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History on the 25th of February

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25 Feb 1570 RELIGIOUS Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V for her severe persecution of Roman Catholics in England. (It was the last such judgment made against a reigning monarch by any pope.)
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25 Feb 1738 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'God, I find, has a people everywhere; Christ has a flock, though but a little flock, in all places.'
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25 Feb 1824 RELIGIOUS The Baptist General Tract Society was organized in Washington, D.C. In 1826 the society was moved to Philadelphia, and by 1840, the organization had issued over 3.5 million copies of 162 different tracts.
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25 Feb 1902 RELIGIOUS Birth of Oscar Cullmann, German New Testament scholar. Best known for pioneering a "salvation history" view of the NT, Cullmann's two best-known publications were "Christ and Time" (1946) and "Christology of the New Testament" (1959).
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25 Feb 1913 RELIGIOUS Pioneer missionary Eduard L. Arndt first arrived in Shanghai, China, 10 months after having founded the Evangelical Lutheran Missions for China. He afterward established missions and schools in the Hankow territory, and translated hymns and sermons into Chinese. (In 1917 the Missouri Synod took over the ELMS mission.)
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25 Feb 1915 WW2 Erwin Rommel received the Württembergische Goldene Verdienstmedaille award. 
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25 Feb 1921 WW2 Oswald Mosley's daughter Vivien Elizabeth Mosley was born. 
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25 Feb 1921 WW2 Russia occupied Tblisi, the capital of Georgia. 
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25 Feb 1921 WW2 Major General Kojiro Satoi was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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25 Feb 1925 WW2 Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established. 
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25 Feb 1932 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to the Japanese Navy investigation board over the First Battle of Shanghai. 
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25 Feb 1932 WW2 Yoshinori Shirakawa was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army. 
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25 Feb 1932 WW2 Adolf Hitler was named a liaison to Braunschweig, German's legation to the capital city of Berlin, an appointment by which Hitler also gained citizenship of Braunschweig. As citizens of the city of Braunschweig were considered German citizens, the Austrian-born Hitler was now allowed to run for the office of the President of Germany. 
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25 Feb 1932 WW2 Captain W. B. Mackenzie was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes while the ship was at Hong Kong, relieving Captain E. J. G. MacKinnon. 
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25 Feb 1933 WW2 The USS Ranger was launched as the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier. 
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25 Feb 1933 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. 
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25 Feb 1933 WW2 Japanese troops captured Chaoyang, Baipiao, and Kailu in Rehe, China. 
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25 Feb 1933 WW2 The Lytton Commission reported to the League of Nations at Geneva, Switzerland that Japan had violated Chinese sovereignty and the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo was illegal. Japanese representative to the league Matsuoka Yosuke walked out of the conference hall as instructed by his superiors in Tokyo, Japan. 
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25 Feb 1934 WW2 The order for the German army to commence wearing Nazi party badges was published in Militär-Wochenblatt No. 32. 
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25 Feb 1935 WW2 The prototype He 111 medium bomber made its maiden flight with test pilot Gerhard Nitschke at the controls. 
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25 Feb 1936 WW2 Sun Chu arrived at the front lines in the conflict against the Chinese communists in Shaanxi, China. 
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25 Feb 1936 WW2 Edmund Herring became a King's Counsel. 
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25 Feb 1936 WW2 The British Cabinet approved a report calling for the expansion of the Royal Navy and re-equipment (but not expansion) of the Army, together with the establishment of "shadow factories" paid for with public money but to be managed by industrial companies. 
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25 Feb 1937 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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25 Feb 1937 WW2 Erwin Rommel was posted as the War Ministry's liaison to Baldur von Schirach of the Hitler Youth. 
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25 Feb 1938 WW2 Over Nanchang, China, Tetsuzo Iwamoto saw combat for the first time, claiming 3 confirmed and 1 probable kills. 
