WASHINGTON — A poorly forecast blizzard hit the D.C. Metro Area on February 18-19, 1979. Snow began falling at night on February 18 and ended in the morning of February 19. National Airport recorded ...

On this day in 1979, Rep. William Boner (D-Tenn.) read George Washington’s Farewell Address on the House floor — an annual tradition for nearly 50 years — for a final time. Boner resigned in 1987 to ...

Jim MacDonald was 31-year old radio announcer back in February 1979 when he took a phone call from a listener with news that changed the lives of thousands of people on the Olympic Peninsula for years ...

Discover important astrological aspects occuring on Aries sign with the planets on February 1979 and the corresponding zodiacal degrees and signs. February 1979 planetary aspects on Aries are set in ...

Paralyzing blizzards set up Mayor Michael Bilandic for defeat, but it was bright sunshine on Feb. 27 that did him in. The fair weather on the day of the mayoral primary election brought out the voters ...

SEATTLE - If you're more than 38 years old, you might remember it. In February 1979, crowds flocked to the Pacific Northwest for a chance to view from below as the moon blotted out the sun. Now, ...

Ayatollah Khomeini, officially known as Imam Khomeini inside Iran, was the first religious leader to openly condemn the program of the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi). He was imprisoned in 1963 and ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25— In the rich Imperial Valley on the Mexican border, more than $10 million worth of lettuce is rotting in the fields. Striking members of the United Farm Workers of America, waving ...

LANESBOROUGH — While nearly half of the nation's television viewers last week were watching the sequel to Alex Haley's search for his "Roots" in Africa, area residents who happened to visit the ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — If Valentine's Day is a day set aside for affectionate exchanges between people in love, then Howard and Elsie Markham must live in a world where every day is the 14th of February.

Our beloved Buck, Alan James Harris Jr., has left us too soon on February 14, 2017. He is now at peace. He is survived by his mother, Leonette Miller; stepfather, Mitch Miller; father, Alan James ...