The first edition of the world’s first Sunday newspaper, The Observer, was published.
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The Provincial Freeman Anti-slavery newspaper was first published in Ontario, Canada.
The world's oldest newspaper, Haarlem, published its first paper in the Netherlands.
The first edition of America's oldest newspaper, The New York Evening Post, was published.
The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.
The Times of London was first issued.