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History on the 10th of January

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10 Jan 1514 RELIGIOUS The first section of the Complutensian Polyglot (the world's first multi-language Bible) was printed at Alcala, Spain. (The complete translation was published in 6 volumes in 1517.)
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10 Jan 1538 RELIGIOUS Regarding the doctrine of purgatory, German Reformer Martin Luther reported in a "Table Talk": 'God has placed two ways before us in His Word: salvation by faith, damnation by unbelief (Mark 16:16). He does not mention purgatory at all. Nor is purgatory to be admitted, for it obscures the benefits and grace of Christ.'
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10 Jan 1772 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop and circuit rider Francis Asbury penned this prayer in his journal: 'Let me sooner choose to die than sin against thee, in thought, word, or deed.'
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10 Jan 1858 RELIGIOUS English poet Frances Ridley Havergal, 21, while on a visit in Germany, penned the verses which later became her first popular hymn: "I Gave My Life for Thee."
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10 Jan 1912 WW2 Keen to emulate the American Eugene Ely, Lieutenant Charles Samson flew a Short S.27 aircraft off the forecastle of HMS Africa. He then repeated the feat at a naval review at Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom the following May from the battleships Hibernia and London. 
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10 Jan 1919 WW2 Georg von Bismarck became a member of the Reichswehr as a member of the 16th Infantry Regiment. 
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10 Jan 1919 WW2 Henry Arnold was made the District Supervisor of Western District of the Air Service of the US Army. From his office at Rockwell Field, San Diego, California, United States, he was responsible for the demobilization of 8,000 airmen and surplus aircraft. 
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10 Jan 1920 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was transferred to the German 5th Infantry Regiment. 
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10 Jan 1922 WW2 Marcel-Bruno Gensoul was promoted to the rank of capitaine de frégate. 
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10 Jan 1923 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was transferred to the German 5th Infantry Regiment. 
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10 Jan 1924 WW2 Georg von Bismarck joined the German 5th Prussian Infantry Regiment as the commanding officer of a motorized company. 
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10 Jan 1929 WW2 P2Y aircraft took its first flight, piloted by Lieutenant A. W. Gorton out of Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington DC, United States. 
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10 Jan 1932 WW2 German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning met with Adolf Hitler again regarding the upcoming re-election and President Paul von Hindenburg's old age. Brüning continued to argue for keeping Hindenburg in power without an election, and he still failed to recruit Hitler to his cause. 
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10 Jan 1938 WW2 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops landed in and near Qingdao, Shandong Province, China to reinforce the Japanese Army and Navy personnel already in the city. 
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10 Jan 1939 WW2 Fuciliere was commissioned into service. 
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10 Jan 1939 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China during the day. 
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10 Jan 1940 WW2 Hitler set the start date for Fall Gelb, the invasion of France and the Low Countries for 17 Jan; however, a German aircraft with plans aboard (against orders) crashed in Belgium, and Belgian intelligence recovered some of the papers. Germany postponed the invasion indefinitely in light of this breach. 
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10 Jan 1940 WW2 Unofficial peace talks began between the Soviet Union and Finland, but the fighting continued. 
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10 Jan 1941 WW2 A new German-Soviet treaty was signed confirming spheres of influence and affirming trade agreements. 
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10 Jan 1941 WW2 Greek troops, with the recently arrived Greek 5th Cretan Division, captured Klisura Pass in Albania after 4 days of fighting. 
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10 Jan 1941 WW2 300 German bombers attacked Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom overnight, killing 171 and wounding 430. The Guildhall was heavily damaged and would remain closed until 1959. 
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10 Jan 1941 WW2 Italian torpedo boats Vega and Circe attacked the Allied convoy Excess in the Strait of Sicily at dawn; cruiser HMS Bonaventure's gunfire and destroyer HMS Hereward's torpedo sank Vega. At 0815 hours, the convoy made rendezvous with the Mediterranean Fleet (with two battleships, one carrier, and seven destroyers). Shortly after, destroyer HMS Gallant hit a mine, killing 58 and wounding 25; she was towed to Malta for repairs. At 1235 hours, German Stuka dive bombers, newly arrived to the theater, attacked HMS Illustrious, hitting her with 6 bombs, destroying the elevator and starting fires in the hangar deck, killing 124; she also sailed to Malta to receive repairs. Illustrious being out of service meant the Axis now had air superiority in the theater. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Japan declared war on the Netherlands. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Royal Navy Fighter School's commanding officer Lieutenant Commander H. P. Bramwell made the first landing of a modified Spitfire fighter aboard carrier Illustrious in the River Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. The success led to the development of the carrier version of the Spitfire design, Seafire. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Kapitän zur See Friedrich Karl Topp of German battleship Tirpitz declared the ship to be fully operational. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese tanks and infantry attacked the remnants of the Indian 11th Division at Serendah, Malaya, 15 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, which was being evacuated. Out to sea in the Gulf of Siam, Dutch submarine O 19 sank Japanese freighters Akita Maru and Tairyu Maru. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Convoys MS1 and MS2 departed from Australia with Australian troops for Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Stingray sank Japanese cargo ship Harbin Maru 40 miles south of Hainan, China. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-584 sank Soviet submarine M-175 75 miles north of Murmansk, Russia at 0722 hours; all 21 aboard were killed. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 US-Filipino troops held the Abucay-Mauban defensive line on the Bataan peninsula on Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Pickerel sank Japanese gunboat Kanko Maru off Davao Gulf, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 British destroyer Legion and Dutch destroyer Isaac Sweers attacked German submarine U-374 with 43 deptch charges northeast of Sidi Barrani, Egypt between 1700 and 2000 hours; U-374 escaped, but the damage sustained caused her to lose the ability to submerge. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Thrasher sank Italian ship Fedora 120 miles west of Patras, Greece. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet 29th Army attacked north of Rhzev, Russia while Soviet 39th Army moved northwest of the city, aiming to surround the German 9th Army based in the city. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Erwin Rommel wrote a letter to his wife, expressing optimism despite Allied success in Operation Crusader, mentioning General Ludwig Cruewell's bout with jaundice, and the cold nights in the desert of North Africa. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 After sundown, German bombers attacked several cities and towns in England, United Kingdom; oil pipelines were damaged at Ellesmere Port in western England while utility services were interrupted in Liverpool just to the north. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Allied convoy NA1 departed Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom with British destroyers HMS Beverley, HMS Hamilton, and HMS Rockingham in escort. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Naka arrived at Tarakan, Dutch Borneo. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Wilhelmshaven, Germany was bombed for the first time by main force aircraft of British RAF Bomber Command; the raid would last through the early hours of the next date. Wilhelmshaven would ultimately be bombed on nine occasions, destroying 13% of the city. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 The Roberts Commission completed its investigation work at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii and departed for Washington DC, United States. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 Douglas MacArthur traveled from Corregidor to Bataan in the Philippine Islands, visiting forward command posts, speaking to officers but generally refusing to speak to enlisted men. When subjected to sporadic Japanese shelling when walking across a small clearing, he was observed to walk confidently without flinching. 
