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History on the 26th of January

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26 Jan 1564 RELIGIOUS Following the closing of the Council of Trent, Pius IV ratified its enactments by the bull "Benedictus Deus." Included among the Tridentine decisions were decrees concerning the creation of an Index of Prohibited Books (a list of condemned authors and their works).
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26 Jan 1779 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.'
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26 Jan 1906 RELIGIOUS The first General Assembly of the Church of God convened. Headquartered today in Cleveland, TN, the Church of God is the oldest Pentecostal Church denomination in the U.S., with roots going back to 1886.
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26 Jan 1916 WW2 The world first tank "Big Willie" was driven out of the works of William Foster & Co. of Lincoln, England, United Kingdom by Charlie Maughan. Built in only ten weeks from scratch "Big Willie" was to be taken by rail to commence Army trials at Hatfield. 
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26 Jan 1917 WW2 Robert Saundby was transferred from No. 24 Squadron to the No. 41 Squadron RFC. 
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26 Jan 1917 WW2 Louis Zamperini was born in Olean, New York, United States. 
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26 Jan 1918 WW2 George Patton was promoted to the temporary rank of major. 
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26 Jan 1921 WW2 France and the United Kingdom recognized the Republic of Estonia. 
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26 Jan 1925 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's sixth child, Princess Tomoko, married Prince Asaakira Kuni. 
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26 Jan 1926 WW2 Prince Nguyen Phuc Vinh Thuy ascended to the throne as Emperor Bao Dai of Nguyen Dynasty Vietnam. 
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26 Jan 1931 WW2 Production of T-26 light tanks began in Bolshevik Factory in Leningrad, Russia. 
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26 Jan 1937 WW2 Civilian Captain Nai Haremaro took command of the Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru. 
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26 Jan 1937 WW2 Pickerel was commissioned into service. 
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26 Jan 1937 WW2 A second German Civil Service Law was introduced which extended the influence of the NSDAP over Reich State appointments. The new law permitted promotions to be afforded only to those with the correct political (i.e. Nazi) attitude. It afforded Nazi employees the right to refer work problems directly to the Party rather than through their employer, and also provided for the removal of any official who did not support the National Socialist cause (although by this time very few such officials continued to remain in office). 
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26 Jan 1938 WW2 Heinrich Himmler gave notice of comprehensive measures against "elements avoiding work"; employment offices were to report those capable of work who had declined job offers twice and those who left employment after a short time. 
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26 Jan 1939 WW2 President Franklin Roosevelt approved atomic research efforts in the US. 
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26 Jan 1939 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived in Warsaw, Poland and spoke to Polish leaders regarding the German wish to annex Danzig and to have Poland sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. 
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26 Jan 1939 WW2 Nationalist forces occupied Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War. 
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26 Jan 1940 WW2 American minesweeper Quail arrived at Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to construct a naval air station. 
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26 Jan 1940 WW2 Expiration of the US-Japan Trade Treaty of 1911. 
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26 Jan 1940 WW2 British Royal Navy ship Durham Castle, a recently acquired passenger ship, hit a mine laid by German submarine U-57 five days earlier on 21 Jan 1940, sinking 11 miles off of the northeastern coast of Scotland. 
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26 Jan 1940 WW2 Believing that Germany would not be able to directly attack Britain, about half of the 750,000 children evacuated from London, England, United Kingdom since Sep 1939 had returned to their homes in the city. 
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26 Jan 1940 WW2 Roderick Carr was named the commanding officer of No. 61 Group RAF. 
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26 Jan 1941 WW2 In Libya, Italian troops evacuated Mechili while Allied troops captured Derna. General O'Moore Creagh of British 7th Armored Division was ordered to cut the coastal road south of Benghazi. 
