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21st May 1904: FIFA founded in Paris as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association

21st May 2024
Tagged as: Culture, FIFA, Football, France, Olympic Games, Olympics, Paris, Soccer, Sport

The founding members of FIFA included football associations from Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. England joined the following year.

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2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cup’s violent ‘Battle of Santiago’

2nd June 2023
Tagged as: Chile, FIFA, Football, Italy, Newspaper, Sport, Violence, World Cup

Chile and Italy met in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, which resulted in ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game’.

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21st May 1904: FIFA founded in Paris as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association

2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cup’s violent ‘Battle of Santiago’

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France

11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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