Please enable JavaScript to view this page content properly. The Titanic1908 FirstMention.com explores the origins and history ofcommon words and phrases Big ship. Unsinkable. Rich folks above, poor folk down below. Iceberg. Glug-glug-glug, yada-yada-yada. We all know the story of The Titanic, which sunk in the icy Atlantic waters on April 14, 1912. But when was the FirstMention of the doomed ship? The earliest I found is this New York Times story from April 23, 1908. And the rest, as they say, is history. Please enable JavaScript to view this page content properly. If you've never seen the front page from the sinking of The Titanic, it's definitely worth a look. For a larger image, click here. Good thing Jack Johnson never got on board!
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And the rest, as they say, is history. Please enable JavaScript to view this page content properly. If you've never seen the front page from the sinking of The Titanic, it's definitely worth a look. For a larger image, click here. Good thing Jack Johnson never got on board!
And the rest, as they say, is history.
If you've never seen the front page from the sinking of The Titanic, it's definitely worth a look. For a larger image, click here. Good thing Jack Johnson never got on board!
For a larger image, click here. Good thing Jack Johnson never got on board!
For a larger image, click here.
Good thing Jack Johnson never got on board!
By the way, not all of the reporting on that fateful day was entirely, ahem, accurate.