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10 Jan 1942 WW2 USS San Diego was commissioned into service with Captain Benjamin Perry in command. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Argonaut attacked a Japanese convoy of five freighters and three destroyers southeast of New Britain, en route from Lae, New Guinea to Rabaul, New Britain. She hit one destroyer with a torpedo, but the other two closed in and sank her with depth charges and gunfire. 102 were killed, which was the worst submarine loss in WW2. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 The US Army 25th Division launched an offensive out of the Hill 66 area between the northwest and southwest forks of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 Japanese troops again halted a British assault at Donbaik, Burma. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Runner arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Whale arrived in the Marshall Islands. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 Another Soviet offensive, Operation Ring, began at Stalingrad, Russia. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 The BI-2 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its first flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia (the second flight of the design), reaching an altitude of 1,100 meters and reaching the speed of 400 kilometers per hour. 
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10 Jan 1943 WW2 The Fairey Barracuda torpedo and dive bomber began its operational service with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm with the delivery of twelve Barracuda II aircraft to the reformed No. 827 Squadron. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 Count Ciano and 17 of the other Fascist ministers were found guilty and sentenced to death. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 Deported Libyan Jews (most were from Bengazi) arrived at the Fossoli di Carpi transit camp in Italy. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 Department 7 of the Department for Public Security of the Hungarian Interior Ministry ordered foreigners to be held at the border. This order was given in light of the recent partisan victories in Croatia that caused large number of civilians to flee into neighboring Hungary. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 The last of the Jewish patients in Berlin psychiatric clinics were assembled for deportation to the east. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 A transport of 259 Jews from Stutthof Concentration Camp departed for Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-127 was grounded on the beach of Tanaga Island, Aleutian Islands in heavy weather. Salvaged by the US Coast Guard YMS-127, she could not be economically repaired and was written off in Sep 1944. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 Yamato departed Truk, Caroline Islands for Kure, Japan with three destroyers (Michishio, Asagumo, and Fujinami) in escort. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for battleship Yamato and began repairing light cruiser Agano and tanker Hoyo Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 French police arrested 228 Jews in and near Bordeaux and rounded them up at the Bordeaux synagogue. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 20 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Berlin, Solingen, Koblenz, and Krefeld in Germany. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-34 departed. Part of Air Group 6 departed. Part of Air Group 12 departed. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 In Italy the British X Corps crossed the Garigliano River. 
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10 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Wasp departed Boston, Massachusetts, United States for Hampton Roads off Virginia, United States. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 Female prisoners of Uckermark Concentration Camp who were not able to work were exterminated. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 German 7.Gebirgs Division retreated from Lätäseno, Finland. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 Heavy cruiser USS Chicago (CA-136) was commissioned with Captain Richard R. Hartung in command. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 A Japanese Army special attack aircraft damaged USS Le Ray Wilson in the Philippine Islands. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 45 Japanese Army Renraku-tei special attack boats attacked American ships in Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands, sinking 2 LCI gunboats and damaged a few others. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer attacked a Japanese convoy in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, expending 17 torpedoes and observing 8 hits. She claimed the sinking of an oiler, a freighter,and a destroyer, but ultimately was only given credit for the sinking of Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No. 42. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The first 2 enlisted WAVES arrived for duty this date. 
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10 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga and the other ships of Task Force 38 entered the South China Sea via Bashi Channel. 
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10 Jan 1946 WW2 László Bárdossy passed away. 
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10 Jan 1946 WW2 Chinese Nationalist troops captured Pingquan County, Hebei Province, China. 
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10 Jan 1946 WW2 Sergei Kruglov officially assumed the role as the head of Soviet NKVD. 
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10 Jan 1947 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'May we resolve, God helping us, to be part of the answer, and not part of the problem.'
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10 Jan 1948 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Okinawa, Japan. 
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10 Jan 1949 WW2 Du Yuming was captured by communist forces at the Battle of Xubang (also known as the Huaihai Campaign) in Yongcheng, city of Shangqiu, Henan Province, China. 
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