Sri Chinmoy offers a short talk, entitled ‘Expressions of Gratitude’ at a special meeting of the meditation group he leads at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with Bangladesh’s top-ranked junior tennis player Shovon Jamaly at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy plays tennis with World no. 1 Women’s Singles Tennis Champion Monica Seles, and then lifts her and her father in the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy offers a rose to David Neath, Professor of International Economics at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.

The City of Oslo is dedicat­ed as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital at the Holmenkollen Ski Jump, where the Peace Capital plaque is permanently mounted. The ceremony is attended by the Deputy Mayor Svenn Kristiansen, representatives of the City Council, an official from Bergen (another Sri Chinmoy Peace City) and other dignitaries. Oslo was declared a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital a few weeks earlier by a unanimous vote of the City Council.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert(520) — dedicated to the memory of Princess Diana (1 July 1961-31 August 31 1997) — at Gamle Logen in Oslo, Norway.

Mozambique, Nicaragua and Nigeria are declared Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nations.

Sri Chinmoy meets with renowned popular singer Addwitiya Roberta Flack; and jazz pianist Keith Jarrett at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.