Retro History for February 23 The 50s 60s 70s 80s
Retro History For The Decade 1980
1988 15th Winter Olympic games opens in Calgary, Alberta
1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights and play up to 18 night games
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)
1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor
1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
1985 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
1983 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
1982 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London
1981 People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie and Papa John Phillips
1981 Spanish coup under Lt-colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1980 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York
1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill
Retro History For The Decade 1970
1979 "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 140 performances
1979 Frank Peterson, Jr. named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1978 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1975 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA
1974 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1971 Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1971 George Harrison is fined and his driving license is suspended for 1 year
1971 Lt. Calley confessed and implicates Captain Medina
1970 Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
Retro History For The Decade 1960
1969 Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969 WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1967 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 John Herbert's "Fortune and Men's Eyes," premieres in New York City
1967 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1965 Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1964 Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
Retro History For The Decade 1950
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1959 KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, California (PBS) begins broadcasting
1958 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
1958 Last Municipal arc light, Mission and 25th removed (installed in 1913)
1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1957 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 383 performances
1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1955 Edgar Faure forms French government
1954 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1954 Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
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