Sri Chinmoy delivers a talk, entitled ‘Confidence’, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song in honour of the ‘New York Road Runners Club’.
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th Birthday are read into the Congressional Record at the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sardar Dhillon, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, at the United Nations in New York. The photo of this meeting was chosen by Sri Chinmoy to on the cover of his book ‘Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 53.’
Sri Chinmoy is named ‘Peace Ambassador in Puerto Rico’ by Governor Rafael Hernández Colón of Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 7040¼ lbs. using only his left arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (365) — the 27th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Russian Cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes the English translation of ‘August 15, 1945’, Dyulok Chariye, his epic 180-line Bengali poem written at the age of 13 and dedicated to Sri Aurobindo for his birthday, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Cambodia is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy visits an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala artworks at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 34 people, including Dr. Kul Gautam, Deputy Executive-Director of UNICEF; Lindy Remigino, 100 m Olympic gold medallist, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 36 people, including several members of the family of the late Jesse Owens, legendary Olympic gold medallist — Beverly Owens Prather and Marlene Owens Rankin, two of Jesse Owens’ daughters, and his grandson, Stuart Rankin, Jr.; Ted Erikson, 3-time English Channel swimmer; Adolf Kiefer, 1936 Olympic gold medallist in backstroke; Willye White, Olympic silver medallist in the long jump and 4 x 100 m relay, at Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL, USA.