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New York Times Newspaper Milestones
| Sept. 6, 1999 |
The New York Times Upfront, an original news magazine for teens, begins.
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| Sept. 16, 1998 |
The New York Times Learning Network (www.nytimes.com/learning) begins.
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| July 31, 1998 |
The New York Times College Scholarship Program is established.
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| June 16, 1998 |
New York Today (www.nytoday.com), The Times's online city guide, debuts.
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| Feb. 26, 1998 |
Circuits, a stand-alone weekly section devoted to technology, begins.
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| Oct. 16, 1997 |
Color appears on the front page of The New York Times.
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| Oct. 12, 1997 |
Styles begins as a stand-alone color section.
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| Sept. 15, 1997 |
Daily color begins in the expanded sections of The Times: The Arts, Sports, Dining In/Dining Out, House & Home and Weekend.
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| June 15, 1997 |
The presses close down at West 43d Street. Printing is transferred completely to the Edison and College Point plants.
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| Feb. 18, 1997 |
The New York Times begins distribution of the New England and the Washington editions.
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| Aug. 18, 1996 |
The New York Times celebrates the centennial of its purchase by Adolph S. Ochs.
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| Jan. 19, 1996 |
The New York Times on the Web (www.nytimes.com) begins.
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| July 21, 1994 |
The New York Times Company's Board of Directors approves construction of a printing and distribution facility at College Point, Queens.
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| Sept. 12, 1993 |
The City section begins.
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| June 6, 1993 |
Color is first used in The Book Review.
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| Sept. 22, 1992 |
The Edison, N.J., plant starts operation.
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| May 3, 1992 |
The Styles of The Times and the Sunday Metro Report begin.
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| Jan. 17, 1992 |
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. becomes publisher.
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| Nov. 4, 1991 |
The first issue of the daily Metro Section runs, replacing the Metropolitan News section.
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| April 9, 1991 |
An expanded daily sports report, Tuesday through Saturday, is anchored in the Metropolitan News section.
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| Feb. 26, 1990 |
Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, daughter, wife, mother and mother-in-law of four publishers of The New York Times, dies.
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| Jan. 22, 1990 |
An expanded, three-section, National Edition is introduced nationwide.
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| April 4, 1988 |
The expanded, three-section, National Edition is introduced in San Francisco.
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| March 6, 1988 |
Television, a completely redesigned weekly television guide, is introduced.
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| Aug. 13, 1984 |
A bar code is first used on page 2 of the National Edition.
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| Oct. 15, 1983 |
The conversion of the West 43d Street presses from letterpress to offset is completed after two years.
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| Sept. 7, 1982 |
A major expansion of The New York Times-owned home delivery network in the New York metropolitan area begins.
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| Aug. 18, 1980 |
The publication of the National Edition begins with satellite transmission from New York to Chicago.
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| Nov. 14, 1978 |
The Science Times section begins.
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| July 4, 1978 |
A full conversion is made to an electronic newsroom; cold-type composition is completed.
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| May 17, 1978 |
The Business Day section begins.
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| Jan. 9, 1978 |
The SportsMonday section begins.
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| March 17, 1977 |
The Home section begins.
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| Nov. 14, 1976 |
The regular use of supercalendered paper in the Sunday Magazine begins.
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| Nov. 10, 1976 |
The Living Section begins.
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| Sept. 13, 1976 |
National classified ads begin in the weekday paper.
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| Sept. 12, 1976 |
The Arts & Leisure section is redesigned, with a new guide to entertainment offerings.
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| Sept. 6, 1976 |
A six-column format is adopted for news and advertising, except classifieds.
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| April 30, 1976 |
The Weekend section begins as part of the first four-section weekday Times.
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| Jan. 11, 1976 |
New Jersey Weekly, the first of five regional Sunday sections, is introduced. Others to follow: Long Island Weekly, Westchester Weekly, Connecticut Weekly and The City.
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| June 30, 1971 |
The Supreme Court rules on the Pentagon Papers case, in favor of The Times.
