Newspaper

9 May 2005

The Huffington Post was launched, founded by Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti.

New York Times Newspaper officially declared that the Cold War was over.

The Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height wrote her first column in the African-American newspaper 'New York Amsterdam News.'

The first newspaper from a vending machine was bought in Columbia, Pennsylvania.

Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.

Austrian newspaper called 'Die Presse' released Willhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays.

The first-ever classified ad was published in The Times, London, UK.

The Los Angeles Times was first published as the Los Angeles Daily Times.

The Provincial Freeman Anti-slavery newspaper was first published in Ontario, Canada.

The Times of India was founded, making it the largest English-language newspaper in the world.

The first issue of the New York Herald was published by James Gordon Bennett, costing 1 cent per issue.

The first edition of The Standard was published in London.

The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.

The Times of London was first issued.

The first edition of America's oldest newspaper, The New York Evening Post, was published.

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

The London Gazette published its first edition under the name The Oxford Gazette.

The world's oldest newspaper, Haarlem, published its first paper in the Netherlands.