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)
