April 9: Adam S. Bennion is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. July 15: Latter-day Saint Apostle Albert E. Bowen dies. July 26: Short Creek raid, a mass arrest of polygamists at the Short Creek Community in the Arizona Strip. At the time it was described as "the largest mass arrest of men and women in modern American history". October 8: Richard L. Evans is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. December 13 Matthew Cowley dies.<Deseret News LDS 2012 Church Almanac> Independent Latter Day Saint congregations in Nigeria develop in response to ban on black priesthood. General Conference begins broadcasting on television outside the Intermountain West. 1954 April 8: George Q. Morris is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. March 29: Death of Joseph W. Musser, leader of the Council of Friends, and the Mormon fundamentalist community splits over succession. In the Short Creek Community, Leroy S. Johnson's followers would form the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church). In Salt Lake City, Rulon C. Allred's followers would form the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB). August 31: Ages for office-holders in the Aaronic priesthood are defined as 12 for deacons, 14 for teachers, and 16 for priests. 1955 September 11: Bern Switzerland Temple is opened, the first outside North America, and in Europe. It introduces films for the Endowment ceremony in various languages. September 26: Church College of Hawaii is established. 1956 January 8: Student Wards and Stakes are first organized, at Brigham Young University. October 3: The Relief Society Building is dedicated, across from Temple Square in Salt Lake City. 1957 April: General Conference is first recorded and rebroadcast via videotape. October: General Conference is cancelled due to the Asian Flu pandemic. 1958 February 11: Adam S. Bennion dies after serving only five years. April 10: Hugh B. Brown is ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. April 20: Hamilton New Zealand Temple opens, the first in Oceania and the southern hemisphere. April 26: Church College of New Zealand founded. May 18: The New Zealand Stake is created in Auckland, the first outside North America and Hawaii. September: London England Temple, the first in UK opened. Mormon Doctrine by Bruce R. McConkie published. Priesthood opened up to black Melanesian males (Fijians, Papuans, Negritos etc.). 1959 BYU Studies, a journal for LDS scholars, commences publication. 1960s 1960 March 27: A stake