| The Seminary and the Church |
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The World and the Nation |
| Diderikke Brandt (wife of Pastor Nils Brandt) organizes sewing circles to raise money for seminary students |
1850s |
| Formation of Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Northern Illinois |
1851 |
| Norwegian Synod founded |
1853 |
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1850 |
| 1854 |
Commodore Perry "opens" Japan to the West |
| 1858 |
Minnesota becomes a state |
| 1858 |
First Atlantic cable laid
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| 1859 |
Charles Darwin writes On the Origin of the Species |
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| Scandinavian Augustana Synod formed |
1860
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| August Weenaas becomes professor at Scandinavian Augustana Synod seminary in Paxton, Ill. |
1868 |
| Augsburg Seminary founded in Marshall, Wis. |
1869 |
| August Weenaas named president of Augsburg Seminary |
1869 |
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1860 |
| 1861 |
Civil War begins |
| 1861 |
Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations |
| 1863 |
Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1865 |
Civil War ends |
| 1868
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Nobel invents dynamite |
| 1869 |
Completion of transcontinental railway |
| 1869 |
Suez Canal opened |
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| Norwegians withdraw from Augustana Synod |
1870 |
| Mrs. August Weenaas assists husband in early days of Augsburg College |
1870s |
| Augsburg Seminary moved to Minneapolis |
1872 |
| St. Olaf College founded as co-educational school |
1874 |
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Georg Sverdrup named president of Augsburg Seminary
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1876 |
| Norwegian Synod's Luther Seminary founded on Hamline Ave, St. Paul |
1876 |
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1870 |
| 1870
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J.D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Co. |
| 1876 |
National Baseball League founded |
| 1877 |
Bell invents telephone |
| 1879 |
Ibsen produces "A Doll's House" |
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| Mission Society founded with Erick Tou (1889) and J.P. Nogstad (1887) to Madagascar |
1885 |
| Anti-Missourian Brotherhood formed |
1887 |
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1880 |
| 1880 |
Dostoevsky publishes The Brothers Karamozov |
| 1883 |
Northern Pacific Railroad completed |
| 1885 |
Daimler invents internal combustion engine |
| 1886
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Federation of Labor founded |
| 1888 |
Benjamin Harris elected U.S. president
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| 1888 |
George Eastman perfects "Kodak" camera
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| Valborg Hovind Stub (Mrs. H. G. Stub) teaches voice at Luther Seminary |
1890s |
| United Norwegian Lutheran Church (United Church) founded |
1890 |
| Faculty grows to five |
1891 |
| "United Church Seminary" begun in St. Anthony Park, St. Paul |
1892 |
| M. O. Bockman elected president |
1892 |
| Sverdrup and Oftedal resign as professors of United Church |
1893
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| Lutheran Free Church formed |
1897 |
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1890 |
| 1891
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Beginning of wireless telegraphy |
| 1894 |
Sibelius composes "Finlandia" |
| 1895
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Spanish-American War begins |
| 1898 |
British obtain 99 year lease on Hong Kong |
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| Augsburg Seminary and College New Main building completed |
1901
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| President Georg Svendrup dies |
1907 |
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1900 |
| 1901 |
Queen Victoria dies |
| 1903 |
Wright brothers make first powered flight |
| 1903 |
Ford Motor Co. founded |
| 1905 |
Einstein states First Theory of Relativity |
| 1905 |
Haakon VII crowned king of independent Norway |
| 1906 |
San Francisco earthquake |
| 1909 |
Freud lectures on psycho-analysis in U.S. |
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| George Svendrup (son of Georg) elected president |
1911 |
| Half of faculty teach in English, half teach in Norwegian |
1911 |
| Lena Dahl (Mrs. T. H. Dahl) starts Women's Missionary Federation, builds mission house at Luther Seminary |
1911
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| Merger of three Norwegian Church bodies forms Norwegian Lutheran Church in America. (Name changed to Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1947). |
1917 |
| Hauge Synod school, Red wing Seminary, joins in merger to form Luther Theological Seminary |
1917 |
| Hauge Synod's Mission Dove Society (an early women's missionary group) comes into Evangelical Lutheran Church, builds mission housing on campus |
1917 |
| Mary Wee (Mrs. M.O. Wee) organizes Seminary Faculties wives |
1917 |
Hamline site sold.
