April 1, 2021

Lillian Eggers, television queen of 1940, advertising for cigarettes in Philadelphia. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) It's no joke. Until 1971, tobac...

March 29, 2021

A child hugs a red lantern in China. (Zhang Yin/China News Service via Getty Images) In the late 1970s, China was a mess. The population was growing out of co...

March 27, 2021

Wreckage on the runway of Los Rodeos after the Tenerife airport disaster of March 27, 1977. (Unknown author/Wikimedia Commons) On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 7...

January 25, 2021

WVIZ, WTOG, and WXLT-TV reporter Christine Chubbuck in 1974, two weeks before her death. (John Cloud/Wikimedia Commons) It was an sunny summer day in Sarasota...

September 24, 2020

(Alaskan Police Department/Wikimedia Commons) Between 1971 and 1983, Alaskan baker Robert Hansen killed at least 17 women. Although he was only convicted of f...

July 13, 2020

Many lovers of music will tell you that disco died on July 12, 1979. It was murdered by an overzealous shock jock, a brilliant promoter, and several thousand...

July 10, 2020

Tupac Shakur, the king of '90s West Coast hip-hop, had a reputation for skirting the law. Perhaps he got his rebel attitude from his godmother, JoAnne Debora...

May 25, 2020

May 25 is National Missing Children's Day, an occasion for various organizations like the Center for Missing and Exploited Children to raise awareness of the...

April 20, 2020

The Internet has been a boon for commerce, but back when it was more tape and spinning reel-to-reel machines than a mysterious set of digital tubes, online s...

December 23, 2019

Life sometimes forces extreme solutions to difficult situations. The crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on October 13, 1972 forced the grizzliest of ans...

November 24, 2019

There are few modern American mysteries that are as arresting as the identity of D.B. Cooper, the man who skyjacked a Boeing jet in 1971 before diving from the p...

November 9, 2019

When you live in an isolated area, you have to find your own ways to entertain yourself. You could go with something harmlessly mild, like erecting the world...

November 6, 2019

Their playing may have been questionable, and they may have only recorded one real album, but there was no one more outrageous or who inspired more artists than The Sex Pistols....

July 30, 2019

In the 1970s, strange geometric shapes began to pop up overnight in some of the wheat fields of rural England. The designs, at first, were simple circles, giving rise to ...

July 22, 2019

Amarillo Texas famous Cadillac Ranch teen spraying paint off of Route 66 old Cadillacs buried in ground on Route 66. (Photo By: Education Images/Universal Image...

May 16, 2019

If you were an adolescent or teen in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, you probably owe thanks to American author, Judy Blume, for helping you navigate the treacher...

June 22, 2018

In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest cargo ship on the Great Lakes, sailed alongside another ship, the Arthur M. Anderson, across the stormy Lake Superior in route to ...

February 27, 2018

Disco reached its peak during the mid 1970s to the early 1980s. Many viewed it as a way to ‘rock out’ against mainstream rock music of the time. Here are some photos showing how different ...

December 5, 2017

November 14, 2017

On Friday the 13th of October 1972, a plane carrying 45 rugby team members crashed in the Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But what...

October 9, 2017

Andre the Giant was born on May 19, 1946 in Grenoble, France. He suffered from a condition called Acromelagy, also known as Giantism. Giantism is due to an excess of hormones which causes the ...

September 26, 2017

New York, a global power city, is the most populous city in America, and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. However, before the great clean-...

August 17, 2017

Nick West, owner of 9000+ empty beer cans, has decided to sell his collection in order to downsize their house. Nick's beer-collecting hobby started in 1975 when ...

August 9, 2017

Mullet, a hairstyle characterized by short cuts in the front and sides and long in the back, started to gain popularity in the 1970s. Rod Stewart, David Bowie, An...

August 6, 2017

Donald Featherstone, who hit it big after inventing the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament in the late Fifties, and his wife Nancy, have dressed alike every day...

July 29, 2017

This is just a handful of inventions from recent history that have helped to change how we live – in some cases beyond all recognition. H/T Stormclad

July 4, 2017

If you were around for America's bicentennial in 1976, then you’ve probably heard Ray Charles singing this version before. And while there are many different vers...

June 18, 2017

You might assume that for any coin to be worth a fortune, it has to be minted hundreds of years ago. However, you might be surprised to know that some quarters m...

June 3, 2017

Known for its tolerance and multiculturalism, outcasts and the socially marginalized flocked to San Franciso on the cusp of the 1970s. An eclectic community was f...

June 1, 2017

On an overcast day in March 1973, photographer Sal Veder of Associated Press captured an image of a POW being happily greeted by his family. The photo was titled “Burst of Joy" a...

May 25, 2017

From dodgy denim numbers and terribly tight tear-offs to suspiciously short sports shorts and lady-killing khaki cut-offs, 1970s men's shorts took short to a whol...

May 17, 2017

Recently, Cowan’s Auctions featured over 280 Vietnam-era lighters carried by soldiers during the war. As seen in the small sampling below, these small objects ref...

May 8, 2017

In the summer of 1975, while Nicholas Nixon was visiting his wife’s family, he asked all four sisters – left to right: Heather, Mimi, BeBe, and Laurie – to stand ...

