Karl Erik Gustafsson, Professor of Mass Media Economics at Sweden’s Jonkoping University, participated in an NPC Centennial symposium on the future for journalism in the public interest in the club’s Holeman Lounge. The event was sponsored by the Eric Friedheim Library and the Missouri School of Journalism.
The television premiere of "The National Press Club at 100: A Century of Headlines," an hour-long documentary film, is at 10 p.m. on Monday, March 31, on WETA Channel 26.
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30 Mar 2008 17:00 Africa/Lagos
National Press Club Releases '100 Key Dates in NPC History'
WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From a meeting at the storied bar of the Willard Hotel, through speeches from presidents and other world leaders, to battles over the admission of women and blacks, the National Press Club has been a Washington institution since its founding in 1908.
Beginning March 31, the Club will celebrate its 100 years of history with events that culminate with a gala on April 5.
The NPC compiled an array of historic moments in the Club's life to assist reporters and editors working on articles related to the Club during its Centennial.
The National Press Club continues its tradition as the center of news and information in Washington. Widely recognized for the National Press Club luncheon speakers series, the Club is the foremost venue for press conferences in D.C. While still a meeting place for journalists and news sources, the Club has positioned itself as a full-service facility for the researching, reporting and disseminating of news. Well beyond the card room and barroom of 1908, the modern National Press Club has a state-of-the-art broadcast studio and an expanding array of training programs to serve the Club's 3,700 members in Washington and worldwide.
The National Press Club 1908 - 2008
March 12, 1908 - First meeting to establish the National Press Club at 4.30 p.m. in the Willard Hotel.
March 29, 1908 - National Press Club Constitution adopted at the Willard Hotel.
May 2, 1908 - First day of business at the Club's first home at 1205 F St.
May 18, 1908 - National Press Club's grand opening celebration includes Wild West star Buffalo Bill.
December 23, 1908 - A lit cigarette thrown in a wastebasket sparks a fire at 1205 F St., but the poker game continues despite smoke, fire and firemen.
March 20, 1909 - NPC moves to its second home at 15th and F Streets.
January 31, 1910 - President William Howard Taft is the first U.S. president to visit the Club.
February 7, 1911 - Actress Sarah Bernhardt speaks at the National Press Club.
February 14, 1912 - Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini visits the National Press Club.
March 6, 1914 - NPC moves to its third home in the Albee-Riggs Building on 15th Street.
March 20, 1914 - President Woodrow Wilson attends the NPC Housewarming Party.
April 3, 1915 - One of the first transcontinental phone calls is made from the NPC by William Jennings Bryan.
May 16, 1916 - President Woodrow Wilson warns of U.S. involvement in the Great War while speaking at the NPC.
June 30, 1919 - Prohibition begins at midnight in the District of Columbia, and the NPC sells beer and fine liquors to members for little to nothing.
September 23, 1919 - Cora Rigby proposes a Women's National Press Club.
December 15, 1921 - President Warren G. Harding, a Club member, casts his vote in an NPC election.
January 6, 1926 - Ebbitt Hotel is razed to make way for the National Press Building.
April 7, 1926 - President Calvin Coolidge lays the cornerstone for the National Press Building.
June 11, 1927 - A reception is held by the NPC for Charles Lindbergh after his trans-Atlantic flight.
August 25, 1927 - First tenant moves into the National Press Building.
September 19, 1927 - The Fox Theater opens in the National Press Building.
1928 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini applies for NPC membership but is rejected.
February 4, 1928 - National Press Building is dedicated.
November 22, 1932 - First official National Press Club Luncheon held in the ballroom. The guest was President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
March 2, 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the 21st Amendment; the NPC bar is the first to re-open its doors and is granted liquor license #1.
November 21, 1935 - Political pollster George Gallup speaks at the National Press Club, and revolutionizes polling by correctly predicting the winners of the 1936 election by only polling 5,000 while Literary Digest was incorrect after polling 2 million.
January 26, 1938 - First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt becomes a member of the Women's National Press Club.
February 10, 1945 - Movie star Lauren Bacall is photographed perched atop a piano at the NPC while Vice President Harry Truman plays the piano.
February 5, 1948 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower announces his retirement at the NPC.
January 12, 1950 - Secretary of State Dean Acheson outlines an American "defense perimeter" in the Far East that excludes Korea.
1953 - Ted Koop is the first broadcast journalist elected president of NPC and leads a contract to air condition the main dining room, lounge and ballroom.
September 11, 1953 - Crown prince Akihito of Japan visits the NPC.
February 7, 1955 - Louis R. Lautier becomes the first African American admitted to the NPC.
February 23, 1955 - Female journalists, barred from the ballroom to cover NPC luncheon speakers, are permitted to work from the ballroom balcony.
January 14, 1959 - First live radio and television conference is held by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, lasing 50 minutes.