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26 Jan 1941 WW2 German submarine U-105 attacked British ship Lurigethan and the escorting corvette HMS Arabis 200 miles west of Ireland; Lurigethan was already damaged by German aircraft three days earlier. Two torpedoes were fired at HMS Arabis, both of which missed. At 0212 hours, Lurigethan was hit and sank, killing 16. HMS Arabis picked up 35 survivors. 
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26 Jan 1941 WW2 HMS Hermes detected a French blockade runner in the Indian Ocean south of South Africa, but lost the ship in the pursuit. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 Heinrich Himmler announced his plan to send 100,000 Jewish men and 50,000 Jewish women to concentration camps for use as forced laborers within the following four weeks. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 The first American troops arrived in the United Kingdom via Allied convoy AT10; the 3,900 troops of US 34th Division would set up camp in Northern Ireland. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-125 sank American ship West Ivis 100 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States at 0556 hours, killing the entire crew of 45. Three hours later at 0842 hours, 325 miles southeast of Nova Scotia, Canada, U-106 sank British ship Traveller, killing all 52 aboard. 200 miles south of Newfoundland, U-582 sank British tanker Refast at 1858 hours; 10 were killed, 32 survived. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Rangoon, Burma for the fourth day in a row. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 British, Indian, and Australian troops began to withdraw from the Batu Pahat-Ayer Hitam-Jemaluang defensive line in British Malaya as ordered by Lieutenant General Arthur Percival on the previous day. On the east coast, 1,500 troops of the British Brigade of the Indian 11th Division were cut off at Rengit. At 1100 hours, Japanese 18th Division landed at Endau, 80 miles north of Singapore. At 1500 hours, RAF biplane aircraft attacked the Endau landing force, causing little damage and losing 5 Vildebeest aircraft. At 1630 hours, destroyers HMS Thanet and HMAS Vampire departed Singapore to attack the Japanese ships at Endau. Finally, at 1730 hours, another air attack was conducted by 9 Vildebeest and 3 Albacore aircraft, escorted by some Hurricane fighters; this attack also achieved little, and 9 aircraft were lost. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 US and Filipino troops completed the phased withdraw from the Abucay-Mauban defensive line at Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, which was done over three nights. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops beheaded Australian prisoner of war Lieutenant Lennox Henry at Rabaul, New Britain. On the same day, Three Australian Catalina aircraft from Port Moresby, British Territory of Papua attacked Rabaul, causing minor damage. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team in US Territory of Hawaii reported that there were no radio traffic regarding Japanese carriers in the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands area, thus concluding that the planned US carrier strike in the two island groups should be able to continue without unexpected threats. 
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26 Jan 1942 WW2 Soviet Deputy Navy Commissar Admiral Gordei Levchenko, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in a labor camp for the loss of the Crimea region of Ukraine to the Germans, began to be supported by fellow admirals such as Navy Commissar Nikolai Kuznetsov. Levchenko would eventually be cleared, but he would be demoted to the rank of captain 1st class; he would not return to admiral rank until 1944. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Osaka, Japan. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Voronezh, southern Russia. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo attacked a Japanese convoy 270 miles north of New Guinea, sinking transport Buyo Maru and three others. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Tunny stalked a Japanese trawler starting at about 0530 hours off the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, firing her deck gun to attack only in the afternoon. The trawler escaped her after sundown. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 The US Army-Marine joint division continued to attack westward along the northern coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands intending to envelope Japanese positions. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 Chiang Kaishek held a celebratory dinner for Joseph Stilwell for having recently earned the Distinguished Service Cross medal. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 US bombers conducted a night raid on Rabaul, New Britain; Zero fighters rose to intercept and shot down one B-17 bomber. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a B-24 bomber over Mingaladon, Burma, his 20th victory. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed refitting light cruiser Agano at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish damaged a Japanese freighter in Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands, hitting her with 1 of 2 torpedoes fired. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Whale attacked a Japanese oiler between Truk, Caroline Islands and Japan; 1 of 3 torpedoes fired hit the target but failed to detonate. 
