Today In Mormon History

[Anointed Quorum] Prayer circle at the Mansion House in the evening, "29 present," anointing and endowment for Mercy R. Fieldin...

Hyrum Smith and Amasa M. Lyman are added to the group of prisoners. A long court-martial is held, which lasts until midnight. During this ti...

On this Friday night, a mob moves to attack the Colesville Branch, which is located on the prairie about 13 miles west of Independence. Two ...

Alvin Smith, Joseph Smith's older brother, comes into the house in great pain. He is taken sick and dies 18 days later after an "em...

John Taylor, later the third President of the Church, is born in Milnthorpe, England. [LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com ]

Meridian Magazine ("LDS Magazine") publishes an online article, "Are You a Liberal Mormon?" by Joni Hilton. Due to a lar...

The Missionary Training Institute president (a son-in-law of Apostle Harold B. Lee) expressed concern about covert efforts to convert LDS mi...

Meridian Magazine ("LDS Magazine") publishes an online article, "Are You a Liberal Mormon?" by Joni Hilton. Due to a lar...

The Church News reports that 70 percent of Gallup Survey respondents have "a highly favorable" view of LDS, and only 10 percent ha...

First Presidency announces emeritus status for general authorities due to age, physical infirmity, or other reasons. Members of First Quorum...

[Leonard Arrington] This morning at 9:00 a.m. the executives of the Historical Department were invited to meet with the First Presidency ...

Joseph Fielding Smith ... wrote to Senator Harding on 30 October: "I think it is time that Brother Benson forgot all about politics an...

Student conflict erupted at the University of Utah over Ezra Taft Benson's speech to the New Orleans Stake against federal integration o...

[George F. Richards] Elders Jos[eph] F. Smith Jr & Stephen L. Richards spent an hour with me in going over some suggestions I have to...

Elders B.F. Duffin and Chas. A. Haacke were taken out of the Methodist Episcopal church at Henry, Coddington Co, S.D. (where they were sleep...

Brigham Young's diary states: "Monday evening Baptized Sisters Cuoub [Auga Adams Cobb] & Hari[e]tt Cook." Two days later J...

Haun's Mill Massacre. At about four P.M. approximately 240 men ride up to the small community of Haun's Mill (which has fewer than 1...

The Saints receive an offer from lawyers Wood, Reese, Doniphan, and Atchison to defend the Saints for the sum of one thousand dollars (two h...

President McKay mentioned another matter which he said is one of great importance, and that is the new method of presenting the Endowment in...

[George F. Richards] I spent the day at the Temple. Jos[eph] F. Smith Jr. & Stephen L. Richards spent two hrs. with me in the Temple ...