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1972 - M*A*S*H premieres on TV.

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1974 - Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Australia) in 23rd America's Cup.

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1974 - Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.

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1975 - Rollout of first space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101).

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1976 - NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California.

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1977 - Dave Kingman hits his first New York Yankees' homer, Reggie Jackson hits two more.

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1978 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord.

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1978 - Death of Willy Messerschmitt in Munich, Germany; aircraft designer at the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Augsburg, which ultimately became the Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm corporation.

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1980 - Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is assassinated in Asunción, Paraguay (born 1925).

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1980 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

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