Today In Mormon History

[Utah] John Taylor closes Church Historian's Office to the public. [Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power...

[General] Announcement of temple to be constructed in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Delays in obtaining government permits postpones groundbreaking ce...

[General] The 140th-year-old Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square, closed since January 2005 for extensive renovation and remodeling, was r...

[General] ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS article "Donny Osmond Bounces From Bubblegum to Broadway." [Source: On This Day in Mormon History, ...

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Murdock Smith, eleven months old, dies from exposure. [Source: Proctor, Scott and Maurine Jensen, editors, History ...

[General] Times and Seasons (Nauvoo) prints the available text of what would become the Book of Abraham, facsimiles included, published by J...

[General] Joseph Smith Murdoch, adopted son of Joseph and Emma dies at eleven months of age in Hiram, Ohio. His twin sister, Julia Murdoch, ...

[General] At an interview with the First Presidency regarding the forth-coming book on "Temples," it was decided to issue an editi...

[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 l...

[General] Brigham Young "conversed about the course Jefferson Davis had taken in conducting warfare with the Federal Government, he rem...

[U.S. Religious History] In Mississippi, the "George County Times" published a letter from George County Justice Court Judge Conni...

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 28 I received 4 letters from Judge Estee 2 Webster & Henry A. Woodruff. I filled out my tax list....

[General] Joseph Smith (while living at the Johnson's in Hirum, OH) and Sidney Rigdon are tarred and feathered by Mormons Simons Rider, ...

[Lucy Mack Smith] Mary Bailey Smith, the second child and second daughter of Samuel and Mary Bailey Smith, is born. [Source: Anderson, Lavin...

[U.S. Religious History] Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of Louisiana ordered all Roman Catholic schools in the New Orleans diocese to end ...

[General] Two days after the Edmunds anti-polygamy act is signed in to law, Wilford Woodruff preaches: "However, if I were to express m...

[Brigham Young] --26-- Elder John Snider was blessed and set apart for his mission to England by President Joseph Smith and Elders Richards,...

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] March 26 1892 I went to the Office in the Morning. Met with several Persons And attended to business. [...

[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 ...

Parley Parker Pratt: Wife, Thankful, died 25 March 1837. Four children: Nathan, Olivia, Susan, and Moroni. [Source: Cook, Lyndon W., The Rev...