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History on the 28th of January

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28 Jan 1581 RELIGIOUS Scotland's King James VI, who in 1603 would become England's James I, signed the Second Scottish Confession of Faith.
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28 Jan 1822 RELIGIOUS Birth of William D. Longstaff, English philanthropist. A close acquaintance of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, Longstaff is better remembered today as author of the hymn, "Take Time to Be Holy."
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28 Jan 1834 RELIGIOUS Birth of Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author. A man of widely diverging interests, he published numerous books on history, biography, poetry and fiction. He also penned the enduring hymns, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day is Over."
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28 Jan 1916 WW2 Rear Admiral Hisamori Taguchi was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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28 Jan 1918 WW2 The Russian Orthodox Church was formally separated from the state. Religious belief was still permitted by the regime provided it did not threaten public order or trespass into politics. 
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28 Jan 1918 WW2 The Council of People's Commissars (the Soviet governing body) formally declared the formation of the Red Army. 
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28 Jan 1930 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived in Nanjing, China with the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Lampson, aboard. 
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28 Jan 1931 WW2 USS R-5 transited the Panama Canal. 
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28 Jan 1932 WW2 The First Battle of Shanghai began in China. 
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28 Jan 1932 WW2 Chinese General Ding Chao's troops captured Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China from collaborationist forces. 
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28 Jan 1935 WW2 Émile Bertin was commissioned into service. 
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28 Jan 1938 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt requested funding from the United States Congress to build a "Two-Ocean Navy". 
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28 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 torpedoed Greek merchant ships Eleni Stathatou 100 miles off of Brest, France at 0252 hours. With Eleni Stathatou keeping afloat, U-34 remained to observe. At 0421 hours, after observing that the Greek ship was now moving once again, U-34 fired her last torpedo and sank the ship, killing 12. 
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28 Jan 1940 WW2 Soviet artillery continued to bombard Poppius, Million, and other forts along the Finnish defensive Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isthmus. Meanwhile, Finnish troops eliminate Soviet forces trapped in the Pieni-Kelivaara pocket on the north shore of Lake Lagoda, capturing 2 field guns, 2 anti-tank guns, 9 mortars, 9 machine guns, and 100 rifles. 
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28 Jan 1940 WW2 Chinese troops captured Lucheng, Shanxi Province, China. 
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28 Jan 1940 WW2 Japanese 26th Division attacked Wuyuan, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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28 Jan 1940 WW2 USS Helena departed Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
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28 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank Greek coal carrier Flora off 20 miles off Portugal at 2000 hours. 
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28 Jan 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS Naiad spotted German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Iceland-Faroes passage at 0649 hours. Fearing this might lead to the arrival of a stronger British fleet, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau turned to the north, attempting to enter the Atlantic Ocean via the Denmark Strait instead. 
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28 Jan 1941 WW2 Italian artillery at Wadi Derna, Libya continued to pin down Australian 6th Division. 
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28 Jan 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Luigi Torelli sank British submarine Urla 250 miles west of Ireland; the entire crew of 42 survived. 
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28 Jan 1941 WW2 British corvette HMS Bluebell and destroyer HMS Westcott collided off Ireland; the former would be under repair until 4 Mar. 
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28 Jan 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Upholder damaged German ship Duisberg off Cape Bon, Tunisia. Duisberg was towed to Tripoli, Libya for repairs. 
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28 Jan 1941 WW2 B-10 medium bombers of the Thai 50th Bomber Squadron, escorted by 13 Hawk 75N fighters of the Thai 60th Fighter Squadron, bombed Sisophon, Cambodia, French Indochina. The effective date of the cease fire to be signed on 31 Jan 1941 would backdate to this date. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 After gaining 60 miles, Timoshenko's offensive in Ukraine began to slow. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was promoted, with responsibility growing to include the Bryanksk, Kalinin, and West Fronts. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops occupied Rossel Island off southwestern New Guinea. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 British fighter ace Robert Roland Stanford Tuck (27 kills) was shot down and was taken prisoner in Germany. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Münster, Germany was bombed for the first time during the night of 28-29 Jan 1942 by mainforce aircraft of RAF Bomber Command. It would ultimately be bombed on six occasions, destroying 65% of the city. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Mortars and machine guns of the US 4th Marine Regiment were assigned to the 57th Philippine Scout Regiment at Longoskawayan Point, Bataan on Luzon, Philippine Islands, where the combined US-Filipino effort would soon wipe out the Japanese landing attempt. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops outflanked and wiped out Indian 22nd Brigade at Layang Layang, British Malaya. Meanwhile, US B-17 bombers based on Java, Dutch East Indies bombed Kuala Lumpur. After sundown, British gunboats HMS Dragonfly and HMS Scorpion evacuated British troops at Rengit. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 US B-17 bombers based on Java, Dutch East Indies bombed Japanese positions at Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Thorn sank Italian tanker Ninuccia one mile off Cape Planka, Yugoslavia at 1121 hours. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Indian troops destroyed port facilities at Benghazi, Libya as German forces approached. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht bulletin by the headquarters of the German Wehrmacht. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Dispersed ships of Allied convoy QP-6 began to arrive in Allied waters. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 US 49th Pursuit Squadron, flying P-40 fighters, arrived in Australia by ship. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Four Australian Catalina aircraft from Port Moresby, British Territory of Papua attacked Rabaul, New Britain, causing little or no damage. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Pemangkat, Dutch Borneo. At Balikpapan, part of the assault force for Bandjermasin, the capital of Dutch Borneo, departed by transports. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 In Berlin, Germany, fighter ace Adolf Galland was awarded Diamonds to his Knight's Cross by Adolf Hitler for achieving 94 kills. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille arrived in Sicily, Italy. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Chechen rebel leader Khasan Israilov formed the anti-Soviet organization Special Party of Caucasus Brothers. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 RAF Bomber Command's No. 8 (Bomber) Group was disbanded. 
