Events in History Relating to Journalism
November 7, 1665
The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
September 25, 1690
Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
April 24, 1704
The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
August 5, 1735
Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
September 11, 1773
The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One, which is written by Benjamin Franklin.
January 1, 1788
First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
December 4, 1791
The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
November 28, 1814
The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
May 6, 1835
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
December 19, 1835
The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.
November 3, 1838
The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
September 18, 1851
First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which would become The New York Times.
March 21, 1871
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
November 7, 1874
A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
January 28, 1878
Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
May 2, 1885
Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
November 14, 1889
Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
November 1, 1896
A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
September 21, 1897
The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is published in the New York Sun.
April 24, 1904
The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
March 24, 1907
The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
November 13, 1909
Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
May 20, 1916
The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
September 11, 1922
One of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia's predecessor papers The Sun News-Pictorial is founded.
February 17, 1925
Harold Ross and Jane Grant found The New Yorker magazine; the debut issue is dated February 21, 1925.
February 29, 1932
TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
December 9, 1935
Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder.
February 28, 1939
The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
September 5, 1945
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
June 26, 1948
Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
May 24, 1958
United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
May 28, 1961
Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
October 16, 1975
The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
October 30, 1975
The New York Daily News runs the “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline.
August 7, 1981
The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
December 26, 1982
Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
March 16, 1985
Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
October 5, 1990
After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
January 24, 1993
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
June 26, 1996
Irish Journalist Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of Dublin
November 11, 2001
Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling on top of.
January 23, 2002
Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
January 24, 2002
American journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan.
September 30, 2005
The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
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