Today In Mormon History

[Leonard Arrington] Ron Walker, who was at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion in 1976, said Bill Nelson orchestrated the movement to ban S...

The last number (No. 26, Vol. 57) of the Deseret Weekly was issued. [Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

[Wilford Woodruff] I feel to acknowledge the Hand of God in all these things. The Lord has sustained us through the war ["Utah War...

[Hosea Stout] Also passed a law granting a bounty of one dollar each on wolf skins and for J. M. Grant to recieve them. [Diaries of Hose...

[Brigham Young] [We need a] petition for a territorial government each year until the honest in heart had been gathered out of the nations ...

[Anointed Quorum] Sunday prayer meeting in the upper room of Joseph Smith's store; "Joseph not present," and "Brigham Yo...

Joseph Smith tells the saints that they should retain their lands in Missouri and seek legal redress against their enemies. If they should n...

Missionary couples Rendell N. and Rachel Mabey and Edwin and Janath Cannon, the first missionaries to Ghana, arrive in that country and soon...

Church News article "Mormonism in The New Germany," enthusiastically emphasizes parallels "between the LDS Church and some of...

[J. Reuben Clark] Proposed Statement of President McKay to State Legislators. In the early 1930's the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Pres[iden]t. [Wilford] Woodruff & members of the Council decided to advise the brethren who had resigned their stan...

[John D. Lee, Council of Fifty] The council of YTFIF [Fifty] again met at the House of H[eber] C. Kimballs, & took into consideration t...

The inaugural volume of the much-anticipated Joseph Smith Papers, released today, brings to light a project that has been under way for many...

[Hosea Stout] This fore noon I arrived at home or what more properly might be said where once was my home. Here, not 14 months since wa...

[George Albert Smith] [Excommunicated apostle] Richard [R. Lyman] applied for [re-]Baptism. [George Albert Smith Diary, as quoted in Min...

Bro[ther] Parkinson reported the condition of things in the Oneida [Idaho] Stake ... prospective nonpayment of tithings by the brethren, who...

I, William Stafford, having been called upon to give a true statement of my knowledge, concerning the character and conduct of the family of...

The Nauvoo City council passes a law stating that any officer bringing a writ against Joseph Smith based on a Missouri charge will be subjec...

[Phone call, Ezra Taft Benson to First Presidency secretary Clare Middlemiss] "Clare, President McKay has told me on various occasions ...

The West German government grants the Church Koerperschaft des Oeffenlichen Rechts (Corporation under Public Law), giving it equal rights wi...