Sri Chinmoy pays a moving tribute to Nishtha Margaret Wilson, the eldest daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson, in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations, in New York. She was one of the first Westerners to live permanently at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.
Sri Chinmoy offers an organ recital at Riverside Church in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (239) at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, CT, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (374) – the 36th in a series of 39 concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda – at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy visits the Sri Chinmoy 700-1000-1300-Mile Ultra-Distance Trio to inspire the competitors as they run the on the course at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York, NY, USA.
Ukraine’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Alexander Volkov declares Ukraine a Sri Chinmoy Peace-Blossom-Nation.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 18 people, including Reinhart Helmke, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Executive-Director of the UN Office of Project Services (UNOPS); Murari Raj Sharma, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations; Dr. Anastase Gasane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations; Abie Grossfield, US Gymnastics Olympian in 1956 and 1960, coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team; Tim Jecko, Captain of the US Swim Team in 1956 Olympics, world-record holder in 3 swimming events; and Gail Marquis, 1976 Olympic silver medallist in women’s basketball, in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy lifts 32 people at Hotel Salmen in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sri Chinmoy honours composer and Oscar nominee Philip Glass by lifting him as part of the ‘Lifting Up the World with a Oneness-Heart’ programme at Aspiration-Ground in Jamaica Queens, New York, NY, USA.