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2009 Event - U.S. Army officer William Calley publicly apologizes for the mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai
2006 Death - Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland 1996 Death - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65 1996 Death - Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58 1994 Death - Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76 1993 Event - 12 member European Economic Community sets up vast free trade zone 1991 Event - Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community 1990 Event - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq 1988 Event - European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 1986 Event - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500 1986 Event - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade 1986 Event - Spain and Portugal are 11th and 12th to join European Economic Community 1981 Event - Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community 1978 Event - Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois 1974 Event - European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament 1973 Event - CARICOM - Caribbean Community and Common Market, forms 1973 Event - West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) 1966 Event - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching 1965 Event - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow 1965 Event - Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues 1965 Event - Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan, founded 1965 Event - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms 1959 Event - Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community 1958 Event - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day) 1958 Event - Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community 1958 Event - Central African Republic made autonomous member of French Community (National Day) 1958 Event - Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community 1958 Event - Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community 1958 Event - Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community 1958 Event - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community 1958 Event - Malagasy Republic becomes autonomous republic in French Community 1958 Event - European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation 1957 Event - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market 1952 Event - European Defense Community forms 1951 Event - France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community 1950 Event - French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS 1941 Event - Entire Jewish community of Meretsch, Lithuania is exterminated 1937 Birthday - Oscar Abrams, community organizer 1931 Birthday - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader 1925 Birthday - Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community 1923 Birthday - Phyllis Jenkins, literary and theatrical agent community activist 1918 Event - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) 1917 Birthday - Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries 1917 Birthday - Peter Caddy, founder, Findhorn Community 1916 Birthday - Winson Hudson, community activist, rural Mississippi 1914 Birthday - Dovie Hudson, community activist in rural Mississippi 1913 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot Palestine 1905 Event - Pogrom against Jewish community in Brisk Lithuania 1863 Death - Frederick William Faber, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham, dies 1839 Death - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies 1838 Event - Arabs attack Jewish community of Safed 1825 Event - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community 1814 Birthday - Frederick William Faber, born in Calverley, England, theologian, wrote 'Faith of Our Fathers', 'My God, how wonderful thou art', 'Oh, gift of gifts', founded religious community in Cotton Hall, Birmingham 1811 Birthday - John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community, Perfectionists 1800 Event - Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave 1619 Death - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies 1563 Event - Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled 1524 Event - Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome 1407 Event - Mobs attack Jewish community of Cracow 1349 Event - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated 1298 Event - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated 1267 Event - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem 1241 Event - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany 1147 Event - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence |
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