Before smartphones buzzed in our pockets and 24-hour news networks filled our screens with breaking alerts, most people relied on newspapers for info.
When the Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912, the world didn’t learn about it through a viral tweet. For most people, the truth arrived the next morning — in bold, black ink on the front pages.
Today, these very newspapers serve as a window into the past, showing us the exact moments of triumph, tragedy, innovation, and change.
Bored Panda has rounded up some of history’s most iconic clippings. You’ll find out how the world searched for Amelia Earhart after her plane vanished in 1937. And how communities celebrated the end of wars.
Some of these might send a chill down your spine. Others might make you want to dig a little deeper.
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Elvis Presley dies at 42 on August 16, 1977. Front page of the Daily Mail the day after Elvis' death
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Newspaper coverage of the close George W. Bush-Al Gore presidential election in 2000, which ended with Bush's victory
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Early coverage of the Chernobyl disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. April 1986
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Newspaper coverage of Charles Lindbergh's historic flight, the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927
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Elvis Presley's death shocked the world, as the singer was only 42 when he died of cardiac arrhythmia on August 16, 1977
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After 27 years, anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison on Feb. 11, 1990. He later became the president of South Africa
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The central character of this cover story is the comedian Freddie Starr, who was a popular TV personality in the 1970s and 1980s. Although he carried on into the 1990s, he was overstepping the mark with some of his antics then. For instance at the beginning of his appearance on London Weekend Television’s An Audience with Freddie Starr in 1996, he threw handfuls of live maggots at the audience. In Another Audience with Freddie Starr the following year, he hit eggs with a golf club into the audience. (However maybe he thought he could get away with that because the live audience at those shows had been invited and were not just the general public.)
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