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- 1976 first commercial Supersonic Concorde flight began, by Britain & France
- 1970 Panama Boeing 747 first flight NY-London
- 1954 USS Nautilus, first nuclear submarine, launched
- 1954 first gas turbine automobile exhibited New York City
- 1951 Atomic Bombs first tested in Nevada
- 1927 first radio Opera broadcast - selections from Faust over a national radio network in Chicago, Illinois
- 1922 first modern slalom ski race, the Alpine Ski Challenge Cup, held at Mürren, Switzerland - rules set down
by Arnold Lunn; winner: J.A. Joannides
- 1911 first Monte Carlo Car Rally held - Henri Rougier wins it on January 28
- 1880 first US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
- 1865 For the first time, an oil well was drilled by torpedoes. The well was near Titusville, PA.
- 1827 Freedom Journal, first Black paper, begins publishing
- 1790 Guillotine first demonstrated
- 1789 first American Novel published - William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy
- 1677 first medical publication in America pamphlet on smallpox, Boston
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- 1977 Vietnam War draft dodgers are pardoned - by US President Carter's declaration of amnesty
- 1942 New York City declares pinball machines illegal
- 1908 first no-smoking legislation enacted in the US - New York City's Sullivan Ordinance made it illegal for women to smoke
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- 1998 On this day, Pope John Paul the Second (Karol Wojtyla), became the first pope to visit Cuba on a visit lasting until the 25th. He was also the first Pole to become pope in 1978.
- 1998 Hugh Hefner and Kimberly Conrad announced their separation
- 1997 German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus signed a declaration cementing post-war reconciliation between Germany and the Czech Republic.
- 1997 Died this day, "Colonel" Tom Parker, the manager who helped guide Elvis Presley's rise from young hopeful to the king of rock 'n' roll.
- 1996 Mufti Fatkhulla Sharipov, the pro-Moscow Muslim spiritual leader of Tajikistan, was shot dead at his home west of Dushanbe.
- 1994 Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Guy Coeme and two other leading Socialist politicians resigned over a bribery scandal.
- 1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 record 3,914.20
- 1990 The East German Communist party expelled former leader Egon Krenz and 13 other politburo members.
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- 1990 Japanese amateur Atsushi Sugie discovers asteroids 5330 Senrikyu, 5435 Kameok & 5825 Rakuyou
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general history
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- 1988 US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
- 1987 Terry Waite kidnapped by Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
- 1986 Allison J. Brown, of Oklahoma, is crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
- 1985 - Actor Patrick Duffy announced plans to leave the CBS show Dallas at the end of the TV season. He asked that the character of Bobby Ewing not be replaced by another actor. Good
thing. Bobby showed up in the new season, miraculously rising from the dead; taking a shower; after being in a tremendous car crash the previous season. And Duffy returned to continue in the role of
Bobby Ewing through to the final episode in 1991.
- 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry is awarded to Anthony E. Hecht
- 1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased, making it eligible for US military aid
- 1981 announcement that the American hostages in Iran have been freed
- 1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
- 1980 - An Iran Air Boeing 727 flying from Mashad to Tehran crashed on a mountainside in fog, killing all 128 on board.
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- 1989 The Living Years by Mike & The Mechanics released
- 1989 Surrender To Me by Ann Wilson released
- 1989 Roy Orbison's Legendary Roy Orbison is #1 on the charts
- 1989 Phil Collins: Two Hearts is #1 on the charts
- 1989 Guns N'Roses become first act for six years to have two Top 10 American LPs, with Appetite for Destruction at No. 2 and Guns N'Roses Lies at No. 10
- 1989 Lou Reed releases New York LP in USA.
- 1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
- 1987 Roy Orbison inducted into USA rock and roll Hall of Fame.
- 1987 Inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include, Leonard Chess, The Coasters, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, BB King, Lieber and Stoller, Clyde McPhatter, Ricky
Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Hank Williams and Jackie Wilson.
- 1987 - Thirty years after its release, Jackie Wilson’s single, Reet Petite (written by Motown founder Berry Gordy), ended a month at the top of England’s music charts. Three years
earlier, on this same date, Jackie Wilson died after being in a coma (following a heart attack) for eight and a half years.
- 1985 Chaka Khan begins UK tour.
