2013 Event After more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas 1995 Death K B Wilson, methodist principal (Westminster College), dies at 50 1995 Death Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist, dies at 86 1994 Death Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84 1994 Death Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82 1968 Event Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes 1968 Event United Methodist Church forms 1966 Event Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church 1964 Event Prince A. Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop, New Jersey 1956 Event U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation 1945 Birthday K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal, Westminster College Oxford 1938 Birthday Kathleen Richardson, president, Methodist Conference 1920 Birthday Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop, Methodist 1915 Event Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class 1911 Birthday Alfred James Broomhall, Methodist missionary 1909 Birthday Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar 1908 Birthday Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist 1852 Event San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist 1833 Birthday Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop 1821 Event African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (New York City) 1821 Event African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York) 1816 Event African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes in Philadelphia 1804 Death Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies 1796 Event African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated 1796 Event Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church 1794 Event Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms 1784 Event John Wesley charters Methodist Church 1768 Event 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City) 1738 Event Methodist Church forms 1707 Birthday Charles Wesley, co-founder, Methodist movement
