In summer 2026, NASA will commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most consequential milestones in planetary ...

The summer of 1976 was an extraordinary heatwave for its time. With 15 consecutive days of temperatures over 32°C, it was an unprecedented length for a UK heatwave, coming at the end of a year-long ...

You need to be at least 50-years old to have been present for America's bicentennial in 1976. Now, 50-years later, America is again celebrating a milestone, the semiquincentennial, a 250th birthday.

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Tourism during 1976, America’s bicentennial, famously underperformed expectations for the nation’s capital, but D.C. insiders say this summer’s 250th birthday party will do better. The Trust for the ...

When you dive back into the pop charts of the mid-1970s, you know one thing is going to be true. You’re going to find a slew of terrific, entertaining, and impactful songs. You’re going to find songs ...

Throughout the Malaise Era, the Indianapolis 500 almost always managed to find interesting vehicles to use as pace cars: The Hurst/Olds Cutlass in 1974, C3 Corvette in '78, Fox Mustang in '79 and ...

A historian of the movement surveys the five decades since “The Year of the Evangelical.” “Evangelicals suddenly find themselves number one on the North American religious scene,” Christianity Today ...

The year before punk broke, rock's old guard made a strong, pressing stand. But as the UCR staff-selected list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1976 shows, the music that dominated headlines at the end of ...