Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist Mordecai Ham is born in Kentucky - April 2

Among Ham's converts is Billy Graham who makes a declaration of faith at a revival meeting in 1934.

307 - Theodosia of Tyre, having commended Christians who are in chains for their faith in the marketplace, is seized and tortured. When she refuses to recant, she is thrown into the sea. 

1739 - At Kingswood, England, Wesley first preaches in the open air to miners, a decisive step that frees him from dependence upon the favor of Church of England clergy for access to pulpits, but which requires him to swallow his pride.

1844 - Death of Radhanath Das, a well-educated Hindu convert to Christianity, who became an educator in Christian schools, a catechist in homes, a peacemaker among Christians and Hindus, a tract writer, and an evangelist. His death is the result of tending to boys with smallpox.

1877 - Fundamentalist Baptist evangelist Mordecai Ham is born in Allen County, Kentucky. At the end of his ministry, he claimed one million converts – including Billy Graham, who made a declaration of faith at a 1934 Ham meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1914 - Three hundred Pentecostals meet at the Grand Opera House in Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a ten-day conference. Though originally intended merely to organize annual conferences, the conference birthed the Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism's largest denomination.

1952 - Death in New York of Samuel Zwemer, who had been a notable missionary to Muslims.

1978 - Episcopal Canon Mary Simpson of New York speaks from the pulpit of Westminster Abbey in London, the first ordained woman to preach there.

– Sources: Christian History Institute, christianitytoday.com