| Celebrating stories that made a difference. |  | | | | | | | | Forty years! Not bad for a "McPaper." | | Good morning, friends of The Short List! 🔵USA TODAY celebrated a big milestone this week: The 40th anniversary of our very first edition on Sept. 15, 1982. (Fun fact: I'm John Riley, and I've been at USA TODAY for 32 of those 40 years. Yikes! 👴) | | At its outset, USA TODAY was a newspaper like no other. Short sentences. A full-page weather map. Snappy graphics. The front page often included a bit of fluff to go with the serious stuff. Such brevity and levity led critics to brand us "McPaper" – but they quietly adopted our innovations for their own papers.🤔 | | | | As editors flipped through 480 months of news since the first edition in 1982, they were struck by how often USA TODAY made a difference. As part of our commemoration this week, we've republished many of these significant moments. We hope you enjoy looking back at them. And, as always, thank you for supporting USA TODAY.🙏 | From the archives | | • | Aug. 3, 1990: Saddam Hussein's ruthless reach for power | | • | Oct. 16, 1991: The Clarence Thomas vote: What Senators said | | • | June 7, 1994: On 50th anniversary of D-Day, veterans cry for dead and themselves | | • | Aug. 4, 2000: Explorers discover fragrant relic of the sea | | • | Sept. 11, 2002: 'Clear the skies': Behind the unprecedented call to stop air travel on 9/11 | | • | July 6, 2005: Eric Rudolph tells how he eluded the FBI | | • | May 11, 2006: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls | | • | Jan. 2, 2014: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and "The Whack Heard 'Round The World" | | • | Sept. 20, 2017: "Build the Wall." We explored every foot of it – and won the Pulitzer Prize | | • | Aug. 21, 2019: Thousands of Africans were enslaved in America. Wanda Tucker believes her relatives were the first | | | There are more great reads below. 👇 Here's to the next 40 years! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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