Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
Fernandão is a hypocorism of the name Fernando, and means "Big Fernando" or "Fernando Sr." in Portuguese.
People named Fernandão include:
Fernandão (footballer, born 1978), full name Fernando Lúcio da Costa, Brazilian football manager and former footballer.
Fernandão (footballer, born 1987), full name José Fernando Viana de Santana, Brazilian footballer
Fernandão (futsal player) (born 1980), full name Fernando Maciel Gonçalves, Spanish-Brazilian futsal player
Fernando Ávila (born 1955), Brazilian former volleyball player
1978Mar, 18
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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.