Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
1989 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
1988 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams
1988 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
1988 Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere
1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
1986 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 home runs in a season
1986 Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
1985 2nd MTV Awards: Bruce Springsteen
1985 John Williams introduces new Today Show theme
1984 STS-41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed
1983 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1983 Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season
1983 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 minutes, Lancs vs. Leics
1983 U.S. Mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle)
1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain
1982 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1981 101st U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63)
1981 33rd Emmy Awards: Taxi, Hill St. Blue, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford wins
1981 April Moon sets women's handbow distance record of 1,039 yards and 13"
1981 Atlanta Falcons tie record of 31 points in 4th quarter (vs Green Bay)
1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1980 1st United Negro College Fund
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 China performs nuclear test
1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa)
1978 1st flight of McDonnell Douglas F-18A Hornet
1978 New York Yankees win to gain sole possession of 1st place from 14 games back
1977 1st TV viewer discretion warning-Soap
1977 General Motors introduces 1st U.S. diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
1976 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
1975 Hurricane Eloise, kills 71 in Caribbean and U.S.
1974 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
1974 1st broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC-TV
1974 Phillies set NL record, using 27 players in a game, St. Louis uses 24, tying record of 51. Phils win 7-3 in 17
1974 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics
1973 Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout
1973 Syrian/Israeli dogfight over Mediterranean Sea
1972 1st TV broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS
1971 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
1971 Frank Robinson hits his 500th home run
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 WIIQ TV channel 41 in Demopolis, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 World Hockey Association forms
1970 1st New York City Marathon won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
1970 84th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Smith Court beats Rosemary Casals (62 26 61)
1970 90th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Tony Roche (26 64 76 63)
1970 IBM announces System 370 computer
1970 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open
1970 Palestine guerillas conquer Irbid Jordania
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
1969 Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player
1969 Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance
1968 Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1966 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1965 Beatles release "Yesterday"
1965 Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964
1965 Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast
1965 Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
1964 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome
1964 78th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60)
1964 84th U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64)
1964 Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1964 St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2
1964 WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1963 "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV
1963 Barbra Striesand and Elliot Gould marry
1963 Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yankees 28th pennant
1963 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 "Car 54 Where are You?" premieres on TV
1961 Battles between United Nations and Katanga troops in Congo
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Unmanned Mercury-Atlas 4 launched into Earth orbit
1960 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 73rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Christine Truman (61 64)
1959 79th U.S. Mens Tennis: Neale Fraser beats Alejandro Olmedo (63 57 62 64)
1959 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Memphis Golf Open
1959 U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
1958 Braves Warren Spahn is 1st lefty to win 20 or more games 9 times
1958 Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam
1956 Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
1956 Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice
1954 Reds Ted Kluszewski scores a run in record 17 consecutive games
1954 WPBN TV channel 7 in Traverse City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Pitcher Bob Trice is 1st black to play on Philadelphia A's
1952 Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez elected president of Mexico
1951 St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
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