Cultural events; Newspapers and Comics
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Al Jazeera,
https://www.aljazeera.com/
BBC News, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
Bloomberg, https://www.bloomberg.com/europe
Daily Mail,
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
The
Economist (past issues) https://www.economist.com/printedition/covers?print_region=76981
Financial
Times, https://www.ft.com/
The
Guardian,� https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian
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Guardian
Notes & Queries, https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/series/guardian-weekly-notes-and-queries
Reuters, https://uk.reuters.com/
Russia
Today, https://www.rt.com/
New
Scientist, https://www.newscientist.com/
Sky News, https://news.sky.com/
The
Telegraph, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
The Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/
30/9/2005, A Danish
newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, published controversial cartoons of the
prophet Mohammed.
1992,
In Britain the Weekly Journal, a
publication amed at Black professionals, was launched. It had a circulation of
25,000 in 1998.
1992,
Lord Snooty was dropped from The Beano.
8/4/1992, Punch magazine published its last issue.
However it was resurrected in 1996.
25/3/1992, United
Newspapers announced the closure of Punch
magazine, after 150 years of publication.
1990, In Britain, the Independent
on Sunday and The European
newspapers were launched.
13/12/1990, The Northern Echo newspaper, Darlington, UK,
became the first paper to appear on CD-ROM.
5/10/1990, After 150
years, The Herald newspaper in
Australia ceased publication in Melbourne, Australia.
1988, In Britain, Hello!
Magazine was founded, a version of the Spanish !Hola! periodical. It reports good news about famous people.
1/11/1988, Batman�s faithful sidekick, Robin, was killed off by The Joker after a reader�s poll of DC
Comics voted he should go.
1987, The Times and Sunday Times moved offices from Fleet
Street, central London, to Isle of Dogs, Docklands. In 1986 they had also
opened a neew print plant in Manchester.
6/10/1986, In Britain a new newspaper, The Independent,
began publication.
4/3/1986, The
first issue of the newspaper �Today� appeared; it was published
by Eddie
Shah. It was Britain�s first daily newspaper to be printed in
colour.
1983, The Asian Times
was established in the UK for the Asian Community, In 1998 it had a circulation
of just over 30,000.
1982, The Mail on Sunday
began publication.
1981, The Caribbean Times,
a weekly newspaper, was established. By 1998 it had a circulation of 24,500.
12/2/1981, Rupert Murdoch bought The Times.
1980, The London Evening
News closed. The Evening Standard
became The Standard.
1979, The subversive magazine Viz began publication.
13/11/1979, The Times reappeared after a year�s absence.
30/11/1978, The Times stopped publication because
of an industrial dispute. Industrial relations problems continued at The Times until 13/11/1979.
1/11/1978, The
British newspaper The Daily Star went on sale in
the north and midlands.� It was owned by
Express newspapers.
14/10/1973, Edmund A.
Chester, US journalist, died.
1972, Gay News, the largest-circulation homosexual newspaper in
Britain, began publication. It ceased publication in 1983, biut was incorporated
in Gay Times in 1984.
11/5/1971. The
British newspaper, The Daily Sketch,
appeared for the last time. It was merged with the Daily Mail, which had
changed from broadsheet to tabloid format.
13/2/1970, The first
edition of The Irish Post, which has
the largest circulation of a British newspaper for Great Britain's Irish
community, was published.
11/1/1968. A new
magazine, Student, hit Britain�s
newsstands. Its publisher, Richard Branson, hoped the new magazine would
become the voice of Britain�s youth.
2/5/1966, The Times carried news
headlines on its front� page instead of
advertising for the first time. See 1939.
3/1965, Penthouse Magazine began publication in
New York, by publisher Robert Guccione, aged 38. The magazine grew to
overtake Hugh
Heffner�s Playboy in
sales in 1975.
