Retro Events For The Decade 1980
1989 Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
1989 Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (D-Va)
1989 New York City elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) and female comp (Holtzman)
1988 In a bizarre twist of logic, John Fogerty is found not guilty at a San Francisco court of plagiarising his own 1970 single 'Run Through the Jungle' in writing 'Old Man Down the Road'
1988 MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
1987 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1985 Colombian troops end 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
1984 STS-51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd New York Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1982 "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin New York City after 69 performances
1982 Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 Turkey adopts constitution
1981 France performs nuclear test
Retro Events For The Decade 1970
1979 Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1976 "Gone With the Wind" televised
1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1974 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1973 New Jersey becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 U.S. and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
1972 President Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1970 "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 689 performances
1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
Retro Events For The Decade 1960
1969 John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1967 Carl B. Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 Richard G. Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana
1967 St. Louis Cardinals Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1966 Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in New York City
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1964 NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1963 Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World
1963 New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1961 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1960 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
Retro Events For The Decade 1950
1959 13th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 8 -3 at Eldorado CC California
1957 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns and win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Washington 62-3
1953 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, South Carolina (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Constitution of Jordan passes
1950 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan
1950 French women and children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
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