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Oct 28, 2025, 7:28:51 AM (12 days ago) Oct 28
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Historic events in New Mormon History on 10/28
1905: after a week of Quorum of the Twelve meetings so secret that no official minutes are kept, apostles John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley write formal resignations due to their participation in post-Manifesto polygamy. Resignations are held in reserve unless considered necessary to save the church from a U.S. constitutional amendment or to save Apostle Reed Smoot from explusion from the U.S. Senate.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1965: Twelve students (at the invitation of BYU's president) bring their own rock music and demonstrate contremporary "fad dances" for general authorities in the church administration building. Apostle Joseph Fileding Smith says, "I don't know anything about them, and want to see them." Afterwards Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley exclaims, "Nothing like this has even happened in this building before!" Not long afterwards BYU more strictly enforces its ban against contemporary "rock" dancing.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1974: Missionary companions Gary S. Darley and Mark F. Fischer are murdered in Texas by an LDS convert who had returned to his Pentecostal church. In its most sensational coverage ever, the Church News reports that the "body parts" of the missionaries are discovered on 11/13 and that the murderer is sentenced to death in 1975 for killing the missionaries and "cutting up their bodies with a saw." In 1977, murderer successfully appeals his conviction due to an illegal search, but remains in prison on other charges until his parole in 1988.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1993: Financed by LDS headquarters and coordinated by resident member of the Tabernacle Choir, the Hanoi Opera House performs Handel's "Messiah," sung in English by Vietnamese and accompanied by the National Vietnam Symphony Orchestra.
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.
1905: after a week of Quorum of the Twelve meetings so secret that no official minutes are kept, apostles John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley write formal resignations due to their participation in post-Manifesto polygamy. Resignations are held in reserve unless considered necessary to save the church from a U.S. constitutional amendment or to save Apostle Reed Smoot from explusion from the U.S. Senate.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1965: Twelve students (at the invitation of BYU's president) bring their own rock music and demonstrate contremporary "fad dances" for general authorities in the church administration building. Apostle Joseph Fileding Smith says, "I don't know anything about them, and want to see them." Afterwards Apostle Gordon B. Hinckley exclaims, "Nothing like this has even happened in this building before!" Not long afterwards BYU more strictly enforces its ban against contemporary "rock" dancing.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1974: Missionary companions Gary S. Darley and Mark F. Fischer are murdered in Texas by an LDS convert who had returned to his Pentecostal church. In its most sensational coverage ever, the Church News reports that the "body parts" of the missionaries are discovered on 11/13 and that the murderer is sentenced to death in 1975 for killing the missionaries and "cutting up their bodies with a saw." In 1977, murderer successfully appeals his conviction due to an illegal search, but remains in prison on other charges until his parole in 1988.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
1993: Financed by LDS headquarters and coordinated by resident member of the Tabernacle Choir, the Hanoi Opera House performs Handel's "Messiah," sung in English by Vietnamese and accompanied by the National Vietnam Symphony Orchestra.
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.
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