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1993 Norman Vincent Peale, rev (Power of Positive Thinking), dies at 95

1991 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti

1990 Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln

1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

1986 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern

1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco

1984 Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called New York City, "Hymietown"

1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint

1982 Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City

1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion

1982 Rev A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa

1977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr

1976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ

1976 Rev Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention

1972 Rev Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76

1971 Fed grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1968 "March of Poor" under rev Abernathy reach Washington, D.C.

1968 Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC

1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

1950 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

1950 Brockway and Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)

1949 South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer

1946 Jerry Lacy, actor, Rev Trask-Dark Shadows

1937 Rev Martin Niemoller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany

1931 Stephen Smalley, rev/dean, Chester

1926 Tenniel Evans, rev/actor, 10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper

1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3

1917 Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb

1879 Neal Rev Dodd, born in Iowa, actor, You Belong to Me

1879 Africaner Union forms by Rev SJ du Toit at Cape colony

1865 George A. Birmingham, [Rev James Owen Hannay], novelist

1688 Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian

1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses



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