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2011 Event - Newspapers report that Japan will issue over 10 trillion yen in emergency government bonds to help pay for their earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts

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

1997 Death - Ruth Picardie, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer, dies in Lambeth, London, of breast cancer, at age 33

1993 Event - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers

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

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

1970 Event - "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers

1964 Birthday - Ruth Picardie, born in Reading, England, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer

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

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

1948 Event - Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers

1944 Event - Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers

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

1933 Event - Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers

1931 Birthday - 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1905 Event - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work

1900 Birthday - 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 Event - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

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

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

1787 Event - Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers

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