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History on the 24th of March

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24 Mar 1774 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'What a mercy it is to be separated in spirit, conversation, and interest from the world that knows not God.'
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24 Mar 1818 RELIGIOUS American statesman Henry Clay wrote: 'All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with liberty.'
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24 Mar 1918 WW2 Captain J. L.Trollope of No.43 Squadron RFC in a Sopwith Camel shot down six enemy aircraft in a single day. 
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24 Mar 1918 WW2 The USS Olympia arrived at Murmansk, Russia. Her captain placed the ship under Admiral Kemp's orders. 
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24 Mar 1918 WW2 The Bolsheviks seized the telegraph office in Vladivostok, Russia; the staff immediately went on strike resulting in a complete breakdown of communication with the outside world. 
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24 Mar 1921 WW2 Carrier Eagle underwent a reconstruction at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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24 Mar 1924 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's third child, Prince Hirotada, passed away. 
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24 Mar 1925 WW2 Naka was launched at Yokohama, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1927 WW2 The Nanjing Incident: US and British Royal Navy warships opened fire on rioting Chinese Nationalist and Communists who were looting the property of foreign residents in the treaty port. 
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24 Mar 1933 WW2 Jews outside of Germany called for a boycott of German goods. 
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24 Mar 1934 WW2 The Philippine Commonwealth was established. 
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24 Mar 1935 WW2 Avro Type 652 Anson took its first flight. 
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24 Mar 1936 WW2 Cruiser Georges Leygues was launched at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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24 Mar 1938 WW2 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rejected the Soviet request to form an international bloc to contain German aggression. 
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24 Mar 1938 WW2 Chiang Kaishek inspected troops at Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. He personally appointed Bai Chongxi and Lin Weizu as staff officers of the 5th War Area. 
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24 Mar 1938 WW2 Japanese artillery began bombardment the city walls of Tai'erzhuang, Jiangsu Province. Japanese troops attempted to rush into collapsed areas of the wall, but such attacks were driven back after suffering great casualties. Overnight, General Sun Lianzhong visited the town under the cover of darkness, and decided to transfer several field guns and armored vehicles to bolster defenses. 
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24 Mar 1939 WW2 Slovakian forces counterattacked the Hungarian invaders, pushing Hungarian troops nearly to the Okna River. 
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24 Mar 1939 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze was launched. 
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24 Mar 1939 WW2 Yosuke Matsuoka stepped down as the President of the South Manchuria Railway. 
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24 Mar 1939 WW2 Takuichi Ohmura was named the President of the South Manchuria Railway. 
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24 Mar 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler returned from recently annexed Memel to Berlin, Germany. 
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24 Mar 1939 WW2 USS Astoria departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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24 Mar 1940 WW2 French destroyer La Railleuse suffered an accidental torpedo detonation as she was departing Casablanca, Morocco. La Railleuse was lost; 28 were killed and 24 were wounded. 
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24 Mar 1940 RELIGIOUS Dr. Samuel Cavert of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America officiated at a Protestant Easter service in New York City. It was the first religious program to be broadcast over television, and was carried by local NBC affiliate TV station W2XBS, in NYC.
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 Axis forces opened Rommel's offensive in North Africa at 0600 hours. Australian troops on the front line destroyed a leading German armored car, but they were soon overwhelmed by German tanks. Axis forces would capture El Agheila, Libya, the furthest point of the British advance against the Italians. British 2nd Armoured Division fell back 30 miles to Marsa Brega. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 Erwin Rommel returned to Libya after a series of meetings in Germany and Italy. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 German and Italian ships continued to leave Massawa, Eritrea, Italian East Africa ahead of Allied advances, while Allied warships attempted to intercept them. British sloop HMS Shoreham intercepted German ship Oder, which was scuttled by her own crew to prevent capture. British Royal Navy aircraft detected Italian freighter India; to prevent capture by British warships that were sure to come, the crew entered the port of Assab nearby. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-97 sank Norwegian ship Hørda 750 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom at 1643 hours, killing the entire crew of 30. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Veniero sank British ship Agnete Maersk in the Atlantic Ocean, killing the entire crew. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-106 sank British ship Eastlea 40 miles east of Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands, killing the entire crew of 37. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 It was announced that the Soviet Union had given Turkey an assurance that the USSR would stay neutral if Turkey found herself in conflict with a third power. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 James Lacey, flying a Spitfire fighter, damaged a German Fw 190 aircraft. 
