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History on the 11th of March

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11 Mar 1665 RELIGIOUS New York's English Deputies approved a new legal code, which guaranteed all Protestants the right to practice their religious observances unhindered. (There were currently a host of Protestant groups thriving within this now_English colony, acquired only seven months earlier from the Dutch.)
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11 Mar 1738 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'Suffering times are a Christian's best improving times; for they break the will, wean us from the creature, prove the heart.'
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11 Mar 1845 RELIGIOUS Wittenberg College was chartered in Springfield, Ohio, under Lutheran auspices.
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11 Mar 1860 RELIGIOUS Birth of H. Frances Davidson, pioneer missionary. In 1892 she became the first woman from the Brethren in Christ Church to earn an M.A. degree, and in 1897 became one of her denomination's first missionaries to travel to the African continent.
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11 Mar 1916 WW2 Nevada was commissioned into service. 
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11 Mar 1917 WW2 In Petrograd, Russia the soldiers in the Pavlovskiy barracks mutinied, and by the following morning 20,000 of them were protesting on the streets. 
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11 Mar 1917 WW1 Begin of Capture of Baghdad
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11 Mar 1918 WW2 Tenryu was launched at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. Commander Kanzo Kakuta was named the Chief Equipping Officer. 
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11 Mar 1923 RELIGIOUS Death of Mary Ann Thomson, 89, American hymnwriter. Among her most enduring contributions to the Church were the lyrics to "O Zion, Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling," which she wrote at age 34.
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11 Mar 1927 WW2 He Yingqin was made a committee member of the Chinese government. 
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11 Mar 1932 WW2 James Doolittle set a new world record in air speed. 
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11 Mar 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler formally issued a directive for the invasion of Austria, to be taken place on the following day. 
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11 Mar 1939 WW2 In response to Czechoslovakian President Emil Hácha's sudden moves to consolidate power within Czechoslovakia, thus threatening German attempts to divide the nation, Adolf Hitler issued a ultimatum for Czechoslovakia to hand over Bohemia and Moravia, moving up the German schedule for the occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia. At 2200 hours, Austrian Nazi leader Arthur Seyß-Inquart visited Slovakian leaders, demanding them to proclaim independence immediately, otherwise Germany would no longer support their movement. 
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11 Mar 1940 WW2 5 Soviet tanks reached Tammisuo Station in northeast Viipuri, Finland while Finnish delegates in Moscow negotiated peace terms. At 1800 hours, the two sides came to an agreement that would be signed into a peace treaty on the following day. 
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11 Mar 1940 WW2 British and French governments dispatched troops to Sweden in an attempt to capture Swedish iron mines. Norway and Sweden made the statement that they would resist such an invasion. 
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11 Mar 1940 WW2 German submarine U-28 torpedoed and sank Dutch tanker Eulota 125 miles west of Quessant, France at 0317 hours. The ship broke in two but remained afloat until HMS Broke and HMS Wild Swan arrived to rescue the entire crew of 42. Eulota was scuttled upon completion of the rescue. 
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11 Mar 1940 WW2 Blenheim bombers of 82 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command attacked German submarine U-31, on sea trials, in Jade Bay near Wilhelmshaven. 2 of the 4 anti-submarine bombs hit U-31, killing all 58 (48 crew, 10 dock workers) on board. U-31 would later be refloated only to be sunk again, the only WW2 ship to suffer the misfortune of being sunk twice in the war. 
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11 Mar 1940 WW2 German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop met with Mussolini in Italy regarding German-Italian cooperation in the war. 
