Sri Chinmoy inaugurates the first Aum Centre — later known as the Sri Chinmoy Centre — in Miramar, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (It is legally incorporated on August 12, 1966.)

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the seventh anniversary of his San Juan Centre, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with the President of Iceland Dr. Kristjan Eldjarn at the Presidential Offices in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sri Chinmoy presents President Eldjarn with a copy of his book, My Rose Petals, Part 2.

Sri Chinmoy gives a talk, entitled ‘Action’, in the Chapel of the Church Center for the United Nations, at the United Nations, New York.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the Town Hall in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his San Juan Centre, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy race-walks a personal best for 1,500 metres in 9 min. 54 sec. in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in the Bellas Artes Center, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (10), at the Teatro Municipal Tapia in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy sets a new weightlifting record by raising 200 lbs. with each arm separately, using a seated double-arm machine, at his home gym in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy answers a question about Creativity and Spirituality, in New York, NY, USA. 

Sri Chinmoy hosts a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, USA. He also offers a short esraj concert.