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History on the 13th of January

History
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13 Jan 1501 RELIGIOUS The world's first hymnbook printed in the vernacular was published in Prague. It contained 89 hymns in the Czech language. (The name of the hymnal is no longer known, since the only surviving copy lacks the title page.)
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13 Jan 1635 RELIGIOUS Birth of Philip Jacob Spener, founder of German pietism. The name for the Bible studies (called "collegia pietatis") held in his home came to be associated with his followers, who were afterward called Pietists.
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13 Jan 1691 RELIGIOUS Death of George Fox, 67, English founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Fox left the Anglican church at 23 and founded the Quaker movement in 1660 at age 36.
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13 Jan 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Wadi
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13 Jan 1919 WW2 Celia Hunter was born in Arlington, Washington, United States. 
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13 Jan 1935 WW2 The plebiscite for Saar began; result of votes would later reveal that 90% of residents voted to join Germany. 
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13 Jan 1936 WW2 HMS Apollo was commissioned into service. 
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13 Jan 1936 RELIGIOUS Baptist clergyman B.B. McKinney, 50, wrote the words and tune to the gospel song, "Wherever He Leads, I'll Go," a few days before the opening of a Sunday School convention in Alabama.
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13 Jan 1938 WW2 US Navy and US Marine Corps began the Fleet Landing Exercise No. 4 at Culebra, Puerto Rico; it was to be the largest landing exercise participated by the USMC to date. 
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13 Jan 1939 WW2 US Marine units under Brigadier General Richard P. Williams began its participation in US Navy's Fleet Exercise No. 5 in the Caribbean Sea. 
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13 Jan 1939 WW2 Jean Decoux was named the commander of naval forces in the Far East. 
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13 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-20 torpedoed Swedish steamer Sylvia at 0430 hours northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. Sylvia sank within a minute, taking the lives of the entire crew of 20. 
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13 Jan 1940 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-324 attacked an Axis convoy in the Sea of Aland, but all torpedoes missed. Finnish Navy converted yacht Aura II retaliated with depth charges, but the wooden yacht was destroyed when one of the depth charges exploded in the thrower, killing 26; 15 survived the sinking. 
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13 Jan 1940 WW2 The Yakovlev YA-26 prototype, later to become the Yak-1 fighter, took flight. This prototype would be lost in an accident in Apr 1940. 
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13 Jan 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler postponed the attack of France and the Low Countries. 
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13 Jan 1940 WW2 The German Navy Operations Division reported that while Norway presented strategic importance, Germany should not invade the neutral country if there was little risk of a British violation of Norwegian neutrality. 
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13 Jan 1940 WW2 USS Helena crossed the Equator for the first time. 
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13 Jan 1941 WW2 Wellington bombers of No. 57 Squadron RAF attacked Ostend, Belgium. 
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13 Jan 1941 WW2 RAF bombers attacked the German submarine base at Lorient, France overnight. 
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13 Jan 1941 WW2 Bulgaria stalled in response to German demand to join the Tripartite Pact. 
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13 Jan 1941 WW2 Admiral Jean Decoux ordered Capitaine de Vaisseau Régis Bérenger to plan an attack on the Thai Navy within the coming days. 
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13 Jan 1941 WW2 German aircraft dropped 106 high explosive bombs on Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, damaging the Sherwell Congregational Church on Tavistock Road, City Hospital at Freedom Fields, gas works at Coxside, and Corporation electricity works at Prince Rock (26 killed, 117 wounded). Electricity would be restored on the following day, but gas would not be restored for three weeks. Patrol Officer George Wright and Leading Fireman Cyril Lidstone of Auxiliary Fire Service would be awarded George Medals for putting out a fire on an oil tank that might otherwise have exploded. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 Tirpitz passed through the Kiel Canal and arrived at Brunsbüttel at the canal's western end to refuel. She departed for Wilhelmshaven later on the same day. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Lowestoft, Suffolk and Redcar, Yorkshire in England, United Kingdom during daylight hours; minor attacks were also conducted over Aberdeenshire, Scotland and the Shetland Islands. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-130 sank Norwegian ship Frisco off Nova Scotia, Canada at 0116 hours and Panamanian ship Friar Rock at 0948 hours. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 Allied convoy DM1 arrived at Singapore from Durban, South Africa, delivering 9,100 troops, anti-aircraft guns, and 52 Hurricane fighters (with 24 pilots). 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 West of Moscow, Russia, Soviet 11th Army and German 18th Motorised Division clashed at Staraya Russa, while Soviet 29th, 39th Army, and (further away to the southwest) 11th Cavalry Corps attacked German 9th Army at Rhzev. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft struck Ambon, Dutch East Indies. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 A test pilot of the He 280 prototype aircraft encountered icing problems and was forced to use the aircraft's compressed air ejection seat to bail out. This was the first use of such emergency ejection system in the world. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese Naval General Staff arranged a meeting with the Bureau of Naval Construction to discuss the construction of submarines capable of carrying attack aircraft. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 Allied convoy QP-5 departed Murmansk, Russia. 
