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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.
Also On This Day In History
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 City
1969
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.
1493
On his second voyage to the New World, explorer Christopher Columbus discovers the caribbean island of Puerto Rico.
1919
Indian politician Indira Gandhi.
1600
Future King Charles I of England.
1988
Millionairess Christina Onassis, aged 37.
1828
Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Wrote his first symphony aged 16 and completed many works for the stage, choir and orchestra before his sudden death aged 31. Among his most famous works, the 'Unfinished Symphony' (8th) composed in 1822.
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On This Day In History - 19th November
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