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David Brainerd ( April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747 ) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey.
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* April 20 – David Brainerd, American missionary ( d. 1747 )
Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which served to inspire thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today.
In 1778, John and David Brainerd came to the area and erected a church to convert the local Native Americans to Christianity.
Ordained in July 1840 by the bishop of Winchester, he at once entered on ministerial work in that city, and during his ministry there and under the influence of the missionaries Henry Martyn and David Brainerd, whose lives he studied, he carried devotional asceticism to an injurious length.
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David Brainerd was born on April 20, 1718 in Haddam, Connecticut, the son of Hezekiah, a Connecticut legislator, and Dorothy.
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Much of Brainerd's influence on future generations can be attributed to the biography compiled by Jonathan Edwards and first published in 1749 under the title of An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd.
It gained immediate recognition, with eighteenth-century theologian John Wesley urging: ' Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd.
A new edition, with the Journal and Brainerd's letters embodied, was published by Sereno E. Dwight at New Haven in 1822 ; and in 1884 was published what is substantially another edition, The Memoirs of David Brainerd, edited by James M Sherwood.
David Belden Lyman ( 1803 – 1868 ), missionary to Hawaii, was one of many in nineteenth-century America that named their son after David Brainerd ( David Brainerd Lyman, 1833 – 36, and another David Brainerd Lyman, 1840 – 1914 ).
David Brainerd Christian School was also named after him.
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Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.
In April 2010, Atari board member and former CEO David Gardner resigned.
The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.
David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.
David Thompson ( April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857 ) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as " Koo-Koo-Sint " or " the Stargazer ".
David Lawrence Angell ( April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American producer of sitcoms.
By the time David died, the painting had been completed and the commissioner Ambroise Firmin-Didot brought it back to Paris to include it in the exhibition " Pour les grecs " that he had organised and which opened in Paris in April 1826.
With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).
* Sir David Pepper ( April 2003 – July 2008 )
*" Becoming France ," David Bell, The New Republic, 1 April 2009 ( in English )
In April 1977 the Young Liberals ' annual conference unanimously passed a motion to call on the Liberal leader ( David Steel ) to move for the impeachment of Ronald King Murray QC, the Lord Advocate.
In April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.
* David was born about 1642 and died in Duxbury between July 2, 1718 and April 1, 1719.
Jellicoe was made a Viscount in 1918 and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in April 1919, along with David Beatty.
In April 2007, citing the reduced sentence for the Australian prisoner David Matthew Hicks, Lindh's attorneys made a public plea for a Presidential commutation to lower his 20-year sentence.
Kenneth David Kaunda ( born April 28, 1924 ), also known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.
*" Intel 8080 Microprocessor Oral History Panel " Steve Bisset, Federico Faggin, Hal Feeney, Edward Gelbach, Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Computer History Museum, April 26, 2007, moderator: David House.
Current league commissioner David Stern took office on April 1, 1984, and oversaw the expansion and growth of the NBA to a global commodity.
* Schaefer, David Lewis ( 2008 ) Robert Nozick and the Coast of Utopia, The New York Sun, April 30, 2008.
Their version attracted a good deal of attention, not least from David Bowie, as it was released in June 1979 just six weeks after Bowie's version had hit the UK Top 10 in April.
During her contract with the label, Amos recorded vocals for two songs for David Byrne's collaboration album with Fatboy Slim, entitled Here Lies Love, which was released in April 2010.
Finally, in April 1863, Grant marched Union troops down the west side of the Mississippi River and crossed east over at Bruinsburg using Adm. David Porter's naval ships.
In March 1865, while Lincoln met at City Point with Grant, Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, Union forces finally took Petersburg and then captured Richmond in April, after an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Fort Stedman.
* April 4 – David Cross, American actor and comedian
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# David ( 20 March 1272 – June 1281 Stirling Castle ); buried in Dunfermline Abbey
Frazetta authority David Winiewicz described the everyday working mode of operation in Li ' l Abner Dailies: 1954 Volume 20 ( Kitchen Sink, 1994 ):
Portrait of Caspar David Friedrich, Gerhard von Kügelgen c. 1810 – 20
David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.
On the appointed day, 20 Prairial by the revolutionary calendar, Robespierre spoke, descended steps, and with a torch presented to him by David, incinerated a cardboard image symbolizing atheism, revealing an image of wisdom underneath.
20 years later, the Jewish Agency leader, David Ben-Gurion wrote: " Had partition to the Peel Commission partition plan been carried out, the history of our people would have been different and six million Jews in Europe would not have been killed — most of them would be in Israel.
He destroyed many early works – including a Violin Sonata he had performed with Reményi and violinist Ferdinand David – and once claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets before he issued his official First in 1873.
David Low ( cartoonist ) | David Low's cartoon, published in the Evening Standard on 20 September 1939, shows Hitler greeting Stalin, following their joint Invasion of Poland ( 1939 ) | invasion of Poland, with the words, " The scum of the earth, I believe ?".
( However, George King had given MVP votes to two pitchers just the season before: Rick Helling and David Wells ; King was the only writer to cast a vote for Helling, who had gone 20 – 7 with a 4. 41 ERA and 164 strikeouts.
By Elizabeth he had four children: David II, John ( died in childhood ), Matilda ( who married Thomas Isaac and died at Aberdeen 20 July 1353 ), and Margaret ( who married William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland in 1345 ).
Yankee pitching had been paced by David Cone ( 20 – 7, 3. 55 ), Andy Pettitte ( 16 – 11, 4. 24 ), David Wells ( 18 – 4, 3. 49 ), Hideki Irabu ( 13 – 9, 4. 06 ) and Orlando Hernández ( 12 – 4, 3. 13 ).
* Chanaiwa, David Shingirai ( 1980 ), " The Zulu Revolution: State Formation in a Pastoralist Society ," In: African Studies Review 23 ( 3 ) ( Dec. 1980 ): 1 – 20.
The editor, David Hall, published 20 issues from 1989 to 2002 ( 2 / yr until 1994, then annually ).
* December 20 – David Tavaré, Spanish singer
* December 20 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist ( d. 1992 )
* January 20 – David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* May 20 – David Proval, American actor
* January 20 – David Lynch, American film director
* December 20 – The Zodiac Killer is believed to have shot Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on Lake Herman Road, Benicia, San Francisco Bay, California.
* March 20 – The World Cup Trophy ( the " Jules Rimet ") is stolen at an exhibition ; it is later found by a dog named " Pickles " and his owner David Corbett.
* April 20 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
* August 20 – David Walliams, English comedy actor
* September 20 – French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
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