Today in Mormon History - Dec 18

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 18 I am still at home quite sick. We had quite a snow storm. Brother Cannon & Wilken Called upon me. (1)
-- 120 years ago today - Dec 18, 1891

[Joseph Smith] Joseph attends a city council and draws up a resolution thanking James Gordon Bennett for his "very liberal and unprejudiced course towards us as a people, in giving us a fair hearing in his paper." (History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (7 volumes) 4:477-78.) (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 18, 1841

[Brigham Young Jr.] Born 18 December 1836 in Kirtland, Ohio, to Brigham Young and Mary Ann Angell, Brigham Young, Jr., was a twin; his sister Mary died at age seven. (3)
-- 175 years ago today - Dec 18, 1836

1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
3 - Utah History Encyclopedia: Brigham Young Jr., http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/y/YOUNG%2CBRIGHAM-JR.html