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History on the 22nd of February

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22 Feb 1680 RELIGIOUS Death of Thomas Goodwin, 79, famed English Congregational Nonconformist preacher. His last words were: 'Ah, is this dying? How I have dreaded as an enemy this smiling friend.'
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22 Feb 1805 RELIGIOUS Birth of Sarah Flower Adams, English religious writer. Her most enduring verses today comprise the lyrics to the hymn, "Nearer, My God, To Thee."
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22 Feb 1906 RELIGIOUS Black evangelist William J. Seymour first arrived in Los Angeles and began holding revival meetings. The "Azusa Street Revival" later broke out under Seymour's leadership, in the Apostolic Faith Mission located at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. It was one of the pioneering events in the history of 20th century American Pentecostalism.
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22 Feb 1911 WW2 Lord Gort married Corinna Vereker at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, England, United Kingdom. 
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22 Feb 1921 WW2 USS Arizona passed through the Panama Canal. 
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22 Feb 1921 WW2 In Russia, the State General Planning Commission (Gosplan) was established as an advisory body to the Council of Labour and Defence. 
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22 Feb 1922 WW2 The United Kingdom granted independence to Egypt, but occupation forces remained. 
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22 Feb 1930 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the third time. 
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22 Feb 1930 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fourth time. 
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22 Feb 1932 WW2 Three Japanese carrier-borne (Kaga) bombers, escorted by six fighters, was attacked by Chinese fighters over Shanghai, China; a biplane, piloted by American volunteer Robert Short, shot down one bomber before being shot down himself. 
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22 Feb 1932 WW2 Joseph Goebbels announced on Adolf Hitler's behalf that Hitler would run for the office of the President of Germany, challenging incumbent Paul von Hindenburg. 
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22 Feb 1933 WW2 Initial plans were made for a detention camp in Oranienburg, Germany. 
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22 Feb 1933 WW2 Hermann Göring established an auxiliary police force in Prussia, Germany, staffed mostly with members of the SA organization. 
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22 Feb 1936 WW2 The Spanish government announced an amnesty for 35,000 left wing political prisoners. 
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22 Feb 1938 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded his second Order of the Red Star. 
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22 Feb 1938 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. 
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22 Feb 1938 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time and received the medal commemorating "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army". 
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22 Feb 1940 WW2 Six German destroyers were launched into the North Sea during Operation Wikinger, which attempted to attack British fishing boats that had been reporting the movement of German warships. He 111 aircraft of the German Luftwaffe, never been notified of such an operation, misidentified the destroyers and attacked them, sinking destroyer Z1 Leberecht Maas at 1945 hours, killing 282 while 60 survived. Destroyer Z3 Max Schultz was able to evade the bombs, but ran into a minefield, detonated a mine, and sank, killing 308. 
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22 Feb 1940 WW2 Georg von Küchler ordered his subordinates to stop all forms of criticism toward Nazi racial policies. 
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22 Feb 1940 WW2 In the Atlantic Ocean, German submarine U-23 sank British steamer Loch Maddy, which was damaged by U-57 and abandoned by its crew on the previous day. 
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22 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-50 sank British tanker British Endeavour 125 miles west of Vigo, Spain, killing 5. 32 men were rescued by British steamer Bodnant, which landed them on the Portuguese island of Madeira. 
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22 Feb 1940 WW2 Soviet 43rd Division attacked across frozen waters of the Gulf of Finland, capturing the islands of Lasisaari and Koivisto. Before Koivisto was given up, Finnish troops sabotaged all the gun barrels in the coastal batteries. 
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22 Feb 1940 WW2 Irish Republican Army bombs injured 12 in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 430 Dutch Jews were deported from Amsterdam to Auschwitz Concentration Camp as reprisal for the murder of a Dutch Nazi Party member. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau attacked a convoy of unescorted empty cargo ships en route to the United States, sinking three British cargo ships and two tankers, totaling 25,431 tons. 10 were killed and 180 were taken prisoner. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 British 11th and 12th African Divisions attacked and overran Italian positions at Jilib, Somaliland, Italian East Africa. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 Greek King George II and Commander-in-Chief General Alexander Papagos met with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and General Archibald Wavell in Athens, Greece, designing a defense plan that assumed Yugoslavia would remain neutral. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 British monitor HMS Terror was spotted at about noon by a German Ju-88 aircraft off the Libyan coast. 5 Ju-88 aircraft were launched from Sicily, Italy at 1533 hours, and they intercepted HMS Terror 10 miles north of Derna, Libya at 1830 hours. Heavily damaged by near misses, HMS Terror was abandoned by her crew at 2200 hours. Minesweeper HMS Fareham and corvette HMS Salvia attempted to tow her back to port, but this effort would ultimately fail. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 German cruiser Admiral Scheer sank Dutch collier Rantau Pandjang off the east coast of Africa. Distress signals were received by British cruiser HMS Glasgow, which was already aware of Admiral Scheer's presence by the sinking of British ship Canadian Cruiser on the previous day. HMS Glasgow launched her seaplane to search for the German raider, but the aircraft would return without any findings. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 Dmitry Pavlov was promoted to the rank of General of the Army. 
