Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan
1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season
1987 Philips introduces CD-video
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1986 Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
1985 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1985 Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
1984 "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 362 performances
1983 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
1982 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1981 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1980 John Arlott calls his last game, England vs. Australia at Lord's
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 108 performances
1979 79th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
1978 George Harrison marries Olivia
1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
1978 Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
1978 Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 home run in 11 straight years
1974 Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1974 Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1973 Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1972 Chicago White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits San Diego Padres, 1-0
1972 Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
1972 Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1971 Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
1971 Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors win their 1st U.S. Open tennis matches
1971 New York's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
1970 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (U.S. Open) (9 pt sudden death)
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
1968 Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1967 KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
1965 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run off Curt Simmons
1965 Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends
1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1964 Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
1963 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
1963 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
1962 Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 Tamara and Irina Press (U.S.S.R.) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
1960 William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 U.S. President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
1958 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 Henry Verwoerd appointed Prime Minister of South Africa
1958 KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
1958 National Defense Education Act was signed
1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1957 Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
1956 Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
1956 Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
1955 KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, California (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Hurricane Edna batters NE U.S., killing 20
1954 WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Dr. Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
1951 Australia, New Zealand and U.S. sign ANZUS-pact
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