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Liberation, exodus, and prophetic justice rooted in the African American church tradition.
Key question: “How does this text speak to the experiences of suffering, hope, and liberation within the Black community?”
24,094 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens
11/1 (1976): Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by deputy Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.
12/7 (1995): An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
6/19 (1985): Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
11/1 (996): Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).
11/11 (1965): Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
8/6 (1991): Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
2/14 (1954): First Indochina War - small French garrison at Đắk Đoa is overrun by the Viet Minh after a week's siege.
1/20 (2001): President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
10/12 (2013): An apartment building collapse in Medellín, Colombia results in the deaths of twelve people.
Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
9/2 (1957): President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
10/12 (1945): The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
9/11 (1829): An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Spain's resistance to Mexico's campaign for independence.
11/1 (1954): The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.
8/6 (1824): Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.