British Tabloid Newspaper The Sun Publishes its First Issue (1964)

British tabloid newspaper The Sun, published by a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., was founded as a broadsheet on September 15, 1964. The Sun was the successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after the News Corp. purchase. The Sun had the largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom, but was overtaken by The Metro in March 2018.

The paper became a seven-day operation when The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012 to replace the closed News of the World, employing some former News of the World journalists. In March 2020, the average circulation for The Sun was 1.21 million, The Sun on Sunday 1,013,777.