[Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, Appendix 5, Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1848-1996, http://amzn.to/extensions-power]
130 years ago today - Mar 31,1882
[Utah] John Taylor closes Church Historian's Office to the public.
30 years ago today - Mar 31, 1982
[General] Announcement of temple to be constructed in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Delays in obtaining government permits postpones groundbreaking ceremony until 1996.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
5 years ago today - Mar 31, 2007
[General] The 140th-year-old Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square, closed since January 2005 for extensive renovation and remodeling, was rededicated by President Hinckley. During the renovation, the pillars were strengthened and fortified to meet seismic code, and the roof was strengthened with the addition of steel trusses. Seating capacity in the building was reduced about 1,000 to 3,456.
[Source: Church News: Historical Chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58765/Historical-chronology-of-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints.html]
30 years ago today - Mar 30, 1982
[General] ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS article "Donny Osmond Bounces From Bubblegum to Broadway."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
180 years ago today - Mar 30, 1832
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Murdock Smith, eleven months old, dies from exposure.
[Source: Proctor, Scott and Maurine Jensen, editors, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced]
170 years ago today - March/May 1842
[General] Times and Seasons (Nauvoo) prints the available text of what would become the Book of Abraham, facsimiles included, published by Joseph Smith, in Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith publishes Articles of Faith in response to an editor‘s request.
[Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984]
180 years ago today - Mar 29, 1832
[General] Joseph Smith Murdoch, adopted son of Joseph and Emma dies at eleven months of age in Hiram, Ohio. His twin sister, Julia Murdoch, also adopted by Joseph and Emma, lives until 1880.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
100 years ago today - Mar 29, 1912; Friday
[General] At an interview with the First Presidency regarding the forth-coming book on "Temples," it was decided to issue an edition of 5000 copies and to place order at once for paper and plates.
[Source: James E. Talmage, Diary]
150 years ago today - Mar 29, 1862
[Heber C. Kimball Revelations] G.S.L. [Great Salt Lake] City, March the 29, 1862
It was told me the time was near when I Heber should be lifted up in the Eyes of Israel and Daniel H. Wells should see sorrow Even as he had caused sorrow to come on his servent HCK becaus he sat on me and oppressed me when he had power to do me good. Even so Amen. HCK.
[Source: "H. C. Kimball Memorandum" book, On the Potters Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball, Stanley B. Kimball, editor, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - Mar 28, 1862
[General] Brigham Young "conversed about the course Jefferson Davis had taken in conducting warfare with the Federal Government, he remarked that if Jefferson Davis had adopted the Guerrilla mode of fighting he would have been more successful."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
10 years ago today - Mar 28, 2002
[U.S. Religious History] In Mississippi, the "George County Times" published a letter from George County Justice Court Judge Connie Wilkerson which read, in part, "In my opinion, gays and lesbians should be put in some type of mental institution." Because of the bias expressed in such a statement, an ethics violation complaint was filed against Wilkerson.
[Source: Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline]
120 years ago today - Mar 28, 1892
[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 28 I received 4 letters from Judge Estee 2 Webster & Henry A. Woodruff. I filled out my tax list. I wrote to Newton, David M. B. Webster. We had a hard snow storm.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
180 years ago today - Mar 27, 1832
[General] Joseph Smith (while living at the Johnson's in Hirum, OH) and Sidney Rigdon are tarred and feathered by Mormons Simons Rider, Warren Waste, Eli Johnson, Edward Johnson, and John Johnson upon rumors of Smith's intimacy with Eli Johnson's sister Nancy Marinda Johnson, age16. The mob also brings Joseph Smith to Dr. Dennison for castration but the Dennison refuses to perform the operation. Next day, Sidney Rigdon is crazed and wants to kill Joseph Smith with his razor.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
175 years ago today - Mar 27, 1837
[Lucy Mack Smith] Mary Bailey Smith, the second child and second daughter of Samuel and Mary Bailey Smith, is born.
[Source: Anderson, Lavina Fielding, Editor, Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, 2001, Signature Books, http://bit.ly/lucys-book]
50 years ago today - Mar 27, 1962
[U.S. Religious History] Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Louisiana ordered all Roman Catholic schools in the New Orleans diocese to end their policies of racial segregation.
[Source: Cline, Austin, History of American Religion: Timeline]
130 years ago today - Mar 26, 1882
[General] Two days after the Edmunds anti-polygamy act is signed in to law, Wilford Woodruff preaches: "However, if I were to express my feelings to Congress and the leading men of our nation, and to our enemies and the whole Christian world, I would say, do not weep for us-and we are sensible of the fact that they will not-but rather weep for yourselves and your children, for as sure as the Lord lives the evils that men seek to bring upon us, will return in due time upon their own heads, heaped up, pressed down and running over. For it is an eternal law, and a law by which we are governed, that what measure we mete, shall be measured back to us again."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
170 years ago today - Mar 26, 1842
[Brigham Young] --26-- Elder John Snider was blessed and set apart for his mission to England by President Joseph Smith and Elders Richards, Page and myself.
April 6, 7, and 8.-- I attended a special conference.
On the 8th, in company with Elders Kimball, O. [Orson] Pratt, Richards, Woodruff, George A. Smith, and Wight, we ordained 275 elders, being the most ordained in one day since the foundation of the Church.
[Source: Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).]
120 years ago today - Mar 26, 1892
[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] March 26 1892 I went to the Office in the Morning. Met with several Persons And attended to business.
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
150 years ago today - Mar 25, 1862
[General] Brigham Young has four teeth extracted by his secretary who is a dentist as well. In the evening he tells friends that some years ago while "with the Prophet Joseph a Dentist endeavored to extract a tooth the pain being very severe he fainted and dreamt he was in hell and saw the Devils."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
175 years ago today - Mar 25, 1837
Parley Parker Pratt: Wife, Thankful, died 25 March 1837. Four children: Nathan, Olivia, Susan, and Moroni.
[Source: Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith]
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