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1973 "Live and Let Die," James Bond film premiers. 
1973 Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
1975 In this year, Arthur Ashe claims men's single championship at Wimbeldon.
1975 Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
1977 Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power.
1977 Pakistans leader, Mr Bhutto, deposed by the military
1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan.
1979 Elizabeth Ryan, tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87
1980 Archibald James Potter, composer, dies at 61.
1981 Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer, dies at 75
1982 An Oklahoma City bank goes into receivership. Its receiver, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., begins paying off $271 million in insured deposits as examiners uncover a morass of bad loans to wildcat drillers and others made by Penn Square, based in a shopping center.
1982 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1983 In Turkey a 6.1 quake resulted in 5 people killed and 25 injured in the Biga area.
1983 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA)
1983 Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies.
1985 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of the globe, covering 13035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
1985 Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86.
1986 Nancy Reagan cuts red, white and blue ribbon; reopens Statue of Liberty
1987 In this year, Australian Pat Cash claims men's singles at Wimbledon
1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out.
1989 Ernesto Halffter, composer, dies at 84.
1990 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46.
1991 Ottawa seizes Bank of Credit and Commerce Canada's assets and closes all four branches; result of international money-laundering investigation
1991 Howard Nemerow, US poet laureate (Pulitzer), dies.
1992 Georgia Brown, British singer/actress (Love at Stake), dies at 59.
1993 Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84.
1994 A report of provincial inquiry says Montreal police force poorly supervised, badly trained and racist
1994 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party asst sec of state, dies at 67
1995 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor, dies at 69
1996 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91
2002 Ted Williams, baseball hall of famer and last player to bat over.400 in a single season (Boston Red Sox) dies at 84.
2009 In this year, Roger Federer claims a reco 15 Grand Slam (tennis) in tennis, winning a five set match again Andy Roddick at Wimbledon
2012 The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1016 ft).
2013 15 people are killed by a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraq.
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