Retro History for May 19 The 50s 60s 70s 80s
Retro History For The Decade 1980
1989 Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1988 Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1987 1st American Comedy Award
1986 Anti-apartheid activist Helene Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa
1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1984 "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62
1984 110th Preakness: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6
1984 STS-41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat New York Islanders, 4 games to 1
1984 Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
1983 NASA launches Intelsat V
1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C.
1982 IFK Goteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Goteborg
1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion
1981 Pirate Jim Bibby gives up a leadoff single to Brave Terry Harper, then retires next 27 batters
1980 "Blackstone" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 104 performances
1980 Ringo and Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
Retro History For The Decade 1970
1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
1979 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
1979, Eric Clapton held a party at his Surrey house celebrating his recent marriage to Patti Boyd. Clapton had set-up a small stage in the garden and as the evening progressed Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ended up jamming together along with Clapton, Ginger Baker and Mick Jagger.
1977 "Smokey and the Bandit," premieres
1976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia
1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge
1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1975 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh
1975 Farm truck packed with wedding party struck by a train, killing 66 in truck, 40 miles south of Poona, India
1975 Junko Tabei is 1st woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest
1974 Joanne Carner Golf Invitational wins LPGA Bluegrass
1974 Stanley Cup: Philadelphia Flyers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
1974 Valeri Giscard d'Estaing wins French presidential election
1973 "Daisy" A Day by Jud Strunk hits #14
1973 "Smith" opens at Eden Theater New York City for 17 performances
1973 99th Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:54.4
1972 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
Retro History For The Decade 1960
1968 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain
1968 Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
1967 U.S. bombs Hanoi
1967 U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with England and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space
1965 Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
1965 West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II
1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 76 performances
1962 "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
1962 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
1961 New pier opens in Scheveningen
1960 Alan Freed and eight other DJ accused of taking radio payola
1960 Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
1960 USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
Retro History For The Decade 1950
1959 Jan de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London
1958 South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
1958 U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian government
1956 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4
1956 Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning home run, 1st home run in 8 straight games
1955 Atkinson and Depeiaza make 347 stand for 7th wkt WI vs. Australia
1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
1953 Nuclear explosion in Nevada (fall-out in St. George, Utah)
1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
1951 U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea
1950 New York Times reports of worlds smallest and dumbest mechanical brain
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