On 4/10 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 4/10

1865: special conference agrees to build a telegraph line in Utah. At the same time the Black Hawk War with Native American Indians commences in central Utah and continues for two years.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1875: Brigham Young changes the ranking in the Quorum of the Twelve and demotes Orson Hyde and Orson Pratt beneath John Taylor for the first time in nearly thirty-seven years. This makes Taylor the senior-ranking apostle after Young. This action also releases Hyde as president of the Quorum of the Twelve, an office to which he had been publicly sustained since 27 Dec. 1847. However, because of their mutual dislike Young declines to sustain Taylor in Hyde's former office either privately or publicly.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1880: presiding apostle John Taylor reconvenes the Council of Fifty for the first time in nearly twelve years.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1882: unsuccessful convention seeking statehood.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1890: both the U.S. Senate and House propose bills to disfranchise all Mormons. With delaying tactics by Mormon allies in Congress, these two bills make slow progress into the summer, but the Supreme Court decision in Feb. 1890 assures their eventual enactment.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1910: stake president writes of church members "complaining on account of so many Smiths being chosen." A recent conference sustained John Henry Smith as the second counselor and President Smith's son, Joseph Fielding Smith, as the new apostle. In addition to appointing his son Hyrum M. an apostle in 1901, Smith also appointed his son David A. Smith to the Presiding Bishopric in 1907.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1947: Eldred G. Smith is ordained patriarch to the church, fourteen years after the Quorum of the Twelve recommended him. He is a nuclear engineer for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee which helped usher in the atomic age at Hiroshima, Japan.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1956: non-LDS governor of Utah, J. Bracken Lee, speaks of his counsel to prominent non-Mormons: "I said to them you are never going to have any success in Utah unless you let the leaders of the Church give you some advice."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1975: Twins Daniel and David Geslison, age twenty-one, begin service as missionaries in Iceland, two days after returning from their first two-year missions, Daniel from Japan and David from Korea. On 8/20/1977, the Church News refers to their recent "return home" from missionary service in Iceland.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1990: Changes in the temple ceremony promote gender equality, de-emphasize symbolic violence, and eliminate the Protestant minister from the endowment drama. This becomes nation-wide news in special reports by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and in an Associated Press report published in local newspapers.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1996: Mormon investors announce they are purchasing Southern Virginia College (SVC), four months after it loses accreditation as a two-year school and one month before its closing, to turn it into a Mormon school without official sponsorship by LDS headquarters. The likely success of this unprecedented idea is indicated by its announcement in the Church News and choice of David Ferrel as the college's new president. He is a senior employee of recently appointed general authority Richard B. Wirthlin who formally endorses the school. Having arranged for LDS congressmen to pressure the accrediting association to reconsider its decision, the newly installed Mormon trustees announce that SVC will be a four-year college with a starting freshman class of 400 students who meet the same standards of conduct and entrance requirements as at BYU.
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.