Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Walter opened a printing house on the 1st of January 1785 to produce books using the logography patent he had purchased. The first issue of his new publication appeared under the title The Daily Universal Register that same day.
Friedrich Koenig developed a steam-driven cylinder press that began printing The Times in 1814. The circulation reached 5,000 copies by 1815 and grew to 9,800 by 1837.
Wickham Steed published editorials on 29 and the 31st of July 1914 arguing that the British Empire should enter World War I. On the 8th of May 1920, Steed endorsed the anti-Semitic fabrication known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion as a genuine document.
Rupert Murdoch's News International bought The Times and The Sunday Times from Thomson Corporation on the 1st of January 1981. The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with unions by company negotiators John Collier and Bill O'Neill.
Victor Lardent created the typeface Times New Roman under Stanley Morison's supervision using Plantin as a basis for his design. The new font made its debut in the issue of the 3rd of October 1932 after one year it was released for commercial sale.