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History on the 24th of April

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24 Apr 0387 RELIGIOUS Augustine of Hippo, 32, was baptized on this Eve of Easter. He told the story of his Christian conversion from a profligate life in his "Confessions," written between 397-401.
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24 Apr 1576 RELIGIOUS Birth of St. Vincent de Paul, French Catholic priest. He founded several religious orders during his lifetime, including the Lazarists (or Vincentians) in 1625.
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24 Apr 1870 RELIGIOUS At the Vatican I Ecumenical Council, the dogmatic constitution "Dei filius" was published. Explaining the relationship between faith and reason, it declared that God could be known by human thought processes.
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24 Apr 1918 WW2 Friedrich Christiansen shot down a British H12B flying boat. 
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24 Apr 1920 WW2 Marshal Pilsudski, the Polish leader, signed a treaty with Simon Petlyura promising Ukrainian independence in return for military help in crushing the Bolsheviks. 
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24 Apr 1920 RELIGIOUS Death of Eliza P. Hewitt, 69, American Presbyterian S.S. teacher and hymnwriter. Many of her verses are still sung today, including "More About Jesus," Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus" and "Sunshine in My Soul."
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24 Apr 1921 WW2 USS Arizona departed Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. 
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24 Apr 1926 WW2 Crown Prince Yi Un was ostensibly made King Yi of Korea. 
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24 Apr 1929 WW2 Foch was launched at Brest, France. 
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24 Apr 1930 WW2 Major General Takeshi Kosugi was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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24 Apr 1934 WW2 In Germany, a Supreme Court was created in Berlin to take on the most serious cases of treason. 
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24 Apr 1936 WW2 In Germany the Ordensburgen Training Centres were formally established for the indoctrination of Nazi Party members. These establishments came under the responsibility of Reich Organization Leader Robert Ley, a loud-mouth fanatic with a reputation for drink and women and an obsession with creating physically perfect Germans. 
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24 Apr 1937 WW2 Britain and France relieved Belgium of its Locarno Treaties responsibilities. 
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24 Apr 1938 WW2 The Nazi-aligned Sudeten German Party issued the Carlsbad Decrees, demanding autonomy for Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 Josef Terboven was appointed the Reichskommissar of Norway. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 France urged Italy to stay out of the European War. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 Orion sank the ship Haxby in the Atlantic Ocean. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 US Naval Attaché in Norway Lieutenant Commander Ole E. Hagen escorted a group of American citizens fleeting Norway into Sweden. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 Cruiser Georges Leygues was ordered to sail to Mers-el-Kébir, French Algeria. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 Duquesne was assigned to Force X stationed in Alexandria, Egypt. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 In Norway, 18 Gladiator biplanes of the 263 Squadron RAF arrived at the frozen Lake Lesjaskogsvatnet in Norway, which was to become their base of operations; the field had no anti-aircraft defense. Troops of the British 15th Brigade landed at Åndalsnes after a 9-day journey by sea from France; they immediately marched south toward Lillehammer, Norway. Troops of the Norwegian 6th Brigade attacked German positions north of Narvik, Norway; Gratangsbotn was briefly re-captured by Norwegian troops. German troops repelled a British attack near Trondheim. 
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24 Apr 1940 WW2 British House of Commons approved a trade agreement with Spain; it was the first since the Spanish Civil War. 
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24 Apr 1941 WW2 German paratroopers captured the Corinth Canal in Greece. Meanwhile, German aircraft sank hospital ship Andros and 11 freighters off the coast and damaged British cruiser HMS York and submarine HMS Rover at Suda Bay, Crete; Greek torpedo boats Aigli, Alkyoni, and Arethousa were scuttled to prevent capture. British troops held off German attacks through the afternoon at Thermopylae, destroying 15 German tanks, before withdrawing after sundown. At 1900 hours, Greek luxury yacht Hellas was bombed at Piraeus while boarding 500 British civilians and 400 wounded Allied soldiers, killing 500. 
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24 Apr 1941 WW2 US Navy extended its range for Neutrality Patrols to as far east as Iceland and as far south as Rio de Janeiro. 
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24 Apr 1941 WW2 The German Naval Attaché in Moscow, Russia reported back to German Navy headquarters that it had been learned that the British had deduced the German invasion of the Soviet Union to take place around 26 Jun 1941, and the British had shared this information with the Soviet Union. 
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24 Apr 1941 WW2 Italian infantry attacked two points of the Tobruk, Libya defenses at 0700 hours; the attacks were halted within an hour with heavy casualties and 107 captured. 
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24 Apr 1941 WW2 The first M3 tank constructed at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant in Michigan, United States was delivered to the US Army. 
