On this day in History - Aug 3

1181 - Pope Alexander III dies
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1509 - Étienne Dolet was born (d. 1546). Scholar and printer.
1546 - Étienne Dolet dies hanged and burned at the stake (b. 1509). Scholar and printer.
1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza dies (b. circa 1540). Spanish military commander
1604 - John Eliot was born (d. 1690). English puritan missionary.
1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
1645 - The Second Battle of Nördlingen, fought between the forces of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
1645 - August Kuhnel was born. Composer.
1667- Francesco Borromini dies (b. 1599). Swiss architect.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
1692 - John Henley was born (d. 1759). English clergyman.

1709 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstra pela primeria vez a "máquina de voar" - um balão
1712 - Joshua Barnes dies (b. 1654). English scholar.
1721 - Grinling Gibbons dies (b. 1648). Dutch-born woodcarver.
1748 - Carl Ludwig Junker was born. Composer.
1753 - Charles Stanhope was born. 3rd Earl Stanhope. British statesman and scientist. Inventor of the calculator.
1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner dies (b. 1691). German classical scholar.
1770 - King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia was born (d. 1840).

1779 - Criação da Academia Real de Marinha em Portugal
1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac dies (b. 1715). Philosopher.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1792 - Richard Arkwright dies (b. 1732). Industrialist, and inventor of the Water Frame
1797 - Jeffrey Amherst dies (b. 1717). British military commander.
1801 - Joseph Paxton, was born (d. 8 Jun 1865). English architect who designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London
1808 - Hamilton Fish, was born (d. 1893). Politician.
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, was born. Inventor (safe elevator)
1817 - Archduke Albert, was born. Austrian general
1823 - Thomas F. Meagher, was born. Irish rebel, convict and escapee in Australia, US Union general.

1833 - Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras dies (b. 1759). Mexican architect and painter (Fuente de Neptuno in Querétaro, El Carmen in Celaya , El Teatro Alarcón de San Luis Potosí...)
1833 - Auguste Schmidt was born (d. 1902). Feminist and teacher.
1856 - Alfred Deakin was born (d. 1919). Second Prime Minister of Australia.
1857 - Eugène Sue dies (b. 1804). French novelist.
1860 - W.K. Dickson, was born (b. 1935) . Scottish inventor.
1860 - Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
1867 - Stanley Baldwin was born (d. 1947). British Prime Minister.
1867 - Philipp August Böckh dies (b. 1785). Scholar and antiquarian.
1872 - King Haakon VII of Norway was born (d. 1957).
1877 - William Butler Ogden dies (b. 1805). First mayor of Chicago.

1877 - Elysio de Moura was born in Braga (d. 18 Jul 1977). Portuguese psychiatrist.
1879 - Joseph Severn dies (b. 1793). English painter.
1887 - Rupert Brooke was born in Rubgy, Warwickshire (d. 1915). English poet ("The Soldier,"-1914).
1894 - Harry Heilmann was born (d. 1951). Baseball player.

1898 - Charles Garnier dies (b. 1825). French architect.
1900 - Ernie Pyle was born in Indiana (d. 18 Apr 1945). War correspondent, journalist: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter [1944]
1900 - John T. Scopes was born (d. 1970). Defendant in the Monkey Trial.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1901 - Stefan Wyszynski was born (d. 1981). Primate of Poland.
1904 - Clifford D. Simak was born (d. 1988). Author.
1905 - Cardinal Franz König was born (d. 2004). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna.

1905 - Dolores Del Rio was born in Mexico. Actress (What Price Glory?).
1908 - Ernesto Geisel was born in Bento Gonçalves - RS (d. 1996). 41st President of Brazil (15 Mar 1974 - 15 Mar 1979).
1914 - First World War: Germany declares war against France / Primeira Guerra Mundial: a Alemanha declara guerra à França.
1916 - First World War: Battle of Romani is fought between forces of the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire.
1916 - Sir Roger Casement dies. Irish rebel (hanged)
1918 - Sidney Gottlieb was born (d. 1999). American Central Intelligence Agency official.
1918 - Les Elgart, was born. Musician, bandleader.
1920 - P.D. James, was born in Oxford. British mystery novelist (Innocent Blood).

