Today In Mormon History

Paul H. Dunn gives a talk on his "life experiences." He claims that when he was a bat boy he pitched to Lou Gherig and Babe Ruth i...

[Joseph Smith] Sidney Rigdon gives Smith a set of "grammer [sic] lessons" and then they continue preparing the early church histor...

[Frank Evans] President McKay came to my desk and asked for 5 Shares of Hotel Utah stock to qualify him for director. Handed to Brother Claw...

First Presidency letter endorses "Morality in Media Inc., with headquarters in New York City. The Church is represented on its board of...

President J. Reuben Clark introduces a new financial reorganization plan for the Church, emphasizing the point that every financial operatio...

Joseph C. Kingsbury participates in a "pretend marriage" to seventeen-year-old Sarah Ann Whitney order to help Joseph Smith disgui...

[Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29 <Monday> We arose in the morning & persued our journey. We passed through Sheepscott, wisscassett, B...

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Ogden In the Congress today the statehood Question was sprung and matters at once got pretty warm. R...

About ten mounted ruffians (soldiers) from Camp Douglas made an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap a young woman in G.S.L. City, and take her to...

Elders Hosea Stout, James Lewis and Chapman Duncan arrived at Hong Kong, as the first Latter-day Saint missionaries to China. Soon afterward...

William Clayton had learned of plural marriage at least by March 7, 1843, when Joseph Smith told Brigham Young to give Clayton a "favor...

[Joseph Smith] Smith and Sidney Rigdon begin preparing a church history, with George W. Robinson as scribe. This history describes the most ...

[Frank Evans] President David O. McKay and Edwin G. Woolley, Jr., Treasurer of the Layton Sugar Company, came in and signed a note to the Fi...

Language in the temple endowments that bound Saints to pray for divine revenge for the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum was toned down. [Source...

[Brigham Young Sermon] [On birthday of Joseph Smith]... they have succeeded in killing our Prophet and Patriarch - it has rolled faster in ...

[Wilford Woodruff Journal] 23 I Preached at Mr John M Sullers. The Power of God rested upon me. I spoke in tongues & Interpeted & so...

A revelation changes the official name of the church, this time to "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." Kirtland dis...

San Diego California Temple; Location: San Diego, California, US; Announcement: 7 April 1984; Dedication: 25 April 1993 by Gordon B. Hinckle...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] The Presidency and Apostles then took up the question of where the money was to be secured to make the purcha...

[Wilford Woodruff Journal] 25 I visited the Saints from house to house & Prayed with them that they might be strengthend for earth &...