Today In Mormon History

[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] Honeyville, Box Elder County President Rudger Clawson and his councilors. Madsen and Charles Kelley ...

Hyrum Smith writes to Brigham Young and explains the recent great excitement around Nauvoo with the mass meetings by mobs drawing up resolut...

[Letter from (Uncle) Jessee to Hyrum Smith] ... [Joseph Smith] says this is my god which brought me out of the land of Vermont--if it be a g...

President [N. Eldon] Tanner presented the request of Elder Theodore M. Burton [of ] the Genealogical Department for instructions in the matt...

Hirini Whaanga, Mere Whaanga, Apikara Whaanga and four children sailed from Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Utah. these were the first Maor...

President John Taylor's secretary records: ". . . after due consideration of the whole case the First Presidency decided that Siste...

I will preach on the plurality of Gods. * * * Our text says, "And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father....

[Joseph Smith] (Zion's Camp) One man swears to kill the Mormons or else the buzzards can eat his flesh. His boat sinks, he drowns, and h...

"Martin Harris having boasted to the brethren that he could handle snakes with perfect safety, while fooling with a black snake with hi...

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir begins radio broadcasts. [Source: The Woodland Institute 'On This Day Historical Database,' http://ww...

Sat during the forenoon and early part of the afternoon in council with the Twelve. We found it necessary to take action against one of our ...

[William Clayton Journal] A.M. conversing with Dr. [Joseph] Wakefield and others in the Bar Room, [Joseph Smith] telling a dream concerning ...

[Joseph Smith] The Presiding Patriarch publishes an announcement signed as "HYRUM SMITH, President of the Church." [Source: Qui...

Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was at home examining Benjamin West's painting Death on the Pale Horse, which had been in his reading roo...

While on the Zion's Camp march, Joseph Smith received word that Daniel Dunklin, governor of Missouri, would not fulfill the expectation ...

LDS missionaries and those of the Jehovah's Witnesses were expelled from Ghana, a western Africa nation where 6,000 Church members live....

The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution against ordaining women in the Baptist Church. [Source: Cline, Austin, History of Ame...

Nelda Karen Cotwell of Layton, Utah, is convicted, in Laredo, Texas, of conspiring to illegally bring Mexican infants into the United States...

Billy Casper is first LDS golfer to win U.S. Open, which he wins again in 1966. Casper is admitted to World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978 and to...

[David O McKay Diary] This morning at 8 o'clock, met with the Temple Committee, consisting of the Presidency, President Joseph Fielding ...