Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra
1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
1987 Peter Shaffer's "Lettice and Lovage," premieres in London
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1986 New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
1985 15th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34
1985 16th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
1985 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
1985 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
1985 Hurricane Juan ravages U.S. Gulf states and east coast, 49 die
1985 Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's and 2 Renoir's
1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1984 Washington State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1981 Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1980 Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of U.K. (National Day)
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1975 Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
1973 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2
1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yards), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire
1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1970 "Light, Lively and Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 87 performances
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
1969 St. Vincent and Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1967 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
1966 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 U.N. deprives South Africa of Namibia
1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1965 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1964 "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 215 performances
1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians
1964 Singers Sonny and Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1963 Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW vs. Qld at Gabba
1963 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
1962 "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 673 performances
1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 American Basketball League starts play
1961 Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN
1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league
1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me"
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1958 General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan
1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey
1957 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Argentine peso devalued
1955 Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows and takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
1954 B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem
1954 WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 89 performances
1950 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St. Joan," premieres
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