It’s difficult to explain how much the world has changed in 25 years — and for the better. Those who lived through December 1981 would be well served to pause and give thanks for the differences. In ...

COMMENTARY: Forty years ago, Soviet communists tried to turn out the lights. But like a candle in the White House window, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II and the people of Poland kept a flicker of hope ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From 1981 to 2022, here are the 42 official White House Christmas ornaments. The first official White House Christmas ornament was ...

Here is President Ronald Reagan's letter to wife Nancy on Dec. 25, 1981, their first Christmas in the White House. Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney read it at Friday's funeral service for ...

Margaret Thatcher's 1981 Christmas card list gives an insight into the way Britain's view of the world has changed over 30 years. Foreign heads of state who received seasonal greetings from Thatcher ...

An estimated quarter of a million people have been travelling by air, sea, road and rail this Christmas. Traditionally, Christmas Eve marked the mass exodus from the city to the country, but in 1981 ...

With Christmas only a few days away, Remember When looks at a couple of popular gifts from Christmas 1981. The first is possibly the first fantasy tabletop role-playing game involving a Dungeon Master ...

On Christmas Eve 1981 the snow lay three inches thick across the Potteries. It wasn't the Slush Puppy stuff, either – it was proper, deep snow. In fact, we were in the grip of the record-breaking, ...