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2012 Event - A study describing the Big Bang, published in 'Physical Review', suggests it is actually a phase change ruled by event symmetry, a theory which best supports how spacetime could originate from original matter

2012 Event - Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University

2012 Event - A children's story by James Joyce is published for the first time in Dublin; the story, 'The Cats of Copenhagen' is called an 'outrage'

2011 Event - WikiLeaks cables claiming Saudi Arabia has exaggerated its crude oil reserves by 40% is published by The Guardian

2010 Event - An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds

2010 Event - The transcript of the flight data recorders from the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash that killed 96 Polish officials and intellectuals is published

1998 Event - News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations

1996 Death - Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51

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

1985 Event - Mauritania's new constitutional charter published

1984 Death - Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56

1982 Death - Hans Selye, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs, dies in Montreal, Canada

1982 Event - 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc

1981 Event - Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words

1980 Event - Mauritania provisional constitution published

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

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

1974 Event - "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published

1973 Death - Brigitte Reimann, born in Burg bei Madgeburg, East Berlin, writer, wrote 'Franziska Linkerhand' published posthumously, dies of cancer in East Berlin, at age 39

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

1970 Event - New American Bible published

1970 Event - Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published

1970 Event - New English Bible published

1968 Event - "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague

1967 Birthday - Lorraine Pearson, born in Romfod, United Kingdom, born Lorraine Samantha Jean Pearson, singer, rocker, writer, member of pop group Five Star, published novel 'Her, Me and Reality", 1989

1967 Death - Roger Babson, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S., dies at age 91, in Lake Wales, Florida

1965 Event - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published

1964 Event - John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S.

1963 Event - "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published

1961 Birthday - Daniel Clowes, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, cartoonist, creator of 'Eightball', published graphic novels including, 'Ghost World'

1958 Event - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak published in US

1958 Event - "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published

1957 Event - 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published

1956 Birthday - David Sedaris, born in London, England, writer, comedian, published, 'Barrel Fever', 'Naked', 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'

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

1956 Event - Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow

1955 Event - 1st edition of "Village Voice" (New York City) published

1955 Event - Guinness Book of World Records 1st published

1952 Event - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published

1951 Event - Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published

1951 Event - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published

1950 Birthday - Gary Larson, born in Tacoma, Washington, cartoonist, created and published the single-panel comic strip, Far Side

1950 Event - 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published

1947 Event - John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published

1947 Event - 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published

1946 Event - George Orwell published "Animal Farm"

1946 Event - Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published

1946 Birthday - Dan Millman, born in America, author, wrote, published 14 self-help books focusing on human potential, wrote 'The Life You Were Born to Live'

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

1945 Birthday - Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph'

1944 Birthday - Phil May, born in Wortley, England, artist, caricaturist, drawings published in The Bulletin, St. Stephens Review, The Graphic, regular staff member of Punch

1944 Birthday - Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991

1941 Event - Archer's "Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform" published

1941 Event - Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published

1940 Event - Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published

1940 Event - Richard Wright's "Native Son" published

1939 Event - John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published

1937 Event - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published

1936 Event - 'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell, published

1936 Event - Margaret Mitchell's novel 'Gone with the Wind' published

1935 Event - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1933 Event - Esquire magazine is 1st published

1933 Birthday - Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany

1933 Birthday - Brigitte Reimann, born in Burg bei Madgeburg, East Berlin, writer, wrote 'Franziska Linkerhand' published posthumously

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

1933 Event - 1st issue of Newsweek magazine published

1933 Birthday - Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography'

1933 Event - 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands

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

1929 Death - Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois

1928 Birthday - Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1928 Birthday - Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations'

1927 Birthday - Cecil Bodker, born in Fredericia, Denmark, writer, won Mildred L. Batchelder Award for her book titled, The Leopard, considered the most outstanding book originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, then published in the United States

1926 Event - 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published

1925 Birthday - Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment

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

1924 Event - "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip 1st published

1924 Event - 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster)

1924 Event - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny

1923 Event - Radio Times 1st published

1922 Event - Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

1922 Event - James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)

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

1920 Birthday - Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983

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

1918 Event - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published

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

1916 Event - 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)

1916 Event - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin

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 - "Of Human Bondage," by William Somerset Maugham, published

