Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals
1989 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
1988 2 gambling clubs and 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
1988 Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1988 Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
1988 New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
1986 Discovery moves to OPF where more than 200 modification are made
1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched
1984 Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 Jam announce split to NME
1982 Portugal revises constitution
1980 Honduras and El Salvador settle their boundary dispute
1980 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-203
1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
1978 Uganda troops attack Tanzania
1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1976 "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances
1976 Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show
1976 Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1975 Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year
1975 John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals
1975 Juan Carlos assumes power in Spain
1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1974 California Angel Nolan Ryan throws fastest recorded pitch (100.9 MPH)
1974 Catfish Hunter is named AL Cy Young Award
1974 Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire
1973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
1972 45 die in a train crash in Chicago, Illinois
1972 Worst U.S. rail accident in 14 years; 45 die in Chicago
1970 KVEW TV channel 42 in Kennewick, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, New Hampshire (IND) 1st broadcast
1968 Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios
1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1968 Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam
1967 Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
1967 Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
1967 U.S.S.R. Kosmos 186 and 188 make 1st automatic docking and Venmera 13 launch
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open
1965 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open
1965 Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia
1964 Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam
1963 Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire
1963 Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1961 U.N. unanimously elects U Thant acting Secretary General of the U.N.
1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square
1960 Guatemala's "La Hora" reports plan for invasion on Cuba
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1957 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
1957 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1956 Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
1955 Imtiaz Ahmed scores 209 vs. New Zealand, the record for a no 8 batsman
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
1954 U.S. Armed Forces end segregation of races
1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1952 Clarence Birdseye sells 1st frozen peas
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1950 David Diamond's 3rd Symphony, premieres
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