Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1988 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea
1988 Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
1988 Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
1988 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens
1988 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville New Jersey Mansion
1986 Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
1986 Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
1986 New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
1985 Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 home run seasons in both leagues
1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
1984 In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0
1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1983 Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
1983 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
1982 Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
1981 Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1978 Syrian and Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
1978 Yankees win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer and Pinella's fielding
1977 Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
1977 Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1977 Dusty Baker 30th home run joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-home run hitters
1976 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 performances
1974 Hank Aaron's 733rd career home run on his last NL at bat
1972 "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 8 performances
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
1972 Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
1972 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats New York Mets, 7-0
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 touchdowns vs. Philadelphia
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1970 Billy Martin named manager of Detroit Tigers
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
1969 U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1968 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented
1968 Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
1968 Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees
1968 Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
1968 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1966 Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd Los Angeles pennant in 4 years
1965 Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 New York Mets
1965 Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1963 Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees
1963 West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R.
1962 SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
1958 Musical show "Valmouth," 1st produced in London
1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres
1955 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
1955 Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles
1955 Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
1955 WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
1954 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series
1953 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden New York City for 849 perf
1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
1951 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
1951 Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers
1950 Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea
1950 Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
1950 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
1950 Chicago Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (55-13)
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