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History on the 17th of February

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17 Feb 1741 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield advised in a letter: 'Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."'
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17 Feb 1815 RELIGIOUS In deciding the legal case "Terrett v. Taylor," the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an act of the Virginia Legislature which denied property rights to Protestant Episcopal churches in the state. The Court ruled that religious corporations, like other corporations, have rights to their property.
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17 Feb 1816 RELIGIOUS Birth of Edward Hopper, American Presbyterian clergyman. He is remembered today as author of the hymn, "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me."
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17 Feb 1889 RELIGIOUS Billy Sunday, 27, baseball player-turned-preacher, made his first appearance as an evangelist in Chicago. A strong fundamentalist, Sunday preached temperance and opposed scientific evolution. Over 100 million are estimated to have heard Sunday preach before his death in 1935.
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17 Feb 1913 WW2 Settsu arrived at Mako, Hoko Prefecture, Taiwan. 
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17 Feb 1915 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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17 Feb 1930 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. 
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17 Feb 1934 WW2 A new German law gave the Nazi Party Courts (introduced by Hitler as early as 1921) full judicial status with the right to investigate and punish petty misdemeanours by NSDAP members (e.g. Failure to pay dues, immoral behaviour, a criminal record or simply loss of interest in Party affairs). 
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17 Feb 1934 WW2 King Albert I of Belgium died in a mountaineering accident. He would be succeeded by his son, Prince Leopold. 
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17 Feb 1936 WW2 Major Marine units of the US Marine Corps completed their participation in Fleet Landing Exercise No . 2 at Culebra, Puerto Rico. 
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17 Feb 1938 WW2 Spanish Nationalist General Juan Yagüe's Moroccan forces crossed the River Alfambra in Spain, effectively cutting off Teruel from the north. 
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17 Feb 1939 WW2 Ellet was commissioned into service. 
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17 Feb 1940 WW2 Norway protested British neutrality violation of attacking the German ship Altmark in Norwegian waters. 
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17 Feb 1940 WW2 As it was customary for new corps commanding officers to dine with the Führer, Hitler's aide Colonel Schmundt arranged such a meeting for Hitler and Manstein. Manstein presented his plan for the invasion of France and the Low Countries, which impressed Hitler. 
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17 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-10 sank Norwegian ship Kvernaas off the Dutch coast at 0200 hours. The crew of 20, in two lifeboats, were rescued by Dutch ship Oranjepolder. 
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17 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Pyrrhus 75 miles west of La Coruña, Spain at 1600 hours, killing 8. 77 survivors were rescued by British merchant ships Uskside and Sinnington Court, which delivered them to Gibraltar. 
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17 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-48 sank Finnish ship Wilja south of Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, southwestern England at 2036 hours. All 27 crew members were rescued by Dutch steamer Maasdam and were to Havanna, Cuba. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 An Italian Auto-Saharan Company detachment counterattacked Free French and British forces near Kufra, Libya in failure. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Gairsoppa 370 miles west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom shortly after 0000 hours, killing 84. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-103 damaged British tanker Edwy R. Brown with five torpedoes 100 miles south of Iceland between 0633 and 0833 hours, eventually sinking the tanker. 50 took to two lifeboats, but they were never seen again. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-69 sank British ship Siamese Prince 200 miles northwest of Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom at 2212 hours. 57 took to lifeboats, but they were never seen again. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 Turkey and Bulgaria signed a friendship agreement in Sofia, Bulgaria. Under pressure from Germany, Turkey also agreed to not protest German troop movements through Bulgaria. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 British Admiral Sir Percy Noble was appointed Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches. 
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17 Feb 1941 WW2 The decision to despatch a British Expeditionary Force to Greece was communicated to General Bernard Freyberg VC, General Officer Commanding New Zealand Division. The force initially was planned to consist of the New Zealand Division, 1st British Armoured Brigade, 6th Australian Division, Polish independent Brigade Group and 7th Australian Division. However Erwin Rommel's sudden advance into the Cyrenaica of Libya would result in the Poles and 7th Australian Division being held back to defend Tobruk. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 "Seabees" of the US Navy First Naval Construction Battalion arrived at Bora Bora, Society Islands. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Dutch Marines attempted to disarm an unexploded torpedo at Aruba, launched by German submarine U-156 during the prior day's attack. The torpedo detonated unexpectedly, killing 4. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Albacore was commissioned into service. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 A detachment of the submarine tender USS Canopus, sailors from the Cavite Naval Ammunition Depot, and the majority of the general duty men in the area were transferred to the 4th Marine Regiment based on Corregidor, Philippine Islands. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-136 sank British transport Empire Comet 250 miles south of Iceland at 2217 hours, killing all 46 aboard. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Triton sank Japanese freighter Shinyo Maru No. 5 and damaged another ship off Kyushu island, Japan. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Paul von Kleist was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, flying an E14Y floatplane from Japanese submarine I-25, flew over Sydney Harbor, Australia at 0430 hours, conducting a reconnaissance mission. He was back aboard I-25 by 0730 hours. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese troops crossed the Bilin River north of Rangoon, Burma and began to encircle the Indian 17th Infantry Division. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 9 Japanese troop transports departed Ambon for Timor in the Dutch East Indies at 0800 hours. Later in the evening, Japanese transports Sasego Maru and Sagami Maru departed Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies with invasion troops for Bali. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese carrier aircraft from Ryujo sank Dutch destroyer HMNS Van Nes, escorting Dutch troopship Sloet van Beele, in the Bangka Strait; 69 were killed, 60 survived. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese occupation administration at Singapore sent 3,000 British civilians to Changi prison and 50,000 British, Australian, and Indian captured troops to Selarang Barracks. Some of the captured Indian troops were taken to hear Captain Mohan Singh at Farrer Park, who attempted to persuade them to collaborate with the Japanese. 
