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History on the 22nd of April

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22 Apr 1776 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I found Christ in me the hope of glory; but felt a pleasing, painful sensation of spiritual hunger and thirst for more of God.'
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22 Apr 1864 RELIGIOUS The motto "In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. coinage, being struck on a bronze two-cent piece, issued during the American Civil War.
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22 Apr 1897 RELIGIOUS In New York City, the world's largest Jewish daily newspaper, "The Forward," was first published. Abraham Cahan, 43, one of its founders, became editor of the paper in 1903, remaining until his death in 1951.
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22 Apr 1911 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was promoted to the rank of major and was assigned to the 9th Cavalry Regiment. 
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22 Apr 1913 WW2 Settsu arrived at Chinhae, Korea. 
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22 Apr 1915 WW2 The Germans made the first gas (initially chlorine) attack on French troops, on the front between Bixschoote and Langemaerck, in Belgium. 
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22 Apr 1915 WW1 Begin of Second Battle of Ypres
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22 Apr 1933 WW2 Germany began to exclude Jewish students. 
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22 Apr 1933 RELIGIOUS American Bible teacher and author Kenneth E. Hagin traces his conversion to a saving Christian faith back to this date, at age 16.
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22 Apr 1936 WW2 The first AMR 35 light tanks entered service with the French Army. 
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22 Apr 1938 WW2 Germany passed laws requiring that properties worth more than 5,000 Reichsmarks be registered with the government. 
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22 Apr 1940 WW2 British 146th Brigade began to retreat toward Namsos, Norway as German troops began to surround their positions. British 148th Brigade defended against German attacks north of Lillehammer, Norway and were flanked by mountain troops. The British troops fell back 20 miles to the north overnight and formed a new line at Tretten Gorge. 
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22 Apr 1940 WW2 Two British Hudson bombers attacked German submarine U-43 in the North Sea. U-43 escaped with minor damage. 
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22 Apr 1940 WW2 The anti-aircraft sloop HMS Pelican, on her way to the Romsdal Fjord carrying the personnel of the Naval Base party for Molde, Norway, was crippled by a dive-bomber and suffered heavy casualties. 
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22 Apr 1940 WW2 An Inter-Allied Supreme War Council, also attended by Poland and Norway, met in Paris, France. The meeting was characterized by the political fighting between French leaders Reynaud and Daladier. 
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22 Apr 1940 WW2 Italian "Grado" naval infantry battalion landed on Hvar (Italian: Lesina), Croatia, Yugoslavia. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 British warships bombarded Tripoli, Libya. On the return trip, battleship HMS Valiant hit a mine and was lightly damaged. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 Erwin Rommel received the Gold Medal of Military Valor in Silver. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 The US Congress passed an act that would increase the authorized enlisted strength of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps; the latter's active list was to be 20% of the former. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 The Soviet Union protested to Germany regarding border violations by German troops and aircraft. Among the evidence presented was a downed German aircraft in Soviet territory which contained maps of the Soviet Union, aerial photographic equipment, and rolls exposed film. The Soviets, however, remained generally friendly toward Germany. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 Erich Raeder reported to Adolf Hitler regarding American belligerency despite of neutrality pledges. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 British 1st South African Brigade captured Camboicia Pass, Abyssinia and 1,200 Italian prisoners of war. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 German aircraft attacked British-controlled airfields near Athens, Greece, forcing remaining British fighters in the region to be withdrawn to Argos in southern Greece. In the Saronic Gulf, German dive bombers sank Greek minelayer Aliakmon, hospital ship Sokratis, 11 freighters, and 1 tanker. At 1800 hours, 35 German dive bombers sank Greek destroyer Hydra at Piraeus; 41 were killed, 115 survived. Further south, German aircraft damaged cruiser HMS York at Suda Bay, Crete with near misses. Finally, on the same day, Yugoslavian torpedo boats Kajmakcalan and Durmitor arrived at Suda Bay and joined the Allied fleet. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 Australian troops raided Axis positions surrounding Tobruk, Libya, capturing 455 Italian prisoners of war and destroying a number of field guns and anti-aircraft guns. 27 Australians were killed and 28 were wounded in this action. From above, German aircraft bombed Tobruk harbor, hitting British hospital ship Vita, forcing the 437 patients, 6 doctors, and 6 nurses to be evacuated. 
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22 Apr 1941 WW2 Light cruiser HMS Birmingham arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom at 0602 hours after completing escort duties which began on 8 Feb. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine M-173 sank German ship Blankenese in the Barents Sea 3 miles off the northeastern tip of Norway. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 American submarine USS Sailfish departed with ammunition for the American troops at Corregidor in the Philippine Islands; the island garrison would surrender before this mission was completed. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Ambon, Maluku Islands and then departed later on the same day. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 In order to ensure continuing supplies to China, Assam in India, and Burma, China Ferry Command was established to airlift essential needs over the Himalayan "Hump" route. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-201 sank US freighter San Jacinto 375 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States at 0329 hours, killing 14 of 183 aboard. Hours later, at 0905 hours, U-201 struck again, sinking British ship Derryheen; all 51 aboard survived. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-81 sank four small sailing vessels 20 miles west of Palestine during the course of the day. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 USS Lexington arrived at Tongatapu, Tonga. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 British troops fell back to Meiktila, Burma while Indian 17th Infantry Division fell back from Taungdwingyi to Mahlaing to protect Mandalay. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 Canadian and British troops raided the beaches near Boulogne, France in Operation Abercrombie, which failed to capture any German prisoners for interrogation and failed to destroy searchlight equipment. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 64 British Wellington bombers and 5 Stirling bombers attacked Köln (Cologne), Germany using the new Gee radio transmitter system for blind navigation and bombing. About 15 aircraft were able to bomb accurately, killing 4 civilians and wounding 8, while a few bombers released their bombs as far as 10 miles from Köln. Two Wellington bombers were lost during this raid. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team based in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii detected a concentration of Japanese warships at Rabaul, New Britain, including five carriers; while they correctly determined that Shokaku, Zuikaku, and Shoho being at Rabaul, they had mistakenly placed two others (including Kaga) at this location. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 Akagi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 USS S-35 remained off Paramushiro, Hokkaido, Japan in the Kurile Islands due to heavy fog. 
