2011 Event Newspapers report that Japan will issue over 10 trillion yen in emergency government bonds to help pay for their earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts 2007 Death Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers, dies of a stroke while at the drawing table, at age 76 2007 Death Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power 1997 Death Ruth Picardie, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer, dies in Lambeth, London, of breast cancer, at age 33 1993 Event Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers 1988 Event Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities 1985 Event "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers 1970 Event "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers 1964 Birthday Ruth Picardie, born in Reading, England, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer 1963 Event New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike 1956 Event Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers 1948 Event Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers 1944 Event Batman and Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers 1941 Event "Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers 1933 Event Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers 1931 Birthday Johnny Hart, born in Endicott, New York, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers 1905 Event French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work 1900 Birthday Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves,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 1862 Event Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers 1856 Event Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers 1817 Event Gloucester, Massachusetts, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore 1787 Event Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers
