175 years ago today - 1844 7 May.

[Joseph Smith]
William Law and associates receive the printing press on which they plan to publish the Nauvoo Expositor.

[Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power]