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History on the 24th of May

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24 May 1738 RELIGIOUS English founder of Methodism John Wesley underwent his famous religious conversion at Aldersgate Chapel in London. Later, in his journal, Wesley reflected under this date: 'I felt my heart strangely warmed....'
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24 May 1752 RELIGIOUS According to a note inscribed in his Bible, Robert Robinson, 16, was "born again" ("renatus") under the preaching of English revivalist George Whitefield. Robinson later authored the hymn, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."
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24 May 1892 RELIGIOUS Birth of Earl B. Marlatt, American religious educator and hymnologist. In 1926 Marlatt penned the hymn, "`Are Ye Able?' Said the Master," to be sung in a consecration service at Boston University's School of Religion.
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24 May 1913 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was assigned to destroyer Akizuki. 
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24 May 1920 WW2 Isaburo Yamagata succeeded Gonsuke Hayashi as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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24 May 1921 WW2 In southern Ireland the Sinn Fein party was re-elected unopposed. 
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24 May 1930 RELIGIOUS Pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a Congregational missionary, wrote in a letter: 'As one makes new discoveries about his friends by being with them, so one discovers the "individuality" of God if one entertains him continuously.'
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24 May 1932 WW2 The Do X aircraft arrived in Berlin, Germany, welcomed by 200,000 people. 
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24 May 1937 WW2 The Soviet Central Committee decided to place the arrested Marshal Mikhail Nikolaievich Tukhachevsky (the former First Deputy Commissar of Defence) and seven other Military Commanders on trial, accused of plotting an army conspiracy to overthrow Stalin. 
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24 May 1937 WW2 Garland entered drydocks at Sheerness, England, United Kingdom for a scheduled overhaul. 
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24 May 1938 WW2 Werner Mölders became the commanding officer of the 3rd Squadron of Jagdgruppe 88 in Spain. 
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24 May 1939 WW2 The British Fleet Air Arm was transferred from the Royal Air Force to Admiralty control and renamed as the Air Branch of the Royal Navy. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 German submarine U-37 sank Greek ship Kyma 200 miles west of Brest, France at 0248 hours, killing 7. Aboard were 6,000 tons of corn and 90 tons of trucks from Argentina to Britain. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 German aircraft sank British destroyer Wessex off the coast of Calais, France. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 King Leopold III assumed command of the Belgian Army. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 German troops captured Ghent and Tournai, Belgium. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 The President of Panama expressed support for the Dominican Republic in terms of the 8 Mar 1940 incident where a Canadian destroyer attacked German freighter Hannover in Dominic Republic's territorial waters. He called for the Chairman of the Inter-American Neutrality Committee in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to investigate this violation of the Pan-American Neutrality Zone. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 In France, the German 10th Panzer Division began an attack on Calais and captured the town of Boulogne (capturing 5,000 Allied troops), Maubeuge, and Saint-Omer. To the north, the German 1st Panzer Division reached the Aa Canal 10 miles from Dunkerque in an attempt to cut off the Allied troops in Belgium. At this key moment, Adolf Hitler interfered and ordered the tanks to pull back; he was promised by Hermann Göring that the Luftwaffe would be able to prevent the Allied evacuation from taking place; German Army generals protested, but to no avail. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 British Lieutenant Christopher Furness, the son of Viscount Furness, was killed in hand to hand fighting near Arras, France after his Bren gun carrier group engaged a vastly superior enemy force in order to allow a convoy to escape. He was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 Walter Grabmann was liberated by German troops in France. 
