| July 4th 1983 | | NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox
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| July 4th 1984 | | Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
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| July 4th 1984 | | NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000
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| July 4th 1984 | | Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
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| July 4th 1984 | | Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki
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| July 4th 1985 | | Tinker Bell's nightly flight begins
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| July 4th 1987 | | Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
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| July 4th 1987 | | Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so
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| July 4th 1987 | | Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
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| July 4th 1987 | | 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
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| July 4th 1988 | | 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)
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| July 4th 1988 | | KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most
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| July 4th 1988 | | US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
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| July 4th 1989 | | Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles
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| July 4th 1989 | | Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
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