March 11

Edward Mallet rented rooms over the White Hart pub, on Fleet Street in London, England. From these rooms he wrote and published a newspaper called The Daily Courant. Publication of the paper began on the 11th in 1702. Its appearance made the paper the first regular daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. Mallet’s offering would continue until 1735 when it merged with the Daily Gazetteer. Today, anyone with half a mind to do so can publish pretty much whatever he or she wants to. It should be noted however, that the ‘half a mind’ part is not a requirement, as will be evident from most of the stuff that is printed and sees the light of day.