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Time Line1909 - October 13: Herbert Lawrence Block is born in Chicago 1927 - September: Enrolls at Lake Forest College, Chicago 1929 - April 24: First cartoon appears in the Chicago Daily Tribune 1933 - Moves to Cleveland to join the Newspaper Enterprise Service 1940 - Wins National Headliners' Club Award 1942 - Wins his first Pulitzer Prize for work concerning World War II and its economic consequences 1943-1945 Serves in the U.S. Army; produces cartoons and articles and edited a "clipsheet" 1946 - Joins the Washington Post, from which he never retires 1949 - Wins Heywood Broun Award from the American Newspaper Guild for outstanding journalistic achievement 1950 - Has a one-man show at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, attended by President Harry S Truman 1950 - March 29: Coins the term "McCarthyism," using the word as a label on a tar barrel 1954 - Wins his second Pulitzer Prize for work concerning the death of Stalin and his successor Malenkov 1956 - Wins National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award 1957 - Wins National Cartoonists Society Editorial Cartoon Award 1960 - Wins National Cartoonists Society Editorial Cartoon Award 1966 - Herb Block designs a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 175th anniversary of the Bill of Rights 1973 - With Washington Post colleagues, wins the public service Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watergate scandal 1979 - Wins his third Pulitzer Prize for work concerning politics and campaign spending in 1978 1979 - Wins National Cartoonists Society Gold Key Award (National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) 1994 - Is awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 1995 - Wins Thomas Nast Award from Overseas Press Club 1999 - Receives an honorary Doctor of Arts from Harvard University 2000 - Named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress 2000 - Library of Congress mounts a retrospective exhibition of Herblock's work August 26, 2001 - Herblock' s last cartoon is published in the Washington Post October 7, 2001 - Herb Block dies of pneumonia at age 91 2002 - The Herb Block Foundation sets up its offices 2002 - Entire Herbert L. Block archive is donated to the Library of Congress by the Herb Block Foundation, containing over 14,000 original cartoon drawings and 50,000 preliminary rough sketches, as well as photographs and manuscripts 2004 - Herblock Prize for excellence in political and editorial cartooning is established and first award is made |