TODAY IN HISTORY: 1st June

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1st June 1983: Pastor David Oluwamakinde Oyedepo Jr is born. He is the first biological child of Bishop David and Pastor Faith Oyedepo and the Resident Pastor of Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland.

1st June 1969:    R. G. LeTourneau goes to be with the Lord. He was a sixth-grade drop-out who became a Christian inventor of earth moving machines, business magnate and founder of R.G. LeTourneau University, Longview, Texas.

1st June 165: Justin, an early Christian apologist, is beheaded with his disciples for their faith. “If we are punished for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, we hope to be saved,” he said just before his death. Christians soon named him Justin Martyr.

1st June 1843: Isabella Baumfree, having received a vision of God telling her to “travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and be a sign unto them,” leaves New York and changes her name to Sojourner Truth. She became one of the most famous abolitionists and women’s rights lecturers in American history.

1st June 1660: Mary Dyer was hanged for defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Quakers were considered among the most heinous of heretics by the Puritans, this led the Massachusetts Puritan leadership to enact several laws against them.

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