O Idílio Suave - Guilherme de Almeida (na data em que se completa 40 anos sobre a sua morte)

Chegas. Vens tão ligeira
e és tão ansiosamente esperada, que enfim,
nem te sentindo o passo e já te tendo inteira,
completamente em mim,
quando, toda Watteau, silenciosa, apareces,
é como se não viesses.

Vens... E ficas tão perto
de mim, e tão diluída em minha solidão,
que eu me sinto sozinho e acho imenso e deserto
e vazio o salão...
E, sem te ouvir nem ver, arde-me em febre a face,
como se eu te esperasse!

Partes. Mas é tão pouco
o que de ti se vai que ainda te vejo o arfar
do seio, e o teu cabelo, e o teu vestido louco,
e a carícia do olhar,
e a tua boca em flor a dizer-me doidices,
como se não partisses!

in Poesia Brasileira do Século XX Dos Modernistas à Actualidade; Edições Antígona

Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida (n. em Campinas, São Paulo a 24 de Jul de 1890; m. em São Paulo a 11 de Jul 1969)

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On this day in History - Jul 11

• 0472 - Anthemius dies. Emperor of the Western Empire (legal murder).
• 0911 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy.
• 0937 - King Rudolph II of Burgundy dies.
• 0969 - Olga of Kiev dies.
• 1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan.
• 1174 - King Amalric I of Jerusalem dies (b. 1136).
• 1183 - Otto I Wittelsbach dies. Duke of Bavaria.
• 1216 - Hendrik of Constantinople dies. Emperor of Constantinople (1206-16).
• 1274 - Robert the Bruce was born in Turnberry, Scotland (d. 1329). King of Scotland (1306-1329).
• 1276 - Início do pontificado do Papa Adriano V.
• 1302 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) - the Flemish cities beat the king of France.
• 1302 - Robert II of Artois dies (b. 1250). French soldier.
• 1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1366 - Anne of Bohemia was born (d. 1394). Consort of Richard II of England.
• 1405 - Chinese fleet commander Zheng He set sail to explore the world for the first time.
• 1476 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.
• 1533 - King Henry VIII of England who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.
• 1535 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg dies (b. 1484).
• 1581 - Peder Skram dies. Danish senator and naval hero.
• 1561 - Luis de Góngora was born (d. 1627). Spanish poet.
• 1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
• 1603 - Kenelm Digby was born (d. 1665). English privateer.
• 1616 - Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
• 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni was born (d. 1701). Japanese warlord.
• 1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia was born (d. 1713).
• 1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria was born (d. 1726).
• 1688 - King Narai of Siam dies (b. 1629).
• 1679 - William Chamberlayne dies (b. 1619). English poet.
• 1709 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius was born (d. 1785). Swedish chemist.
• 1723 - Jean-François Marmontel was born (d. 1799). French historian and writer.
• 1735 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
• 1740 - Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
• 1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia almost completely destroyed by fire.
• 1751 - Caroline Matilda of Wales was born(d. 1775). Queen consort of Denmark and Norway.
• 1754 - Thomas Bowdler was born (d. 1825). English physican and censor.
• 1766 - Elizabeth Farnese dies (b. 1692). Wife of Philip V of Spain.
• 1767 - John Quincy Adams was born (d. 1848). President of the United States.
• 1774 - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet dies. Irish-born New York pioneer.
• 1775 - Simon Boerum dies (b. 1724). American Continental Congressman.
• 1776 - Captain James Cook begins third voyage.
• 1789 - Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France sparking the Storming of the Bastille / O rei de França, Luís XVI, demite o seu ministro das finanças, Necker. O afastamento de Necker vai fomentar os distúrbios em Paris.
• 1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
• 1797 - Ienăchiţă Văcărescu dies (b. 1740). Wallachian writer.
• 1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.1804 - Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
• 1804 - Alexander Hamilton dies in an duel (b. 1757). United States Secretary of the Treasury.
• 1806 - James Smith dies. American signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• 1811 - Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir about molecular content of gases.
• 1822 - As Cortes Constituintes votam a Constituição. Foi a primeira Constituição portuguesa.
• 1825 - Thomas P. Grosvenor dies (b. 1744). American Revolutionary War soldier.
• 1826 - Alexander Afanasyev was born (d. 1871). Russian folklorist.
• 1832 - Charilaos Trikoupis was born (d. 1896). Greek politician.
• 1832 - Carlos Holguín Mallarino was born. President of Colombia (1888-1892).
• 1836 - Carlos Gomes (António Carlos Gomes) was born in Campinas, S. Paulo. Brazilian composer.
• 1839 - Anatacio Bustamante assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do México.
• 1844 - King Peter of Serbia was born (d. 1921).
• 1844 - Evgeny Baratynsky dies (b. 1800). Russian poet.
• 1846 - Leon Bloy was born (d. 1917). French writer.
• 1848 - The Waterloo railway station in London opens.
• 1850 - Annie Armstrong was born. American missionary leader.
• 1851 - Millie and Christine McCoy were born (d. 1912). Conjoined twins.
• 1857 - Alfred Binet was born (d. 1911). French psychologist.
• 1859 - A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published.
• 1864 - Confederate forces attempt an invasion of Washington DC.
• 1864 - Petar Danov was born (d. 1944). Bulgarian spiritual teacher.
• 1866 - Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was born (d. 1953).
• 1882 - The British Mediterranean fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
• 1886 - Boris Grigoriev was borrn (d. 1939). Russian painter.
• 1889 - Tijuana, Mexico was founded.
• 1892 - Thomas Mitchell was born in Elisabeth, New Jersey (17 Dez 1962). American actor.
  1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
• 1895 - The brothers Lumière show film for scientists.
• 1895 - Dolly Wilde was born (d. 1941). English socialite.
• 1897 - Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to try to reach the North pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• 1897 - Eugene "Bull" Connor was born (d. 1973). American law enforcement official who was Sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama.
• 1899 - E. B. White was born (d. 1985). American writer.
• 1902 - Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was born in São Paulo. Brazilian historian, journalist and writer.
• 1903 - O. E. Hasse was born (d. 1978). Actor.
• 1903 - Sidney Franklin was born (d. 1976). American bullfighter.
• 1903 - Rudolf Abel was born (d. 1971). Soviet intelligence officer.
• 1906 - Gillette-Brown murder inspires Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
• 1906 - Herbert Wehner was born (d. 1990). German politician.
• 1909 - Simon Newcomb dies (b. 1835). American astronomer and mathematician.
• 1910 - Irene Hervey was born (d. 1998). American actress.
• 1913 - Cordwainer Smith was born (d. 1966). American writer.
