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History on the 11th of January

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11 Jan 1523 RELIGIOUS German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'It is unchristian, even unnatural, to derive benefit and protection from the community and not also to share in the common burden and expense; to let other people work but to harvest the fruit of their labors.'
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11 Jan 1777 RELIGIOUS Anglican hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A soul may be in as thriving a state when thirsting, seeking and mourning after the Lord as when actually rejoicing in Him; as much in earnest when fighting in the valley as when singing upon the mount.'
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11 Jan 1791 RELIGIOUS In Philadelphia, Episcopal Bishop William White, 43, founded the First Day Society. It became the forerunner of the American Missionary Fellowship, chartered in 1817 and headquartered today in Villanova, PA.
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11 Jan 1907 RELIGIOUS The Church of God, headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee, and with roots going back to 1886, officially adopted its current name.
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11 Jan 1918 WW2 Erwin Rommel was given a staff position at the headquarters of the German LXIV Armeekorp. 
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11 Jan 1932 WW2 Mannosuke Yamaoka succeeded Seiji Tsukamoto as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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11 Jan 1932 WW2 Vice Admiral Akira Goto was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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11 Jan 1933 RELIGIOUS In Hamburg, Germany, the Altona Confession was issued by area pastors, offering Scriptural guidelines for the Christian life, in light of the confusing political situation and the developing Nazi influence on the State Church.
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11 Jan 1935 WW2 Hull was commissioned into service. 
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11 Jan 1935 WW2 Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii to Oakland, California, United States. 
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11 Jan 1936 WW2 Dong Zhao was named the commanding officer of the 28th Division. 
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11 Jan 1938 WW2 Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-23 torpedoed and sank Norwegian coal carrier Fredville, which had just picked up coal from Methil, Scotland, about 100 miles east of the Orkney Islands at 1632 hours. 11 men were killed, 5 men were rescued by a Swedish ship. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 Training began for 350 Hungarian men to fight in Finland. Nearly 25,000 others waited for the approval for their volunteer service. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 Finnish IV Corps pinned Soviet 168th Division north of Lake Lagoda in Finland. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 The Fleet Landing Exercise No. 6 began in the Caribbean Sea, participated by US Navy and US Marine Corps personnel. The Marine participants were the 1st Marine Brigade and the 1st Marine Aircraft Group under the command of Brigadier General Holland M. Smith, taking part. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 Captain Tomozo Kikuchi was named the commanding officer of light carrier Hosho. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Sudetenland Medal. 
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11 Jan 1940 WW2 British oil tanker SS El Oso hit a naval mine and sank 6 miles west of the Bar Lightship, Liverpool, England, at about 1100 hours. 3 men were killed, 32 were rescued by destroyer HMS Walker. 
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11 Jan 1941 WW2 During the night 16 British aircraft from Scampton, Lincolnshire attacked battleship Tirpitz at Wilhelmshaven, Germany to little effect. 
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11 Jan 1941 WW2 Italian 7th Infantry Division Lupi di Toscana and the remnants of Italian 3rd Alpine Division Julia launched a failed counterattack on Klisura Pass in Albania, which was captured by the Greeks on the previous day. 
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11 Jan 1941 WW2 US Task Force 38 in the South China Sea received orders to bombard a Japanese position on the Cam Ranh Bay in Indochina on the next day. 
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11 Jan 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler issued Führer Directive 22, which called for Operation Alpine Violets, which was to deploy German units in North Africa and Albania to aid Italian war efforts. 
