June 7: Groundbreaking for Triad 1 of the Triad Center. It is not finished, but it would have been the highest building in Utah. June 29: Freiberg Germany Temple opened in East Germany, the first and only temple behind the Iron Curtain, and the oldest in Germany. August 2: New hymnal is published. August 24: Johannesburg South Africa Temple is dedicated, the first temple in Africa. The country is still under apartheid at this time, creating controversy. October 10: M. Russell Ballard is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. October 15: Two Salt Lake City residents are killed by bombs laid by Mark Hofmann, a forger of Mormon historical documents, as a distraction to buy time as his debts mounted and schemes began to unravel. October 23: The Family History Library, near Temple Square in Salt Lake City, is dedicated. November 5: Spencer W. Kimball dies. November 10: Ezra Taft Benson becomes the 13th president of the LDS Church. 1986 October: The general women's meeting is first held, and would continue on the Saturday before General Conference. October 4: Stake quorums of Seventy are dissolved. October 9: Joseph B. Wirthlin is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Arabic edition of Book of Mormon. Protests against BYU president in Jerusalem by Jewish groups, shouting slogans such as "Conversion is Murder!" and "Mormons, stop your mission now". 1987 January 7: Mark Hofmann pleads guilty to murder, forgery, and fraud. His past discoveries are called into question, including many relating to Mormon history. September 18: Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs at the US Constitution's bicentennial celebration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Seagull Book book founded. 1988 May 15: A stake is created at Aba, Nigeria, the first in West Africa. May 20: Marion G. Romney, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, dies. August: The 100 millionth proxy temple endowment for the dead is performed. October: The General Conference at this time marks the point at which women would be included as speakers in every General Conference going forward. October 1: Richard G. Scott is sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Hebrew edition of Book of Mormon, later withdrawn. 1989 April 1: The Second Quorum of the Seventy is created, its members being term-limited to 3–5 years. May 16: Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center dedicated. May 24: A terrorist organization, Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation, assassinates