marilyn blows cannes

Festival de Cannes 2012, com um cartaz dos anos 1950.

on this day 9 april

Os dias servem para nos orientarmos e recordarmos. Por isso, hoje é Remembrance Day. Ora vejamos algumas coisas que aconteceram a 9 de Abril (do que se sabe desde que a contagem começou a ser feita desta forma):

9 de Abril é o 99º dia do ano no calendário gregoriano (100º em anos bissextos). Faltam 266 para acabar o ano.

• 715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
• 1241 - Batalha de Legnica, vitória mongol sobre os exércitos poloneses e alemães.
•  1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris) 
• 1721 - Um terramoto causa 250 mil mortos na Pérsia. 
• 1770 Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia) - the portuguese were the first being there, but not claimed the discovery
• 1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain
• 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
• 1867 – Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
• 1903 - Gregory Pincus, American endocrinologist; helped develop the birth control pill.
• 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown, Ireland for New York  
• 1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs. Harvard)
• 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
• 1940 Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders 
• 1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance  
• 1957 NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration introduces America's first 7 astronauts to the world
• 1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary U.S. citizen
• 1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out  
• 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta 
• 1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)  
• 1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles 
• 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins  
• 1979 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win 
• 1991 Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0 
•  2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces;Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

Nascimentos:

• 2 AC - Jesus de Nazareth 
• 1821 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
• 1865 - Abade de Baçal, arqueólogo e historiador português (m. 1947).
• 1921 - George David Weiss,American author who wrote the song Wonderful World
• 1926 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founder of Playboy Enterprises
• 1933 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
• 1942 -  Adriano Correia de Oliveira, músico e cantor português
• 1946 - 1946 - Manuel José de Jesus, treinador de futebol português.
• 1948 - 1948 - Bagão Felix, político português.
• 1954 – Dennis Quaid, American actor
• 1957 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011)
• 1963 – Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
• 1966 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress
• 1971 – Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver
• 1974 – Jenna Jameson, American porn actress and model
• 1975 – Robbie Fowler, English footballer
• 1979 – Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
• 1979 – Katsuni, French porn actress
• 1981 – Emot was born in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
• 1982 – Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
• 1990 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
• 1998 – Elle Fanning, American actress

Mortes

• 715 – Pope Constantine

rei Eduardo IV de Inglaterra (1483), François Rabelais, escritor francês (1553), Francis Bacon, filósofo, ensaísta e estadista inglês (1626), Sigfrid Karg-Elert, compositor alemão (1933), Frank Lloyd Wright, arquiteto norte-americano (1959) e Sindney Lumet, realizador norte-americano (2011).
 (...)

wallace, o justo

Nasceu em 1918, a 9 de Maio. Foi actor, soldado (na II Grande Guerra), jornalista (na rádio e na televisão), fez anúncios e pôs à prova líderes, tiranos, carniceiros e mitos. Distinguiu-se como jornalista do programa 60 Minutes e passou décadas no topo da informação política. Mike Wallace morreu ontem, aos 93 anos. Olhar para a história de vida dele é passar os olhos pela história contemporânea.