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Offered is a collection of 74 newspapers reporting on a variety of historic occasions. Included are...
1940's (1): May 7 1945 Evening Bulletin (End of WWII).
1960's (18): February 21 1962 Philadelphia Inquirer (John Glenn Orbits Earth), October 23 1962 Philadelphia Inquirer (Cuban Missile Crisis), June 4 1963 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Pope John XXIII), November 23 1963 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of John F Kennedy), November 23 1963 Evening Bulletin (Death of John F Kennedy), November 25 1963 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Lee Harvey Oswald), April 6 1964 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of General Douglas MacArthur), January 25 1965 Evening Bulletin (Death of Winston Churchill), January 28, 1967 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Apollo I Astronauts), April 5 1968 New York Times (Death of Martin Luther King Jr.), April 5 1968 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Martin Luther King Jr.), April 5 1968 Evening Bulletin (Death of Martin Luther King Junior), June 2 1968 New York Times (Death of Helen Keller), June 9 1968 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Robert F Kennedy), March 29 1969 Washington Post (Death of Dwight Eisenhower), March 31 1969 Washington Post (Death of Dwight Eisenhower), July 21 1969 Los Angeles Times (Neil Armstrong Walks on Moon) and July 21 1969 Philadelphia Inquirer (Neil Armstrong Walks on Moon).
1970's (25): November 10 1970 Evening Bulletin (Death of Charles de Gaulle), March 9 1971 Philadelphia Inquirer (Joe Frazier Defeats Muhammad Ali), May 2 1972 Evening Bulletin (Death of J. Edgar Hoover), May 16 1972 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of George Wallace), May 1 1973 New York Times (Watergate), June 10 1973 Philadelphia Inquirer (Secretariat Wins Triple Crown), April 9 1974 Evening Bulletin (Hank Aaron Hits 715th Home Run), July 10 1974 Evening Bulletin (Death of Earl Warren), August 6 1974 Evening Bulletin (Watergate), August 9 1974 Philadelphia Inquirer (Richard Nixon Resignation), August 27 1974 Evening Bulletin (Death of Charles Lindbergh), December 27 1974 Evening Bulletin (Death of Jack Benny), April 30 1975 Philadelphia Inquirer (Surrender of Saigon), September 19 1975 Philadelphia Inquirer (Capture of Patty Hearst), April 6 1976 (Death of Howard Hughes), September 7 1976 Evening Bulletin (Death of Chairman Mao), August 21 1977 Sunday Bulletin (Death of Elvis Presley Special Tribute), August 21 1977 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Elvis Presley), October 15 1977 Evening Bulletin (Death of Bing Crosby), (2) January 14 1978 Evening Bulletin (Death of Hubert Humpohrey), August 7 1978 Evening Bulletin (Death of Pope Paul VI), September 29 1978 Evening Bulletin (Death of Pope John Paul I), June 12 1979 (Death of John Wayne) and November 1 1979 Bulletin (Death of Mamie Eisenhower).
1980's (12): July 24 1980 Bulletin (Death of Peter Sellers), December 9 1980 Philadelphia Daily News (Death of John Lennon), December 9 1980 Bulletin (Death of John Lennon), December 15 1980 Bulletin (Let It Be Requiem For The Beatles), May 13 1981 Bulletin (Pope John Paull II Shot), October 6 1981 Philadelphia Daily News (Death of Anwat Sadat), October 7 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Anwar Sadat), September 15 1982 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Grace Kelly), January 29 1986 Philadelphia Inquirer (Challenger Explosion), June 23 1987 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Robert NC Nix), April 27 1989 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Lucille Ball) and July 12 1989 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Laurence Olivier).
1990's (13): July 7 1991 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Frank Rizzo), May 20 1994 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Jacqueline Kennedy), June 19 1994 Philadelphia Inquirer (Oj Simpson Chase), April 20 1995 Philadelphia Inquirer (Oklahoma City Bombing), August 10 1995 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Jerry Garcia), (2) August 31 1997 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Princess Diana), May 16 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Frank Sinatra), May 17 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Frank Sinatra Special Tribute), May 18 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Frank Sinatra Tribute), August 18 1998 New York Times (Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky), September 9 1998 USA Today (Mark McGwire 62nd Home Run) and December 20 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer (Cill Clinton Impeached).
2000's (5): September 12 2001 Washington Post (9/11 Attacks), February 2 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Columbia Disaster), July 29 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer (Death of Bob Hope), August 7 2004 Canton Repository (Pro Football Hall of Fame Festival Saturday Special Edition) and December 30 2004 International Herald Tribune (Indian Tsunami). (79G0470)