On 3/14 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/14

1850: Senator Thomas H. Benton of Missouri checks out Book of Mormon from Library of Congress. He does not return it until 3 June 1851, first national leader to voluntarily show interest in Mormon scriptures.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1887: wife of Seventy's president Abraham H. Cannon goes to "Madam Mizpah," fortune-teller. He opposes this.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1935: Utah makes unlawful cohabitation a felony. Even the federal anti-polygamy crusade of the 1880s did not do this. With the encouragement of the First President, stake president Hugh B. Brown writes this bill and Mormon legislators pass it.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1942: The First Presidency orders bullet-proof glass for windows of its office to protect against an air attack by the Japanese.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1952: A First Presidency letter states that the minimum age for male missionaries is twenty and for female missionaries is twenty-three.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1992: All twenty members of BYU's Department of Sociology sign a protest against ecclesiastical sanctions against those who have participated in a Sunstone symposium as a scholarly forum. Four days later BYU's Daily Universe denies that Sunstone is academic.
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.