1921 - Nasce em Lisboa, Humberto Madeira (m. 17 Jun 1971). Actor português.

1923 - Shenouda III of Alexandria, was born. Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
1923 - Calvin Coolidge is inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States.
1924 - Leon Uris, was born in Baltimore (d. 21 Jun 2003). American novelist (Exodus; Trinity)

1924 - Joseph Conrad dies (b. 1857). Polish-born writer.
1926 - Tony Bennett, was born. Grammy Award-winning singer: I Left My Heart in San Francisco [1962], MTV Unplugged [1994]; I Wanna Be Around, Who Can I Turn To, The Shadow of Your Smile, Because of You, Rags to Riches, Stranger in Paradise, In the Middle of an Island, The Good Life; appeared in film: The Oscar
1926 - Anthony Sampson, was born (d. 2004). British journalist and biographer
1929 - Emil Berliner dies (b. 1851). Telephone and recording pioneer.
1929 - Thorstein Veblen dies (b. 1857). Economist
1935 - Georgi Shonin was born (d. 1997). Cosmonaut.
1936 - Edward Petherbridge was born. Actor
1937 - Diane Wakoski was born. Poet
1937 - Steven Berkoff was born. British actor
1938 - Terry Wogan was born. Presenter
1940 - Martin Sheen was born in Dayton, Ohio. American actor (The West Wing, Apocalypse Now, J.F.K., Wall Street, Badlands, Ghandi, Gettysburg, The Final Countdown)

1940 - Lance Alworth was born. American football player
1940 - Second World War: Italy invades British Somaliland.

1941 - Beverly Lee was born. Singer (Shirelles)
1941 - Martha Stewart was born. Home economist, homemaker.
1942 - Richard Willstätter dies (b. 1872). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1915.
1946 - Jack Straw was born. British politician
1946 - National Basketball Association was founded in the United States.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, was born. Prime Minister of France
1950 - John Landis was born. Film director
1951 - Marcel Dionne was born. Hockey player
1951 - Jay North was born. Actor
1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles was born. Footballer .

1952 - The 15th Olympic Games concluded in Helsinki
1954 - Colette dies in Paris (b. 1873). French writer.
1958 - Nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1959 - Martin Atkins was born. Drummer
1959 - Koichi Tanaka was born. Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
1963 - James Hetfield was born. Musician (Metallica)
1964 - Flannery O'Connor dies (b. 1925). American writer.
1966 - Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose (b. 1925). Comedian.
1970 - Gina G was born. Australian singer
1972 - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1973 - R&B singer Stevie Wonder releases the classic album Innervisions.
1973 - Richard Marshall dies (b. 1895). General.
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1977 - United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
1977 - Tom Brady was born. American football player
1977 - Angela Beesley was born. British Internet entrepreneur
1977 - Alfred Lunt dies (b. 1892). Actor.
1977 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus dies (b. 1913)
1979 - Bertil Ohlin dies (b. 1899). Swedish economist.
1981 - In the United States, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walks off the job. All 13,000 members will eventually be fired by President Ronald Reagan.
1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally killed a seagull during a baseball game and was charged by police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quipped, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man."
1983 - Carolyn Jones dies (b. 1929). Actress.
1986 - Prince Louis Xavier Marie Guillaume was born. Prince of Luxembourg and of Nassau.

1989 - Hashemi Rafsanjani was sworn in as president of Iran.
1995 - Ida Lupino dies (b. 1914). Actress, director.
1995 - Edward Whittemore dies (b. 1933). Writer.

