• 808 AD China – World’s Oldest Known Printed Book The Diamond Sutra • 1440 Germany – Johann Gutenberg invents movable type • 1455 Germany – Johann Gutenberg prints first book a Latin bible • 1475 England – William Caxton produces the first book printed in English The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye • 1639 Cambridge, MA – Stephen Day prints Freeman’s Oath and An Almanackthe first books published in the American colonies • 1731 England – The Gentleman’s Magazine considered the first modern magazine is published • 1822 America – William Church invents the first mechanical typesetting device • 1851 America – New York Times debuts • 1913 America – First crossword puzzle appears in the New York World • 1923 America – Time magazine debuts • 1950 America – Charles Schulz introduces Peanuts comic strip • 1974 America – People magazine debuts • 1986 America – The Academic American Encyclopedia is the first reference available on CD-ROM • 2012 America – Instruis Publishing Company founded