🎂 Football king Pelé is born (1940)
Where: Três Corações, Brazil
📅 On This Day: October 23
October 23, 1940: Football king Pelé is born. Pelé was born in the small Brazilian town of Três Corações. As a boy he sometimes kicked a sock stuffed with paper instead of a real ball. He is the only player ever to win the World Cup three times.
✨ More events on this day
- 1906 💡 Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his 14-bis aeroplane in Paris, making the first powered aeroplane flight in Europe.
- 1970 🏅 Gary Gabelich set a land speed record in the Blue Flame, a rocket-powered car fuelled by natural gas, racing across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
- 2001 💡 Apple released the first iPod, a pocket-sized music player that could hold 1,000 songs. It changed the way people carried and listened to music.
🧠 Question of the day
How many times did Pelé win the World Cup?
- Five
- Once
- Three
Show the answer
Answer: Three
🎂 Landmarks that opened on October 23
🐾 World day: International Snow Leopard Day
On this day in 2013, 12 countries met in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and promised to protect snow leopards. They wrap their long, thick tails around themselves like scarves.
Questions
What happened on October 23?
October 23, 1940: Football king Pelé is born. It happened in Três Corações, Brazil.
Which landmarks opened on October 23?
Walt Disney Concert Hall (opened 2003).
In the game, the "Today on Earth" panel shows this story on its day, with a question to answer and a place to fly to.
More days in October
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelé