Yesterday on Christian History Today, we discussed that South Africa did not appoint its first black Anglican Bishop until 1985, which marked a major breakthrough for the nation. However, just sixty years prior, the religious landscape of South Africa was vastly different.

On February 3, 1985, Desmond Mpilo Tutu became the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa, which marked a historic milestone in South African church history during the final years of apartheid in South Africa.

February 2, 1900 marks the death of Annie Wittenmyer, the first president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), one of the most powerful Christian social reform movements in American history.

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime began to consolidate power in Germany, few individuals were willing to publicly renounce the growing dictatorship. However, one Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, courageously delivered a national radio address against the Nazi regime on February 1, 1933.