2012 Event Fox News reporter and Opus Dei member Greg Burke is selected by Pope Benedict XVI as secretariat of state 1998 Death Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89 1998 Death William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78 1996 Death Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36 1995 Death Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63 1994 Death Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78 1994 Death Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77 1992 Death Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies 1992 Death Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59 1991 Event Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character) 1990 Death Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at 46 1990 Event New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur 1986 Death Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes 1985 Event Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut 1981 Death Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies 1976 Event Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter 1974 Death Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54 1967 Birthday Tabitha Soren, born in San Antonio, Texas, MTV reporter, This Week in Rock 1965 Birthday Debbye Turner, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, beauty queen, Miss America 1990, veterinarian, talk show host, CBS News reporter 1964 Death Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop 1962 Birthday Jon Stewart, born in New York City, New York, entertainer, political satirist, fake news reporter, host of 'The Daily Show' 1959 Birthday Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau 1959 Birthday Nancy Remy, reporter, New York City's Shadow Traffic 1956 Birthday Lisa J. Allen, TV reporter and lawyer 1954 Birthday Michael Scott, reporter, Entertainment Tonight 1949 Birthday Mary Alice Williams, news reporter, NBC-TV 1948 Death Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62 1948 Birthday Pat O'Brien, reporter, Entertainment Tonight 1947 Event 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) 1947 Birthday Ann Compton, news reporter, ABC TV 1944 Birthday Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate 1944 Event 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin 1943 Birthday Bob Woodward, investigative reporter, Watergate, CIA crimes 1942 Death Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies 1942 Birthday Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West, South Carolina, news reporter, McNeil-Lehrer 1941 Birthday Willibrord Frequin, Dutch TV reporter 1940 Birthday Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter 1940 Birthday Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster/actor, Never Say Die 1939 Birthday Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper and television reporter 1937 Birthday Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times 1934 Birthday Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight 1934 Birthday Arthur Miller, legal reporter 1931 Birthday Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter 1931 Birthday Robert D Novak, Joliet, Illinois, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak 1929 Birthday Jules Verne Berman, space and science reporter, ABC-TV 1921 Birthday Rowland Evans, born in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak 1914 Event U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven 1908 Death Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85 1907 Birthday Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter 1904 Birthday Marya Mannes, New York City, author, The Reporter 1899 Event Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 1899 Event British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 Event Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa 1897 Birthday Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter 1897 Event 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House 1892 Birthday Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II 1889 Event New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6 1885 Birthday Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist, Rasende Reporter 1849 Birthday Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter, New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun
