Today In Mormon History

In response to U.S. President Richard Nixon's request to conserve energy during the energy crisis, the Church announces that Christmas l...

[Joseph Smith] Joseph and the other prisoners begin their trip to the Liberty jail. During this time former apostle Wm. E. McLellin and othe...

[Mark Hofmann] Hofmann calls Michael Marquardt and tells him he has just found a Martin Harris letter. He reads the letter to Marquardt. ...

[Utah] Presidents Wilford Woodruff and George Q Cannon meet with three apostles and James E Talmage: "That there will also be daughters...

[Apostle Marriner W. Merrill Diary] Met and talked with the First Presidency. Got my son Heber's mission changed from Samoa to Europe a...

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Presidents W[ilford] Woodruff, G[eorge] Q. Cannon and Jos[oseph] F. Smith, L[orenzo] Snow, F[ranklin] D. Ri...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29 + I went over Jordon rabbit hunting to Keep Thanksgiving and it was a vary exciting day. [Source: W...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] ... I spent the evening with President Young & the Committee on the Deseret Alphabet. [Source: Wil...

Joseph Smith tells a meeting: "The State rights doctrines are what feed mobs. They are a dead carcass--a stink, and they shall ascend u...

Joseph Smith reads a letter to be sent to the Green Mountain Boys, with an appeal and detailing part of the Mormon's history. Parley P. ...

Deseret News becomes daily paper. Begins 4-color weekly Sunday news rotogravure magazine supplement. [Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media ...

The magnificent building subsequently known as the Granite Stake tabernacle, located on the corner of State and 14th South streets, was open...

Pres[iden]t. Lorenzo Snow, as President of Zion's Savings Bank, was served by a deputy- marshal with papers of garnishment, garnishing a...

[Apostle Franklin D. Richards Diary] ... the organization last evening of a Pioneer light & power company to utilize Ogden River. Pres[i...

[Joseph Smith] Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Sidney Rigdon, Lyman Wight, Caleb Baldwin, and Alexander McRae are ordered to the jail in Liberty, Cl...

U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah. [Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical...

Young Men‘s Mutual Improvement Association (YMMIA) officially adopts the Boy Scout program. [Source: Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History...

The Pioneer Electric Power Company was organized, with Geo. Q. Cannon as president. [Source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

[Brigham Young] I attended prayer meeting in the evening at President Joseph Smith's. Bishop N. [Newel] K. Whitney and wife were anointe...

[Utah] Corporation of the President is incorporated, becoming the successor of the Trustee-in-Trust as center of church financial operations...