Today In Mormon History

The members of the Mormon Battalion have a surprise run-in with wild bulls at a crossing of the San Pedro River. A handful of battalion memb...

[Polyandrous marriage] Apostle Wilford Woodruff, as the officially appointed "Church Historian" recorded the following in his ...

[Wilford Woodruff] ... I went up to the house of God to worship & O what a meeting. May it be Printed upon my heart as a memorial forev...

Henry B. Eyring is inaugurated as the ninth president of Ricks College.

[David O. McKay] I was very gloomily impressed with Dr. [James E.] Talmage's attitude toward and remarks on the question of Univ[ersity...

Orson Pratt sermon on First Vision: "Here was Joseph Smith, a boy…he was only between fourteen and fifteen years of age…Would he stand ...

[Wilford Woodruff] I spent the Evening in President Youngs Office & met with the regency & they voted to adopte pitmans Phonetic le...

African American Thomas Coleman brutally murdered for "meddling with white women" [Source: http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/Ch...

[Brigham Young] The doctors and priests of the day send more to death and hell than anywhere else. About one in a million may get some glor...

[Hosea Stout] Today I made myself a pair of Leggins after the real rude Indian fashion which was of more real service against the "chi...

Church website initiated at lds.org . [Source: Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://lds.net/forums/topic/106...

On 9 December 1941 Henry H. Arnold, commanding the United States Army's Air Forces, directed that military resources be dispersed inland...

[George F. Richards] Attended temple meeting at 8:15 a.m. and the Weekly Council meeting at 10:00 a.m. The latter continued until about 5 P...

Apostle [Francis M.] Lyman. ... There are people who seem to think that it is their business to regulate the church the stake, or the ward w...

[Heber J. Grant] The house was full. Many ladies & gentlemen having to stand. I was ashamed of myself for not giving some lady my seat....

[Hosea Stout] This morning about three oclock I was called up by S. A. Dunn one of the police then on guard. He said that there was a diffi...

At 11:30 this forenoon I was ordained an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ ... Before proceeding with the ordination, President Smith asked ...

James E. Talmage is ordained an apostle. Although Apostle Orson Pratt had self-taught interests in mathematics and astronomy, Talmage is the...

While in the Endowment House President Heber C Kimball said that God had revealed to him that whare A Blessing was sealed upon him by the Ho...

[Patriarchal Blessing] Abel Butterfield. (Given by Joseph Smith, Sen.) " ... thou shalt be a mighty Man in the earth--the earth sh...