1996 - “Give your body happiness, Macarena...” Macarena (bayside boys mix), by Los Del Rio, hit #1 on Billboard
1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
1998 - Alfred Schnittke dies (b. 1934). Russian composer.
2000 - George W. Bush accepts the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Philadelphia.
2001 - Christopher Hewett dies. British actor.
2003 - Roger Voudouris dies. American singer and songwriter
2003 - Peter Safar dies (b. 12 Apr 1924). Austrian physician.
Equatorial Guinea - Armed Forces Day
Niger - Independence Day

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Grândola, vila morena - Zeca Afonso

Grândola, vila morena
Terra da fraternidade
O povo é quem mais ordena
Dentro de ti, ó cidade

Dentro de ti, ó cidade
O povo é quem mais ordena
Terra da fraternidade
Grândola, vila morena

Em cada esquina um amigo
Em cada rosto igualdade
Grândola, vila morena
Terra da fraternidade

Terra da fraternidade
Grândola, vila morena
Em cada rosto igualdade
O povo é quem mais ordena

À sombra duma azinheira
Que já não sabia a idade
Jurei ter por companheira
Grândola a tua vontade

Grândola a tua vontade
Jurei ter por companheira
À sombra duma azinheira
Que já não sabia a idade

Zeca Afonso (n. 2 Ago 1929, Aveiro ; † 23 Fev 1987, Setúbal)

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On this day in History - Aug 2

