Sri Chinmoy and his students perform a concert of spiritual music in the auditorium of Public School 86, at the intersection of Parsons Blvd and 87th Ave, Jamaica, NY, USA.
Tributes for Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday are read into the US Congressional Record at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA.
The Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix — 31 races over 31 days — begins, in honour of Sri Chinmoy’s 50th birthday. Sri Chinmoy runs 440 yards (402.3 m) in a time of 1 min. 21.1 sec. at the Sri Chinmoy Grand Prix on Jamaica High School Track, Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy runs 7 miles solo in a time of 52:58 (a 7:34/mile pace) in Westerly, and offers a concert at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, as part of his ‘Fifty Oneness-State-Songs’ tour. During the run, he records unofficial personal bests times for 4 miles (30:21), 5 miles (38:07), 6 miles (45:47) and 10 kilometres (47:11).
The Governor of Rhode Island proclaims Sri Chinmoy Day and awards Sri Chinmoy honorary citizenship in the state. Providence and four other cities issue proclamations.
The first Sri Chinmoy Masters Games is held at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT, USA.
An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s 3,000,000 Soul-Bird drawings is held at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. More than 400 people come to celebrate his peace-bird project, which he calls ‘My Three Million Heart-Bird-God-Manifestation-Songs’. Events include, silent meditation, musical performances, a play and a huge meal.
Sri Chinmoy offers a memorial service for John F. Kennedy Jr. at the United Nations in New York.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 27 people, including nationals of Angola, Bangladesh and India, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 14 people, including Scott Donie, 1992 Olympic silver medallist in the 10-metre platform diving, at a ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ function at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. He also give a short esraj concert.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 31st anniversary of his first bamboo straight flute performance — in Jamaica, NY, USA.
A tribute to Sri Chinmoy is read into the Congressional Record by Hon. Gary L. Ackerman of New York in the House of Representatives, in Washington, DC, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in Jamaica, NY, USA.