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2012 Event - 'Science' magazine names Higgs boson, the confirmation of the existence of a subatomic particle, as the 2012 Breakthrough of the Year

2012 Event - Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Sein are listed first on 'Foreign Policy' magazine's 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers

2012 Event - The editor-in-chief of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and leader of the 1960's sexual revolution, Helen Gurley Brown, dies at age 90 in New York City

2012 Event - A poll by the British Film Institute's 'Sight and Sound' magazine lists Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller 'Vertigo' as the greatest film of all time

2012 Event - 'Time' magazine includes 'Awaara' on its list of All-Time 100 Greatest Films

2010 Event - General Stanley McChrystal, leader of the U.S. war Afghanistan announces his retirement after making controversial statements in 'Rolling Stone' magazine

1999 Death - John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher and philanthropist, 'George' magazine, dies at 38

1998 Death - Rodney Harvey, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho', died at age 30, of a heroin overdose

1998 Death - Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1997 Death - Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83

1997 Death - Jeffrey Bernard, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine, dies in Soho, England, after refusing dialysis treatment

1996 Death - Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine, dies at 59

1996 Death - Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine

1995 Death - Nancy LaMott, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, dies at 43

1995 Event - "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr

1995 Death - Michael VerMeulen, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor, dies at 38

1994 Death - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80

1993 Death - Kenneth Burke, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University, dies of heart failure at his home in Andover, New Jersey

1992 Birthday - Miley Ray Cyrus, pop-rock singer, actress, 100 Most Influential People in the World list, Time magazine, 2008, star of Disney's 'Hannah Montana', debut album, 'Meet Miley Cyrus' had first top ten single, 'See You Again'

1992 Event - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint

1992 Death - William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70

1992 Event - After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue

1991 Event - Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year

1990 Event - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus

1990 Event - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

1987 Death - Jaco Pastorius, John Francis Anthony 'Jaco' Pastorius III, musician, electric bass player, jazz genre, style included intricate, higher register solos, voted 'Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived' by Bass Guitar magazine, dies at 35

1987 Event - Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame

1986 Event - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran

1986 Death - Hubert Fichte, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, dies at 50

1985 Death - Gardner Cowles, Jr., U.S. publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82

1985 Event - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing

1984 Event - Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in Nature magazine

1983 Death - Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida

1983 Event - Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled

1981 Death - Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57

1981 Birthday - Willa Ford, born in America, singer, songwriter, television personality, modeled for 'Playboy' magazine, debut album titled, 'Willa Was Here'

1979 Birthday - Summer Altice, born in Fountain Valley, California, fashion model, actress, 'Playboy' magazine Playmate, appeared in films, 'The Scorpion King', 'Grind'

1978 Birthday - Estella Warren, born in Peterborough, Canada, actress, fashion model, Maxim Magazine's Hottest Woman 2000, Victoria's Secret model

1978 Event - British pop magazine "Smash Hits," 1st published

1978 Birthday - Josh Hartnett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, film producer, actor, movies include 'Black Hawk Down', 'Pearl Harbor', People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2002

1978 Birthday - Katie Price, born in Brighton, England, Jordan, model, businesswoman, television personality, tabloid, celebrity magazine subject, topless model, appeared on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' show

1978 Birthday - Laetitia Casta, born in Pont-Audemer, France, model, actress, appeared in L'Oreal, Dior, Chanel campaigns, featured on 100 magazine covers, films include, 'Visage'

1976 Birthday - Colin Farrell, born in Castleknock, Ireland, actor, films include, 'Minority Report', 'Alexander', 'In Bruges', listed as 'People' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, 2003

1975 Birthday - Torrie Wilson, born in Boise, Idaho, professional wrestler, fitness competitor, model, signed by World Championship Wrestling, appeared in 'Playboy' magazine

1975 Death - Walker Evans, U.S. photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71

1974 Event - "People" magazine begins sales

1974 Event - 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"

1972 Event - Life magazine ceases publication

1972 Death - Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at 53

1972 Event - Ms. magazine begins publishing

1972 Birthday - Carmen Electra, born in Sharonville, Ohio, born Tara Leigh Patrick, model, actress, sex symbol, appeared in Playboy magazine, television show 'Baywatch'