338 BC - Rise of Macedon: Philip II of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea.
216 BC - Punic Wars: In the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art / 216 a.C. O chefe cartaginês Haníbal (247 a.C.-183 a.C.), tendo atravessado os Alpes, e invadido a Itália com o seu exército, derrota um exército romano em Cannae. Morreram 50.000 legionários, um consul, 29 tribunos e 80 senadores, naquele que foi o maior desastre militar da história de Roma.
0461 - Majorian resigns as Western Roman Emperor; shortly afterwards Libius Severus is declared western Roman emperor by Ricimer
0640 - Severinus dies. Italian Pope.
0686 - Pope John V dies.
0932 - O califa omíada Abd al-Rahman III (891-961), fundador do Califado de Córdova, reocupou Toledo
1100 - King William (Rufus) II of England dies killed in New Forest, Hampshire (b.c. 1056) / Morre Guilherme II de Inglaterra, num alegado acidente de caça (n. cerca 1056)
1533 - Theodor Zwinger was born (d. 1588). Medical scholar.
1589 - King Henry III of France dies stabbed the previous day by Jacques Clement (b. 1551)
1611 - Kato Kiyomasa, dies (b. 1562). Japanese daimyo and samurai.
1672 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was born (d. 1733). Swiss scholar.
1674 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans was born (d. 1723). Regent of France.
1675 - Inauguração da Sinagoga Portuguesa de Amsterdão.
1696 - Mahmud I, was born (d. 1754). Ottoman Sultan.
1696 - Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, dies (b. 1630). Scottish military commander at the Massacre of Glencoe.
1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, was born (d. 1825). Architect, city planner.
1760 - Pope Leo XII was born.
1766 - Alvará, concedido a Augusto Ludovico Thymme, para a criação, em Lisboa, de uma fábrica de folhetas para a cravação de diamantes.
1769 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, dies (b. 1689). English politician.
1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin to sign the Declaration_of_Independence.
1788 - Leopold Gmelin, was born (d. 1853). Chemist.
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough dies (b. 1727). English artist.
1790 - First US Census; records are missing for five states: Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey and Virginia. Destroyed somewhere between that date and 1830.
1798 - Second Coalition: End of the Battle of the Nile between French and British navies; France defeated.
1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack was born (d. 1894). Writer.
1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi was born (d. 1904). Sculptor.
1835 - Elisha Gray, was born (d. 1901). American inventor and founder of Western Electric.
1838 - Portugal: O chefe guerrilheiro miguelista José Joaquim de Sousa Reis, conhecido pelo Remexido, é fuzilado. Tinha sido preso em 28 de Julho
1849 - Mehemet Ali dies. Paella of Egypt.
1854 - Milan I, was born. King of Serbia
1859 - Horace Mann dies (b. 1796). American educator and abolitionist.
1865 - Irving Babbitt, was born (d. 1933). American literary critic.
1868 - King Constantine I of Greece was born (d. 1923)
1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1869 - Irving Babbitt, critic and teacher, leader of the movement in literary criticism known as New Humanism, is born in Dayton, Ohio. He will be educated at Harvard and the Sorbonne, and gather T. S. Eliot and George Santayana as followers.
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1871 - John French Sloan was born (d. 1951). Artist.
1872 - Manuel Pardo, fundador del Partido Civilista, se convierte en presidente de Perú.
1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, dies (b. 1837). American gunfighter.
1880 - Nacimiento, en San Francisco de Macorís, Republica Dominicana, de Mercedes Mota Mota (m. 12 Mar 1964). Notable educadora y escritora.
1884 - Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas. Venezuelan writer and politician. President (elected) of Venezuela (1949-1952). In 1958 was awarded with The Nacional Prize for Literature.
1889 - Eduardo Gutiérrez dies in Buenos Aires (b. 15 Jul 1851). Novelist ( "Juan Moreira" "Santos Vega", "Hormiga negra" y "Croquis y siluetas militares" ).
1892 - Jack Warner was born (d. 1978). Canadian film producer.
1897 - Max Weber was born (d. 1974). Swiss Federal Councilor.
1900 - Helen Morgan, was born (d. 1941). Actress.
1903 - Fall of the Ottoman Empire: Unsuccessful uprising of the Bulgarians against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the Ilinden uprising.
1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, was born (d. 1963). Composer.
1905 - Myrna Loy, was born (d. 1993). Actress.
1905 - Rudolf Prack, was born (d. 1981). Actor.
1912 - Vladimir Zerjavic, was born (d. 2001). Statistician
1914 - Beatrice Straight, was born (d. 2001). Actress.
1914 - Junji Kinoshita, is born in Tokyo. Japanese playwright and leaderin the attempt to revitalize the post - Worl War II theater. Yuzuru (Twilight Crane, 1949) being an Kaeru Shoten ("Ascension of the Frog," 1951) and Shimpan (The Judgement, 1970).
1915 - Gary Merrill, was born (d. 1990). Actor.
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1921 - Enrico Caruso, dies (b. 1873). Italian tenor.
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, dies in Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia (b. 3 Mar 1847). Scottish inventor of the telephone.
1923 - Warren G. Harding, dies (b. 1865). 29th President of the United States
1924 - James Baldwin, was born in Harlem Hospital, New York City (d. 1 Dec 1987). American author."The Fire the Next Time," "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and "Notes of a Native Son."
1924 - Carroll O'Connor, was born (d. 2001). Actor
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, was born. Argentinian dictator (1976-1981).
1929 - Nasce em Aveiro Zeca Afonso, (José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos) músico de intervenção (Grândola Vila Morena)
1932 - Peter O'Toole was born. Irish actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia )
1933 - Lorenzo Milam was born. Author and broadcaster.
1933 - Machel del Castillo, is born in Madrid. He will become famous at 24 with the short novel, Tanguy (Child of Our Time), which, like The Diary of Anne Frank, told with the poignancy of a child's witness to cruel historical events, tells of his actual experiences as a political refugee and a prisoner in concentration camps.
1934 - Valery Bykovsky was born. Cosmonaut
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1934 - Paul von Hindenburg, dies (b. 1847). German general and politician. / O general Hindenbourg (1847-1934) , presidente em exercício da Alemanha, morre com 87 anos. Será substituído nas funções presidenciais por Adolf Hitler, enquanto Fuhrer da Alemanha.
