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Historical Events
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1535-02-10 - 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1535-06-24 - Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1664-05-28 - 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
1788-01-20 - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
1792-10-02 - Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1829-05-15 - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
1869-09-10 - Baptist minister invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
1881-01-26 - Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
1915-05-17 - National Baptist Convention chartered
1962-08-15 - Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1963-09-15 - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1982-12-05 - Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
1984-06-14 - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
2002-05-22 - American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 15 of 15
1566-12-20 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)
1577-01-12 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)
1579-11-22 - Jan Baptist Stalpart van der Wiele, Dutch lawyer/pastor/lyricist
1622-11-08 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)
1708-08-10 - John Stinstra, baptist vicar
1804-06-08 - Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC)
1805-12-10 - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1909-12-19 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1918-11-07 - Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
1920-02-12 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
1921-11-19 - Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
1926-09-25 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1976-09-09 - Juan A. Baptista, Venezuelan actor
1981-10-01 - Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
1981-12-15 - Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister
Famous Deaths
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0029-08-29 - John the Baptist, beheaded
1531-03-20 - Sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded
1531-12-06 - John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded
1538-08-20 - Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake
1549-05-27 - Lijsbeth Dirksdr, Fries antabaptist, drowns
1549-06-07 - Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1559-03-14 - Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1612-04-11 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1644-12-30 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1706-04-19 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies
1790-01-08 - John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81
1834-06-09 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1850-04-12 - Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)
1865-06-02 - John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59
1875-11-06 - John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
1931-01-11 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1999-12-24 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
2000-07-14 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2001-06-02 - Frank Stagg, Baptist Theologian (b. 1911)
2002-01-10 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2005-11-15 - Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
