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2007 Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers, dies of a stroke while at the drawing table, at age 76

2007 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power

1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers

1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities

1985 "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers

1970 "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

1963 New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike

1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers

1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers

1944 Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

1941 "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers

1933 Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers

1931 Johnny Hart, born in Endicott, New York, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers

1905 French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work

1900 Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

1856 Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers

1817 Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore

1787 Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers


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