March 24, 1832

Hiram, Ohio
A mob violently tarred and feathered Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 1:261-63
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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