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The Daily Mail was first published on the 4th of May 1896, devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Viscount Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere). It launched at a halfpenny when London rivals cost one penny, and its first-day print run of 397,215 copies far exceeded the planned 100,000.
Under Lord Rothermere, the Daily Mail endorsed fascism in Italy from 1922 and published supportive coverage of Hitler after meeting him in Munich in 1930. Rothermere's 1934 article "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" praised Oswald Mosley and directed readers to join the British Union of Fascists. The paper's support for the BUF ended after a violent rally at Kensington Olympia in June 1934.
The word "suffragette" was first used in 1906 by Daily Mail journalist Charles E. Hands as a term of derision for members of the WSPU. The women targeted by the label embraced it, stressing the hard "g" in "suffraGETtes" to signal their determination to obtain the vote.
On the 17th of January 1967, the Daily Mail published a story about potholes noting that Blackburn had 4,000 holes in its roads. John Lennon used that detail in "A Day in the Life." The same issue also carried an account of the death of socialite Tara Browne in a car crash on the 18th of December 1966, which Lennon also incorporated into the song.
In May 2020, the Daily Mail ended The Sun's 42-year run as the United Kingdom's highest-circulation newspaper, recording average daily sales of 980,000 copies. Its website attracted more than 218 million unique visitors per month in 2020.
In February 2017, the English Wikipedia voted to ban the Daily Mail as a citable reliable source, citing its unreliability. The paper has faced sustained criticism from doctors, scientists, and regulators for using minor studies to generate scare stories and for publishing articles later found to contain factual inaccuracies.