Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade, OIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒɔɾʒ ɐ̃ˈndɾað]; born 9 April 1978) is a Portuguese football manager and former professional player who played as a central defender.
After playing two years with Porto he went on to represent Deportivo (169 official appearances in five seasons) and Juventus, appearing rarely for the latter club due to injury.Andrade earned more than 50 caps for Portugal, representing the country in one World Cup and one European Championship and helping it finish second in Euro 2004.
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- 11Feb
Aristotle
Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. - 27Apr
Watergate scandal
Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. - 25Jul
In vitro fertilisation
Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. - 22Oct
Pope John Paul II
Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II. - 18Nov
Jim Jones
In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.