The Everly Brothers broke up after Phil Avery smashed guitar and stormed off stage.
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President of France, Jacques Chirac narrowly escaped an assassination during the Bastille Day celebration.
Harper Lee's second novel, 'Go Set a Watchman,' was published.
Batman's 'The Dark Knight' premiered in London.
NASA's New Horizons space probe completed the first flyby of Pluto in the history of human spaceflight.
English composer Henry Purcell was appointed organist of the Chapel Royal, London.
