1988 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets
1988 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa
1986 Michael Sergio Parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS
1986 Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on in bottom of 10th, New York rallies to win Game 6 of the World Series, 6-5, Bill Buckner misplays a ball
1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1985 Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
1984 "Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC)
1984 Hepatitis virus is discovered
1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1984 Rangers beat Devils 11-2
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1984 West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1983 U.S. invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (U.S. Wins!)
1982 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 minutes, SA vs. Victoria
1981 11th New York City Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe in 2:25:29
1981 12th New York City Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:08:13
1981 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missiles
1981 Allison Roe (2:25:29) and Alberto Salazar (2:08:13) win New York City marathon
1981 George Steinbrenner scuffles with 2 fans in a hotel elevator
1980 Mike Weaver KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks and her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1978 Israeli Government approves "in principle," a draft compromise peace
1978 Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
1975 Denv Nuggets 1st game at McNichols Sports Arena beat St. Louis Spirits
1975 U.S.S.R.'s Venera 10 makes day-side Venus landing
1974 Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1974 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad
1974 Wings release "Junior's Farm"
1973 Chris Wills wins 1st National hang-gliding championship
1973 Cubs trade Ferguson Jenkins to Rangers for Bill Madlock and Vic Harris
1973 San Francisco Giants trade Willie McCovey to San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell
1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium) covers 30 miles, 1,258 yards in 1 hour
1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
1971 Belgium and China establish diplomatic relations
1971 General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR
1971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World
1971 U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China
1970 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Women's Golf Charities Open
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1968 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
1968 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby
1966 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
1965 Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud"
1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open
1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1964 Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety
1963 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
1963 Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden
1962 110th member of United Nations admitted (Uganda)
1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Stevenson demands U.S.S.R. ambassador Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York City
1960 Cuba nationalizes all remaining U.S. businesses
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1957 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1955 Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938
1955 Branch Rickey steps down as General Manager of the Pirates
1955 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven
1953 Cleveland Browns' quarterback Otto Graham sets club record with 4 fumbles
1953 Coal mine in Seraing Belgium explodes, 26 die
1953 Dmitri Sjostakovitch completes his 10th Symphony
1953 KIEM TV channel 3 in Eureka, California (NBC/CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
1952 French president inaugurates Donzere-Mondragonstuw Dam
1952 Nazar Mohammad scores Pakistan's 1st Test century 124* vs. India
1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1950 Jean Anouilh's "La Repetition, ou L'Amour Pani," premieres in Paris
1950 Sukarno appointed president of Republic Indonesia
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