• 1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in major league baseball.
• 1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov was born (d. 2002). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics laureate in 1964 (with Nikolay G. Basov, USSR and Charles H. Townes, USA), "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle".
• 1916 - Bertrand Russell is suspended from Cambridge University for his protests against the First World War and had previously been fined for pacifist activities.
• 1916 - Gough Whitlam was born. Twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1916 - Reg Varney was born. English actor.
• 1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.
• 1920 - Yul Brynner was born. Russian-born actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).
• 1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France dies (b. 1826).
• 1921 - Truce called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
• 1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
• 1921 - Outer Mongolia becomes independent (from China).
• 1921 - Ilse Werner was born. Dutch-born actress.
• 1922 - Hollywood Bowl opens.
• 1922 - Gene Evans was born (d. 1998). American actor.
• 1923 - José de Abreu Albano dies in Montauban (France) (b. 12 Apr 1882). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1924 - César Lattes was born (d. 2005). Brazilian physicist.
• 1924 - Charlie Tully was born (d. 1971). Northern Irish footballer.
• 1924 - Brett Somers was born. Canadian actor.
• 1925 - Nicolai Gedda was born. Swedish tenor.
• 1926 - Frederick Buechner was born. American author.
• 1927 - Theodore H. Maiman was born. Physicist.
• 1929 - Hermann Prey was born (d. 1998). German baritone.
• 1929 - David Kelly (actor) was born. Irish actor.
• 1929 - William Mosforth dies (b. 1857). English footballer,
• 1929 - Luís Norton Barreto Murat dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 4 May 1861). Brazilian poet, revolutionary and abolicionist.
• 1930 - Harold Bloom was born. American literary critic.
• 1931 - Tab Hunter was born. American actor.
• 1931 - Tullio Regge was born. Italian physicist.
• 1931 - Thurston Harris was born (d. 1990). American singer.
• 1932 - Jean-Guy Talbot was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1933 - Bob McGrath was born. American actor.
• 1934 - Giorgio Armani was born. Italian fashion designer.
• 1935 - Oliver Napier was born. Northern Irish politician.
• 1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opened to traffic.
• 1936 - James Murray dies (b. 1901). American actor.
• 1937 - Pai Hsien-yung was born. Taiwanese writer.
• 1937 - George Gershwin dies (b. 26 Sep 1898). American composer.
• 1938 - Afonso Celso dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 31 Mar 1860). Brazilian poet and politician.
• 1939 - Seth Gaaikema was born. Dutch comedian.
• 1940 - World War II: Vichy France regime formally established. Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1940 - Yvon Charbonneau was born. French Canadian union leader and politician.
• 1941 - Clive Puzey was born. Zimbabwean racing driver.
• 1943 - Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.
• 1943 - World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily - German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
• 1943 - Rolf Stommelen was born (d. 1983). German race car driver.
• 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as president of the United States.
• 1944 - Myra Gale Brown was born. Former wife of Jerry Lee Lewis.
• 1945 - Patrick Joseph McGrath was born. Catholic bishop.
• 1946 - Cuthbert Johnson was born. Benedictine abbot.
• 1947 - The Exodus 1947 heads to Palestine from France.
• 1947 - Bo Lundgren was born. Swedish politician.
• 1949 - Liona Boyd was born. English-born musician.
• 1950 - Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank.
• 1950 - Bruce McGill was born. American actor.
• 1950 - Pervez Hoodbhoy was born. Pakistani nuclear physicist.
• 1950 - J.R. Morgan was born. British classical scholar.
• 1950 - Bonnie Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).
• 1952 - Bill Barber was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1952 - John Kettley was born. English weather forecaster.
• n Spinks was born. American former boxer.
• 1953 - Mindy Sterling was born. American actress.
• 1953 - Peter Brown was born. American singer, songwriter and producer.
• 1953 - Margarida Martins was born. Portuguese founder of the solidarity institution «Abraço».
• 1954 - Butch Reed was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.
• 1956 - Sela Ward was born. American actress.
• 1957 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
• 1957 - Michael Rose was born. Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru).
• 1957 - Peter Murphy was born. British musician - (Bauhaus).
• 1958 - Andrew Gilbert-Scott was born. British racing driver.
• 1958 - Hugo Sánchez was born. Mexican footballer.
• 1958 - Lúcia Veríssimo was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actress.
• 1959 - Suzanne Vega was born in Santa Monica, California. American singer.
• 1959 - Richie Sambora was born. Guitarist (Bon Jovi).
• 1959 - Charlie Parker dies (b. 1882). English cricketer.
• 1960 - Dahomey (now Benin), Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and Niger all gain independence.
• 1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
• 1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
• 1962 - Soviet cosmonaut Nikolayev is four days in space, a record.
• 1962 - Gaetan Duchesne was born (d. 2007). French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1962 - Pauline McLynn was born. Irish actress.
• 1963 - Al MacInnis was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1963 - Lisa Rinna was born. American actress.
• 1963 - Sandra Schmirler was born (d. 2000). Canadian curler.
• 1964 - Craig Charles was born. English actor.
• 1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family.
• 1965 - Ernesto Hoost was born. Dutch kickboxer.
• 1965 - Tony Cottee was born. English footballer.
• 1965 - Scott Shriner was born. American musician (Weezer).
• 1966 - Fifa World Cup begins in England.
• 1966 - Greg Grunberg was born. American actor.
• 1966 - Mick Molloy was born. Australian comedian.
• 1966 - Delmore Schwartz dies (b. 1913). American poet.
• 1967 - Jeff Corwin was born. American naturalist and TV personality.
• 1967 - Guy Favreau dies (b. 1917). French Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
• 1968 - Michael Geist was born. Canadian academic.
• 1968 - Esera Tuaolo was born. American football player.
• 1968 - “Once Upon a Time in the West” premiered at German cinemas. It immediately became an international blockbuster due to its star cast (Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Henry Fonda), as well as its music.
• 1969 - David Tao was born. Taiwanese singer-songwriter.
• 1969 - Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida dies in São Paulo (b. 124 Jul 1890). Brazilian writer and poet.
• 1970 - Justin Chambers was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Copper mines in Chile nationalized.
• 1971 - Brett Hauer was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1971 - Leisha Hailey was born. American actress and musician Uh Huh Her (band).
• 1971 - John W. Campbell dies (b. 1910). American writer and editor.
