In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.

Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have represented victory: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.

The Jules Rimet Trophy was the original prize for winning the Football World Cup.

Originally called " Victory ", but generally known simply as the World Cup or Coupe du Monde, it was officially renamed in 1946 to honour the FIFA President Jules Rimet who in 1929 passed a vote to initiate the competition.

The Jules Rimet Trophy was taken to Uruguay for the first FIFA World Cup aboard the Conte Verde, which set sail from Villefranche-sur-Mer, just south of Nice, on 21 June 1930.

* Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days ( Travel 1988 ; Programme release 1989 ): travelling as closely as possible the path described in the famous Jules Verne story without using aircraft.

The story may have later been an inspiration for Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

* Jules Verne uses whist playing to describe Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days:

* Jules Verne ( France ) publishes Around The World in Eighty Days

* March 20 – The World Cup Trophy ( the " Jules Rimet ") is stolen at an exhibition ; it is later found by a dog named " Pickles " and his owner David Corbett.

The joining together of the Union Pacific line with the Central Pacific line in May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah, was one of the major inspirations for French writer Jules Verne's book entitled Around the World in Eighty Days, which was published in the year 1873.

In 2003, the piano-driven cover of the Tears for Fears ' " Mad World ", featured in the film as part of the end sequence was a hit for composer Michael Andrews and singer Gary Jules and a UK Christmas Number One.

The city is mentioned in Jules Verne ’ s book, Around the World in Eighty Days.

Morganton is the setting for the Jules Verne novel The Master of the World.

Most importantly, Brazil lifted the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy for the third time first nation to do so, which meant they got to keep it.

The original World Cup trophy was named the Jules Rimet Trophy in his honor.

With their third World Cup triumph, Brazil were allowed to keep the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently.

* The very first sentence of Jules Verne's " Around the World in Eighty Days " is " Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814 " ( s: Around the World in Eighty Days / I )-which includes two factual mistakes: Sheridan actually lived in No. 14 and died in 1816.

The river is mentioned in the Chapter 30 of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

The lighthouse, better known as Faro del fin del mundo (" Lighthouse at the end of the world "), is said to have inspired Jules Verne for his book The Lighthouse at the End of the World, published in 1905. Because of the ship wreks it produce.

** Jules Verne-Vingt mille lieues sous les mers ( Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ), Voyage au centre de la Terre ( A Journey to the Center of the Earth ), Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ( Around the World in Eighty Days )

Loudon made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a play with incidental music by Stephen Sondheim, under the direction of Mike Nichols.

* The World of Jules Feiffer ( 1962 )

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

However, the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II ; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection.

He played in qualifiers for the 1962 World Cup in Chile against Luxembourg and Portugal and was named in the squad for the finals themselves.

Under Ron Greenwood they managed to qualify for the 1982 World Cup in Spain ( the first time competitively since 1962 ), but were eliminated from a second qualifying round comprising further group matches without losing a game all tournament.

Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization.

At the time, Ron Springett was the goalkeeper for England, but after the 1962 World Cup in Chile, a new coach was appointed in former England right back Alf Ramsey.

Audiences waned in the years following World War II, and the Grand Guignol closed its doors in 1962.

* 1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.

His final appearance, for England was on 10 June 1962, as England were defeated 3-1 by Brazil in the World Cup quarter-final at Estadio Sausalito in Viña del Mar, Chile.

Category: 1962 FIFA World Cup players

The adaptation on the UK series Out of This World was telecast August 11, 1962.

From 1960 to 1964, he had a television series, It's a Square World, which won a BAFTA award in 1962 and Grand Prix de la Presse at Montreux in 1963.

* God's World ( 1962 ) دنيا الله

* National Boxing Association, a major boxing sanctioning body that became the World Boxing Association in 1962

Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp ; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun ; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Richie Allen brought the team within a hairsbreadth of the World Series in 1964 after strong showings in 1962 and 1963.

An annual World Rowing Championships was introduced in 1962.

From the end of World War I until 1962, New Zealand controlled Samoa as a Class C Mandate under trusteeship through the League of Nations.

By 1962, the SCCA was tasked with managing the U. S. World Sportscar Championship rounds at Daytona, Sebring, Bridgehampton and Watkins Glen.

In 1962, after another memorable pennant chase with the Dodgers which resulted in a playoff series which the Giants won, the Giants brought a World Series to San Francisco.

However, in a 1962 letter to Christopher Collins, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World as a reaction to H. G.

* 1962 FIFA World Cup hosted in Chile, won by Brazil

* May 30 – The 1962 FIFA World Cup begins in Chile.