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2012 Event - Pope Benedict XVI adds Arabic to the number of languages broadcasting the weekly Vatican address

2011 Event - In Taipei, protesters demand Taiwan's 200,000 foreign live-in caregivers receive the legal right to a weekly day off

1997 Event - Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter

1992 Death - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies

1989 Death - Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81

1982 Event - President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

1970 Event - Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary

1965 Event - ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report

1957 Event - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary

1945 Event - 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)

1941 Event - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis

1940 Event - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)

1928 Event - "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut

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

1907 Birthday - I[sidore] F[einstein] Stone, U.S. journalist, IF Stone's Weekly

1907 Death - Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies

1905 Death - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60

1900 Event - "The Billboard" began weekly publication

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

1886 Event - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue

1878 Event - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK

1870 Event - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

1869 Event - Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers

1861 Event - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"

1852 Event - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly

1846 Birthday - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper

1842 Event - 1st illustrated weekly magazine in U.S. publishes 1st issue, New York City

1837 Event - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American

1831 Event - "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

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

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

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