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July 8th The News Made the News!

July 8th, 2009

Did you know that on this date in history 1889 Formerly known as Customers’ Afternoon Letters, the Wall Street Journal began publishing under it’s new name? “The Wall Street Journal is a special paper for people in the business and economic communities, yet it goes far beyond that designation in its treatment of the news. The Journal gives precedence to stock market tables and other financial news, but it also prints personality profiles, sociological background articles, and other items on the edges of the “hard” financial news.” (Source: TriviaLibrary.com)

Wall Street Journal Trivia:

Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser founded the Wall Street Journal in 1888 as the Customers’ Afternoon Letters.

Won its 1st Pulitzer Prize in 1947. Since then, it has won several Pulitzer Prizes.

From 1940 to 1970, the paper’s circulation grew from 35,000 to more than a million.
The Journal never prints photographs, only ink dot drawings called hedcuts, introduced in 1979, rather than photographs of people, a practice unique among major newspapers.

The Wall Street Journal Online was launched in 1996 and boasts one of the highest online paid circulations of any journalist media today.

Every Thanksgiving the editorial page publishes two famous articles that have appeared there since 1961. The first is titled “The Desolate Wilderness” (about what the Pilgrims saw when they arrived at the Plymouth Colony). The second is tited “And the Fair Land” written by Vermond C. Royster whose Christmas Article has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal every Christmas Day since 1949.

In 2005 the Journal reported a readership profile of about 60 percent top management, an average income of $191,000, an average household net worth of $2.1 million, and an average age of 55

Sources: Wikipedia and TriviaLibrary.com

Today is also Ziegfeld Follies Day!
Florenz Ziegfeld, one of America greatest theatrical producers created the Ziegfelc Follies and from 1907 until his death in 1932, his Ziegfeld Follies were a highlight of New York entertainment. The Follies were famous for their elaborate staging, big stars of the era such as Fannie Brice, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers and W.C. Fields. The Follies became best known and loved for the trademarked beautiful chorus line. Before the Rockettes becamed a girls dream job, girls of his day dreamed of being a Ziegfeld girl!

Other notable events on this date include:

1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
1909 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights
1870 Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1835 Liberty Bell cracks, again
1796 U.S. State Department issues 1st American passport

Source: Brainyhistory.com

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