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A look at the events leading up to the 1973 tennis match between retired men's champ Bobby Riggs and the current women's Wimbledon winner Billie Jean King.
3 December 1927, Wall Lake, Iowa, USA
26 May 1907, Winterset, Iowa, USA
15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
25 March 1934, Toledo, Ohio, USA
11 July 1990, Odense, Denmark
23 October 1925, Corning, Iowa, USA
10 January 1949, Marshall, Texas, USA
17 June 1980, Lynwood, California, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
22 November 1943, Long Beach, California, USA
26 September 1981, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
25 October 1941, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
29 May 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
21 December 1954, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
4 August 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
24 July 1920, New York City, New York, USA
February 25, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA
August 9, 1938 in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
9 July 1947, San Francisco, California, USA
24 July 1932, Hooker, Oklahoma, USA
18 February 1933, Tokyo, Japan
19 April 1987, Nyagan, Tyumen Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
August 16, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
