Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Key to the City of Ponce, Puerto Rico, by Mayor Luis Antonio Morales.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, Premier of Antigua, in St. John’s, Antigua.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Scarborough, Tobago. There, he also gives a short talk entitled, ‘A Higher and Better Life’.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jaime Lusinchi, President-elect of Venezuela, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Sri Chinmoy is invited by the President of Sri Lanka, Ranasinghe Premadasa, to share the podium with him and to offer a prayer during his nationally televised speech at the Festival of Lights in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Sri Chinmoy dedicates theParco Zoo di Sicilia as the World’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace Zoo, in Sicily, Italy.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Sheraton Hotel in Catania, Sicily, dedicated to Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, attended by 600 people.
The Philippine Star daily newspaper hails Sri Chinmoy as a “peace crusader”, in its Saturday edition, published in Manila, the Philippines.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and organ recital in Manila Cathedral in the Philippines. The same day, he composes a song, entitled, ‘I Am a True Filipino’.
Sri Chinmoy sketches Soul-Bird drawings, with a total for the day of 5,592, bringing his all-tine total to 861,906.
Sri Chinmoy takes a boat ride with his students on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe.
Victoria Falls is dedicated as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Falls in Zimbabwe. Later the same day, Harare International Airport is proclaimed a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Soul-Bird drawings opens at the Okura Hotel in Takamatsu, Japan.
Sri Chinmoy offers the first of 48 Peace Concerts dedicated to the New Millennium, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church — Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe — in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Sri Chinmoy composes 9 prayer-poems in Curitiba, Brazil; later published in My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 2.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Canal de Musica in Curitiba, Brazil.
Sri Chinmoy is invited by Myanmar’s Secretary-1 to pray and meditate at the 37-foot-high Buddha statue on Min Dhamma Hill in Yangon, Myanmar.