- 1984 Following a long illness after suffering a stroke, Jackie Wilson dies.
- 1984 Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart is #1 on the charts
- 1984 Nobody Told Me by Johnn Lennon released
- 1984 99 Luftballons by Nena released
- 1984 Wrapped Around Your Finger by Police released
- 1984 Jump by Van Halen released
- 1984 John Lennon hits USA Hot 100 at No. 36 with Nobody Told Me.
- 1984 - Van Halen's single, Jump, entered the Billboard pop charts on this date, and later was in the Number 1 spot for 5 weeks, remaining on the charts for a total of 15 weeks. It
eventually was certified gold.
- 1984 - Died this day, Jackie Wilson, after being in a coma (following a heart attack) for eight and a half years.
- 1982 The University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture is the recipient of approximately 7,000 rare blues records from BB King.
- 1982 Blues guitarist B.B. King donates his entire record collection, including 7,000 rare blues records (which he played on air when he was a Mississippi DJ in the 40s) to the University
of Mississippi's Centre for Study of Southern Culture.
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religion
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- 1986 Charismatic Bible Ministries, a fraternal fellowship of charismatic organizations, was founded; its
first major conference came in June, in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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sports
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- 1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
- 1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38øF 3øC, Indiana
- 1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
- 1984 Scott Hamilton wins the US male Figure Skating championship
- 1982 NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
- 1980 Les Henson of Virginia Tech sets a basketball collegiate record by making an 89 foot 3 inch
field goal, almost the entire length of the field, to beat Florida State by 2 points.
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- 1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
- 1977 W. Michael Blumenthal was confirmed by the Senate as the 64th Secretary of the Treasury
- 1976 - The British and French Concordes, with their droopy nose and sound-barrier smashing speed, made their maiden flights - from London to Bahrain and Paris to Rio De Janeiro
respectively. These were the first scheduled passenger services by supersonic aircraft.
- 1976 - Western newspapers, including the Financial Times and The New York Times went on sale in the Soviet Union for the first time.
- 1974 Gold hits record $161.31; silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
- 1973 Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
- 1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
- 1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
- 1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
- 1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
- 1970 - ABC-TV presented "The Johnny Cash Show" in prime time. Previously, the show had been a summer replacement. The regular season series was a big boost for country music.
Johnny wore black in the all-colour show, however, like he still does today.
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- 1978 - The soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever reached number one on the US album charts, a position it held for the next six months.
- 1978 The Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album hits #1, where it stays for 24 weeks
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science
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- 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet Pluto moves closer
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sports
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- 1979 Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys, 35-31, in Miami
- Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh Quarterback
- 1975 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
- 1973 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28
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general history
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- 1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
- 1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
- 1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of the US Information Agency
- 1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
- 1962 Snow falls in San Francisco, CA
- 1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID NBC begins broadcasting
- 1964 - Carl Rowan succeeded Edward R. Murrow as head of the United States Information Agency (USIA), which managed the worldwide Voice of America. Murrow had held the office for three
years. Rowan came from a news background from NBC, as Murrow did over at CBS.
- 1965 - Hassan Ali Mansur, the prime minister of Persia, was assassinated.
