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Default May 9 in US Military History.

May 9 | This Day in U.S. Military History

Benjamin Franklin's newspaper runs the first political cartoon in 1754.

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1754 – The first American newspaper political cartoon was published. The illustration in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, “Join or die.”