Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1986 Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Iceland
1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 U.S. intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
1984 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan
1984 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," premieres in New York City
1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1982 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1982 Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
1981 Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
1981 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yards)
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1981 Yankees beat Brewers 7-3 and win only Eastern Championship Series
1980 Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1980 Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 53 performances
1979 East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1978 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
1978 Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1976 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
1976 Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup
1975 Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
1975 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 1st career hat trick
1975 Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
1974 A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
1973 Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
1972 Panama adopts constitution
1972 Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail
1972 Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
1971 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
1971 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Rome: 2nd bishop synod
1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days
1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 Panama revolts
1967 World Series record 3 consecutive home runs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open
1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1960 Radio - TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 "Goldilocks" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances
1958 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1956 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
1956 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
1955 All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
1955 Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
1954 "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 64 performances
1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam
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