Ny Times - Notable Historical Events
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Ny Times - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1870-11-27 |
NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game" |
1871-10-27 |
Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption |
1896-08-18 |
Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times |
1897-02-10 |
NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" |
1920-01-13 |
NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly |
1930-06-07 |
NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro" |
1930-07-13 |
Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home" |
1934-07-14 |
NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time |
1950-05-19 |
NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain |
1951-06-11 |
NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found |
1952-08-17 |
"Fallout" 1st used (NY Times) |
1964-03-09 |
Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages |
1964-03-22 |
Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section |
1965-12-17 |
Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents) |
1967-01-14 |
NY Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments |
1969-12-29 |
NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause |
1970-02-27 |
NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance |
1971-09-28 |
NY Times reports growing interest of white youth in black gospel music |
1981-02-13 |
Longest sentence published by NY Times-1286 words |
1982-03-01 |
NY Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents |
1982-05-03 |
NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget |
1987-09-02 |
Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan |
1995-04-02 |
Sunday NY Times raises price from $2.00 to $2.50 |
2016-03-01 |
Trump rivals call for release of NY Times editorial board tape |
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Ny Times - Notable Birthdays
Ny Times - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1852-02-21 |
[James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times) |
1863-10-19 |
John Huston Finley, Ill, editor (NY Times (1937-38) |
1885-06-29 |
Virginia Pope, (NY Times) |
1903-06-21 |
Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times) |
1904-07-31 |
Arthur Daley, sportswriter (NY Times-Pulitzer 1956) |
1909-11-03 |
James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times) |
1919-06-19 |
Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps) |
1920-09-04 |
Craig Claiborne, food columnist (NY Times Cookbook) |
1922-05-02 |
Abraham Rosenthal, editor (NY Times) |
1924-07-27 |
Vincent Canby, critic (NY Times) |
1925-05-12 |
John Simon, theater critic (NY Times) |
1925-08-14 |
Russell Baker, Loudoun County, Va, columnist/humorist (NY Times) |
1926-02-05 |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, NYC, publisher (NY Times) |
1926-06-18 |
Tom Wicker, columnist (NY Times) |
1927-03-27 |
Anthony Lewis, New York USA, American columnist (NY Times) and author (Gideon's Trumpet) |
1927-05-13 |
Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post) |
1929-12-17 |
William Safire, political columnist (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon), (d. 2009) |
1934-04-10 |
David Halberstam, intl correspondent (NY Times/Pulitzer 1964) |
1937-04-08 |
Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (NY Times) |
Ny Times - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1993-07-05 |
Harrison E Salisbury, US journalist (NY Times), dies at 84 |
1993-10-21 |
Sam Zolotow, US theater critic (NY Times), dies at 94 |