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17 Feb 1942 WW2 Nachi provided support for the landings at Dili, Portuguese Timor. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul, New Britain and departed later on the same day. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 American forces east of Kasserine Pass, Tunisia retreated into the pass. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 Lexington (Essex-class) was commissioned into service. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder became AOC-in-C Mediterranean Air Command with responsibility for all air operations. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived at the headquarters of German Army Group South. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo declared readiness for her next war patrol while at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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17 Feb 1943 WW2 Legendary Russian fighter pilot Lydia Litvak (The White Rose of Stalingrad) was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank Japanese transport Gyoten Maru, hitting her with three of four torpedoes fired. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 35,000 of ther 56,000 Germans encircled by the Soviets at Korsun, Ukraine managed to slip through the net but in doing so left behind all their armor and equipment. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Pintado departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Cero fired four torpedoes at a Japanese transport north of Dutch New Guinea; all torpedoes missed. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands with Convoy No. 1,123, which was to be the last convoy to successful reach Rabaul. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 After dark and into the next date, ships of US Navy Destroyer Squadron 12 bombarded Rabaul, New Britain, expending 3,800 5-inch shells. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 US carrier aircraft began a two-day attack on Truk in the Caroline Islands; by the end of 18 Feb 1944, 270 Japanese aircraft would be destroyed. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands. She was discovered, attacked, and sunk by the third attack wave of SB2C Helldiver and TBF Avenger carrier aircraft 65 kilometers west of Truk; about 240 were killed, 210 survived including commanding officer Captain Yoshimasa Sutezawa. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 Indian 4th Division attacked Monte Cassino, Italy, failing to make advances and suffering heavy casualties. In parallel, Maori troops of the New Zealand Division established a small bridgehead across the nearby Rapido River. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 Italian Admiral Giuseppe Sparzani was summoned to meet German Admiral Karl Dönitz. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 US Marines landed on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Alabama escorted carriers while carrier aircraft attacked Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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17 Feb 1944 WW2 G4M aircraft of Japanese Navy Air Group 744 damaged USS Intrepid with a torpedo hit. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 US Third Army penetrated the Siegfried Line/Westwall and launched massive assault into German territory. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Venezuela declared war on Germany and Japan. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Snook ended her eighth war patrol. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 HMS Bluebell (Lieutenant G. H. Walker) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-711 in the Kola Inlet off Murmansk, Russia. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Dekanozov sent a note to his superior Vyacheslav Molotov suggesting that Hungarian Count István Bethlen, who was already in Soviet custody, should be transferred to Moscow, Russia for interrogations for his past pro-British actions. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Captain Ryo Kurusu, son of Japanese diplomat Saburo Kurusu, was killed in an accident on the ground at an airfield. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Despite being wounded in both ankles and then hit in both legs, Lieutenant Prakash Singh dragged himself around the battlefield to direct his troops against a Japanese force in Burma. Even when hit again and mortally wounded, he inspired his men to victory by shouting their traditional Dogra war cry until he died. Singh was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 17th Division completed its crossing of the Irrawady River in Burma. Meanwhile, the Japanese counterattack on the Indian 7th Division at Nyaungu, Burma was turned by the Anglo-Indian troops, and the Japanese troops began falling back into the town. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden arrived in Berlin, Germany to negotiate for the repatriation of Swedish woman who had married a German man but now widowed or deserted. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her first war patrol. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 aircraft from USS Hancock flew 2 strikes against Tokyo, Japan; no men and no aircraft were lost. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin arrived off Iwo Jima, Japan and bombarded Japanese positions on the island. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Allied convoy RA-64 departed the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 Nicholas Winton was promoted to the brevet rank of flying officer. 
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17 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul was commissioned into service with Captain Ernest Herman von Heimburg in command. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Alaska was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Enterprise was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Franklin was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 Guam was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Wasp was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Feb 1948 WW2 Eighty-year-old Imam Yahya, the ruler of Yemen, was assassinated. During the war Imam Yahya had been courted by Adolf Hitler and received presents from him, but had turned down a treaty with Germany and maintained a policy of neutrality. His son and successor, Imam Ahmed, moving quickly to despatch thirty of his father's conspirators by having them publicly beheaded by a large grinning slave in the square at Hajjah. Ahmed would begin his reign by publicly blaming Britain for his father's death; claiming that dissident groups like "The Free Yemini" movement were sponsored by the British administration in Aden. 
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17 Feb 1969 RELIGIOUS Russian-born, Milwaukee-raised Golda Meir (n
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