Sri Chinmoy delivers an evening talk at 8:30 p.m., entitled ‘The Universality of Religion’ at the Universalist Church of New York City, 67th Street and Central Park West, NY, USA, at the invitation of its director, the Reverend Leonard Helie.
Sri Chinmoy runs a solo marathon in 4 hrs. 30 mins. in Munich, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at Die Flora in Cologne, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy begins lifting people for the first time — the precursor to his ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme — at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, held at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium in Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy composes and dictates a special poem-song about his life, entitled ‘An Orphan Boy’, in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts the Nepali Ambassador to the United Nations, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a concert in honour of the great American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy opens an exhibition of his Jharna-Kala paintings at the Dyagilev Centre of Arts Exhibition Hall, at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sri Chinmoy receives the Commemorative Medal of Babel from the Philological Department of St. Petersburg State University and the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Award is presented by the Director of the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Assistant Professor V.M. Monakhov, at the opening of Sri Chinmoy’s Jharna-Kala Art exhibition.