1936 - Louis Blériot, dies (b. 1872). French aviation pioneer.
1937 - Garth Hudson was born. Canadian musician, organist/keyboardist with The Band
1939 - Wes Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Film director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream ).
1939 - Harvey Spencer Lewis dies (b. 1883). Founder of AMORC.
1939 - Albert Einstein escreveu uma carta ao Presidente americano Franklin D. Roosevelt sobre a possibilidade da existência de armas atómicas
1941 - Doris Coley was born (d. 2000). Singer (Shirelles).
1942 - Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru.Niece of the former Chilean president Salvador Allende. Author. (La casa de los espíritus - The House of the Spirits )
1943 - PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy aboard, sinks.
1944 - Beginning of the Treblinka uprising.
1944 - Jim Capaldi was born (d. 28 Jan 2005). British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic)
1944 - Felix Nussbaum, dies assassinated in Auschwitz . German painter
1944 - Nasce Altamiro Barbosa Machado (m. 2001). Professor catedrático e director do Departamento de Sistemas de Informação (DSI) da Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
1945 - World War II: Potsdam Conference, in which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, concludes.
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, dies (b. 1863). Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana).
1947 - Maria de los Angeles Santamaria, “Massiel”, was born. Spanish singer.
1947 - Tomás Berreta dies. Uruguay statesman.
1947 - Demite-se o Governo chileno: González Videla forma um novo com personalidades independentes.
1948 - Dennis Prager was born. Radio talk show host and author
1950 - The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was published on Yankee Stadium, New York.
1951 - Lance Ito was born. American judge
1953 - Butch Patrick was born. Actor
1955 - Velcro is patented.
1955 - Fray Justino Russolillo, dies. Religious.
1956 - Isabel Pantoja, was born. Spanish singer.
1957 - Mojo Nixon was born. Musician and actor
1957 - Nasce João Klèber, apresentador de televisão
1961 - Linda Fratianne was born. Figure skater
1963 - Oliver La Farge dies in Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 19 Dec 1901). American anthropologist who wrote novels and nonfiction books covering Native American life, and also spoke for the American Indian through his political actions. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1930 for Laughing Boy; [Laughing Boy (1929, novel) The Sparks Fly Upward (1931, novel) Long Pennant (1933, novel) All the Young Men (1935, short stories) The Enemy Gods (1937, novel)The Copper Pot (1942, novel)Raw Material (1945, memoir) A Pause in the Desert (1957, short stories)The Door in the Wall (1965, short stories, posthumous)]
1964 - Mary-Louise Parker was born. Actress
1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
1964 - José María Castro dies. Argentine musician.
1967 - The second Blackwall Tunnel opened in Greenwich, London.
1968 - Stefan Efenberg was born. German footballer.
1969 - Fernando Couto, was born. Portuguese footballer
1970 - Tony Amonte was born. Hockey player
1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
1970 - Kevin Smith was born. Actor, director, and screenwriter ( Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks).
1970 - Ocurrió el primer secuestro aéreo de la historia, con el de un avión Boeing 747 que, con 378 pasajeros, fue desviado hacia Cuba cuando volaba desde Nueva York a Puerto Rico
1971 - Pete Sampras was born. Tennis champ, U.S. Open 1990
1974 - Jeremy Castle was born. Singer and songwriter
1975 - Xu Huaiwen was born. German badminton player
1975 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, the Superdome officially opens with an American football game between the New Orleans Saints and Houston Oilers.
1976 - An intruder breaks into Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. Priscilla Davis and a friend are injured while Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr are killed. T. Cullen Davis is tried and found innocent of the crime.
1976 - Fritz Lang dies (b. 1890). Film director.
1976 - Stan Farr dies. Basketball player.
1977 - Edward Furlong was born. Actor
1978 - Carlos Chávez dies. Mexican composer
1978 - Oscar Viale dies (b. 2 Ago 1944). Actor and playwright.
1979 - Thurman Munson dies. Baseball player
1980 - Hard rock band AC/DC release Back in Black, their first album with lead singer Brian Johnson and their best-selling.
1980 - Donald Stewart, dies in London, England. American humorist, actor, playright, Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
1982 - Hélder Postiga was born. Portuguese footballer.
1982 - John Malkovich /Glenne Headly marriage
1985 - A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas, killing 137.
1985 - Se aprueba en España la ley del aborto.
1986 - Roy Cohn dies (b.1927). American politician and anti-communist.
1987 - Morre no Brasil o General João Sarmento Pimentel (n. 14 Jul 1888 em Mirandela). Um dos fundadores do Pertido Socialista. Grande lutador pela liberdade e democracia em Portugal
1988 - Raymond Carver dies (b. 1938). Writer, poet.
1990 - Norman Mclean dies (b. 1902). Writer.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1991 Início dos Jogos Pan-Americanos em Cuba
1991 - Hallie Kate Eisenberg was born. Actress.
1994 - Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.
1996 - Muere el jugador de fútbol Obdulio Varela, símbolo del fútbol de Uruguay, campeón del Mundo en 1950.
1997 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
1997 - William S. Burroughs, dies (b. 1914). Writer.
1998 - Shari Lewis dies (b. 1933). Puppeteer.
1999.- Un choque frontal de dos trenes de pasajeros en la estación de Gaisal, en el Estado indio de Bengala Occidental, causa la muerte de 288 personas y heridas a un millar.
2002 - Morre em Setúbal, Fernando Bandeira Ferreira (n. 2 Set 1920). Arqueólogo português.
2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels declared the official end to their nearly three-decade old civil war.
2003 - A 65th anniversary edition of The Beano is released.
2003 - Don Estelle, dies. British actor
2003 - Mike Levey dies. American television personality
2004 - Wilhelm Fresenius dies (b. 1913). German chemist.
2004 - Don Tosti dies (b. 1923). Musician.
2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, dies. French photographer.
Costa Rica - Our Lady of the Angels
Bulgaria/Republic of Macedonia - Ilinden (St. Ilya Day), a day of remembrance of the Ilinden Uprising