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24 May 1940 WW2 The British War Cabinet issued the order to withdraw the British troops in Norway in light of the situation in France. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 King George II of Greece departed Crete, Greece for Cairo, Egypt. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 British battlecruiser HMS Hood and battleship HMS Prince of Wales engaged German battleship Bismarck and cruiser Prinz Eugen at 0552 hours at the distance of 24 kilometers. At 0600, a 15 inch shells from Bismarck penetrated Hood's thin deck armor, detonating a magazine and sinking her with almost all killed. Prince of Wales broke off from the battle at 0604 hours after being hit 7 times. Bismarck was hit 3 times and began to sail south for repairs. At 2350 hours, 8 British Swordfish torpedo bombers from aircraft carrier HMS Victorious attacked Bismarck and scored one torpedo hit. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 The British government collected £124,000,000 in donations after a week-long War Weapon Week event. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 At 0552 hours, battleship Bismarck reported 'in fight with two heavy units' as she was engaged by British warships. Between 0555 and 0601 hours, she was hit on the port side by three shells from HMS Prince of Wales, but by 0601 she was able to sink HMS Hood. Between 0602 and 0609, she scored four hits on HMS Prince of Wales. At 0801 hours, Bismarck reported damage with electric plant no. 4 and boiler room no. 2; she would head for Saint-Nazaire due to her low fuel levels. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 Prinz Eugen engaged in combat with HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood alongside of German battleship Bismarck. She scored the first hit on HMS Hood. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 British Lieutenant Commander Malcolm Wanklyn of the submarine HMS Upholder won the Victoria Cross for sinking an Italian transport off Sicily, Italy and surviving 37 depth charges in 20 minutes. By the end of the year he had sunk 140,000 tons of enemy shipping. Wanklyn and Upholder were lost off Tripoli in Apr 1942. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 Allied troops began to fall back southward in Crete, Greece. German bombers attacked Chaniá on the northern coast, causing great damage. After dark, British minelayer HMS Abdiel transported 200 British commandos from Alexandria, Egypt to Suda Bay, Crete; another effort to transport 800 commandos to Port Lutro, Crete was canceled due to bad weather. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 German submarine U-38 sank British ship Vulcain off British West Africa at 0249 hours, killing 7. In the same general area, U-103 sank Greek ship Marionga at 0356 hours, killing 26. 
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24 May 1941 WW2 German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis sank British ship Trafalgar 850 miles off South Africa; 12 were killed, 33 survived. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 German forces launched Operation Hannover to clear the Bryanks-Vyazma rail line of partisans. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 The first battalion of Spanish volunteers who fought under the German banner returned to Spain after completing a tour in Russia; up until this point, only the wounded were sent back to Spain from the Eastern Front. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-502 sank Brazilian ship Gonçalves Dias 100 miles south of Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic; 6 were killed, 39 survived. U-103 sank Dutch ship Hetor 60 miles northwest of Grand Cayman island at 1640 hours; 2 were killed, 29 survived. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 British trawler HMS Retriever broke away from Allied convoy PQ-16 and returned for Iceland. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 The floatplane of Japanese submarine I-9 conducted a reconnaissance mission over Kiska and Amchitka Islands in the US Territory of Alaska. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 3 US B-26 Marauder bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain, destroying the Genzan Air Group headquarters building and destroying four land-attack aircraft on the ground; 2 of the US bombers were damaged during this attack. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Sasebo, Japan. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi exited the drydock at Kure, Japan. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 Warrant Officer Susumo Ito, flying in a submarine-based (submarine I-21) E14Y aircraft, conducted a photographic reconnaissance mission over Auckland, New Zealand. The Auckland airport controllers mistook the Japanese aircraft for a friendly one and turned on the landing lights. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 All American warships in the Coral Sea area were recalled to Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii in anticipation of the Japanese attack on Midway Atoll. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 USS Pompano sank Japanese fishing vessel Kotoku Maru with the deck gun 20 miles northeast of Taiwan. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 Soviet troops at Izium, Ukraine were completed surrounded by German troops. 
