2013 Event According to files published in 'NRC Handelsblad', the U.S. has conducted surveillance on the Netherlands since 1946 2012 Event A study describing the Big Bang, published in 'Physical Review', suggests it is actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, a theory which best supports how spacetime could originate from original matter Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University A children's story by James Joyce is published for the first time in Dublin; the story, 'The Cats of Copenhagen' is called an 'outrage' 2011 Event WikiLeaks cables claiming Saudi Arabia has exaggerated its crude oil reserves by 40% is published by The Guardian 2010 Event An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds The transcript of the flight data recorders from the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash that killed 96 Polish officials and intellectuals is published 1998 Event News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations 1996 Death Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1995 Event "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr 1995 Death Michael VerMeulen, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor, dies at 38 1985 Event Mauritania's new constitutional charter published 1984 Death Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56 1982 Death Hans Selye, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs, dies in Montreal, Canada 1982 Event 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc 1981 Event Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words 1980 Event Mauritania provisional constitution published 1978 Event British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published 1977 Death William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer 1974 Event "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published 1973 Death Brigitte Reimann, born in Burg bei Madgeburg, East Berlin, writer, wrote 'Franziska Linkerhand' published posthumously, dies of cancer in East Berlin, at age 39 1971 Event Last issue of "Look" magazine is published 1970 Event New American Bible published Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published New English Bible published 1968 Event "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague 1967 Birthday Lorraine Pearson, born in Romfod, United Kingdom, born Lorraine Samantha Jean Pearson, singer, rocker, writer, member of pop group Five Star, published novel 'Her, Me and Reality", 1989 1967 Death Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida 1965 Event John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published 1964 Event John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S. 1963 Event "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published 1961 Birthday Daniel Clowes, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, cartoonist, creator of 'Eightball', published graphic novels including, 'Ghost World' 1958 Event "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published 1957 Event 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published 1956 Birthday David Sedaris, born in London, England, writer, comedian, published, 'Barrel Fever', 'Naked', 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' Michael VerMeulen, born in Chicago, Illinois, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor 1956 Event Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow 1955 Event 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published Guinness Book of World Records 1st published 1952 Event Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published 1951 Event Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published 1950 Birthday Gary Larson, born in Tacoma, Washington, cartoonist, created and published the single-panel comic strip, Far Side 1950 Event 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published 1947 Event John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published 1946 Event George Orwell published "Animal Farm" Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published 1946 Birthday Dan Millman, born in America, author, wrote, published 14 self-help books focusing on human potential, wrote 'The Life You Were Born to Live' 1945 Event 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson 1945 Birthday Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph' 1944 Birthday Phil May, born in Wortley, England, artist, caricaturist, drawings published in The Bulletin, St. Stephens Review, The Graphic, regular staff member of Punch Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1941 Event Archer's "Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform" published Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published 1940 Event Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published Richard Wright's "Native Son" published 1939 Event John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published 1937 Event Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published 1936 Event 'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell, published Margaret Mitchell's novel 'Gone with the Wind' published 1935 Event 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution 1933 Event Esquire magazine is 1st published 1933 Birthday Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany Brigitte Reimann, born in Burg bei Madgeburg, East Berlin, writer, wrote 'Franziska Linkerhand' published posthumously 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia) 1st issue of Newsweek magazine published Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography' 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands 1931 Birthday Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper 1929 Death Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois 1928 Birthday Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations' 1927 Birthday Cecil Bodker, born in Fredericia, Denmark, writer, won Mildred L. Batchelder Award for her book titled, The Leopard, considered the most outstanding book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, then published in the United States 1926 Event 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published 1925 Birthday Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment 1925 Event 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published 1924 Event "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster) "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1923 Event Radio Times 1st published 1922 Event Reader's Digest magazine 1st published James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) 1921 Event Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) 1920 Birthday Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983 1919 Event 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Netherlands 1918 Event Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published 1916 Event 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety) Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin 1915 Birthday William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms 1915 Event "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published 1914 Event 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published 1910 Event 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois 1909 Birthday Lynette Roberts, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, Faber and Faber published works, 'Poems', 'Gods with stainless ears; a heroic poem' 1907 Event Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published 1907 Birthday Hans Selye, born in Vienna, Austria, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs 1905 Event "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues 1905 Birthday Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender" 1904 Event 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London) 1902 Death Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies 1900 Event Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published 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 1st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam 1896 Event Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published 1894 Event 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World) 1893 Event 1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York 1892 Event Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass 1891 Event Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published 1890 Event Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published 1888 Event "Casey at the Bat" published, SF Examiner 1887 Event 1st Esperanto book published 1885 Event "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published 1884 Event Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1881 Event 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published 1881 Birthday Mary MacLane, born in Winnipeg, Canada, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month 1878 Event 1st weekly Weather report published in UK Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper 1877 Event 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published 1875 Birthday Roger Babson, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S. 1873 Event 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago 1868 Event 1st edition of Maasbode published 1867 Event Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published 1867 Death Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies 1866 Event 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published 1865 Event "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published 1862 Event Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1860 Event 1st U.S. "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens 1859 Event Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" published 1858 Event William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" 1857 Event Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published 1857 Death Pierr-Jean Beranger, songwriter, writer, book of memoirs, 'Ma biographie', published in 1858, dies Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published 1854 Event Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published 1852 Event Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) 1852 Birthday Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays' 1851 Event "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published 1850 Event Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published 1st German-language daily newspaper in U.S. published, New York City 1847 Event Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star) 1846 Event "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast 1845 Event Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City) 1844 Event 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot 1843 Event "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold 1842 Event 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published 1841 Event British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published 1836 Event 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens 1835 Event Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society 1834 Event 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City 1830 Event 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) 1829 Event Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston 1828 Event 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published 1823 Event "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel 1821 Event 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels 1820 Event 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published" 1814 Event "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem Walter Scott's "Waverley" published Stendahl's 1st book is published 1810 Event 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published 1809 Event 1st U.S. geology book published by William Maclure 1805 Event 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published 1802 Event 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published 1801 Birthday Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books 1794 Event 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published 1792 Event Farmer's Almanac 1st published 1st Old Farmer's Almanac is published 1791 Event Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac 1789 Event 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published 1787 Event "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution 1786 Event 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette 1782 Event 1st nautical almanac in U.S. published by Samuel Stearns, Boston 1781 Event 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published 1780 Birthday Pierr-Jean Beranger, born in Paris, France, songwriter, writer, book of memoirs, 'Ma biographie', published in 1858 1776 Event Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published 1768 Event 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) 1749 Event 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published 1743 Event 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal) 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston 1742 Event Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist 1704 Event 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell 1693 Event 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London) 1687 Event Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published by Royal Society in England 1678 Event "Pilgrim's Progress" published John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published 1609 Event Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London 1607 Event Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published 1600 Event Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published 1580 Event Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published 1570 Event 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published 1490 Event 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published Maimonides Mishneh Torah published 1452 Event 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible