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1972 Emerson Fittipaldi is youngest to win an auto race World Championship. 
1972 Heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton, redeeming his loss to Norton in their previous encounter
1972 US Men's olympic basketball teams 1st lose, 51-50 to USSR (disputed)
1972 Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading S Afr prior to WWI), dies
1973 Muhammad Ali defeats Ken Norton.
1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal
1974 Teuvo Louhivouri sets cycling distance record of 515.8 mi in 24 hrs
1976 2 airliners collide over Yugoslavia, results in the deaths of all 176 aboard.
1976 Dalton Trumbo, US writer/director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer last to, die by guillotine
1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
1979 London talks on the Zimbabwe Rhodesian constitution open.
1979 Agostinho Neto, poet/1st pres of Angola, dies at 56.
1982 In this year, Decca releases Beatle audition "The Complete Silver Beatles" album
1982 Pete Rose breaks Hank Aarons's National League record by playing in his 3077th baseball game
1982 Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies.
1983 John Vorster, former prime minister of South Africa, dies in Cape Town at age 67
1983 Balthasar J "John" Vorster, S African premier (1966-78), dies at 67
1984 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla
1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
1985 Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23
1986 Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel.
1987 Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami to begin a 10 day tour of the US.
1988 In this year, Steffi Graf claims US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)
1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship.
1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary and Czech).
1989 Hungary opens its borders to the West, allowing thousands to leave East Germany.
1989 Jeff Stollmeyer, cricketer (32 Tests for WI), murdered
1990 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win the US Open
1990 George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki.
1990 Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas Nevada
1990 Iran and Iraq agree to resume full diplomatic ties with one another.
1990 Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia (1980-90), assassinated
1991 Sarah Sally Lawrence, entertainer, dies at 61
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