33-year-old Albert Mohler introduced as the ninth president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary - March 26

A bullet is fired into the house where English Nonconformist church leader Richard Baxter is preaching, but it whizzes past him, narrowly missing the head of a sister-in-law.

655 - Deusdedit becomes the first English-born Archbishop of Canterbury. He served until 664.

809 - Death of Ludger, a missionary to the Frisians and founder of Munster. He had been notable for his gentleness, but was also courageous – as evidenced by his refusing to respond to messengers from Charlemagne until he completed his devotions, defending his action to the king by saying, “God is to be preferred to you O King and to all men.”

1665 - A bullet is fired into the house where Richard Baxter is preaching, but it whizzes past him, narrowly missing the head of a sister-in-law. Baxter was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, England, who rejected the idea of a limited atonement in favor of a universal atonement, which drew him into a long debate with Calvinist theologian John Owen.

1831 - Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the first black bishop in America, dies at age 71.

1862 - Joseph Henry Gilmore writes the hymn “He Leadeth Me” inspired by a midweek exposition he had given on the 23rd Psalm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1993 - 33-year-old Albert Mohler was introduced as the president-elect of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Mohler previously was editor of The Christian Index, the news journal of the Georgia Baptist Convention.

– Sources: Christian History Institute, christianitytoday.com, @SBCHistory on X/Twitter