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- 1967 Kind Of A Drag by Buckinghams released
- 1967 The Rolling Stones hit the US charts with Ruby Tuesday on the way to #1
- 1965 Continuing their crackdown against British bands, US Immigration officials make the Animals leave the Apollo theatre forcing them to cancel their show. They were allowed to perform
on the Ed Sullivan show
- 1965 Rolling Stones arrive in Australia for tour
- 1962 Jackie Wilson appears on the Ed Sullivan Show
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science
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- 1960 Little Joe 4 sub orbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
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general history
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- 1959 Cecil Blount de Mille, "founder of Hollywood" and producer of the 10 Commandments, dies at 77
- 1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND NBC begins broadcasting
- 1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX ABC begins broadcasting
- 1956 "Comedy in Music Victor Borge"
closes at Golden New York City after 849 performances
- 1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as US Secretary of State
- 1952 William Shawn replaced Harold Ross as editor of The New Yorker
- 1952 India's Congress party wins general election
- 1950 "Lend an Ear," Carol
Channing's big break, closes on Broadway (New York City) after 460 performances; it had also been the longest running revue in
Hollywood and will later become a Marilyn Monroe movie
- 1950 a New York jury finds Alger Hiss, former State Dept official, guilty of perjury
- 1950 T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in New York City
- 1950 - Died this day, Eric Blair, aka George Orwell, British satire novelist who wrote Animal Farm and 1984, died in London at
age 46 of tuberculosis
- 1951 - Atomic bombs were tested for the first time ever in Nevada
- 1951 - A new women’s golf record was established by Mildred (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias as she won the Tampa Women’s Open. Her score was a record 288 for 72 holes. Medals and records
were commonplace to Babe. She won two gold and one silver medal in the 1932 Olympics for the javelin throw, the 80-meter hurdles and the high jump, respectively. She was equally adept at basketball,
baseball, billiards and golf; a member of the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame, LPGA Hall of Fame (Babe was a founding member of the LPGA), National Track and Field Hall of Fame, Olympic
Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame. We now refer to her as the Famous Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
- 1954 - The "Nautilus", the first atomic-powered submarine, was launched in Groton, Connecticut. President Eisenhower's wife Mamie christened the vessel with a bottle of
champagne.
- 1954 - The gas turbine automobile was introduced in New York City. It packed a lot of punch, with a 370 horsepower, ‘whirlfire’ turbopower jet to power it.
- 1955 - British archaeologists today admitted what they'd actually known for almost two years; the 'Piltdown Man' skull, which generations of schoolkids had been told was the missing link
between man and his ape ancestors, was a complete fake. The skull was discovered in 1912 during a dig in the village of Piltdown, near the Sussex town of Lewes.
- 1957 - Singer Patsy Cline appeared on Arthur Godfrey’s night time TV show. She warbled the classic, Walking After Midnight, which quickly launched her career.
- 1959 - The Kingston Trio (Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard) received a gold record for Tom Dooley. The single could be considered an early folk-form of rap music, considering its
less than wholesome message about a guy named Tom Dooley who was going to be hanged - “Poor boy, you’re bound to, die.” The Kingston Trio recorded many hits, including: Greenback Dollar, M.T.A.,
Reverend Mr. Black, Tijuana Jail, and the war protest song, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?.
- 1959 - Died this day, Autocratic movie-maker Cecil B. De Mille who won fame for his biblical and Roman epics, at the age of 77.
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music
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- 1959 "Tom Dooley" by the Kingston Trio goes gold.
- 1957 production begins on "Loving You," the first film in Elvis Presley's long association with Hollywood producer Hal B. Wallisa
- 1956 Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock LP becomes first rock-and-roll album to enter US charts
- 1955 For the first time since NME founded the original UK sales chart, four versions of one song - Mr. Sandman (Chordettes, Max Bygraves, Dickie Valentine and Four Aces) - dominate
chart.
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sports
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- 1958 Phillies' agreement to televise 78 games into New York City doesn't happen
- 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
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general history
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- 1949 - On 21 January 1949, Chiang Kai-shek resigned as president of China’s Nationalist government after his armies were defeated by the Communists when America stopped its aid. Ten
days later, Mao Zedong’s Communist forces entered Beijing. By late autumn, the Chinese Communist Party occupied all the major Chinese cities, including Nanjing, the Nationalist capital. The
Communists had won the civil war.
- On 1 October 1949, Mao announced the birth of the People’s Republic of China from the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the entrance to Beijing’s ancient imperial palace. He would be Chairman,
Zhu De, military commander of all Communist forces, would be vice-chairman; Zhou Enlai, leading diplomat, would be premier and foreign minister.
- Mao Zedong, the son of peasants, imagined a China run by the common people. His government promised free thought, speech, and religion, and equal rights for women. China was to be
modelled after the USSR, built on socialized agriculture and state-run heavy industry. The USSR and other Soviet-bloc states immediately recognized the People’s Republic of China;
neighbouring Burma and India and many other European countries followed within a few months, including Great Britain (but Mao rejected British recognition). The United States withheld
diplomatic recognition, remaining loyal instead to Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to Taiwan to re-establish his Nationalist government.