April 7, 2017

One fateful day in September, 1984, a woman stood in front of the Taco Time salsa bar in The Dalles, Oregon, holding a small plastic bag filled with a brownish sl...

March 30, 2017

Wouldn’t you want to wear any of these wickedly despicable retro vests of the ‘60s and ‘70s? H/T Hint Blog

March 22, 2017

It’s difficult to be certain which individual tree is the most remote, but for several decades that distinction belonged to the Tree of Ténéré, a lone acacia tree standing in the vas...

March 19, 2017

The notion of a 'kitchen' as we know it today came about due to a book by the Beecher sisters, Catherine and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1869, the two sisters published a...

March 19, 2017

The notion of a 'kitchen' as we know it today came about due to a book by the Beecher sisters, Catherine and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1869, the two sisters published a ...

March 18, 2017

Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born photographer who captured buildings in his neighborhood and witnessed as they change through the years. He documented these ...

March 13, 2017

Argentina and Chile have been competing for ownership of Antarctica since 1940. Although several other countries are involved in this “competition”, no one truly ...

March 5, 2017

A well-known cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureş county, Romania, called Merry Cemetery, is a cemetery that is famous across the world for its unique wa...

January 27, 2017

Gaetan Dugas, singled out as the first infection vector for the virus in the United States, was a homosexual flight attendant. Recent science has renounced his unwant...

January 27, 2017

During the spring of 1971, the 2nd Squadron of the 17th Cavalry guarded the airstrip at Khe Sanh in South Vietnam. They aided American planes flying missions into...

January 18, 2017

More than 900 people willingly died due to cyanide poisoning on November 18, 1978 from the settlement of Jonestown, Guyana. It was considered one of the most omin...

January 16, 2017

In 1972, a man held a pilot at gunpoint on a plane loaded with 86 passengers. He asked for a million dollars in cash – the largest ransom ever received by an airp...

January 12, 2017

At New York Kennedy Airport's airplane hangar, fewer than 30 pieces of steel linger from the debris recovered after the tragic 9/11 incident when terrorists hijacked plane...

January 12, 2017

Skyscrapers arised in the 1880s, these were supported by an interior skeleton made of steel columns placed every 20 feet or the like. The exterior walls of the building, known as...

January 5, 2017

On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy with the astronauts carried into an initial Earth-orbit of 114 by 116 miles. Approximately 530 million peo...

January 1, 2017

Back in 1978, the founding employees of Microsoft gathered to take a picture prior to moving to Washington. Front row (left to right): Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, M...

December 23, 2016

5th Avenue and 58th Street, 1970 7th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City, 1970 9th Avenue and 40th Street, 1970 34th street between 5th and 6th, 1979 42n...

December 13, 2016

Men's hair in the 60's and 70's was a big thing. From blow drying to bobbing to sideburns - they did it all! Just take a look at the collection below... Most of the photos w...

November 29, 2016

Whether you take Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers as art, daredevilry, or madness, it’s hard to deny the awe it inspired. The French stuntm...

October 26, 2016

As part of the 23rd regiment, Piliaau and his company played a key role in the now famous Battle of Bloody Ridge, in August of 1971. However, it was about a month...

October 3, 2016

Juliane Koepcke was born a German national in Lima, Peru, in 1954, the daughter of a world-renowned zoologist (Hans-Wilhelm) and an equally revered ornithologist ...

September 21, 2016

In Canada the small town of Kitsault lies frozen in time, completely abandoned by it's once 1,200 strong community. Kitsault has been left a ghost town for 30 years now and ...

August 26, 2016

You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we'll come back for you. Until then, so l...

August 12, 2016

These men's clothing ads from the 1970s feature 'Underwear that's funtawear' and 'For whom the bells tolls' fashion styles. What a groovy decade in fashion! It must ...

August 9, 2016

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August 6, 2016

This is the last PUBLIC execution by guillotine, not the last execution by guillotine. The guillotine was the only mean of execution that the French republic has ever known, i...

August 1, 2016

Today, meals served up during a long-haul flight are admittedly not the same as they were before. You can now travel back in time to the golden age of flying whe...

July 20, 2016

On February 4, 1974, 19-year-old Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a radical group who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). News of her kidnapping — and P...

July 4, 2016

Audrey Hepburn is one of the 20th Century’s most heralded style icons, and for good reason! She had consistent, classic style throughout her life, sticking to sim...

June 26, 2016

June 9, 2016

In July of 1970, French photographer Jack Garofalo, took a series of photos for Harlem Paris Match magazine's October issue. He was to document the changes after ...

April 4, 2016

Between 1962 and 1971, photographer Josef Koudelka travelled throughout Czechoslovakia and beyond to rural Romania, Hungary, France and Spain. His main subject? T...

November 23, 2015

American-based photographer Andrew Blair has been taking snapshots of the various scenes, building and people in the US since he was a teenager. Some of his 1970s shots wonderfully...

November 14, 2015

In the 1970s, scores of young people began springing up all over the country. They build their own homes, share the work and money, and legislate their own laws...