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The 1998 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 32-team 1998 FIFA World Cup, played on 12 July at the Stade de France (pictured) in Paris, France, between defending champions Brazil and hosts France. Before the match, speculation surrounded the fitness of striker Ronaldo, who was at first left out of Brazil's starting line-up, only to be restored before kick-off. France took the lead shortly before the half-hour mark, when Zinedine Zidane outjumped Leonardo to connect with a header from an in-swinging corner from the right taken by Emmanuel Petit. Zidane scored again, with another header from a corner, shortly before half-time to give France a 2–0 lead. Petit then added a third goal in second-half injury time, striking the ball low into the net following a pass by Patrick Vieira, to complete a 3–0 win for France, giving them their first World Cup title. Zidane was named the man of the match, while Ronaldo was awarded the Golden Ball as FIFA's outstanding player of the tournament. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Gustav Klimt did not finish painting Johanna Staude's mouth in her portrait (pictured)?
- ... that Lorenzo White was the first player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season without winning the Heisman Trophy?
- ... that holmium has the highest magnetic moment of any naturally occurring element?
- ... that Jorge Medina – the first Afro-Bolivian in parliament – recalled being harassed as a young adult due to the superstitious belief that pinching a black person brought good luck?
- ... that the prop currency produced by the Earl Hays Press for the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid was so realistic that it entered circulation and the plates had to be destroyed by the United States Secret Service?
- ... that Ice King, the antagonist of television series Adventure Time, was at first received negatively by critics but later praised for representing mental health issues such as Alzheimer's disease?
- ... that reporting by Theo Baker, a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne?
- ... that the Midtown Theater was nowhere near Midtown?
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- A business jet (pictured) reportedly carrying the leadership of the Wagner Group crashes in Tver Oblast, Russia, killing all ten people on board.
- Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 lands near the lunar south pole, carrying the Pragyan rover.
- Thailand's parliament elects Srettha Thavisin as prime minister following general elections in May.
- Hun Manet is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cambodia, succeeding his father Hun Sen's 38-year term.
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- 1270 – Philip III became King of France following the death of his father Louis IX during the Eighth Crusade.
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter by Henry VIII.
- 1875 – Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
- 2001 – American singer Aaliyah (pictured) and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas.
- 2012 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
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- John Neal (b. 1793)
- Zsuzsa Körmöczy (b. 1924)
- Samantha Smith (d. 1985)
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Seven named storms, of which three became hurricanes, formed during the below-average 1994 Atlantic hurricane season. The season officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30, dates that conventionally limit the period of each year when tropical cyclones tend to form in the Atlantic. The first named storm of the year, Tropical Storm Alberto, formed on June 30. The last storm of the season, Hurricane Gordon (pictured), dissipated on November 21. Alberto produced significant rainfall and flooding in the Southeastern United States, damaging or destroying more than 18,000 homes, and inflicting $750 million (1994 USD) in damages. Gordon caused damages from Costa Rica to North Carolina in its six landfalls; extreme flooding and mudslides from the storm caused about 1,122 fatalities in Haiti. (Full list...)
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Pénélope is an opera in three acts by the French composer Gabriel Fauré. The French-language libretto, by René Fauchois, is based on Homer's Odyssey. Dedicated to Camille Saint-Saëns, the opera was first performed at the Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo, in March 1913. This lithograph poster was designed by Georges Rochegrosse for the 1913 Paris premiere of Pénélope at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Poster credit: Georges Rochegrosse; restored by Adam Cuerden
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