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History on the 29th of January

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29 Jan 0993 RELIGIOUS St. Ulrich, who lived c.890-973, and was Bishop of Augsburg from 923, was canonized at a Lateran Synod. With this action by Pope John XV, St. Ulrich became the first individual in Roman Catholic history formally elevated to sainthood.
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29 Jan 1499 RELIGIOUS Birth of Katherine von Bora, the former German nun who became Martin Luther's wife in 1525 when he was 41 and she 26. During their 21-year marriage, Katie bore Martin 3 sons and 3 daughters. Her death in 1552 followed six years after her husband's in 1546.
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29 Jan 1780 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.'
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29 Jan 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel led the German 9.Kompanie in an attack that broke through French lines, but he soon found his unit surrounded. He broke out and returned to German lines. He would later be awarded the Iron Cross Second Class for this action. 
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29 Jan 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold's son Henry Arnold, Jr. was born. 
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29 Jan 1921 WW2 Tama was commissioned into service. 
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29 Jan 1921 WW2 Kiso was commissioned into service. 
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29 Jan 1921 RELIGIOUS The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.
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29 Jan 1928 WW2 Field Marshal Douglas Haig, the British Army Commander-in-Chief in the First World War, died. 
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29 Jan 1929 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the Engineer Office at the Aircraft Depot in Iraq. 
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29 Jan 1932 WW2 Cruiser Köln completed gunnery drills and training operations. 
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29 Jan 1932 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked the Chapei district of Shanghai, China, causing 1,000 deaths, most of which were civilian. 
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29 Jan 1933 WW2 The SA organization of the Nazi Party was mobilized in Berlin, Germany to guard against what turned out to be a false rumor of a coup d'état against Adolf Hitler's attempt to become the German Chancellor. 
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29 Jan 1936 WW2 The first German airborne battalion was established by the Luftwaffe. 
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29 Jan 1937 WW2 The British Air Ministry placed an order with Handley Page for 180 H.P.52 (later named Hampden) bombers under the specification B.30/36. 
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29 Jan 1939 WW2 The NA-40 prototype aircraft took its first flight; it was judged underpowered and unstable. 
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29 Jan 1940 WW2 Finnish Army 9th Division attacked the Soviet 54th Division starting at 0500 hours near the road junction at Kuhmo, Finland. Meanwhile, Soviets began negotiating with Finland by sending a note stating "Soviet Union has no objection in principle to a possible agreement with the Ryti government" to Sweden. 
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29 Jan 1940 WW2 German aircraft attacked unarmed British lightship East Dudgeon; 7 crew membered died as their lifeboat capsized later. 
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29 Jan 1940 WW2 German submarine U-51 torpedoed and sunk Norwegian ship Eika, carring salt from Spain, at 1530 hours. 14 men were killed, while at 2 (Harald Støle and Alfred Johansen) were rescued by U-51 who would be delivered to Wilhelmshaven on 8 Feb 1940. 
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29 Jan 1940 WW2 Germany renamed Reichsgau Posen, in occupied Poland, to Reichsgau Wartheland. 
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29 Jan 1940 WW2 USS Helena arrived at Montevideo, Uruguay. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 M. A. Korizis took over as the new Premier of Greece upon his predecessor's death. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 British forces based in Kenya led by General Sir Alan Cunningham began attacking the Italian colonial garrison. Meanwhile. the South African troops came ashore in Italian Somaliland. This combined with British advances through Eritrea made the Italian armies in the Horn of Africa increasingly in danger of being surrounded. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Kormoran sank British ships Afric Star (75 captured) and Eurylochus (11 men killed, 43 men captured, 16 crated engine-less bombers captured) 600 miles west of Freetown, British West Africa. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 During the night 25 British Wellington bombers attacked battleship Tirpitz to little effect. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 Ioannis Metaxas died of toxaemia in Athens, Greece. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 Elements of British 7th Armoured Division outflanked Italian artillery overlooking Derna, Libya, forcing General Bergonzoli to withdraw the guns overnight. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 German submarines attacked Allied convoy SC-19 en route from Nova Scotia, Canada to Britain at about 200 miles northwest of Ireland. Between 0348 and 0405 hours, U-93 sank British ship King Robert, British tanker W. B. Walker, and Greek ship Aikaterini. At 0629 hours, U-94 sank British ship West Wales. At 0715 hours, U-106 sank Egyptian ship Sesostris. U-101 also attempted to attack, but she was chased off by British destroyers. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 Submarine Marlin was launched, sponsored by Mrs. John D. Wainwright. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 The prototype Tupolev ANT-58 (which would later be developed into the successful Tu-2 medium bomber) made its maiden flight. 
