Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 89th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2
1986 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched
1985 Mary Joe Fernandez, 14 years and 8 days old is youngest to win a U.S. Tennis Open match (beats Sara Gomer in 1st round)
1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1983 U.S. performs nuclear test
1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
1982 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
1981 Divers begin to recover a safe found aboard Andrea Doria
1981 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Chon Doo Hwan elected President of South Korea
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
1978 Gerrie Knetemann becomes world cyclist champion
1978 Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 home runs and have 500 stolen bases
1978 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1978 Yankee Catfish Hunter's 6-2 win gives him a perfect 6-0 in Aug 1978
1977 "Chicago" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 947 performances
1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee
1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2
1975 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1975 Veronica and Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1974 New York Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1972 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1972 U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes
1969 Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1967 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966 Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
1966 Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois
1966 Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1965 Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
1965 WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Francis the Talking Mule is mystery guest on "What's My Line"
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open
1960 Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1960 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Grossinger Golf Open
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1958 Calvin Griffith says Senators will prob accept offer to move to Minn
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1958 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1957 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game
1955 Guinness Book of World Records 1st published
1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts
1952 Emil Zatopek wins 12th olympics marathon (2:23:03.2)
1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
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