• 1971 - Pedro Rodríguez dies (b. 1940). Mexican racing driver.
• 1972 - Michael Rosenbaum was born in Oceanside, New York. American actor.
• 1972 - Steven Richards was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1972 - Jussi 69 was born. Finnish musician (The 69 Eyes).
• 1973 - A Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris on approach to Orly Airport, resulting in he death of 122 people.
• 1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris was born. Greek athlete.
• 1973 - Andrew Bird was born. American musician.
• 1974 - André Ooijer was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson was born. Icelandic footballer.
• 1974 -Pär Lagerkvist dies (b. 1891). Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1975 - Chinese archaeologists discover a large burial site with 6,000 clay statutes of warriors from 221 BC.
• 1975 - Lil' Kim was born. American rapper.
• 1975 - Willie Anderson was born. American football player.
• 1975 - Rubén Baraja was born. Spanish footballer.
• 1975 - Riona Hazuki was born. Japanese actress.
• 1975 - Samer el Nahhal was born. Finnish musician (Lordi).
• 1976 - Eduardo Najera was born. Mexican-born basketball player.
• 1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously rewarded the Medal of Freedom.
• 1977 - Brandon Short was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Javier López was born. Puerto Rican baseball player.
• 1978 - Los Alfaques Disaster: a truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
• 1979 - The space station Skylab returns to Earth.
• 1979 - Claude Wagner dies (b. 1925). French Canadian judge and politician.
• 1979 - Lucília Fraga dies (b. 1895). Brazilian painter.
• 1980 – Im Su-jeong was born. South Korean model and actress.
• 1980 - T.J. Wilson was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1981 - Andre Johnson was born. American football player.
• 1981 - Carla Campbell was born. Jamaican model.
• 1981 - Aaron Proctor was born. American professional wrestling promoter & politician.
• 1981 - Diana Chaves was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1982 - Defeating West Germany 3–1 at Santiago Bernabéu stadium, Italy wins 1982 edition of the Football World Cup.
• 1982 - Chris Cooley was born. American football player.
• 1982 - Lil' Zane was born. American rapper.
• 1983 - A Boeing 727 crashes into hilly terrain after a tail strike in Cuenca, Ecuador, claiming 119 lives.
• 1983 - Kelly Poon was born. Singaporean singer.
• 1983 - Marie Eleonor Serneholt was born. Swedish musician (A*Teens).
• 1983 - Peter Cincotti was born. American singer songwriter.
• 1983 - Evan Roberts was born. American radio broadcaster.
• 1983 - Ross Macdonald dies (b. 1915). American-Canadian writer.
• 1984 - Yorman Bazardo was born. Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1984 - Rachael Taylor was born. Australian actress.
• 1984 - Tanith Belbin was born. Canadian ice dancer.
• 1984 - Hitomi Hyuga was born. Japanese actress.
• 1985 - Aki Maeda was born. Japanese actress.
• 1986 - Yoann Gourcuff was born. French footballer.
• 1986 - Ryan Jarvis was born. English footballer.
• 1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.
• 1987 - Shigeaki Kato was born. Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band)).
• 1987 - Avi Ran dies (b. 1963). Israeli footballer.
• 1989 - David Henrie was born. American actor.
• 1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier dies (b. 1907). English stage and screen actor.
• 1990 - Oka Crisis in Quebec.
• 1990 - Caroline Wozniacki was born. Danish tennis player.
• 1990 - Connor Paolo was born. American actor.
• 1991 - A Nationair DC-8 crashed during an emergency landing at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 261. The Canadian charter was ferrying Hajj pilgrims on behalf of Nigeria Airways.
• 1991 - Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico.
• 1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi dies (b. 1947). English-Japanese translator of the Satanic Verses.
• 1994 - Gary Kildall dies (b. 1942). American computer programmer.
• 1994 - Savannah dies (b. 1970). American actress.
• 1994 - Gary Kildall dies. American computer programmer.
• 1994 - Shannon Wilsey dies (b. 1970). Best known as Savannah. American porno actress.
• 1995 - Full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and Vietnam.
• 1995 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov An-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba killing 44 people.
• 1995 - Bosnian Serbs capture the Muslim city of Srebrenica. Many inhabitants are murdered, beginning the so-called Srebrenica Massacre.
• 1997 - A Cubana de Aviacion Antonov AN-24 crashes into the Caribbean off southeast Cuba 44.
• 1998 - Some 600,000 people gathered in Berlin for the annual Love Parade, billed as the largest celebration of techno music.
• 1999 - Helen Forrest dies (b. 1917). American jazz singer.
• 2000 - Pedro Mir dies (b. 1921). Dominican poet.
• 2000 - Robert Runcie dies (b. 1921). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 2001 - Herman Brood dies ( suicide) (b. 1946). Dutch singer and artist.
  2001 - Cândida Branca Flor dies (b. 12 Nov. 1949). Portuguese singer.
• 2002 - Former Argentina junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri was arrested for the torture and execution of leftists during the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
• 2002 - In Venezuela an estimated 600,000 people marched demanding that Pres. Chavez abandon the presidency.
• 2003 - Lahore-Delhi bus service resumed after suspension of 18 months.
• 2003 - Augusto Abelaira dies (b. 18 Mar 1926). Portuguese writer.
• 2004 - CIA Director George Tenet leaves his position at the agency.
• 2004 - Pedro Santana Lopes é indicado para primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 2004 - The 15th International AIDS conference began in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2004 - Laurance Rockefeller dies (b. 1910). American conservationist and philanthropist.
• 2005 - Gretchen Franklin dies (b. 1911). English actress.
• 2005 - Frances Langford dies (b. 1914). American actress and singer.
• 2005 - Jesús Iglesias dies (b. 1922). Argentine racing driver.
• 2006 - 209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
• 2006 - Microsoft's official support of Windows 98 and Windows Me ends.
• 2006 - Barnard Hughes dies (b. 1915). American actor.
• 2006 - John Spencer dies (b. 1935). English snooker player.
• 2007 - Alfonso López Michelsen dies (b. 1913). 32nd Colombian President.
• 2007 - Lady Bird Johnson dies (b. 1912). First Lady of the United States.
• 2007 - Ed Mirvish dies (b. 1916). Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
• 2007 - Glenda Adams dies (b. 1939). Australian author.
• 2008 - Michael DeBakey dies (b. 1908). American surgeon and inventor.
• United Nations - World Population Day.
• Ireland - National Day of Commemoration held on nearest Sunday to this date (see Irish calendar).
• Mongolia - First day of Naadam.
• Belgium (partially) - Flemish Day (1302).
• China - China National Maritime Day.
• Benin - Independence Day (1960).
• Burkina Faso - Independence Day (1960).
• Niger - Independence Day (1960).
• Feast Day of Saint Olga (first Russian Saint).
• Feast Day of Saint Benedict (founder of the Benedictine Order).
• Portugal: Municipal holiday in Santo Tirso and Arcos de Valdevez.

