Journalism
Birth of John H. Johnson
Businessman and publisher John Harold Johnson was born on January 19, 1918 in Arkansas City, Arkansas.
Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier
Author and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, at his family’s rural homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Birth of Joel Chandler Harris
Author Joel Chandler Harris was born on December 9, 1848, in Eatonton, Georgia.
Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway
Author Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.
Birth of John Hersey
Journalist and writer John Hersey was born on June 17, 1914, in Tientsin, China.
Birth of Warren G. Harding
29th president of the United States Warren Gamaliel Harding was born November 2, 1865, in Blooming Grove, Ohio.
Happy Birthday Bill Mauldin
William Henry “Bill” Mauldin was born on October 29, 1921, in Mountain Park, New Mexico.
Birth of Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian lawyer, statesman, and Governor-President Lajos Kossuth was born on September 19, 1802, in Monok, Kingdom of Hungary.
America’s First Journalism School
On September 14, 1908, the University of Missouri School of Journalism became the first such school in the US, and only the second in the world.