Sri Chinmoy spontaneously sets to music 200 Bengali songs from his 4-volume poetry series Pole-Star Promise-Light, part 1part 2, part 3 and part 4 in 4 hours, taking only a 10-minute intermission after each group of 50 songs, at Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica, NY, USA.

Sri Chinmoy and the Meditation Group at the United Nations hold an evening programme and concert in soulful remembrance of the late President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, marking fourteen years since the day of his assassination.

Sri Chinmoy composes the song ‘Annam Brahma...Tumi Pushti Tumi’.

Sri Chinmoy offers an opening meditation at the Canadian National Bodybuilders Championship Show in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (382) at the Športová Hala Pasienky in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert (397) at the United Nations in New York.

Sri Chinmoy lifts five helicopters — weighing 1300 lbs., 1794 lbs., 1900 lbs., 2410 lbs. and 3205 lbs. — in five separate lifts, using a modified standing calf-raise machine, at Ellington Airport in Ellington, CT, USA.