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April 24, 1704
Postmaster John Campbell published the first regularly issued American Newspaper, the Boston News-Letter.
In the first issue of the News-Letter there was only one advertisement:
"This News-Letter is to be continued Weekly, and all persons who have any lands, houses, tenements, farms, ships, vessels, goods, wares or merchandise to be sold or lett; or servants runaway, or goods Stoll [sic], or lost, may have the same inserted at a reasonable rate; From Twelve Pence to Five Shillings and not to exceed."
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May 9, 1754
Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette published the first cartoon.
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August 22, 1762
Ann Franklin became the first female editor of an American newspaper, the Newport Mercury, in Rhode Island.
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July 6, 1776
Pennsylvania Evening Gazette published the Declaration of Independence announced on its front page.
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September 21, 1784
Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser became the nation's first daily newspaper.
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January 1, 1788
The Times, London's oldest running newspaper, published its first edition.
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May 31, 1790
First copyright law enacted under the new U.S. Constitution.
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December 4, 1791
The first edition of The Observer, London's oldest Sunday newspaper, was published.
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December 9, 1793
New York City's first daily newspaper, The American Minerva, was founded by Noah Webster.
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October 20, 1822
The Sunday Times was first published in England.
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March 16, 1827
Freedom's Journal, first black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States, was published in New York City.
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October 1, 1843
The News of the World, Britian's most popular Sunday newspaper, was first published.
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February 5, 1846
The Oregon Spectator is the first American newspaper to be published on the West Coast.
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June 10, 1847
Chicago Tribune published first edition.
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February 3, 1862
Thomas Edison at 15 years of age became the first publisher of a newspaper produced and sold on a moving train. His newspaper, The Weekly Herald, was printed in the baggage car with the help of a friendly conductor.
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April 1, 1875
Sir Francis Galton published the first newspaper weather map in The Times in London.
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February 23, 1886
London Times publishes the world's first classified ad.
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July 8, 1889
Dow Jones & Company's Customer's Afternoon Letter became the Wall Street Journal.
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May 5, 1895
The first color comic strips, drawn by Richard Felton Outcault, appears in The New York World's Sunday edition.
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November 2, 1903
London's Daily Mirror newspaper was first published.
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December 21, 1913
The first crossword puzzle, compiled by Arthur Wynne, was published in the New York World.
2-3. What bargain hunters enjoy.
6-22. What we all should be.
4-5. A written acknowledgment.
4-26. A day dream.
6-7. Such and nothing more.
2-11. A talon.
10-11. A bird.
19-28. A pigeon.
14-15. Opposed to less.
F-7. Part of your head.
18-19. What this puzzle is.
23-30. A river in Russia.
22-23. An animal of prey.
1-32. To govern.
26-27. The close of a day.
33-34. An aromatic plant.
28-29. To elude.
N-8. A fist.
30-31. The plural of is.
24-31. To agree with.
8-9. To cultivate.
3-12. Part of a ship.
12-13. A bar of wood or iron.
20-29. One.
16-17. What artists learn to do.
5-27. Exchanging.
20-21. Fastened.
9-25. To sink in mud.
24-25. Found on the seashore.
13-21. A boy.
10-18. The fibre of the gomuti palm.
source: http://crossword-puzzles.us
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June 26, 1919
The first New York tabloid style newspaper was published, the New York Daily News. It was originally called 'The New York Picture Newspaper'.
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January 13, 1930
Mickey Mouse made his first newspaper appearance. The comic strip was published in the New York Mirror.
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March 25, 1937
The first perfumed ad appeared in the Washington, DC Daily News. The ad was for flowers since it was cherry blossom time.
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October 2, 1950
The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz was first published in nine newspapers.
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April 3, 1953
TV Guide was published for the first time.
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March 20, 1954
First newspaper vending machine used in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
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