Sri Chinmoy plays the esraj at a special function for United Nations diplomats and staff, held at Annam Brahma restaurant in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at San Blas Half-Marathon in Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Public School 86 in Jamaica, New York, USA.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Heart of Peru Award.

Sri Chinmoy lifts 40-time English Channel Swimmer Alison Streeter, and her mother, at the Watermark Hotel in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Alison Streeter has more crossings than any other person; is the first woman to achieve a double crossing, and the only woman to achieve a triple crossing.

Sri Chinmoy presents His Majesty King Sinoehoen Pakoeboewono XII of Surakarta, with a special Soul-Bird drawing in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Equatorial Hotel and Convention Centre in Penang, Malaysia.

Sri Chinmoy receives the Yuri Gagarin Medallion from The Cosmonaut Federation of Russia for merit in the field of Cosmonautics From Yuri Petrovich Smirnov, Vice President of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law, at the Equatorial Hotel and Convention Centre in Penang, Malaysia.