Today in New York Times History
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 31 of 31
1851-09-18 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)
1870-11-27 - NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1871-10-27 - Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
1896-08-18 - Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1897-02-10 - NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899-01-03 - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
1920-01-13 - NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
1930-06-07 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1930-07-13 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
1934-07-14 - NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1950-05-19 - NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
1951-06-11 - NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
1952-08-17 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1964-03-09 - Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
1964-03-22 - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
1965-12-17 - Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1967-01-14 - NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
1969-12-29 - NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
1970-02-27 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1970-09-21 - New York Times starts first modern op-ed page.
1971-06-13 - NY Times began publishing "Pentagon Papers"
1971-09-28 - NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music
1973-05-11 - Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1973-09-06 - NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed
1981-02-13 - Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words
1982-03-01 - NY Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents
1982-05-03 - NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
1987-09-02 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1995-04-02 - Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50
1995-09-19 - The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.
2004-05-26 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 20 of 20
1852-02-21 - [James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)
1863-10-19 - John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38)
1885-06-29 - Virginia Pope, (NY Times)
1903-06-21 - Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
1904-07-31 - Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956)
1909-11-03 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1919-06-19 - Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
1920-09-04 - Craig Claiborne, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook)
1922-05-02 - Abraham Rosenthal, editor (NY Times)
1924-07-27 - Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times)
1925-05-12 - John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
1925-08-14 - Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Va, columnist/humorist (NY Times)
1926-02-05 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times)
1926-06-18 - Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times)
1927-03-27 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927-05-13 - Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
1929-12-17 - William Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon)
1934-04-10 - David Halberstam, intl correspondent (NY Times/Pulitzer 1964)
1937-04-08 - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (NY Times)
1941-10-17 - Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth Oh, country singer (Too Many Times)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 2 of 2
1993-07-05 - Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84
1993-10-21 - Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94
