Buenos Aires lost by a single vote to Melbourne; for the 1968 Summer Olympics, held in Mexico City; and in 2004, when the games were awarded to Athens. However, Buenos Aires hosted the first Pan American Games (1951) and was also host city to several World Championship events: the 1950 and 1990 Basketball World Championships, the 1982 and 2002 Men's Volleyball World Championships and, most remembered, the 1978 FIFA World Cup, won by Argentina on 25 June 1978, when it defeated the Netherlands at the Estadio Monumental 3–1. In September 2013, the city hosted the 125th IOC Session, Tokyo was elected the
Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires is a German international school in Boulogne, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in Greater Buenos Aires. It serves Kindergarten through Sekundarstufe, years 1-12. It was first established in the house of Cristino Hansen on December 16, 1891 as the Höhere Knabenschule; it first class was held in Belgrano on February 15, 1897. In 1898 it moved to Cabildo 1891. A new building, with the foundation stone laid on June 17, 1906, opened on February 15, 1907. The land for this building, on Calle Virreyes (now José Hernández) esq. Cuba, was purchased in 1904. In 1914