| July 4th 1969 | | "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
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| July 4th 1970 | | 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park NJ
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| July 4th 1970 | | 84th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Newcombe beats K Rosewall (57 63 62 36 61)
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| July 4th 1970 | | Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
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| July 4th 1970 | | Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
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| July 4th 1971 | | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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| July 4th 1973 | | Alan Ayckbourne's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
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| July 4th 1973 | | CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
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| July 4th 1973 | | In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
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| July 4th 1974 | | Mike Marshall goes 9-0 with 3 saves in 20 appearances in 30 days
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| July 4th 1975 | | Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
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| July 4th 1975 | | Bundy victim (?) Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah
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| July 4th 1975 | | 82nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (60 61)
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| July 4th 1976 | | Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
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| July 4th 1976 | | Raid on Entebbe-Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers
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