Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets New York City
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34
1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1987 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1986 Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
1985 Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
1985 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in the United Kingdom
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship
1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1981 Brewers (since 1970) and Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
1981 Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1977 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial New York City for 66 performances
1977 Indira Gandhi arrested
1976 Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run
1976 Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in the United Kingdom
1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager with the Cleveland Indians
1974 Pele retires as soccer player
1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1972 Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1972 Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1970 "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 333 performances
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1970 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1968 Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope," premieres in New York City
1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, California (IND) begins
1967 King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1964 Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, and 29th in club's history
1963 "Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 338 performances
1963 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured
1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances
1962 Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184
1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 "Mr Ed" premieres
1961 "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 167 performances
1961 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
1960 San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 home runs
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
1957 Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin
1956 Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yankees 6-3 in opening game of World Series
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1955 WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1954 KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 10th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 6 -5 at Wentworth, England
1953 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal
1953 KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1952 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1951 Bobby Thomson home run - Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
1950 Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army
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