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13 Jan 1942 WW2 The Allied conference in London, England, United Kingdom pledged to punish Axis war criminals after the war. 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 The call-up age for unmarried British women was lowered to 19. 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 Casablanca Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill began. 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Division began a westward offensive on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan at 0715 hours. 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Whale sank Japanese freighter Iwashiro Maru in the waters between Kwajalein, Marshall Islands and Truk, Caroline Islands, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 Three transports arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, each containing 1,210 German Jews from Berlin (1,083 of them were sent directly to the gas chambers), 750 Dutch Jews (88 men and 101 women were registered, and the remaining 561 were gassed), and 2,000 Jews of Zambrów ghetto in Poland (148 men and 50 women were registered, and the remaining 1,802 were gassed). 
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13 Jan 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson arrived at RAF Kings Cliffe, England, United Kingdom. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. received the "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews", exposing US State Department's efforts to avoid directly helping Jewish refugees. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 John Basilone was assigned to the 21st Infantry Regiment of the newly formed but not yet activated US 5th Marine Division. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 Irako supplied food to transport Heian Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 Yolande Beekman was captured by German Gestapo agents in France. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 25 RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Essen, Duisburg, Aachen, and Koblenz in Germany; 1 aircraft was lost. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured the high ground north of Cervaro, Italy. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 Commander Junio Valerio Borghese was arrested in connection with the recent mutiny of the "Maestrale" naval infantry battalion of the Italian Navy. 
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13 Jan 1944 WW2 The Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (TsShPD) in the Soviet Union was disbanded. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 German Armeegruppe E finished its withdrawal from Greece and Albania. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 At least 70 Germans were killed when Norwegian saboteurs destroyed the Jørstad Bridge near Snåsa, Norway. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was attacked by two Japanese aircraft in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands; she shot down one, but suffered a bomb hit by the second. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 US First Army attacked near Stavelot and Malmédy in Belgium. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 1st Byelorussian Front advanced toward Pillkallen, Germany (now Dobrovolsk, Russia), meeting heavy resistance from the German 3rd Panzer Army. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 Raoul Wallenberg approached troops of 7th Guards Army of Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front in Budapest, Hungary and requested to meet with Marshal Rodion Malinovsky in regards to the 7,000 Jews in Pest who were under his care. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 Another M6A Seiran aircraft was completed by Aichi. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spot sank two Japanese trawlers with her deck gun in the East China Sea 150 kilometers southeast of Shanghai, China. 
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13 Jan 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom, destroying two trolley buses. 15 were killed and 35 were injured. 
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13 Jan 1946 WW2 USS IX-300 (former German cruiser Prinz Eugen) departed from Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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13 Jan 1947 WW2 Belleau Wood was decommissioned from service. 
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13 Jan 1947 WW2 Cowpens was decommissioned from service. 
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13 Jan 1948 WW2 Bruce Fraser was awarded the Grand Cross of the Norwegian Order of St. Olav. 
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13 Jan 1949 WW2 Chen Changjie received an ultimatum from the Chinese Communists regarding the surrender of Tianjin, China; he again rejected the request. 
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13 Jan 1974 RELIGIOUS A Gallup poll on religious worship showed that fewer Protestants and Roman Catholics were attending weekly services than ten years earlier, but that attendance at Jewish worship services had increased over the same period.
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