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World Football League founded
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25th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 108-102 at Phoenix
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The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
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Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves
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Sex Pistols' final concert held in Winterland, San Francisco
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Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances
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Sixth republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in North Charleston, South Carolina
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US Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
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Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
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63 people are killed & 70,000 are left homeless after floods devastate Mozambique and Malawi