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24 Mar 1941 WW2 The RAF conducted its first bombing raid on Berlin, Germany for the year. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 Admiral Chester Nimitz was appointed the Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Theater. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 Deportation of Slovakian Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp began. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese Navy aircraft began daily bombings of Corregidor in the Philippine Islands. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 The British House of Commons began a two-day debate on the conduct of the war in Germany; bombing of German cities was to be a focal point. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 HMS Indomitable joined the British Eastern Fleet. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 British minesweeper HMS Sharpshooter spotted German submarine U-655 on the surface in the Barents Sea and proceeded to ram and sink her; the entire crew of U-655, 45 men, were killed. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-585 was damaged by depth charges from 3 Allied warships in the Barents Sea, but was able to escape. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 British minesweeping whaler HMS Sulla was lost to heavy seas in the Norwegian Sea. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-123 sank British tanker Empire Steel with torpedoes and the deck gun 365 miles north of Bermuda at 0300 hours; 39 were killed, 8 survived. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 Minesweeper HMS Sharpshooter, escorting Allied convoy QP-9, spotted German submarine U-655 in a distance; she forced the submarine to surface by depth charges, rammed, and sank her; all 47 aboard U-655 were killed. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese 112th Regiment attacked Taungoo, Burma, overcoming the disorganized Chinese outer defenses. Meanwhile, Japanese 143rd Regiment flanked the Chinese defenses and captured the airfield and rail station 6 miles north of the city. Taungoo would be surrounded on three sides by the end of the day. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Staring Bay at Celebes, Dutch East Indies, joining Zuikaku. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 18 RAF Boston light bombers attacked targets in northern France, targeting power stations, rail marshaling yards, and other targets of military importance. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Malta, damaging British destroyer HMS Legion with near misses. 
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24 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Marblehead arrived at Simon's Town, South Africa to repair damages sustained during the Battle of Makassar Strait. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 The British RAF Bomber Command had by this date dropped 100,000 tons of explosives on Germany. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 British General Orde Wingate was ordered by his superiors to withdraw his Chindits from Burma. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Finback spotted a Japanese convoy and began to shadow it. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 Oberleutnant Eitel-Albert Barth, Oberleutnant Werner Oberländer, Feldwebel Walter Pilz, and Oberleutnant Horst Rudat of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 Satoru Anabuki, flying Ki-43 fighter "Fubuki", shot down a B-25 bomber over Meiktila, Burma, his 24th victory. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her fifth war patrol. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo sank tanker Takaosan Maru in Korea Bay of the Yellow Sea at 1949 hours after a 7-hour pursuit, hitting her with 1 of 7 torpedoes. 