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Responde Tu - Nicolás Guillén

Tú, que partiste de Cuba,
responde tú,
¿dónde hallarás verde y verde,
azul y azul,
palma y palma bajo el cielo?
Responde tú.

Tú, que tu lengua olvidaste,
responde tú,
y en lengua extraña masticas
el güel y el yu,
¿cómo vivir puedes mudo?
Responde tú.

Tú, que dejaste la tierra,
responde tú,
dónde tu padre reposa
bajo una cruz,
¿dónde dejarás tus huesos?
Responde tú.

Ah desdichado, responde,
responde tú,
¿dónde hallarás verde y verde,
azul y azul,
palma y palma bajo el cielo?
Responde tú.

Ouçamos agora este poema na voz de Ana Belen


Tú, que partiste de Cuba,
responde tu,
- onde acharás verde e verde,
azul e azul,
palmeiras e palmeiras sob o céu ?
Responde tu.

Tu, que tua língua esqueceste,
responde tu,
e em língua estrangeira mastigas o
well e o you,
como podes viver mudo?
Responde tu.

Tu, que deixaste a terra,
responde tu,
onde teu pai repousa
sob uma cruz,
- onde deixarás teus ossos ?
Responde tu.

Ah infeliz, responde,
responde tu,
-onde acharás verde e verde,
azul e azul,
palmeiras e palmeiras sob o céu ?
Responde tu.

Trad. de José Bento

in Rosa do Mundo, 2001 Poemas para o Futuro

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (nasceu em Camaguey, Cuba a 10 de Julho de 1902 ; m. em Havana a 16 Jul 1989)

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Happy birthday - Jessica Simpson

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On this day in History - Jul 10

