Today is Saturday, September 5, 2009.
On this day in history:
1692 - At Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Colonial
clergyman Increase Mather, 53, received the first Doctor of
Sacred Theology (STD) degree to be awarded in America.
1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was
formally organized by the Congregational churches of New
England at Farmington, Connecticut.
1870 - Three Roman Catholic universities were founded in the United
States on this exact same date: St. John's in New York City,
Loyola in Chicago, and Canisius in Buffalo, New York.
1888 - American baseball player-turned-evangelist Billy Sunday, 26,
married Helen Thompson, 20. In later years she became
affectionately known as "Ma Sunday," and became his
evangelistic campaign advisor. She survived Billy (d.1935) by
22 years.
1950 - Baptist Bible College was founded in Springfield, MO, under
auspices of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. With an enrollment
of over 2,000, it is today one of the largest Bible colleges
in America.
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