The first exhibition at a museum of Sri Chinmoy Jharna-Kala artworks opens at Museo Del Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Greatness and Goodness’, at Oxford University in Oxford, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy attends a soccer game in the New York Cosmos stadium where the great Brazilian soccer star Pelé is playing. During the match, a squadron of planes flies overhead writing in white smoke: ‘Happy Father’s Day Sri Chinmoy’.
Two exhibitions of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks open at the Town Hall in Ipswich and at the Town Hall in Newmarket, Suffolk, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert and meditation at Mozartsaal in Cologne, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy performs on the esraj during the exhibition opening of his Jharna-Kala artworks, at the prestigious Museum Alexander König in Bonn, Germany. The reception is sponsored by the director of the museum Dr. Günter Nobis, and the cultural attache from the Indian Embassy in Bonn serves as master of ceremonies for the programme, which is recorded for future broadcast in India.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 1,200-lb. standing calf-raise in Jamaica, NY, USA.
A Father’s Day Marathon held in Sri Chinmoy’s honour takes place at Jamaica High School track in Jamaica, NY, USA, beginning shortly after 6:30 a.m.
Sri Chinmoy composes a song about Nelson Mandela, ‘A Perfect Justice-Voice’, which is subsequently broadcast on National Public Radio and commercial stations across the USA, including New York’s WQXR, and sung on television by a church choir in Seattle.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert — the 13th of 39 concerts held in honour of Swami Vivekananda — at James J. Reynolds Jr. High School in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Robert Zmelick, Czech Olympic gold medallist in the decathlon (1992), at Annam Brahma Restaurant in Jamaica, NY, USA.
An article featuring Sri Chinmoy’s weightlifting achievements appears in the German daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (New Osnabrück Newspaper).
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Borough Hall in the Bronx, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Helen Hunt, Academy Award-winning actress, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA. On February 15, 2013, Helen Hunt is interviewed on the Late Show with David Letterman and speaks about her meeting with Sri Chinmoy.
Sri Chinmoy lifts Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and Force Commander of UN peacekeeping in Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide, in New York, NY, USA.