Today In Mormon History

[George Q. Cannon] I had my throat examined to see if there was anything like diphtheria. I did not know but I might have contributed con...

[John Henry Smith] I spent most of the day at the office with the brethren and in the evening attended an underground gathering and had a...

Apostle Orson Pratt tells his legal wife, Sarah, that he will spend equal times with all his wives. She later says the her marriage ended on...

[Heber J. Grant] I learned that Cannon, Grant and Co[mpany] had presented their petition to Pres[iden]t [Wilford] Woodruff asking him to ...

[George Q. Cannon] I went into the President's room, and was met very cordially by President Cleveland ... I said that I could assure...

Church Historian's Office records death of Ike Hatch and notes that "Bill Hickman" ambushes him in "Big Field." Hick...

Benjamin Covey is excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who are his foster d...

Joseph said he had tea with his breakfast. His wife asked him if [it] was good. He said if it was a little stronger he should like it better...

(10-11) Major Robert Jeffrey and Captain Larry Chesley, recently released as LDS prisoners-of-war for seven years in North Vietnam, are hono...

[J. Reuben Clark] Mark Garff'Came in about wisdom of furnishing FBI with photos etc. of Denmark. We gave them names of our missionari...

This war which has cast its shadow over all the world seems to get darker each day. The wickedness of man is great. The atrocities committed...

The first polygamous marriage since 1898 for a non-resident of Mexico performed by stake president Anthony W. Ivins, by written authorizatio...

Colonel Patrick Edward Conner, commander at Ft.Douglas in Salt Lake City reports to his superiors: "Flag yesterday was the first raised...

Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy. He appears before a federal judge and is released on $2000 bail but charges are later dismissed.

Congress approves the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which cedes much of Mexico's western territory, including Utah, to the United States....

Fifteen-year-old Thomas Morgan says that Orrin Porter Rockwell told him "Joseph had taught that it was right to steal . . . which was t...

William W. Phelps and John Whitmer were excommunicated from the Church by the Council at Far West, Missouri. Marcellus Cowdery was disfellow...

David O. McKay tells the president of the University of Utah that it "is an LDS Institution." [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extension...

[Anthony Ivins] No nonpayers [tithing] in Bunkerville. No users of tobacco among young people and only 4 among older men. [Anderson, E...

[Wilford Woodruff] ... [in] the afternoon the flag was raised upon Presidet Youngs House for a signal to gather together. All armed Men a...