Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The United Nations can Teach us How to Share’, as part of the Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture Series, in the Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium, at the United Nations, New York.
Sri Chinmoy visits London Zoo in Regent’s Park, London, UK.
Sri Chinmoy runs a personal best for 3 miles in a time of 22:21 (7:27/mile pace) at the Sri Chinmoy Race in Scottsdale, AZ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is invited by the US State Department to address its ‘Open Forum’, and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘The Inner Role of the United Nations’, at the US State Department in Washington, DC, USA. He also offers a short musical presentation.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert and delivers a lecture, entitled ‘I Pray for Peace’, at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Oneness-Education’, in West Road Concert Hall at the University of Cambridge, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy dedicates the bridge between Verwik, Belgium, and Verwicq-Sud, France, on the Lys River, as a Sri Chinmoy-Peace Bridge.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Baron Crespo, President of the European Parliament, in Brussels, Belgium.
An article about Sri Chinmoy’s meeting with Mother Teresa is published in the daily newspaper ‘Dolomiten’ in South Tyrolian, northern Italy.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 36th in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts the women’s winner of the 2005 and 2006 New York City Marathons, and three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, 2004), Jelena Prokopchuka, and her husband, Latvian marathon champion Aleksandr Prokopchuk at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.