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25 Feb 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Narwhal, escorting convoy HN-14 from Bergen, Norway to Methil, Scotland, spotted German submarine U-63 on the surface at 0755 hours, which dove to avoid attack. Destroyers Escapade, Escort, Inglefield, and Imogen attacked the submarine with depth charges for nearly 2 hours, finally forcing her to surface at 0950 hours. U-63 was scuttled 100 miles east of Wick, Scotland. Of the German crew, 1 was killed, and 24 were captured by Inglefield and Imogen. The German prisoners of war were landed at Leith, Scotland on 27 Feb 1940; they would remain in Britain until the end of the war. 
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25 Feb 1940 WW2 No. 110 Army Co-operation (Auxiliary) Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force arrived in Britain. 
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25 Feb 1941 WW2 February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike began in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazi occupation administration. 
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25 Feb 1941 WW2 German battleship Tirpitz was commissioned to Kapitän zur See Friedrich Karl Topp. 
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25 Feb 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Upright attacked an Italian convoy 45 miles off Sfax, Tunisia at 0343 hours, sinking Italian cruiser Armando Diaz; 464 were killed, 147 survived. The convoy was traveling from Naples, Italy to Tripoli, Libya. 
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25 Feb 1941 WW2 Nigerian Brigade of the British 11th African Division captured Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, Italian East Africa and the 400,000 gallons of fuel in its stores. 
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25 Feb 1941 WW2 British destroyer HMS Exmoor either hit a mine and sank or was sunk by German motor torpedo boat S-30 12 miles off Lowestoft, England, United Kingdom; 105 killed, 32 survived. 
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25 Feb 1941 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was named the NKVD deputy commissar. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 A two-day debate in British House of Commons ended with many being critical of the policy of bombing German cities. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Mereyon, Palau Islands. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in India. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Major General Smyth requested that Lieutenant General Hutton grant him sick leave but received no reply. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Torelli sank Panamanian tanker Esso Copenhagen 525 miles east of Trinidad; 1 was killed, 38 survived. On the same day, Italian submarine Da Vinci sank Brazilian ship Cadebelo 800 miles east of Guadeloupe; everyone aboard was killed. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 HMS Indomitable arrived at Port Sudan in British East Africa and received Hurricane fighters and personnel of No. 30 and No. 261 Squadrons. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-156 sank British tanker La Carriere 70 miles south of Puerto Rico; 15 were killed, 26 survived. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 US Navy transports Ancon and Hugh L. Scott arrived at Brisbane, Australia, delivering ground echelons of 3rd Bombardment Group (Light and 22nd Bombardment Group (Medium) of the United States Army Air Forces. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Trincomalee, Ceylon and disembarked Swordfish torpedo bombers of 814 Naval Air Squadron. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Akagi departed Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies with the Striking Force to cover the invasion of Java. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 In the Dutch East Indies, the second of two Japanese invasion fleets for Java departed from Balikpapan, Borneo; the fleet was consisted of 41 troop transports and escorted by 5 cruisers and 16 destroyers. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese carriers departed from Kendari, Celebes to patrol waters off Java and Australia. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-158 attacked Dutch freighter Boeroe off Java, Dutch East Indies at 1015 hours but was driven off by an escort; at 1130 hours, I-158 attacked again, sinking Boeroe with two torpedoes; all 70 aboard survived. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Kaga departed Staring Bay near Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Naka departed Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 The first A4 rocket was placed on Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Rear Admiral Keiichi Onishi was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 The Soviets began trials for a new submachine gun to succeed the proven PPSh-41 design. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 Battle of Los Angeles: an unidentified flying object over the American city of Los Angeles at 0225 hours caused a black-out order and the order to fire anti-aircraft weapons; stray anti-aircraft fire killed 3 civilians. 
