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2005 The Huffington Post weblog makes it's debut
2004 Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85 2001 Herblock, political cartoonist, The Washington Post, dies at 91 2001 Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84 2000 Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57 1999 Meg Greenfield, journalist, Washington Post, dies at 68 1997 1st time 3 cons home runs in post season-Raines, Jeter, O'Neill (New York Yankees) 1997 Yankees Tim Raines, Derek Jeter and Paul O'Neill are 1st to hit 3 consecutively homers in post season (Yankees beat Indians 8-6) 1997 Yankees clinch 37th appearance in post season, 3rd consecutive 1996 Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 1996 Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yankees win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses) 1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season home run, as Yankees tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8) 1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams switch hits home runs in a post season game 1995 Houston Post folds after 116 years 1994 Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85 1992 Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women 1992 Max Lerner, U.S. writer/columnist (New York Post), dies at 88 1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania 1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing 1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes 1988 John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56 1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million 1986 Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 and win NL pennant 1981 William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85 1981 Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic 1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story 1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1980 Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic 1980 Post It Notes, introduced 1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic 1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament 1979 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post 1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1978 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open 1978 7th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post 1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C. 1977 Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb 1974 Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open 1974 Stewart Alsop, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek, dies 1973 Marjorie Post, U.S. philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86 1973 Whitney Post, born in Wayland, Massachusetts, rower 1996 Olympics 1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post 1968 James Brady, born in Brooklyn, New York, columnist, New York Post 1968 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post 1967 Sling-shot goal post and 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL 1965 London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England 1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1962 Morris Louis, U.S. painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49 1961 Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black 1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI 1960 Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86 1960 Benoat van Innis, Belgian cartoonist/painter/cartoonist, New York Post 1959 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0) 1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery 1956 Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad 1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner 1950 Markie Post, Marjorie, Palo Alto Cal, actress, Christine-Night Court 1948 Tom Shales, TV critic, Washington Post 1948 Sandra Post, born in Oakville, Ontario, professional golfer, won LPGA Championship 1968, LPGA Tour Rookie of the Year Award 1968 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed 1944 Mike Post, composer, Rockford Files, Hill St. Blues, Magnum PI 1944 John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested 1944 Opposition group surprise attack post office Washer 1944 Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate 1944 Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post 1942 Peter Kalikow, Queens New York City, real estate developer/publisher, New York Post 1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA 1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 1935 Pete Hamill, born in Brooklyn, New York, journalist, New York Post 1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream 1934 Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight 1933 Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist, 8x European Champion at Derny-drive 1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight 1933 Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world 1931 Raoul Pleskow, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, studied with Otto Luenig, served on music faculty at C.W. Post College, Long Island University 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world 1931 Rupert Murdoch, born in Australia, publisher, New York Post and CEO of FOX 1930 Jimmy Breslin, Queens New York City, columnist, New York Post, News, Newsday 1930 Ronald Dearing, chairman, British Post Office 1930 Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post 1927 Clive Barnes, drama critic, New York Times, New York Post 1925 Art Buchwald, born in New York City, wrote political satire and commentary, had column in The Washington Post 1925 Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist, Washington Post 1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1924 Sam Wainwright, deputy chairman, British Post Office 1923 Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike 1922 Jack Anderson, born in Long Beach, California, journalist, Washington Post 1921 U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency 1921 Ben Bradlee, Boston, editor/journalist/executive, Washington Post 1918 George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies 1918 Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1917 Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post 1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting 1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin 1914 U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail 1914 New York Post Office Building opens to public 1914 Stewart Alsop, born in Avon, Connecticut, columnist and political analyst, worked for Saturday Evening Post and Newsweek 1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published 1913 Cleveland Call and Post forms 1913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries 1912 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued 1912 Morris Louis, U.S. painter, post abstract 1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital 1911 Stuart Rose, designer, British Post Office 1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) 1906 Laurens jan van der Post, soldier/explorer/conservationist 1906 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight 1905 Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa 1905 Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO, Houston Post 1904 W. Sterling Cole, born in Painted Post, New York, Representative-R-New York 1935 - 1957 1903 Dorothy Schiff, publisher, New York Post 1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1902 Max Lerner, U.S., columnist, New York Post 1900 U.S. Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps 1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer 1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown 1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa 1898 Wiley Post, Grand Plain, Texas, aviator/parachutist, crashed in Alaska 1898 Post Office authorizes use of postcards 1894 Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers 1889 Bert Collins, cricketer, Aussie batsman in the post WW I years 1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) 1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi 1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens 1877 Washington Post publishes 1st edition 1874 Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia 1872 Emily Post, authority on social behavior/writer, Etiquette 1872 Congress endorses penny post card 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas 1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens 1861 Anaheim Post Office established 1856 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens 1855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals, Post Cereals 1850 Hawaiian post office established 1848 Post office at Clay and Pike opens 1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps 1840 Penny Post mail system is starts 1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) 1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969) 1813 "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to U.S. (Troy Post of New York) 1811 Russian settlers establish Ft. Ross trading post, north of SF 1801 1st edition of New York Evening Post 1794 U.S. Post Office established 1789 Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname 1789 Congress creates Post Office 1789 U.S. Post Office established 1781 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published 1764 St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue 1749 English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post 1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass) 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft. Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit 1669 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 1639 1st post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts |
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