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Joseph W. Tkach (1927–1995) was an American pastor who was the appointed successor of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God. Tkach was ordained as a minister in the church in 1957, and became President and Pastor General of the church upon the death of Armstrong in 1986. Tkach spearheaded a major doctrinal transformation of the Worldwide Church of God, abandoning Armstrong's unconventional doctrines and bringing the church into accord with mainstream evangelical Christianity. Changes included encouraging members to seek proper medical treatment while retaining faith in God as a healer, permitting interracial marriage, and allowing work on the Sabbath. The changes that he implemented stirred much controversy among those who continued to follow Armstrong's theology. Dissenters labeled the changes as heresy and many left to form new church organizations. His son, Joseph Tkach Jr., continued his work and in 1997 the Worldwide Church of God became a member of the National Association of Evangelicals. Within the mainstream Christian community, some have hailed Tkach's reforms, which brought a church from the fringe to orthodoxy, as unprecedented. (Full article...)

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March 16: Purim ends at sundown (Judaism, 2014); Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires

597 BC – Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.
1190 – Around 150 Jews inside York Castle in York, England, committed mass suicide rather than be killed by a mob.
1926 – American scientist Robert H. Goddard (pictured) launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which flew for two-and-a-half seconds before falling to the ground.
1978 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by Mario Moretti and the Red Brigades.
2003 – American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah as she was protesting the demolition of a house.

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USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy, photographed while passing through New York City on December 25, 1916. Outfitted in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Arizona passed through New York multiple times during her career. Arizona was one of the battleships built during the so-called "super-dreadnought" period; as a part of the Pennsylvania class of battleships, she was also considered one of the Standard-type battleships of the United States Navy.

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