Today In Mormon History

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Salt Lake City President Joseph F. Smith requested me to go before the Grand Jury and give testimony...

[Brigham Young Sermon] He then discoursed on the promises of the Lord to those who kept the Word of Wisdom, spoke very pointedly against the...

Thomas Coleman murders fellow-slave Shep, Two of the shots took effect one striking and breaking the collar bone and inflicting a ...

[Quorum of Twelve] ... "Kimball said men on the Hill say Foster has spoke of Joseph as murdered, Bogus maker, counterfeiter, adu[l]tere...

Joseph meets with 32 leading Church brethren (22 of whom belong to the Council of Fifty) to make a ruling about certain Church dissidents. R...

Willam Law planned to shoot Joseph Smith but didn't get a chance [per affidavit of Jesse Price]. [Source: Tidd, N. R., "Mormon C...

William Miller's 2nd predicted date for the end of the world. Miller writes "I confess my error, and acknowledge my disappointment;...

[1st Presidency Changes] Joseph Smith, Jr. Hyrum Smith (Assistant President) Sidney Rigdon (never ordained an apostle) John Smith (never ord...

[Joseph Smith Diary] After dark were hailed by a man who desired to ride. We were checked by the Spirit and refused. He professed to be sic...

The Church announces the construction of the new twenty-eight-story Church Office Building in Salt Lake City, Utah. [Source: The Woodland...

President Young said I am going to tell you something that I have never before mentioned to any other Person ['-] I have ordained my son...

[Wilford Woodruff Journal] 17th I settled my family in Quincy & prepared myself to accompany the twelve to fulfill a certain revelatio...

Brigham Young, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, decides that the Twelve would return to Far West, Missouri, to fulfill the Lo...

Sidney Rigdon speaks in the Kirtland Temple about the redemption of Zion, and Joseph asks members to contribute all they can. They receive $...

[David O. McKay Office Journal] Met by appointment Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, President of the Brigham Young University, who took up the follo...

...Copy of the confession made by a man named A. W. Lundstrom was read, which had been sent to President [Joseph F.] Smith by Pres[iden]t. L...

Dr. George H. Brimhall, after acting for some time as temporary president of the B.Y. University at Provo was appointed permanent president ...

Apostle Rudger Clawson records in his journal: "At 8 p.m. I attended a debate at the Beaver church school building between three of the...

[Apostle Rudger Clawson Diary] .... The wind blew with such force we were obliged to stop in the road for an hour, and as we were then about...

[Brigham Young Sermon] I really wanted to give [Elder Hyde] a joke, I think I will venture to do so. In his first remarks he told us, if it ...