April 20, 1959 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears at the National Press Club.
September 16, 1959 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev demands that women be allowed to attend his luncheon speech at the NPC.
January 28, 1961 - President John F. Kennedy receives his membership card and is the last U.S. president to pay dues to NPC.
July 19, 1962 - Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at the National Press Club.
November 22, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. The memorial at the NPC remained in place for all 30 days of official mourning.
January 27, 1964 - Margaret Chase Smith announces her candidacy for president in a speech to the Women's National Press Club.
March 4, 1964 - President Lyndon Johnson unexpectedly announces at a Women's National Press Club dinner the appointment of 10 women to major positions in his new administration, two of them WNPC members. There is television and front page coverage of the event.
May 11, 1964 - Female journalists are allowed to report from the ballroom floor during NPC luncheons; Club officials reverse the decision 11 days later.
December 8, 1970 - WNPC votes 113 to 6 to admit men and changes its name to the Washington Press Club.
January 15, 1971 - NPC votes 227 to 56 to admit women.
January 29, 1971 - Louis Armstrong performs in public for the last time at the inauguration of Vernon Louviere.
March 3, 1971 - 24 women become the first female members of the National Press Club.
February 9, 1973 - Jimmy Carter announces he is running for president at the NPC.
October 19, 1973 - Walter Cronkite, Club member since 1948, is the recipient of the first Fourth Estate award.
August 27, 1976 - Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton spar playfully in the hall outside the NPC ballroom.
January 9, 1979 - Hugh Heffner and his Playboy bunnies bring in a sell-out crowd of 800.
November 18, 1981 - President Ronald Reagan gives his arms reduction and nuclear weapons speech.
February 10, 1982 - Vivian Vahlberg becomes the first female president of the NPC.
June 5, 1982 - "Wrecker's Ball" celebrates the start of the renovation of the NPC.
July 30, 1984 - Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader, addresses the Club at a luncheon. The public outrage included Theodore White retuning his Fourth Estate Award in protest.
October 22, 1984 - The Fourth Estate Restaurant opens on the 13th floor.
April 29, 1985 - The Washington Press Club and National Press Club merge.
November 6, 1989 - Polish Leader Lech Walesa declares the end of the Cold War at NPC.
July 9, 1990 - Eric Friedheim makes a $1 million bequest to the NPC Library.
June 20, 1991 - At the NPC, Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin declares "There will be no turning back from the path Russia has chosen."
July 25, 1991 - Friends of the National Journalism Library is established as a 501(c)3 to support the library and its programs.
March 16, 1992 - Broadcast journalist Dan Rather launches Freedom of Information Day festivities.
March 18, 1992 - At an NPC speech, H. Ross Perot announces he is running for U.S. president.
September 14, 1993 - Israeli leader Yasser Arafat is a luncheon speaker.
September 24, 1994 - The First Kalb Report, sponsored with George Washington University, is aired from the NPC.
October 7, 1994 - South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, speaks at an NPC luncheon.
April 3, 1998 - National Press Club celebrates its 90th anniversary in grand style.
June 2, 1998 - Blogger Matt Drudge speaks about the internet as the people's media at the NPC.
October 17, 1998 - The first 5K run/walk to benefit the NPC scholarship programs takes off.
January 7, 1999 - First Vivian Awards presented to honor Club volunteerism.
Aug 10, 1999 - Biking competitor Lance Armstrong speaks at an NPC luncheon after winning his first Tour de France.
September 11, 2001 - The NPC goes into lock-down mode and provides journalists working in the building with free meals.
2004 - The NPC secures a $1 lease a year for the 13th and 14th floors through 2078.
January 21, 2004 - Sheila Cherry is sworn in as the Club's first African American president.
March 19, 2004 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at an NPC luncheon.
2005 - Painting of the Greek courtesan "Phryne" is auctioned for $80,000 to an anonymous Brazilian; funds allocated to the NPC archives.
November 4, 2005 - NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman brings the famous Stanley Cup with him when he speaks at a luncheon.
January 13, 2006 - The National Press Club opens its Broadcast Operations Center.
April 27, 2006 - The joint news conference of George Clooney, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Sam Brownback garners the highest attendance of journalists at an NPC non-luncheon event.
May 14, 2007 - Bands headed by Tony Snow, White House press secretary, and veteran broadcast journalist Bob Schieffer go head to head in a Battle of the Bands.
Sept 24, 2007 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the first to speak at a NPC luncheon via two-way satellite during his visit to the U.N.
October 1, 2007 - NPC goes green by switching its energy sources to renewable means.
January 4, 2008 - The documentary of the Club's first 100 years is viewed at a gala event.
Source: National Press Club
CONTACT: Melinda Cooke, +1-202-662-7516, or Marlene Justen,
+1-202-662-7598, both of the National Press Club
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