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

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

1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java

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

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

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

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

1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show

1978 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 Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah, 1997, top 6

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

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

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

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

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

1947 Temple Grandin, American Educator

1938 Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT

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

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

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

1928 Shirley Temple, American Actress

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

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

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

1921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge

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

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

1893 Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah dedicated

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

1850 Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois destroyed by tornado

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

1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio

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

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

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

1699 William Temple, statesman, dies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1156 Markgraafschap Austria becomes a temple (Privilegium minus)

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


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