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2018

Starbucks announces that it will stop using plastic straws by 2020. It used 1 billion of them per year.

1981

Nintendo’s video game “Donkey Kong” is released.

1974

Pierre E. Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada win the Canadian election.

1962

Andy Warhol’s first exhibition takes place at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

1956

Dick Clark hosts the show “American Bandstand” for the first time.

1955

The song “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley & the Comets reaches number one on the North American charts.

1947

Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Royal Navy Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, a member of the Greek royal family.

1944

Battle of Normandy: British and Canadian forces capture Caen, France.

1922

Johnny Weissmuller becomes the first person to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under a minute. He would go on to play the role of Tarzan in the movies.

1877

The Wimbledon tennis tournament is held for the first time in London.

It happened on… July 9

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