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22 Feb 1941 WW2 HMS Hermes was ordered to search for German cruiser Admiral Scheer in the Indian Ocean; the search did not yield any results. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Roosevelt personally ordered General MacArthur to leave the Philippine Islands. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 American submarine Swordfish evacuated Philippine President Quezon and his government. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 HMS Indomitable and escorting Australian destroyers Napier and Nestor arrived at Aden. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Gar fired eight torpedoes at a Japanese ship south of Japan; all torpedoes missed. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 During the early hours, the Sittang Bridge in Burma became blocked when a lorry got stuck across the carriageway. With the Japanese closing in on Pagoda and Buddha Hills overlooking the important crossing, the British divisional commander "Jackie" Smyth had to accept that the bridge must be destroyed, even though a large part of his force was still on the east bank. Lieutenant-General Hutton was informed that he was to be replaced but was to remain in Burma as Alexander's Chief of Staff, a most awkward position which he endured until he was replaced at his own request by Major-General John Winter before returning to India in early April. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-67 sank US tanker J. N. Pew 225 miles west of Aruba in the Caribbean Sea, killing 33; of the 12 survivors, 10 would die before being rescued. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Arthur Harris was named the new chief of RAF Bomber Command; he would take office on the following day. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was officially awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his score of 50 kills, but the medal would not be presented to him until two days later. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-155 attacked Allied convoy ONS-67 in the North Atlantic and sank British tanker Adellen (36 killed, 12 survived) and Norwegian ship Sama (19 killed, 20 survived) at 0703 hours. U-96 sank Norwegian ship Torungen (all 19 killed) and British tanker Kars (50 killed, 2 survived) 20 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. U-128 sank US tanker Cities Service Empire 10 kilometers off Melbourne, Florida, United States, killing 14 of 50 aboard. Finally, U-504 sank US tanker W. D. Anderson 10 kilometers off Port St. Lucie, Florida, killing 35 of 36 aboard. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Langley and freighter Sea Witch departed Fremantle, Australia with 59 P-40 fighters aboard for Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 The US 14th Reconnaissance Squadron (B-17 bombers) was ordered to move from Cloncurry to Townsville in Queensland, Australia. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 US 5th Air Force bombers attacked de Pasar airfield, Bali, Dutch East Indies, destroying a number of Japanese aircraft. On the same day, Japanese bombers attacked Allied airfields on Java, destroying 4 US B-17 bombers on the ground at Pasirian airfield and 1 Liberator bomber at Jogjakarta airfield. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-58 sank Dutch passenger ship Pijnacker Hordikj south of Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Permit departed Surabaya, Java, Dutch East Indies, starting her fourth war patrol. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her second voyage for the Japanese Navy. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Albert Kesselring arrived at Martuba airfield, Libya. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 German cruiser Admiral Scheer, cruiser Prinz Eugen, and 5 destroyers arrived at Bergen, Norway. British RAF aircraft continued to attack this force, again unsuccessfully, losing 3 Albacore carrier aircraft in the process. The force would depart Bergen after sundown for Trondheim, Norway. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 A Japanese submarine fired two torpedoes at USS Grayback in the Pacific Ocean in the morning, both of which missed. The Japanese submarine would pursue Grayback for the next four days. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-11 arrived at Murmansk, Russia. 
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22 Feb 1942 WW2 In Britain, Winston Churchill replaced Secretary of State for War, David Margesson, with Sir Percy Grigg (formerly the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the War Office). 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 German Armeegruppe Mitte launched an offensive between the Dneiper and Donets Rivers in southern Russia. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, members of the White Rose, were executed in Stadelheim Prison in Munich, Germany. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Air Marshall Sir Arthur Harris was appointed chief of RAF Bomber Command with a new remit: attempting to hit specific military and industrial targets was, in the main, to be abandoned in favour of the most densely built-up areas of German cities. The area bombing directive essentially said that if the RAF cannot destroyed the factories it should destroy the homes and the morale of the workforce. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Norwegian Minister President Vidkun Quisling ordered the mobilization of 35,000 men for construction of roads, railways, and military-related facilities. Two Lutheran church leaders who protested were arrested and imprisoned in the Grini Concentration Camp. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Bulgaria agreed to a German demand to deport 11,000 Jews from 23 communities in Thrace and Macedonia, occupied areas of Yugoslavia and Greece. They were sent to Treblinka Concentration Camp where many of them died subsequently. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Winston Churchill was said to be "on the mend" after a severe fever. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Allied troops pre-emptively struck the Axis attacking forces near Thala, Tunisia. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 The Northern Group of the Chindits reached Tonmakeng, Burma. Orde Wingate ordered an attack on a nearby Japanese garrison at Sinlamaung. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 German submarine U-606 sank British merchant ship Empire Redshank in the North Atlantic; 47 survivors were picked up by HMCS Trillium. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 The North American Mitchell II aircraft made its combat debut with the RAF when No. 98 and No. 180 Squadrons operating from Foulsham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom attacked oil installations at Terneuzen in Belgium. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 I-168 departed Kure, Japan. 