Faculty totals 10 |
1918 |
| Several Luther Theological Seminary students see active service in World War I |
1918-1919 |
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1910 |
| 1910 |
Stravinsky's "The Firebird" premieres |
| 1911
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Sun Yet Sen elected president of China |
| 1912 |
Titanic sinks |
| 1913 |
Gandhi arrested; passive resistance movement in India grows
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| 1914 |
Panama Canal opened |
| 1914
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World War I begins |
| 1918 |
Lenin assumes power and founds Soviet Union |
| 1919 |
Versailles Armistice ends World War I |
| 1919 |
League of Nations founded |
| 1919 |
Karl Barth writes The Epistle to the Romans
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| 1919 |
U.S. House of Representatives moves to curtain immigration
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| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary opened in Chicago as seminary of the Synod of the Northwest (ULCA) after split with Maywood, Ill. |
1920 |
| Joseph Stump first president |
1920 |
| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary located in Fargo, N.D. |
1921 |
| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary located in northeast Minneapolis until 1940 |
1922 |
| Augsburg College becomes a co-ed institution |
1922 |
| Luther Theological Seminary catalog reflects Norwegian-English bilingual emphasis |
1924 |
| First issue of Northwestern Seminary Bulletin published |
1924 |
| Women's Missionary Societies provide funds for returned missionaries on Northwestern Theological Seminary campus |
1926 |
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1920 |
| 1920
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Warren Harding elected president |
| 1921 |
Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" premieres |
| 1922
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T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland published |
| 1925 |
Scopes Trial begins in Tennessee over theory of evolution |
| 1925 |
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby published |
| 1926 |
First demonstration of television |
| 1927 |
Lindbergh makes first solo transatlantic flight |
| 1929 |
Wall Street crash triggers Great Depression |
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| M.O. Bockman retires, T. F. Gullixson named president |
1930
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| Augsburg Academy closes, height of Depression |
1933 |
| Internship year added to program |
1934
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| George Svendrup dies at age 58 |
1937 |
| Bernhard M. Christensen elected president of Augsburg College and Seminary |
1938 |
| Internship program added to curriculum |
1939 |
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1930 |
| 1930 |
The planet Pluto discovered |
| 1931 |
U.S. population hits 122 million |
| 1932 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president |
| 1933
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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany |
| 1935 |
Dust Bowl |
| 1936 |
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympic games |
| 1936
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Chiang Kai-Shek declares war on Japan
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| 1938 |
Munich Conference between Hitler and Chamberlain |
| 1939 |
Germany invades Poland |
| 1939 |
World War II begins |
| 1939 |
"Gone with the Wind" premieres
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| Pillsbury Mansion in south Minneapolis bought and refurbished for $50,000 |
1940 |
| 145 women form the Northwestern Theological Seminary Auxiliary |
1940 |
| Gracia Christensen (Mrs. Bernard Christensen) establishes "Seminettes" |
1940s |
| Condensed program for preparation of pastors during World War II |
1941 |
| Augsburg Seminary and Augsburg College formally separate |
1942 |
| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary football team challenges Luther Theological Seminary to game |
1942 |
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1940 |
| 1940
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The Battle of Britain begins |
| 1941 |
Hong Kong falls to Japanese |
| 1941
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Dec. 7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
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| 1944 |
June 6 Allies land on Normandy |
| 1944 |
Sartre published No Exit
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| 1945 |
May 8 VE Day, Victory in Europe |
| 1945 |
Aug. 6 Atomic Age begins with bombing of Hiroshima
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| 1945 |
Aug. 16 VJ Day, Victory in Japan |
| 1946 |
First meeting of United Nations General Assembly |
| 1947 |
Dead Sea Scrolls discovered |
| 1947 |
India receives independence
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| 1948 |
Gandhi assassinated |
| 1949 |
Apartheid begins in South Africa |
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| Student Wives Organization starts at Luther Seminary |
1950s |
| Faculty Wives continues with Nora Rogness' leadership |
1950s |
| B.M. Christensen suggests discussion of merger of Lutheran Free Church with other Lutheran bodies |
1950 |
| Gullixson appointed by president Truman to Federal Commission on Resettlement |
1952
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| Gullixson resigns; Alvin Rogness elected president |
1954 |
| Concord begins publication as a theological journal |
1955 |
| Bockman Hall (Old Main) remodeled |
1955 |
| "Seminettes" founded as seminary wives social group |
1956 |
| Dr. Clemens Zeidler becomes president of Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary (1957-1976) |
1957 |
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1950 |
| 1950 |
Outbreak of Korean War |
| 1950 |
Britain recognizes communist China
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| 1950
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National Council of Church in U.S. founded
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| 1952 |
Hydrogen bomb tested |
| 1952
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Reinhold Niebuhr publishes Christ and Culture
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| 1955
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Blacks boycott busses in Montgomery, Ala. |
| 1956 |
Hungarian uprising suppressed by Soviet troops |
| 1956 |
Elvis Presley number 1 on charts |
| 1957 |
Sputnik launched by Soviet Union |
| 1957 |
Desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Ark. |
| 1958 |
NASA founded |
| 1959 |
Fidel Castro become president of Cuba |
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| The American Lutheran Church (The ALC) formed |
1960 |
| Lutheran Church in America (LCA) founded |
1962
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| Lutheran Free Church joins The ALC |
1963 |
| LCA Board of Theological Education recommends Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary seek closer ties to Luther Theological Seminary |
1963 |
| Augsburg Seminary closes and three members of that faculty move to Luther Theological Seminary. Last of total of 710 men graduate |
1963 |
| Discussion begins between boards of Luther and Northwestern Seminaries to lease land from Luther |
1964 |
| First woman theological candidate accepted |
1964 |
| First meeting of Luther-Northwestern Seminary Coordinating Committee to plan integration of the two school's programs |
1966
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Luther and Northwestern class schedules integrated.
