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1988: Grand Slam for Steffi Graf |
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Two dates are pivotal to the German tennis boom and Germanys top position in world tennis in the second half of the 1980s. One is of course, Boris Beckers first Wimbledon victory on 7th July 1985, and the other is 10th September, when Steffi Graf, at the tender age of 19 fulfilled a tennis players dream by achieving a Grand Slam, that is winning all four of the worlds greatest tennis tournaments within one calendar year. |
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| 5.8.2020 Powerful explosion rocks Lebanon's capital Beirut, scores killed, thousands injured |
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| More than 100 people were killed and 4,000 others injured when a powerful explosion rocked Beirut's port. Prime Minister Hassan Diab has said that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse caused the blasts. |
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