Today in Mormon History - Apr 20

Today in Mormon History ...

First Presidency of the Church announces a new Church History Library in Salt Lake City (5-floor building). (1)
-- 5 years ago - Apr 20, 2005

Apostle George F. Richards writes: "I obtained permission from President Geo. Albert Smith for my Sons Oliver and Ray and their wives to receive their Second Anointings." (2)
-- 60 years ago - Apr 20, 1950

[Financial] In an interview with the First Presidency, a young stake president named Harold B. Lee is asked to develop a new church program to provide emergency assistance to needy members. On April 18 of the following year, Lee is called to preside over the Church Security Program (renamed Church Welfare Program in 1938).
Initially devised to help members who had been impoverished by the Great Depression, the Church Welfare Program is declared a permanent undertaking of the church on April 5, 1949. (3)
-- 75 years ago - Apr 20, 1935


1 - Sherry Baker: Mormon Media History Timeline: 1827-2007, http://byustudies.byu.edu/showTitle.aspx?title=7984
2 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
3 - http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/282148/

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