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24 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Tunny departed Midway Atoll after a brief stay to replace her periscope. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 In the Fosse Ardeantine caves outside of Rome, 355 Italians, 250 of them civilians, were shot by the SS under Standartenführer Herbert Kappler in reprisal for the killing of 35 Germans during a SS parade on the previous day by the members of the Italian resistance. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 Soviet tanks crossed the Dneiper River near the Czech border. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 British miners signed a 4-year contract for their wages. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The Great Escape: A large escape of prisoners of war from Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany (now Zagan, Poland) was attempted; 76 would succeed. 50 prisoners who had failed would be executed for their involvement. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 Japanese troops mounted an unsuccessful suicide charge on Bougainville. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The 15 American commandos who landed on the Italian coast aiming to sabotage the La Spezia-Genoa railway were captured. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The 3rd Battalion of the Japanese 58th Regiment arrived in the Sangshak, India region as reinforcements. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The headquarters of USAAF 475th Fighter Group was transferred out of Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Franklin arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 810 RAF aircraft attacked Berlin, Germany; 72 aircraft were lost. After sundown, Frankfurt was bombed by the RAF for the third time in four nights. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 Orde Wingate visited the Broadway and White City sites of Operation Thursday in Burma in an attempt to raise the morale of the British 77th Brigade. At 1823 hours, his returning plane arrived at Imphal, India, and then off again shortly before 2000 hours for Hailakandi, India. The aircraft crashed into the Naga hill west of Imphal about 30 minutes after taking off, killing the American pilot Lieutenant Brian Hodges, Wingate, and the other 8 passengers and crew aboard. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The Anzio beachhead in Italy was subjected to heavy German artillery and guided bomb attacks. Out at sea, an Italian motor torpedo boat attack sank one cargo ship; one Italian boat was sunk in the attack. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The Allied attacks on the Gustav Line were persistently repulsed by German defenders. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 The control of Losey Field in Puerto Rico, now without any active air units, was turned over to US Army ground forces. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 Red Army units crossed the Bug River by the Black Sea on the Ukrainian coast. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 90 German bombers attacked London, England, United Kingdom. 
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24 Mar 1944 WW2 417th Bombardment Squadron of 25th Bombardment Group of US Army Air Forces, operating B-18 Bolo bombers, was assigned to Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico, United States. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 George Patton urinated into the Rhine River. Upon completing his crossing over a pontoon bridge, he took some dirt on the far bank, emulating his favorite historical figure William the Conqueror. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Operation Plunder landed over 16,000 British and American troops across the Rhine River region, allowing link ups with advancing British 21st Army Group's 4 bridgeheads. Meanwhile, US Third Army captured Ludwigshafen and Speyer, Germany. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 US 9th Army began to seal off the Ruhr region in Germany. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 HMS Activity departed Sydney, Australia. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Missouri bombarded Okinawa, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Major General Matthew Ridgway, the commanding officer of US XVIII Airborne Corps, was wounded in the shoulder by fragments from a German grenade. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Lieutenant General Daniel Sultan's Sino-American force linked up with British troops at Kyaukme, Burma. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 B-17 bombers attacked the Daimler-Benz tank factory in Berlin, Germany; the bombers were escorted by P-51 fighters flown by African-American pilots of 332nd Fighter Group from Ramitelli Airfield in Italy. About 30 Me 262 jet fighter of German Jagdgeschwader 7 wing rose to defend. The American fighter and bomber airmen together claimed 16 jets shot down, but actual German records showed that only 8 were lost in this action. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler's personal Ju 290A-5 transport aircraft was destroyed by Allied bombing at München (Munich), Germany. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Cod departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her sixth war patrol. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan and prepared to enter drydocks for repairs. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Wisconsin bombarded Okinawa, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Preston arrived off Kerama Islands, Japan. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Luce departed Philippine waters to escort ships which were sailing for Kelse Shima, Ryukyu Islands. 
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24 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her second war patrol. 
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24 Mar 1946 WW2 Soviet prosecutor Yurii Pokrovsky escorted Nikolai Zorya's body from Nürnberg, Germany to Leipzig, Germany; the documentation Pokrovsky carried noted that Zorya was a private rather than his actual rank of major general. 
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24 Mar 1949 WW2 Iowa was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Mar 1980 RELIGIOUS El Salvador's leading human rights activist, Archbishop Oscar Romero, 62, was assassinated by a sniper while saying mass in a hospital chapel.
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24 Mar 1982 RELIGIOUS Five congregations in the eastern San Francisco Bay area became the first to declare themselves publicly as sanctuary churches, in an effort to help refugees from Central America establish themselves in the U.S. during political and military unrest in their native countries.
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