Today in Mormon History - Jul 03

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-- 185 years ago today - Jul 3, 1841 --

At the Independence Day celebration the Nauvoo Legion comes out in parade and Joseph gives a patriotic speech, closing with the words, "I would ask no greater boon, than to lay down my life for my country." (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Jul 3, 1846 --
[Wilford Woodruff]
At 10 oclock Br Pratt returned in company with Br Benson who had been nominated to fill the place [apostleship] And wear the Crown of John E Page. (2)
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-- 40 years ago today - Jul 3, 1986-Thursday --
[Leonard Arrington]
Harriet and I arose early and at 8:30 we were on our way to Susan and admiring a little dog. Elder Packer ... gushes: 'He sits, he heels, he rolls over. He never gives you any trouble,'" which Oaks thinks would make "The perfect historian!" (3)
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1 - History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (7 volumes) 4:382, in Conkling, Christopher J., Joseph Smith Chronology
2 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
3 - Confessions of a Mormon historian : the diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997, Gary James Bergera, editor, Signature Books, 2018