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press

The news media, in particular newspapers, journals, and periodical literature generally. The term is used also to describe journalists and reporters.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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Pride and Prejudice
A Royal Affair
The Planet of The Apes
Victoria's Wars
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant
Chechnya in Focus
Origins Of Terrorism
Rwanda
Zimbabwe's Political History
Global Warming
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Alexander the Great
Nazi Spies In America
Tin Town
The True Story Of Seabiscuit
Jack the Ripper
The Hunt For Jack The Ripper
Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed
OJ And Company: 10 Years Later
Isaac's Storm
The Hillside Stranglers
The Crusades
The Olympics
D-Day
The Gunpowder Plot
The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia
The Zulu War of 1879
The Olympic 28
Captain Cook
Hillsborough
Spitfire Competition
'Valkyrie' Interview
Terms and Conditions
The American Civil War: The Road to War
Shootout
Corgi
Dambusters 2
Charlie Wilson's War
Shots From The Front
Chechnya in Focus
Origins Of Terrorism
Rwanda
Zimbabwe's Political History
Global Warming
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
4 January 1999
British Chancellor Gordon Brown's press advisor Charles Whelan resigns in wake of the Mandelson and Robinson loan affair.
22 January 1987

R. Budd Dwyer, an American politician in Pennsylvania, shoots and kills himself at a press conference live on television. Dwyer, who had been convicted of accepting bribes, strongly professed his innocence before putting a gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger.

7 March 1951
The Korean War: U.S. forces launch Operation Ripper, designed to relive communist pressure on Seoul and push UN troops towards the 38th parallel.
16 March 1988
In an attempt to put pressure on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, President Ronald Reagan orders over 3,000 U.S. troops to Honduras, claiming that Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed its borders.
18 March 1850
Henry Wells and William G. Fargo found American Express.
25 March 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono celebrate their honeymoon by beginning their bed-in for peace, inviting the worlds press to spend a week observing them talk and sing about peace.
31 March 1959
Following China’s repression of the Tibet uprising, the Dalai Lama reaches the safety of India, where he remains today. 
2 April 1930
Following the death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia.
3 April 1860
In American the first Pony Express mail service begins.
9 April 1959
NASA introduces to the press the United States' first seven astronauts who will take part in America’s first manned space programme.
20 April 1871
Congress authorises American President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan.
16 May 1990
In Britain, in an attempt to allay fears over the spread of BSE, Conservative Agricultural Minister John Gummer feeds a beef burger to his daughter in front of the press.
24 May 1958
Global news agency United Press International is formed.
29 May 1914
Cruise liner Empress of Ireland collides with a Norwegian freighter on the St Lawrence River in Canada. More than 1000 are killed.
2 June 2003
In Kazakhstan, the European Space Agency launches the Mars Express probe.
13 June 1972
Severe weather conditions over the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico begin to converge and form a tropical depression that becomes Hurricane Agnes.
30 June 2004
In Britain, it emerges that the archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to Prime Minister Tony Blair to express concern about the conduct of coalition troops in Iraq.
13 July 1863
In America, the first of three days of rioting begins in New York as opponents to the draft express their anger.
28 July 1932
During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army under General Douglas MacArthur to evict by force the Bonus Marchers from Washington D.C. The marches consisted of approximately 1000 First World War veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans’ bonus certificates.
30 July 1974
Under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings about the Watergate scandal.
8 August 1988
In Burma, the 8888 Uprising begins - a national movement for democracy. It is later brutally suppressed in a military coup in September.
31 August 1935
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, which expresses the desire of the United States to avoid a conflict which will lead to war.
10 September 1898
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is murdered by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni in Geneva.
11 September 1991
In America, a Continental Express commuter plane crashes in Texas, killing 14 people.
21 September 1898
In China, the Hundred Days Reform is brought to an end when Tzu-hsi, Dowager Empress of China, stages a coup and seizes power.
2 October 1968
Days before the Olympic Games were due to begin in Mexico City, students and the military clash in the capital city. The students were protesting for democratic reform but the government quickly suppressed the demonstration and in what is thought to have been a massacre killed 200 - 300 of the protesters.   
8 October 1895
Queen Min of Joseon (Empress Myeongseong), the last empress of Korea, is assassinated.
8 November 1934
In the midst of the Great Depression, American President Franklin D. Rooslevelt launches The Civil Works Administration designed to provide for temporary work as part of the New Deal.
28 November 1990
Margaret Thatcher emerges for the last time from Downing Street to bid a tearful farewell to the press after being ousted from the leadership of the Conservative Party.
14 December 1751
The Theresian Military Academy, the oldest military academy in the world, is established in Austria by Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
26 December 1805
The Napoleonic Wars: The Treaty of Pressburg is signed between France and Austria, leaving France with territorial gains and seeing Austria withdraw from the anti-Napoleonic coalition.  
27 December 1932
At the height of the Great Depression, thousands turn out for the opening of Radio City Music Hall, a magnificent Art Deco theatre in New York City, U.S.A.
 

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