on grounds of a violation of the law of chastity, which any practice of post-Second Manifesto polygamy constituted. He was later rebaptized and died in the church. He is the most recent apostle to be excommunicated. 1943 October 7: Spencer W. Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson are ordained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. 1944 July: The Church Committee on Publications is created, headed by Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith. 1945 April 12: Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs at funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt. May 14: Heber J. Grant, the last LDS Church president to have practiced polygamy, dies. May 21: George Albert Smith becomes the eighth president of the church. September: Following the Japanese surrender, ending World War II, new mission presidents are called to reopen missions that were closed during the war. September 23: The Idaho Falls Temple is dedicated. October: The priesthood session of General Conference is held for the first time. November 3: New LDS Church president George Albert Smith and U.S. president Harry S Truman meet and discuss sending humanitarian supplies to war-torn Europe. The publication of No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, by Fawn Brodie. Brodie's most notable Mormon critic, Brigham Young University professor Hugh Nibley, published a scathing 62-page pamphlet entitled No, Ma'am, That's Not History, asserting that Brodie had cited sources supportive only of her conclusions while conveniently ignoring others. Brodie considered Nibley's pamphlet to be "a well-written, clever piece of Mormon propaganda" but dismissed it as "a flippant and shallow piece". Brodie's book becomes a best seller, and has not got out of print yet. Raid on the Short Creek Community, prefiguring that of 1953. 1946 January: The LDS Church begins sending humanitarian supplies to war-torn nations in Europe, following World War II. February 4: Ezra Taft Benson embarks on a tour of Europe following World War II, to oversee the state of the church and reorganize missionary work. May: Fawn Brodie is excommunicated. May 22: Western Bad Bascomb released, about an outlaw who joins a Mormon wagon train. May 26: A rift in the LDS Church in Mexico is mended, as 1,200 members of the Third Convention return into fellowship at a large conference in Mexico City attended by George Albert Smith, the first church president to visit the country. Tongan edition of Book of Mormon. 1947 February 26: Matthew Cowley embarks on a tour of the