Some people were watching Sen. Joe McCarthy on television and others were rockin' around the clock with Bill Haley and His Comets during the 1950s. But it seems everyone was shopping in the 1950s.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and COUNTING ... the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was born in Germany. Geiger ...

One of the most haunting moments in the 2019 hit series, Chernobyl, features liquidators shoveling graphite from the roof of reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the worst ...

Hildegard Gillem peacefully passed on June 30, 2025. Hilde was born in Germany to parents Walter and Marianne Müller. Her father invented the Geiger counter and his profession as a physicist led him ...