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History on the 27th of March

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27 Mar 1536 RELIGIOUS Swiss Protestants in Strassbourg and Constance signed the First Helvetic Confession. It became the first major document setting forth the common faith of the Swiss Protestant churches.
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27 Mar 1840 RELIGIOUS Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'No person can be a child of God without living in secret prayer; and no community of Christians can be in a lively condition without unity in prayer.'
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27 Mar 1921 RELIGIOUS The first Southern Baptist church to be constituted in the state of Arizona was organized in Phoenix formed principally of churchmen who protested the doctrinal views held by leaders of the Northern Baptist Convention.
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27 Mar 1925 WW2 HMS Hermes began a seven-week period of refit in Malta. 
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27 Mar 1926 WW2 Haichou was damaged by Beiyang warships off Wusong, Shanghai, China, which caused 9 killed and 10 to 20 wounded. 
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27 Mar 1933 WW2 The Enabling Act, which gave Hitler near-dictatorial powers, came into effect. 
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27 Mar 1933 WW2 Japan officially withdrew from the League of Nations. 
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27 Mar 1933 WW2 55,000 civilians staged a protest against Adolf Hitler in New York City, New York, United States. 
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27 Mar 1938 WW2 A Do 18W flying boat established a seaplane record flying non-stop in a straight distance of 8,391 kilometers from Start Point, Devon, England, United Kingdom to Caravelas, Brazil. 
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27 Mar 1938 WW2 Japanese troops began to enter the town of Tai'erzhuang in Jiangsu Province; Chinese troops forced the Japanese to fight for every block. 
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27 Mar 1939 WW2 Japanese 101st Division captured Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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27 Mar 1940 WW2 New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Savage died from cancer. 
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27 Mar 1940 WW2 The French government requested the Soviet Union to recall its ambassador to Paris, France. 
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27 Mar 1940 WW2 A dredge was towed to Midway Atoll to begin work to enlarge the basin and channels between the two main islands. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 The US Congress approved US$7,000,000,000 for the Lend-Lease program. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-98 sank British ship Koranton 400 miles southwest of Iceland at 1350 hours, killing the entire crew of 34. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered Operation Barbarossa to be postponed due to changing political situations in the Balkan Peninsula. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 Allied tanks and infantry captured heights beyond the Dongolaas Gorge in Eritrea, Italian East Africa. By 1000 hours, Keren was captured without opposition as Italian troops fled toward Asmara. The Battle of Keren ended with 536 Allies killed and 3,229 wounded, while the Italians suffered 6,500 casualties. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 Battleship HMS Warspite, battleship HMS Barham, battleship HMS Valiant, carrier HMS Formidable, and nine destroyers of the British Mediterranean Fleet departed Alexandria, Egypt to hunt for an Italian fleet known to have departed bases in Italy. Four cruisers and four destroyers also departed from Piraeus, Greece, launching spotter planes to search for the Italian fleet, locating it at noon. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 Oberleutnant zur See Helmut Pöttgen of German submarine U-46 fell overboard from the submarine and was lost. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka met with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Berlin, Germany in the morning; Ribbentrop noted to Matsuoka that the United States was intimidated by the Axis alliance thus would not enter into the war even if Japan joined in to strike at British possessions in Asia. In the afternoon, Matsuoka met with Adolf Hitler. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 The first transfers of prisoners out of Oflag IV-C camp at Colditz Castle in Germany took place; 27 Polish officers were moved to Oflag VII-B in Eichstätt, Germany. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrived at the US Territory of Hawaii aboard the passenger liner Nitta Maru, under the guise of a diplomat. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 American and British representatives met at Washington DC, United States. 
