1760: Richard Allen, the first black ordained in the Methodist Episcopal
Church (1799), and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1816, was
born in slavery in Philadelphia.
1805: Colonial American theologian Henry Ware,
41, was confirmed as the first Unitarian professor to teach at Harvard University. Soon
after, the Trinitarian Congregationalist teachers began withdrawing from the school, and
in 1808 established Andover Theological Seminary.
1914: Birth of Ira F. Stanphill, Assemblies of
God clergyman and song evangelist. He is best known today for the hymn, "Room at the
Cross," which he penned in 1946.
1949: Russian-born English chemist and Zionist
leader Chaim Weizmann, 74, was elected first president of the newly restored modern state
of Israel.
1985: The U.S. Rabbinical Assembly of
Conservative Judaism announced their decision to begin accepting women as rabbis.
Source: William D. Blake. Almanac
of the Christian Church, Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional
information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
