Today In Mormon History

[Marriner W. Merrill] Went to President's office to meeting with Twelve and First Presidency where matters relating to Apostle Thatch...

[George Q. Cannon] The four artists whom we had assisted to go to Paris, and who, with Brother Dan Weggeland, had been selected to paint ...

[George Q. Cannon] I obtained a printed copy of the new Edmunds bill, which is a most infamous and outrageous attack upon our liberties. ...

[Luke Johnson] I learned that Sheriff Kimball was about to arrest Joseph Smith, on a charge of illegal banking, and knowing that it would...

Fleeing from creditors, civil authorities, and dissenters, Joseph Smith, deeply in debt, leaves Kirtland for Far West, Missouri. The day he ...

Joseph flees from Kirtland on his horse, "Old Charley," with Sidney Rigdon and rides 60 miles the first day. According to one stor...

Let Women Pray campaign launches This campaign encouraged individuals to write letters to General Authorities asking them to schedule a ...

The first-ever global leadership training meeting in the Church by satellite transmission was held for priesthood leaders and transmitted in...

Second counselor Gordon B. Hinckley pays document dealer Mark Hofmann $15,000 for alleged Joseph Smith letter about his treasure digging act...

BYU student and returned LDS missionary Thomas Gregory admits to Congress that he was recruited by Watergate co-conspirator E. Howard Hunt t...

[John Henry Smith] I had two dreams. One was a brood of chickens and the old hen had been killed by a dog and torn to peices and a half g...

[George Q. Cannon] There was a meeting of Cannon, Grant & Co. at 8:30 this morning. We attended to a good deal of business, and decla...

[Franklin D. Richards] At 10 met with the same Apostles as yesterday'-10 of us all & hope that we may soon have Brothers Brigham ...

President Young Preached in the Afternoon. He read the Vision [D&C 76] ... He said all Children who died in childhood would go to the Ce...

... Talking, of the law made by the High Council, authorizing Bishop and Police to take away the liquor from individuals & let them have...

The Quorum of the Twelve wrote a proclamation to the Saints, to observe the 17th inst. as a day of humiliation, fasting, prayer and thanksgi...

At a meeting in the home of Joseph Sr. and Lucy, Joseph Jr. gives instructions to the brethren, then assures them that his life is safe for ...

Some Mormon members of the Birch Society criticized the First Presidency for its January 1963 statement. For example, one pro-Birch Mormon i...

[Rudger Clawson] The legislature is about to convene, and it is expected that Elder Reed Smoot will be elected United States Senator. A s...

Delegate John T. Caine presented the constitution of the proposed State of Utah, with a memorial asking for admission into the Union, in the...