1st July, 2010: Sammie and Ozioma Okposo ties the knot. Sammie Okposo was a Nigerian Gospel Singer who passed on to glory on 25th November, 2022.
1st July, 1899: Three traveling businessmen meet in a Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) building and decide to form an organization to distribute Bibles. The Christian Commercial Men’s Association of America, later renamed the Gideons, placed their first Bibles in a hotel nine years later.
1st July, 1824: The Presbyterian Church ordains Charles Grandison Finney, the Father of modern revivalism.
1st July, 2022:Â Over 700 catholic priests protest in Kaduna, as they buried Fr. Vitus Borogo, a Priest who was killed on 25th June, 2022 by unknown armed men at Prison Farm, Kujama, along Kaduna-Kachia Road, Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna State.
1st July, 1896: Harriet Beecher Stowe passed on to glory. Harriet Beecher Stowe is an abolitionist and a Christian author. She had averaged nearly a book a year at the peak of her production, with Uncle Tom’s Cabin being her most popular book.
1st July, 1900:Â Missionary Horace Tracy Pitkin is beheaded during the Boxer Uprising in China.
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