On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

This is the 12th in a series by The Athletic looking back at the winners of each men’s World Cup. Previously, we’ve looked at Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1934 and again in 193 8, Uruguay in 1950, West ...

A June 3, 1982 shooting attack on Israel’s envoy to London, Shlomo Argov, provided the pretext for the Lebanon war that year. WASHINGTON – A hawkish Israeli leader, itching for a pretext to expand the ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death over four decades before a helicopter collided with a passenger flight in the same area Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – Thursday marks the anniversary ...

Significant safety changes were made following a 1982 plane crash in Washington D.C. DC Fire and EMS Department The Wednesday, Jan. 29, plane crash into the Potomac River has drawn parallels to ...

This is not the first time a plane has crashed into the Potomac River. An American Airlines regional jet collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia ...

Editor’s Note: Learn more about the decades-old cold case of the Tylenol murders in the latest episode of “How It Really Happened,” airing Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN. Washington CNN — It’s almost ...

The late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a gifted mathematician and undisputed pioneer in computer programming, honored posthumously in 2016 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also very ...

The Israeli Air Force achieved an unmatched air combat victory in the 1982 Lebanon War. The battle, known as Operation Mole Cricket 19, saw over 60 enemy aircraft eliminated without a single Israeli ...