Today In Mormon History

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 4 + I Called upon Brother Barlow to get a set of teeth made for my upper Jaw. A new dentist Brother Sharp...

Apostle Amasa M. Lyman begins acting as medium in spiritualistic seances in San Bernardino, California. After being dropped from Quorum of T...

[Joseph Smith] Stake president John Smith writes that "the Danites met the third time in Adam on diahman [Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri] si...

Alexander Campbell describes to his readers his ecstatic experience of seeing three "kingdoms" of individuals who have received Go...

- Faithful Mormon Melissa Lott (Smith Willes) testifies under oath in Temple Lot case that she had been Joseph's wife "in very deed...

[Heber C. Kimball] 3 August the 3. We left Pitsburgh by coash [coach] to Cumberland, [Maryland]. 125 [miles] most of the way on Rayl [rail] ...

Orson Pratt publishes history or origins of Mormon Church, describes first vision as two identical personages. [Source: Tidd, N. R., ...

[Same-Sex Marriage] Ward training meetings take place outlining the roles individual members are to play as foot soldiers in the moral war a...

False revelations-Dream mines, etc.-- also July 4, 1914. Seemingly from this editorial note [from the Deseret News] the "Warning...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] I have and do pray with all my heart and soul that the Lord will keep our Banks from failing. I feel that not...

At reconvened School of the Prophets, President John Taylor and several apostles state their preference for conferring only Aaronic priestho...

Joseph Smith claimed to receive two divine revelations. The first instructed the Mormons in Jackson county that the planned Independence Tem...

[U.S. Religious History] Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" opens to widespread complaints and protests over it...

RLDS First Presidency statement published in SAINT'S HERALD entitled, "Our Position on Race and Color:" "The internal rac...

First Presidency statement that Latter-day Saints should not dance with "grotesque contortions of the body such as shoulder and hip sha...

[Francis M. Lyman] Pres[ident] [George Q.] Cannon and Heber J. Grant returned from England the former and the latter from New York. Their mi...

A fire destroys most of Alta, including the breweries and saloons. The California Brewery reopens in a tunnel on the south side of the canyo...

[William Clayton Journal] ...Bagby said he had done more for Joseph than for any other man in the country. Joseph reiterated that Bagby was ...

[Same-Sex Marriage] Bloggers at Feminist Mormon Housewives ( http://www.feministmormonhousewives.org/?p=272 ) begin discussing in earnest th...

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE reports that LDS missionary-couples in Nauvoo, Illinois have worked "for 88 consecutive hours without sleep" to ...