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Moon, Sun Myung(Yong Myung Moon)
1920 - Born on the 6th of January in Kwangju Sangsa Ri, P'yongan puk province.
1952 - The Divine Principle, which is the basic scripture of the church, Moon wrote that at the age of 16 he had a vision of Christ in which he was told to carry out Christ's unfinished task.
1946 - Moon began to preach his doctrines in Korea.
1950 - He escaped or was released and fled to South Korea, where he founded what was to become the Unification Church.
1970 - He built his Korean and Japanese enterprises, which included factories that produced armaments, paint, machinery, and ginseng tea, into a multimillion dollar empire, and he began full-scale missionary operations in the United States.
1973 - The Moons moved their headquarters to Tarrytown, N.Y., operating from there an international network of businesses.
1981 - The Unification Church's bid for U.S. tax-exempt status as a religious organization was denied when an appellate court ruled that the church's primary purpose was political rather than religious.
1982 - Moon was convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 18 months in prison, and fined $25,000.
1984 - He went to prison.
1952 - The Divine Principle, which is the basic scripture of the church, Moon wrote that at the age of 16 he had a vision of Christ in which he was told to carry out Christ's unfinished task.
1946 - Moon began to preach his doctrines in Korea.
1950 - He escaped or was released and fled to South Korea, where he founded what was to become the Unification Church.
1970 - He built his Korean and Japanese enterprises, which included factories that produced armaments, paint, machinery, and ginseng tea, into a multimillion dollar empire, and he began full-scale missionary operations in the United States.
1973 - The Moons moved their headquarters to Tarrytown, N.Y., operating from there an international network of businesses.
1981 - The Unification Church's bid for U.S. tax-exempt status as a religious organization was denied when an appellate court ruled that the church's primary purpose was political rather than religious.
1982 - Moon was convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 18 months in prison, and fined $25,000.
1984 - He went to prison.
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