Retro History for March 5 The 50s 60s 70s 80s
Retro History For The Decade 1980
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S.
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched
1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes and 3 seconds
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 Michael Secrest (U.S.) begins 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB)
1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR)
1982 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1981 NCAA St. Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
Retro History For The Decade 1970
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 605 performances
1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St. New York City
1971 Allman Brothers record one of the great live albums, at Fillmore East
1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
Retro History For The Decade 1960
1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in New York City
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City
1963 Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title
1961 John F. Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 Landslide in U.S.S.R., kills 145
1961 Old type, black and white notes cease to be legal tender
1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis
1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
Retro History For The Decade 1950
1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1956 New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
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