• 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
• 0138 - Hadrian dies (b. 0076). Roman Emperor.
• 0649 - Li Shimin dies (b. 0599). Emperor of China.
• 0988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
• 1086 - Kanute IV (Saint) dies (b. c. 1043). King of Denmark (1080-1086).
• 1099 - Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) dies (b. 1043). Spanish heroe.
• 1103 - King Eric I of Denmark dies.
• 1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
• 1217 - 200 navios de cruzados alemães e húngaros entram nos rios Douro e Tejo (Portugal).
• 1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary dies (b. 1262).
• 1372 - Treaty of Tagilde - John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster, England) makes a claim to the throne of Castile being married to Dona Constanza (daughter of Dom Pedro I of Castile and León), and makes an accord with Dom Fernando I of Portugal against Spain and France / Assinatura do Tratado de Tagilde entre o rei D. Fernando de Portugal e John Gaunt, duque de Lencastre, filho do rei Eduardo III.
• 1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan was born (d. 1471).
• 1452 - King James III of Scotland was born (d. 1488).
• 1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
• 1460 – Guerra das Rosas – Batalha de Northampton: O Conde de Warwick vence novamente e Henrique VI é feito prisioneiro.
• 1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham dies (b. 1402). English military leader.
• 1480 - King René I of Naples dies (b. 1410).
• 1509 - John Calvin was born (d. 1564). French religious reformer.
• 1517 - Odet de Coligny was born (d.1571). French cardinal and Protestant.
• 1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
• 1559 - Henry II of France dies (b. 1519).
• 1584 - William I of Orange dies assassinated (b. 1533) in Delft by Balthasar Gérard. Dutch leader.
• 1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria dies (b. 1540). Regent of Inner Austria.
• 1592 - Pierre d'Hozier was born (d. 1660). French historian.
• 1594 - Paolo Bellasio dies (b. 1554). Italian composer.
• 1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey was born (d. 1686). English royalist statesman.
• 1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy dies (b. 1571). French soldier.
• 1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville was born (d. 1703). French adventurer.
• 1638 - David Teniers III was born (d. 1685). Flemish painter.
• 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
• 1653 - Gabriel Naudé dies (b. 1600). French librarian and scholar.
• 1666 - John Ernest Grabe was born (d. 1711). German-born Anglican theologian.
• 1680 - Louis Moréri dies (b. 1643). French encyclopedist.
• 1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg was born (d. 1719). German Lutheran missionary to India.
• 1682 - Roger Cotes was born (d. 1719). English mathematician.
• 1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray dies (b. 1610). French historian.
• 1686 - John Fell dies (b. 1625). English churchman.
• 1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain was born (d. 1783).
• 1723 - William Blackstone was born (d. 1780). English jurist.
• 1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was born (d. 1807).
• 1776 - Richard Peters dies (b. 1704). English-born clergyman.
• 1778 - American Revolution : Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
• 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas was born (d. 1864). U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States.
• 1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
• 1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
• 1802 – Robert Chambers was born (d. 1871). Scottish author and naturalist.
• 1804 - Emma Smith was born (d. 1879). Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
• 1806 - George Stubbs dies (b. 1724). British painter.
• 1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt was born (d. 1889). German geologist.
• 1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
• 1830 - Camille Pissarro was born (d. 1903). French painter.
• 1832 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
• 1832 - Alvan Graham Clark was born (d. 1897). American telescope maker and astronomer.
• 1834 - James McNeil Whistler was born (d. 1903). American painter.
• 1835 - Henryk Wieniawski was born (d. 1880). Polish composer.
• 1839 - Adolphus Busch was born (d. 1913). German-born brewer.
• 1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.
• 1851 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre dies (b. 1787). French inventor and photographer.
• 1856 - Nikola Tesla was born (d. 1943). Croatian physicist.
• 1867 - Prince Maximilian of Baden was born (d. 1929). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1871 - Marcel Proust was born (d. 18 Nov 1922). French writer.
• 1874 - Sergey Konenkov was born (d. 1971). Russian painter.
• 1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune was born (d. 1955). American educator.
• 1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
• 1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai dies (b. 1812). German architect.
• 1883 - Johannes Blaskowitz was born (d. 1948). German general.
• 1884 - Paul Morphy dies (b. 1837). American chess player.
• 1888 - Giorgio Chirico was born (d. 1978). Italian painter.
• 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
• 1895 - Carl Orff was born (d. 1982). German composer.
• 1896 - Thérèse Casgrain was born (d. 1981). French Canadian politician and senator.
• 1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond" was born (d. 1931). American bootlegger.
• 1897 - Karl Plagge was born (d. 1957). German officer.
• 1899 - Heiri Suter was born (d. 1978). Swiss cyclist.
• 1899 - John Gilbert was born (d. 1936). American actor.
• 1900 – Mitchell Parish was born (d. 1993). American lyricist.
