On 29 March 1981, just over 7,000 – mostly male – runners set off on the 26.2-mile route from Greenwich Park to Constitution Hill. See how the Guardian reported events By John Ezard 30 March 1981 Inge ...

MADRID, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The cameras kept rolling as the Civil Guard officer in a tricorn hat strode into the chamber of Spain's parliament brandishing a pistol at 6:23 p.m. on February 23, 1981, ...

Spain's government has released dozens of documents related to an attempted coup that took place 45 years ago - regarded as a key moment in the country's history. A group of armed officers burst into ...

MADRID – Spain’s leftist government said on Feb 23 it will release classified documents related to a failed 1981 coup attempt, calling the move a step towards settling a “historical debt” with ...

Look up oxymoron in the dictionary and you may just see the phrase "Essential 1981 Donruss." Nonetheless, the set was a historically important monopoly-busting debut from a company that would soon ...

Israel, with the assistance of U.S. military hardware, bombs an adversary’s nuclear facility to set back the perceived pursuit of the ultimate weapon. We have been here before, about 44 years ago. In ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The 46th NFL Draft was held April 28-29, 1981, at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City. The first day's proceedings started at 10 a.m. (EDT) and the sixth round ended at 8:41 p.m. The final six rounds ...

With wildlife filmmaking still at a nascent stage in the '70s, 'Roar' became a case study on how not to handle wild animals on a film set. Hollywood films have gripped audiences by bringing the wild ...

A fugitive killed in a shootout with authorities in Ohio last month was identified Monday as the suspect in the decades-old unsolved murder of an 18-year-old woman. Subscribe to read this story ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- 1981 was the third time in five years the Yankees and Dodgers met in the World Series. No one could know at the time it would be 43 years before the most frequent World Series ...

The Dodgers lost the first two games of a 1981 National League playoff series in Houston, both in walk-off fashion, before storming back to win three straight over the Astros in Los Angeles to win the ...