Retro History for March 3 The 50s 60s 70s 80s
Retro History For The Decade 1980
1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra
1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres
1985 "My One and Only" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 767 performances
1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 Bill (Willie) Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1984 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)
1984 Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)
1982 Senate begins debate on expulsion of Senator Harrison Williams D-New Jersey
1981 Isle's Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals
1981 New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
Retro History For The Decade 1970
1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia)
1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1977 Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)
1977 Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal
1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (U.S.S.R.)
1977 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1976 Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia
1975 "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 104 performances
1975 Linda McCartney is charged in U.S. with possession of marijuana
1974 "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 9 performances
1974 Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4
1974 George Foreman KOs Ken Norton
1974 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1973 "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances
1973 White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1971 South African Broadcasting lifts its ban on the Beatles
1971 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa
Retro History For The Decade 1960
1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)
1968 "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City
1968 Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague
1968 Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts
1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1967 Jeff Beck Group, featuring Ron Wood and Aynsley Dunbar, makes its stage debut in London (at Finsbury Park Astoria).
1967 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)
1966 Buffalo Springfield form, Steven Stills, Neil Young
1966 James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in New York City
1966 Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee
1966 Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
1966 Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die
1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting
1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1
1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1963 Senegal adopts constitution
1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
1961 King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco
1960 9th largest snowfall in New York City history, 14.5"
Retro History For The Decade 1950
1959 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1959 British government arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis
1959 San Francisco Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1958 KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
1958 Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq
1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham and Jones (GRB)
1957 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
1957 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)
1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (U.S.)
1956 Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)
1956 Indonesian government of Harahap resigns
1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)
1956 Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY
1955 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show
1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St. Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1952 Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution
1951 Bill Mlkvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
1950 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name
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