July 01
1523: The first Lutheran martyrs of the Reformation – Johann Esch (Johann van den Esschen) and Heinrich Voes (Hendrick Voss) from Belgium – give their lives for their faith in Brussels.
1555: John Bradford, who had ministered to criminals in the Tower of London, is burned to death as a heretic during the reign of Mary Tudor.
1643: The first Westminster Assembly officially opens in England; it promulgated the Westminster longer and shorter catechisms.
1800: The very first Methodist camp meeting in America is held in Logan County Kentucky.
1835: Robert Murray McCheyne gets the license to preach at the Presbytery of Annam; he later became a famous pastor and revivalist.
1878: Demise of Catherine Winkworth, who translated many German hymns into English.
1896: Demise of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, a  Christian author whose Uncle Tom’s Cabin made her most famous.
1900: Martyrdom of Horace Tracy Pitkin, a missionary, during the Boxer Uprising in China.
1918: Fr. Arcadius Garyaev, an Orthodox priest from Hungary, is dragged out of the church in  his priestly vestments by a band of Red Army soldiers, who later murdered him.
1934: Yin Renxian, a fresh convert to Christianity, loses two of his children in a bomb blast on a train. Yin later became a Christian educator until the Communists shut down his activities.
1937: Arrest of Martin Niemoller, a leading Lutheran who resists Nazi racism, by the Gestapo.
1985: The U.S. Supreme Court forbids public school teachers from visiting parochial schools, to provide remedial or enrichment instruction.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org