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11 Mar 1940 WW2 French battleship Bretagne and cruiser Algerie, escorted by destroyers Vauban, Aigle, Maille Breze, departed Toulon carrying 2,379 bars of gold totaling 147 tons. The gold from the French gold reserves were to be sent to Canada for safekeeping. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-74 attacked Icelandic trawler Frodi with her deck gun 192 miles southeast of Iceland at 0800 hours. 5 were killed in the attack. Frodi would be able to escape to Vestmannaeyjar Island on the next day. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-106 sank British ship Memnon 200 miles west of Senegal, French West Africa, killing 5. Of the 69 survivors, 4 were captured by German battlecruiser Gneisenau, 22 made land in Senegal on 21 Mar, and 43 made land in Sierra Leone on 24 Mar. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 The Panzer Regiment of German 5th Light Division completed disembarking from freighters at Tripoli, Libya. A parade was staged with the newly arrived tanks, with some of the tanks going around the town multiple times to make their numbers seem greater. The tanks headed east toward Sirte after the parade. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 135 German aircraft dropped 122 tons of high explosive bombs and 830 incendiary bombs on Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 During the night of 11 to 12 Mar, six British Handley Page Halifax bombers of No. 35 Squadron of No. 4 Group from RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom attacked Le Havre, France. It was the operational debut of the four-engine heavy bomber. It was marred by the accidental shoot-down of one of them by an RAF nightfighter. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 Japan dictated that France would return parts of Cambodia and Laos, which the French had gained from Thailand about 40 years prior, to Thailand. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 As English diplomats arrived in Istanbul, Turkey, a bomb smuggled into their luggage exploded, killing 2. 
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11 Mar 1941 WW2 US President Roosevelt signed the Lend Lease Act into law, which allowed Allied nations to purchase weapons and other supplies from the United States on credit. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-701 sank British anti-submarine trawler HMS Stella Capella 38 miles east of Iceland at 0211 hours, killing all 33 aboard. German submarine U-94 sank Norwegian ship Hvoslef 2 miles east of Fenwick Island, Delaware, United States at 0316 hours; 6 were killed, 14 survived. At 0800 hours, U-158 sank US ship Caribsea 20 kilometers east of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, United States; 21 were killed, 7 survived. Further south, U-126 sank US freighter Texan within 5 kilometers of the northern coast of Cuba. Italian submarine Tazzoli sank Panamanian ship Cygnet 5 mile east of the Bahamas; all 30 aboard survived. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed on Mindanao, the southern-most of the Philippine Islands. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Wake Island. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-565 sank British cruiser HMS Naiad 30 miles north of Sidi Barrani, Egypt at 2000 hours; 82 were killed, 582 survived. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Chiang Kaishek told Joseph Stilwell that he was now ready to commit three elite Chinese armies (5th, 6th, and 66th) to Burma. Stilwell would soon find out that Chiang had secretly ordered the Chinese commanders to avoid decisive confrontations, thus rendering the Chinese troops useless to Stilwell's command. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Pollack sank Japanese cargo ship Fukushu Maru between Taiwan and the Japanese home islands with one of ten torpedoes fired. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 The 6 survivors of USS Edsall, sunken off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean on 1 Mar 1942, were executed by their Japanese captors. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-2 attacked British passenger ship Chilka 340 miles west of Padang, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies at 1400 hours, killing 7. Chilka signaled surrender at 1425 hours. The captain of I-2 gave the crew some time to abandon ship before proceeding to sink her. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Merchant ship Sevaples fell out of Allied convoy PQ-12 in poor weather. Allied convoy QP-8 arrived at Reykjavík, Iceland. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 George Brett dispatched 4 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, with skeleton crew, from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Batchelor Field near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, via Daly Waters, Northern Territory; these aircraft were meant to be used to evacuate Douglas MacArthur and his family and staff from the Philippine Islands. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Kaga arrived at Staring Bay near Kendari, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 With sister Zuikaku, Shokaku accompanied Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro's First Fleet (Ise and Hyuga) on a sortie to sweep for enemy believed to approaching Japan. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Douglas MacArthur, his family, and a small staff departed Corregidor by PT boats; General Jonathan Wainwright remained as commanding officer of US and Filipino forces in the Philippine Islands. 
