The Times of India was founded, making it the largest English-language newspaper in the world.
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The world's oldest newspaper, Haarlem, published its first paper in the Netherlands.
The London Gazette published its first edition under the name The Oxford Gazette.
The first edition of America's oldest newspaper, The New York Evening Post, was published.
The Huffington Post was launched, founded by Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti.
The Civil and Women's Rights Activist Dorothy Height wrote her first column in the African-American newspaper 'New York Amsterdam News.'
