For a nuclear missile to explode once is a grave misfortune. When it explodes twice, as Oscar Wilde would have...
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It was the hit TV series of the late 1970s to mid 1980s. The BBC aired Dallas from 1978 until...
There were plenty of weird events in the 1970s but the kidnapping of Patty Hearst has to be one of...
Few doubt we're in for a rocky economic time ahead. My gut feeling is that this is going to be...
Over a four day period in September 1971, the Attica maximum security prison in New York state exploded into rioting...
In 1972, a Palestinian terrorist group - Black September - infiltrated the Olympic village at the Munich Summer Olympics killing...
In the 1980s, capitalism was unleashed to its full. For some, this meant the first opportunity ever to make (and...
When the police drama Kojak aired on the CBS TV channel in 1973, critics and audiences knew this was a...
In the 1970s, the struggle for women's liberation - referred to as "Women's Lib" - erupted to the surface. News...
There was a point in the mid-1990s when the public began to wonder if the tsunami of British political scandals...