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11 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese H8K flying boats attacked Midway Atoll, causing minor damage; one aircraft was shot down in this attack. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 Tirpitz departed Trondheim, Norway. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 Erwin Rommel received Diamonds to his Knight's Cross medal. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 German RSHA organization ordered that all Jews in the criminal rehabilitation system were to be sent to Auschwitz or Majdanek concentration camps, where they would remain indefinitely, after they served their sentences. Meanwhile, Bulgarian troops arrested 7,100 Macedonian Jews and deported them to the new Skopje Concentration Camp in Yugoslavia. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 Joseph Goebbels ordered the SS and Security Police to round up the 4,000 Berlin Jews who had escaped Operation Factory at the end of Feb 1943. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 British Secretary of State for Air Sir Archibald Sinclair spoke at the House of Commons, noting that "he past 12 months have been marked by striking changes in the conduct and effectiveness of... the pulverising offensive of Bomber Command.... The monster raids saturating the enemy's active and passive systems of defence is one example. A second example is the success achieved in finding, marking and illuminating targets which has contributed enormously to the recent triumphs of Bomber Command.... Praise the men who are striking these hammer blows at German might... fearless young men flying through storm and cold and darkness higher than Mont Blanc, through the flak, hunted by the night fighters, but coolly and skillfully identifying and bombing these targets." Some Members of Parliament, such as Mr. Montague, representing West Islington, voiced concerns for the "wanton destruction" delivered by the Bomber Command. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 The British Admiralty officially announced the loss of submarine P311, suspected to have been lost to a mine in the Mediterranean Sea on 8 Jan 1943. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Akizuki and began repairing auxiliary aircraft transport Keiyo Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 USS S-31 departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth war patrol. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo arrived in waters between southern Japan and Taiwan. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 The BI-3 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its first flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia (the fourth flight of the design), reaching the altitude of 4,000 meters. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 The royalist Yugoslavian government-in-exile in London, England, United Kingdom reported that German forces had executed 1,250 Serbians in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 The Pacific Military Conference began at the Munitions Building in Washington DC, United States. Henry Arnold, George Marshall, Ernest King, William Leahy, Geroge Kenney, and Richard Sutherland were among the attendees of the opening meeting. 
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11 Mar 1943 WW2 The request for the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor for Brigadier General Kenneth Walker was approved. 
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11 Mar 1944 WW2 By this date, 9,000 men and 1,300 animals were delivered to northern Burma for Operation Thursday. 
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11 Mar 1944 WW2 Repair ship Akashi received provisions from auxiliary storeship Kitakami Maru at Palau Islands. 
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11 Mar 1944 WW2 Aircraft of No. 466 Squadron RAAF conducted minelaying operations off of Helgoland, Germany. 
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11 Mar 1944 WW2 The British ambassador in Washington DC, United States voiced the opinion that revealing the Holocaust to the German people would not be an effective propaganda tool against the German leadership. 
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11 Mar 1944 WW2 About 300 Jewish women and children of Split, Yugoslavia were rounded up, sent to Jasenovac Concentration Camp, and killed. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sargent Bay departed Iwo Jima. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 US Third Army captured Kochem, Germany. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Soviet forces moved toward Gotenhafen, Germany (now Gdynia, Poland), endangering the civilian rescue effort there. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 The first unexploded V-2 rocket landed in England, United Kingdom, but it was not retrieved and studied until 7 Apr, by that time other unexploded rockets had been found and many secrets of the rocket had already been uncovered. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank Japanese cargo ship Shori Maru in the East China Sea off Korea with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 285 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nagoya, Japan urban area with incendiary bombs. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty for Air Group 252's training. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 In Operation Tan No. 2, Japanese Navy aircraft conducted a large-scale special attack operation on American warships at Ulithi atoll, Caroline Islands. Closer to the home islands, a P1Y1 Ginga aircraft of 762nd Naval Air Group based in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan struck USS Randolph at dusk. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Lavrentiy Beria reported to Joseph Stalin that suicides, especially among women, were becoming common in Soviet-occupied East Prussia, Germany. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler made a surprise visit to 9th Army headquarters in Saarow between Frankfurt an der Oder and Berlin in Germany. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 American fighters began flying escort operations from Iwo Jima, Japan. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Settsu departed Oita, Japan for target ship duty. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Springer attempted to attack two Japanese warships in the Pacific Ocean, but was driven off by aircraft. 
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11 Mar 1945 WW2 Allied convoy JW-65 departed Clyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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11 Mar 1946 WW2 Rudolf Höss, who had been living for the past year as a farmer under the pseudonym Franz Lang, was arrested by British troops. 
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11 Mar 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul, New Britain and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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11 Mar 1946 WW2 Soviet chief prosecutor Roman Rudenko sent a letter to US chief prosecutor Robert Jackson, asking the US prosecution team in Nürnberg, Germany not to bring up the topics of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, borders with Poland, and other sensitive issues. 
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11 Mar 1947 WW2 The trial against Rudolf Höss at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland began. 
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11 Mar 1948 WW2 30 Japanese officers, doctors, and a female nurse were tried by the Allied war crimes tribunal for human experimentation in China. 23 of them would later be found guilty, with 5 sentenced to death. 
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