180 years ago today - 1834 18 Mar.

Joseph Smith secretly ordains Lyman Wight as "Baneemy" which Wight understands as a military calling.

[Source: 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]