Sri Chinmoy spends a day out in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY, USA, where runners from America’s ‘Liberty Torch’ and Canada’s ‘Oneness-Heart’ compete in a 13-mile race.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens in the Town Hall, New York, NY, USA.

A two-month exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks, sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior in conjunction with the National Parks Service, is attended by the Department of the Interior Under-Secretary James A. Joseph and members of the U.S. Congress, including the Honorable Geraldine Ferraro, at the National Visitors Center in Washington, DC, USA.

An exhibition of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala artworks opens at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a meditation at the Rayburn Office Building, U.S. House of Representatives, and meets with Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor, in Washington, DC, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 300 lbs. using a seated calf-raise, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (341), the third of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth, in David A. Stein Junior High School, Bronx, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy begins writing daily rhyming poems — meditations for each day of the year — subsequently published in My Silence Heart-Blossoms, part 1, in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (406), performing on 50 instruments from various nations around the world — the 6th of 50 concerts held in honour of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations — at the UN General Assembly Lobby in New York.

The University of Cincinnati becomes the world’s first Sri Chinmoy Peace University. The same day, Mayor Roxanne Qualls dedicates the city of Cincinnati, USA, as a Sri Chinmoy Peace City.

Sri Chinmoy lifts Monsignor Thomas Hartman, Rabbi Marc Gellman and Tibetan monks, as part of his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 41 white horses at the Tiara Resort in the Terelj National Park, Mongolia.