Dutch chess grandmaster Jan Timman, known as "the best of the West" in a time when chess was dominated by players from the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 74, the Dutch Chess Federation said on ...

Minutemen—Mike Watt on bass, D. Boon on guitar and lead vocals, and George Hurley on drums—formed in January 1980 and immediately stood out from their contemporaries with their sound and subject ...

Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza and more helped made the series about cab drivers a comedy classic ...

The story of the "Miracle on Ice" is about to be told in a way it never has been before. Netflix is releasing its documentary, "Miracle: The Boys of '80," on Friday. It will feature never-before-seen ...

The 1980 US Olympic men’s ice hockey team defied nearly insurmountable odds to defeat the Soviet Union, the world’s largest hockey superpower, propelling them to win a gold medal and the nation’s ...

It was the night before Thanksgiving, 1980. An unexpected blizzard had coated central Missouri in inches of snow. And John Morris’ car had just spun off an icy road and into a ditch. John was still ...

In 1980 middle-class families lived in a world of Atari consoles, rotary phones and station wagons with wood paneling. The median U.S. household income was $21,020, enough to buy a modest home, a ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...

This for-sale farm was the apple of Steve Jobs’ eye. The 388-acre property recently listed for $5 million and boasts an apple orchard that inspired a young Jobs. The folkloric listing in McMinnville, ...