Today In Mormon History

[Brigham Young] We talk about fellowshipping and disfellowshipping men for certain acts. Suppose we were to adopt the constitution of our U...

Patriarchal Blessing of Israel Calkins given by Joseph Smith, Sr. ... Thine eyes shall see the Lord in the Flesh and thou shalt go forth in ...

An announcement of the "Improved missionary discussions [which] put aside the specific dialogue of the past. Missionaries will now use ...

[David O. McKay, Hugh B. Brown, N. Eldon Tanner, and Joseph Fielding Smith] From time to time we receive requests from couples who desire t...

[David O. McKay] ... a single living woman may be sealed while living to a deceased man, a friend but not a husband; ... the Church does n...

Neal A. Maxwell, later the Church commissioner of education and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah...

[Heber J. Grant] I have unbound faith in the success of the business and I should be delighted to see the benefits go to the Church. I feel...

A Democratic convention, held in Salt Lake City, placed the first Democratic ticket for Salt Lake County officers in the field, after the di...

Concerning the Custer Massacre a few days before, the Deseret News editorializes that it is doubtful if possession of the Black Hills countr...

Patriarchal Blessing of Mary Hubbard given by Charles W. Hyde ... It is your privilege to behold the coming of Messiah when Zion shall be re...

[Brigham Young, same speech as above] I am in [-] you will be in all, be content to begin with and [-] would be a little paradise, a little...

The Blacks cannot take the curse off themselves until God takes it off. Make all men saints and they will treat each other well. So the Lama...

[Wilford Woodruff] 6th It was A warm day. We continued our journey And camped at night at the same place whare I camped in the grass with B...

[Marion G. Romney] After we had set the last group apart, Brother Lee and I left the office about 4:30 and called on President Clark on our...

The First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Presiding Patriarch beginconsistently using "water and not wine" in their...

Presidt Young [in Soda Springs] got a telegraph [-] from presidt Wells that all right in the Celebration of the 4. Our Enemies were Defeated...

Brigham Young's office journal records: "President Young mentioned that he enjoyed his dancing last evening it caused him to perspi...

George A. Smith writes an obituary of Lucy Mack Smith for 'The Mormon', then being published in New York City, in which he praises L...

Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs at the United States Bicentennial. [Source: Wikipedia, 20th Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org...

Elder Melvin J. Ballard famously prophesies that the Church in Latin America will grow "as an oak grows slowly from an acorn."