Today In Mormon History

[Brigham Young Revelation] With regard to those who wish to have new revelation they will please to accommodate themselves and call this ...

The day after he had exacted a vote of confidence from the Nauvoo Saints, Brigham Young and the Quorum of Apostles begin to take firm contro...

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his resignation, which was a result of the Watergate investigation, in which several Latter-day Sa...

[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] -while recuperating in Ocean Park, Calif attends Methodist Sunday School [Journals of George Alb...

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] I met with Col Isaac Trumbo for 2 Hours. He give me an account of the Great Labor He and Gen Clarkso...

[Apostle Heber J. Grant Diary] I wonder what on earth the good is of my keeping a journal. I would dislike to be under the necessity of r...

[Brigham Young Sermon] If [I] can have attention [to] preach, '"Except ye are one ye are not mine.'" ... - In a politic...

A special Nauvoo conference sustains the Twelve as the acting church presidency. Some years later report witnessing a transfiguration of Bri...

[Brigham Young Journal] August the 8th 1844 this day is long to be remembered by me, it is the first time I have met with the Church at N...

Romania Bunnell (Pratt Penrose), later a pioneer, physician, and women's advocate, is born in Washington, Indiana. [LDS Daily, www.ld...

Joseph Smith declares that angels have flesh and bones. [Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology, Rev 01 Volume 01" http://bit.ly/tiddc...

[Apostle Dallin H. Oaks] "... one generation of homosexual "marriages" would depopulate a nation, and, if sufficiently wid...

The BYU Young Ambassadors perform in the People's Republic of China. [LDS Daily, www.ldsdaily.com ]

[President George Albert Smith] he visits with former President Herbert Hoover in SLC [Journals of George Albert Smith]

[Upon the Twelve returning to Nauvoo after Joseph Smith's death] 4 P.M. Meeting of the Twelve apostles, High Council, & High Prie...

Lyman Wight: Told other apostles 7 Aug. 1844 he wanted no one's instructions except Joseph Smith Jr. 's and his only enemies were at...

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff] I spent the day in preparing to leave home to go on my long mission to England. I make a sacrafice of my all f...

A Church News article: "Asian LDS Celebrate Prioneer Day." [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [Ne...

Under the headline "Another Whipping Affair," the Deseret News reports that A. Milton Musser (the Presiding Bishopric's agent)...

[William Clayton Writings] Fortunately, on Tuesday, the 6th of August, five of the Twelve returned home, viz: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kim...