The Sri Chinmoy Centre holds its Olympic-style international Sports Day in New Paltz, NY, USA. Sri Chinmoy himself participates in several of the track and field events.
Sri Chinmoy writes a collection of 39 poems on the bus returning from Sports Day in New Paltz, NY, to Jamaica, Queens, NY, USA. They are later published in his book, My California Redwoods.
Sri Chinmoy offers a 7-hour public meditation at All Angel’s Church in New York, NY, USA.
One of Sri Chinmoy’s aphorisms, from his book ‘Meditations: Food For The Soul’, appears in the August 21 issue of Forbes magazine, USA.
Sri Chinmoy’s students hold a parade in New York, NY, USA, in honour of their teachrr’s upcoming birthday (27 August). The parade route is seven miles, and the marchers and floats spread out over 700 metres. Sri Chinmoy runs one mile and waits for the parade to go by. Then again, he runs one mile and watches the parade.
Sri Chinmoy offers an evening musical concert (7 pm), with special guest performers, at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a 320½-lb. right-arm lift (double his body weight) in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation at India’s Independence Day Celebration in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy is presented with Honorary Membership of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India’s foremost cultural organisation in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy achieves a javelin throw of 29.83 metres, his best throw in twelve years, in the Sri Chinmoy Sports Day at Victory Field in Forest Hills, NY, USA.
South Africa is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Albania and Cook Islands are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.
Rwanda is declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy performs 74 pushups; throws 74 continuous basketball shots, making 22 baskets; throws 74 frisbee passes; tries on 74 different hats from around the world; and creates 122 Soul-Bird drawings in 74 seconds for his 74th birthday at Madal Circus at York College in Jamaica, NY, USA.