The Senate of Puerto Rico unanimously passes a proclamation to honour Sri Chinmoy’s visit to the Senate floor, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy is a guest at the half-hour interfaith prayer service on the morning of President Carter’s inauguration, held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, USA. Seventy of Sri Chinmoy’s students were asked to assist as official ushers at the inauguration ceremony. They wear distinctive coloured blazers — girls, pink and boys, blue — that were specially designed and made by the Centre for the occasion.
At Sri Chinmoy’s request, the first Inspiration Marathon is held at 6:00 a.m. — in subfreezing conditions — in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Thirty-six runners compete in the impromptu event and even Sri Chinmoy, still recovering from running injuries, completes the first 13 miles and then another few miles near the finish.
Sri Chinmoy’s prerecorded interview is broadcast on NBC’s television programme ‘The First Estate’ in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 3,081¾ lbs. using only his right arm, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Putri Bali Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy runs the final lap — in the Olympic Stadium in Athens — of the Sri Chinmoy Peace Marathon relay held on Pheidippides’ original marathon route from Marathon to Athens in Greece.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Jean Juventin, President of the French Polynesian Parliament, in Papeete, Tahiti.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at L’Assemblée Territoriale, Papeete, Tahiti.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughters Ela Gandhi and Sita Dhupelia at the Holiday Inn, at South Beach, in Durban, South Africa.
Sri Chinmoy visits the Sri Ramakrishna Centre at Glen Anil in Durban, South Africa.
The Mexican daily newspaper Diario Del Sureste (Southeast Daily) reports on Sri Chinmoy’s Peace Concert in Merida, Yucatan, and other peace initiatives.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, President of Mexico, at the Presidential Palace in Mexico City, Mexico.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Corazón de Oro (Heart of Gold) Award for his “great altruistic service in the cause of world peace,” from the Society of Authors and Music Composers, Mexico, at the society’s headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico. Sri Chinmoy also composes the song ‘Corazon de Oro’.
The town of Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, India, is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom.
Guatemala is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Taman Werdhi Budaya Art Centre in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy is presented with the Presidential Medallion, Indonesia’s highest award “for service to humanity” by Vice President Hamzah Haz at the Vice Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Shangri-La Golden Flower Hotel in Xi’an, China.