Today In Mormon History

Joseph Smith believed that William Miller's predicted day of advent was set for April 3, 1843. On the preceding day, therefore, April 2...

Final issue of SEVENTH EAST PRESS includes an april-fool insert parodying the DAILY UNIVERSE. Headline is "ROTC reveals plan to deploy ...

My wife, Jane and I went to fast meeting.... At the meeting the gift of tongues was used wherein the Lord said that when the destroyer shou...

Alice Louise Reynolds, later an important writer, librarian, and early female professor at Brigham Young University for more than forty year...

[Joseph Smith] The town of Far West begins to develop, with 1,500 Saints, 150 houses, 6 stores, and 1 schoolhouse, which is also used for a ...

In the early spring of 1838 an effort was made by the local authorities [in Kirtland] to draw the line of fellowship on practices which then...

[Joseph Smith] The comments of the Mormons in Missouri about freed slaves are misunderstood by other Missourians, raising hostility in the a...

President Spencer W. Kimball announced that semiannual rather than quarterly stake conferences would be held starting in 1979. [Source: C...

[Francis M. Lyman] Bro[ther] [B. H.] Roberts case was talked over and he declared himself in full harmony with the Presidency and Twelve upo...

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Presidents W. Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, Jos. F. Smith, Franklin D. Richards, Brigham Young, F. M. Lyman, ...

Apostle Brigham Young Jr. tells stake priesthood meeting: "There are many girls in Utah who have never had an offer of marriage from a ...

Gov. Stephen S. Harding pardoned all the Morrisites, who had been convicted of resisting the officers, etc. [Source: Jenson, Andrew, Chur...

[Wilford Woodruff Journal] 31 Walked to Mr Ebenezar W. Carvers. Found his wife confined to her bed with a fever. I Prayed for her & sh...

[President Heber J. Grant Diary] Brother Anderson and I went upstairs, and I dictated a number of items for a conference talk. I dictated al...

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Brigham Young, F. M. Lyman, Abraham H. Cannon and myself went to Dinwoodeys and picked out some furnature f...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] I read a letter from Nellie Woodruff At Ashleys Fork giving an account of 2 Men killing an Animal in the...

[Brigham Young Sermon] President Brigham Young Said I thought while looking at the school Children to day that I should see a much larger as...

[Hosea Stout Diary] Ten Pawnees here now. N wind[.] Today Prest Yound requested the police to go with him to Conference on the 6th of April ...

Wilford Woodruff reports, "I was still sick in the morning. I had Prayers & was much better after my wife laid hands on me and aske...

On 29 March 1933 the National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers was incorporated as a state society in Salt Lake City, Utah. [Source: ...