Today In Mormon History

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Provo I bought a dictionary, grammar, reader, and speller for my boy. I paid my taxes and got George...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th The camps were all busy this morning in preparing to leave. I saw my oxen that father And Armstrong h...

Philo T. Farnsworth makes the first electronic television transmission at his laboratory in San Francisco, California. [Source: The Woodl...

The Fancher wagon train from Arkansas, bound for California, is attacked at dawn at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah. The emmigrants form a...

[Brigham Young Sermon] After meeting the Twelve met in Council & President Young & All voted to Appoint Joseph Fielding Smith the So...

Utah Power and Light Company incorporates in Maine with at least one general authority on its board since then. [Source: Advent Adam webs...

Joseph Smith writes a long letter further discussing baptisms for the dead and eternal sealings needed to create a "welding link betwee...

- Bryan Waterman, who had written a summary about the controversy surrounding Mother in Heaven for STUDENT REVIEW in Jul/Aug 1992, is called...

U.S. President Ronald Reagan honors the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on its fiftieth anniversary of continuous weekly broadcasts with CBS Radio N...

Mormon singer and actress Shawn Southwick marries CNN broadcast interviewer Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Ziegler). Shawn Southwick (aka ...

President Smith said he left with others on Saturday morning for Iosepa Colony [Utah]. Reached there in time to attend the morning meeting. ...

8:00 am: Fancher party leaves Parowan 4:00 pm: Fancher party arrives at Cedar City 5:00 ?: Higbee attempts to arrest Fanch...

Met with 9 of the 12 [apostles] and with counsellors John W. Young & Daniel H. Wells at 10 a.m. in Endowment House a Comfortable and ret...

A letter from the First Presidency announced the discontinuance of the International Mission. Responsibility for its areas reverted to the r...

Book of Mormon witness Martin Harris, discontented after the collapse of the Kirtland Anti-Banking Society, is dropped from the Kirtland Hig...

Sheriff comes to Nauvoo to arrest Joseph Smith; Smith escapes and goes into hiding. [Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"]

[Brigham Young Sermon] Br. Brigham spoke. Showed that the Gospel was laid down in the old and new testament as plain as the map of a City. S...

Wilford Woodruff notes the cost for the yet uncompleted Manti Temple: "Total up to date $890,662.95. Almost one half of this Expense wa...

At Brigham Young's funeral "18,000 people by actual Count passed through the Tabernacle to visit the Body of President Young and se...

Elder J. Golden Kimball is killed in an automobile accident while returning to Salt Lake City from a vacation in California. [Source: The...