Today in Mormon History - Jun 29

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-- 190 years ago today - Jun 29, 1836 --

A public meeting is held in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, in which the local citizens decide that to avoid a civil war the Saints must leave Clay County. They accuse the Saints of coming into the county friendless and penniless, of arriving in large numbers, of being nonslave holders, and of communicating with the Indian tribes. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Jun 29, 1846 --
[Willard Richards]
council together'O. Hyde nominated E.T. Benson to take the crown of John E. Page, & council wrote him accordingly. (2)
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-- 20 years ago today - 2006 June 29 --

The LDS Church announces that the Church College of New Zealand will not admit more students and eventually close. (3)
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1 - Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
2 - Willard Richards Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010
3 - Wikipedia, 21st Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_(Mormonism)