— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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1620-12-02 |
English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam |
1656-01-08 |
Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) |
1690-09-25 |
Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last edition |
1702-03-11 |
1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes |
1704-04-17 |
1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell |
1704-04-24 |
"Boston News-Letter" 1st successful newspaper in US, forms |
1704-05-01 |
Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper advertisement |
1743-07-18 |
1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal) |
1754-05-09 |
1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die" |
1762-08-22 |
1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury |
1767-07-03 |
Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date). |
1774-08-10 |
1st Surinam newspaper (1st Wednesday Suriname) begins publishing |
1780-03-26 |
1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor) |
1783-05-30 |
Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US |
1784-09-21 |
1st daily newspaper in America (Pennsylvania Packet & General Advertiser) |
1786-07-29 |
1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette |
1791-12-04 |
Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published |
1793-12-09 |
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva |
1796-12-18 |
1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor) |
1812-12-11 |
1st newspaper on Curacao (Curacao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser) |
1813-09-04 |
First US religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer)) |
1820-07-01 |
1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published |
1821-08-06 |
1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels |
1824-07-24 |
Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson |
1827-03-15 |
Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes |
1827-03-16 |
1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing |
1828-02-21 |
1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published |
1830-05-20 |
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American) |
1830-10-01 |
General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam |
1831-01-02 |
Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston |
1833-09-03 |
New York Sun begins publishing (1st daily newspaper) |
1834-02-18 |
1st US labor newspaper, "The Man," published, NYC |
1836-07-30 |
First English language newspaper published in Hawaii |
1838-11-03 |
The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. |
1842-05-14 |
Illustrated London News; the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication |
1846-02-05 |
"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast |
1847-01-01 |
Neth's Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing |
1847-01-09 |
1st SF newspaper published (California Star) |
1847-12-03 |
Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star" |
1850-01-26 |
1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC |
1852-09-11 |
Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R |
1853-05-14 |
Gail Borden, land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor, patents his process for condensed milk |
1853-09-24 |
Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London |
1861-02-27 |
US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing |
1863-01-15 |
1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal |
1864-10-04 |
New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms |
1865-03-02 |
British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing |
1866-09-04 |
1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published |
1869-07-01 |
Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed |
1873-01-11 |
1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago |
1875-09-11 |
1st newspaper cartoon strip |
1878-01-28 |
Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper |
1878-04-02 |
1st issue of Rotterdam's Newspaper |
1878-09-25 |
British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest pubic health announcements on the dangers of smoking |
1880-02-01 |
The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published. |
1881-02-13 |
The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert. |
1884-11-22 |
T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper |
1886-01-15 |
Weekly Herald, 1st newspaper in Vancouver, BC, publishes 1st issue |
1887-02-16 |
1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY) |
1890-01-21 |
1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper |
1892-08-13 |
US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore |
1893-11-19 |
1st newspaper color supplement (NY World) |
1894-11-18 |
1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World) |
1895-10-02 |
1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper |
1896-01-05 |
The Die Presse newspaper (Germany) publicly announces Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and their potential for new methods of medical diagnoses in a front-page article |
1897-04-22 |
NYC Jewish newspaper "Forward" begins publishing (still active) |
1897-12-09 |
Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris. |
1900-02-16 |
1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF) |
1900-04-01 |
1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People" |
1904-08-10 |
Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock |
1904-11-02 |
British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing |
1905-05-05 |
Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender" |
1907-03-24 |
The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. |
1908-10-03 |
The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna. |
1908-10-28 |
The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries |
1912-05-05 |
Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) |
1914-11-15 |
Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il Populo d'Italia |
1915-06-26 |
Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace |
1918-02-08 |
"Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published |
1919-10-02 |
1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth |
1920-01-31 |
1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication |
1921-05-05 |
Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) |
1923-02-08 |
German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
1923-10-19 |
Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter |
1932-07-01 |
NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt |
1933-02-03 |
German Minister Hermann Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts |
1933-02-15 |
Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin |
1933-02-16 |
Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists |
1933-03-31 |
1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga) |
