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Adrian Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005) was an American Baptist pastor and conservative author. He served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979–1980 and 1986–1988).
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
— Burton Abbott, American convicted rapist and murderer (15 March 1957), to prison physician Dr. David Schmidt prior to execution by gas chamber "The future is just old age and illness and pain... I must have peace and this is the only way." [23] — James Whale, English film and theater director and actor (29 May 1957), in his suicide note ...
Adrian Rogers served as president for a single term in 1979–1980 and then again for two consecutive terms in 1987–1988 and 1988–1989. When the 2020 Annual Meeting was cancelled for the first time in 75 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic , incumbent president J.D. Greear 's term was extended to a third year despite the normal term limit ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
In 1904, a railroad line owned by the Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (later known as Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway or Katy) from Oklahoma City reached Cleveland and crossed the Arkansas River into Osage County. On May 27, 1904, the first oil well was spudded near the community, and it caused an influx of oil workers and other people.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections, OK: Gunfire 2012-05-20: Police Officer Justin Durwood Maples [358] Cleveland Police Department, TN: Automobile accident 2012-05-26: Trooper Amanda Dorcas Anna [359] New York State Police, NY: Automobile accident 2012-05-28: Detective Jeremy Stephen Bitner [360] Englewood Police Department, CO: Vehicular ...
George Cummings, 86, American guitarist (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) and songwriter. [391] Mircea Diaconu, 74, Romanian actor (The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians) and politician, minister of culture (2012) and MEP (2014–2019), colon cancer. [392] Rachel Dror, 103, German-Israeli teacher and Holocaust survivor. [393]