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History on the 16th of January

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16 Jan 1545 RELIGIOUS Death of Georg Spalatin, 61, German reformer and friend of Martin Luther. Spalatin's court life allowed him to give secular government a better understanding of Luther's ideas.
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16 Jan 1604 RELIGIOUS At the Hampton Court Conference in England, John Rainolds presented to King James I the motion '...that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible.' Approved the next day, Rainolds' motion led to the 1611 publication of the Authorized (King James) version of the Bible.
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16 Jan 1740 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'If I see a man who loves the Lord Jesus in sincerity, I am not very solicitous to what...communion he belongs. The Kingdom of God, I think, does not consist in any such thing.'
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16 Jan 1786 RELIGIOUS The Virginia Legislature adopted the Ordinance of Religious Freedom, which guaranteed that no man would be forced to attend or support any church. This mandate later became the model for the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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16 Jan 1910 WW2 Walther Schellenberg was born. 
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16 Jan 1919 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's second child, Princess Yasuko, passed away. 
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16 Jan 1921 WW2 In the Japanese Navy, all ships except for battleships, battlecruisers, and cruisers were now named by the Minister of the Navy without the need for Emperor's approval. 
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16 Jan 1931 WW2 Seiji Tsukamoto succeeded Masahiro Ota as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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16 Jan 1931 WW2 Masahiro Ota was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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16 Jan 1939 WW2 Austrian physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch successfully achieved nuclear fission in an experiment in Sweden. 
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16 Jan 1940 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura stepped down as Foreign Minister of Japan. 
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16 Jan 1940 WW2 After penetrating Heligoland Bight, the British submarines Seahorse, Undine, and Starfish were reportedly sunk by the Germans. 
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16 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank the Greek ship Panachrandos in the Bay of Biscay at 0611 hours. She sank within three minutes, killing all 31 aboard. 
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16 Jan 1940 WW2 Due to the compromise of Fall Gelb plans, Adolf Hitler postponed the attack on France and the Low Countries. 
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16 Jan 1940 WW2 British tanker Inverdargle, with 12,000 tons of aviation fuel aboard, struck a naval mine in the Bristol Channel at 1619 hours. All 49 aboard were killed. 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 German submarine U-96 sank British troopship Oropesa with three torpedoes 150 miles northwest of Ireland at 0616 hours; 106 were killed. Survivors drifted in 6 lifeboats, but only 5 lifeboats, containing 143, were found and rescued. 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Luigi Torelli attacked an Allied convoy 350 miles west of Ireland, sinking Greek ship Nicolas Filinis (3 killed, 26 survived). 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 French troops launched a successful counterattack against Thai troops at the villages of Yang Dang Khum and Phum Preav in Cambodia, French Indochina, but poor intelligence forced the French to back off from any territory gained. The Thais were unable to pursue the retreating French, as their forward tanks were kept in check by the guns of the French Foreign Legion. 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille began a period of rest at home in Berlin, Germany. 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 80 German Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers attacked Valletta Harbor, Malta, trying to finish off damaged British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. HMS Illustrious, British destroyer HMS Decoy, and Australian cruiser HMAS Perth, and British ship Essex were damaged, but none sank. 10 German aircraft were lost. 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was founded in Britain. 
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16 Jan 1941 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMT Desiree hit a mine and sank in the Thames estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-402 attacked British troop transport Llangibby Castle of Allied convoy WS15 north of the Azores islands at 1115 hours, blowing off the rudder and killing 26. Despite follow-up attacks by Fw 200 aircraft, Llangibby Castle would reach Horta, Azores for temporary repairs. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Rabaul, New Britain, destroying fuel stores, bomb stockpiles, and other facilities at Vunakanau Airfield. Two Wirraway fighters were scrambled to intercept, but they failed to reached the Japanese aircraft in time. 6 hours later, several flying boats followed up with an attack with fragmentation bombs. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound, and Charles Portal departed Bermuda for Britain by air (Boeing 314 Clipper Flying Boat "Berwick", operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation). 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 The first clash between Japanese and British forces within Burma occurred when a column of the 3rd Battalion of the Japanese 112th Infantry Regiment was engaged by the British 6th Burma Rifles (plus two companies of the 3rd Burma Rifles and elements of the Kohine battalion BFF) at the town of Tavoy (population 30,000 and strategically important as it was the start of a metal road to Rangoon). By the 18th the Japanese had taken the town, having lost 23 dead and 40 wounded, but the morale of the defenders had been badly damaged and the Japanese column was able to move on to Mergui without serious opposition. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands and took part in Operation R. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in US Territory of Hawaii concluded that the Japanese carrier presence in the central Pacific was based at Truk in the Caroline Islands, thus clearing the way for the planned US carrier strike in the Gilbert Island and the Marshall Islands. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese 4th and 5th Imperial Guards Regiments crossed the Muar River in British Malaya before dawn, forcing the Indian 45th Brigade to withdraw from Muar. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Tirpitz arrived at Trondheim, Norway and anchored in Fættenfjord. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese and Filipino-American forces both raced to capture Morong on Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Both sides reached the town around the same time, but the Allies had detected the Japanese first. Taking the opportunity for a surprise attack, more than 20 American cavalry troops charged on their horses, dispersing Japanese troops. It was the last combat charge of horse-mounted American cavalry troops. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet 3rd Shock captured Andreapol, Russia. 
