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2013 Event - 'Hareetz', Israel's oldest daily newspaper, publishes a story in which Israel admits it has administered birth-control injections to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants, without fully educating recipients of its effects

2012 Event - A South African newspaper removes the controversial painting titled 'The Spear' by Brett Murray from its website

2001 Death - William Berry, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph, dies in Westminster, London, at age 89

1997 Death - Jeane Dixon, astrologer, newspaper columnist, dies at 79

1996 Death - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71

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 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84

1994 Death - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93

1994 Death - John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84

1993 Death - William Randolph Hearst, U.S. newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85

1992 Death - Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43

1992 Death - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies

1992 Death - Lady Rothermere, Bubbles, wife of British newspaper magnate, dies

1992 Event - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication

1992 Death - Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies

1991 Event - The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication

1991 Event - Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing

1991 Event - Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vroe Folk" (Free People)

1990 Event - Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing

1989 Death - Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87

1989 Death - Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80

1989 Event - "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx

1989 Event - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement

1988 Death - Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82

1986 Event - 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing

1986 Event - "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)

1985 Death - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73

1982 Death - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies

1982 Death - John Hay Whitney, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 76

1981 Death - John S Knight, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 86

1979 Event - British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year

1977 Death - William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer

1976 Event - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter

1972 Birthday - Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper

1970 Event - British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)

1970 Event - New York City local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing

1969 Event - "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois University newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death

1966 Event - Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"

1965 Birthday - Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France, 1984

1965 Birthday - Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft

1964 Event - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"

1964 Death - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies

1963 Event - Toledo, OH newspaper strike began

1963 Event - New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition

1962 Event - 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City

1962 Event - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game

1960 Birthday - Richard Roeper, born in Chicago, Illinois, film critic, columnist, 'Chicago Sun Times' newspaper, co-host of 'At the Movies' television series with Roger Ebert

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

1958 Event - U.S. newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication

1957 Death - Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81

1957 Event - 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die

1957 Event - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

1956 Event - U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"

1956 Event - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking

1954 Event - 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)

1954 Birthday - Patty Hearst, born in San Francisco, California, newspaper heiress, convicted bank robber, socialite, known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, autobiography titled, 'Every Secret Thing'

1954 Death - Julius P Hoste, Belgian minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69

1951 Death - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills

1949 Birthday - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport

1946 Birthday - Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, New York City, newspaper publisher

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

1945 Event - 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins

1944 Event - Newspaper editor Alejandro Cordova assassinated in Guatemala

1944 Birthday - Molly Ivins, born in California, newspaper columnist, author, political commentator

1943 Event - Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter

1943 Event - 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"

1943 Event - Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing

1943 Death - Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered

1941 Event - Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis

1941 Event - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

1940 Event - 1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands

1940 Event - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)

1940 Death - Samuel H Chang, U.S. newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai

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

1939 Birthday - Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper and television reporter

1937 Event - Washington Daily News is 1st U.S. newspaper with perfumed advertising page

1936 Event - 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune

1933 Event - 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Georgia)

1933 Event - Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists

1933 Event - Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin

1933 Event - German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts

1932 Event - New York newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt

1931 Birthday - Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper

1930 Birthday - W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate

1929 Birthday - Larry Lamb, newspaper editor

1928 Birthday - Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist

1927 Birthday - Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist, VPRO, People's Newspaper

1926 Birthday - Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist, Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper

1925 Birthday - Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner

1925 Birthday - Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist, Washington Post

1925 Birthday - Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive

1924 Birthday - Al Neuharth, newspaper founder, USA Today

1923 Event - Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter

1923 Event - German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily

1922 Birthday - Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher

1922 Death - Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies

1921 Event - Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)

1920 Event - 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in U.S. (New York City) begins publication

1919 Event - 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Netherlands

1918 Event - "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published

1917 Birthday - Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post

1915 Birthday - Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher

1915 Birthday - William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms

1915 Event - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace

1914 Event - Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia

1912 Birthday - Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon

1912 Event - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)

1912 Birthday - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate

1911 Birthday - William Berry, born in England, Lord Hartwell, 3rd Viscount Camrose and Baron Hartwell, journalist, newspaper owner, editor-in-chief of the Daily, Sunday Telegraph

1911 Birthday - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor

1910 Birthday - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President

1910 Birthday - John Beavan, newspaper editor

1910 Birthday - Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter, Orange Newspaper

1908 Birthday - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., newspaper publisher, Hearst Publishing

1905 Event - Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"

1905 Birthday - Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO, Houston Post

1904 Event - British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing

1904 Event - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock

1902 Birthday - Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper publisher, Le Monde, The Voice,

1901 Birthday - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror

1900 Event - 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"

1900 Event - 1st Chinese daily newspaper in U.S. publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF)

1898 Birthday - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor

1898 Death - Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies

1897 Event - New York City Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active)

1895 Event - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper

1894 Event - 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World)

1893 Event - 1st newspaper color supplement (New York World)

1892 Event - U.S. black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore

1891 Birthday - Robert W. P. Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief, Haarlem Newspaper

1890 Event - 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper

1888 Birthday - Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st President of American Newspaper Guild

1887 Event - 1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York

1886 Event - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue

1884 Event - T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper

1884 Birthday - Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher, Last News

1882 Birthday - Pierre H Ritter, Jr., Dutch literary/head, Utrecht Newspaper

1878 Event - 1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper

1878 Event - Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper

1876 Death - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85

1876 Birthday - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher, Gannett

1875 Event - 1st newspaper cartoon strip

1873 Event - 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago

1872 Death - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59

1869 Death - Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies

1869 Event - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed

1868 Birthday - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher

1866 Event - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published

1866 Birthday - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor

1865 Event - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing

1864 Event - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms

1863 Event - 1st U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

1861 Event - U.S. Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing

1857 Birthday - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher

1855 Birthday - Eliezer Ben-Jehuda, Perelmann, Latvia, writer, 1st hebrew newspaper

1853 Event - Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London

1852 Event - Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R

1850 Birthday - Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper

1850 Event - 1st German-language daily newspaper in U.S. published, New York City

1847 Event - Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"

1847 Event - 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

1847 Event - Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing

1846 Birthday - Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper

1846 Event - "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast

1836 Event - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1834 Event - 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City

1833 Event - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper)

1831 Event - Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston

1830 Event - General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam

1830 Event - 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)

1828 Event - 1st American Indian newspaper in U.S., "Cherokee Phoenix," published

1827 Event - 1st U.S. black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (New York City), begins publishing

1827 Event - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes

1824 Event - Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson

1823 Birthday - Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black U.S. newspaper publishers

1823 Birthday - Joseph Medill, born in St. John, Canada, newspaper editor, Chicago Tribune

1821 Event - 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels

1820 Event - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"

1813 Event - 1st U.S. relig newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))

1813 Birthday - Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time

1812 Event - 1st newspaper on Curaeao (Curaeao Gazette and Commercial Advertiser)

1802 Birthday - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist

1796 Event - 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)

1793 Event - Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva

1791 Event - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published

1791 Birthday - Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor, Washington Globe

1786 Event - 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette

1784 Event - 1st daily newspaper in America (Penns Packet and General Advertiser)

1784 Event - Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser 1st success U.S. daily newspaper

1783 Event - Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in U.S.

1780 Event - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor)

1774 Event - 1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing

1762 Event - 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1754 Event - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"

1743 Event - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)

1704 Event - Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad

1704 Event - "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms

1704 Event - 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell

1702 Event - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes

1690 Event - Publick Occurrences, 1st U.S. (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st and last ed

1656 Event - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

1652 Death - Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies

1620 Event - English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam

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