• 1900 - Sampson Sievers was born (d. 1979). Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker.
• 1902 - Kurt Alder was born (d. 1958). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1902 - Nicolás Guillén was born (d. 16 Jul 1989). Cuban poet.
• 1903 - John Wyndham was born (d. 1969). British author.
• 1903 - Werner Best was born (d. 1989). German jurist and nazi leader.
• 1904 - Porfirio Díaz is reelected President of Mexico for more six years.
• 1905 - Thomas Gomez was born (d. 1971). American actor.
• 1905 - Wolfram Sievers was born (d. 1948). Nazi physician.
• 1908 - Phoebe Knapp dies (b. 1839). American hymn writer.
• 1909 – Donald Sinclair was born (d. 1981). British hotel manager, inspiration for Fawlty Towers.
• 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).
• 1913 - Salvador Espriu was born (d. 1985). Spanish poet.
• 1914 - Joseph 'Joe' Schuster was born. Canadian-born cartoonist.
• 1915 - Saul Bellow was born. (d. 2005). Canadian writer.
• 1915 - Milt Buckner was born (d. 1977). American jazz pianist.
• 1917 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard" was born (d. 2007). American television host.
• 1917 – Hugh Alexander was born (d. 2000). American baseball player.
• 1920 - David Brinkley was born (d. 2003). American television reporter.
• 1920 - Owen Chamberlain was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1920 - Jackie Fisher dies (b. 1841). British admiral.
• 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born. American activist.
• 1921 - Harvey Ball was born (d. 2001). American inventor.
• 1921 - Jake LaMotta was born. American boxer.
• 1923 – Earl Hamner Jr. was born. American author and television producer.
• 1923 - G. A. Kulkarni was born (d. 1987). Indian (Marathi) writer.
• 1923 – Jean Kerr was born. American author.
• 1923 - John Bradley was born (d. 1994). United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima).
• 1924 - Bobo Brazil was born (d. 1998). American professional wrestler.
• 1924 – Johnny Bach was born. American basketball coach.
• 1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.
• 1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
• 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
• 1925 - Mahathir bin Mohamad was born. Fourth Malaysian Prime Minister.
• 1925 - Vasco Granja was born (d. 2009). Portuguese TV presenter.
• 1926 - Fred Gwynne was born (d. 1993). American actor.
• 1927 - Grigory Barenblatt was born. Russian mathematician.
• 1927 - Suzanne Cloutier was born (d. 2003). Canadian film actor.
• 1928 - Alejandro de Tomaso was born (d. 2003). Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer.
• 1928 - Bernard Buffet was born (d. 1999). French painter.
• 1928 - Moshe Greenberg was born. American-Israeli Bible scholar.
• 1929 - Winnie Ewing was born. Scottish politician.
• 1930 – Bruce Boa was born (d. 2004). Canadian actor.
• 1931 – Alice Munro was born. Canadian writer.
• 1931 - Nick Adams was born (d. 1968). American actor.
• 1932 - Carlo Mario Abate was born. Italian racing driver.
• 1934 - Jerry Nelson was born. American puppeteer.
• 1935 - Tura Satana was born. American actress.
• 1938 – Lee Morgan was born. American hard-bop trumpeter.
• 1938 - Paul Andreu was born. French architect.
• 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
• 1939 - Ahmet Taner Kışlalı was born (d. 1999). Turkish politician, journalist, and educator
• 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established.
• 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
• 1940 - O marechal Petain assina uma nova constituição, o que equivale ao nascimento da III República francesa.
• 1940 - Helen Donath was born. American soprano.
• 1940 - Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai was born. British economist.
• 1940 – Tom Farmer was born. Scottish entrepreneur.
• 1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
• 1941 - Alain_Krivine was born. French politician, leader of the Trotskyist movement in France.
• 1941 - David G. Hartwell was born. American editor and anthologist.
• 1941 - Ian Whitcomb was born. English songwriter, entertainer and producer.
• 1941 - Jelly Roll Morton dies (b. 1890). American jazz musician.
• 1942 - The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were established.
• 1942 - Pyotr Klimuk was born. Belarussian cosmonaut.
• 1942 - Ronnie James Dio was born. American musician.
• 1943 - World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
• 1943 - A Sicília é invadida pelos exércitos aliados.
• 1943 - Arthur Ashe was born (d. 1993). American tennis player.
• 1945 – Jean-Marie Poiré was born. French film director.
• 1945 - John Motson was born. British sports (football) commentator.
• 1945 - Peter Michalica was born. Slovak violinist.
• 1945 – Ron Glass was born. American actor.
• 1945 - Virginia Wade was born. British tennis player.
• 1946 - Sue Lyon was born. American actress.
• 1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
• 1947 - Arlo Guthrie was born. American musician.
• 1949 - No Festival Cinematográfico de Knokke (Bélgica), o filme Ladrões de Bicicleta, de Vittorio de Sicca é premiado. O filme é um dos expoentes do neorealismo italiano.
• 1949 - Sunil Gavaskar was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1949 - John Whitehead was born. American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 1949 – Sunil Gavaskar was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1950 - Greg Kihn was born. American pop musician and radio personality.
• 1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos was born. Greek politician.
• 1951 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
• 1951 - Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.
• 1951 - Cheryl Wheeler was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 1951 - Phyllis Smith was born. American actress (The Office).
