the observer timeline
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Updated: 17 Nov 2019
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Created byAyaan Ansari
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First issue publishedbrothers relinquish editorial controlthe observer sold to Julius Beer and Edward Dicey appointed editor10,000 of 23,000 copies given awayowner of the observer diesJulius Beer buys the paperowner dies and ownership given to his sonowner dies and and purchased by Lord NorthcliffeJames Louis Garvin named editorcirculation boosted from 5,000 to 40,000newspaper sold after political disagreements to William Waldorf AstorOwnership transfered to Astor's sonGarvin (editor) departs after difference in political opinionsOwnership passed to owners sonAstors sold newspaper to Atlantic richfieldNewspaper sold to Lonrho plcbecomes part of the Guardian media groupJournalist Farzad Bazoft executed in Iraq on charges of spyingthe observer becomes first newspaper to oppose governments invasion of suezIraqi colonel interviewed and convinced he wasn't a spyeditorial supports Iraq warthe observer blog launchedconverted to Berliner formatawarded national newspaper of the yeareditor Roger Alton stepped down and replaced by deputypaper restyledPeriods
circulation reaches 200,000
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