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THIS DAY (OCTOBER 01) MARKS THE . . . 34th anniversary, from 1975, of the day Muhammad Ali won the legendary ‘Thrilla in Manila’ against Joe Frazier. It was their third meeting and Ali's second win when the referee stopped the fight at the end of the 14th round. In other sports, in 1977, Pele played his last game – in a friendly in front of a sell-out 77,000 in New Jersey between his two clubs, New York Cosmos and Santos. Brazil’s three-times World Cup-winner played one half for each team amid a celebrity circus. WORLD EVENTS – 331 BC: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia, to become emperor of Asia Minor. 1938: German troops march into the Czech Sudetenland as agreed with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain days earlier in Munich. 1949: The People’s Republic of China is proclaimed after the Communist civil war victory.

Keywords · October 1 · October 01 · Muhammad Ali · Jose Frazier · Pele · Alexander the Great · China

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