|
1967 |
| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary's own building completed on Luther Theological Seminary campus |
1967 |
| New Northwestern building on Luther campus furnished with Auxiliary funding |
1967 |
| Northwestern Seminary moves to former Breck School site |
1967
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| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary joins Consortium of Minnesota Seminaries |
1969
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| Dean Robert Roth represents Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary student protest over the Vietnam War to leaders in Washington D.C. |
1969 |
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1960 |
| 1960 |
John F. Kennedy elected president |
| 1961 |
Berlin Wall erected |
| 1962 |
Cuban missile crisis |
| 1962 |
U.S. Troops move to support Vietnam |
| 1962 |
Vatican II convenes |
| 1962 |
John Glenn first American to orbit earth |
| 1963
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John F. Kennedy assassinated |
| 1964 |
Kenya gains independence; other African countries follow |
| 1964 |
The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1965 |
Cultural Revolution launched in China |
| 1966 |
U.S. population nears 196 million |
| 1966 |
United Methodist Church formed in U.S. with 11 million members |
| 1967 |
"Six-Day War" between Israel and Arab nations |
| 1967
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Hanoi bombed by U.S. planes |
| 1968 |
Student riots in U.S. and France |
| 1968 |
Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated |
| 1969 |
Neil Armstrong sets foot on Moon from Apollo 11 |
| 1969 |
Golda Meir becomes prime minister of Israel |
| 1969 |
Woodstock Festival |
| 1969 |
Ho Chi Minh dies |
|
| Clinical Pastoral Education (C.P.E.) offered for the first time |
early 1970s |
| The Bell becomes news and development publication |
1970 |
| First women ordained in The American Lutheran Church (The ALC) and Lutheran Church in America (LCA) |
1970 |
| Kathryn Ulriden Moen organist and choir director at Northwestern Seminary |
1970
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| Northwestern and Luther Seminaries invited by University of Minnesota to have seminary students enroll in Human Sexuality course |
1972
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| Annelotte Svendsbye forms united group called, LTS Women |
1974 |
| Alvin Rogness resigns |
1974 |
| Lloyd Svendsbye elected president of Luther Theological Seminary |
1975 |
| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary receives Association of Theological Schools accreditation |
1975 |
| Faculty Wives re-emerges as its own group |
1975 |
| Full-fledged Development Department formed |
1975 |
| Lloyd Svendsbye elected Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary president |
1976 |
| "Maximal Functional Unification" between Luther and Northwestern Seminaries begins |
1976 |
| Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary library moved to Luther Theological Seminary's Gullixson Hall |
1976 |
| Northwestern bookstore merged with Luther bookstore |
1976 |
| Food service merged, though two sites exist on campus |
1976 |
| 2,000 women members of Auxiliary |
1977 |
| Master of arts degree program started |
1977 |
| First woman in administration post, Elizabeth Beissel, as assistant dean of students |
1977 |
| Curriculum revision follows self-study |
1977 |
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1970 |
| 1970
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Charles DeGaulle dies |
| 1971 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" longest running Broadway play |
| 1971
|
Vietnam War expands with bombing in Cambodia |
| 1972 |
Nixon visits China |
| 1973 |
Lyndon Johnson dies |
| 1973 |
U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam |
| 1973 |
Violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland at new high |
| 1973 |
"Energy Crisis" at peak |
| 1974
|
Richard M. Nixon is impeached and resigns presidency over Watergate |
| 1975 |
Communists seize Saigon |
| 1975
|
Fifth Assembly of World Council of Churches in Nairobi, Kenya |
| 1976 |
U.S. celebrates bicentennial |
| 1976
|
Pol Pot comes to power in Cambodia |
| 1977
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President Jimmy Carter warns of national "malaise" |
| 1978 |
Camp David Accord between Israel and Egypt |
| 1978 |
U.S. Congress debates Equal Rights Amendment |
| 1978 |
917 die at Jonestown, Guyana |
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| Lloyd Svendsbye advocates full merger of two schools with joint board support |
1980 |
| Lay School of Theology starts with 150 students |
1980 |
| Word & World, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary journal debuted |
1981
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| Full merger secured and name changed to, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary |
1982 |
| Diane Jacobson first woman in tenure eligible position |
1982 |
| Cross-cultural concentration master's degree adopted
Paul Knutson appointed as first campus pastor
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1983
1983
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Chapel of Incarnation and Campus Center dedicated.