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11 Jan 1941 WW2 German Luftwaffe Oberst Werner Ennecerus led a dive bomber attack on British cruisers HMS Gloucester and HMS Southampton 120 miles east of Sicily, Italy, hitting Gloucester with one 500kg bomb that failed to explode (9 killed, 13 wounded) and Southampton with two 500kg bombs (98 killed). Southampton was abandoned by the 727 survivors at 1900 hours, then was scuttled by a torpedo from cruiser HMS Orion at 2000 hours. Further east, the Allied convoy Excess, which the cruisers were protecting, reached their destinations of Malta, Egypt, and Greece. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops began the campaign against the Dutch East Indies by landing on Tarakan island off Borneo. In the face of superior forces, Dutch commanders at Tarakan decided to destroy the 700 oil wells present on Tarakan to prevent enemy use. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise departed from Pearl Harbor to escort transports of US Marines to American Samoa. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 A Japanese submarine shelled US Navy installations at Pago Pago, American Samoa. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops entered Kuala Lumpur, the capital of British Malaya, unopposed, capturing large amounts of supplies and ammunition left behind by the evacuating British and colonial troops. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 2,500 men of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces landed on two sites on Celebes, Dutch East Indies at 0300 hours. At 0900 hours, 334 Japanese paratroopers captured the Kakas seaplane base and the Menado airfield. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet 39th Army moved from northwest of Rzhev, Russia toward the area southwest of the city, further threatening the surround the German 9th Army in the city. A large German supply depot was captured by Soviet troops at Sychevka 50 kilometers to the south. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-577 was damaged by depth charges from a British Swordfish aircraft 30 miles north of Tobruk, Libya. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 After sundown, German coastal guns in France bombarded Dover, England, United Kingdom, causing minor damage to homes. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops on the Menado Peninsula in northern Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze escorted the Japanese invasion force for Menado, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Naka disembarked troops at Tarakan, Dutch Borneo. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Nachi provided support for the landings at Menado, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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11 Jan 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-7b arrived at Murmansk, Russia. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 Soviet troops launched the Novorossiysk-Maikop Offensive Operation in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 Douglas MacArthur's headquarters officially declared Kenneth Walker missing after his aircraft was shot down by Japanese fighters on 5 Jan 1943; Walker personally participated on that mission against orders. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 A transport of 750 Dutch Jews departed from Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands for Sobibór Concentration Camp in Poland. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 Allied convoy RA-51 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Alabama arrived at Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States from Casco Bay, Maine, United States. 
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11 Jan 1943 WW2 Chinese Ambassador Wei Daoming and US Secretary of State Cordell Hull signed the Treaty for Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China in Washington DC, United States. Through this treaty, the Americans gave up territorial claims in China and gave up the American portion of the Boxer Protocol. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 Yamato was spotted by USS Halibut at 1800 hours, but Halibut was unable to attack. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Cod completed her refit at Fremantle, Australia. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 The death sentence was carried out on Count Ciano and 17 others. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 US carrier aircraft attacked Japanese bases throughout Indochina. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 Several hundred Spanish Jews arrested in Greece and imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp were returned to Spain. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 US 8th Air Force launched over 600 bombers against Ascherleben, Braunschweig, and Magdeburg in Germany. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Moji, Japan to escort carrier Chitose to Singapore. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 Leighton McCarthy presented his letters of credentials to President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt, thus becoming the first Canadian ambassador to the United States. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 B-25 bombers of US 42nd Bomb Group attacked Rabaul, New Britain, damaging 8 aircraft on the ground at Vunakanau Airfield. This was the first land-based bomber attack on Rabaul from the Solomon Islands. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 Irako arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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11 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island departed San Diego, California, United States. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 German judge Roland Freisler found Helmuth von Moltke guilty of treason for his works on post-Nazi democracy, and sentenced him to death. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Puffer fired 2 torpedoes at a Japanese patrol vessel in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan; both torpedoes missed. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked a Japanese gunboat east of Taiwan with her deck gun, causing no damage. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 British forces captured La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, northwest of Bastogne. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 General Ronald Scobie signed a truce between the land forces of Greece and the Central Committee of the E.L.A.S. in Athens, Greece. The truce specified a cessation of hostilities from 14 Jan 1945. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 Tatsunosuke Ariizumi met with the officers of Japanese Navy 631st Naval Air Group for the first time. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank a small Japanese freighter with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce shot down a Japanese aircraft off Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands. She set sail toward San Pedro Bay later in the day. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-63 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria was named the head of a new effort to coordinate the operations of NKVD, NKGB, and SMERSH, thus gaining partial control of all Soviet counterintelligence agencies. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet NKVD Directorate for Prisoners of War and Interned Persons (UPVI) was upgraded to the status of a main directorate (GUPVI); Ivan Petrov was named its new chief. 
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11 Jan 1945 WW2 The American coastal minesweeper YMS-14 was sunk as a result of a collision with the destroyer USS Hemdon in the north channel of Boston Harbour, Massachusetts, United States. 
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11 Jan 1946 WW2 Detroit was decommissioned from service. 
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