P133 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                               * 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.     100-Contents 101-Headlines   Next       Prev       Home        End