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27 Mar 1941 WW2 General Dusan Simovic and other anti-German officers overthrew the pro-Axis government in Yugoslavia, placing Regent Prince Paul with King Petar II and intending to back out of the Tripartite Pact. Upon hear the news, Adolf Hitler ordered an invasion of Yugoslavia; the German foreign ministry prepared messages to Hungary, Bulgaria, and Italy for them to join in the partition Yugoslavia. On the same day, 500 German military aircraft were dispatched for Bulgaria and Romania. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 German propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary on this date, regarding the deportation of Jews, "a fairly barbaric process is utilized. Of the Jews themselves, not much remains". 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Iro Ilk was awarded the German Cross in Gold. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft and artillery bombarded Chinese positions at Taungoo, Burma. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld, having shot down four British bombers during the previous night, was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht bulletin by the headquarters of the German Wehrmacht. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-160 sank Panamanian tanker Equipoise 50 kilometers east of Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States at 0238 hours; 41 were killed, 13 survived. Further out to sea, 380 miles east of Virginia, U-150 sank Norwegian tanker MV Svenør at 1340 hours; 8 were killed, 29 survived. Closer to Europe, U-587 unsuccessfully attacked Allied convoy WS-17 and was sank by escorting destroyers; all 42 aboard the German submarine were lost. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 US Navy Admiral John Wilcox, Jr. drowned after being swept overboard from USS Washington during a storm at about 1030 hours. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 At 2300 hours, in British destroyer HMS Campeltown, with commandos aboard, left her destroyer escorts behind and sailed toward Saint-Nazaire, France with a few small vessels. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Gudgeon sank Japanese merchant ship Nissho Maru in the East China Sea 20 miles off southern Korea. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Dutch aircraft sank Japanese collier Yubari Maru off Koepang, Timor, Dutch East Indies. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 The German naval staff requested the Japanese to conduct raids against Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Hammann departed New Caledonia area as a part of Task Force 17. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi departed Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 The deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp began. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 British aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle departed Gibraltar with battleship HMS Malaya and other warships in escort to deliver 16 Spitfire fighters to Malta. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Kure, Japan and arrived at Kobe, Japan. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Kaga entered the drydocks of Sasebo, Japan to repair the damage caused by striking reefs in the Palau Islands, Caroline Islands on 9 Feb 1942. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese transport Kitano Maru struck a Japanese naval mine and sank in Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 With freezers failing after a Japanese aerial attack on the previous day, US and Filipino troops attempted to transport the contents, 24,000 pounds of frozen carabao meat, from Corregidor Island to Bataan Peninsula in the Philippine Islands for immediate consumption. Japanese air attacks would prevent this transport, and the meat would soon spoil. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Major General Sir Vernon Kell passed away. Until sacked by Winston Churchill in 1940, Kell had been the head of the British Secret Service (MI5) for thirty years. 
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27 Mar 1942 WW2 Agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested members of the Black Dragon Society, a right wing para-military Japanese group, in the San Joaquin Valley region in California, United States. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul, New Britain departing later on the same day. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 German tanks stopped the British offensive at El Hamma, Tunisia, but New Zealand troops had successfully secured territory south of the town. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Tunny reached Wake Island waters. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 Japanese 6th Field Kempeitai arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Additions to Marine Fighting Squadron 222 (VMF-222) arrived on board. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 Shokaku arrived at Kure, Japan after layovers at Tokuyama, Iwaishima, Beppu, and Tokuyama again en route. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo sank a small Japanese patrol vessel with her deck gun in the Yellow Sea, then sank a small fishing trawler with improvised Molotov cocktail bombs. 
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27 Mar 1943 WW2 The BI-3 rocket-powered prototype aircraft took its fourth flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, reaching the speed of more than 800 kilometers per hour. The aircraft would lose control during flight, crashing to the ground and killing test pilot Grigory Bakhchivandzhi. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 Vichy French government allowed its citizens to join the German SS organization. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 German SS troops massacred all Jewish children under the age of 13 in Kovno, Lithuania. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 The government of the United Kingdom banned foreign travel. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 Japanese 58th Regiment launched an all-out attack on Sangshak, India. Brigadier Maxwell Hope-Thompson, commanding officer of the defending Allied troops, ordered a retreat from Sangshak at 1800 hours. On the same day, William Slim requested the British 2nd Division to help defend nearby Dimapur. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 Japanese troops attacked the Broadway site of Operation Thursday in Burma. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 USS Ray arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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27 Mar 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-58 departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Caiman detected a Japanese cargo ship in the southern South China Sea and fired 4 torpedoes; they failed to hit the target. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Red Army fought fight their way into Danzig in the face of heavy resistance. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 A German counter attack from Frankfurt, Germany towards Küstrin barely got out of the city. Meanwhile, US Third Army captured Aschaffenburg, Germany, 40 kilometers to the southeast. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 American B-29 aircraft mined Kanmon Straits near Shimonoseki, Japan. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Argentina declared war on the Axis alliance. The interned sailors of the Admiral Graf Spee (since Dec 1939) were now considered prisoners of war. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Before dawn, USS Rock fired six torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer escort; she claimed the target was sunk with one hit, but the sinking was not confirmed. In the late evening, USS Rock fired a torpedo at another Japanese destroyer; the torpedo missed. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed Fremantle, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 Dwight Eisenhower wrote Joseph Stalin a letter in an effort to coordinate the movement of Anglo-American and Soviet front lines as the two fronts neared each other in Germany. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 The US 5th Marine Division departed from Iwo Jima, Japan (its only combat operation), bound for US Territory of Hawaii for resting. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom. It was to be the last rocket to strike this suburban district of London. To date, 117 Ilford residents were killed by rockets, while 349 were seriously injured. A second V-2 rocket hit Hughes Mansions, Stepney, London, killing 134 and injuring 49. 
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27 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Manta departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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27 Mar 1946 RELIGIOUS Members of Baptist congregations in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks met at Anchorage to form the Alaska Southern Baptist Convention.
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27 Mar 1947 WW2 Massachusetts was decommissioned from service. 
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27 Mar 1948 WW2 USS Bugara arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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27 Mar 1962 RELIGIOUS In Louisiana, Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel ordered all Roman Catholic schools in the New Orleans diocese to end segregation.
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