- Domestic policies did not run smoothly. As many as a million people were killed in the violent clashes between landlords and tenants that came with widespread land reforms. Meanwhile,
the Chinese Communist Party was unpopular with the common people because it treated wealthy peasants better as it could not afford to alienate them. Quickly, Mao’s vision of a China run by
the common people, became a China run by Mao.
- 1949 first inaugural parade televised Harry Truman
- 1948 W Indies v England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
- 1946 - "The Fat Man" debuted on ABC radio. J. Scott Smart, who played the portly detective, weighed in at 270 pounds in real life.
- 1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
- 1944 447 German bombers attack London
- 1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
- 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
- 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
- 1943 Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
- 1942 - German forces under Erwin Rommel launched a counter-offensive in North Africa. Caught by surprise, the British were forced into a retreat across the desert.
- 1942 - Count Basie recorded One O’Clock Jump, the tune was recorded on Okeh Records this day. Just one of the many signature tunes by Bill Basie.
- 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
- 1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
- 1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
- 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
- 1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
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- 1949 Cruising Down The River by Blue Barron released
- 1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
- 1943 Brazil by Xavier Cugat released
- 1943 For Me And My Gal by Judy Garland released
- 1943 I've Heard That Song Before by Harry James released
- 1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
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science
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- 1941 first commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
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general history
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- 1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in New York City
- 1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
- 1936 - In Britain, King Edward VIII was proclaimed king following the death of his father, King George V. He remained king until December 1936 when he abdicated and was succeeded by
George VI.
- 1935 12.0" 30.5 cm of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash state record
- 1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL now WEAZ
- 1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
- 1932 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani gave a memorable concert at Queen’s Hall in England to ‘glowing notices’. This was the beginning of the musician’s successful recording career that
provided beautiful music to radio stations for nearly five decades. Better known as just, Mantovani, his music still entertains us with hits like, Red Sails in the Sunset, Serenade in the Night, Song
from Moulin Rouge and Charmaine.
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- 1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
- 1939 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
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- 1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
- 1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
- 1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president
- 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader of the Bolsheviks in the 1917 October Revolution,
dies of a stroke
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- 1927 first national opera broadcast from a US opera house Faust, Chicago
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- 1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
- 1913 Aristide Briand forms French government
- 1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
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- 1908 Japan voluntarily restricts emigration
- 1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
- 1903 International Theater opens at 5 Columbus Circle, New York City - razed in 1954 to widen the sidewalks around the Coliseum
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- 1899 Lord Kitchener of Britain was appointed governor-general of Sudan.
- 1890 first issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
- 1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen
- 1879 Zulus massacred British troops in Natal
- 1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna
- 1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
- 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
- 1846 the London Daily News debuts, with Charles Dickens listed as editor
- 1830 Portsmouth Ohio blacks forcibly deported
- 1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
- 1823 Yazoo County, Mississippi founded
- 1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
- 1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii or 01/111
- 1812 The famous Y-bridge in Zanesville, Ohio, was approved for construction.
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science
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- 1853 the envelope folding machine was patented by Dr. Russell L. Hawes of Worcester, Massachusetts
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sports
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- 1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
- 1887 Amateur Athletic Union AAU forms
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general history
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- 1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
- 1793 Louis XVI, King of France since 1774, is beheaded by revolutionaries (after being found guilty of
treason) using a guillotine (first demonstrated on this day three years earlier)
- 1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty Poland divided
- 1781 - the American Department of Foreign Affairs of the Continental Government appointed the first consular officer: Thomas Barclay, vice-consul in Paris
- 1769 - the Letters of Junius first appeared in the London Public Advertiser, warning about public personalities; their author was never definitely established
- 1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
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religion
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- 1772 Pioneer Methodist bishop Frances Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Though a stranger in a strange land, God has taken care of me.'
- 1738 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'I desire to have no greater portion than the prayers of the poor.'
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- 1549 Parliament passed the first of four British Acts of Uniformity, this first requiring the exclusive use of the Book of Common Prayer later called the First Prayer Book of Edward VI in
all public services of the Anglican Church.
- 1525 History's first Anabaptist baptismal service took place in Zurich, Switzerland, when Conrad Grebel re-baptized George Blaurock.
- 1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
- 1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V Jan. 21-June 22, 1276
- 1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness [possibly on January 28]
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