1997 Jeane Dixon, astrologer, newspaper columnist, dies at 79
1996 Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71
1995 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
1994 John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84
1993 William Randolph Hearst, U.S. newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
1992 Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
1992 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
1992 Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1992 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1991 Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing
1989 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87
1989 Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80
1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1988 Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing
1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
1985 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
1982 Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies
1982 John Hay Whitney, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 76
1981 John S Knight, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
1972 Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper
1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1970 New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
1969 "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois Univ newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death
1966 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
1965 Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France, 1984
1965 Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft
1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1964 Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies
1963 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City
1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1957 Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81
1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1956 U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1954 Julius P Hoste, Belg minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
1951 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
1949 David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport
1946 Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, New York City, newspaper publisher
1945 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
1945 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins
1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala
1943 Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter
1943 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
1943 Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing
1943 Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1940 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940 Samuel H Chang, U.S. newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1939 Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper and television reporter
1937 Washington Daily News is 1st U.S. newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune
1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)
1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists
1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
1933 German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1932 New York newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1930 W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate
1929 Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
1928 Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist
1927 Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist, VPRO, People's Newspaper
1926 Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist, Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper
1925 Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1925 Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist, Washington Post
1925 Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive
1924 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder, USA Today
1923 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter
1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1922 Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
1922 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
1920 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in U.S. (New York City) begins publication
1919 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth
1918 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published
1917 Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post
1915 Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
1915 Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1914 Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1912 Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1912 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
1911 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
1910 Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President
1910 John Beavan, newspaper editor
1910 Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter, Orange Newspaper
1908 William Randolph Hearst, Jr., newspaper publisher, Hearst Publishing
1905 Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
1905 Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO, Houston Post
1904 British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1904 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1902 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper publisher, Le Monde, The Voice,
1901 Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror
1900 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1900 1st Chinese daily newspaper in U.S. publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
1898 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor
1898 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies
1897 New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World)
1893 1st newspaper color supplement (New York World)
1892 U.S. black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1891 Robert W. P. Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief, Haarlem Newspaper
1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1888 Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of Amer Newspaper Guild
1887 1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York
1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper
1884 Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher, Last News
1882 Pierre H Ritter, Jr., Dutch literary/head, Utrecht Newspaper
1878 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1876 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
1876 Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher, Gannett
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
1872 Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
1869 Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1868 Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
1866 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1866 Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1864 New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1863 1st U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1861 U.S. Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1857 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
1855 Eliezer Ben-Jehuda, [Perelmann], Latvia, writer, 1st hebrew newspaper
1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1850 Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper
1850 1st German-language daily newspaper in U.S. published, New York City
1847 Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1847 Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
1846 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper
1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1834 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City
1833 NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1831 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1830 General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1828 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published
1827 1st U.S. black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York City), begins publishing
1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1823 Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black U.S. newspaper publishers
1823 Joseph Medill, born in St. John, Canada, newspaper editor, Chicago Tribune
1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1813 1st U.S. relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1813 Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time
1812 1st newspaper on Curaeao (Curaeao Gazette and Commercial Advertiser)
1802 Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1796 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1791 Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor, Washington Globe
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
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.
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette and Sunday Monitor)
1774 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)
1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1704 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms
1704 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
1690 Publick Occurrences, 1st U.S. (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st and last ed
1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1652 Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies
1620 English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
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