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WASHINGTON — A poorly forecast blizzard hit the D.C. Metro Area on February 18-19, 1979. Snow began falling at night on February 18 and ended in the morning of February 19. National Airport recorded ...
Jim MacDonald was 31-year old radio announcer back in February 1979 when he took a phone call from a listener with news that changed the lives of thousands of people on the Olympic Peninsula for years ...
LANESBOROUGH — While nearly half of the nation's television viewers last week were watching the sequel to Alex Haley's search for his "Roots" in Africa, area residents who happened to visit the ...
In February 1979, western Montana and Helena in particular were in the national spotlight as a solar eclipse brought the region into temporary darkness. Hundreds of thousands of people will flock to ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — If Valentine's Day is a day set aside for affectionate exchanges between people in love, then Howard and Elsie Markham must live in a world where every day is the 14th of February.
TEHRAN, Iran – Waving Iranian flags, chanting “Death to America” and burning U.S. and Israeli flags, hundreds of thousands of people poured out onto the streets across Iran on Monday, marking the date ...
Forty years ago, Iran’s exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini descended from a chartered Air France Boeing 747 to return to Tehran, a city on the cusp of revolution. The effects of the 1979 Islamic ...
Sûreté du Québec’s (SQ) unsolved cases division announced Friday that it had solved a homicide that occurred 46 years ago. The suspect faces a charge of manslaughter. The unidentified man was arrested ...
A 1979 business card for Steve Jobs, Vice President Operations at Apple, is going up for auction in mid-February with bids ending on March 17. YouTube personality Alfred DiBlasi is auctioning off a ...