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A Joost hurt in Southampton lighthouse
ban effective; Western growers ask Fed drive on racketeers
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1935Michael Turnbull, English bishop[†]
Anthony Michael Arnold Turnbull is a retired Church of England bishop. He was ordained in 1961 and in 1988 he was consecrated as the Bishop of Rochester. In 1994, he became the Bishop of Durham until he retired in 2003. In his retirement, Turnbull continues "preaching and teaching and writing".
1935Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.[†]
Regina Jonas was a Berlin-born Reform rabbi. In 1935, she became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. Jonas was murdered in the Holocaust.