Today In Mormon History

Oliver Cowdery buys a 1828 H. & E. Phinney Bible with the Apocryphia at E. Phinney Bible with the Apocryphia at Egbert B. Grandin's ...

Reading standards committee ... is to pass upon and approve all materials, other than those that are purely secular, to be used by our Churc...

[J. Reuben Clark] [During a meeting with the Presiding Bishopric:] The point was raised by Bishop Richards about a brother on their payroll...

On the invitation of President Nephi L. Morris, Elder David P. Felt made this statement regarding his present situation:'While performin...

[Joseph F. Smith] There is a fund established known as the Jackson County [Missouri] Redemption Fund, the trustee of which is the trustee i...

[Brigham Young Revelation] With regard to those who wish to have new revelation they will please to accommodate themselves and call this a ...

The day after he had exacted a vote of confidence from the Nauvoo Saints, Brigham Young and the Quorum of Apostles begin to take firm contro...

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation, which was a result of the Watergate investigation, in which several Latter-day Sa...

[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] -while recuperating in Ocean Park, Calif attends Methodist Sunday School [Journals of George Alber...

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] I met with Col Isaac Trumbo for 2 Hours. He give me an account of the Great Labor He and Gen Clarkson ...

[Heber J. Grant Diary] I wonder what on earth the good is of my keeping a journal. I would dislike to be under the necessity of reading it ...

[Brigham Young Sermon] If [I] can have attention [to] preach, '"Except ye are one ye are not mine.'" ... - In a political...

A special Nauvoo conference sustains the Twelve as the acting church presidency. Some years later report witnessing a transfiguration of Bri...

[Brigham Young Journal] August the 8th 1844 this day is long to be remembered by me, it is the first time I have met with the Church at Nau...

Romania Bunnell (Pratt Penrose), later a pioneer, physician, and women's advocate, is born in Washington, Indiana. [LDS Daily, www.ld...

Joseph Smith declares that angels have flesh and bones. [Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology, Rev 01 Volume 01" http://bit.ly/tiddc...

""... one generation of homosexual "marriages" would depopulate a nation, and, if sufficiently widespread, would extingu...

The BYU Young Ambassadors perform in the People's Republic of China. [LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com ]

[President George Albert Smith] he visits with former President Herbert Hoover in SLC [Journals of George Albert Smith]

[Upon the Twelve returning to Nauvoo after Joseph Smith's death] 4 P.M. Meeting of the Twelve apostles, High Council, & High Priest...