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29 Jan 1941 WW2 Secret US-British staff talks began in Washington DC, United States regarding the possible US involvement in the European War. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-71 attacked and sank US Army 622-ton transport General Royal T. Frank about 2 miles west of Maui, Hawaii in the in the Alenuihaha Channel. All aboard were lost. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 50 German tanks forced the Indian 4th Infantry Division out of the defensive positions at Benghazi, Libya, capturing British vehicles and supplies. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 German Army General Rommel arrived at Benghazi, Libya. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 After invasion by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, Iran joined the Allies, thus allowing US Lend-Lease supplies to reach the Soviet Union overland. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 The US Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-132 whilst on patrol off the Iceland coast. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Heinrich Himmler issued a directive that established the SS Sonderkommando Dirlewanger as a volunteer formation of the SS. This formation, which drew its personnel from concentration camps and hardened criminals, would become notorious for its war crimes against civilians in Poland. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi provided repair work for destroyer Hatsuharu at Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 British colonial administrators and civilians departed from Johore Bahru, British Malaya for Singapore. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 The 20th Battalion of the Japanese 16th Division penetrated the US-Filipino Orion-Bagac defensive line at several locations at Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands; the reserve 45th Philippine Scout Division was quickly dispatched to halt the Japanese advance. Meanwhile, troops of the Philippine Scouts continued to assault the Japanese beachheads at Longoskawayan Point and Quinauan Point in southern Bataan. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 German submarine U-431 sank British minesweeping whaler HMS Sotra 25 miles northeast of Bardia, Libya at 2146 hours, killing all 22 aboard. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill won a vote of confidence 464-1 in the House of Commons of the British Parliament; Independent Labour Party leader James Maxton cast the only vote against Churchill. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-164 sank US cargo ship Florence Luckenbach 10 miles off the Indian coast; all 38 aboard survived. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Shokaku returned to Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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29 Jan 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Davao, Philippine Islands for Bangka Roads, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 SS-Gruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the SS and Police Leader for the German territory of annexed Austria, was named the head of the RSHA, which encompassed the Gestapo and the Security Service, succeeding the assassinated Reinhard Heydrich. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Six RAF Mosquito aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany, purposely spoiling the party celebrating the Nazi Party's 10th Anniversary, interrupting speeches given by Göring and Goebbels. This celebration marked the first anniversary without a speech from Hitler. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 The Battle of Rennell Island began with land-based Japanese aircraft attacked US Navy TF 18 ships. USS Chicago was damaged and was taken under tow. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 US captured a Japanese 5-digit naval code book. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 German authorities ordered Roma and Sinti people across German-occupied Europe to be rounded up and sent to concentration camps. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Ruth Cheney Streeter was commissioned a major in the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve and became its first Director. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Maikop, Russia. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 German submarine U-255 sank Soviet cargo ship Ufa south of Bear Island, Norway at 0622 hours. To the east, Allied convoy RA-52 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 German officials in Prague dissolved the Jewish Religious Congregation, the supreme authority for Czechoslovakia's Jewish communities. This organization would be succeeded by the Council of Jewish Elders on 8 Feb 1943, which was deemed to be more compliant by the German officials. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Benito Mussolini met with the Commando Supremo. Among the items discussed in this meeting was the plan to salvage, repair, and recommission French battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque into the Italian Navy by the end of 1946. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Nachi departed Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 Kurt Prüfer of German engineering firm J. A. Topf und Söhne visited the Central Construction Office of Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, inspecting the Crematoria II, III, IV, and V construction progress; he estimated the launch of Crematorium II to be around 15 Feb, Crematorium III around 17 Apr, Crematorium IV around 28 Feb, and Crematorium V's completion date depended largely on weather. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 USS Tunny entered waters off Taiwan. 
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29 Jan 1943 WW2 USS S-35 arrived at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 The head of police of the Italian Social Republic in northern Italy ordered that all Jewish communities be dissolved by the next month. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 A transport of 245 prisoners sent by the Bialystok Gestapo arrived at Stutthof concentration camp. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 HMS Activity began convoy escort duties with the Second Escort Group. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 Battleship Missouri was launched, sponsored by Mary Magaret Truman, daughter of Senator Harry Truman. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 In Germany, the Duisburg and Herbouville flying bomb site were bombed by 22 Mosquito aircraft of the RAF. Meanwhile, RAF bombers attacked Berlin and USAAF bombers attacked Frankfurt am Main and Ludwigshafen. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 Total Allied strength at the Anzio, Italy beachhead totaled 69,000 men, 508 guns, and 208 tanks by the end of this day. On the other side of the lines, German strength rose to 71,500 men. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 USS Alabama bombarded Japanese positions on Roi, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was buried at the cemetery at Deelen airfield in the Netherlands. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 Luftwaffe bombers attacked London, England, United Kingdom. 
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29 Jan 1944 WW2 Rohan Amerasekera was promoted to the rank of flying officer in the British Royal Air Force. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Allied troops captured Oberhausen, Germany in the Rhine river basin. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Vidkun Quisling for the last time. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Aircraft from HMS Indomitable struck Palembang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Charr anchored one mile off the Indochina coast for four hours during daylight while a team was dispatched ashore to rescue a downed airman. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 American troops landed near San Antonio, Luzon, Philippine Islands unopposed. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her first war patrol. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 HMS Activity departed Britain with convoy KM 39. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Pompon's conning tower hatch failed during the morning trim dive, causing flooding in the tower, control room, and pump room. She ended her war patrol early. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 The last WW2 P-40 fighter victory against a Japanese aircraft was recorded. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 An Allied convoy originally from Ledo, India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border. It was the first convoy across this supply route since Apr 1942. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Permit departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 19 American B-24 bombers based in Guam, Mariana Islands attacked Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 Winston Churchill arrived at RAF Luqa on Malta. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Bergall attacked a Japanese patrol vessel in the South China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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29 Jan 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island provided air support during the unopposed US landing at Zambales Province on the island of Luzon in the Philippine Islands. 
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29 Jan 1946 WW2 Harry Hopkins, one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers and a key policy maker in creating the Lend-Lease Act, died of stomach cancer in New York, United States. 
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29 Jan 1946 WW2 USS Segundo entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States for overhaul. 
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29 Jan 1948 WW2 Arthur Coningham departed Santa Maria, Azores. 
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29 Jan 1967 RELIGIOUS Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state.
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