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2001 William Berry, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph, dies in Westminster, London, at age 89
1997 Jeane Dixon, astrologer, newspaper columnist, dies at 79 1996 Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71 1996 Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 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 "Vroe 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 1977 William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer 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 University 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 1959 Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau 1958 U.S. 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, Belgian 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 1944 Molly Ivins, born in California, newspaper columnist, author, political commentator 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 1931 Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper 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 Netherlands 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 William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms 1915 Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace 1914 Italian 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 William Berry, born in England, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph 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 American 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 (British 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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