15/9/1964, The
Sun was first published. See 16/4/1912. It failed to prosper and was
bought by Rupert
Murdoch in 1969. The Page
Three Girl appeared in 1970. The Sun became mpore popular and overtook its
main rival The
Mirror in readership in 1976. In 1992 both
papers had just under 3.7 million readers.
14/9/1964. The British
daily newspaper, The Herald, closed and was replaced by The Sun.
9/6/1964. British newspaper
tycoon Lord Beaverbrook died, aged 85.
14/9/1963, The first issue of The Hornet, boy�s comic, was published.
8/7/1963, The Fred Bassett cartoon
first appeared in The Daily Mail.
4/2/1962. The Sunday Times became the first paper to issue a colour supplement.
The idea was expected to fail.
25/10/1961. The
satirical magazine Private Eye was
published for the first time.
5/2/1961. The Sunday Telegraph began publishing.
17/10/1960, The
British daily newspaper News Chronicle
ceased publication and was incorporated into the Daily Mail.
10/1957, The consumer magazine Which
had its first issue. Kettles were reviewed in ther first issue, and
subsequently two manufacturers revised their designs to fit with thye consumer
recommendations. Which�s membership reached 100,000 by 1958, and the magazine
began appearing monthly instead of quarterly. By 1991 there were nearly one
million members.
5/8/1957, The Andy Capp cartoon first
appeared in The
Mirror newspaper.
4/3/1957, Jim
Dwyer, American journalist was born in New York (died 2020)
1956, The New Scientist began publication, a popular science journal.
21/7/1953, The first meeting of the Press
Council, in London.
14/8/1951, Randolph
Hearst, US newspaper magnate, died in California.
12/3/1951, Dennis The Menace first
appeared in the USA. He first appeared in the UK in The Beano on 17/3/1951.
1950, Peak daily newspaper sales in the UK of 17 million copies,
with total UK population of around 50 million.
16/3/1950, The Gambols cartoon first
appeared in The Daily Express.
1948, The Daily Mirror had a circulation of 4
million, up from 1.5 million in 1939.
1947, In Germany, Der Speigel began publication.
19/12/1944, The French newspaper Le
Monde began publication in Paris.
31/3/1940, Britain rationed paper supplies�
to the publishing and printing industries.
1939, The Daily Telegraph became the first London paper to break tradition
and have news, rather than advertisements, on the front page. The Guardian followed in 1952, and The Times in 1966.
29/7/1938. The first
edition of The Beano comic was
published.
18/4/1938, The Superman hero first appeared in print
in the US.
4/12/1937, The Dandy was first published, featuring
Desperate Dan.
1937, The Daily Telegraph
(founded 29/6/1855) amalgamated with the Morning
Post.
1937, Daily newspaper sales in the UK stood at 10 million (UK
population then around 48 million).
23/11/1936, The first
edition of Life magazine appeared.
28/6/1935. The first
Rupert Bear cartoon appeared in The Daily Express. It was drawn by Albert Bestall,
who had taken over from Rupert�s creator Mary Tourtel.
10/3/1935, The Bill
Holman comic strip Smokey Stover ran for the first time in the Chicago Tribune.
17/2/1933, Newsweek began publication.
7/1/1934, The comic
book hero Flash Gordon made his
debut in the USA.
1933, Hotspur comic for
boys was first launched. It published until the early 1980s.
11/3/1931. Birth of
Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
21/2/1931 The New Statesman began publishing.
1/2/1930. The Times published its first
crossword.
1929, The BBC began publishing The Listener, a weekly magazine to preserve in print the best of
its radio talks. In the 1950s The Listener had a circulation of around 150,000
but had fallen to less than 20,000 by 1990, and the last issue was published in
January 1991.
10/1/1929, Tin Tin
first appeared in Le Vingtieme Siecle,
Belgium.
1925, The New Yorker
was first published, founded by Harold Ross.
10/7/1925, The TASS news agency was founded in Russia.
1923, In London the Radio
Times began publication. Its circulation reached 9 million by 1950.
