Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1985 STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1984 Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1983 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1982 KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder
1980 Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 Cars play concert in New York Central Park
1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979 U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1978 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1975 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1975 Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975 San Francisco Giant Ed Halick no-hits New York Giants, 6-0
1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973 John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
1972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1
1972 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia
1972 Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1971 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1969 Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4
1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1960 -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959 Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight
arrived Washington D.C.
1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1954 William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1951 Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on
1950 Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N.
1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
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