Retro History for June 14 The 50s 60s 70s 80s
Retro History For The Decade 1980
1989 Ground breaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall
1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years
1987 41st NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles
1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict
1981 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1980 Theme From New York, New York by Frank Sinatra hits #32
Retro History For The Decade 1970
1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs
1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th home run is an NL lefty record
1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yankees Paul Blair hits a 3 run home run
1978 Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV, syndication
1976 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yankees beat Mets 8-4
1975 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1972 Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1970 Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
Retro History For The Decade 1960
1969 John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1968 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1967 Mariner 5 Launch, Venus Flyby
1967 Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV
1967 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1963 New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th home run
1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1961 106 degrees F, hottest temperature in San Francisco
Retro History For The Decade 1950
1959 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1958 58th U.S. Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1958 Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record
1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1956 "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances
1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words 'under God' to the Pledge
1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee
1953 Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 Yankees sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1952 52nd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus
1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
1951 "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater New York City for 37 performances
1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
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