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1975
 
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Yakubu Gowon, who united Nigeria after the Biafran war, is thrown out in a military coup       
1977
 
    
German author Botho Strauss's play Three Acts of Recognition wins him an international audience       
1981
 
    
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from Light, the first of a seven-part opera cycle, is performed in Milan       
1982
 
     
CDU leader Helmut Kohl follows Helmut Schmidt as chancellor of Germany        
1984
 
    
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart       
1984
 
    
Luciano Berio's opera Un re in ascolto has its premiere in Salzburg       
1984
 
    
US choreographer William Forsythe becomes director of the Frankfurt Ballet       
1985
 
    
17-year-old German tennis-player Boris Becker becomes the youngest ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon       
1987
 
    
18-year-old German tennis player Steffi Graf deposes Martina Navratilova as world no. 1       
1987
 
   
US architect Daniel Libeskind designs the City Edge project in Berlin, building it up from startlingly fragmented forms