Anne Hutchinson (1591–1643) was a Puritan woman, spiritual adviser, and participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the fledgling Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Born in England, she was the daughter of Francis Marbury, an Anglican minister and school teacher. As an adult, she became attracted to the preaching of the dynamic minister John Cotton, and followed him to New England after he was forced to emigrate in 1633. There she shared her religious understandings with women she helped as a midwife, and held meetings at her home to review recent sermons and criticise ministers who did not adhere to Cotton's "covenant of grace" theology. Her religious convictions and outspoken demeanour riled many magistrates and Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment. She was tried, convicted and banished from the colony in 1637. After moving to what is now The Bronx, then controlled by the Dutch, she was killed in an attack by native Siwanoy in 1643. She has been called the most famous, or infamous, English woman in colonial American history.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1871:

William Woods Holden became the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office due to impeachment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woods_Holden

1913:

Phan Xich Long (pictured), the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Xich_Long

1943:

World War II: The entire population of the village of Khatyn in Belarus was burnt alive by Nazi German forces, with participation from their Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre

1945:

Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Transjordan, and Yemen founded the Arab League, a regional organization that facilitates political, economic, cultural, scientific and social programs designed to promote the interests of the Arab world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_League

1963:

Please Please Me, the first album recorded by The Beatles, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Please_Me

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perfusion: (medicine) The introduction of a drug or nutrients through the bloodstream in order to reach an internal organ or tissues. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perfusion

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If you please to give me leave I shall give you the ground of what I know to be true. --Anne Hutchinson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson