On 3/7 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/7

1852: Utah law allows whites to “purchase” Native Americans from Indian or Mexican slave-owners in order to prevent these captives from being killed. Purchaser must “immediateìy go” before county selectmen or probate judge who will “bind out the same, by indenture for the term of not exceeding twenty years.” Mormons are prohibited from owning Indian slaves, but can own African-American slaves.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1875: Apostle Joseph F. Smith's wife writes him that "you know how brother [Albert] Carrington thinks a deal of women." In Dec. 1882 Apostle John Henry Smith writes President John Taylor that a maid at the British Mission headquarters "found Bro. Carrington lying upon the lounge and Sarah Kirkman lying upon top of him." Upon Brigham Young's inquiry about women in 1873 and John Taylor's inquiry about Sarah Kirkman in 1883, Carrington denies serious wrongdoing. He is not excommunicated until 1885 when protests from Sarah's husband become too insistent to ignore.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1889: The New York Times gives its first theatre review for actress Maude Adams, born of "Gentile" father and Mormon mother. One of the era's most popular Broadway actresses, Maude Adams creates and repeats the title role of Peter Pan (1905, 1912, 1914, 1915).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1943: The establishment of the Navaho-Zuni Mission, the first mission in the twentieth century directed only to Native Americans. This is the original intent of the 1830 effort to proselytize among the Indians.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1944: coordinated raid by the FBI and local police to arrest polygamist men.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1959: The Church News, after twenty-eight years without advertisements, begins advertising for such diverse enterprises as music stores, mortuaries, furniture stores, insurance agencies, banks, savings and loans, camera stores, jewelers, car dealerships, travel agencies, television repair, optical shops, and movie theaters. As the largest single advertisement, American Motors president George W. Romney features himself in a one-and-three-fourths-page spread for Kelvinator appliances on 20 June 1959. The Commercial ads cease after 24 Sept. 1960.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1965: 300 protesters march to the Church Office Building on Sunday, "demanding that the Church speak out in favor of civil rights for blacks."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1970: The Church News reports that Ken Shelley and his partner have won the U.S. Figure Skating championship for pairs. They win again (1971, 1972) and Shelley also wins the men's national competition (1972). Billy and Cori-Joe Petrunik receive the gold medal as an LDS pair of figure-skaters at the Canada Winter Games (1975). Holly Cook receives the bronze medal at the World Figure Skating Championships (1990).
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.