The Onion in History
A momentous occasion:- America’s Finest News Source is now, officially, quite old.
“In late 1783, change was sweeping the Western world. The Revolutionary War had drawn to a close, the Treaty of Paris had been signed, Mozart’s Great Mass was performed for the first time, and, with the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon, mankind was poised on the threshold of flight. And only one newspaper, H. Ulysses Zweibel’s The Onion, had the courage to stand against it all. Here, for the first time ever, is a reprint edition of The Onion’s October 6, 1783 issue.”
Amongst the headlines:- “Opera lyrics blamed for recent spate of regicides.”
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