Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Curran Theatre, San Francisco
1989 Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup
1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1988 Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas
1988 Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award
1988 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
1987 17th New York City Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17
1987 18th New York City Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01
1987 22,000 run in New York City Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
1987 Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
1987 New York Jets retire Don Maynards #13
1987 New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
1986 Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine
1986 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita
1985 Netherlands decides definative sites for cruise missiles
1985 Nostalgia Television begins on cable
1984 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105
1984 Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in New York City
1984 Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000
1984 Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4
1982 Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
1982 Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract
1981 1st Class Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents
1981 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win
1981 Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1981 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 A. L. Webber musical "Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres
1979 Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees
1979 Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 Federal government makes a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
1978 New York Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1977 Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals
1977 President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981
1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse New York City for 16 performances
1976 Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule
1976 West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis
1974 Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo Brazil)
1974 U.N. affirms independence of Cyprus
1973 'Oz' magazine publishes its last issue
1973 "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 68 performances
1972 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"
1972 Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick
1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation
1970 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea
1970 Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die
1970 Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die
1970 KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks
1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 36 performances
1968 Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award
1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
1968 U.S. pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team
1968 University of Suriname opens
1966 Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
1966 NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day)
1966 Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
1965 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco
1965 Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing
1965 Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt)
1964 George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts
1964 Kansas City Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39)
1964 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open
1964 Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon
1962 Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases
1962 Greece enters European Common Market
1962 KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1962 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1962 WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year
1960 Benelux treaty goes into effect
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante)
1959 Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt
1959 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo
1959 WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO
1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1957 KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan
1956 Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union
1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms
1956 Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and PEPSU merge as Punjab protection
1956 Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1956 Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen
1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum
1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado
1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule
1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba
1954 India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements
1954 KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign
1953 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) and 6 mile (28:08.4)
1953 KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific
1951 "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 356 performances
1951 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico
1951 Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
1951 Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
1951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson
1951 Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in New York City
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1950 82 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House
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