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1954 In Portugal
Events in the year 1954 in Portugal. Incumbents *President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes *Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar Events * 22 July – 11 August - Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli Sport * 4 April - Establishment of F.C. Maia * 27 June - Taça de Portugal Final * 1 December - Opening of the Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon * Star World Championships, in Cascais * Opening of the Pavilhão Rosa Mota, in Porto * Establishment of CA Macedo de Cavaleiros Births * 9 February - Ana Gomes, diplomat and politician * 21 March - Adelino Teixeira, former professional road cyclist * 10 October - Fernando Santos, football manager, former footballer References Portugal Years of the 20th century in Portugal Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavilhão Rosa Mota
The Super Bock Arena (Pavilhão Rosa Mota) is a cultural and sports arena in Porto, Portugal. History The pavilion opened in 1954. It was previously known as Pavilhão dos Desportos. In 1991, it was renamed after Portuguese, European, World and Olympic marathon running champion Rosa Mota. In 2014, after a public call for tenders, a consortium between Lucios and PEV Entertainment was responsible for the rehabilitation of the arena. The initial cost of the rehabilitation was 8 million euros. In November 2018, Porto's Municipal Chamber announced that following a naming agreement with Super Bock, the company's name was to be added to the arena, in the course of the 20-year private Concession (contract), concession of the space. The rehabilitation process was concluded in 2019. The arena now has the capacity to undertake events up to 8,000 people and is branded Super Bock Arena. Besides cultural and sports events, the arena can now also function as a congress centre. See also * Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Europe
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Portugal
Events in the year 1954 in Portugal. Incumbents *President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes *Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar Events * 22 July – 11 August - Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli Sport * 4 April - Establishment of F.C. Maia * 27 June - Taça de Portugal Final * 1 December - Opening of the Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon * Star World Championships, in Cascais * Opening of the Pavilhão Rosa Mota, in Porto * Establishment of CA Macedo de Cavaleiros Births * 9 February - Ana Gomes, diplomat and politician * 21 March - Adelino Teixeira, former professional road cyclist * 10 October - Fernando Santos, football manager, former footballer References Portugal Years of the 20th century in Portugal Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Santos (Football Coach)
Fernando Manuel Fernandes da Costa Santos (born 10 October 1954) is a Portuguese professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player who played as a Defender (association football), defender. He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 161 games and two goals over eight seasons, almost always with G.D. Estoril Praia, Estoril. After retiring, he worked as a coach for several decades, starting out at his main club in 1988. Santos managed Portugal's Big Three (Portugal), Big Three, winning five major titles with FC Porto, Porto. For the better part of the 2000s he worked in Greece, mainly with AEK Athens F.C., AEK Athens and PAOK FC, PAOK. In 2010, he was appointed at the helm of the Greece national football team, Greece national team, coaching them in a FIFA World Cup, World Cup and one UEFA European Championship, European Championship. Subsequently, he led Portugal national football team, Portugal to victory in the UEFA Euro 2016, Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Bicycle Racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelino Teixeira (cyclist)
Adelino Teixeira (born 21 March 1954) is a Portuguese former professional road cyclist. He notably won the Volta a Portugal in 1977, the Volta ao Algarve in 1981, the Grande Prémio Jornal de Notícias in 1983 and the Volta ao Alentejo in 1985. Major results ;1977 : 1st Overall Volta a Portugal ::1st Stages 4 & 11 : 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve ::1st Stage 3 ;1978 : 2nd Overall Grande Prémio do Minho ::1st Stage 4b : 3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve : 7th Overall Volta a Portugal ;1979 : 3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve : 10th Overall Volta a Portugal ;1981 : 1st Overall : 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve : 2nd Overall GP Torres Vedras : 3rd Overall Volta a Portugal ;1982 : 1st Stage 7 Volta ao Algarve : 2nd Overall Volta a Portugal ::1st Stage 8b ;1983 : 1st Overall Volta ao Algarve ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Overall Grande Prémio Jornal de Notícias : 1st Stage 5 GP Torres Vedras ;1984 : 4th Overall Volta a Portugal ;1985 : 1st Overall Volta ao Alentejo The Volta ao Alentejo (Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Gomes
Ana Maria Rosa Martins Gomes (born 9 February 1954), better known as Ana Gomes, is a Portuguese former diplomat and politician of the Socialist Party (PS). She earned wide recognition for her role in negotiating independence for East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, and in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Indonesia. She later suspended her career as a diplomat to enter party politics, and served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2019, where she was an outspoken campaigner on corruption and human rights. On 10 September 2020, she officially announced her candidacy for the 2021 Portuguese presidential election, without official support from the Socialist Party. She finished second, with 13% of the votes, the best result ever achieved by a woman in a presidential election in Portugal. Education and early political career Ana Gomes was born in 1954 in Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital, in the Lisbon parish of São Sebasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CA Macedo De Cavaleiros
Clube Atlético de Macedo de Cavaleiros ''(abbreviated as CA Macedo de Cavaleiros)'' is a Portuguese football club based in Macedo de Cavaleiros in the district of Bragança. Background CA Macedo de Cavaleiros currently plays in the Segunda Divisão Série Norte, which is the third tier of Portuguese football. The club was founded in 1954 and they play their home matches at the Municipal de Macedo de Cavaleiros in Macedo de Cavaleiros Macedo de Cavaleiros () is a city and List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in northeastern Portugal, in Bragança District. The population in 2011 was 15,776, in an area of 699.14 km². History During antiquity, the region was oc .... The stadium is able to accommodate 2,700 spectators and was constructed in 2008. The club is affiliated to Associação de Futebol de Bragança and has competed in the AF Bragança Taça. The club has also entered the national cup competition known as Taça de Portugal on many occasions. Seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cascais
Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Portugal, tourist destination. Its Cascais Marina, marina hosts events such as the America's Cup and the town of Estoril, part of the Cascais municipality, hosts conferences such as the Horasis Global Meeting. Cascais's history as a popular seaside resort originated in the 1870s, when King Luís I of Portugal and the House of Braganza, Portuguese royal family made the seaside town their residence every September, thus also attracting members of the Portuguese nobility, who established a summer community there. Cascais is known for the many members of royalty who have lived there, including King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, when he was the Duke of Windsor, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, and King Umberto II of Italy. Exiled Cuban president Fulgencio Batista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Portugal
The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic ( pt, Presidente da República Portuguesa, ), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and their relation with the Prime Minister of Portugal, prime minister and cabinets have over time differed with the various Constitution of Portugal, Portuguese constitutions. Currently, in the Third Portuguese Republic, Third Republic, a semi-presidential system, the President holds no direct executive power, but is more than a merely ceremonial figure as is typically the case with parliamentary systems: one of his most significant responsibilities is the promulgation of all laws enacted by the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic (parliament) or the Portuguese government, Government (an act without which such laws have no legal validity), with an alternative option to veto them (although this veto can be overcome i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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