1989 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976 - 1989" album
1989 Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended
1989 U.S. 62nd manned space mission STS-34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
1989 William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," premieres in London
1988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid
1988 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate
1987 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young
1984 NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine
1984 STS-51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 13th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00
1983 14th New York City Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59
1983 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile
1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut
1980 "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 93 performances
1980 McCosker (168) and Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW vs. WA
1980 Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Tichonov succeeds Alexei Kosygin, due to illness
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
1978 CBS raises LP prices to $8.98
1978 China and Japan formally ends 4 decades of dissension
1978 Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in New York City
1977 7th New York City Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:43:10
1977 8th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38
1977 Panamanians vote 2:1 to approve new Canal treaties
1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
1975 Battle between Cuba and South Africa troops in Angola
1975 Islander Glenn Resch's 5th shut-out opponent-Flyers 3-0
1974 Cubs trade Billy Williams to A's for Manny Trillo, Knowles and Locker
1974 Lake Isaac in Cleveland Metroparks' Big Creek Reservation dedicated
1973 Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge Sirica
1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1973 Yankee General Manager and President Lee MacPhail named AL president
1972 "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1944 performances
1972 Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain
1972 WNJS TV channel 23 in Camden, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 WXLT (now WWSB) TV channel 40 in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida (ABC) begins
1970 Gary Gabelich sets auto speed record 622.4 mph (1,001 kph)
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 84 performances
1968 "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 82 performances
1968 Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 minutes 34.9 seconds)
1967 "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 80 performances
1967 New Jersey Americans (later NY/New Jersey Nets) play 1st ABA game
1966 Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time
1963 Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in New York City
1962 Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations about Cuba crisis
1962 USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
1962 WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 "Kwamina" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 32 performances
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die
1958 De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave"
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 U.S.S.R. lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
1956 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
1956 Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary
1955 Dominican League moves to winter baseball for 1st time
1954 Britain, England, France and U.S.S.R. agree to end occupation of Germany
1954 West Germany joins NATO
1954 Pakistan governor-general Ghoelan Mohammed disbands parliament
1954 WSAU TV channel 7 in Wausau, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 France grants Laos' sovereignty
1953 West Germany applies to NATO
1953 WTRF TV channel 7 in Wheeling-Steubenville, WV (CBS) 1st broadcast
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