On 3/31 in New Mormon History...

[New Mormon History]

Historic events in New Mormon History on 3/31

1858: ex-apostle Lyman Wight dies in Texas from alcoholism and opium addiction.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1882: John Taylor closes the Church Historian's Office to the public.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1883: Apostle Brigham Young Jr. tells a stake priesthood meeting: "There are many girls in Utah who have never had an offer of marriage from a man in the Church... Girls who marry outsiders are not worthy of the Sacrament."
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1978: An announcement of the end to quarterly stake conferences, which are impractical due to the geometric expansion of the church population.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1982: The announcement of the temple to be constructed in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Delays in obtaining government permits postpone the groundbreaking ceremony until 1996.
Source: See The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

1990: Conference sustains the first general authority of black African descent, Second Quorum of the Seventy's Helvecio Martins of Brazil (who is released in 1995). Chieko Nishimura Okazaki is sustained as the first counselor in the general presidency of the Relief Society, the first non-Caucasian member of an auxiliary presidency in Mormon history.
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.