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Pelé

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Pelé, właśc. Edson Arantes do Nascimento – brazylijski piłkarz występujący na pozycji napastnika. Trzykrotny mistrz świata. Działacz sportowy, polityk, honorowy prezydent New York Cosmos, w latach 1995–1998 minister sportu Brazylii. Wieloletni zawodnik brazylijskiego klubu Santos FC. W 1974 przeniósł się do New York Co…

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2020
Reddit
Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company.
2003
2003_Chicago_balcony_collapse
An overloaded balcony collapsed in Chicago, United States, killing 13 people and injuring 57 others.
1995
Space_Shuttle_Atlantis
Atlantis became the first U.S. Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir as part of the Shuttle–Mir program.
1971
Soyuz_11
The Soyuz 11 spacecraft experienced uncontrolled decompression during preparations for reentry, killing Soviet cosmonauts Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky and Viktor Patsayev—the only human deaths to have occurred in space.
1967
Jayne_Mansfield
Actress Jayne Mansfield (pictured), her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
1950
United_States_men's_national_soccer_team
The United States defeated England during the FIFA World Cup in one of the greatest upsets in the competition's history.
1927
United_States_Army_Air_Corps
The United States Army Air Corps aircraft Bird of Paradise landed at Wheeler Field on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to complete the first transpacific flight.
1913
Union_army
More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of American Civil War veterans ever held.
1889
Hyde_Park_Township,_Illinois
Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships voted to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest city by area in the United States and the second-largest by population.
1864
Swing_bridge
A passenger train fell through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River near present-day Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, killing as many as 99 people and injuring 100 others in Canada's worst railway accident.

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