1971 Event - Last issue of "Look" magazine is published

1971 Birthday - Gail Porter, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, television presenter, known for program 'The Big Breakfast' and 'Top of the Pops', modeled for 'FHM' magazine

1971 Birthday - Jose Solano, born in Inglewood, California, actor, played Manny Gutierrez on Baywatch, listed as '50 Most Beautiful People in the World' by YM Magazine, nominated for the ALMA Award

1970 Death - Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80

1969 Birthday - Rachel Hunter, born in Glenfield, New Zealand, model, actress, reality television host, appeared nude in 'Playboy' magazine, appeared in film, 'La Cucina', 'The Benchwarmers'

1968 Birthday - Hugh Jackman, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, producer, movies include 'Kate & Leopold', 'The Prestige', 'X-Men', named 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine

1968 Event - Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

1968 Birthday - Traci Lords, born in Steubenville, Ohio, actress, producer, appeared in porn films at age 15, appeared in 'Penthouse' magazine, B-movies 'Will and Grace' television show

1967 Birthday - Rodney Harvey, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, model, featured in Life Magazine spread with Madonna, appeared in Fox series, 'The Outsiders', guest on television show 'Twin Peaks', appeared in 'My Own Private Idaho'

1965 Birthday - Michael Dell, born in Houston, Texas, businessman, founder of Dell, Inc., philanthropist, named 'Inc.' magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year, worth over $12 billion

1964 Event - Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time

1964 Event - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section

1964 Birthday - Dedee Pfeiffer, born in Midway City, California, actress, appeared on Cybill Shepherd's television series, Cybill, featured in Playboy magazine, February 2002

1963 Birthday - Gina Goldberg, born in Turku, Finland, born Tina Verienius, model, actress, singer, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month, May, 1981

1960 Birthday - Carol Alt, born in Flushing, New York, supermodel, actress, appeared on over 500 magazine covers, known as 'The Face', contestant on 'Celebrity Apprentice'

1960 Birthday - John F. Kennedy, Jr., New York City, son of John F. Kennedy, lawyer, magazine publisher, 'George' magazine

1960 Birthday - Ian Hislop, born in Mumbles, Wales, writer, editor, Private Eye magazine, broadcaster, radio, television, team captain on BBC's 'Have I Got News for You'

1960 Death - Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies

1958 Birthday - Hal Sutton, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, professional golfer, 1980 College Player of the Year by 'Golf Magazine', ranked in top-10 Official World Golf Rankings 1986 - 1987

1956 Birthday - Michael VerMeulen, born in Chicago, Illinois, writer, journalist, magazine editor, broke story on U.S. AIDS epidemic, published in Vanity Fair, Parade, GQ founding features editor

1954 Birthday - Ferry Hoogendijk, Dutch editor in chief, Elsevier Magazine

1954 Event - Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing

1954 Death - B. C. Forbes, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences', dies

1953 Birthday - Tina Brown, born in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, journalist, magazine editor, talk-show host, columnist, author of The Diana Chronicles

1953 Birthday - Paul Allen, born in Seattle, Washington, co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates, worth $10 billion, 'Time' magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World

1952 Event - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"

1952 Event - Mad Magazine debuts

1951 Birthday - Nancy LaMott, born in New York City, New York, singer, cabaret genre, album 'Ask Me Again' ranked 12th in Billboard Magazine's Top Jazz Albums chart, performed twice for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton

1951 Birthday - Jaco Pastorius, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, John Francis Anthony 'Jaco' Pastorius III, musician, electric bass player, jazz genre, style included intricate, higher register solos, voted 'Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived' by Bass Guitar magazine

1951 Event - Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson

1951 Birthday - Kenny Dalglish, born in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, soccer player, soccer team manager, named the greatest post-war British striker by FourFourTwo magazine

1949 Event - 1st magazine on microfilm offered to subscribers (Newsweek)

1949 Event - Microfilm copies of "Newsweek" magazine 1st offered

1948 Event - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine

1945 Event - 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson

1945 Event - 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)

1943 Death - Beatrice Webb, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine, dies at age 85, in Liphook, England

1941 Birthday - George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

1940 Event - Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts

1940 Birthday - Dary John Mizelle, born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, composer, co-founder SOURCE magazine, works include, SPANDA Symphonies of Sound, 2006