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22 Apr 1942 WW2 German and Italian aircraft attacked Malta. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 The US Submarine Grenadier was scuttled by her crew after suffering severe damage from Japanese air attack off Penang, British Malaya. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion sank three sampans with gunfire off Honshu, Japan. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 A transport of Jews from Westerbork Concentration Camp arrived at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Sudetenland in southern Germany (occupied Czechoslovakia). 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 British Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft photographed a German rocket at Peenemünde, Germany but intelligence analysts could not be certain of the object photographed. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Fire station and Public Works garage turned over to station. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo conducted training off Midway Atoll. 
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22 Apr 1943 WW2 South African and British fighters intercepted an Italian air convoy off Tunisia, Italian North Africa and claimed to have shot down 12 transport aircraft and 7 escorts. On the ground, the final Allied assault began against the remaining Axis forces in North Africa with armoured thrusts from Sidi Nsir, Medjez, and Pont du Fahs. Only at Enfidaville was there a halt. Resistance remained fierce, however, and was professionally handled by the Germans and Italians, allowing units of the Luftwaffe to be evacuated from the shrinking perimeter. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Yugoslavian partisans took control of the island of Korcula in the Adriatic Sea, capturing 800 of the German defenders. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Mussolini met with Hitler near Salzburg, Germany (Austria). 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 The RAF used of the new liquid incendiary device, J-Bomb, for the first time against Brunswick, Germany. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Soviet Union ended peace talks with Finland. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 USS Iowa began to escort carriers while the aircraft struck Japanese positions on New Guinea, Dutch East Indies. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Japanese troops captured Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Allied forces landed on Aitape, Australian Territory of New Guinea and Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea during Operation Persecution. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Japanese attacks overran some Anglo-Indian defensive positions near Imphal, India, but no major progress was made. Near Kohima to the north, Anglo-Indian troops attacked Garrison Hill after sundown. Behind the Japanese lines, Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi visited the front lines and relieved Major General Motozo Yanakida for his perceived lack of aggressiveness, replacing him with Major General Nobuo Tanaka. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Yamato departed Okinoshima, Japan with cruiser Maya, destroyer Shimakaze, destroyer Yukikaze, and two other destroyers. 
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22 Apr 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Kure, Japan for Taira, Bonin Islands. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler invited Joseph Goebbels and the Goebbels family to accompany him in Hitler's bunker in Berlin, Germany. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front penetrated the Berlin, Germany suburbs from the east and north. In the city, at the conference at 1500 hours, Adolf Hitler learned that the counterattack he ordered on the previous day was never carried out by SS General Felix Steiner and grew furious; when he was told by Wilhelm Keitel that Soviet tanks were now entering the city, Hitler conceded that the end was near, and decided for certain that he was to remain in Berlin. The most important papers stored at the bunker were now being burned. On the same day, Albert Speer entered Hitler's bunkers and met with him for the last time before Speer would leave Berlin. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Final German resistance in Harz Mountains were rooted out by US First and Ninth Armies. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 British Second Army fought its way into Bremen, Germany. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Japanese special attack aircraft sank a minesweeper and damaged a number of other ships off Okinawa, Japan. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Croaker refitted at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Sennet searched for a P-51 fighter pilot who had bailed out near her position south of Japan, but would fail to locate the pilot. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank a tanker and damaged another east of Kamaichi, Japan, hitting them with 3 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cero sank a Japanese patrol vessel and damaged a second one with her deck gun south of Japan. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov personally participated in the arrest of Aleksandr Nobikov, who failed to promote Joseph Stalin's son, Vasilii Stalin, to general rank. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 In Burma, Indian 7th Division attacked Yenangyaung while Indian 5th Division attacked Toungoo. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army established a bridgehead across the Danuber River in southern Germany, while US Third Army began moving south through the Danube Valley. To the west, French First Army reached the Swiss-German border. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Polish 2nd Infantry Division captured Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Oranienburg, Germany, with a prisoner population of about 3,000 at the time. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl departed Berlin, Germany for southern Germany on Adolf Hitler's orders. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler recognized that the war was lost, and released all non-essential personnel from the Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany. He assured those dismissed that "nobody is now duty-bound to anything." 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 In Italy, US IV Corps and British XIII Corps reached the Po River at San Benedetto and Ficarolo, respectively. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 A US Navy PB4Y-1 aircraft attacked small boats in Suo (now Suao) harbor in eastern Taiwan, destroying several small boats. 
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22 Apr 1945 WW2 While performing a low level "beat-up" of the airfield at RAF Fulbeck in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, a Lancaster bomber, serial PB463, struck a building and crashed, killing all seven crewmen and eight spectators on the ground. Another twenty personnel suffered injuries, of whom four later died in hospital. 
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22 Apr 1946 WW2 Alexander Novikov was stripped of his rank and was arrested for failing to produce reconnaissance aircraft matching those of the United States. 
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22 Apr 1949 WW2 He Yingqin was named the acting Minister of Defense. 
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22 Apr 1960 RELIGIOUS At a constitutional convention in Minneapolis, three major Lutheran bodies in the U.S. merged to form the American Lutheran Church, with a combined membership of about two million.
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