1969: Pele scores 1,000
Brazilian football great Pele scores his 1,000th professional goal in a game against
Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium. It was a major milestone in an illustrious career that included three World Cup championships. Pele, one of the greatest players to ever take the field, possessed an uncanny ability to anticipate the movements of his opponents and teammates. In 1974, he signed a $7 million
contract with the New York Cosmos and did much to promote football in the United States. He retired in 1977 after leading the Cosmos to the league championship. During his career, he scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 games.
1997
Police confiscate indecent videos and pictures of children in a series of raids on the homes and offices of British pop star Gary Glitter.1995
16 people are killed in a bomb attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad,
Pakistan. 1990
Nato and
Warsaw Pact members officially end the 'Cold War' by signing a weapons limitation treaty in
Paris. 1987
A 1931 Bugatti Royale car is sold at auction for £5.5million.1984
More than 500 people are killed and 10,000 homes are destroyed in an explosion at a chemicals factory in Mexico City1969
American soldiers go on trial charged with murdering more than 50
Vietnamese in the village of Mi Lai.
1969
Brazilian footballer Pele scores 1000th goal in his 909th professional football match.1960
The world's first jet-enginned vertical take off and landing aircraft (VTOL), made by the British
Hawker Siddeley Company, is flown for the first time.
1949
Prince Rainer is sworn in as the 30th ruling Prince of
Monaco. 1947
In
Britain, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Phillip is created Duke of Edinburgh.
1889
Table tennis is invented by engineer James Gibb and his family when hitting champagne corks across the table with the lids of cigar boxes.1863
US President
Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous
Gettysburg address declaring Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish the earth.
1850
Alfred Tennyson is appointed Poet Laureate.1620
Pilgrim Fathers' ship, The
Mayflower arrives off Cape Cod , Massachusetts.
