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Sent To The Printers Too Soon

In the 2016 United States presidential election, the magazine Newsweek printed a special edition with the title "Madam President" (with Clinton's face on the cover) and sent them to stores. Following Donald Trump's upset victory, they had to recall those copies.


Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/madam-president-newsweek-copies-sale-online-buyer-beware-n690411

Titanic Sinking; No Lives Lost

Source: Wikimedia

In 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune printed nearly 150,000 papers with the erroneous headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman"1 . Needless to say, Dewey didn't win the presidential election.

Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman#/media/File:Dewey_Defeats_Truman.jpg)