Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
1988 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1987 Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
1987 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
1986 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
1986 Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
1986 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1986 U.S.S.R. charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
1984 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," premieres in New York City
1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1983 U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1982 Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 Jerry Lewis' 17th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,400,000
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1982 Paul McCartney releases "Tug of War"
1982 Pittsburgh Pirates retire Willie Stargell's number
1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1981 "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial New York City after 1082 performances
1981 Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1980 94th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats H Mandlikova (57 61 61)
1980 Chantal Langlace sets women's record for fastest 100K run (7h27m22s)
1980 College football longest losing streak of 50 games ends for
1980 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1980 Susan Powell (Okla), 21, crowned 53rd Miss America 1981
1980 Macalaster University of St. Paul, Minnesota beating Mount Senario 17-14
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances
1978 Begin and Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace
1978 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1977 Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977
1976 Jerry Lewis' 11th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Dean Martin appears
1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1975 6.8 quake along Anatolian Fault kills over 2,000 in Lice Turkey
1975 89th U.S. Womens Tennis: Chris E L Mills beats E G Cawley (57 64 62)
1975 Heavy earthquake at Lice Turkey; 3,000 killed
1975 Tawny Elaine Godin (NY), 18, crowned 48th Miss America 1976
1975 Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum
1975 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 New York Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt and Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1972 John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre
1971 Jerry Lewis' 6th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1970 New York Met Tommy Agee hits for the cycle
1970 Palestinians seize 3 jetliners
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 1166 performances
1968 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1965 India invades West Pakistan
1965 KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history
1963 Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records
1963 Major league baseballs 100,000th game
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar U.S.S.R.
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1958 Mary Ann Mobley (Miss), 21, crowned 31st Miss America 1959
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1957 Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" and "Here Comes Santa Claus"
1955 "Catch a Star" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances
1955 J van Tilburg appointed governor of Suriname
1954 68th U.S. Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats A Louise Brough (68 61 86)
1954 74th U.S. Mens Tennis: E V Seixas, Jr. beats Rex Hartwig (36 62 64 64)
1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
1954 WINS New York City begins playing rock n roll with Alan Freed Show
1954 Yankees use a record 10 pinch hitters
1953 Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany
1953 Roy Campanella sets record for home runs by a catcher at 38
1952 Canadian TV begins in Montreal
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