1851    First publication of ''The New-York Daily Times'', which later becomes ''The New York Times''.

1904    Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after ''The New York Times''.

1971    Vietnam War: ''The New York Times'' begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.

1973    Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to ''The New York Times'' dismissed.

1995    The ''Washington Post'' and ''The New York Times'' publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

2004    ''The New York Times'' publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skepticism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.