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24 May 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked the Royal Navy seaplane training center at Poole in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 US troops mopped up the final Japanese opposition groups in the Aleutian Islands. Overall in this campaign, the 2,600 Japanese men were wiped out at a cost of 550 American lives. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 British bombers attacked East Frisian Islands (Ostfriesische Inseln) in northwestern Germany. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 After suffering many submarine sinkings during May 1943, German Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered a temporary halt to submarine operations in the North Atlantic to regroup and re-evaluate tactics. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 Bunker Hill was commissioned into service. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 The United States Marine Corps abolished its glider program. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 USS Cabrilla was commissioned into service with Commander Douglas Thompson Hammond in command. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 Five B-17 and six B-24 bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain with 17 tons of bombs between 0030 and 0145 hours, hitting Lakunai, Rapopo, and Vunakanau airfields. One B-24D bomber crashed at Port Moresby, Australian Papua upon its return at 0530 hours, killing all aboard. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 From Port Moresby, Australian Papua, Ennis Whitehead sent George Kenney a request for setting up regular reconnaissance flights over Rabaul, New Britain using F-5 (P-38) aircraft. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 Japanese 39th Division completed the crossing of the Yangtze River near Pianyan, Hubei Province, China. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of Torpedo Squadron 12 (VT-12) on board. (F4U-1)  
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24 May 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 Irako departed Kure, Japan for Truk, Caroline Islands with armed merchant cruiser Aikoku Maru in escort. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 USS Whale conducted a reconnaissance mission on Rota, Mariana Islands between Tinian and Guam. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Josef Mengele arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. He was soon to begin experiments on prisoners. 
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24 May 1943 WW2 USS Bluefish was commissioned into service with Commander George E. Porter in command. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill formally announced that Spain would not be a target of the forthcoming Allied invasion on continental western Europe. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 SS official Adolf Eichmann's office in Budapest reported that 116,000 Hungarian Jews had already been deported, and another 200,000 were awaiting deportation, most of which were from Carpatho-Ruthenia and Transylvania. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 A transport of 859 prisoners from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw, Poland arrived at Stutthof Concentration Camp. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 USS Cabrilla damaged a Japanese ship east of Borneo, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 Japanese troops penetrated Chindit defense lines near the Blackpool site in Burma. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish attempted to attack a Japanese convoy; all 4 torpedoes fired missed. She was detected and was subjected to a depth charge counterattack. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 Iceland's four-day plebiscite ended; the result would show that 97% of the population wished to terminate the personal union with the King of Denmark, and 95% of the population wished to establish a new republic. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 Japanese troops captured Gibraltar Hill and attacked Lone Tree Hill near Imphal, India. To the north at Kohima, Indian 7th Division began an offensive against Dyer Hill, Pimple Hill, and Big Tree Hill. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 US forces captured Terracina, Italy. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 The German Senger Line south of Rome, Italy was breached by troops of Canadian 1st Infantry Division, Canadian 5th Armoured Division, and II Polish Corps. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 Inigo Campioni was executed by firing squad in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. 
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24 May 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Wake Island. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 The Allies began exchanging the prisoners of war they had freed in Germany. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Operation Kikusui No. 7 was launched off Okinawa, Japan, participated by about 65 Japanese Navy and 100 Japanese Army special attack and escorting aircraft. On the island, seven Type 97 bombers attempted to crash-land at an American-controlled airfield to deliver suicide commandos during Operation Gi; several aircraft were shot down, but those who successfully reached the airfield delivered 69 commandos who destroyed 9 aircraft and damaged 29 others and set the fuel dump aflame; all commandos were killed or committed suicide. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 2 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 At Salzburg, Austria, Field Marshal Robert Ritter von Greim, head of the Luftwaffe, committed suicide in American captivity. Having learnt that he was to be a part of a Soviet-American prisoner exchange and, fearing torture and execution at the hands of the Russians, he took cyanide. His final words were: "I am the head of the Luftwaffe, but have no Luftwaffe." 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Ulithi, Caroline Islands with other ships of Task Group 58.4. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Aircraft of US Navy Task Force 58 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan while 520 US Army B-29 bombers attacked urban and industrial areas south of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 Joseph Stilwell arrived in Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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24 May 1945 WW2 USS Miami arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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24 May 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies and embarked Japanese personnel. She departed later on the same day. 
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24 May 1947 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Japan. 
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24 May 1950 RELIGIOUS In Boston, during its annual gathering, the Northern Baptist Convention formally changed its name to the American Baptist Convention. Twenty-two years later, in 1972, the denomination changed its name once more, and became the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
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