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* 9 July - A bolt of lightning strikes
York Minster and causes extensive fire
damage which is expected to cost
millions of pounds to repair.
* 12 July - Robert Maxwell buys the
Daily Mirror for £113.4 million.
* 14 July - New Zealand Prime Minister
Robert Muldoon calls a snap election
and is heavily defeated by opposition
Labour leader David Lange.
* 18 July - Beverly Burns becomes the
first woman Boeing 747 captain in the
world.
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