Chapel of the Cross retained. |
1985 |
| Faculty supports development of doctoral program |
1985 |
| Half of student are second-career students |
1986
|
| Former bishop Gib Fjellman serves nine-month interim presidency |
1987 |
| Doctor of theology degree program begins |
1987 |
| "Singing the Faith" annual Reformation event begins |
1987 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America formed |
1988 |
| (September) David L. Tiede elected president of Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary |
1988 |
| David Preus, former presiding bishop of The American Lutheran Church, named first director of Global Mission Institute |
1988 |
| Auxiliary name changed to Luther Northwestern Friends |
1989 |
| Faculty Wives group ceases. Friends organization covers many functions. |
late 1980s |
|
1980 |
| 1980
|
Ronald Reagan elected president |
| 1981 |
AIDS first recognized as disease |
| 1981
|
Sandra Day O'Connor first woman on Supreme Court |
| 1984 |
Walter Mondale selects Geraldine Ferraro as democratic vice-presidential candidate
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| 1985
|
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes USSR leader/reformer |
| 1986 |
Martin Luther King Day celebrated first time |
| 1986 |
Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl |
| 1987 |
Minnesota Twins wins World Series |
| 1987 |
Wall Street crash |
| 1987
|
Iran Contra Hearings begins |
| 1988 |
George Bush elected president |
| 1988
|
Federal deficit hits $3 trillion |
| 1989 |
Tiananmen Square demonstration put down |
| 1989 |
Berlin Wall comes down |
| 1989 |
Exxon "Valdez" causes largest ever oil spill |
| 1989 |
San Francisco earthquake |
|
| Rural Ministry program begun with appointment of C. Dean Freudenberger |
1990 |
| Master of sacred music degree program begins |
1990
|
| Seminary clusters begin. Luther Theological Seminary linked with Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Calif. to form Western Mission Cluster |
1992 |
| Revised curriculum implemented/faculty divisions revised |
1993 |
| Library bar codes all books, fully automating collection |
1993 |
| Faculty and staff offices fitted for computers |
1993 |
| Islamic Studies master of arts degree program begins |
1993 |
| School's name changed to Luther Seminary |
1994 |
|
Non-ELCA Lutheran students make up 13% of student body. 18% (nine individuals) of faculty are women. 50% of student body is female.
|
1995 |
| Bea Vue-Benson ordained as first Hmong (woman) pastor |
1995 |
| Smoking banned in seminary buildings |
1997 |
| Augsburg Publishing and Seminary Bookstore share space |
1998 |
|
1990 |
| 1990 |
U.S. responds to Iraqi invasion of Kuwait |
| 1990 |
Germany reunified under Helmut Kohl |
| 1990 |
Gorbashev visits Minnesota |
| 1991 |
"Desert Storm" in Iraq |
| 1991 |
Soviet Union dissolved; Cold War ends |
| 1992 |
War begins in Bosnia |
| 1992
|
Bill Clinton elected president |
| 1995
|
Yitzhak Rabin assassinated in Israel |
| 1997
|
Hong Kong returns to Chinese control |
| 1999 |
President Clinton impeached but not convicted |
|
| 14% of students are ecumenical, 37 non-Lutheran denominations, 50 int'l |
2000 |
"Centered Life" initiative begun
|
2001 |
| Richard Bliese appointed Academic Dean |
2003 |
David Tiede retires as president after 18 years
Richard Bliese named president |
2005 |
| D(istributed) L(earning) M.Div program begun |
2007 |
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2000
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| 2000 |
Disputed presidential election decided by Supreme Court, Bush elected |
| 2001 |
9/11 - Two planes crash into World Trade towers in NYC |
| 2001 |
U.S. invades Afghanistan |
| 2003 |
U.S. invades Iraq |
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