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28 Jan 1942 WW2 Phil Zampini became Robert Johnson's flight instructor at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics in Sikeston, Missouri, United States. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Osaka, Japan. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Germany finally mobilized her work force for total war, requiring registration of men aged 16 to 65 and women aged 17 to 50. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Vasily Chuikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the first time. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Hubert Lanz was promoted to the rank of General der Gebirgstruppe and was made the commanding officer of Armeeabteilung Lanz army detachment. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo sighted Fais Island, Caroline Islands; she attempted to shell the Japanese phosphate refinery, but the appearance of a Japanese freighter forced her to abandon the attack. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 As the German forces in Stalingrad, Russia were now divided into three pockets by Soviet attacks, Hermann Göring messaged Friedrich Paulus, noting that Paulus' stubborn defense, even if it led to self sacrifice, would go down in German history as one of the most heroic tales. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the first time; this was the very first Order of Suvorov given out by the Soviet Union. 22 more Suvorov 1st Class medals were given out on this date after Zhukov's award. 
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28 Jan 1943 WW2 The US Army announced a plan to form a special Nisei combat team from Americans of Japanese parentage. Within days they receive over 10,000 volunteers for only 2,500 places. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 In an effort to stop Spain from supplying Germany with war materials and to withdraw her troops from the Russian Front, the US and Britain announced an oil embargo. This embargo will last about 4 months until Franco finally gave in. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 Several German divisions were cut off and surrounded near Cherkassy, Ukraine. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Darwin, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish ended her eighth war patrol. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse began an 80-hour chase of a Japanese convoy off the Palau Islands. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 677 RAF aircraft (432 Lancaster, 241 Halifax, and 4 Mosquito) attacked Berlin, Germany; 46 aircraft were lost. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 Canadian prisoner of war Lieutenant Bill Millar hid underneath a Germany truck at the Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany during an air raid and was able to escape the camp later when the truck was driven out of the camp. His fate after the escape was unknown, however. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Task Group 19.18 departed. Part of ACORN-21 departed. Part of GROPAC-4 departed. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Grayback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her tenth war patrol. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ordered a counterattack against the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho exited the drydocks at Innoshima, Hiroshima, Japan and moved to Kure, Japan. 
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28 Jan 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-56A arrived at Arkhangelsk, Russia. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 was transferred aboard USS Hancock. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Cruiser Köln departed for Wilhelmshaven, Germany for repairs. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Spadefish attacked a Japanese convoy in the southern Yellow Sea and sank Sanuki Maru. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Soviet troops captured Katowice, Poland. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Minamitorishima (Marcus Island), Japan. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen stepped down as the commanding officer of the German 25th Army. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pompon attacked a Japanese convoy off Syo-kokuzan To in the Yellow Sea as a member of a wolfpack and observed the sinking of two Japanese ships by fellow submarine USS Spadefish. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sennet departed the Bonin Islands area. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USAAF pilot Major Fredrick Austin Borsodi was killed when the tail of his YP-80A jet fighter disintegrated, causing the aircraft to crash. It was due to the failure of exhaust pipes in the tail section of the aircraft. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops captured Pauk, Burma. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Captain Giles Elza Short was named the commanding officer of USS Ticonderoga. She then departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands for Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, United States via Pearl Harbor. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 The Ardennes bulge was finally pushed back to its original lines, thus ending the Battle of the Bulge. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 Roza Shanina passed away in near the Richau estate three kilometers (1.9 miles) southeast of the village of Ilmsdorf, Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany (now Novobobruysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) from wound received in combat on the previous day. 
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28 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Brill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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28 Jan 1947 WW2 USS Sterlet departed Japan. 
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28 Jan 1947 RELIGIOUS In NY City, a copy of the 1640 Bay Psalm Book was purchased at an auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries for $150,000 --the highest price ever paid to date for a single volume. (The original title of the book was: "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.")
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28 Jan 1948 WW2 Erich Mußfeldt was executed by hanging in Poland for crimes committed during his tenure at Majdanek and Auschwitz Concentration Camps. 
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28 Jan 1948 WW2 Arthur Coningham departed Lisbon, Portugal. 
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28 Jan 1977 RELIGIOUS The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith published an 18-page document ruling out the admission of women to the Roman Catholic priesthood because women lacked a "natural resemblance which must exist between Christ and his ministers."
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