1935-12-09 |
Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder. |
1936-01-01 |
1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune |
1937-03-25 |
Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page |
1939-01-06 |
Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts |
1940-08-15 |
1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazis) |
1940-08-31 |
1st edition pf illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands |
1941-01-21 |
British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned |
1941-04-11 |
Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazis |
1943-01-30 |
Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing |
1943-02-18 |
1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw" |
1943-09-27 |
Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter |
1944-01-05 |
The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. |
1944-10-01 |
Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala |
1945-04-27 |
World War II: The Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication. |
1945-06-30 |
17-day newspaper strike in NY begins |
1945-10-27 |
1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine) |
1954-03-20 |
1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania) |
1956-02-01 |
Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking |
1956-03-27 |
US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker" |
1957-01-09 |
Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" |
1957-09-02 |
1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die |
1958-01-13 |
US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication |
1962-02-04 |
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game |
1962-12-08 |
114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC |
1963-10-16 |
NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition |
1963-11-16 |
Toledo, OH newspaper strike began |
1964-09-15 |
Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" |
1965-03-20 |
Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News" |
1965-12-17 |
Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents) |
1966-10-01 |
Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times" |
1969-07-07 |
German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal |
1969-09-23 |
Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead |
1970-05-14 |
NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing |
1970-11-17 |
British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on page 3 (Stephanie Rahn) |
1976-09-24 |
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter |
1978-01-01 |
Newspaper editor Donald Woods arrives in London after fleeing South Africa's apartheid regime |
1979-11-13 |
British newspaper "The Times" resumes publishing after 1 year |
1986-03-05 |
"Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) |
1986-06-27 |
South African Journalist and founder of the 'New Nation' newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988 |
1986-10-07 |
First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published |
1989-01-03 |
Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement |
1989-04-03 |
"Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx |
1990-09-17 |
Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing |
1991-03-30 |
Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People) |
1991-04-02 |
Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing |
1991-06-13 |
The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication |
1992-03-14 |
Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication |
2001-09-29 |
The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication. |
2005-09-30 |
The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. |
2007-01-19 |
Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast. |
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Date | Event |
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1791-04-12 |
Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe) |
1795-09-01 |
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., Keith Scotland, American newspaper publisher (New York Herald) |
1802-11-09 |
Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist |
1813-03-07 |
Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder (The Time) |
1819-02-14 |
Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter |
1820-07-02 |
George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878) |
1823-04-06 |
Joseph Medill, St John NB Canada, newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune) |
1823-10-09 |
Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers |
1843-08-23 |
William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (d. 1932) |
1846-05-14 |
Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper) |
1848-03-24 |
Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906) |
1848-08-22 |
Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929) |
1850-08-03 |
Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper) |
1857-02-17 |
Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher |
1863-04-29 |
William Randolph Hearst, San Francisco California, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I) |
1866-02-24 |
Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor |
1868-04-26 |
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher |
1872-04-07 |
William Monroe Trotter, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, newspaper editor and African-American rights activist |
1876-09-15 |
Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett) |
1882-08-16 |
Pierre H Ritter Jr, Dutch literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper) |
1884-06-07 |
Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News) |
1886-08-12 |
Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952) |
1888-09-26 |
J. Frank Dobie, American folklorist and newspaper columnist (d. 1964) |
1888-12-07 |
Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of American Newspaper Guild |
1891-05-25 |
Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper) |
1893-07-14 |
Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965) |
1898-09-21 |
Tushar Kanti Ghosh, world's oldest/longest serving newspaper Editor |
1899-11-24 |
Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966) |
1901-02-20 |
Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror) |
1904-08-17 |
Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (d. 1984) |
1905-01-19 |
Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO (Houston Post) |
1908-01-27 |
William Randolph Hearst Jr, newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing) |
1909-01-22 |
Anthony Hawtrey, Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper |
1910-04-26 |
Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper) |
1910-04-29 |
John Beavan, newspaper editor |
1910-10-11 |
Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist (Men Around the President) |
