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Date: April 01, 2014 01:17PM
Apr 1, 1805 - Joseph Smith is conceived. He is born nine months later on Dec. 23.
Apr 1, 1842 - Joseph Smith publishes what is to become the official version of the first vision in a special "Aprille Foole's" edition of the TIMES AND SEASONS.
Apr 1, 1836 - Parley P. Pratt's Patriarchal blessing pontificates, "Brother Parley P. Pratt, thou shalt pick pecks of pickled peppers, pecks of pickled peppers shalt thou pick." After a period patriarchal prophecy proceeds when Parley P. Pratt, in Pittsburg, picks a plethora of pickled peppers producing pecks of pickled peppers piled profoundly.
Apr 1, 1844 - Orson Pratt applies for a patent for his invention of the dribble glass. The invention is a popular source of amusement at the Mansion House and at ward parties throughout Nauvoo. A disgruntled William Law later publishes scurrilous accusations regarding Joseph Smith's use of the whoopie cushion.
Apr 1, 1877 - Brigham Young reveals that his Adam-God doctrine was due to a defective seer stone. Brigham's seer stone had suffered a chip in the upper right corner in a fall during the trek to Utah. He tells his secretary, L. John Nuttall, that he regrets any misunderstandings that may have resulted from the error.
Apr 1, 1885 - George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith fight each other in an eight-round boxing match in the upper room of the Logan Temple. This is the last known instance of the use of temple boxing matches to settle doctrinal disputes among the apostles.
Apr 1, 1902 - The First Presidency quietly announces changes in the presentation of the Endowment ceremony. The ceremony is reduced from 12 hours in length to 9 hours. The main changes involve the removal of calisthenics, the change from Aramaic to English in the veil ceremony, and the elimination of the time-consuming practice of tattooing during the initiatory phase.
Apr 1, 1904 - Joseph F. Smith prophesies from the pulpit that, "The day will come when our people will number among a majority in Utah." Since Mormons had been a majority in Utah for 57 years not many in the congregation are very impressed.
Apr 1, 1924 - Gordon B. Hinckley answers a high-school history teacher's question, "I don't know; I don't think you should teach that." The infuriated teacher punches young Hinckley in the mouth giving him a fat lip which lasts his whole life.
Apr 1, 1928 - B. H. Roberts takes his last plural wife with the consent of Church President Heber J. Grant. All of Roberts's future plural wives are taken without asking consent of the church president. Roberts is the last general authority to take plural wives without getting the president's permission first.
Apr 1, 1951 - President George Albert Smith gives a prophecy ending with the words, "And if I'm not telling you the truth may God strike me dead." Three days later he dies in Salt Lake City. The text of the prophecy is, understandably, never canonized.
Apr 1, 1959 - First Presidency letter instructs mission presidents in areas where cannibalism is still practiced, that missionaries, when transporting investigators to and from meetings, must never allow the number of cannibals to be greater than the number of missionaries. This leads to a new position in many missions of "Cannibal Logistics Assistant to the President" known among the missionaries as the "CLAP."
Apr 1, 1962 - All copies of the first press run of BYU president Ernest Wilkinson's book FREE AGENCY AND HOW TO ENFORCE IT are recalled from bookstore shelves and hidden away in the First Presidency's vault.
Apr 1, 1978 - Confronted with the fact that the passage in the Book of Abraham which had been used to justify withholding the priesthood from Blacks is based on the translation of a hole in the sen-sen papyrus, the First Presidency initiates the process of changing the policy.
Apr 1, 1994 - The practice of secret polygamy among the general authorities is quietly discontinued in a confidential memo signed by Church President Ezra Taft Benson's Autopen machine.
Apr 1, 1998 - After thousands of Mormons claim that reading anti-Mormon literature only strengthens their testimonies, the Church secretly begins to subsidize Jerald and Sandra Tanner of Utah Lighthouse Ministries. This is the Church's first subsidizing of actual anti-Mormons. Ed Decker of "Ex-Mormons for Jesus" had been on the Church's payroll for over a decade.
Apr 1, 2004 - The First Presidency, impressed by the success of Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ," considers producing a film about the martyrdom at Carthage called "The Passion of Joseph Smith." The project is abandoned when someone points out that the title could be taken in more than one way.
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