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2010 Event - Egypt announces the discovery of a granite head from a statue of Tutankhamun's grandfather, Amenhotep III, buried at a temple in Luxor

1994 Event - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran, 70 killed

1989 Event - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

1985 Event - Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java

1984 Event - 1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India

1984 Event - Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site, Golden Temple

1983 Death - Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at 74

1980 Event - Formal opening of meditation hall of Zenshin Temple in Riverdale Bronx

1979 Event - Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show

1978 Death - Leo J. Ryan, (Rep-Cal) and 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members

1975 Birthday - Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah, 1997, top 6

1973 Event - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game

1956 Birthday - Bernard A. Harris, Jr., born in Temple Texas, MD/Astronaut, STS-55, 63

1954 Birthday - Keith Carlton Fergus, born Temple, Texas, PGA golfer, 1995 Honda Classic-8th

1951 Event - Bill Mlkvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts

1949 Event - J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen

1947 Birthday - Temple Grandin, American Educator

1938 Event - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT

1934 Event - Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"

1933 Event - Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract

1928 Birthday - Shirley Temple Black, California, actress, Heidi, ambassador, UN

1928 Birthday - Shirley Temple, American Actress

1927 Birthday - Francis Matthews, British actor, On the Bowery, Paul Temple

1925 Birthday - Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist, Temple of Golden Pavilion

1924 Event - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake

1921 Birthday - Sanderson Temple, circuit judge

1904 Event - 1st Buddhist temple in U.S. forms, Los Angeles

1896 Event - D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura

1893 Event - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah dedicated

1886 Birthday - Noble Drew Ali, Timothy Drew, North Carolina, prophet, Moorish Science Temple

1850 Event - Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado

1841 Event - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Missouri

1836 Event - 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio

1800 Event - 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore

1744 Death - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28

1715 Birthday - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry

1699 Death - William Temple, statesman, dies

1652 Event - Ingen Ryuki invited to become the abbot of Sofokuji temple in Nagasaki

1481 Death - Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87

1422 Event - Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple

1394 Event - Ekiho, exorcised the Zen temple and it's surroundings from an old badger

1326 Event - Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi

1303 Death - Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies

1286 Death - Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60

1280 Event - Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China

1156 Event - Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)

70 Event - "2nd Temple" of Jews is set aflame (approx)

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