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-- 190 years ago today - Jun 15, 1834 --
While on the Zion's Camp march, Joseph Smith received word that Daniel Dunklin, governor of Missouri, would not fulfill the expectation to reinstate the Saints to their lands in Jackson County, Missouri. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - Jun 15, 1844 --
Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was at home examining Benjamin West's painting Death on the Pale Horse, which had been in his reading room for three days. (1)
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-- 180 years ago today - 1844 15 Jun. --
[Joseph Smith]
The Presiding Patriarch publishes an announcement signed as "HYRUM SMITH, President of the Church." (2)
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-- 180 years ago today - Jun 15, 1844. Saturday. --
[William Clayton Journal]
A.M. conversing with Dr. [Joseph] Wakefield and others in the Bar Room, [Joseph Smith] telling a dream concerning his father killing a man who attempted to stab him. He also spoke concerning key words. The g[reat] key word was the first word Adam spoke and is a word of supplication. He found the word by the Urim and Thummim. It is that key word to which the heavens is opened.
A.M. at President Joseph's. 2 brethren ... saying that old Col. Williams' Company had been to demand their arms and they wanted to know if ... they must yield them. Joseph told them not to do it while they lived.
Various reports have come stating that the Warsawites have ordered the Saints to leave forthwith and threatening pretty bad. (3)
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-- 110 years ago today - Jun 15, 1914; Monday --
Sat during the forenoon and early part of the afternoon in council with the Twelve. We found it necessary to take action against one of our brethren. Donald A. McGregor ... was disfellowshipped from the Church for disobedience to the rule and order of the Church in the matter of illegal marital relations [plural marriage]. (4)
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-- 95 years ago today - Jun 15, 1929 --
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir begins radio broadcasts.
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1 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith, http://byustudies.byu.edu
2 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
3 - George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton
4 - James E. Talmage, Diary
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