The World Almanac and Book of FactsNewspaper Enterprise Association, 1907 The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a US published reference work and conveys information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc. It has been published yearly from 1868 to 1875, and again every year since 1886. The first edition of The World Almanac was published by The New York World newspaper in 1868 (the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as The World). Published just three years after the end of the US Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it a compendium of universal knowledge. The World Almanac has been published annually since. |
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... Russia , concluded in 1879 ; the performing of tracheotomy on the German Crown Prince at San Remo on February 9 ; the death of William I. of Germany on March 9 ; the marriage of Prince Oscar of Sweden to Miss Elba Munck in England ; the ...
... Russia , concluded in 1879 ; the performing of tracheotomy on the German Crown Prince at San Remo on February 9 ; the death of William I. of Germany on March 9 ; the marriage of Prince Oscar of Sweden to Miss Elba Munck in England ; the ...
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... Russia , and was enthusiastically received July 27. The six hundredth anniversary of Swiss nation- ality was celebrated on August 1. The International Congress of Hygiene and Demography was opened by the Prince of Wales at St. James's ...
... Russia , and was enthusiastically received July 27. The six hundredth anniversary of Swiss nation- ality was celebrated on August 1. The International Congress of Hygiene and Demography was opened by the Prince of Wales at St. James's ...
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... Russia , August 26 ; a great fire raged among the flower- boats on the Canton River , China , and 1,000 natives perished August 31 ; at Hinckley and other Minnesota towns 500 perished in an awful conflagration September 2 : by the wreck ...
... Russia , August 26 ; a great fire raged among the flower- boats on the Canton River , China , and 1,000 natives perished August 31 ; at Hinckley and other Minnesota towns 500 perished in an awful conflagration September 2 : by the wreck ...
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... Russia were crowned at Moscow ; on May 29 2,000 people were killed at Moscow during coronation festivities by a disaster ; the Cape Colony steamship Drummond Castle was wrecked on the French coast , with a loss of 250 lives , June 16 ...
... Russia were crowned at Moscow ; on May 29 2,000 people were killed at Moscow during coronation festivities by a disaster ; the Cape Colony steamship Drummond Castle was wrecked on the French coast , with a loss of 250 lives , June 16 ...
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... Russia and Japan . President McKinley signed the treaty adopted by the Universal Postal Congress November 16. Yellow fever returns to the Surgeon - General of the Marine Hospital Service at Washington showed that since the epidemic ...
... Russia and Japan . President McKinley signed the treaty adopted by the Universal Postal Congress November 16. Yellow fever returns to the Surgeon - General of the Marine Hospital Service at Washington showed that since the epidemic ...
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