On 3/11 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/11

1848: Benjamin Covey is excommunicated for having sexual intercourse with two girls "less than Twelve years of age" who are his foster daughters. He is rebaptized and serves as bishop of Salt Lake City Twelfth Ward from 22 February 1849 until 1856.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1853: Church Historian’s Office records death of Ike Hatch and notes that “Bill Hickman" ambushes him in “Big Field.” Hickman later writes that LDS president expresses satisfaction for his killing a man whom “Brigham wanted me to watch.”
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1886: LDS political newspaper, the Salt Lake Herald, reports another Mormon's assault on a reporter for the anti-Mormon Salt Lake Tribune with this headline: "THRASHING A REORTER. Don Carlos Young Remodels the Phiz[sic] of C.T. Harte to Suit His Fancy." A Mormon judge fines Young $17.50 for this assault and battery.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1915: First Presidency letter informs Apostle Francis M. Lyman that Joseph F. Smith recommends "disfellowship or excommunication" for plural wives in polygamous marriages performed by John W. Woolley before his recent excommunication.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1956: David O. McKay dedicates the temple at Los Angeles, California.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1967: BYU's president writes: "Frankly, if they [general authorities] concerned themselves 1/100th as much with teachers as they do with the basketball coach, I would feel much better." Stan Watts is the NCAA Basketball Coach of the Year (1957, 1972) and inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and into Helms Hall of Fame (1972). Lavell Edwards is the NCAA Football Coach of the Year (1984). Beyond BYU, Dick Motta is the National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year (1971), and Tom Chambers is the NBA's All-Star MVP in 1987.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1969: David Ben-Gurion, Israel's former prime minister, tells Apostle Ezra Taft Benson: "There are no people in the world who understand Jews like Mormons." Benson replies: "Mr. Ben-Gurion, there are no people in this world who understand the world like the Mormons."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1973: (10-11) Major Robert Jeffrey and Captain Larry Chesley, recently released as LDS prisoners-of-war for seven years in North Vietnam, are honored in Texas and Idaho.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1987: Keith B. McMullin, director of LDS Welfare Services, testifies before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance of the Ways and Means Committee, of the U.S. House of Representatives. The subcommittee is investigating ways to improve federal assistance programs. He becomes a general authority in 1995.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1989: the Salt Lake Tribune reports that several Mormon men have telephoned death threats to Edwin B. Firmage for publicly advocating the ordination of LDS women to priesthood office. Two days earlier the Tribune reported that those remarks by Firmage, University of Utah law professor, former bishop, and grandson of former First Presidency counselor Hugh B. Brown. However, there are no church sanctions against Firmage.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1992: Counselor Gordon B. Hinckley presents a copy of the five-volumen Encyclopedia of Mormonism to the Vatican Library.
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.