• 1952 - Ludmilla Tourischeva was born. Russian gymnast.
• 1952 - Kim Mitchell was born. Canadian guitarist/singer.
• 1952 - Peter van Heemst was born. Dutch politician.
• 1953 - Rik Emmett was born. Canadian musician (Triumph).
• 1953 - Zoogz Rift was born. American singer/songwriter and wrestling booker.
• 1954 - Andre Dawson was born. American baseball player.
• 1954 - Neil Tennant was born. British musician.
• 1954 - Calogero Vizzini dies (b. 1877). Sicilian mafioso.
• 1956 - Joe Giard dies (b. 1898). American baseball player.
• 1956 - Tom McClintock was born. American politician.
• 1957 - Cindy Sheehan was born. American anti-war/political activist.
• 1958 – Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, Alaska, at 524m high.
• 1958 - Alaska was born. Highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
• 1958 - Béla Fleck was born. American musician.
• 1958 – Fiona Shaw was born. Irish actress.
• 1959 - Ellen Kuras was born. American cinematographer.
• 1959 - Janet Julian was born. American actress.
• 1961 - Jacky Cheung was born. Hong Kong singer and actor.
• 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
• 1963 - Teddy Wakelam dies (b. 1893). English sports broadcaster and rugby union player.
• 1964 - Urban Meyer was born. American football coach.
• 1964 - Wilfried Peeters was born. Belgian cyclist.
• 1965 - Alec Mapa was born. Filipino-American actor and comedian.
• 1965 - Ken Mellons was born. American singer.
• 1965 - Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark was born.
• 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, lead by Martin Luther King, held a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
• 1966 - Johnny Grunge was born (d. 2006). American wrestler.
• 1967 - Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
• 1967 - Tom Meents was born. American Professional monster truck driver.
• 1968 - Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1968 - Hassiba Boulmerka was born. Algerian athlete.
• 1968 – Jonathan Gilbert was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Alexandra Hedison was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Gale Harold was born. American actor.
• 1969 – Jamie Glover was born. British actor.
• 1970 – Adam Hills was born. Australian comedian.
• 1970 - Gary LeVox was born. American singer (Rascal Flatts).
• 1970 - Helen Sjöholm was born. Swedish singer and actress.
• 1970 - Jason Orange was born. UK pop singer and dancer (Take That).
• 1970 - John Simm was born. British actor.
• 1970 - Augusto Meyer dies (b. 24 Jan 1902). Brazilian journalist, poet and essayst.
• 1970 - Bjarni Benediktsson dies (b. 1908). Icelandic foreign and later prime minister.
• 1971 - Adam Foote was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1971 - Gregory Goodridge was born. Barbadian footballer.
• 1972 - Peter Serafinowicz was born. British comedian and actor.
• 1972 - Sofia Vergara was born in Barranquilla. Colombian model and actress: Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble
• 1972 - Tilo Wolff was born. German musician (Lacrimosa).
• 1972 - Lovie Austin dies (b. 1887). American jazz pianist.
• 1973 - The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• 1973 - National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
• 1974 - O poema "Hino dos Bandeirantes" é instituído como letra oficial do Hino do estado de São Paulo (Brasil).
• 1974 - Chiwetel Ejiofor was born. English actor.
• 1975 - Alain Nasreddine was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson was born. Icelandic actor.
• 1976 - The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy. Forty-one containers in Italy carried a highly toxic cargo. The containers came from Seveso in northern Italy, where dioxin had escaped in a tragic accident at a chemicals factory.
• 1976 - One US and three UK mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• 1976 - Adrian Grenier was born. American actor.
• 1976 - Brendon Lade was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1976 - Edmílson Gomes was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1976 - Elijah Blue Allman was born. American musician (Deadsy).
• 1976 - Ludovic Giuly was born. French footballer.
• 1977 – Gwendoline Yeo was born. American actress.
• 1977 – Schapelle Corby was born. Australian convicted drug smuggler.
• 1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
• 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• 1978 - Jesse Lacey was born. American musician (Brand New).
• 1978 - John D Rockefeller III dies (b. 1906). American businessman.
• 1978 - Joe Davis dies (b. 1901). English snooker player.
• 1979 - Tyrell Godwin was born. American baseball player.
• 1979 - Mvondo Atangana was born. Cameroon footballer.
• 1979 - Arthur Fiedler dies (b. 1894). American conductor.
• 1980 - Adam Petty was born (d. 2000). American race car driver.
• 1980 - Alejandro Millán was born. Mexican singer and songwriter.
• 1980 – Han Eun-jeong was born. South Korean actress.
• 1980 - Jessica Simpson was born. American singer .
• 1980 - Cláudia Leitte was born. Brazilian singer «Babado Novo».
• 1980 - Orlando Jordan was born. American wrestler.
• 1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas was born. American actor.
• 1980 - Francisco Rebolo dies (b. 1902). Brazilian painter.
• 1981 - Portugal: Criação da Fundação Salvador Caetano.
• 1981 – Aleksandar Tunchev was born. Bulgarian footballer.
• 1981 - Ken Rex McElroy dies (b. 1936). American hog rustler.
• 1982 - Alex Arrowsmith was born. American musician..
• 1982 - Sebastian Mila was born. Polish footballer.
• 1983 - Kim Hee Chul was born. Korean musician (Super Junior).
• 1983 – Matthew Egan was born. Australian rules footballer.
• 1983 - Estrellita Castro dies (b. 1908). Spanish singer and actress.
