On This Day September 18

The New York Times was founded as the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851, by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones. It originally sold for a penny (equivalent to 28 cents today). The newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857 and dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s.

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