Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances
1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake
1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid
1988 Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1987 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow
1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination
1986 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI vs. Young WI
1986 Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code," premieres in London
1986 IBM re-forms in South Africa
1986 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 U.S. writer Edward A. Tracy kidnap in Beirut
1985 Qasim Omar (206) and Javed Miandad (203*) make 397 stand vs. SL
1984 Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal
1984 Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ
1984 Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05
1983 Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
1980 "Banjo Dancing" opens at Century Theater New York City for 38 performances
1980 1st (& only) time Phillies win World Series (in 98 years)
1980 Phillies win their 1st World Championship in their 98-year history
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 10th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
1979 9th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33
1979 Greta Weitz wins woman participation in New York City marathon (02:27:33)
1979 Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
1979 Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
1977 U.S. recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa
1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 Cincinnati Reds sweep New York Yankees, in 73rd World Series
1976 New York Knicks retire 1st number, # 19, Willis Reed
1976 New York Yankee Thurman Munson ties World Series mark of 6 straight singles
1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
1975 "Treemonisha" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 64 performances
1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1975 Elton John given a star in Hollywood
1975 Mexico City's 1st major subway accident takes 26 lives
1975 Red Sox Carlton Fisk's 12th inning home run beats Reds 7-6 in game 6 of WS
1975 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
1974 1st Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 5-0 vs Caps
1974 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Cubic Corp Golf Classic
1973 A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Waco Tribune Herald Ladies Golf Classic
1972 "Dude" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 16 performances
1972 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 140 performances
1972 "Pacific Paradise" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 5 performances
1971 "To Live Another Summer" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 173 performances
1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1971 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1971 William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan
1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways
1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
1969 Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in New York City
1969 Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany
1969 Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali
1967 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
1967 Thousands opposing Vietnam War try to storm Pentagon
1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
1965 KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
1965 Vivian Beaumont Theater (New York City) opens
1964 Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2)
1964 Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
1961 Barbra Striesand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R.
1960 1st British nuclear sub Dreadnought launched
1960 John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City)
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana
1959 Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C.
1959 Players Association approves 2 All-Star Games in 1960, to be held in Kansas City and NY
1958 1st women in English House of Lords
1957 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
1957 Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1956 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
1954 Dorothy Parker/Arnaud d'Usseau's "Ladies of the Corridor," premieres
1954 Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
1952 Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1950 Death penality abolished in Belgium
1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Hardscrabble Women's Golf Invitation
1950 Tom Powers of Duke scores 6 touchdowns
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