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Religion
The Oxford Group is founded at Oxford University by German-born U.S. evangelist Frank (Nathan Daniel) Buchman, 43, who claims to have had a vision of the Cross in the English lake district in 1908. Buchman has served as a missionary for the YMCA in Japan, Korea, and India, he works to "change" lives through his First Century Christian Fellowship, and he will organize groups in the Scandinavian countries, Canada, the United States, South America, and Latin America (see Moral Rearmament, 1939).
Iraq's new Hashemite kingdom establishes Sunni Muslim rule over the nation's Shiite majority, a relationship that will not change in this century.
The Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys is founded at Yangchiang by Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Catholic missionary Francis Ford Xavier, 29.
Siam's Buddhist prince-patriarch Vajirañanovarorasa dies at his native Bangkok August 2 at age 61.