10/6/1923. Robert Maxwell,
newspaper owner, was born in Solotvino, eastern Czechoslovakia, as Ludvick Hoch.
1922, Krokodil, a political
satire magazine, began publication in Moscow.
14/8/1922, Lord Alfred
Harmsworth, British newspaper publisher who launched the London
Evening News, Daily
Mirror, and The Times, died.
8/11/1920, Rupert
Bear first appeared in the Daily Express.
26/6/1919, The New York Daily News
began publication.
29/12/1918, In
Britain the Sunday Express newspaper was first published.
31/8/1916, Danish
news tabloid BT began publishing in Copenhagen.
1915, The Sunday Mirror
was launched.
1914, The Sunday Post
Special was launched in Glasgow, and renamed the Sunday Post in 1919.
1913, In Britain the New
Statesman began publication.
16/4/1912, The Daily Herald began publication in
London. It was produced by striking trades unionists, and became the official
paper of the TUC attaining a circulation�
of around 2 million in the 1930s. It was losing readership by the 1960s,
and was revived and rebranded as The Sun,
see 15/9/1964.
29/10/1911. Joseph Pulitzer,
US newspaper publisher who instituted an annual journalism prize, died.
1910, The Times
Educational Supplement began publication.
11/7/1910, Henry Dexter,
founder of American News Company, died.
1909, In Britain the Daily
Sketch started publication; it was a tabloid retailing at� � d.
7/2/1908, In
Britain the Liberal newspaper Tribune
ceased publication.
2/11/1904. The
British newspaper The Daily Mirror
was founded by Alfred
Harmsworth. Originally sold as a woman�s paper for 1d, it was
subsequently relaunched in 1915 as the Daily
Illustrated Mirror and retailed at � d.
22/2/1903, The world�s first ships newspaper was
published, on the liner Etruria.
18/1/1903, Henri Blowitz,
journalist, died (born in Bohemia 28/12/1825).
16/11/1902, George Henty,
English war journalist, died (born 12/1832).
17/1/1902, The first
issue of The Times Literary Supplement
was published.
1901, The title The Tatler
was revived for an illustrated montly�
magazine specialising in upmarket social events, see 1709.
24/4/1900. 1st
edition of the Daily Express printed
in London. The newspaper was founded by C Arthur Pearson.
25/2/1899, Paul Julius
Reuter, German founder of Reuters
news agency, died.
16/10/1898, John Findlay,
Scottish newspaper owner, died (born 21/10/1824).
3/4/1898, Henry Luce,
US publisher who founded Time, Life, and Fortune
magazines, was born.
1897, Country Life Magazine
began publication; a revival of the former Racing Illustrated. Within a
few years it had begun to focus on large country houses.
17/10/1897, Charles Dana,
US journalist, died (born 8/8/1819).
4/5/1896. The Daily
Mail was first published,
founded by Lord Northcliffe. Priced at � d
(21p in 2012 prices) it was
the first mass-circulation newspaper in Britain.
19/11/1893, The first newspaper colour supplement was produced; a 4-page section of
the New York World.
14/12/1892, John Lemoinne,
French journalist, died.
1891, The Irish Times
was established, based in Belfast. It had a circulation of over 48,000 in 1998.
8/7/1889, The Wall Street Journal was first
published.
16/3/1889, Samuel Hall,
English journalist, died (born 9/5/1800).
6/7/1886. Box
numbers were used in advertisements for the first time, by the Daily Telegraph.
1888, In London, the Financial
Times was founded; a rival to the Financial
News (founded 1884).� The two papers
later amalgamated in 1945. The Financial Times adopted its distinctive pink
paper in 1893
10/1888, The National
Geographic began publication at Washington DC. Its first colour pictures
appeared in 1906, and in 1910 at adopted its characteristic yellow and white
cover.
22/2/1886, The Times became the first newspaper to
have a �personal� column on its classified page.
