On 3/3 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/3

1849: at Council of Fifty meeting, Brigham Young speaks concerning thieves, murderers, and sexually licentious: "I want their cursed heads to be cut off that they may atone for their crimes." Next day, Council agrees that man has "forfeited his Head," and decides it would be best "to dispose of him privately." Instead, they allow him to live.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1887: Edmunds-Tucker Act disincorporates the LDS church, provides for confiscation of its assets and properties, dissolves the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, disfranchises all Utah's women, and dissolves Utah's militia ("Nauvoo Legion").
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1901: Lorenzo Snow promises the Salt Lake temple workers that "some of us would go back to Jackson Co., [Missouri]."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1953: The First Presidency secretary answers a Mormon's inquiry about receiving blood transfusions from African-Americans: "The L.D.S. Hospital here in Salt Lake City has a blood bank which does not contain any colored blood." This represents a five-year effort to keep the LDS Hospital's blood bank separate from the American Red Cross system in order "to protect the purity of the blood streams of the people of this Church" (Counselor J. Reuben Clark's phrase).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1965: Apostle Harold B. Lee is "protesting vigorously over our having given a scholarship at the B.Y.U. to a negro student from Africa. Brother Lee holds the traditional belief as revealed in the Old Testament that the races ought to be kept together and that there is danger in trying to integrate them on the B.Y.U. campus."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1971: The demolition begins of the old tabernacle at Coalville, Utah, formerly on the national register. Mormons and non-Mormons (primarily non-residents of Coalville) waged a court battle and petitioned the First Presidency not to destroy this meeting house now regarded as obsolete by church authorities. The First Presidency publishes a statement in defense of the demolition, which attracts enough attention to merit a feature story in the New York Times.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1995: The death of Howard W. Hunter, whose presidency is the briefest in Mormon history-less than nine months. This is half of the previously shortest tenure served by any LDS president: Harold B. Lee's seventeen months and nineteen days.
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.