The 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar coin marked a bold shift in U.S. currency—introducing the first coin to feature a real woman and replacing the bulky Eisenhower dollar with a smaller, modern design.

Fittingly, and not surprisingly, given the decade's musical climate changes, the last 12 months of the '70s marked the turning of an era. Most artists were still on an annual album release schedule, ...

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Carol Wagner, Wichita Falls City Council member and mayor pro-tempore, found herself in charge of the city after a devastating tornado struck. The tornado, described as a mile wide and leaving an ...

While most people were still asleep just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, a malfunctioning valve set off what would become “the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant ...

There was no apparent connection between the victim and the suspect. A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, ...

Forty years ago, the music industry was officially in recession but that didn’t mean that the quality of the music itself had diminished. The late 1970s was a time of seismic change for popular music ...

Does the original Senate Bill 1979 or the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Bill contain "inappropriate" provisions? Several groups have raised concerns on SB 1979, contained under Committee Report 41, ...

SEOUL: Exactly 45 years ago, South Korea was placed under a military dictatorship following the assassination of then-President Park Chung-hee. Chun Doo-hwan, an army major general, overthrew the ...

A Nov. 14 Instagram post (direct link, archive l i nk) uses a meme with an image of former President Jimmy Carter to claim U.S. educational achievement has plummeted. “In 1979 I created the Department ...

A man who passed a lie detector test in 1979 clearing him in the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl was identified as her suspected killer, authorities announced Wednesday. Esther Gonzalez’s body ...