Today In Mormon History

Some rank-and-file Mormons threatened to picket Benson's farewell talk at the LDS tabernacle in Logan, Utah, because his remarks "w...

[J. Reuben Clark] [Regarding Apostle Lyman's extra-marital relationship] I told Bro. Hardy I was still not satisfied that we knew all...

The first issues of the Latter-day Saints' Southern Star, a weekly Church periodical, is published in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

[Brigham Young Jr.] Left home before daylight, repaired to the Gardo House. Met Bro[ther]. Jos[eph]. F. S[mith]. Our quorum meets at 10 a...

[Hosea Stout] In a letter from George A. Smith we learn that on the 4th of July last the people of Nauvoo borrowed a cannon from Carthage...

[Anointed Quorum] Sunday prayer circle meeting at noon in the upper "assembly room" of Joseph Smith's store where "all...

[William Clayton] A.M. at the Temple Office. Bro Cutler called me aside & gave me to understand that Cahoon was fully bent on having ...

Brigham recorded his dream in which he, his legal wife, and the Prophet were traveling in a covered carriage: "Br Joseph Smith sat on ...

The first endowments for women and more for men are conducted. During this month, there are several hostile incidents: Missourians kidnap a ...

[Peter Ingersoll] "I picked up a small stone and was careless tossing it from one hand to the other. ' No, said the old man, it ...

[Leonard Arrington] I meant to record earlier that Senator Orrin Hatch told me on one occasion in general conference that he had studied ...

[J. Reuben Clark] Yesterday (November 30, 1953): I got in touch with Brother Ivor Sharp and asked him to get in touch with Rosel Hyde, Ch...

[John Henry Smith] It was decided to Issue a half Million of bonds at 6 percent for Eleven years, and fifty thousand dollars to be place...

The first Circular of Instructions on tithing settlement issued by the new First Presidency-Lorenzo Snow, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smi...

Notwithstanding Geo. R. Maxwell's protest, Geo. Q. Cannon was permitted to take his seat in Congress. [Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronol...

Joseph Smith's manuscript diary makes first mention of the Nauvoo Mansion's bar room. Joseph Smith III later reminisced that his fat...

Joseph begins his stay in Liberty jail, which lasts almost six months. The jail is 22 feet square, with walls four feet thick. The food is f...

[Leonard Arrington] I had a chance to talk with Milt Backman, author of The Heavens Resound, the Ohio experience of the church. ... Milt ...

In response to U.S. President Richard Nixon's request to conserve energy during the energy crisis, the Church announces that Christmas l...

[Wilford Woodruff] We Called upon the Presidet [Brigham Young]. We were informed that the Court was trying to get him to appear as a witn...