1885, The Catholic Herald
began publication, as the Glasgow Observer. It took its present name when it
moved to London in 1888.
1884, The first newspaper in London devoted entirely to financial
ands commercial affairs, the Financial
and Mining News, appeared. It was later renamed the Financial News.
27/7/1883, Francis Blair,
US journalist, died in Silver Spring, Maryland (born in Abingdon, Virginia
12/4/1791).
20/12/1881, Eustace Murray,
English journalist, died.
25/10/1881, The Evening Illustrated Newspaper began
publishing in Britain; it was the first regularly illustrated newspaper. Later
renamed the Evening News, it ceased
publication in 1980.
16/10/1881, The
British Sunday newspaper, The People, began publication. It
was later taken over by The Mirror Group.
29/4/1881, Edward Miall,
English Nonconformist journalist, died (born 8/5/1809).
1/2/1880, The first
edition of the theatrical newspaper The
Stage was published.
31/1/1880, Bernard
Cassagnac, French journalist, died (born 11/8/1806).
22/11/1879, John Delane,
editor of The Times, London, died (born 11/10/1817).
27/10/1879, The
Liverpool
Echo printed its first copy.
25/5/1879, The
newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada as William Maxwell
Aitken.
18/1/1879. The first
issue of Boys Own was published by O S Beaton,
husband of the famous cook book writer. Published until 1967, the journal was backed by the Religious
Tract Society.
16/1/1878, Samuel Bowles,
journalist, died in Springfield (born in Springfield, Massachusetts 9/2/1826).
1876, The first national Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, was established. However even in the 1960s,
just 40% of Italians read a daily newspaper.
25/12/1875, The Chicago Daily News began publication.
It was priced at 1 cent, whereas other newspapers cost 5 cents.
1/6/1872, James Bennett,
US journalist, died in New York.
4/3/1872, The Boston Daily Globe began publication in
the USA.
1870, The Belfast
Telegraph began publication.
1870, The Northern Echo,
based in Darlington, began publication
23/5/1870, Mark Lemon,
editor of Punch magazine, died (born 30/11/1809).
2/2/1870. The press
agencies Reuters, Havas, and Wolff signed an agreement whereby they could cover the world�s news
between them.
1869, The science journal Nature
was first published.
11/7/1869, William Jerdan,
Scottish journalist, died (born 16/4/1782).
1868, The Manchester
Evening news began publication.
1868, The Western Daily
Mail, a newspaper serving Wales, was established in Cardiff. In 1989 the Wales on Sunday newspaper was founded.
In 1997 these papers had a circulation of 60,000 and 57,000 respectively.
3/2/1868, Karl Mathy,
Baden statesman who worked for German unity, and who helped found the newspaper
Deutsche Zeitung, which promoted the
unification of the German states, died (born 17/3/1807).
10/7/1867, Finley Dunne,
US journalist, was born.
7/2/1865, The first
issue of the Pall Mall Gazette.
9/8/1861, Louis
Cauchois-Lemaire, French journalist, died (born 28/8/1789)
1860, The Universe,
Roman Catholic newspaper, was founded in Manchester.
1859, Sporting Life
began publication. Since 1989 it has had a separate pull-out, The Greyhound Life.
5/6/1859, Gamaliel Bailey,
US journalist, died (born in New Jersey 3/12/1807).
1858, The Western Daily
Press was established in Bristol.
1857, The Birmingham Post
began publication.
30/6/1855, In
Britain, the Newspaper Stamp Duty
was abolished.
29/6/1855, The Daily Telegraph was first
published, in London.� The first editor
was Alfred
Bate Richards. See 1937, 1939.
24/9/1853. Britain�s first provincial newspaper,
the Northern Daily Times, was founded in Liverpool.
4/8/1853, Newspaper advertisements duty was abolished in
Britain.
1851, Reuters News Agency was founded by a German born immigrant to
London, Paul Julius Reuter (1816-99)
10/6/1847, The Chicago
Tribune began publication, as the Chicago
Daily Tribune.
