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Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
Since the 1994 FIFA World Cup, 3 points are conceded for a win and 1 point is conceded for a draw. Each group of four teams plays a round-robin schedule. As of the 1986 World Cup, all final group games must be held simultaneously, a rule instituted by FIFA to minimize collusion amongst teams requiring a certain result to advance. FIFA ...
Juneteenth celebrations began in Texas and other Southern states as early as 1866, Berry says. Many Texans pushed for the holiday to be recognized by the state— a designation that finally came ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
(Reuters) - Juneteenth, a day that marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, is always observed on June 19 each year. It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a ...
The first joint bid of the World Cup was approved, edging out Mexico. Results: South Korea/ Japan (joint bid, voted by acclamation) Mexico; The 2002 FIFA World Cup was co-hosted in Asia for the first time by South Korea and Japan (the opening match was held in South Korea and the final was held in Japan).
Despite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans until recent years. It’s worth reflecting on the history of the newest national holiday.