ABBA recorded their 1975 hit 'Mamma Mia' on March 12, 1975, after initially thinking about giving it away to another band.

The timing could not have been more fortuitous. Fifty years ago, BMW was aiming to become a serious player in the US market, and after a years-long legal battle with European car-dealer Max ...

Just 50 years ago, women couldn’t apply for a bank account or get a mortgage without a man. This International Women’s Day, ...

Locate International said it had uncovered an article from the Cambridge Evening News on 25 November 1972 which mentions an Odile Ledoux, a 20-year-old French woman studying English in Cambridge, who ...

The ex-wife of a late British baron refuses to hand over a 16th-century painting that was stolen from an Italian museum more than 50 years ago — even though she “never really liked it.” ...

who continued playing on future Bowie albums (including his “Berlin Trilogy,” which he will celebrate with a European tour later this year). “Next thing I know, he’s on ‘Soul Train ...

A former Christian brother and teacher has been jailed for four years for the continual sexual abuse of eight boys he was ...

Genetics professor Kate Adamala in her lab at the University of Minnesota. It was 50 years ago this March that science research in the U.S. took a landmark turn. Biologists know the significance ...

If you pick any of the 20 albums below, those well-known (some of them even overplayed), and those possibly not that much, ...

South Vietnam was gone, Saigon renamed as Ho Chi Minh City. The life I had known for ten years was gone. We had no way to learn if my father was dead, captured, or on the run. A mystery we would ...