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  1. First Divine Word Missionary arrives in America
  2. Cornerstone laid for St. Joseph's Technical School in Techny, Illinois
  3. Southern missions begin in Mississippi
  4. First English language SVD magazine printed in Techny, Illinois
  5. St. Mary’s Mission House founded in Techny, Illinois
  6. Sacred Heart Seminary opens in Girard, Pennsylvania
  7. Black parish work in the Rust Belt begins
  8. First American-born Divine Word Missionaries ordained in China
  9. St. Francis Xavier Seminary opens in Duxbury, Massachusetts
  10. St. Augustine’s Seminary opens in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
  11. Japanese and Black parish work begins in California
  12. Holy Ghost Mission House opens in East Troy, Wisconsin as a high school seminary
  13. St. Michael's Seminary in Conesus, New York dedicated
  14. American Divine Word Missionaries arrive in the New Guinea Highlands
  15. First Divine Word Missionaries arrive in Ghana
  16. St. Joseph’s Mission House opens in Bordentown, NJ
  17. Mont Saint-Jean-Baptiste Seminary opens in Granby, Québec
  18. Divine Word College opens in Epworth, Iowa
  19. Divine Word Seminary opens in Perrsyburg, Ohio
  20. Missionary work in Appalachia begins
  21. Foundation of the Chicago Province