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Soneto - Angelo de Lima

Pára-me de repente o pensamento
Como que de repente refreado
Na doida correria em que levado
Ia em busca da paz, do esquecimento...

Pára surpreso, escrutador, atento,
Como pára um cavalo alucinado
Ante um abismo súbito rasgado...
Pára e fica e demora-se um momento.

Pára e fica na doida correria...
Pára à beira do abismo e se demora
E mergulha na noite escura e fria

Um olhar de aço que essa noite explora...
Mas a espora da dor seu flanco estria
E ele galga e prossegue sob a espora.

Do livro: "Líricas Portuguesas", seleção, prefácio e notas de Cabral do Nascimento, Portugália Editora, 1945, Portugal

Ângelo de Lima (n. Porto 31 Jul 1872; m. Lisboa 14 Ago 1921)

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On this day in History - Aug 1

10 BC - Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Drusus) was born (d. 0054). Roman emperor.

0067 - As legiões romanas comandadas pelo imperador romano Tito ocupam Jerusalém e começam a destruir o Templo.
0126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax, was born (d. 0193). Roman Emperor.
0371 - St Eusebius of Vercelli, dies. Italian bishop

0432 - Pope Celestine I dies

0527 - Justinian I becomes Byzantine Emperor.
0607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
1137 - King Louis VI of France dies (b. 1081)
1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa dies (b. 1179). The first of Shimazu clan and Japanese warlord
1291 - The Swiss Confederation is formed.
1464 - Cosimo de' Medici dies (b. 1386). Ruler of Florence.
1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain.
1461 - Edward IV is crowned king of England.
1498 - Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.
1598 - Abraham Ortelius dies (b. 1527). Belgian cartographer.
1619 - First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
1630 - Thomas Clifford was born (d. 1673). 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman.
1714 - Queen Anne of Great Britain dies (b. 1665). George I, of the House of Hanover succedeed her.

