September 25 is Antyodaya Diwas in India, marking the birth anniversary of political thinker Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya and the government's annual focus on welfare schemes for the poorest citizens. It's also the anniversary of a hard-fought school desegregation stand-off in the American South, and of the first newspaper ever printed in the American colonies — which lasted exactly one issue.
On this day
1690Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper printed in the American colonies, is published in Boston — and banned by the colonial governor after a single issue for printing without a licence.Benjamin Harris via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
1957Under federal troop escort ordered by President Eisenhower, the Little Rock Nine enter Central High School in Arkansas, enforcing school desegregation after the state's governor had tried to block them with the National Guard.These are low resolution depictions of postage stamps released to the public in 2005. The stamps each commemorate an event with a piece of art by a different artist: 1948 Executive Order 9981 is represented by Training for War, a silk-screen print made circa 1941 by William H. Johnson. 1954 Brown · Public domain
1916IndiaPandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, the political thinker and Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader whose birth anniversary is now observed as Antyodaya Diwas, is born in Nagla Chandrabhan, Mathura district.Mr.vivek0305/Vedansh Sharma via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Did you know
America's first newspaper didn't die of low readership — it was banned outright. Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick ran exactly one edition in 1690 before Massachusetts's colonial governor shut it down for publishing without official permission.