escreveu “Bar Don Juan”(1971), “Quarup”(1967), e “Reflexos do Baile”(1976).
• 1998 - Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo for $6.45 billion.
• 1998 - Gunmen hold at least 400 children and teachers hostage for several hours at an elementary school in Manila, Philippines.
• 1999 - The creation of Element 114 is announced by scientists.
• 1999 - Markey Robinson dies (b. 1918). Irish painter.
• 1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt dies (b. 1908). Swedish sociologist and philosopher.
• 2001 - Super Bowl XXXV: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7.
• 2001 - Curt Blefary dies (b. 1943). American baseball player.
• 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.
• 2002 - Astrid Lindgren dies (b. 1907). Swedish author.
• 2003 - Ariel Sharon is reelected Prime-Minister of Israel.
• 2003 - Cícero Dias dies (b. 1907). Brazilian painter.
• 2004 - September Dossier: Lord Hutton publishes his report into the death of UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly.
• 2004 - Don Cholito dies (b. 1923). Puerto Rican radio host who hosted the longest running uninterrupted radio show.
• 2004 - Don Stansauk dies (b. 1936). American professional wrestler.
  
• 2004 - Elroy Hirsch dies (b. 1923). American football player.
• 2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher dies (b. 1927). U.S. Navy officer.
  
• 2004 - Joe Viterelli dies (b. 1937). American actor.
• 2005 - Jacques Villeret dies (b. 1951). French actor.
  
• 2005 - Jim Capaldi dies (b. 1944). English singer and songwriter.
• 2005 - Karen Lancaume dies (suicide) (b. 1973). French actress.
• 2006 - Henry McGee dies (b. 1929). English comedian.
  
• 2006 - Yitzchak Kadouri dies (b. c. 1900). Rabbi.
• 2007 - WWE's 20th annual Royal Rumble 2007 was held in San Antonio, Texas.
• 2007 - Carlo Clerici dies (b. 1929). Swiss professional road racing cyclist.
• 2007 - Father Robert Drinan dies (b. 1920). Roman Catholic Priest and American politician
• 2007 - Karel Svoboda dies (b. 1938). Czech composer of popular music.
• 2007 - Hsu Wei Lun dies (b. 1978). Taiwanese actress.
• 2007 - Emma Tillman dies. The world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007.
• 2007 - Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
• 2007 - Yelena Romanova dies (b. 1963).Russian athlete.
  
• 2008 - Bengt Lindström dies (b. 1925). Swedish artist.
  
• 2008 - Christodoulos dies (b. 1939). Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
• Catholicism - Feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas.
• World Leprosy Day.
• Ashura.

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