Today In Mormon History

[William Clayton] At 20 minutes to 2 P.M. we arrived and halted on Corn Creek, having travelled 21 1/4 miles. A number of the Pauvan Indian...

[George Q. Cannon] There had been a woman baptised who belonged to the <other> Church; she called upon Bros. Napela and Uaua to admin...

Wm. Willes reported 189 members of the Church in Calcutta and vicinity, India, of whom 170 were "Ryots," who previously professed ...

[Wilford Woodruff] Vengance is mine. I will repay saith The Lord. [Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes...

[Wilford Woodruff] May 15th 1842 Sunday True information has just reached us that the Noted Governor Boggs of Missouri who By his orders ex...

[Hyrum Smith] Becomes master pro tem of the Nauvoo Masonic Lodge. [Source: Jeffrey S. O'Driscoll, Hyrum Smith: A Life of Integrity, ...

There is public criticism in the Netherlands of the Mormon practice of baptism by proxy after a Dutch newspaper revealed May 9 that several ...

Aaronic Priesthood and Young women changed to simply Young Men and Young women, and a General Presidencies of each program reinstated. [S...

A bishops central storehouse, the second in the Church and first outside of Salt Lake City, opened at Colton, Calif. [Source: Church News...

[J. Reuben Clark] [In conversation with F. B. Whitman, president of Western Pacific R.R. regarding a replacement on the board of directors:...

[Joseph Smith] Saturday 14. City council. Advocated strongly the necessity of some active measures being taken to suppress. houses & a...

Nauvoo endowment introduces same grips, tokens, signs, and penalties as the Masonic ceremony except one. [Source: David Buerger, Mysteri...

Apostle Dallin H. Oaks testifies before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights in support of the proposed Religious ...

The B.H. Roberts Society presents a forum entitled, ,Is Salvation a Laughing Matter? or Laugh Now. . ..It May Be Straight Beyond the Gate....

May Presidency letter that "fluoridation of public water supplies to prevent tooth decay" is one of the "non-moral issues...

Pres[ident]. Jos[eph]. F. Smith narrated the personal conversation he and Elder Orson Pratt had with William McLellan, in 1878, who had once...

"The murder of Apostle Parley P. Pratt in Arkansas by disgruntled legal husband of his last plural wife. Newspaper accounts of Pratt...

[Wilford Woodruff] I dreamed last night we had arived at our Journeys end whare we were to build up a stake of Zion. As we came onto the pl...

Joseph Smith writes to a creditor: "you will probably be apprised of the failure of myself and brethren to execute our designs in payin...

The Church Board of Education approves the "seminary near Granite High" in Salt Lake City. An innovation recommended by the Granit...