On 3/15 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/15

1877: Romania Bunnell Pratt is the first Mormon woman to obtain an M.D. degree (from Women's Medical College in Philadelphia). On 1 Nov. she opens a school of obstetrics in Salt Lake City where she trains Mormon midwives and nurses for twenty-two years.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1892: depositions in Salt Lake City about Nauvoo polygamy and other matters for the so-called "Temple Lot Case." Depositions begin on 18 Apr. at Independence, Missouri.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1947: The Church News reports that Charles Davidson, now a full-time missionary, has received a contract from International Business Machines (IBM) to purchase his invention for $5 million, payable over several years. Before his mission Davidson attended Massachuesetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the Westinghouse science scholarship.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1949: Thirty-one-year-old Harold Brown arrives in Buenos Aires as the new president of the Argentina Mission. He is a former FBI agent with experience as a U.S. Vice-Consul in Uruguay. Suspicious Argentine authorities arrest him temporarily on 9 Sept. This is the beginning of strategic church assignments given to Mormons with training in U.S. intelligence and security services.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1954: O. Meredith Wilson is appointed as president of the University of Oregon. Other Mormons appointed as university presidents outside of the intermountain states are Vern O. Knudsen (UCLA, 1959), G. Homer Durham (Arizona State University, 1960), O. Meredith Wilson (University of Minnesota, 1960), Stanford Cazier (California State University at Chico, 1971), E. Gordon Gee (West Virginia University, 1981), David P. Gardner (University of California system, 1984), E. Gordon Gee (University of Colorado, 1985; Ohio State University, 1990), V. Lane Rawlins (Memphis State University, 1990).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1956: A First Presidency letter about the large number of converts "to be absorbed in the existing stake and mission organizations of the Church. Their assimilation into these organizations has come to be a matter of grave concern." This statement refers to the 21,669 convert baptisms in 1955. In 1995 there are 304,330 convert baptisms.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1966: In a special meeting President McKay, second counselor N. Eldon Tanner, and apostles Joseph Fielding Smith and Mark E. Petersen agree to counter Apostle Ezra Taft Benson's preaching of "John Birchism at stake conferences" and his efforts to align the LDS church with the John Birch Society during the upcoming conference. As a result the Church News publishes Petersen's unsigned editorial on 26 Mar. that the LDS church has "nothing to do with Birchers... avoid extremes and extremists." Apostle Harold B. Lee's conference talk also attacks the Birch Society and indicates that unnamed Benson is not in "harmony" with his quorum.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1970: The first stake is formed in Asia (Tokyo, Japan).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1977: A First Presidency letter that "missionaries should not engage in excessive or lengthy fasting."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn



To see the whole database in chronological order, Click here. Note that I'm not done entering all the information. While most of these facts come from Quinn's book, I'm seeking the primary sources for each, but this will take a long time.