About 63 hours after its launch, Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon on June 2, 1966. The 2,200-pound (998 kilograms) craft touched ...

Editor's note: In what was considered a "radical" choice, Bob Dylan was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct. 13, 2016. Read the story here. What’s the most innovative year ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about building wealth and achieving financial freedom. The year 1966 was the Bill Buckner of retirement. It was the Edsel, ...

PAULA NEWTON, INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And now, to the Black Power movement and the year that redefined America’s fight for civil rights. In 1966, journalist and critically acclaimed author Mark ...

When baby boomers born in the 1950s got their driver's licenses, many of them wanted a 1957 Chevy. Nothing represented "cool" better than a '57, regardless if it was a top of the line Bel Air, a Nomad ...

Duff Thomas: 1966 did not provide a focal point for the Civil Rights Movement. The closest occasion for pulling together interest came when James Meredith, the first Negro to attend the University of ...

On the 50th anniversary of the final, we speak to organisers, fans and players who recall that what is now looked upon as England’s finest hour was actually a poorly arranged and often sparsely ...

From the nuclear threat to LSD and women’s liberation, this is music writing as social history The pop music you hear in your teenage years affects you more deeply than at any other time in your life.

With the United States ever more involved in the conflict with Vietnam, football returned to the country that invented the game 103 years earlier -- England. Brazil and Italy were the two big name ...

Announcer: Vietnam was unknown to most Americans only a few years ago. In 1966, Vietnam was the year’s biggest story. There where other news were the places and events, civil rights, Congress, ...

Model designations for the 1966 Triumph Bonneville line were as before: T120R was the Road version, T120C was the Off-Road/Street Scrambler (like an enduro), and the TT Special was the Competition ...