On 7/7 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 7/7

1863: Brigham Young speaks about the future complex of twenty-four temples in Independence, Missouri: "A tower upon Each then a main high Tower in the center [with] gardens on the top of the Towers with fruit & flowers growing thereon." On 8 July 1861 he said this temple complex will cover ten acres of land.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1901: Lorenzo Snow presides at the Salt Lake temple's monthly fast meeting, "and Sister Lillie T. Freeze sang in tongues."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1903: Apostle Rudger Clawson tells other apostles "that the practice of self-abuse existed to an alarming extent among the boys in our community who attended the district schools, and also, he doubted not, the church schools. He felt that the boys and girls should be properly instructed in regard to this evil."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1906: ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii is baptized. Although she is the first monarch to convert to Mormonism, she also joins other churches in her last years.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1909: Joseph F. Smith, son of Hyrum Smith who led a similar effort in 1842-43, instructs the Twelve to investigate and suppress new plural marriages.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1912: Alma W. Richards is the first Mormon athlete to receive national recognition. He wins a gold medal (high jump) at the Olympics, and in 1954 is inducted into Helms National Hall of Fame and the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame. Other Mormon Olympic medalists are Lloyd Butler (1948, gold, eight-oar rowing crew), Jean Saubert (1964, two bronzes, skiing), H. Blaine Lindgren (1964, silver, track hurdles), 17-year-old Jackson S. Horsley (1968, bronze, swimming), L. Jay Silvester (1972, silver, discus), Kresimir Cosic of Yugoslavia (1972, bronze; 1976, silver; 1980,gold, basketball team), Bo Gustafsson of Sweden (1984, silver, 50K walk), Tauna Kay Vandeweghe-Mullackey (1984, silver, volleyball team), Cory Snyder (1984, silver, baseball team), Peter Vidmar (1984, two gold and one silver, gymnastics), Troy Dalbey (1988, two gold, swimming), Mike Evans and James Bergeson (1988, silver each, water polo team), Tory Tanner (1988, gold, basketball team), Kristine Quance (1996, gold, swimming) (likely more since Quinn compiled this list). Jean Saubert is inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame (1976), Peter Vidmar is inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1995). Although not Olympic medalists, Alberta Williams Hood is inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame (1967), and Pedro Velasco into the National Volleyball Hall of Fame (1970). In addition, the following Olympians receive their medals before joining the LDS church: Robert Detweiler (1952), Paula Meyers Pope (1952, 1956, 1960), Jack Yerman (1960), Kresimir Cosic (1968), and Mark Schultz (1984). The 1976 Olympics also gives a gold medal (decathlon) to RLDS Bruce Jenner. He is inducted into the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame (1980), and into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (1988). Three Mormons become medalists at the Olympics for Physically Disabled (Para-Olympiad) in 1976. Michael R. Johnson, double-amputee Vietnam veteran, wins four medals (two gold, one silver, and one bronze). Curtis Brinkman, double amputee since age sixteen, wins three medals (one gold, two bronze), and paraplegic Garry Treadwell wins two medals (silver and bronze). Michael P. Schlappi and John C. Brewster win gold medals at the Para-Olympiad (1988), and Schlappi wins a gold medal again (1992). Mandy Kunitz, Down-syndrome Mormon, wins her gold medal at the Special Olympics (1996). Other LDS athletes win medals at the World Games: Keith Russell (silver, diving, 1973), Wayne Young (gold, gymnastics, 1974), Richard George (bronze, javelin 1975), Becky Hamblin (bronze, tumbling).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1934: The Deseret News Church Section article "The Catawba Indians - A Mormon Tribe" notes that 95 percent of this South Carolina tribe converted after their first contact with LDS missionaries fifty-one years earlier. The tribe's chief Samuel Blue is also president of the Catawba branch.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1946: less than one year after Americans dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, U.S. serviceman Boyd K. Packer performs the first baptism of Japanese converts in Japan.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1972: The Quorum of the Twelve sustains Harold B. Lee as church president with N. Eldon Tanner and Marion G. Romney as counselors and ordains Lee. From 1918 until this day, all LDS church presidents are born in Utah. Lee is the first LDS president born in Idaho and the first to reach adulthood in the twentieth century. Romney is the first member of the First Presidency born outside of the U.S. since Charles W. Nibley's death in 1931.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1990: The end of the Wimbledon tennis tournament where LDS player Rick Leach and partners win men's doubles and mixed doubles. At Wimbledon in 1995 Leach wins his "29th doubles title."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1995: Award-winning author Brian Evenson announces his resignation as BYU English professor to join the faculty at Oklahoma State University. Because of an anonymous student's complaint to an apostle about the violence and "darkness" in Evenson's published work, BYU's officials were requiring him to cancel his most recent book contract with New York publisher Knopf or face termination. BYU's spokesperson comments: "The University's sense of mission and Brian's sense of mission were quite divergent."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1996: The Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges recertifies BYU's accreditation for ten years, despite the committee's acknowledgement of faculty complaints that academic freedom is severely limited on this LDS campus.
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.