10/4/1847, Joseph Pulitzer,
newspaper proprietor who founded the Pulitzer
Prize for achievements in journalism or literature, was born.
18/2/1846, The Pittsburgh Disptach was first
published.
21/1/1846, The Daily News, the newspaper edited by
Charles
Dickens, was first published in London.
28/8/1845, The Scientific American was first published
at New York.
1844, A process for producing woodpulp developed by German
engineer Gottlob
Keller, aged 38, now made the cost of producing newspapers
considerably cheaper, facilitating the development of mass media.
1843, The Economist
was first published, headed by London economist James Wilson, aged 38.
1/10/1843, The Sunday newspaper, News
of the World, was first published.
18/9/1842, The Pittsburgh Poat-Gazette
was first published.
14/5/1842, The Illustrated
London News was first published. It was founded by Herbert Ingram
(1811-60), a printer, and it heralded the era of illustrated journalism.
1841,
The Jewish Chronicle began
publication in London. It was founded by Isaac Valentine (1793-1868).
17/7/1841, The first issue of the satirical magazine Punch was published in London.
7/5/1841, Thomas Barnes,
English journalist, died.
1840, The Tablet,
British Roman Catholic weekly newspaper, was launched.
1836, In Britain, Stamp
Duty on newspapers was reduced from 4d to 1d (from �1.30 to 32p in 2012 prices), making them more accessible to less well off
people.
17/5/1837, The Baltimore Sun began publication.� Founded by Arunah S Abell, it sold at 1
cent.
6/5/1835, The New York Herald newspaper began
publication.
1/9/1833, The New
York Sun newspaper was launched. It was cheaply priced at 1 cent,
and was full of human interest stories, aimed for a mass market. Editors of
more serious papers were sceptical about its survival. On 25/8/1835 this
newspaper claimed that vegetation grew on the moon, and had widespread sales.
1832, The Newcastle Weekly
Journal began publication. It became a daily in 1860, and changed its name
to The Journal in 1958.
25/7/1832, Kursendas Mulji,
Indian journalist, was born.
1827, The Freeman�s
Journal began publication in New York; the first newspaper aimed at
Black people. Whereas the rest of the press favoured slavery,
this publication campaigned for it to end, and urged free Black people to get
education and practice thrift. It was begun by Samuel E Cornish, a clergyman
who founded New York�s first Black Presbyterian Church, and by Jamaica-born
college graduate John B Russworm. Russworm later moved to Liberia where he
edited the Liberia Herald in
Monrovia, as well as serving as Liberia�s Superintendent of Education.
1827, The Evening Standard
began publishing, as The Standard.
8/11/1827, The first English language newspaper in the Far
East, the Canton Register began publication in Guangzhou.
9/2/1826, Samuel Bowles,
journalist, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (died in Springfield
16/1/1878).
28/12/1825, Henri Blowitz,
journalist, was born in Bohemia (died 18/1/1003).
20/10/1822. The Sunday Times was first published.
1821, The Manchester Guardian, later The
Guardian from 1959, was published, inoitially weekly. It became daily from
1855. It moved head office to London in 1964.
17/12/1820, John Bull, the magazine �for God, The King, and
The People� went on sale with 750 copies printed. After 6 weeks,
circulation rose to 10,000.
8/8/1819, Charles Dana,
US journalist, was born (died 17/10/1897).
1817, The Scotsman was
founded in Edinburgh. In 1865 it started using the railways to achieve a
distribution throughout Scotland, and in 1868 became the first non-London
newspaper to open an office on Fleet Street. In 1988 it launched the Scotsman on Sunday.
25/11/1817, John Bigelow,
US journalist, was born in New York State.
11/10/1817, John Delane,
editor of The Times, London, was born (died 22/11/1879).
21/7/1816, Paul von Reuter,
German
founder of Reuters News Agency, was
born in Kassel as Israel Beer Josaphat.
