Pelé's third World Cup
Brazil keeps the Jules Rimet Trophy for ever
On 21 June 1970, in the final at the Estadio Azteca, Brazil beat Italy 4–1. Pelé became the first, and so far only, player to win three World Cups, and Brazil, with its third title, kept the Jules Rimet Trophy for good. It was the first World Cup broadcast in colour, and that Brazil side is often called the greatest ever.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1945 Founding of the United Nations — 25 years earlier
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 23 years earlier
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 22 years earlier
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 21 years earlier
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 10 years later
Europe
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — 17 years earlier
- 1961 Berlin Wall built — 9 years earlier
- 1968 May 1968 in France — 2 years earlier
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 19 years later
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 19 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — 13 years earlier
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — 9 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 15 years later
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 19 years later
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1948 Founding of the State of Israel — 22 years earlier
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 9 years later
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 10 years later
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 20 years later
Africa
- 1960 Year of Africa — 10 years earlier
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — 7 years earlier
- 1967 First human heart transplant — 3 years earlier
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — 3 years earlier
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 4 years later
Asia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 25 years earlier
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 17 years earlier
- 1970 Bhola cyclone — same year
- 1971–1971 Bangladesh Liberation War — 1 year later
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 5 years later
Oceania
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 16 years earlier
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — 11 years earlier
- 1992 The Mabo decision — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Pablo Picasso (aged 89)
- Charlie Chaplin (aged 81)
- Mao Zedong (aged 77)
- Nelson Mandela (aged 52)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 40)
- Harry S. Truman (aged 86)
- Haile Selassie (aged 78)
- Nikita Khrushchev (aged 76)
- Golda Meir (aged 72)
- Jorge Luis Borges (aged 71)