1961 Chocolates Simón : 25 Años de Vida Mundial
25 Años de Vida Mndial (25 Years of World Life) was published in 1961
by Chocolates Simón of San Sadurni De Noya, Spain. The card text and album descriptions are printed
in Spanish. The 144-card base series showcases global events, athletes, political leaders, and technological advancements from 1935–1961. The collection includes nine additional oversized
"Lamina" card panels, each measuring 16 x 20 mm. A similar card album was
later released by Chocolates Simón in 1964 as
Tres Años de Vida Mundial.
The base collection includes illustrations of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, as well as Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1.
The base collection includes illustrations of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, as well as Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1.
Wernher von Braun is depicted on an oversized "Lamina" card panel. The background
image is based on a NASA photograph of Mercury-Redstone 3, Freedom 7,
during prelaunch activities on April 21, 1961.
(NASA 61-4022)
The checklist not a direct translation of the card text. Identifications and
corrections are included.
| Checklist | |
| 1 | Joe Louis |
| 2 | Jesse Owens |
| 3 | Ricardo Zamora |
| 4 | Fanny Blankers-Koen |
| 5 | Emil Zátopek |
| 6 | Gino Bartali |
| 7 | László Kubala |
| 8 | Sugar Ray Robinson |
| 9 | Antonio Ramallets |
| 10 | Alfredo Di Stéfano |
| 11 | Fausto Coppi |
| 12 | Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay |
| 13 | Guillermo Timoner |
| 14 | Miguel Poblet |
| 15 | Paco Goyoaga |
| 16 | Joaquín Blume |
| 17 | Federico Martín Bahamontes |
| 18 | John Konrads |
| 19 | Andrés Gimeno |
| 20 | Adolfo Consolini |
| 21 | Wilma Rudolph |
| 22 | Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 23 | Diego Rivera, The Schoolteacher |
| 24 | Ángel Ferrant |
| 25 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 26 | Pablo Picasso |
| 27 | Chicago Lake Shore Drive |
| 28 | Juan Ramón Jiménez |
| 29 | Igor Stravinsky |
| 30 | Tennessee Williams |
| 31 | Church of Saint Francis of Assisi |
| 32 | Cathedral of Brasília |
| 33 | Charlie Chaplin, The Tramp |
| 34 | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy |
| 35 | Sabu, Elephant Boy |
| 36 | Harpo, Groucho, Chico Marx |
| 37 | Buffalo Bill |
| 38 | Mario Moreno, "Cantinflas" |
| 39 | Errol Flynn, The Adventures of Robin Hood |
| 40 | Pablito Calvo, Marcelino pan y vino |
| 41 | Mickey Rooney, Men of Boys Town |
| 42 | Clark Gable |
| 43 | Leslie Caron, Lili |
| 44 | Gary Cooper |
| 45 | Ben-Hur |
| 46 | Los peces rojos |
| 47 | Leopold II, Fabiola of Belgium |
| 48 | Wallis, Duchess of Windsor |
| 49 | Edward VIII |
| 50 | Fawzia of Egypt |
| 51 | King Carol II, Magda Lupescu |
| 52 | Leopold III, Princess Lilian |
| 53 | Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip |
| 54 | Farouk of Egypt, Narriman Sadek |
| 55 | Soraya Esfandiary |
| 56 | Aly Khan, Rira Hayworth |
| 57 | Olga Deterding |
| 58 | |
| 59 | Elsa Maxwell |
| 60 | Zahra Aga Khan |
| 61 | Aga Khan |
| 62 | Bettina Graziani |
| 63 | James Dean |
| 64 | King Hussein, Princess Dina |
| 65 | Prince Rainier III, Grace Kelly |
| 66 | Elvis Presley |
| 67 | Josephine Baker |
| 68 | Brigitte Bardot |
| 69 | Queen Paola, King Albert II |
| 70 | Akihito, Michiko Shoda |
| 71 | Aga Khan IV |
| 72 | Princess Margaret, Antony Armstrong-Jones |
| 73 | Anne-Marie Rasmussen, Steven Rockefeller |
| 74 | Maria Callas |
| 75 | Marie-Luce Jamagne, Peter Townsend |
| 76 | Shah Mohammed Reza, Farah Pahlavi |
| 77 | Toni Gardiner |
| 78 | John F. Kennedy, Jaqueline, Caroline, John Jr. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Benito Mussolini |
| 81 | Adolf Hitler |
| 82 | Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Édouard Daladier |
| 83 | Francisco Franco Bahamonde |
| 84 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 85 | Normandy Landings |
| 86 | Japanese Surrender |
| 87 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill |
| 88 | Nuremberg Trials |
| 89 | Claude Eatherly |
| 90 | George Marshall |
| 91 | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 92 | UN Headquarters |
| 93 | Berlin Blockade |
| 94 | Mao Zedong |
| 95 | Leopold III abdicates |
| 96 | NATO Headquarters |
| 97 | Juan Domingo Perón |
| 98 | Korean War, June 25, 1950 |
| 99 | Abdullah I of Jordan |
| 100 | Mohammad Mosaddegh |
| 101 | Joseph Stalin |
| 102 | Farouk I of Egypt |
| 103 | Battle of Điện Biên Phủ |
| 104 | Algerian War |
| 105 | Fidel Castro |
| 106 | Germany, NATO 1955 |
| 107 | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 |
| 108 | Suez Crisis 1956 |
| 109 | Dalai Lama |
| 110 | Pope Pius XII |
| 111 | Patrice Lumumba |
| 112 | UN, September 1960 |
| 113 | John F. Kennedy |
| 114 | Hassan II of Morocco |
| 115 | Dag Hammarskjöld |
| 116 | Adolf Eichmann |
| 117 | Alexander Fleming |
| 118 | Selman Waksman |
| 119 | Jonas Salk |
| 120 | Tokyo Tower |
| 121 | Magic Hands |
| 122 | Test Able, Bikini Atoll |
| 123 | Albert Einstein |
| 124 | Julian W. Hill |
| 125 | Radio telescope |
| 126 | Auguste Piccard |
| 127 | Sputnik 1 |
| 128 | Gerboise Bleue |
| 129 | Explorer 1 |
| 130 | Heart transplant surgery |
| 131 | CERN |
| 132 | Yuri Gagarin |
| 133 | Alan Shepard |
| 134 | Bevatron |
| 135 | Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) |
| 136 | Tazio Nuvolari |
| 137 | Langley Research Center |
| 138 | General Motors Firebird |
| 139 | Juan Manuel Fangio |
| 140 | VTOL concept |
| 141 | Tandem-rotor concept |
| 142 | Aircraft carrier |
| 143 | RMS Queen Elizabeth |
| 144 | Aircraft concept |
| Lamina | |
| A | 1951 Roller Hockey World Cup |
| B | Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind |
| C | Le ballon rouge |
| D | Coronation of Elizabeth II |
| E | Fabiola of Belgium |
| F | Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Nikita Khrushchev |
| G | Dwight Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth II, Rajendra Prasad, Mao Zedong |
| H | Wernher von Braun |
| I | USS Nautilus (SSN-571) |