1914 Event - 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published

1910 Event - 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois

1909 Birthday - Lynette Roberts, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, Faber and Faber published works, 'Poems', 'Gods with stainless ears; a heroic poem'

1907 Event - Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published

1907 Birthday - Hans Selye, born in Vienna, Austria, endocrinologist, first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, began stress research in 1926, published 7 popular books, 1,700 research papers, 15 monographs

1905 Event - "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published

1905 Event - 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues

1905 Birthday - Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press

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

1904 Event - 1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)

1902 Death - Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies

1900 Event - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published

1900 Birthday - Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1900 Event - 1st edition of The Volk published in Amsterdam

1896 Event - Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published

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

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

1892 Event - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass

1891 Event - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published

1890 Event - Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London

1890 Event - 1st U.S. edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published

1888 Event - "Casey at the Bat" published, SF Examiner

1887 Event - 1st Esperanto book published

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

1885 Event - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published

1884 Event - Dow Jones published it's 1st stock avg

1884 Event - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published

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

1881 Birthday - Mary MacLane, born in Winnipeg, Canada, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month

1878 Event - 1st weekly Weather report published in UK

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

1877 Event - 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published

1875 Birthday - Roger Babson, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, entrepreneur, business theorist, attended MIT, predicted Wall Street Crash of 1929, published Babson's Reports, oldest investment newsletter in U.S.

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

1868 Event - 1st edition of Maasbode published

1867 Event - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital," published

1867 Death - Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides, dies

1866 Event - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published

1865 Event - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US

1865 Event - 1st edition of "Alice in Wonderland" is published

1862 Event - Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

1860 Event - 1st U.S. "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs. Ann Stevens

1859 Event - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published

1859 Event - Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" published

1858 Event - William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom"

1857 Event - Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published

1857 Death - Pierr-Jean Beranger, songwriter, writer, book of memoirs, 'Ma biographie', published in 1858, dies

1857 Event - Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published

1854 Event - Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published

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

1852 Event - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1852 Event - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)

1852 Birthday - Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays'

1851 Event - "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published

1850 Event - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published

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

1847 Event - Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published

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

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

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

1845 Event - Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City)

1844 Event - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot

1843 Event - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold

1842 Event - 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published

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

1841 Event - 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published

1841 Event - Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published

1836 Event - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1836 Event - "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens

1835 Event - Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales

1835 Event - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society

1834 Event - 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)

1834 Event - Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published

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

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

1829 Event - Walker's Appeal, racial antislavery pamphlet, published in Boston

1828 Event - 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published

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

1823 Event - "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel

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

1820 Event - 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston

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

1814 Event - "Star Spangled Banner" published as a poem

1814 Event - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published

1814 Event - Stendahl's 1st book is published

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

1809 Event - 1st U.S. geology book published by William Maclure

1805 Event - 1st edition of Batavian State-Current published

1802 Event - 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published

1801 Birthday - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books

1794 Event - 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published

1792 Event - Farmer's Almanac 1st published

1792 Event - 1st Old Farmer's Almanac is published

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

1791 Event - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac

1789 Event - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published

1787 Event - "Federalist Papers" published, calls for ratification of Constitution

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

1782 Event - 1st nautical almanac in U.S. published by Samuel Stearns, Boston

1781 Event - 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published

1780 Birthday - Pierr-Jean Beranger, born in Paris, France, songwriter, writer, book of memoirs, 'Ma biographie', published in 1858

1776 Event - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"

1776 Event - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published

1776 Event - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

1768 Event - 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)

1749 Event - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published

1749 Event - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published

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

1743 Event - 1st U.S. religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston

1742 Event - Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist

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

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

1687 Event - Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published by Royal Society in England

1678 Event - "Pilgrim's Progress" published

1678 Event - John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published

1609 Event - Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice," published in London

1607 Event - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published

1600 Event - Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published

1580 Event - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published

1570 Event - 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published

1490 Event - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published

1490 Event - Maimonides Mishneh Torah published

1452 Event - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible

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