Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Mayor Edward Koch’ in honour of the newly elected mayor of New York City, NY, USA. The song is performed during his meeting with the mayor at City Hall the next day. (Edward ‘Ed’ Koch serves three terms as mayor of New York City from 1978–1989.)
Sri Chinmoy runs a 5-mile race in 41:23 (an 8:17/mile pace) at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, NY, USA. It is part of a 31-day Grand Prix series.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at 133 West 24th Street, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 400-lb. lift using a seated calf raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meditates on stage at the India Day Parade in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (122) and organ recital (3) at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy gives a piano performance at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (423) — the 23rd of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s book, ‘August 15th, 1945’, is published in New York, NY, USA. It contains the original Bengali poem ‘Dyulok Chariye Nara Narayan’ written by thirteen-year-old Chinmoy in Pondicherry, India, on August 14th, 1945 — the day before Sri Aurobindo’s Birthday; plus his own English translation he completed between 9 June and 4 August, 1996.
Sri Chinmoy holds a full-day function in honour of the 50th Anniversary of India’s independence, at which he offers long meditations and paints 50 Jharna-Kala works of art and releases 50 doves. He also offers a Peace Concert (519), performing on 50 instruments – the last of 50 concerts dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of India’s Independence – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy sets a new record for a 500-lb. seated double-dumbbell lift, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Morocco is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 47 people in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy completes 300 Soul-Bird drawings, totalling 7,305 since he began a new style on June 9, 2005, in Jamaica, NY, USA.