Today In Mormon History

William E Mclellin: Dictated revelation 10 Feb. 1847 commanding re-establishment of church under leadership of David Whitmer [Source: Qui...

The Mormons, in association with some non-Mormon allies in Geauga county) attempted for a second time to secure a bank charter for the [Kirt...

Joseph Fielding Smith dedicates the temple at Provo, Utah. General authority Alvin R. Dyer reports that he "clearly saw [deceased] Pres...

[Anthony Ivins] In the absence of President Grant from the city, I am taking the liberty of answering the questions contained in your lette...

Zion's Securities Corporation, is to own and manage church real estate properties. [Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Powe...

President Joseph F Smith Dear Bro one of our recently returned missionary from the North Western States is advicatin...

The First Presidency sends its secretary "to go quietly to Logan and work to make the Republican ticket successful in the approaching c...

[Abraham H. Cannon] In the afternoon spent a short time at the [Church] President's office where the advisability of dividing the Summi...

[J.D.T. McAllister] Request permission to raise potatoes on Temple ground wrote to President Woodruff asking the privilege to use a sm...

Brigham Young preaches, "to hang a man for such a deed would not begin to satisfy my feelings." He speaks of discovery that Jean B...

Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, with the Tabernacle Choir performing in the opening ceremonies to an estimated TV viewing au...

Apostle George F. Richards and Seventy's president Antoine R. Ivins begin seven days of meetings with disaffected LDS Mexicans who deman...

You [Samuel O. Bennion] speak of "the assertion made by Brigham Young that Jesus was begotten of the Father in the Flesh by our father ...

The descendants of Ham may receive baptism and confirmation but no one known to have in his veins negro blood, (it matters not how remote a ...

Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner states that an angel came on three occasions with a drawn sword. "An angel came to him [Joseph Smit...

Lorenzo Snow is released from prison after the U.S. Supreme court overturns his conviction on polygamy charges due to a technicality. He had...

[Brigham Young] Thus you may continue and trace the human family back to Adam and Eve, and ask, are we of the same species with Adam and Ev...

[Brigham Young] "Now take a person in this congregation who has knowledge with regard to being saved in the kingdom of our God and Fat...

President Young in speaking of a Blank in the History said that it was during that time in the fall & winter of 1844 that Sidney Rigdon ...

[Brigham Young] Jesus Christ has passed through all the trials and experience the same as we have. It would not be prudent for me to say th...