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26 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo attacked a Japanese convoy of four freighters in the Pacific Ocean, sinking transport Fukuei Maru, sinking transport Buyo Maru, and damaging another transport. 11 torpedoes were expended, 7 of which hit. She then surfaced to attack Japanese survivors in lifeboats; this last action would generate some controversy, especially that some of the survivors killed included Indian prisoners of war. Six hours later, she began a three-hour pursuit of the two remaining ships of the Japanese convoy, eventually sinking both (a tanker and a freighter), hitting them with 3 of 8 torpedoes. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 U-869 was commissioned into service with Kapitänleutnant Hellmut Neuerburg in command. She was assigned to the German Navy 4th Submarine Flotilla for training. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander Enrique D. Haskins in command. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 Orde Wingate and William Slim met at Comilla, India; Slim told Wingate that he would provide only one battalion for Wingate's second Chindit operation. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Skipjack prepared to attack a Japanese transport when she discovered a escorting destroyer, Suzukaze, nearby; Skipjack successfully shifted target and sank the destroyer. She suffered flooding from a valve door that failed to close, but she quickly remedied the situation and returned to attack the same convoy, sinking converted seaplane tender Okitsu Maru. 12 torpedoes were expended on this date. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 German submarine U-716 sank US freighter Andrew G. Curtin of Allied convoy JW-56A; 3 were killed, 68 survived. U-360 damaged British freighter Fort Bellingham (convoy civilian commodore's ship), which was later sunk by U-957; 36 were killed, 35 survived. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 US 45th Fighter Squadron, flying P-40 fighters, shot down 10 Japanese aircraft in combat, with 2 further as probables. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Hoe departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Whale set sail for Midway Atoll. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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26 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island was commissioned into service at Astoria, Oregon, United States with Captain Charles F. Greber in command. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Despite being wounded, US Army 2nd Lieutenant Audie Murphy single-handedly repelled tank and infantry attacks on his unit's position at Colmar, France. The action earned Murphy America's highest award for bravery, the Medal of Honor. Beginning as a private and earning a battlefield commission, he finished the war as his country's most decorated soldier with 33 medals and was personally credited with killing 240 enemies. After the war, the baby-faced hero made a fortune as a B-movie film star before being killed in a plane crash in 1971, aged 46. After President John F Kennedy, his grave was the most visited plot in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 German 17th Army received permission to withdraw from Katowice, Poland. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese patrol boat off the Bonin Islands; the single torpedo missed. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops landed on Cheduba Island, Burma; the landing was unopposed. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was put in command of Armeegruppe Weichsel, or Army Group Vistula, as Soviet troops broke through the Gulf of Danzig and isolated three German armies in East Prussia, Germany. Soviet forces were now within 95 miles of Berlin, Germany. Meanwhile, thousands of German refugees were killed while waiting for ships to evacuate them from East Prussia when a nearby ammunition depot was detonated by a Soviet aerial attack. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 23th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 An air burst from a German V-2 rocket over Cotswold Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom caused widespread damage. Another rocket hit Clapham, London at 1045 hours, seriously injuring 25 and lightly injuring 42. Another rocket hit Croydon, London in an open space without causing any injuries. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States for a scheduled overhaul. 
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26 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Commander E. S. Friedrick in command. 
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26 Jan 1946 WW2 Severin Dobrovolsky, a former White Russian military officer who later became loyal to the Soviet Union and acted as a Soviet spy in Finland, was executed for counter-revolutionary activities. 
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26 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Saint Paul arrived at Terminal Island Naval Shipyard near Los Angeles, California, United States for repairs. 
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26 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Shamrock Bay arrived at Seattle, Washington, United States, bringing back US servicemen from Pacific bases. 
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26 Jan 1951 RELIGIOUS The Temple Beth Israel of Meridian, Miss. became the first Jewish congregation to allow women to perform the functions of a rabbi.
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26 Jan 1967 RELIGIOUS Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'What God has done is well done.'
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