The Penny Paper That Grew Into the Paper of Record
On September 18, 1851, Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones printed the first issue of the New-York Daily Times — a one-cent newspaper that would become The New York Times.
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The Day The Hobbit First Reached Readers
On September 21, 1937, an Oxford professor's bedtime story about a reluctant hobbit named Bilbo Baggins reached bookshops in a first printing of just 1,500 copies — and sold out within months.