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History on the 11th of February

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11 Feb 1650 RELIGIOUS Death of Ren
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11 Feb 1779 RELIGIOUS English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Chance has no share in the government of the world. The Lord reigns, and disposes all things, strongly and sweetly, for the good of them that love him.'
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11 Feb 1858 RELIGIOUS In Lourdes, France, 14-year-old French peasant Bernadette Soubirous experienced her first vision of the Virgin Mary. By July 16th of this year, she had experienced 18 such visions.
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11 Feb 1914 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was made the naval attaché to the United States. 
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11 Feb 1918 WW2 The deposed Don Cossack leader, Russian General Alexi M. Kaledin, shot himself. 
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11 Feb 1918 WW2 Robert Greim claimed a kill in aerial combat over France but it was not confirmed. 
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11 Feb 1929 WW2 Italy and Vatican City signed the Lateran Treaty. 
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11 Feb 1933 WW2 The SA, in the Rhineland, Germany, were sworn in as police auxiliaries. 
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11 Feb 1934 WW2 Roger Backhouse was promoted to the rank of admiral. 
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11 Feb 1937 WW2 General Luis Orgaz's Spanish Nationalist forces drove off General Sebastian Pozas' forces eastward across the River Jarama near Madrid, Spain. 
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11 Feb 1938 WW2 Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg secretly went to Salzburg, Austria by car for a meeting with German leaders. 
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11 Feb 1938 WW2 Deng Xihou was recalled from the front lines for staff positions in Sichuan Province, China. 
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11 Feb 1939 WW2 Japanese troops landed at Sanya on the southern coast of Hainan island in southern China. 
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11 Feb 1939 WW2 A Lockheed XP-38 prototype aircraft from California to New York in the United States in 7 hours and 2 minutes. 
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11 Feb 1940 WW2 Finnish troops were forced to withdraw to secondary defensive positions as the Red Army pierced the Mannerheim Line. 
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11 Feb 1940 WW2 A comprehensive trade agreement was signed between Germany and the USSR in which Soviet raw materials and food would be exchanged for German machinery and military equipment. 
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11 Feb 1940 WW2 Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, died in Montreal. 
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11 Feb 1940 WW2 The second Vultee Model 48 Vanguard prototype aircraft took its first flight.  
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 In Operation Colossus, British paratroopers blew up the Tragino aqueduct in southern Italy. All but one were captured during their escape, remaining prisoners of war until 1943. The aqueduct they destroyed would soon be repaired and returned to service. 
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 Indian 3rd Battalion captured Sanchil hill in the Dongolaas Gorge near Keren, Eritrea, Italian East Africa, but the Italian Savoia Grenadiers conterattack recaptured the hill as well as Brig's Peak by the end of the day. To the South, British troops from Kenya captured the road junction at Afmadow at the north end of the Juba River. 
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 British monitor HMS Erebus bombarded Ostend, Belgium between 0100 and 0140 hours. 
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 The first German troops arrived at Tripoli, Libya. 
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Snapper, en route from the River Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom to the Bay of Biscay off France. The crew of 41 was never seen again. She probably ran into a minefield or was sunk by German minesweepers M-2, M-13, and M-25. 
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 German cruiser Admiral Hipper sank British ship Iceland of Allied convoy HX53 800 miles west of Gibraltar; the entire crew of 23 survived and were picked up by Admiral Hipper. Admiral Hipper would soon detect the rest of the convoy on radar at the distance of 15 kilometers. 
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11 Feb 1941 WW2 British RAF bombed Hannover, Germany. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Prinz Eugen departed Brest, France as a part of Operation Cerberus. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Georg von Bismarck became the deputy commander of the 21st Panzer Division. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-136 attacked Allied convoy SC-67 south of Iceland at 0133 hours, sinking Norwegian ship Heina (all 30 aboard survived) and Canadian corvette HMCS Spikenard (57 were killed, 8 survived). 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Having crossed the Salween River at Kuzeik, Burma during the night the Japanese II/215th Infantry regiment engaged the raw and inexperienced 7/10th Baluch who were deployed in a semi-circle with their backs to the river without barbed wire or artillery support. After dark the Japanese launched their attack on the Indian positions and after four hours of bitter hand to hand fighting began to get the upper hand. By dawn organized resistance had effectively ceased. The heroic 7/10th Buluch had suffered 289 killed; with the few survivors making off in small parties. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 The US submarine Shark was reported lost, probably sunk by the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, on patrol east of Manado, Celebes, Sunda Islands, Dutch East Indies. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Archibald Wavell fell over a barb-wired seawall at Singapore and was rushed to a hospital. His back was injured and he was incommunicado for four days. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 US forces arrived at the Dutch islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, and Aruba in the Caribbean Sea. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Three Australian Hudson bombers attacked Surumi airfield near the village of Gasmata, New Britain; Flight Petty Officer 1st Class Satoshi Yoshino shot down the bombers flown by John Lerew and Graham Gibson. Lerew would parachute to safety and return to New Guinea on 21 Feb 1942. Transports Kinryu Maru and Kizui Maru were damaged by the Hudson bombers, killing several men. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen, accompanied by 6 destroyers, departed Brest, France at 2330 hours and began their dash through the English Channel. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 The Japanese invasion fleet for Sumatra, Dutch East Indies departed Cam Ranh Bay, French Indo-China. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 Battle of Bukit Timah: Japanese 5th Division attacked British, Commonwealth, and Chinese (Dalforce irregulars) troops along the Choa Chu Kang Road at Bukit Timah Hill in Singapore. Supported by 50 tanks, Japanese troops halted the Allied counterattacks and took the hill. After the battle, to avenge their casualties, the Japanese troops massacred Chinese civilians living in a nearby village. 
