Church Membership at end of year: 803,528
New Converts : 18,764
Percent Change from previous year: 2.39% (1)
-- During 1939-45
[David O McKay] World War II is fought. (2)
-- During 1939
Smaller-scale Tabernacle opened as Church pavilion at San Francisco World's Fair. (3)
-- Jan 28, 1940
The Mormon Battalion Monument was dedicated in San Diego, Calif. (4)
-- During 1940, February
[Heber J. Grant] Suffers a stroke. (5)
-- During April 1940
[Mormon Tabernacle Choir] The choir participates with Dr. Harvey Fletcher of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the first public demonstration of stereophonic sound at Carnegie Hall in New York. (6)
-- 1940
Church Membership at end of year: 862,664
New Converts : 59,136
Percent Change from previous year: 7.36% (1)
Missionaries evacuated from the South Pacific. (3)
-- Feb 1, 1941
[Apostle Rudger Clawson] Death of wife, Lydia. (7)
-- Feb 9, 1941
[Quorum of the Twelve] Reed Smoot dies. (8)
-- Apr 6, 1941
In general conference, the First Presidency announced the new position of Assistant to the Twelve, and the first five Assistants were called and sustained. (4)
Assistants to the Twelve first called. (9)
First Assistants to the Twelve called. (3)
Footnotes:
1 - Wikipedia, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Membership History, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_membership_history
2 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O McKay, Salt Lake City, Utah
3 - Hemidakaota, "Church Chronology from 1800-2000," http://www.lds.net/forums/scripture-study-forum/12108-church-chronology-1800-2000-part-1-a.html#post214550
4 - Church News: Historical chronology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
5 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant, Salt Lake City, Utah
6 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Newsroom, http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=036eb2987ff92110VgnVCM100000176f620aRCRDvgnextchannel=9ae411154963d010VgnVCM1000004e94610aRCRD
7 - Larsen, Stan (editor), A Ministry of Meetings:The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson, Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 6, A Rudger Clawson Chronology, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City 1993
8 - Wikipedia, Chronology of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles_(LDS_Church)
9 - Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Publishing, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Vol. 4, Appendix 2: A Chronology of Church History
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