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This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
March 21, 1974 (Thursday) In Canada, a group of union workers from the Quebec Federation of Labour (FLQ) caused $35,000,000 in damage to the LG-2 ( La Grande River) site of the James Bay Project for hydorelectric power. The destruction included using bulldozers to destroy the site and setting buildings on fire.
Kenya portal. v. t. e. The 1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt was a failed attempt to overthrow President Daniel arap Moi 's government. At 3 A.M. on Sunday, 1 August 1982, a group of soldiers from the Kenya Air Force took over Eastleigh Air Base just outside Nairobi, and by 4 A.M. the nearby Embakasi air base had also fallen.
The Daily Nation was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called Taifa by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1959 by the Aga Khan, and became a daily newspaper, Taifa Leo (Swahili for "Nation Today"), in January 1960. An English-language edition called Daily Nation was published on 3 October 1960, in a process organised by ...
6 March The colonial government attempts to crush Tom Mboya's Nairobi People's Convention Party. This is the most organised and effective political party in Kenya at a time when national African parties are banned. Mboya's home is raided by the police and over 40 party members are arrested and sent to their tribal homes.
Kenya's government, which first pledged to lead an international security mission last July, says it is ready to deploy after it signed an agreement with Haiti's government on March 1 meant to ...
Kenya portal. v. t. e. Prime Minister Raila Odinga addressing the Kenyan media during the 2007–08 Kenyan crisis. Mass media in Kenya includes more than 91 FM stations, more than 64 free to view TV stations, and an unconfirmed number of print newspapers and magazines. Publications mainly use English as their primary language of communication ...
UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974. Events from the year 1974 in the United Kingdom . The year is marked by the Three-Day Week, two general elections, a state of emergency in Northern Ireland, extensive Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of the British mainland, several large company collapses and major local government reorganisation.