Interesting News Stories from the Past? Share them with us!

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I thought i would create this thread in the hope that some of us, who have an interest could collate interesting stories that made the news, of days, or preferrably years or centuries gone by.

The purpose of this thread is three-fold and shall include:
1) the collation of memorable (in the posters' opinion) news pieces of a moment in history which was reported via print media or any other media format, for that matter.
2) The news piece NOT to be a 'commonly reported' or 'event of the decade or century'. Examples of what NOT to post here would be the invention of the steam engine, or the invention of the telephone. Nor the first step on the moon, or the events of famous battles etc.
They should be news pieces that the poster found interesting, relevant to that particular time that the news piece was first published and that other form members of Subsim either didn't know about or would possibly also find interesting.
3) If at all possible, the Poster should assure that their posted material has NOT been posted here at Subsim in the past.
(Let's keep the news posts clean, and devoid of conspiracy nonsense and other childishness shall we?)

Posts could include but certainly not limited to: the posters' hometown loacl news report from yesteryear, for example, would be interesting to hear, amongst other articles, a posters' local area and what made news...


What you define as interesting may not be interesting to someone else so how do you define interesting? How do you know if the news article that you found from yesteryear is worthy of this thread?

Well, to give you a bit of an idea, i thought i would start off by posting some noteworthy and what i found interesting news articles from the past.

Take note: the following posted links are certainly not great discoveries made by man, or man's first step on the moon, nor are they from the 1700's.


This one for example,
'A whale of a story that became a legend'

It's KATU's famous (infamous?) Exploding Whale story from 1970, and 42 years after it aired, it's still going strong. And for the first time in a long time, we present the story as it aired in 1970.

Yes, there is such a thing as using too much dynamite...
SOURCE

Or:

'Encyclopaedia Britannica turns a page, ends print edition'

After 244 years and more than 7 million printed sets, the company is announcing today that it will no longer publish a print edition. The last, 32-volume print version, published in 2010, weighs 129 pounds and sells for $1,395.

SOURCE


Or this one:

'30 Canned Foods You Never Knew Existed'

The canned cheeseburgers were a hit, so here are 29 other canned foods we bet you didn’t know existed. Enjoy?

SOURCE

I have many more, but you get the gist...

Post on, news anchors!!!