1834 - In a response to Lyman Wight teaching that all sickness and cures were of the devil, the Prophet Joseph taught all disease is not of the devil and that if someone had faith to be healed, let them use it. However, if any believed that herbs, vegetables, medicines, etc. could help heal the sick, it would be proper to use them. He also sent Dr. Frederick G. Williams from Kirtland to Cleveland, Ohio, to help in caring and administering to the sick who had the plague in that city.
1838 - Two boys, sons of Gardner Snow and Frederick M. Vanleuven, were born in the Kirtland Camp. The decision was made to continue their journey to Missouri as soon as possible.
1840 - Benjamin Boyce and Noah Rogers escape from a Missouri Jail and return to Nauvoo. Brother Boyce records a testimony of their kidnapping, beating, and torture by the hands of a mob.
1843 - Brigham Young's daughter, Mary Ann Young, age six, died in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the same day her father arrives in New York during his mission to the east. The Prophet Joseph received a letter from Mr. J. Hall of Independence, Missouri, "breathing hard things against us as a people. I gave instructions to have them copied with some additional remarks, and sent to Governor Ford" (
History of the Church, 5:538).
1927 - Thomas S. Monson, sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1999 - The Spokane Washington Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley.
2009 - The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple is dedicated by President Thomas S. Monson on the first of three days of dedication services. On the third day, August 23, the dedication services were broadcast by satellite to stake centers in Northern Utah.
2016 - The Sapporo Japan Temple is dedicated by President Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. All sessions were broadcast to meetinghouses throughout Japan, enabling thousands of Latter-day Saints to participate.
