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Events on Saturday 10 April 1841 1
1841New York Tribune foundedHorace Greeley launches an influential newspaperHorace Greeley founded the New York Tribune on 10 April 1841 as a penny paper with a strong editorial voice. The paper became one of the most influential newspapers in 19th-century America, shaping public opinion on abolition, westward expansion and the Civil War. Greeley's editorials gave the paper outsized political influence for decades.