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25 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Hammann departed San Francisco, California, United States as a part of Task Force 17. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 Battle for Kasserine Pass in Tunisia closed with the Americans, inexperienced and poorly led, suffered a major defeat. Nevertheless, the Americans would regain the pass at the end of the battle as overall strategy dictated the Axis forces to withdraw back into northern Tunisia. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 Princeton was commissioned into service. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 Douglas MacArthur issued his campaign plan for the Southwest Pacific while arguing that a campaign through the Central Pacific would be "time consuming and expensive in our naval power and shipping." 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 After not being able to locate Sinlamaung, Burma in the past three days, the Chindit unit assigned to attack the Japanese garrison there finally found the village. They found the Japanese garrison had already departed, however. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 I-168 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 Captain Yoshijiro Imaizumi was named the commanding officer of Naka while the ship was at Maizuru, Japan. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Permit fired five torpedoes at a Japanese transport off Japan; all four torpedoes missed. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Copahee departed San Diego, California, United States. 
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25 Feb 1943 WW2 US 11th Airborne Division was activated at Camp Mackall, North Carolina, United States under the command of Major General Joseph M. Swing. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 Battleship Musashi was reassigned to the Second Fleet. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank Japanese transport Echizen Maru. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Hoe sank Japanese tanker Nissho Maru with a night time surfaced torpedo attack. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Palau Islands. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 A British Catalina aircraft sank German submarine U-601 near Allied convoy JW-57; all 51 aboard were killed. On the same day, U-990 sank destroyer HMS Mahratta 320 kilometers off North Cape, Norway at 2055 hours; 220 were killed, 16 survived. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 Bruce Fraser was awarded Soviet Order of Suvorov, First Class. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 The supply depot on the coast near Kokopo, New Britain was bombarded by US destroyers for 30 minutes starting at about 2330 hours; a warehouse was damaged by fires. 2,000 5-inch shells were expended by the US Navy on this bombardment. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 Five Italian motor torpedo boats attacked the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy before dawn, causing no damage and suffering no losses. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 Assigned to the Second Fleet, Yamato was drydocked at Kure, Japan to receive upgrades. Two beam triple 6.1 inch (155-mm) turrets were to be removed and replaced by six (3x2) 5-inch (127-mm) HA AA mounts. Twenty-four (8x3) and 26 single 25mm AA mounts were to be added. Shelters were also added on the upper deck for the increased AA crews. Type 13 air search and Type 22 Mod 4 surface search/gunnery control radars were to be installed. The main mast was to be altered. Two 150-mm searchlights were to be removed (later installed ashore at Kure, Japan). Yamato was to be fitted with Type 2 infrared (IR) Identification Friend-or-Foe (IFF)/signaling devices mounted midway up on each side of the bridge; the system might had been based on the German Seehund IR device, built around a telescopic sensor that received light-waves in the IR range and registered a readout in the radio shack. The IFF system also included a pair of 20-mm binoculars coaxially mounted with the transmitting IR lamp on the bridge so that another ship could use the IR detector for elementary signaling or as a formation light for station keeping. About this time, Yamato was also fitted with multiple E27 radar detectors copied from the German FuMB 1 Metox R.600. 
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25 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Grayback sank tanker Nanho Maru and damaged freighter Asama Maru. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hoe sank Japanese convoy escort ship Shinan with 1 of 4 torpedoes fired from periscope depth. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 US 3rd Armored Division used M26 Pershing heavy tanks in combat for the first time near the Roer River in the Belgian-German border region. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 Omar Bradley gave George Patton the authority to make advances toward the Rhine River. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 Fighter quadron VF-80 from USS Hancock flew one fighter sweep against Tokyo, Japan; no aircraft were lost. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin escorted carriers as the carrier aircraft attacked Hachino, Japan. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. 
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25 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Alabama exited a drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States. 
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25 Feb 1946 WW2 Franz Halder was interrogated by US Army attorney Captain Sam Harris; during the interrogation, Halder revealed the plan and the history of the 1938 plot against Adolf Hitler (which was never launched). 
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25 Feb 1946 WW2 The Red Army of the Soviet Union was officially renamed the Soviet Army. 
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25 Feb 1948 WW2 A communist government took power in Czechoslovakia. 
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