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24 Apr 1941 WW2 In a statement, Frank Knox, the United States Secretary for the Navy, proclaimed: "We can no longer occupy the immoral and craven position of asking others to make all the sacrifices for this victory which we recognize as so essential to us." 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Jews were prohibited from using public transportation in Germany; exception was made for Jewish forced laborers whose workplace is more than 7 kilometers from their homes, but seats were still off limits to them. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Exeter, England. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 American troops landed in French New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Davao, Philippine Islands. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 At Delhi, India, Orde Wingate noted his preference of a proactive long range penetration strategy for his irregular troops. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was named the acting Chief of Staff as his superior Boris Shaposhnikov had fallen ill. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 German submarine U-136 sank British ship Empire Drum 280 miles southeast of New York, United States at 2348 hours; all 41 aboard survived. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Zero fighters of the Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group (based in Rabaul, New Britain) attacked Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua, shooting down 3 Kittyhawk fighters in combat and destroying 1 PBY Catalina and 2 B-26 Marauder aircraft on the ground. Later in the day, four B-17E Flying Fortress bombers of US 30th Bomb Squadron arrived at Seven Mile in preparation for a raid on Rabaul, New Britain on the next day. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Japanese 18th Infantry Division captured Yamethin, Burma. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 91 British bombers attacked Rostock, Germany for the second night in a row, causing damage in the town, but the aircraft attacking the nearby Heinkel aircraft factory again failed to do much damage. One Hampden bomber was lost during this attack. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort's cryptanalytic team based in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii had intercepted Japanese Navy radio messages mentioning the existence of task forces bearing names such as MO Covering Force, MO Attack Force, RZP Occupation Force, RXB Occupation Force, etc. Rochefort would quickly arrive at the hypothesis that these task forces were organized for an attack in the Port Moresby, Australian Papua region. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 USS S-35 approached Paramushiro, Hokkaido, Japan in the Kurile Islands. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille returned to his unit at Martuba, Libya after a period of home leave. 
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24 Apr 1942 WW2 12 British RAF DB-7 Boston bombers attacked Vlissingen, the Netherlands, damaging docks without any losses. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 After repeated failures, Admiral Nimitz discontinued the use of magnetic exploders on torpedoes for his theater of operation. Submarines under General MacArthur's command, however, continued to use them. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 In the North Atlantic, Escorts of Allied convoy ONS 5 spotted and sank German submarine U-710 10 miles ahead of the convoy. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 The German submarine U-710 was sunk by an aircraft of British No. 206 Squadron Coastal Command. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 The No. 5 Column of the Chindits reached the Chindwin River in Burma. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Runner damaged a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 In the Mediterranean Sea, British submarine HMS Sahib (Lieutenant J. H. Bromage) was scuttled and abandoned by her crew to avoid capture after being seriously damaged by the Italian torpedo boat Climene. Her loss would be officially announced by the Admiralty on 6 May 1943. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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24 Apr 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese cargo ship in the Tsugaru Strait between Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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24 Apr 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saipan. 
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24 Apr 1944 WW2 British bombers attacked München, Germany. During this attack, the Spinosaurus fossil specimen BSP 1912 VIII 19 was destroyed at the Paläontologische Staatssammlung München (Bavarian State Collection of Paleontology). 
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24 Apr 1944 WW2 Allied bombers conducted a raid on Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 
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24 Apr 1944 WW2 After two days of heavy fighting Douglas MacArthur's forces subdued Hollandia and Aitape in Dutch New Guinea, cutting off 50,000 Japanese troops of the Pacific-based 18th Army. 
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24 Apr 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ARGUS-15 departed. 
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24 Apr 1944 RELIGIOUS In deciding the legal case "United States v. Ballard," the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the general principle that "the truth of religious claims is not for secular authority to determine."
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Cod unsuccessfully attacked a Japanese convoy and was subjected to a heavy depth charge barrage. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Canadian First and British Second Armies entered Bremen, Germany. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 The United Kingdom abolished black-out with the exception of certain coastal areas. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed the naval base at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Tranquility was commissioned into service. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 The American destroyer escort USS Frederick C. Davis was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-546 off the Atlantic coast. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 USS Parche attacked a Japanese transport east of Kamaichi, Japan; all 3 torpedoes missed. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Indian 5th Division captured Toungoo, Burma and advanced further to Penwegu. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 US First Army liberated Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 US Seventh Army crossed the Danube River to capture Ulm, Germany. Also in southern Germany, US 3rd Army reached the Danube River. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 US Fifth Army drove through Mantua on its way north along the Italian coast while British Eighth Army attacked across the Po River and captured Parma. The two columns made contact as British 6th Armoured Division linked up with US 10th Mountain Division. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 The final mission involving Italian motor torpedo boats against Allied targets was launched, involving four boats. 
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24 Apr 1945 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho was attacked by US aircraft at Etajima near Kure, Japan, receiving no damage. 
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24 Apr 1946 WW2 Joseph Stalin met with Lavrentiy Beria, Andrei Zhdanov, Georgy Malenkov, Anastas Mikoyan, Viktor Abakumov, Vsevolod Merkulov, and Sergei Ogoltsov over the reorganization of the Soviet Ministry for State Security (MGB). 
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24 Apr 1946 WW2 USS Preston was decommissioned from service and was placed into the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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24 Apr 1949 WW2 Sun Chu was captured by Chinese communist forces at Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. 
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