Pelé wins the World Cup at seventeen
1958 · Event
Two goals in the final against Sweden from a teenager nobody outside Brazil had heard of six weeks earlier.
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More from Latin America
- Spanish Conquest of the Americas (1519)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Haitian Revolution begins (1791)
- Toussaint Louverture issues Haitian constitution (1801)
- Pizarro executes Atahualpa (1533)
- Falklands War (1982)
Around 1958
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- The Troubles (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Korean War (1950)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)