Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in New York City
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1987 "Teddy and Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine
1987 Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1985 R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane
1985 STS-61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1984 Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite - 1st space salvage
1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader
1982 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215
1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Bill C. Davis' "Mass Appeal," premieres in New York City
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
1981 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1980 Baltimore's Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1978 "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1977 Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1975 New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years
1974 South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies
1973 Dmitri Shostakovich' 14th String Quartet premieres
1970 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1967 Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL's MVP
1958 Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1955 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 E. Arcaro, E. Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed
1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1952 Philadelphia A's pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1951 "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giant rushing record (218 yards) vs Chicago Cards
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