1997 Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale
1994 N.Y. Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1993 Largest U.S. Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502)
1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1991 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
1991 Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (New York Daily News), dies at 68
1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1991 New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY"
1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1988 New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988 Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 New York's daily number is 888
1986 M Rooi, editor-in-chief (New Rotterdam Daily), dies at 79
1985 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP/editor (GPV, Netherlands Daily), dies at 76
1985 Last edition of Brink Daily Mail/Sunday Express in South Africa
1982 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1975 New York Daily News runs headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead"
1973 2 bettors win largest U.S. Daily Double ($19,909.60 in Detroit)
1965 Piers Morgan, editor, Daily Mirror
1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1963 Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
1962 Elizabeth Daily, actress, Street Music
1960 In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News
1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1956 U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1956 Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1945 Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph
1942 John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker, People's Daily
1942 Nicholas Lloyd, editor, Daily Express
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1937 Richard Foreman, New York City, theatrical director, Daily Life
1937 Mort Zuckerman, CEO, US News and World Report, New York Daily News
1937 Washington Daily News is 1st U.S. newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1932 Mike Royko, born in Chicago, journalist, Chic Daily News, author, Boss
1931 Reno race track, becomes 1st in U.S. to use daily double wagering
1930 JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor, Limbourg Daily
1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1928 Bill Daily, Des Moines Iowa, actor, I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart
1926 James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hr day and $5 daily minimum wage
1925 Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate, Daily Mail, Evening News
1924 1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in New York City Daily News
1923 Robert Maxwell, [Jan Hoch], Czechoslovakia, billionaire/CEO, New York Daily News
1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1923 Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Texas, journlist/author, WNBC, New York Daily News
1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1920 1st U.S. coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in U.S. (New York City) begins publication
1919 N.Y. Daily News begins publishing
1916 Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chic Daily News, Sunday Times
1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
1909 Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP, GVP, /editor, Netherlands Daily
1908 Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author, Daily Express
1906 M Rooi, editor-in-chief, New Rotterdam Daily
1904 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1901 Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror
1900 1st Chinese daily newspaper in U.S. publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
1896 Tom Keene, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Our Daily Bread
1896 1st edition of London Daily Mail ( penny)
1894 Daily Racing Form founded
1891 Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet, Daily Bread
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF
1887 William Walraven, Dutch journalist and writer, Indian Daily
1884 Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher, Last News
1884 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
1883 Cleveland Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia 1-0
1883 Hugh Daily, a one-armed pitcher for Cleveland (Forest City), tosses 1-0 no-hitter against Phila
1883 Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder, Daily Trouw, /chairman, ARP
1880 New York Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S. H. Horgan
1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
1866 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1864 New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1850 1st German-language daily newspaper in U.S. published, New York City
1850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1844 1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week)
1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1788 London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times
1785 "Daily Universal Register" (Times of London) publishes 1st issue
1784 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser)
1784 Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser 1st success U.S. daily newspaper
1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in U.S.
1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
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