Today In Mormon History

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs in a nationally broadcast church service on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for September 11...

BYU Political Science professor Ray Hillam is charged, by BYU president Ernest L. Wilkinson, with being pro-communist and disloyal to BYU at...

[George F. Richards] Attended regular weekly council meeting in temple. At this meeting J Leo Fairbanks, the artist showed to the Presidenc...

[Hyrum Smith] Administers to William McLellin, who is instantly healed. [Source: Jeffrey S. O'Driscoll, Hyrum Smith: A Life of Integ...

Colleen K. Hutchins is named Miss America. Other Mormon winners of national and international pageants are May Louise Flodin (Miss Sweden an...

[J. Reuben Clark] Vetterli'Repeated what I said to Commissioner McConkie and Mayor Jenkins and told him he must decide how best to hand...

... members of the Twelve held an informal meeting at which the matter of handling the plural marriage cases in the Church was discussed i.e...

Isaac C. Haight dies in Arizona, fully reinstated in the church sixteen years after his excommunication for ordering the Mountain Meadows Ma...

David O. McKay is baptized in Spring Creek near Huntsville, Utah; he is the first future President of the Church to be baptized on his eight...

Amanda Inez Knight (Allen), later one of the first single women missionaries called by the Church, is born in Payson, Utah.

[Brigham Young] Br. Dimmock [Huntington] also stated the Indians occasionally had what they called a whore dance, which was lewd and wrong....

B[righam] Young said I will put the motion. Will the Sisters + vote to quit using tea & coffee? The Brethren have voted not to use tobac...

President Young said, there would be traveling Bishops, to visit the Bishops in their respective wards, to see that they do their duty, and ...

At a BYU devotional address President Spencer W. Kimball preaches: "We recommend that people marry those who are of the same racial bac...

Corporation of the Presiding Bishop organized. [Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon Histo...

[John Henry Smith] Salt Lake City It is announced from Cape May that Jos. F. Smith is amnestied by the President [of the United Stat...

a game of chess by telephone was played between Salt Lake and Ogden on Sunday. Salt Lake won. This is probably the first instance of telepho...

[Hosea Stout] Monday September 7th 1846. Went to see President Young after breakfast and reported what [had] been done which he said was al...

[Leonard J. Arrington] "It was in the early 1950s, when graduate research at BYU built up, that Brother Lund put the clamps on researc...

Deseret Management Corporation becomes the holding company for the church's income producing enterprises. "There was criticism from...