1743 - Richard Savage (the subject of one of the best short biographies in English, Samuel Johnson's Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage -1744), dies in Bristol.

1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck,was born (d. 1829). Scientist.
1770 - William Clark, was born (d. 1838). Explorer.
1774 - The element oxygen is discovered by Carl Wilhelm and Joseph Priestley.
1776 - Formal signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1779 - Francis Scott Key was born (d. 1843). American lawyer and lyricist.
1787 - Alphonsus Liguori dies (b. 1696). Italian founder of the Redemptionist order.
1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins in Pennsylvania.
1798 - Battle of the Nile starts between French and British fleets.

1808 - Começa a Guerra Peninsular com o desembarque do Duque de Wellington em Portugal.
1815 - Richard Henry Dana, Jr. was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1882). Lawyer, politician, and author (Two Years Before the Mast).
1818 - Maria Mitchell was born (d. 1889). Astronomer.
1819 - Herman Melville was born (d. 1891). American writer (Moby Dick).

1819 - Nascimento de Manuel José Gonçalves Couto, missionário pedâneo, autor da Missão Abreviada.
1820 - London's Regent's Canal opens.

1826 - Francisco Manuel Trigoso de Aragão Morato toma posse como ministro do reino de Portugal, substituindo José Correia de Lacerda.
1831 - London Bridge opens.
1832 - The Black Hawk War ends.

1832 - Nascimento de Victor Meirelles de Lima. Pintor brasileiro.
1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
1838 - Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.

1838 - Queen Victoria I of England is crowned.
1858 - Hans Rott was born (d. 1884). Composer.
1864 - The Elgin Watch Company is founded in Elgin, Illinois
1876 - Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

1881 - Rose Macaulay was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. Author of novels and travel books [ Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), Told by an Idiot (1923), Crewe Train (1926), Keeping Up Appearances (1928)].
1885 - George de Hevesy was born (d. 1966). Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1889 - Maria Mitchell dies. American astronomer
1891 - Karl Kobelt was born (d. 1968). Swiss politician.
1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
1902 - The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France.

1903 - É fundado o Boavista Futebol Clube.
1907 - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.
1917 - Frank Little dies lynched.American labor organizer.
1918 - John Riley Banister dies (b. 1854). American cowboy and Texas Ranger.
1921 - Jack Kramer was born. American tennis player
1922 - Arthur Hill was born. Actor .
1922 - Pat McDonald was born (d. 1990). Actress.
1924 - Georges Charpak was born. Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Ernst Jandl was born (d. 2000).

1925 - Domingos Leite Pereira toma posse como primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo António Maria da Silva.

1926 - Morte de Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), escritor inglês teórico do sionismo.
1927 - Raymond Leppard was born. English conductor
1927 - The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
1930 - Pierre Bourdieu was born (d. 2002). French sociologist.
1931- Tom Wilson was born. Cartoonist
1932 - Meir Kahane was born (d. 1990). Founder of the Jewish Defense League
1933 - Dom DeLuise was born. Actor, comedian .

1935 - Inauguração oficial das transmissões da Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão, actual RDP
1936 - Yves Saint Laurent was born. French fashion designer
1936 - The Berlin Olympic Games open. The 11th Olympic games, dubbed "The Nazi Games," opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler. Jesse Owens won four gold medals including the 100-meter dash--becoming the world's fastest man. Owens also set new Olympic records in the long jump, the 200-meter dash and the 4 x 100-meter relay. It had been 36 years since a track-and-field athlete had won three gold medals in one Olympics
1937 - Al D'Amato was born. U.S. Senator from New York .

