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2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist/political press officer, dies at 79

1999 Martha Rountree, journalist, Meet the Press, dies at 87

1998 President Bill Clinton says he would never resign, 'I would never walk away from the of this country and the trust they've placed in me', during a press conference

1996 Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76

1995 James Brady, former white house press sect, suffers a heart attack

1995 Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81

1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32

1994 Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press), dies at 93

1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69

1993 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium

1993 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72

1992 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies

1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press

1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia

1986 South Africa censors press

1986 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68

1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album

1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"

1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut

1979 Iran press censors start massive book burnings

1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered

1977 Sue Press is 1st woman golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one

1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia

1967 Claude A. Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77

1964 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference

1962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more

1960 Tamara and Irina Press (U.S.S.R.) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold

1958 UP and International News Service merge into United Press International

1954 Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"

1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters)

1948 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship

1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC

1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)

1945 "Meet the Press" premieres on radio

1943 Jody Powell, press mouthpiece, Jimmy Carter

1942 Marlin Fitzwater, press secretary, George Bush

1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe

1940 James Brady, press secretary, wounded during Reagan assassin attempt

1939 Larry Speakes, presidential press secretary

1939 Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, Nixon

1939 Colin Webb, general manager, Press Assn

1939 Irina Press, born in U.S.S.R., 80m hurdles/Pentathelete, Olympics gold 1960, 64

1938 Michael Shea, director, Hanson Trust, /Queen's press sect

1937 Tamara Press, U.S.S.R., shot putter/discus thrower, Oly-gold-60

1936 RCA displays TV for press

1935 Hodding Carter III, press secretary, Jimmy Carter

1935 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto

1934 Ron Nesson, press secretary, Gerald Ford

1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press

1932 Geoffrey Cass, CEO, Cambridge U Press

1932 Bernard Ingham, press secretary, Margaret Thatcher

1931 Cornelis T. "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press

1930 Marvin Kalb, born in New York City, educator/newscaster, CBS/NBC, Meet the Press

1928 William HT Gairdner, Engl missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54

1928 Herbert Klein, newscaster and press secretary

1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter

1925 Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate, Daily Mail, Evening News

1925 Pierre Salinger, newsman, ABC, /press secretary, John Kennedy

1925 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo

1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens

1924 Frank Press, American Scientist

1920 Helen Thomas, UPI journalist, starts press conferences

1920 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo

1920 Robert Hersant, press baron

1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed

1918 [Benjamin] Franc[lin] Wedekind, German writer/press sec, dies at 53

1917 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer

1917 Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press

1917 New soviet government suspends freedom of press (temporary)

1914 German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg

1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)

1911 Ethel Lois Payne, journalist, Chic Defender, /1st Lady of Black Press

1907 E. W. Scripps founded United Press

1906 President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in U.S. press

1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam

1900 Lawrence E Spivak, born in Brooklyn, New York, news panelist, Meet the Press

1900 Associated Press News Service forms in New York

1900 Associated Press organizes in New York City as non-profit news cooperative

1889 Claude A. Barnett, founder, Associated Negro Press

1878 Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)

1874 Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies

1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press

1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)

1847 Rotary-type printing press patents by Richard March Hoe, New York City

1837 1st U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

1836 Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale

1833 James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60

1829 Dutch parliament accepts new press laws

1740 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion and freedom of the press

1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press)

1639 1st printing press in America

1575 English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly



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