Today in News History

On July 10, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 645, Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace. In 1877, Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (died 1935) was born. In 1902, Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958) was born. In 1939, Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (died 1999) was born. In 1962, Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (born 1875) passed away. In 1985, The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. In 1997, In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. In 2006, Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist rebel leader (born 1965) 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 2014, Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (born 1939) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.