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22 Feb 1943 WW2 Iowa was commissioned into service at Brooklyn Naval Shipyard in New York, United States with Captain John L. McCrea in command. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank Japanese transport Fukuyama Maru with four torpedoes. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 General Rodion Malinovsky's troops captured the mining area near Krivoi Rog, Ukraine. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 American aircraft bombed the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede, and Deventer by mistake due to weather, killing 800 civilians. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked US Naval Task Force 58 approaching the Mariana Islands but suffered heavy losses. Meanwhile, another Allied forces operating around Rabaul and Kavieng encountered no Japanese aircraft, hinting that Japanese resources were now becoming scarce. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Stalin announced that 75% of Soviet territory occupied by the German invaders had now been liberated. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of Kutuzov. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Guitarro completed her transit down the Mississippi River (towed in a drydock by Minnesota) and arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Pompon departed Darwin, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Puffer sank Japanese transport Teikyo Maru off Singapore, hitting her with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed for her ninth war patrol. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Cero attacked a Japanese transport north of Dutch New Guinea; all four torpedoes missed. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 In Italy, 650 Italian Jews were embarked onto a train at the Fossoli transit camp near Carpi, Modena for Auschwitz; many of them would be sent to the gas chambers upon arrival on 26 Feb 1944. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Wasp departed Trinidad. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese Colonel Tanahashi, his troops beginning to starve while attacking Sinzweya, Burma, refused to make further attacks until food and supplies arrived. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Ray laid naval mines off Saigon, French Indochina. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese submarine I-37 sank British merchant ship British Chivalry in the Indian Ocean as the latter sailed between Melbourne, Australia and Abadan, Iran. The crew of I-37 killed 13 survivors by rifle fire. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Mark Clark replaced John Lucas with Lucian Truscott at Anzio, Italy. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Alabama patrolled in waters southeast of Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 US Navy Destroyer Squadron 23, consisted of five destroyers under the command of Captain Arleigh Burke, attacked a Japanese convoy carrying military evacuees from Rabaul, New Britain. Repair tug Nagaura was sunk and submarine chaser CH-38 was damaged. 150 survivors of Nagaura refused to be rescued by the Americans. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Auschwitz III commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Schwarz ordered that night shift workers not be assigned to do any day shift work, the prisoners be given seven to eight hours of rest per day, and roll call be limited to five to ten minutes; his motivations were to maintain a high level of productivity from the forced laborers in his camp. On this date a total of 73,669 prisoners were in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp; Auschwitz I housed 17,177 male prisoners, Auschwitz II housed 18,378 male and 24,637 female prisoners, and Auschwitz III housed 13,477 male prisoners. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of Suvorov. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class. 
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22 Feb 1944 WW2 US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau declared in a press release that the United States would stop purchasing gold from countries that had not broken relations with Axis nations, for fear that the gold might be looted from conquered nations; he also announced that a similar declaration would soon be made by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. 
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22 Feb 1944 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Heaven enters wherever Christ enters, even in this life.'
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 Air Group 80 from USS Hancock flew one strike in support of operations on Iwo Jima; 1 aircraft was lost. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island was detached from Task Group 52.2 at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Becuna fired ten torpedoes at a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, with one torpedo making contact and sinking Japanese tanker Nichiyoko Maru. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 6th Army captured three suburban districts of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 US 5th Army ended the 4-day battle for the Upper Reno Valley in Italy, located between Bologna and Florence. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Astoria provided naval gunfire support at Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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22 Feb 1945 WW2 Nijmegen, the Netherlands was heavily bombed by American planes, causing great damage to the city center. 
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22 Feb 1946 WW2 General Seishiro Itagaki formally surrendered the Japanese Seventh Area Army to Lieutenant General F. W. Messervy at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. 
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22 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Mero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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22 Feb 1948 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was given the medal commemorating "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy". 
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22 Feb 1980 RELIGIOUS American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'None of us are normal, even after we are Christians if we mean by that being perfect. What is possible, however, is for us to live in the fullness of life in the circle of who we are, constantly pressing on the border lines to try to take further steps.'
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