• 1984 – Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia was born. Miss World 2004.
• 1984 - Mark González was born. Chilean football player.
• 1985 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbor by French DGSE agents.
• 1985 - After a storm of controversy surrounding a change in its cola's formula (see New Coke), Coca-Cola re-introduces the old formula as "Coca-Cola Classic".
• 1985 – B.J. Crombeen was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1985 – Mario Gómez was born. German footballer.
• 1987 - John Hammond dies (b. 1910). American record producer.
• 1989 - Mel Blanc dies in Los Angeles (b. 1908). American voice actor : the "man of a thousand voices", including such cartoon characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.
• 1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
• 1991 - South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
• 1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
• 1993 - Sam Rolfe dies (b. 1924). American screenwriter.
• 1994 - Leonid Kuchma won the second round of Ukrainian_presidential_election and Alexander Lukashenko won with around 80 per cent of the vote the first Bielorussian Presidential elections.
• 1995 - Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi was released after six years of house arrest.
• 1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• 1997 - Spain: Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• 1998 - The DNA-identified remains of United States Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Joseph Blassie arrive home to his family in St. Louis, Missouri after being in the Tomb of the Unknowns since 1984.
• 1998 - Roman Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
• 1999 - United States women's national soccer team team wins the FIFA Women's World Cup in Pasadena,California at The Rose Bowl.
• 2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
• 2000 - EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
• 2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas dies (b. 1915). French politician.
• 2000 - Justin Pierce dies (b. 1975). English-American actor and skateboarder.
• 2000 - Vakkom Majeed dies (b. 1909). Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member.
• 2001 - Um júri norte-americano condena à prisão perpétua o terrorista islâmico Jalfan Jamis Mohamed, autor do atentado contra a Embaixada dos Estados Unidos na Tanzânia, no qual morreram 11 pessoas.
• 2001 - Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja dies. President of San Salvador (1982-1984).
• 2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
• 2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté dies (b. 1926). French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
• 2003 - A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, crashed by a container truck and fell from the flyover of Tuen Mun Road, into the valley under it. 21 people (including the driver) were killed in this accident. This is the largest number of deaths by bus crashes in Hong Kong.
• 2003 - Spain opened its first mosque (in Granada) since the Moors were expelled in 1492.
• 2003 - Winston Graham dies (b.1908). English writer.
• 2003 - Hartley Shawcross dies (b. 1902). British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
• 2003 - Bishnu Maden dies. Nepalese politician.
• 2004 - Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo dies (b. 1930). Portuguese politician, first woman in to be Prime-Minister in Portugal/ Morre Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, política portuguesa, primeira mulher a ocupar o lugar de primeiro-ministro no país (n. 1930).
• 2005 - UK Police Defend Birmingham Evacuation- Only days after deadly bomb attacks in London, some 20,000 people were evacuated from Birmingham overnight Saturday as police reacted to a "credible threat" to the central English city.
• 2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
• 2005 - A.J. Quinnell dies (b. 1940). English writer.~
• 2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce dies (b. 1955). American radio performer.
• 2005 - Freddy Soto dies (b. 1970). American comedian and actor.
• 2005 - Jimmy Franklin (b. 1948) and Bobby Younkin dies during an airshow performance. American aerobatics and air show pilots.
• 2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
• 2006 - Shamil Basayev dies (b. 1965). Chechen rebel.
• 2007 - Abdul Rashid Ghazi dies (b. 1951). Radical Pakistani cleric.
• 2007 - Doug Marlette dies (b. 1949). American cartoonist.
• 2007 – Zheng Xiaoyu dies (b. 1944). Director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China.
• 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
• 2008 - Hiroaki Aoki dies (b. 1938). Founder of Benihana.
• 2008 - Mike Souchak dies (b. 1927). Professional golfer.
• Followers of Meher Baba: Silence Day.
• Bahamas: Independence Day.
• Mauritania: Armed Forces Day.
• Wyoming: Statehood Day.
• Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.
• Municipal Holyday in Miranda do Douro, Portugal.

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Soneto da Véspera - Vinicius de Moraes (dezanove anos passados sobre o seu desaparecimento)

Quando chegares e eu te vir chorando
De tanto te esperar, que te direi?
E da angústia de amar-te, te esperando
Reencontrada, como te amarei?

Que beijo teu de lágrimas terei
Para esquecer o que vivi lembrando
E que farei da antiga mágoa quando
Não puder te dizer por que chorei?

Como ocultar a sombra em mim suspensa
Pelo martírio da memória imensa
Que a distância criou – fria de vida

Imagem tua que eu compus serena
Atenta ao meu apelo e à minha pena
E que quisera nunca mais perdida...

Extraído de Vinicius de Moraes, Antologia Poética, Publicações Dom Quixote

Vinicius de Moraes (n. Rio de Janeiro a 19 Out 1913; m. Rio de Janeiro, 9 Jul 1980)

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