Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1989 Frank Viola and Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and Dodgers 1-0
1988 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley
1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 88th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 home runs
1986 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1986 Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 41 performances
1983 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 home runs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1982 "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 1208 performances
1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan
1981 Sebastian Coe of U.K. sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1977 Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1977 New York Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1977 N.Y. Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1976 N.Y. Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1973 "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 India and Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven
1967 Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng
1967 Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1964 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C.
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana, state record
1962 Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run home run is disallowed as ump called time
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1958 Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1957 Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill
1956 England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
1955 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1953 "Me and Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 358 performances
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 Pirates snap New York Giants 16 game win streak
1950 Earle and Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
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