Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases
1989 Janet Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1988 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1986 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985 Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1982 Don Lever becomes 1st captain of New Jersey Devils
1982 U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon
1980 Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 New York Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mount Everest
1980 Cleveland Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1980 U.N. Security Council condemns (14-0, U.S. abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 Singer Vikki Carr and Michael Nilsson wed
1978 Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978 Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1974 Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 Nelson Rockefeller becomes V.P.
1974 Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 President Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1972 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1971 FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1970 Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1968 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1967 Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, and fired again as manager of A's
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit)
1965 Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team
1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings
1964 Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1961 East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1960 Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960 U.S.S.R. recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1958 Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1957 "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances
1957 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0
1957 USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1956 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1955 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California
1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria
1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1952 Stalin meets Chou Enlai
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