170 years ago today - 1844 26 Aug.

The apostles privately excommunicate [hopeful successor to Joseph Smith] James Strang, a repetition of the Michigan branch's action. He is publicly excommunicated again in the Nauvoo temple 1 Feb. 1846.

[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]

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