45 years ago today - Oct 5, 1979

Hinckley, who chairs the church's Special Affairs Committee, authorizes stake presidents in Missouri and Illinois to hold anti-ERA planning meetings in church buildings. Women who are recruited to lobby or demonstrate are instructed not to identify themselves as LDS.

[Chronology, in Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, chronology by Joseph Geisner, and Lavina Fielding Anderson]