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| June 13, 1971 |
The publication of the Pentagon Papers begins.
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| Sept. 21, 1970 |
The Op-Ed page begins.
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| Dec. 11, 1968 |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger dies.
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| March 6, 1967 |
The first Large Type Weekly is published.
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| March 10, 1964 |
The Supreme Court rules in favor of The Times in the landmark libel case New York Times v. Sullivan.
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| June 21, 1963 |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger is named publisher.
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| May 25, 1963 |
Orvil E. Dryfoos dies.
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| April 16, 1963 |
The Times Tower is resold to the Allied Chemical Corporation.
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| April 24, 1961 |
Orvil E. Dryfoos becomes publisher.
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| March 15, 1961 |
The Times Tower is sold to Douglas Leigh.
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| Nov. 28, 1953 |
The photoengravers' strike starts. The Times does not publish for the first time in history. Strike ends Dec. 8, 1953.
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| Sept. 18, 1951 |
The Times marks its 100th anniversary with the publication of "The Story of The New York Times" by Meyer Berger.
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| Sept. 11, 1950 |
The first daily crossword puzzle is published.
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| Feb. 2, 1949 |
The first monthly weather chart is published.
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| Nov. 3, 1946 |
Fashions of The Times is published.
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| Aug. 9, 1945 |
William L. Laurence of The Times rides in the B-29 that drops the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. He is the only journalist to do so.
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| Aug. 9, 1942 |
The first publication of the Best Sellers list appears in The Book Review.
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| May 22, 1942 |
The Times Building at 1475 Broadway changes its name to the Times Tower. The name, the Times Building, is given to the Times Annex at 229 West 43d Street.
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| Feb. 15, 1942 |
The first Sunday crossword puzzle is published.
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| May 7, 1935 |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger becomes publisher.
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| April 8, 1935 |
Adolph S. Ochs dies.
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| Feb. 14, 1935 |
The first Associated Press wire photo runs in The Times: survivors of the explosion of the Navy dirigible, Macon, in San Francisco.
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| April 23, 1933 |
Regular use of color begins in the Sunday Magazine.
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| June 3, 1918 |
The New York Times receives its first Pulitzer Prize.
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| Feb. 3, 1913 |
The first issue of The Times is printed at the Times Annex at 229 West 43d Street.
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| Jan. 29, 1911 |
The New York Times Book Review, formerly the Saturday Review of Books and Art, begins as a Sunday section.
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| May 30, 1910 |
The first news photo appears on the front page.
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| Dec. 31, 1907 |
The first New Year's Eve ball is dropped from the Times Building in Times Square.
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| Jan. 1, 1905 |
The New York Times moves to Long Acre Square at 42d Street and Broadway. Shortly after, the square's name is changed to Times Square. The building at 1475 Broadway was the first building built by The Times at Times Square and served as the home of The Times from 1905 to 1913. It was called the Times Building.
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| April 14, 1904 |
The first on-the-spot wireless dispatch in history occurs, an eyewitness account of fighting off Port Arthur, in China, during the Russo-Japanese War.
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| Dec. 1, 1896 |
The hyphen is dropped from The New-York Times.
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| Oct. 25, 1896 |
"All the News That's Fit to Print," the paper's slogan, first appears.
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| Oct. 10, 1896 |
The first Saturday Review of Books and Art is published.
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| Sept. 6, 1896 |
The first issue of the Sunday Magazine is published.
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| Aug. 18, 1896 |
Controlling ownership of The New-York Times is acquired by Adolph S. Ochs.
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| July 22, 1871 |
A series of articles begins in The Times detailing widespread corruption by Boss Tweed and other New York City politicians.
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| April 21, 1861 |
The first Sunday issue of The Times is published.
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| Sept. 14, 1857 |
The newspaper changes its name to The New-York Times.
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| Sept. 18, 1851 |
The first issue of the "New-York Daily Times" is published.
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