Retro History for June 6 The 50s 60s 70s 80s
Retro History For The Decade 1980
1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1988 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers
1988 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
1987 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
1987 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
1987 New York Yankees play their 13,000th game
1986 Jurgen Schull sets world discus record, 74.07 m
1986 Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of North Carolina State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself
1985 55th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Navratilova (63 67 75)
1985 58th National Spelling Bee: Balu Natarajan wins spelling milieu
1985 Body of Nazi criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele located and exhumed
1985 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985 Soyuz T-13 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1984 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India
1983 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins and Roy Acuff
1983 Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland
1983 Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time
1983 Li Xiannian becomes president/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR
1983 Nicaragua expels 3 U.S. diplomats
1983 Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1
1982 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO
1982 36th Tony Awards: Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Nine win
1982 52nd French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats G Vilas (16 76 60 64)
1982 Bernard Glassman, installed as abbot of Zen Center of NY
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA McDonald 's Golf Classic
1982 First of a week of peace gigs begins when Stevie Wonder, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty and others play to 85,000 in Los Angeles for Peace Sunday
1981 113th Belmont: George Martens aboard Summing wins in 2:29
1981 51st French Womens Tennis: Hana Mandlikova beats Sylvia Hanika (62 64)
1981 Maya Yang Lin wins competition to design the Vietnam War Memorial
1980 Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
Retro History For The Decade 1970
1979 200th running of horse's Derby in England
1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
1979 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 home runs in the majors
1978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57 percent
1977 Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb
1977 Doobie Brothers sponsor a Golf Classic and Concert for United Way
1977 Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)
1977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws
1976 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1976 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 British voters decide to remain in Common Market
1975 Nolan Ryan's bid for 2nd no-hitter broken in 6th inning
1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1974 47th National Spelling Bee: Julie Ann Junkin wins spelling hydrophyte
1972 David Bowie releases 'Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust'
1972 Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1972 Gold hits record $60 an ounce in London
1972 U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed
1971 "Ed Sullivan Show" last broadcasts on CBS-TV
1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City
1971 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station
1971 WHAE (now WGNX) TV channel 46 in Atlanta, Georgia (CBN) begins broadcasting
1971 Willie Mays hits record 22nd and last extra inning home run
1970 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34
Retro History For The Decade 1960
1969 Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar
1968 WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza
1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
1966 Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed
1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator"
1966 NFL and AFL announce their merger
1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational
1965 Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive home runs beating White Sox 12-0
1964 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6
1964 Beatles arrive in netherlands
1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums
1960 Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1960 South Africa police kills 11 Pondo's at Nqusa Hill
1960 Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
Retro History For The Decade 1950
1958 Ozzie Virgil is 1st black to play as a Tiger
1958 Premier Charles de Gaulle says Algeria will always be French
1955 Bill Haley and Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1954 Patty Berg wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1950 East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
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