On 11/3 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 11/3

1857: safe conduct pass signed by Brigham Young that bearer “is hereby granted permission to pass freely and safely through this Territory on his way to California.” Since early 1850s there are claìms that it is dangerous for Mormons to attempt to leave Salt Lake City for the East without a pass from Brigham Young.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1888: Apostles Francis M. Lyman and John W. Taylor begin meetings with members of Canada's parliament and cabinet and with Premier John A. Macdonald himself. Canadian government informs them that it doesn't care if Mormon settlers are polygamists, but a man can have only one wife in Canada. Apostles agree to this condition.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1896: Utah's first state election uses the "Australian ballot" which guarantees confidentiality of a person's vote. Martha Hughes Cannon is elected as a Democratic member of the Utah State Legislature and defeats her own husband who is a Republican candidate. She is the first woman in the United States to serve as a state senator. When a newspaper reporter asks how she, as a "modern woman," can be a plural wife, Cannon replies: "If her husband has four wives, she has three weeks of freedom every single month."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1908: George Reynolds is legally committed to the Utah Insane Asylum, the first Mormon general authority to be hospitalized in a mental institution. The previous June, the First Council of the Seventy recommended that Reynolds be sent to the Oregon "sanitarium" because of his "physical and mental condition." It is unknown if he actually spent time in the Portland asylum, but Reynolds is a patient in the Utah asylum until 7 Feb. 1909. He dies six months later.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1956: A Church News full-page repudiation of Annalee Skarin's religious claims, "Self-Styled 'Translated' Person Does Another Disappearing Act." Skarin's book 'Ye Are Gods' is a metaphysical extension of her early Mormon beliefs, yet relatively few followers know about her LDS background. Likewise, Church of Scientology's members (including Hollywood movie stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta) are generally unaware of the Mormon Fundamentalist background of their current leader Heber C. Jentzsch (Scientology convert in 1961 and church president since 1981).
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1978: Democratic president Jimmy Carter signs the repeal of the provision in the 1862 Morrill anti-polygamy law which prohibits the church from owning more than $50,000 worth of real estate in U.S. territory. LDS leaders ask Congressmen to enact this as a protection for the LDS temple in American Samoa, yet one of the bill's Democratic co-sponsors is Roman Catholic Dennis Deconcini of New Mexico.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1992: Olene S. Walker is elected as Utah's Republican lieutenant governor, the highest elective office a woman has achieved in the Utah state government.
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.