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USA Today (often stylized in all caps [5]) is an American daily tabloid middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. [6]
17 October – The Beatles make their first televised appearance, on Granada television's north west local news programme People and Places. [6] 21 October – The first American Folk Blues Festival European tour plays its only UK date at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester; artists include Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and T-Bone Walker.
Cover images for The Lord of the Rings works created by J. R. R. Tolkien. Media in category "The Lord of the Rings book cover images" The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.
This is a category for Dragonlance book cover images. Please place Dragonlance book cover images here so that they can be easily used in articles. To place an image in this category, use [[Category:Dragonlance covers]].
Part 2 (lotteries) prohibits the sale of lottery tickets, primarily directed against the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake. [4] [5] April – Meccano Ltd introduce the first Dinky Toys. 3 April – Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device. [6] 6 April – Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize ...
23 June – The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is held in the UK and Gibraltar, the first of its kind since the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the then European Economic Community. [21] 24 June The United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in a vote of 51.9% to 48.1%, in a record voting turnout of 72% ...
24 September – Operation FOOT: the United Kingdom expelled 90 Soviet Union intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover for spying, partly prompted by revelations made by KGB defector Oleg Lyalin earlier in the year; a further 15 staff on leave in the USSR were not allowed to return to the UK. [29]
As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent" users accessing "an internet service provided by" a person or organisation sanctioned by the UK government. This effectively means blocking websites operated by such organisations. Organisations sanctioned are currently TV Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya.