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The Front Page Table

Real front pages from American newspapers, 1883 to 1929, each printed the day after something happened. Open one on a big screen or print it, cover the date at the top, and let pairs of one older and one younger person hunt for clues to the year. Then reveal what had just happened, and look for it on the page. Sometimes it is the headline; sometimes it is a small story at the bottom; sometimes the paper did not know yet.

All 52 pages

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25 May 1883, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Brooklyn Bridge opens.
29 October 1886, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
14 March 1888, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Great Blizzard of 1888.
3 June 1889, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Johnstown Flood.
14 November 1889, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after nellie Bly sets out to go round the world.
25 January 1890, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after nellie Bly comes home.
2 January 1892, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after ellis Island opens.
2 May 1893, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Chicago World's Fair opens.
7 April 1896, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the first modern Olympic Games open in Athens.
17 July 1897, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Klondike gold ship reaches Seattle.
16 February 1898, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbour.
10 September 1900, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Galveston hurricane.
22 January 1901, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after queen Victoria dies.
7 September 1901, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after president McKinley is shot.
14 October 1903, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the first World Series ends.
18 December 1903, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Wright brothers fly at Kitty Hawk.
1 May 1904, New-York Tribune: the day after the St. Louis World's Fair opens.
28 October 1904, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after new York's first subway line opens.
5 September 1905, New-York Tribune: the day after the Treaty of Portsmouth ends the Russo-Japanese War.
18 April 1906, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the San Francisco earthquake.
16 December 1907, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Great White Fleet sails round the world.
12 February 1908, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the New York to Paris motor race starts.
12 February 1909, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the hundredth birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
26 July 1909, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after louis Blériot flies across the English Channel.
7 September 1909, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after peary's claim to have reached the North Pole.
19 May 1910, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.
26 March 1911, New-York Tribune: the day after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
31 May 1911, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the first Indianapolis 500.
8 March 1912, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after news that Amundsen reached the South Pole.
16 April 1912, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Titanic sinks.
4 March 1913, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the women's suffrage march in Washington.
24 December 1913, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Federal Reserve is created.
29 June 1914, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the assassination in Sarajevo.
15 August 1914, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Panama Canal opens.
8 May 1915, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Lusitania is sunk.
1 July 1916, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Battle of the Somme begins.
6 April 1917, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the United States enters the First World War.
11 November 1918, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Armistice.
27 May 1919, New-York Tribune: the day after the first flight across the Atlantic, in stages.
28 June 1919, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Treaty of Versailles is signed.
17 January 1920, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after prohibition begins.
26 August 1920, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Nineteenth Amendment: votes for women.
3 November 1920, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the first election results by radio.
11 November 1921, New-York Tribune: the day after the Unknown Soldier is buried at Arlington.
17 February 1923, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the inner chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb is opened.
3 August 1923, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after president Harding dies.
3 June 1924, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Indian Citizenship Act.
21 July 1925, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the Scopes trial verdict.
21 May 1927, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after lindbergh flies the Atlantic alone.
18 June 1928, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic.
7 November 1928, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after herbert Hoover is elected.
30 October 1929, Evening Star (Washington, D.C.): the day after the stock market crash.

The pages are from Chronicling America at the Library of Congress. They were published before 1930 and are in the public domain in the United States. Old papers can carry words and pictures that are hurtful by today's standards; look first if children are at the table.