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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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