Today in News History

On July 10, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1806, The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. In 1890, Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. In 1921, Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1951, Rajnath Singh, Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India was born. In 1985, An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster. In 2006, A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board. In 2007, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, chancellor of Faridia University. (born 1964) passed away. In 2011, Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print. In 2013, Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (born 1922) passed away. In 2019, The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.