1939 - Synthetic vitamin K was produced for the first time.
1941 - The first Jeep is produced.
1942 - Jerry Garcia was born (d. 1995). Guitarist, lyricist, singer (The Grateful Dead) .
1942 - Sjoukje Dijkstra was born. Dutch figure skater
1944 - Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary.
1944 - Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1945 - Mel Ott becomes the third member of the 500 home run club with a home run at the Polo Grounds in New York, New York.
1945 - Douglas D. Osheroff was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1946 - Fiona Stanley was born. Australian epidemiologist
1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
1948 - The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1950 - Jim Carroll was born. Poet, actor .
1953 - Robert Cray was born. Blues singer
1955 - Trevor Berbick was born. Jamaican boxer
1956 - Tom Leykis was born. Radio personality
1957 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1959 - Joe Elliott was born. Musician (Def Leppard)
1960 - Chuck D was born. Rapper (Public Enemy)
1960 - Richard Roeper was born. Newspaper columnist and film critic
1960 - Benin declares independence from France
1961 - Six Flags Over Texas, the first Six Flags park, opens.
1963 - Coolio was born. Rapper
1964 - Johnny Burnette dies (b. 1934). Singer.
1965 - Sam Mendes was born. Film director
1965 - Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg.
1966 - Charles Whitman kills 15 people shooting from a tower at the University of Texas in Austin, in the United States, before being killed by the police.
1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1967 - Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
1967 - Richard Kuhn dies (b. 1900). Austrian chemist, 1938 Nobel Prize laureate.
1970 - Frances Farmer dies (b. 1913). Actress.
1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival

1970 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, dies. German physicist. Nobel Prize for Medicina in 1931.
1971 - George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in New York City features, among others, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Leon Russell.
1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe was born. Actress.
1973 - Gian Francesco Malipiero dies. Italian composer .

1976 - Começam em Montreal os XXI Jogos Olímpicos da era moderna.
1977 - Gary Powers dies (b. 1929). American spy plane pilot.

1977 - Morre o Cardeal Cerejeira (D. Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira) (n. 29 Nov. 1888). Cardeal patriarca de Lisboa.
1978 - Edgerrin James was born. American football player.

1979 - Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo torna-se a primeira mulher a ocupar o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal, substituindo Carlos de Mota Pinto.
1981 - Taylor Fry was born. Actress.
1981 - First broadcasts by MTV. The first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
1981 - Paddy Chayefsky dies (b. 1923). American writer.

1985 - Morte do pintor brasileiro Bernardino de Souza Pereira
1989 - John Ogdon dies (b. 1937). English pianist.
1990 - Graham Young dies (b. 1947). British serial killer.
1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumours that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
1996 - Olympic Games: Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.32 seconds, beating the old world record by over 0.3 seconds.
1996 - Frida Boccara dies (b. 1940). French singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner.
1996 - Tadeus Reichstein dies (b. 1897). Polish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1999 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri dies (b. 1897). Anglo-Indian writer.
2001 - Korey Stringer dies (b. 1974). American football player.
2001 - In talks between the government and representatives of the Albanian minority in the Republic of Macedonia, an agreement is reached on the position of the Albanian language in the Republic.
2001 - Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
2003 - Guy Thys dies. Belgian football coach
2003 - Marie Trintignant dies. French actress
2004 - Philip Hauge Abelson dies (b. 1913). Physicist.
2004 - A supermarket fire kills 215 people and injures 300 in Asunción, Paraguay. / Um incêndio num supermercado em Assunção, Paraguai, mata ao menos 464 pessoas e fere outras 409.
2005 - German spelling reform of 1996 to be formally implemented
Orthodox Christianity - Procession of the Cross
Angola - Armed Forces Day
Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago - Emancipation Day
Benin - National Day
People's Republic of China - Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Liberation Army
Democratic Republic of Congo - Parent's Day
Nicaragua - Fiesta Day
Rastafari movement - Celebration of the liberation of Haile Selassie from slavery
Switzerland - National Day
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Kamál (Perfection) - First day of the eighth month of the Bahá'í Calendar
Lughnasadh - Lá Lúnasa, the traditional first day of Autumn in Ireland.
Lammas - Neopagan festival of Lammas
Lebanon - Army's Day (Eid al-Jaysh)
Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Day

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