The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand in Paris.

It Happened on
December 09, 1897

“La Fronde. A major daily newspaper. Political and literary. Managed, administrated and compiled exclusively BY WOMEN. In the French population women are in the majority…Women pay taxes which they have no say in approving; their manual labour and intellectual work contribute to the wealth of the nation and they claim the right to be allowed to voice their opinion on all questions affecting society and humanity, of which they are members on a par with men.”

- Marguerite Durand, French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette

Meanwhile…

The comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids debuts in the New York Journal.

280 days later…

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