2005 The Huffington Post weblog makes it's debut
2004 Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85
2001 Herblock, political cartoonist, The Washington Post, dies at 91
2001 Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84
2000 Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57
1999 Meg Greenfield, journalist, Washington Post, dies at 68
1997 1st time 3 cons home runs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (New York Yankees)
1997 Yanks Tim Raines, Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yanks beat Indians 8-6)
1997 Yanks clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive
1996 Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90
1996 Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)
1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)
1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game
1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years
1994 Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85
1992 Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1992 Max Lerner, U.S. writer/columnist (New York Post), dies at 88
1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing
1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1988 John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56
1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1986 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 and win NL pennant
1981 William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85
1981 Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1980 Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1980 Post It Notes, introduced
1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1979 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1978 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.
1977 Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb
1974 Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1973 Marjorie Post, U.S. philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
1973 Whitney Post, born in Wayland, Massachusetts, rower 1996 Olympics
1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1968 James Brady, born in Brooklyn, New York, columnist, New York Post
1968 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1967 Sling-shot goal post and 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1965 London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1962 Morris Louis, U.S. painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49
1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black
1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1960 Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1960 BenoŚt van Innis, Belgian cartoonist/painter/cartoonist, New York Post
1959 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad
1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1950 Markie Post, [Marjorie], Palo Alto Cal, actr, Christine-Night Court
1948 Tom Shales, TV critic, Washington Post
1948 Sandra Post, LPGA golfer
1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1944 Mike Post, composer, Rockford Files, Hill St. Blues, Magnum PI
1944 John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed
1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer
1944 Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate
1944 Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post
1942 Peter Kalikow, Queens New York City, real estate developer/publisher, New York Post
1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
1935 Pete Hamill, born in Brooklyn, New York, journalist, New York Post
1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1934 Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight
1933 Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist, 8x European Champion at Derny-drive
1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1931 Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1931 Rupert Murdoch, born in Australia, publisher, New York Post and CEO of FOX
1930 Jimmy Breslin, Queens New York City, columnist, New York Post, News, Newsday
1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office
1930 Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post
1927 Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post
1925 Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist, Washington Post
1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office
1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
1924 Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office
1923 Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike
1922 Jack Anderson, born in Long Beach, California, journalist, Washington Post
1921 U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1921 Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive, Washington Post
1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
1918 Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1917 Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post
1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting
1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin
1914 U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail
1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public
1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published
1913 Cleveland Call and Post forms
1913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries
1912 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
1912 Morris Louis, U.S. painter, post abstract
1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital
1911 Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1906 Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist
1906 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight
1905 Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1905 Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO, Houston Post
1903 Dorothy Schiff, publisher, New York Post
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1902 Max Lerner, U.S., columnist, New York Post
1900 U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal
1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa
1898 Wiley Post, Grand Plain, Texas, aviator/parachutist, crashed in Alaska
1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1894 Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers
1889 Bert Collins, cricketer, Aussie batsman in the post WW I years
1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
1877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition
1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia
1872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer, Etiquette
1872 Congress endorses penny post card
1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas
1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1861 Anaheim Post Office established
1856 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals, Post Cereals
1850 Hawaiian post office established
1848 Post office at Clay and Pike opens
1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1840 Penny Post mail system is starts
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
1813 "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York)
1811 Russian settlers establish Ft. Ross trading post, north of SF
1801 1st edition of New York Evening Post
1794 U.S. Post Office established
1789 Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
1789 Congress creates Post Office
1789 U.S. Post Office established
1781 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published
1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue
1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post
1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1669 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
1639 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts
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