1/1/1814, The first
Welsh-language newspaper, the Seren
Gomer, was published.
18/2/1810, Sir Charles
Dilke, editor of The Atheneaum literary magazine, was born (died
10/5/1869).
30/11/1809, Mark Lemon,
editor of Punch magazine, was born (died 23/5/1870).
2/10/1809, Louis
Delescluze, French journalist, was born (died 1871).
8/5/1809, Edward Miall,
English Nonconformist journalist, was born (died 29/4/1881).
3/12/1807, Gamaliel Bailey,
US journalist, was born in New Jersey (died 5/6/1859)
17/3/1807, Karl Mathy,
Baden statesman who worked for German unity, and who helpo found the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung, which promoted the
unification of the German states, was born (died 3/2/1868).
11/8/1806, Bernard
Cassagnac, French journalist, was born (died 31/1/1880).
5/8/1803, The Ayr Advertiser was first published; the
first newspaper in Ayrshire, Scotland.
4/12/1791. The
Observer, the oldest Sunday
newspaper in the UK, was first published.
12/4/1791, Francis Blair,
US journalist, was born in Abingdon, Virginia (died in Silver Spring, Maryland,
27/7/1883).
28/8/1789, Louis
Cauchois-Lemaire, French journalist, was born (died 9/8/1861)
3/5/1788. The first evening newspaper, the Star and Evening Advertiser, was
published in London.
1/1/1785. The Daily Universal Register was first
published by John Walter. It was renamed The Times on 1/1/ 1788.
21/9/1784. The first successful daily American
newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, appeared.
1783, The Herald, a
daily newspaper covering Scotland, was established in Glasgow. In 1998 it had a
circulation of 100,000.
16/4/1782, William
Jerdan,Scottish journalist, was born (died 11/7/1869).
26/3/1780. The first
Sunday newspaper in Britain was published; the British Gazette and Sunday Monitor.
1778,
The German newspaper, Allgemeine Zeiting began publishing.
1754,
The Yorkshire Post was founded, as
the Leeds Intelligencer. It was renamed
The Yorkshire Post in 1866.
23/3/1752, Canada�s first
newspaper, the Halifax Gazette,
went on sale.
1748, The first issue of the newspaper Aberdeen�s Journal appeared. In 1892 it merged with the Aberdeen Free Press, and became the Press and Journal.
17/6/1719, Joseph Addison
died. A Whig essayist and poet, he had been co-founder of The Spectator.
1712, In Britain, Stamp
Duty was imposed on newspapers, increasing their price.
1/3/1711. The Spectator was first published. It was founded by Joseph Addison
(1672-1719). It cerased publication in 1714 but the title was revived in 1828
and has been published weekly ever since.
1709, The Tatler was
first published, as a thrice-weekly newsletter magazine to appeal to gentlemen
in coffee houses. It was replaced in 1711 by The Spectator, and the title was revived in 1901.
24/4/1704, The first regular newspaper in British North America, the Boston News Letter,
was published.
11/3/1702, E Mallet published The
Daily Courant, the first
successful daily newspaper in Britain. It was printed as a single sheet. By
1799 London had 21 daily newspapers
1701, The first regional English
newspaper, outside London was published, the Norwich Post.
23/11/1646, The first advertisement in in English-language newspaper.
It was in Samuel Pecke�s Perfect Diurnall, for books.
29/11/1641, The first English
newspaper was published.
2/12/1620, The first English-language newspaper was
printed. Produced in Amsterdam, it consisted of a single sheet, 6 by 12
inches, printed both sides, reporting on foreign news only. When imported into
Britain it was condemned� by King James
I.
1590, The first regular newspaper, the Mercurius Gallobelgicus, began publishing in London; carrying news from continental
Europe.
13/8/1422, William Caxton,
England�s first printer, was born.
748, The first daily printed newspaper appeared in Beijing, China.
59 BC, In Rome the Acta
Diurna was posted daily in public spaces.