120 years ago today - Oct 21, 1892

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] 21 The great Celebration of the arival of Christopher Columbus upon the American Continent was held to day in Salt Lake City. The Assembly met in the great Tabernacle. 5,000 School Children met in the Lower Room But there was so much noise & Confusion in the Assembly of Little Children that the speakers Could not be heard. W Woodruff was Called upon to Dismissed the Meeting. I drove up to Clary with Emma & took dinner. Broth Thatcher & several other Brethren Called at the Office. Owen went into the Mountains to hunt Deer.

[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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