Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on Radio WLUZ by the well-known Puerto Rican radio personality Senor Jose Miguel Agrelot in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy gives a talk on the topic ‘What Is Our True Necessity?’, to members of the Finance Department of the Government of Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘God and Goal’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Sri Chinmoy Gallery in Warwickshire, UK.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Victoria Park in Halifax, NS, Canada.
Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks are exhibited throughout the month of August at 170 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Prayer and Meditation’, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations in New York, NY.
Sri Chinmoy runs a 3-mile race, in a time of 23:00 minutes as part of the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix, held at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a ‘Peace Meditation’ at US Senate, where he also lifts W. Susantade Alwis, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the UN; Michael Sheriffs, Ambassador of Cyprus to the UN, at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy competes in the Eastern Regional Championships at Randall’s Island in Manhattan, NY, USA. He runs the 100-metre race taking just 65.5 strides in 14.59 sec., which is his fastest electronic timing to date.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s artworks, featuring his first 70,000 Soul-Bird drawings, opens at the Jharna-Kala Gallery, 6 Crosby St., Soho, in New York, NY, USA.
The first annual Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Race (12 June-1 August) concludes outside Thomas Edison Vocational High School in Jamaica, NY, USA. The race was conducted on a certified .5488 mile loop (883.2079 metres) on a paved sidewalk surrounding the school. With a 51-day cut-off, only two out of the five starters, completed the 3,100 miles — Edward Kelley (1st man) in 47 days + 15:19:56, and Suprabha Beckjord (1st woman) in 50 days + 02:09:56. And, two others — Georgs Jermolajevs and Aleksandar Arsic —finished 2700 miles.
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting is published in the weekly German newspaper Die Andere Realität (The Other Germany).
Sri Chinmoy honours Dr. Ananda Guruge, the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the USA, and his wife Darshanika at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy attends the closing ceremony of his Jharna-Kala artworks exhibition at Newark International Airport in Newark, NJ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes the song, ‘Last Night I Had a Very, Very, Very Significant Dream’, at the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race in Jamaica, NY, USA.