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1995 Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party

1993 Norman Vincent Peale, Reverend, 'Power of Positive Thinking', dies at 95

1991 Reverend Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti

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

1989 Reverend Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud

1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

1986 Reverend Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern

1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco

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

1982 "Reverend" Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at 47

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

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

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

1982 Reverend A Treurnicht forms Conservative Party of South Africa

1976 Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ

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

1972 Reverend Gary David, vocalist, dies at 76

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

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

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

1955 Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

1955 Simon Bailey, born in Halifax, England, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson

1950 Reverend Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison

1949 South African Reverend Andries P. Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer

1946 Jerry Lacy, actor, 'Reverend Trask', 'Dark Shadows'

1937 Reverend Martin Niemoller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany

1935 Reverend Ike, South Carolina, evangelist minister, Joy of Living

1934 David Jones, British reverend and headmaster, Bryanston School

1931 Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana, Jonestown Massacre

1928 Andrew M Greeley, author/reverend

1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3

1922 Luigi Barbbarito, reverend, Apostolic ProNuncio

1917 Reverend Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb

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

1865 George A. Birmingham, Reverend James Owen Hannay, novelist

1844 William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor, spoonerisms

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

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


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