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11 Feb 1942 WW2 In Washington DC, United States, US Congress approved the construction of the Alaska-Canadian Highway; US President Roosevelt immediately signed it. Canada agreed to this construction under the condition that the United States would bear the entire cost of construction, and that portions of the highway in Canadian territory would turn over to Canadian control after the war. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Admiral Yamamoto transferred his flag from Yamato to Musashi at Truk. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Amon Göth was assigned to oversee the construction of the Plaszów labor camp in Poland. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 General Dwight Eisenhower was selected to command the Allied forces in Europe. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 US Liberty ship Starr King, while in tow by Australian destroyer HMAS Warramunga after receiving damage from an attack by Japanese submarine I-21 on the previous day, sank at 0230 hours. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Lydia Litvyak shot down the German Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber piloted by Gerhard Weber and shared the credit for downing a Fw 190 fighter while flying a Yak-1 fighter. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Grampus departed Brisbane, Australia for her sixth war patrol. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Admiral Yamamoto broke his flag aboard Musashi at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: The 243rd and 244th Marine Scouting/Bombing Squadrons (VMSB-243 & VMSB-244) arrived on board, aircraft based at Ewa. The officers and men departed for Ewa on the 26th of February. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese 6th Field Kempeitai departed Hiroshima, Japan aboard transport Aden Maru for Rabaul, New Britain. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny set sail for Midway Atoll. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 A transport from the Westerbork Concentration Camp in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland with 476 men and 708 women; 113 men and 66 women were registered, and the remaining 1,005 were killed in the gas chambers. 
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11 Feb 1943 WW2 Ryan Aeronautical received a US Navy contract to build three piston-jet mix-powered prototype fighters. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 German forces sent to relieve the Korsun pocket in Ukraine were now only 10 miles away. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 Ommaney Bay was commissioned into service. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 6 B-25 bombers escorted by 20 P-40 and P-51 fighters the US 14th Air Force and the Chinese 32nd Fighter Squadron attacked the Kai Tek Airfield, Hong Kong. Fighters of the Japanese 85th Sentai rose to intercept, shooting down one B-25 bomber, 4 P-40 fighters, and 2 P-51 fighters. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 Major General John Lucas ordered a counterattack from the Anzio beachhead in Italy, which was repulsed by the Germans which had intercepted Allied radio communications and had prepared for this attack. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 The US II Corps attack toward Monte Cassino, Italy was halted by German troops. Major General Harry Dimoline of Indian 4th Division requested the aerial bombing of the abbey atop Monte Cassino. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kure, Japan. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Permit fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese carrier in the Pacific Ocean; all torpedoes missed. 
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11 Feb 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-56 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 Aircraft of Air Group 80 flew training missions while its mothership USS Hancock sailed toward Japan. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 The Yalta Agreement was signed by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, with Stalin pledging to declare war on Japan three months after the German surrender. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island participated in an exercise in the Mariana Islands. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Puffer departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her seventh war patrol. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Catapult and Arresting Gear facilities first used (VF-100 with FM-2 and F6F-5 aircraft). 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Glyco Works in West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 On or around this date, German submarine U-869 was sunk off New Jersey, United States. 
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11 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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11 Feb 1947 WW2 Bataan (Independence-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Feb 1947 WW2 Cabot was decommissioned from service. 
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11 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Langley was decommissioned from service at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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11 Feb 1948 WW2 Prince Takahito's son Prince Yoshihito was born. 
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11 Feb 1948 RELIGIOUS U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We ask Thee not for tasks more suited to our strength, but for strength more suited to our tasks.'
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11 Feb 1989 RELIGIOUS Rev. Barbara C. Harris, 58, was consecrated in Boston as the first woman bishop in the Anglican Church. (In 1988 the Church of England passed the first legislation which began opening the Anglican priesthood to women.)
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