Today In Mormon History

Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 64, a revelation containing the Lord's law of forgiveness and the warning...

D&C 64] "... I the Lord willeth to retain a strong hold in the Land of Kirtland for the space of five years in the which I will not...

Anti-Masonic martyer William Morgan is released from jail in Canandaigua, 12 miles from the Smith farm. Joseph Smith would be jailed there ...

Heber J. Grant and his wife August act as proxies for the vicarious endowment of Warren G. Harding and his wife and for their proxy sealing....

President Cannon related some of the experiences of the brethren on their visit to California. He feared that the Elders were wasting valuab...

U.S. president Benjamin Harrison grants a pardon to fellow Republican and second counselor Joseph F. Smith for outstanding warrants for his ...

[Brigham Young] General Doniphan said in St. Louis, that, '"if he had one thousand Mormon Boys, the same as the Mormon Battalion...

The few remaining Saints at Nauvoo, of whom only about one hundred and twenty-five were able to bear arms, were attacked by an armed mob, ab...

An early "killing" frost comes to Norwich, Vermont which cuts down those few crops that survived earlier snows that fell in Jul an...

Comedian, writer, and actor Steve (wild and crazy guy) Martin remarks at a Toronto Film Festival press conference concerning rumors that he ...

[J. Reuben Clark] Mark Peterson called about the Dream Mine situation; they have information that a Joseph Geertsten, of McKay Ward, in H...

Apostle (and trained scientist) John A. Widsoe writes from England that he thinks James E. Talmadge's speech "The Earth and Man...

[Brigham Young Jr.] I dreamed last night that I was called home to assist in choosing a president of the Church. Pres[ident]. [Wilford] W...

Elder Preston Thomas inquired whether members of the school should be dealt with for breaking the rules of the school especially in relation...

Brigham Young has conference covenant to accept and obey Word of Wisdom as commandment and to accept excommunication for non-payment of tith...

Colleen K. Hutchins is named Miss America. Other Mormon winners of national and international pageants are May Louise Flodin (Miss Sweden an...

[J. Reuben Clark] Vetterli'Repeated what I said to Commissioner McConkie and Mayor Jenkins and told him he must decide how best to ha...

... members of the Twelve held an informal meeting at which the matter of handling the plural marriage cases in the Church was discussed i.e...

Isaac C. Haight dies in Arizona, fully reinstated in the church sixteen years after his excommunication for ordering the Mountain Meadows Ma...

David O. McKay is baptized in Spring Creek near Huntsville, Utah; he is the first future President of the Church to be baptized on his eight...