The Onion News-Paper, circa Ocktober the Sixth, Anno Domini, 1783

[Dave Monroe]

In late 1783, change was sweeping the Western world. The Revolutionary
War had drawn to a close, the Treaty of Paris had been signed,
Mozart's Great Mass was performed for the first time, and, with the
Montgolfier brothers' balloon, mankind was poised on the threshold of
flight. And only one newspaper, H. Ulysses Zweibel's The Onion, had
the courage to stand against it all. Here, for the first time ever, is
a reprint edition of The Onion's October 6, 1783 issue.

http://www.theonion.com/content/index