Margaret Thatcher 1925-2013
“What Britain needs,” Margaret Thatcher said during the campaign, “is an iron lady.” Not all Britons agreed that a strong-willed, somewhat shrill and prickly suburban matron of determinedly right-wing views was the ideal choice to restore their country to greatness. But last week, British voters selected the redoubtable Maggie Thatcher as their new Prime Minister and gave her a clean mandate to make good on her basic campaign promise: to halt Britain’s “slither and slide toward the socialist state.”
Newsweek May 14, 1979
3/18/1937- Hundreds Of Children Killed In Massive School Explosion
Add this to major disasters you’ve never heard of
Newsweek March 27, 1937
Hugo Chavez 1954-2013
Newsweek Latin America October 8, 2012
Tupac Shakur Died 16 Years Ago
Tupac Amaru Shakur knew so much trouble in this world, it was easy to forget that he was only 25 years old. He’d soaked his art and his life in a mystique of violence, selling 6 million albums in the process. Now the two had crashed fatally together.
Newsweek September 23, 1996
It Was 15 Years Ago- Presenting the Newsweek Love Affair With Princess Diana
Honoring Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012
Civilian Neil A. Armstrong, 38, the Apollo commander who is scheduled to be the first man to walk on the moon, has been known to smoke a cigar and enjoy himself at parties…
Newsweek July 21, 1969
8/16/1977- Elvis Presley Dies
Inside his Memphis mansion, Graceland, the king of rock ‘n’ roll lay silent in a copper coffin. Women hid tiny cameras in their bras to take one last picture as they filed past. Outside, hundreds of floral arrangements, some shaped like guitars and one like a hound dog, lined the long driveway and thousands of fans kept vigil on the tacky boulevard below in the sweltering heat. They had abandoned jobs, driven all night and flown in from abroad for one last glimpse of their idol. “Don’t faint now,” a mother warned her faltering daughter,” or I’ll just have to leave you.” A billboard down the way read “In Memoriam” and the Beef and Liberty Restaurant sign directly across the street carried the message “Rest in Peace.” But hardly anyone in Memphis could really believe that Elvis Presley was dead of a heart attack, at the age of 42.
Newsweek August 29, 1977
Helen Gurley Brown (1922-2012) Remembered
Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
Newsweek November 18, 1974