1911-01-09 |
Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor |
1911-05-18 |
Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, British newspaper proprietor and journalist |
1912-05-02 |
Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate |
1912-07-20 |
Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper (The Typhoon) |
1915-12-02 |
Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher |
1916-01-27 |
Merrill Mueller, Newspaper Train |
1917-06-16 |
Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post) |
1922-11-28 |
Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher |
1924-03-22 |
Al Neuharth, newspaper founder (USA Today) |
1925-01-26 |
Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004) |
1925-04-11 |
Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman and newspaper editor (Quebecor) (d. 1997) |
1925-07-28 |
Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive |
1925-08-11 |
Carl Rowan, gun-toting newspaper columnist (Wash Post) |
1925-08-27 |
Viscount Rothermere, newspaper owner |
1926-11-05 |
Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (Telegraph/Sunday Newspaper) |
1927-05-27 |
Jan Blokker, Dutch writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper) |
1928-12-17 |
Marilyn Beck, newspaper columnist |
1929-07-15 |
Larry Lamb, newspaper editor |
1930-04-02 |
W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate |
1934-01-26 |
Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher |
1939-09-26 |
Judith P Appelbaum, magazine & newspaper editor, educator |
1942-08-24 |
Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist |
1942-10-18 |
Larry Pickering, Australian newspaper cartoonist |
1943-10-13 |
Mike Barnicle, American newspaper columnist |
1944-08-25 |
Conrad Black, newspaper magnate |
1946-06-14 |
Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher |
1949-01-18 |
Bill Keller, American newspaper editor |
1949-02-05 |
David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport) |
1954-09-15 |
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (d. 2007) |
1954-10-14 |
Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist |
1958-01-06 |
Themos Anastasiadis, Greek journalist, television presenter and newspaper editor |
1963-05-11 |
Masatoshi Hamada, Funny or Spank: Newspaper Co. For 24 Hours |
1963-07-14 |
Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist |
1965-08-17 |
Robert Manry, Cleve newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic (in craft) |
1965-12-28 |
Martine Robine, newspaper writer/Miss Junior Miss-France (1984) |
1969-12-31 |
Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and newspaper columnist |
1972-07-19 |
Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper) |
1981-08-17 |
Tim Viola, Newspaper |
Date | Event |
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1903-04-28 |
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst (40) weds William Randolph Hearst (21) in New York City |
1912-12-19 |
Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel |
Date | Event |
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1652-10-13 |
Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies |
1852-11-28 |
Ludger Duvernay, French printer and newspaper publisher (b. 1799) |
1869-11-12 |
Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies |
1872-06-01 |
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), dies at 76 |
1872-08-02 |
Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59 |
1876-10-18 |
Francis Preston Blair, newspaper editor (Washington Globe), dies at 85 |
1878-07-28 |
George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820) |
1898-09-14 |
Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies |
1918-05-14 |
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) |
1922-08-14 |
Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies |
1932-02-27 |
William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843) |
1935-12-09 |
Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886) |
1940-07-19 |
Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai |
1943-01-11 |
Carlo Tresca, NY's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered |
1951-08-14 |
William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills aged 88 |
1954-02-01 |
Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69 |
1954-10-18 |
Anthony Hawtrey, Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper |
1957-12-03 |
Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81 |
1959-07-17 |
Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875) |
1964-06-09 |
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies |
1965-11-08 |
Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913) |
1966-12-08 |
Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899) |
1968-01-26 |
Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883) |
1980-11-30 |
Merrill Mueller, Newspaper Train |
1981-06-16 |
John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86 |
1982-02-08 |
John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76 |
1982-06-01 |
Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies |
1984-05-06 |
Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904) |
1985-09-22 |
Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73 |
1987-12-27 |
Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933) |
1988-08-15 |
Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82 |
1989-06-19 |
Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist, dies at 80 |
1992-02-10 |
Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies |
1992-08-12 |
Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies |
1992-08-15 |
Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies |
1992-09-05 |
Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43 |
1993-05-14 |
William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85 |
1994-08-18 |
John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84 |
1994-08-29 |
Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93 |
1995-01-14 |
Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, newspaper editor, dies at 84 |
1996-10-24 |
Bruce Matthews, newspaper executive, dies at 71 |
2001-04-03 |
Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell, British newspaper proprietor and journalist |
2004-02-09 |
Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925) |
2006-02-27 |
Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927) |
2006-05-10 |
A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922) |
2007-01-04 |
Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934) |
2007-01-19 |
Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954) |
2009-10-13 |
Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (b. 1935) |
2011-03-04 |
Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921) |
2016-03-07 |
Sunday newspaper's founding editor dies aged 89 |
2016-06-26 |
Ex-Informer-series newspaper editor Vince Price dies, aged 68 |