First publication of ''The New-York Daily Times'', which later becomes ''The New York Times''.

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after ''The New York Times''.

Vietnam War: ''The New York Times'' begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to ''The New York Times'' dismissed.

The ''Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'' publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

''The New York Times'' publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.