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16 Jan 1942 WW2 German bombers sank British minesweeping trawler HMS Irvana off Yarmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 2. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo conducted sonar tests in Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Australia. Later on the same day, she departed friendly waters for her third war patrol. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a P-40 fighter over Yunnan Province, China, his 15th victory. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 British bombers attacked Berlin, Germany. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 Iraq declared war on the Axis powers. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 Shokaku's assignment was shifted from Main Unit, Mobile Force to the Maintenance Force, Mobile Force. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Grayback fired six torpedoes at a Japanese transport in the Solomon Sea; all torpedoes missed. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Pitomnik Airfield west of Stalingrad, Russia, denying the Germans the ability to fly in supplies and fly out wounded men. 
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16 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Marlin departed Casco Bay, Maine, United States. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 Aircraft from USS Guadalcanal's anti-submarine hunter-killer group sank German Type IXC/40 submarine U-544 in the U-Boat refueling zone northwest of the Azores. There were no survivors. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 The Americans repulsed the last Japanese counterattack to wrap up operations on New Britain. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 Irako supplied food to transport Heian Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 Yamato arrived at Kure, Japan and docked in No. 4 drydock for repairs. Yamato would also receive a sloping plate fitted at a 45-degree angle across the lower corner of the upper void compartment between the two longitudinal inboard bulkheads. This modification, proposed to run the full length of the citadel, was installed only in Yamato in the area affected by the torpedo damage received in the previous month. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse sank Japanese cargo ship Nikko Maru off the Mariana Islands, hitting her with three of four torpedoes fired. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Whale made contact with a Japanese convoy she had been searching for for the past two days in the Philippine Sea, sinking Denmark Maru with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired, but suffered damage from depth charges. USS Seawolf herded Tarushima Maru toward USS Whale, and USS Whale successfully sank Tarushima Maru with torpedoes. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 General Eisenhower assumed the post as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in England, United Kingdom. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and Treasury official Randolph Paul delivered the "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews" to President Franklin Roosevelt. 
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16 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Flier ran aground near Midway Atoll. USS Macaw attempted to pull Flier free, but Macaw would also run aground in the process, causing her to sink. She was eventually pulled free and put into Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for repairs. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 US First and Third Armies linked up near Houffalize, Belgium, while British Second Army attacked near Maas River. The Germans were pushed back to the line prior to the launch of the Ardennes Offensive. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 HMS King George V departed Trincomalee, Ceylon. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga launched Air Group 80 aircraft for strikes on Hainan island in southern China; 5 men and 3 aircraft were lost. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived in Berlin, Germany, and would remain here until the end of his life. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina wrote in her diary "What I've actually done? No more than I have to as a Soviet man, having stood up to defend the motherland." 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked Hong Kong harbor. Japanese sources noted 1,000 civilian deaths and 3,000 wounded, although these numbers were likely to be inflated. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet foreign office in Budapest, Hungary told Sweden that Raoul Wallenberg was in Soviet custody. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 ShCh-307 sank German merchant ship Henrietta Schulze southwest of Liepaja, Latvia. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Luce arrived at San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet troops liberated concentration camps at Czestochowa (800 prisoners) and Lodz (870 prisoners) in Poland. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 German troops evacuated Kielce, Poland. 
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16 Jan 1945 WW2 Aircraft from USS Enterprise struck neutral Portuguese Macau, destroying stores of aviation fuel at the Naval Aviation Center. 
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16 Jan 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Wewak, New Guinea. 
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16 Jan 1946 WW2 Alexander Novikov submitted plans for a reorganization of the Soviet Air Force to Joseph Stalin. 
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16 Jan 1947 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class of the Soviet Union and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion of the Netherlands. 
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16 Jan 1982 RELIGIOUS Great Britain established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
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