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Timeline of Events

1665

11.7.1665

The ''London Gazette'', the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

1690

9.25.1690

''Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick'', the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

1704

4.24.1704

The first regular newspaper in the United States, the ''News-Letter'', is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

1791

12.4.1791

The first edition of ''The Observer'', the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

1793

12.9.1793

New York City's first daily newspaper, the ''American Minerva'', is established by Noah Webster.

1814

11.28.1814

''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.

1821

8.4.1821

Atkinson & Alexander publish the ''Saturday Evening Post'' for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

1838

11.3.1838

''The Times of India,'' the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as ''The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce''.

1874

2.21.1874

The ''Oakland Daily Tribune'' publishes its first newspaper.

1878

1.28.1878

''Yale Daily News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.

1886

7.3.1886

The ''New York Tribune'' becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

1897

12.9.1897

Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, ''La Fronde'', in Paris.

1918

2.8.1918

The ''Stars and Stripes'' newspaper is published for the first time.

1944

1.5.1944

The ''Daily Mail'' becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.

1961

5.28.1961

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.

1973

11.8.1973

The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

2000

2.13.2000

The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

2001

9.29.2001

The ''Syracuse Herald-Journal'', a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication.