15 Iconic Newspaper Covers That Went Down in History

Dewey Defeats Truman

Elections are notoriously unpredictable. And on November 3, 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune learned that the hard way when it printed a newspaper with the headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” before the election results were official.

Of course, that ended up being completely incorrect: President Harry S. Truman defeated his challenger Thomas Dewey by a margin of 303 to 189 electoral votes.

Two days after the election, Truman gleefully posed with the erroneous headline in a now-iconic photo.