Today in Newspaper History
Sub-Topics: Guardian - New York Times - Pravda - The Times - Wall Street Journal - Washington Post
Historical Events
Results 1 - 100 of 148
1620-12-02 - English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
1656-01-08 - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1690-09-25 - Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1702-03-11 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
1704-04-17 - 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1704-04-24 - "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1704-05-01 - Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1743-07-18 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1754-05-09 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1762-08-22 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1767-07-03 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
1774-08-10 - 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing
1780-03-26 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1783-05-30 - Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1784-09-21 - 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet & General Advertiser)
1784-09-21 - Pennsylvania Packet & Daily Advertiser 1st success US daily newspaper
1786-07-29 - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette
1787-10-27 - Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1791-12-04 - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1793-12-09 - Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
1796-12-18 - 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1812-12-11 - 1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
1813-09-04 - 1st US relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1814-11-28 - The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1817-08-18 - Gloucester, Mass, newspapers tells of wild sea serpent seen offshore
1820-07-01 - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1821-08-06 - 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
1824-07-24 - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1827-03-15 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1827-03-16 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1828-02-21 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
1830-05-20 - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830-10-01 - General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1831-01-02 - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
1833-09-03 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)
1834-02-18 - 1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC
1836-07-30 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1838-11-03 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1846-02-05 - "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
1847-01-01 - Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing
1847-01-09 - 1st SF newspaper published (California Star)
1847-12-03 - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1850-01-26 - 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
1852-09-11 - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853-09-24 - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
1856-10-07 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1861-02-27 - US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
1862-09-23 - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1863-01-15 - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1864-10-04 - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms
1865-03-02 - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1866-09-04 - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1869-07-01 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1873-01-11 - 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago
1875-09-11 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1878-01-28 - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
1878-04-02 - 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper
1880-02-01 - The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
1881-02-13 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
1884-11-22 - T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1886-01-15 - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1887-02-16 - 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
1890-01-21 - 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1892-08-13 - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1893-11-19 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894-11-18 - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1895-10-02 - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1897-04-22 - NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)
1897-12-09 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
1900-02-16 - 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)
1900-04-01 - 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"
1904-08-10 - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1904-11-02 - British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1905-05-02 - French newspapers publish lists of Jules Vernes unpublished work
1905-05-05 - Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
1907-03-24 - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1908-10-03 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1912-05-05 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1914-11-15 - Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1915-06-26 - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1918-02-08 - "Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
1919-10-02 - 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth
1920-01-31 - 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
1921-05-05 - Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
1923-02-08 - German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1923-10-19 - Beierse govt refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter
1932-07-01 - NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
1933-02-03 - German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1933-02-15 - Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
1933-02-16 - Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists
1933-02-19 - Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers
1933-03-31 - 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
1935-12-09 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1936-01-01 - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune
1936-01-30 - New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname
1937-03-25 - Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1940-08-15 - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940-08-31 - 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1941-01-21 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1941-04-11 - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 72 of 72
1791-04-12 - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe)
1795-09-01 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (d. 1872)
1802-11-09 - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist
1813-03-07 - Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time)
1820-07-02 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
1823-04-06 - Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
1823-10-09 - Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers
1829-09-12 - Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
1843-08-23 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932)
1846-05-14 - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
1848-03-24 - Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1848-08-22 - Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929)
1850-08-03 - Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper)
1857-02-17 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
1866-02-24 - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1868-04-26 - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
1876-09-15 - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1880-09-12 - Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices)
1881-08-20 - Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
1882-08-16 - Pierre H Ritter Jr, Dutch literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper)
1884-06-07 - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News)
1886-08-12 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1888-09-26 - J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964)
1888-12-07 - Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of Amer Newspaper Guild
1891-05-25 - Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
1893-07-14 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1898-09-21 - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor
1899-11-24 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
1901-02-20 - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
1904-08-17 - Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984)
1905-01-19 - Oveta Culp Hobby, govt official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post)
1908-01-27 - William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
1910-04-26 - Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
1910-04-29 - John Beavan, newspaper editor
1910-10-11 - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President)
1911-01-09 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
1912-05-02 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
1912-07-20 - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon)
1915-12-02 - Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
1917-06-16 - Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
1922-11-28 - Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher
1924-03-22 - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today)
1925-01-26 - Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1925-04-11 - Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997)
1925-07-28 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive
1925-08-11 - Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post)
1925-08-27 - Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner
1926-11-05 - Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper)
1927-05-27 - Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper)
1928-12-17 - Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist
1929-07-15 - Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
1930-04-02 - W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate
1934-01-26 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1939-02-04 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper & television reporter
1939-09-26 - Judith P Appelbaum, magazine & newspaper editor, educator
1941-10-03 - Chubby Checker, one-hit-wonder, Sang and danced "The Twist" in the early '60s In an obscure college newspaper from '62, There's a picture of a 5-year-old me with my 4-year-old sister in matching dress
1942-08-24 - Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1942-10-18 - Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist
1943-10-13 - Mike Barnicle, American newspaper columnist
1944-08-25 - Conrad Black, newspaper magnate
1946-06-14 - Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
1949-01-18 - Bill Keller, American newspaper editor
1949-02-05 - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport)
1950-07-15 - Arianna Huffington, Greek-born newspaper columnist
1954-09-15 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007)
1954-10-14 - Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist
1958-01-06 - Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist, television presenter and newspaper editor
1963-07-14 - Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1965-08-17 - Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic (in craft)
1965-12-28 - Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984)
1969-12-31 - Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and newspaper columnist
1972-07-19 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper)
Famous Deaths
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1652-10-13 - Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies
1852-11-28 - Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799)
1869-11-12 - Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies
1872-08-02 - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
1876-10-18 - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85
1878-07-28 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1898-09-14 - Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies
1911-10-29 - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC
1918-05-14 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1922-08-14 - Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies
1932-02-27 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
1935-12-09 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
1940-07-19 - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1943-01-11 - Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered
1951-08-14 - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills
1954-02-01 - Julius P Hoste, Belg minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
1957-12-03 - Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81
1959-07-17 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1959-08-05 - Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77
1964-06-09 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies
1965-11-08 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966-12-08 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
1968-01-26 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1981-06-16 - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1982-02-08 - John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76
1982-06-01 - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies
1984-05-06 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
1985-09-22 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
1987-04-17 - Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901)
1987-12-27 - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
1988-08-15 - Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1989-06-19 - Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80
1992-02-10 - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
1992-08-12 - Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
1992-08-15 - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
1992-09-05 - Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
1993-05-14 - William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
1994-08-18 - John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84
1994-08-29 - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
1995-01-14 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84
1996-10-24 - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71
2004-02-09 - Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2005-01-01 - Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2006-02-27 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
2006-05-10 - A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
2007-01-04 - Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007-01-19 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