1939 Birthday - Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator

1939 Event - Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart

1939 Event - Glamour magazine begins publishing

1937 Birthday - Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine

1936 Event - 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce

1936 Event - Life magazine hit newsstands

1936 Event - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the U.S. government, publishes 1st issue

1936 Event - Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade

1935 Birthday - Hubert Fichte, born in Germany, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, influenced by Marcel Proust, Hans henny Jahnn, Jean Genet, wrote novel Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, translated as the history of sensibility

1934 Birthday - Gloria Steinem, born in Toledo, Ohio, feminist/publisher, Ms. Magazine

1933 Birthday - Jack Perkins, born in Cleveland, Ohio, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine

1933 Birthday - Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine

1933 Event - Esquire magazine is 1st published

1933 Event - 1st issue of Newsweek magazine published

1932 Birthday - Jeffrey Bernard, born in London, England, journalist, wrote column, 'Low Life', for The Spectator magazine

1932 Birthday - Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist, MAD Magazine, and founder, Yippies

1931 Birthday - Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1929 Birthday - Beverly Sills, born in New York, opera singer, popularized opera, called "America's Queen of Opera" by Time magazine

1928 Event - 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover

1928 Event - "My Weekly Reader" magazine made its debut

1926 Birthday - Hugh Hefner, born in Chicagp, magazine publisher, Playboy

1925 Event - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published

1924 Birthday - Lloyd Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, American author, wrote children's fantasy novels, 'Cricket' magazine creator

1923 Birthday - Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine

1923 Birthday - Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears

1923 Event - Time magazine debuts

1922 Birthday - Alan Ross, editor, London Magazine

1922 Birthday - William M. Gaines, publisher of MAD Magazine

1922 Event - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

1921 Birthday - Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator, MAD Magazine

1919 Birthday - Malcolm Forbes, publisher, Forbes Magazine

1914 Birthday - Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine

1914 Birthday - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine

1913 Birthday - Mignon McLaughlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value'

1911 Event - Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode

1908 Birthday - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer, Life Magazine

1904 Birthday - John J. Sirica, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Joseph Sirica, judge, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Watergate scandal, Time magazine Person of the Year, 1973

1903 Birthday - Walker Evans, U.S., photographer, Fortune Magazine

1903 Birthday - Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder, Look Magazine

1900 Birthday - Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain'

1897 Birthday - Kenneth Burke, born in America, philosopher, literary theorist, Agnostic, awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1935, music critic for 'The Nation', editor, 'The Dial' literary magazine, attended Columbia University

1896 Birthday - Abram N Pritzker, U.S. businessman, Hyatt Hotels, McCall's magazine

1893 Event - 1st U.S. bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in New York

1892 Birthday - Frank Sullivan, humorist, NYer Magazine

1892 Event - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass

1889 Birthday - Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S.

1888 Event - National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time

1887 Birthday - Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine

1886 Event - 1st U.S. nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, New York City

1885 Event - "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published

1881 Event - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published

1880 Birthday - B. C. Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences'

1860 Birthday - Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I

1858 Birthday - Beatrice Webb, born in Gloucester, England, sociologist, reformer, economist, co-authored 'History of Trade Unionism', 1894, co-founder of 'New Statesman' magazine

1857 Event - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published

1847 Event - 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City

1842 Event - 1st illustrated weekly magazine in U.S. publishes 1st issue, New York City

1841 Event - British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published

1836 Birthday - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine

1833 Birthday - John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag

1818 Event - 1st successful U.S. educational magazine "Academician," begins (New York City)

1810 Event - 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published

1806 Event - 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue

1799 Death - William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53

1793 Event - Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine

1746 Birthday - William Curtis, English botanist/publisher, Botanical Magazine

1741 Event - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing

1741 Event - Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine)

1709 Event - 1st edition of Tattler magazine in England

1693 Event - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1692 Birthday - Edward Cave, England, printer, Gentlemen's Magazine

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