Today is...
Friday
19
April
Events on this day
Born on this day
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate.
39th week in year
25 September 2024
Important eventsBack
The first american newspaper is published 25.9.1690
Wikipedia (11 Sep 2014, 17:38)
Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick was the title of the first multi-page newspaper published in the Americas. Before then, single-page newspapers, called broadsides, were published in the English colonies and printed in Cambridge in 1689. The first edition was published September 25, 1690, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was intended to be published monthly, "or, if any Glut of Occurrences happen, oftener." It was printed by American Richard Pierce of Boston, and it was edited by Benjamin Harris, who had previously published a newspaper in London. The paper contained four six by ten inch pages, and filled only three of them.
