Clube de Regatas do Flamengo is a sports club in Rio de Janeiro, founded as a rowing club in the 1890s, with a football section added in the early 20th century after a group of dissident players left Fluminense. It is the most widely supported club in Brazil, nicknamed Mengão, and plays in red and black. Led by Zico, it won the Copa Libertadores in 1981 and then the Intercontinental Cup by beating Liverpool 3–0 in Tokyo. It won the Libertadores again in 2019 and 2022 and has won the Brazilian league several times. Home matches are played at the Maracanã. In 2019 a fire at the club's youth training center killed ten young players, a tragedy that shocked the country.
Before and after
- 28 September 1895Death of Louis Pasteur
- 4 October 1895Birth of Buster Keaton
- 8 October 1895Birth of Juan Perón
- 8 November 1895Roentgen discovers X-rays
- 15 November 1895Founding of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo
- 14 December 1895Birth of George VI
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
- from 1896 to 1898Philippine Revolution
- 1896Svante Arrhenius calculates how carbon dioxide warms the planet
More in Society, economy & sport
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- 19 September 1893New Zealand becomes the first country where women vote
- 30 June 1908Tunguska event
- 23 December 1913Founding of Federal Reserve System
The era
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