Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 4 performances
1989 Astor Piazzolla and Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in New York City
1989 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1988 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
1988 Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows
1987 "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 804 performances
1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record
1987 Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)
1987 U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time
1986 "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 40 performances
1986 "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 5 performances
1986 Allan Border scores the 10,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)
1986 U.S.S.R. expels 5 U.S. diplomats
1983 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility
1983 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"
1983 Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak
1983 Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday
1982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant
1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
1980 Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found
1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City
1975 "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 6137 performances
1975 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals
1975 Hamlisch and Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in New York City
1975 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic
1974 Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Caps
1974 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)
1973 Ringo releases "Photograph"
1972 "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances
1971 Last issue of "Look" magazine is published
1970 "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 505 performances
1970 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California
1970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 J. Bock and S. Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in New York City
1969 Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1969 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
1967 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1967 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1966 Yardbirds 1st U.S. tour (New York City)
1963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1962 Stalin-monument removed in Prague
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 France grants Mauritania independence
1960 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting
1960 Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 U.S. imposes embargo on exports to Cuba
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel
1959 William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances
1957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
1954 Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
1954 KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament
1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open
1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1950 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
1950 U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea
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