1st First issue of the precursor to American Baptist Magazine was published in 1803. It is the oldest extant religious magazine.
5th Obadiah Holmes was brutally whipped in 1651 for religious beliefs, but he continued to preach during the whipping.
9th The first Baptist church in Oklahoma was organized in 1832 by 3 Blacks, 1 Creek Indian and 2 Whites.
17th Joseph Murrow organized the Indian Orphans’ Home in Oklahoma in 1902, the first Baptist orphanage for Indians.
18th Alderson Academy (in West Virginia) began classes in 1901 with 40 students. It subsequently became Alderson-Broadus College.
19th The Philadelphia Association stated its support for local church autonomy in 1749. ABHS’s collection of Philadelphia Association minutes goes back to 1770.
22nd The first Baptist missionaries to Alaska, Ernest and Ida Roscoe, arrived on Kodiak Island in 1886 (see photo of Kodiak above).
23rd The National Baptist Convention, USA Inc., was organized in 1895 in the Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA
26th Joanna P. Moore, lifelong teacher in Southern Black communities was born in 1832.
