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1998 News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations

1995 "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr

1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published

1982 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc

1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words

1980 Mauritania provisional constitution published

1978 British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published

1974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published

1971 Last issue of "Look" magazine is published

1970 New American Bible published

1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published

1970 New English Bible published

1968 "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague

1965 John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S.

1963 "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published

1958 "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US

1958 "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published

1957 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published

1956 Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow

1955 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published

1955 Guinness Book of World Records 1st published

1952 Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published

1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published

1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published

1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published

1947 John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published

1947 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published

1946 George Orwell published "Animal Farm"

1946 Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published

1945 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson

1941 Archer's "Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform" published

1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published

1940 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published

1940 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published

1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published

1937 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published

1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published

1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published

1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1933 Esquire magazine is 1st published

1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)

1933 1st issue of Newsweek magazine published

1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands

1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published

1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published

1924 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster)

1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny

1923 Radio Times 1st published

1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

1922 James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)

1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)

1919 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth

1918 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published

1918 "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published

1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)

1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin

1916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published

1915 "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published

1910 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois

1907 Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published

1905 "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published

1905 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues

1905 Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"

1904 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)

1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published

1900 1st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam

1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published

1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World)

1893 1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York

1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass

1891 Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published

1890 Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London

1890 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published

1888 "Casey at the Bat" published, SF Examiner

1887 1st Esperanto book published

1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published

1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published

1884 Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg

1884 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

1881 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published

1878 1st weekly Weather report published in UK

1878 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper

1877 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published

1873 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago

1868 1st edition of Maasbode published

1867 Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published

1867 Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies

1866 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published

1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US

1865 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published

1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

1860 1st U.S. "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens

1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published

1859 Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" published

1858 William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"

1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published

1857 Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published

1854 Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published

1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R

1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)

1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published

1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published

1850 1st German-language daily newspaper in U.S. published, New York City

1847 Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published

1847 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City

1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast

1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City)

1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot

1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold

1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published

1841 British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published

1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published

1841 Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published

1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens

1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales

1835 Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society

1834 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)

1834 Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published

1834 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City

1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)

1829 Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston

1828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published

1828 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published

1823 "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel

1821 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels

1820 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston

1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"

1814 "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem

1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published

1814 Stendahl's 1st book is published

1810 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published

1809 1st U.S. geology book published by William Maclure

1805 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published

1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published

1801 Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books

1794 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published

1792 Farmer's Almanac 1st published

1792 1st Old Farmer's Almanac is published

1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published

1791 Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac

1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published

1787 "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution

1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette

1782 1st nautical almanac in U.S. published by Samuel Stearns, Boston

1781 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published

1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"

1776 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published

1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

1768 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)

1749 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published

1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published

1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)

1743 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston

1742 Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist

1704 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell

1693 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England

1686 1st volume of Isaac Newton's "Principia" published

1678 "Pilgrim's Progress" published

1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published

1609 Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London

1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

1600 Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published

1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published

1570 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published

1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published

1490 Maimonides Mishneh Torah published

1452 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible



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