An article about Sri Chinmoy is published by the Mainichi Daily News in Tokyo, Japan, during his first lecture tor of the Far-East.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Ego and Emotion’, at 7 p.m. at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Religion, Spirituality and Yoga’, at Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is proclaimed an Official Guest of Honor of Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy meets with Don Francisco Matos Paoli at the poet’s home in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Sri Chinmoy offers a public meditation in Osaka, Japan.

Sri Chinmoy writes twenty poems at the Osaka Grand Hotel in Osaka, Japan. Later published as poems 131-150, in Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 2.

Sri Chinmoy meets with champion New Zealand runner Allison Roe at Progress-Promise in Jamaica, Queens, New York, NY, USA, the day after she won the women’s division of the New York City Marathon.

Sri Chinmoy lifts one ton of pumpkins in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘The First Estate: Religion in Review’ by producer and host Dr. Russell Barber, highly respected religion editor and Emmy Award winner at WNBC-TV, in New York, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy sets music to three of his best-known aphorisms on the theme of Peace.

Sri Chinmoy celebrates his sister Lily’s birthday at his home in New York on the evening of the 26th, which is the morning of her birthday, the 27th in Pondicherry, India.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert at the Murrayfield Ice Rink in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.