Bucyk hits 50-year checkpoint
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The last half-century skipped by at a pretty good clip, John Bucyk will tell you, and from a hockey perspective, he has his plaque in the Hall of Fame and his name etched on the Stanley Cup twice (1970, '72) as the engraved, undeniable proof of the good times, the best times.
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By Marv Balousek, The Wisconsin State Journal  Sep.
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HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.
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Fifty years ago Monday, Lego filed its first patent for the iconic plastic brick.
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ATHENS, Aug. 18 Â It was a scourge from the cold war era, standing for exactly 17 years like a stubborn sliver of the Berlin Wall. It was the longest-standing record in swimming, sobering proof that the sport had not quite escaped the specter of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Fifty years ago, a paper appeared in the journal Physical Review with an answer to a physics puzzle: superconductivity.
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By MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 46
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NEW YORK -- Life begins at 50? Why not, if you're Martina Navratilova, and you hit the half-century mark running on Oct. 18?
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DRESDEN, Germany -- Sixty years ago today, 15-year-old Karl-Ludwig Hoch ran for a bomb shelter just as the first illumination rounds lit up the sky, and as waves of Allied warplanes began pounding the city with incendiary bombs.
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The discovery of the multicolored species, named Bugun Liocichla, is the first in the country in more than 50 years.
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A landmark in Scotland's military and religious history - 50 years of the Kirk of the Black Watch -  is being celebrated.
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From the 1950&#39;s until the present, one of the dominant companies in the world&#39;s computer industry. Offers a variety of data processing hardware systems, system and application software, and information technology services.
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When Thomas Haebich started working on the assembly line at Daimler-Benz AG two decades ago, he thought he had a job for life. But he no longer feels he can count on it.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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September 2006 marks the 50th anniversary of two aerospace milestones that involved both triumph and tragedy for the flight test community at Edwards Air Force Base.
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A European laboratory that was the birthplace of the World Wide Web and home of Nobel prize-winning developments in the quest to understand the makeup of matter wished itself a happy 50th birthday Tuesday.
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This year marks 50 years of Guru Dutt Films and 40 years since his death.