Many similar events happened the same day in other countries, such as the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan, Yugoslavia, Austria, Australia and West Germany.
Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people).
Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. It became an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985. The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997 was watched by an estimated 2 billion people globally, making it the all-time most-watched royal event on live television in the world. His final fight, in which he lost to the reigning IBF world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, attracted around 500 million people. Īnother heavyweight boxer Wladimir Klitschko regularly attracted between 300 and 500 million viewers worldwide during his long reign as world heavyweight champion during the 2000s to mid 2010s. The 1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, where Muhammad Ali lit the torch, was watched by an estimated 3.5 billion viewers. Estimates of Ali's worldwide television audiences for his " Rumble in the Jungle" fight against George Foreman in 1974, " Thrilla in Manila" fight against Joe Frazier in 1975, rematch against Leon Spinks in 1978, and " Last Hurrah" fight against Larry Holmes in 1980, range between 1 billion and 2 billion people. The boxer Muhammad Ali drew record global television audiences during the 1970s to early 1980s. On 20 July 1969, an estimated 652 million people watched the live global broadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing (this constituted around one fifth of total population of the world at the time), despite the fact that the first moonwalk took place in the middle of the night in Europe (at 01:56 in Iceland 02:56 in Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom 03:56 in Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia and 04:56 in Finland, Greece and Turkey) and it was not broadcast on television or radio in the Eastern Bloc (except in Romania (04:56) and Poland (03:56)). ( August 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. This section may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral.
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