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The Daily Courant was the first daily newspaper to be published in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1702, but is no longer in existence. Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ...


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Daily Courant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (213 words)
The Daily Courant was the first regular daily newspaper to be published in the United Kingdom.
The Daily Courant was merged with the Daily Gazetteer in 1735.
There is some dispute as to the Courant being the first publication of a daily newspaper.
The Hartford Courant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (665 words)
The Hartford Courant is Connecticut's largest daily newspaper, and is a morning newspaper for most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury.
The new Courant won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for digging into problems with the Hubble Space Telescope (a Connecticut company was involved in the construction), and it won a 1999 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News category for coverage of a 1998 murder-suicide that took five lives at Connecticut Lottery headquarters.
In July 2006 the Courant weighed in on the contentious Democratic senate primary by endorsing incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman.
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