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President Reagan's Ambitious Star Wars Defense Plan
January 26, 2022
In 1983, President Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative, which sounded like a bad Steven Segal movie crossed with “Back To The Future.” The highly impl...
Iran Hostage Crisis: From Its Origins To Its Aftermath
November 25, 2021
In an action which Jimmy Carter called an act of “blackmail,” on November 4, 1979, a group of militarized Iranian college students who belonged to the Muslim Stu...
The Largest Hydrogen Bomb Test In Human History That Li...
November 11, 2021
The Cold War between America and the Soviet Union provoked more saber-rattling than “Game Of Thrones”. During that tense period, the two mightiest countries ...
The Greatest Race Horse Who Ever Lived: Secretariat
October 26, 2021
Outside of Pegasus and Mister Ed, Secretariat ranks as the most famous horse in history. Winner of 1973’s prestigious Triple Crown, Secretariat became the first horse in...
The Bloody Tet Offensive Marked A Turning Point In Viet...
September 16, 2021
The Vietnam War bore witness to endless brutality but the Tet Offensive of 1968 probably saw the worst of it. On the most important holiday on the Vietnamese...
Son Of Sam And A Summer Of Terror
September 14, 2021
From the summers of 1976-1977, the young people of Queens and the Bronx were on edge. During this time period, David Berkowitz shot and killed six people and wounded seven more using...
The Crash of Delta Airlines Flight 723
July 29, 2021
On July 31, 1973, Delta Flight 723 left Burlington, Vermont on a scheduled domestic passenger flight to Logan International Airport in Boston. The plane, a Douglas twin-engine D...
How The 'Whipped Cream' Girl Sold 6 Million Herb Alpert...
March 17, 2019
The 1965 album Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass was a hot seller, moving over 6 million units. It's a good album, without a doub...
The 1974 Oscars Streaker: Stealing The Show By Showing ...
March 10, 2019
The 1974 Academy Awards ceremony will always be remembered for its least expected performer -- the Oscar streaker. Robert Opel dashed across the stage in his...
'Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry:' What Doe...
March 9, 2019
Ali MacGraw as Jennifer Cavalleri and Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett IV in a scene from 'Love Story', directed by Arthur Hiller, 1970. (Photo by Archive Photos...
Bon Scott: The AC/DC Frontman's Real-Life Highway To He...
March 8, 2019
Singer Bon Scott from Australian rock band AC/DC posed in a studio in London in August 1979. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns) Think of the great frontmen of r...
Captain Marvel In The '70s: The Far-Out Epic Behind The...
March 7, 2019
If you're looking to take in the latest heroic blockbuster, you might have wondered -- who is this Captain Marvel, and what does she have to do with any of t...
How Two Fighting Dinosaurs Sparked A 'Renaissance' In 1...
March 6, 2019
Dinosaurs do battle in a scene from the scientifically-inaccurate film 'One Million Years B.C.', 1966. Source: (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images) Humans...
Steve Martin's “Well, Excu-u-use Me!” - A Catchphrase T...
March 5, 2019
Paul Natkin ArchiveSteve Martin on 7/22/78 in Chicago, Il. Source: (Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage) Steve Martin was always a performerWho would have ever...
Ringo Starr's $2M Drum And 10 Other Bank-Breaking '60s ...
March 4, 2019
The most expensive rock 'n roll memorabilia from the '60s is a moving target -- it seems with each passing year, something new (well, 50 years old, actually)...
How 'Sea Hunt' Star Lloyd Bridges Got Funny In 'Airplan...
March 2, 2019
A generation got to know Lloyd Bridges from Airplane!, the 1980 comedy film in which he played Steve McCroskey. But the generation before that already knew h...
How The Death Of James Dean Put Seat Belts In Our Cars
March 2, 2019
James Dean gives a thumbs-up sign from his Porsche 550 Spyder, the Little Bastard. Dean owned the car only nine days when he lost his life in a fatal highway accide...
