* 1969 – British newspaper The Sun was first published as a tabloid.

The first publications in 1967 – 72, were folded tabloid newspaper format, no staples with black ink text, and a single color highlight that changed each edition.

While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term ' tabloid ' in popular culture.

In Bangladesh, Manabzamin became the first and is now the largest circulated Bengali language tabloid in the world, in 1998.

In South Africa, the Bloemfontein based daily newspaper Volksblad became the first serious broadsheet newspaper to switch to tabloid, but only on Saturdays.

In his book Rude Kids: The Inside Story of Viz, the comic's creator Chris Donald claimed that the first legal action ever taken against Viz was initiated by a man who objected to the use of a picture of his house ( taken from an estate agent's catalogue ) in one of these photo-strips, and that the British tabloid newspaper Sunday Mirror tried to provoke media outrage over another photo-strip which, if taken out of context, could be misconstrued as making light of the problem of illegal drugs being offered to children.

In prime time, Fox first tried its hand at a news show in 1988 with an hour-long weekly newsmagazine called The Reporters, which was produced by the same team behind the FTSG-distributed syndicated tabloid program A Current Affair.

The Front Page is a hit Broadway comedy about tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat, written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur which was first produced in 1928.

The first major Swedish newspaper to leave the broadsheet format and start printing in tabloid format was Svenska Dagbladet, on November 16, 2000.

Photos of Gold's emaciated body were plastered all over tabloid magazines, and she was one of the first celebrities ever to be formally outed for anorexia.

In 1931 when Bow came under tabloid scrutiny, Parsons defended her and stuck to her first opinion on Bow:

In 1951 Taylor made his first move into mass-market journalism, spending just over a year as a columnist at the tabloid Sunday Pictorial, later renamed the Sunday Mirror.

The Turner Diaries was first serialized in the mid 1970s in the National Alliance's tabloid paper, Attack !.

In 2000, he talked about his bisexuality for the first time in the German tabloid Die Bunte.

" Despite numerous tabloid rumors, he denied his homosexual / bi-sexual orientation for the first half of his career, until his stance relaxed considerably after emigrating to Vancouver.

The Sun tabloid newspaper first started featuring topless Page Three girls in November 1970.

Weekly World News was often the first to report the findings of biblical relics, including Noah's Ark, the Garden of Eden ( claimed by the tabloid to be in Colorado ), and the discovery of additional commandments from God.

The first issue of The Sun, a four-page tabloid, was printed at 21 Light Street in downtown Baltimore in the mid 1830s.

March 30, 2003 Het Parool became the first newspaper in the Netherlands to switch from broadsheet broadsheet to tabloid tabloid format, a move which since has been followed by all other major and local newspapers in the country, with the exception of De Telegraaf.

Popular music journalism was uncommon in the country till about 1985 when Karachi's tabloid, The Star started printing reviews written by Farrukh Moriani who is also considered to be the country's first ever pop music critic.

When it was first published in 1830 by Lars Johan Hierta, it was a tabloid that reported news and also criticised the new Swedish king Charles XIV John.

Easy Finder ( Chinese: 壹本便利 ) was a weekly Chinese tabloid magazine which was first published on September 13, 1991 in Hong Kong.

Mellor later suggested that he was hounded out of office, but tabloid editors quickly rejected this ; indeed Bill Hagerty, editor of The People, said, " This is the first time in ages that David Mellor has done the decent thing ".

Overcoming these and other obstacles, Opel finally celebrated the completion of the first postwar Opel Blitz truck on 15 July 1946 in the presence of U. S. Army General Geoffrey Keyes and other local leaders and press reporters.

Blitz was first published in English and then branched out with Hindi, Marathi and Urdu versions.

** WWII: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London ( the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing ).

Many of the technical advances in the Spitfire had been made by others: the thin elliptical wings were designed by the Canadian aerodynamicist, Beverley Shenstone, and shared some similarities with the Heinkel He 70 Blitz ; the under-wing radiators had been designed by the RAE, while monocoque construction had been first developed in the United States.

Although many people associate wartime bombing with The Blitz during World War II, the first airborne terror campaign in Britain took place during the First World War.

On 7 September 1940 on the first day of the London Blitz, the deal yards of Surrey Docks were set ablaze.

They first lived on Kensington Park Road in Notting Hill, London, where they endured the worst of The Blitz, but later moved to Beaconsfield, then Walton-on-Thames, on the outskirts of London.

Guyler claimed that his character ' Frisby Dike ' ( named after a Liverpool department store bombed in the Blitz ) was the first time the real Liverpudlian accent was heard on the radio.

For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.

The first Griffith Memorial Lecture indicates that Fred Griffith died on the night of 17 April 1941 — though the fourth lecture indicates that he died in his apartment in February 1941 — alongside friend and colleague William M. Scott amid an air raid during World War II's London Blitz.

A greatest hits album called A Blitz of Salt-N-Pepa Hits, featuring some remixed versions of songs from the group's first three albums was subsequently released.

The disease was first described in the 20th century, and important discoveries as to its mechanism were made during the Blitz of London in 1941.

The first game in franchise history was a portent of things to come ; the Federals were drilled at RFK 28-7 by the Chicago Blitz, the preseason title favorites coached by former Washington Redskins coach George Allen.

The Federals were so terrible in the game, the Blitz held Washington to only one first down, and a mere 24 yards total offense in the first half.

On the first night of The Blitz, Tate and Lyle's sugar refinery, John Knight's Primrose Soapworks, and the Silvertown Rubber Works were all badly damaged by bombing.

Her first notable public appearance was the backing vocal of the band Blitz until 1986.

Despite its small stature and budget, the orchestra and its first conductor, Julien Paul Blitz, enjoyed a good response and continued to perform.

The actor Peter Sellers first set foot on stage here, and the Collins sisters ( Joan and Jackie ) went to school in the town whilst evacuees from the Blitz.

The company's first great success was the design of the Heinkel He 70 Blitz high-speed mail plane and airliner for Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1932, which broke a number of air speed records for its class.

The song appears on Intergalactic Sonic 7 ″ s, Ash's first greatest hits collection, and Ash's Tokyo Blitz DVD.