175 years ago today - Jun 15, 1850

Equipment arrived in 1849, and editor Willard Richards, not coincidentally a counselor to Brigham Young, produced the first number of the weekly Deseret News, Utah's first newspaper, on 15 June 1850 [containing astrological almanacs].

[Utah History Encyclopedia: Journalism, http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/]

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