Today In Mormon History

* I [Mark Garff] asked the President to listen me out and see if I was foolish in what I was suggesting. He said he would be glad to listen ...

Got up at half past 6 o'clock. After breakfast we all went to the [Logan] Temple. I was ordained an elder by Bro[ther] A. Peterson in be...

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Liverpool I sent a necktie to each of my wives. [Source: Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, St...

Several apostles resist Young's renewed proposal to organize a First Presidency. [Source: Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Or...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] The subject of Appointing three of the Twelve As the Presidency of the Church. Br Young said by persuing ...

(John A. Widtsoe) : Died in Salt Lake City at age eighty; buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. [Source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker...

The First Presidency announces to the Saints in North America that the regular December fast day will be dedicated to relieving the sufferin...

The First Presidency were waited upon at their office this morning by Bro[ther]. J. E. King, a Cherokee Indian belonging to the Church, who ...

[John Nuttle Diary] [Thanksgiving Day] I attended at the Endowment House and assisted took the part of clothing Jehovah. [Source: Diary E...

[David O. McKay Office Journal] Setting apart Bro. Ezra Taft Benson and blessing in his responsibilities as Secretary of Agriculture of the ...

Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith held a trial at his house that lasted all day concerning the unequal distribution of provisions among the tem...

[Joseph Smith Diary] November 28th [1832] This day I have [spent] in reading and writing. This Evening my mind is calm and serene for which ...

[1st Presidency Changes] Spencer W. Kimball Marion G. Romney Gordon B. Hinckley (Counselor) Death of N. Eldon Tanner [Source: Wikipedia, ...

[Utah] New York Metropolitan Museum of Art gives to LDS church the original Egyptian papyri upon which Joseph Smith based "Book of Abra...

The first entry in Joseph Smith's daily diary (first person, in his own hand) reads: "Oh may God grant that I may be directed in al...

Joseph Smith writes (in a ledger) that when he was 16, the Lord appeared and said his sins were forgiven. [Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mor...

[D and C] Doctrine and Covenants 85: Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, November 27, 1832. HC 1: 298-299....

The First Presidency to-day appropriated the sum of $150 at the request of Elder F[erdinand]. F. Hintze for the reprinting of his tract, ...

Patriarch Hyrum Smith appoints a man to spy on suspected polygamists in order to accuse them before the Nauvoo high council. By May 1843 Kim...

[Brigham Young] --26-- I was suddenly attacked with a slight fit of apoplexy. Next morning I felt quite comfortable; but in the evening, at ...