Picking the most important or most interesting front page out of 12 decades of publishing is an impossible task. Still, a panel of St. Petersburg Times editors combed through the archives and chose these 10 as having a significant impact. Of these, which would you pick as number one? Look through them, click to see a larger version, and cast your vote at right.
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Nov. 20, 1924
St. Petersburg
and Tampa united
This page announces the official opening of the Gandy Bridge, the first span to link the Pinellas peninsula to Tampa, effectively ending St. Petersburg’s isolation from the rest of Florida. |
Dec. 7, 1941
Japan officially declares war
This extra edition heralded the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II. At the war’s end, nearly four years later, the world was a much different place. |
Dec. 13, 1962
Brrrrrrrrr!!
This is certainly not the most important, but perhaps it is the most unusual front page the St Pete Times ever printed. During a record cold spell, the entire front was printed with blue ink. |
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July 21, 1969
Moon, we’re onto you
In a marvel of technological accomplishment, man had escaped his planetary boundaries and stepped upon another heavenly body. |
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Aug. 9, 1974
Nixon resigns
A president’s illegal acts lead to his downfall. Instead of a constitutional crisis, there is an orderly transition and the country moves forward. |
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Nov. 8, 2000
Recount
The day after Election Day, this extra edition signaled the beginning of a five-week ordeal that put Florida’s election officials and their hanging chads in the middle of a fight that led to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
Sept. 11, 2001
America under attack
The effects of the country’s “new day of infamy,’’ in which nearly 3,000 people died, continue to reverberate. |
Jan. 27, 2003
Champs
Perennial underdogs, the Tampa Bay Bucs’ Super Bowl victory united the Tampa Bay community. |
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