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History on the 26th of May

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26 May 1232 RELIGIOUS Pope Gregory IX sent the first Inquisition team to Aragon in Spain, after turning its details over to the Dominicans the previous year.
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26 May 1811 RELIGIOUS Birth of William Hunter, American Methodist clergyman. The author of three collections of hymns, published during his lifetime, Hunter is best remembered today for the hymn entitled, "The Great Physician Now is Near."
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26 May 1858 RELIGIOUS In Pittsburgh, the Associate Presbyterian and the Associate Reformed Presbyterian churches merged to form the United Presbyterian Church in North America.
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26 May 1899 RELIGIOUS Future President William McKinley, 56, wrote in his notebook: 'My belief embraces the Divinity of Christ and a recognition of Christianity as the mightiest factor in the world's civilization.' (McKinley had been "born again," at age 10, during a revival meeting, and later joined a Methodist church.)
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26 May 1910 WW2 George Patton and Beatrice Banning Ayer became married; they would later have three children. 
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26 May 1918 WW2 In Siberia, Russia, the Czech legion captured Chelyabinsk and Novonikolayevsk. 
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26 May 1921 WW2 Iwane Matsui assigned to the staff of the Japanese Vladivostok Expeditionary Force during the Siberian Intervention. 
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26 May 1924 WW2 Deng Xihou was named the provincial governor of Sichuan, China by the Beiyang warlord government. 
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26 May 1931 WW2 US Navy issued an order for Consolidated Aircraft to build the prototype aircraft Model 22 Ranger XP2Y-1. 
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26 May 1932 WW2 Yoshinori Shirakawa passed away in Shanghai, China from wounds sustained during a bomb blast one month prior. 
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26 May 1932 WW2 General Yoshiyuki Kawashima was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Senjuro Hayashi. 
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26 May 1933 WW2 In Germany, legislation was passed allowing the state to confiscate the property of Communists. 
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26 May 1939 WW2 Chen Changjie was named the commanding officer of the 6th Army. 
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26 May 1939 WW2 HMS Birmingham departed Xiamen, China with Vice Admiral Percy Noble aboard. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 In Britain, Empire Day was declared as a national day of prayer. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 German Ju 88 aircraft attacked and sank British anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Curlew off Narvik, Norway, killing 9. HMS Curlew was equipped with the only early warning radar set. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 German submarines U-13 departed Kiel, Germany. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 German submarines U-48 departed Kiel, Germany. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 US Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson, in a telegram to US Secretary of State Cordell Hull, reported tension between the Uruguayan and German governments as the Germans were accusing the Uruguayan police in mistreating German citizens living in Uruguay. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 HMS Eagle arrived in the Mediterranean Sea. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 At Dunkerque, France, British Expeditionary Force commanding general Lord Gort received the formal authorization for a withdraw; Operation Dynamo, the code name of the massive evacuation, was headed by British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler rescinded the order to halt the offensive near Dunkerque. At Calais, after a heavy aerial and field artillery bombardment, German troops crossed the canals and moved toward the Citadel; at 1600 hours, Brigadier Claude Nicholson surrendered. Elsewhere, the French 1st Army was nearly encircled by the Germans, while the Belgians was pushed back to the Leie/Lys River. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 General Maxime Weygand issued his Ordre Général d'Operation No. 1184 3/FT: "The battle on which the fate of the country depends will be fought without any idea of retreat, on the line which we hold today." 
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26 May 1940 WW2 Benito Mussolini informed the Chief of Supreme Staff, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, and Governor of Libya, Marshal Italo Balbo, that he had told Adolf Hitler of his intentions to declare war on England and France after 5 June. Badoglio was horrified and protested vehemently that crippling shortages of equipment in the Italian Army made a such a military adventure a very risky business. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 In the United Kingdom, General Sir John Dill became Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Sir Edmund Ironside became Commander-in-Chief of Home Defense. 
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26 May 1940 WW2 United Kingdom government declared the coastal regions from Folkestone to Great Yarmouth designated evacuation areas. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 Battleship Bismarck was detected by Allied PBY Catalina aircraft 700 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom at 1030 hours, and Royal Navy's Force H was ordered to attack. Carrier-based Swordfish torpedo bombers attacked between 2047 and 2115 hours. Two or three torpedoes hit her, one of which hit the stern and jammed her rudder at 12 degrees to port. At 2140 hours, she radioed in the message "Ship unable to maneuver. We will fight to the last shell. Long live the Führer." Within hours, Allied warships closed in on her. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 Operation Skorpion: German Colonel Maximilian von Herff launched an offensive and captured Halfaya Pass in Egypt, near the border with Libya. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 Six Albacore carrier aircraft from HMS Formidable attacked Italian airfields on Scarpanto in the Dodecanese Islands in Operation MAQ3. German bombers counterattacked the carrier, hitting her twice and killing 12; escorting destroyer HMS Nubian was also hit, seriously damaging the stern and killing 15. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 During the day, German aircraft misidentified the German column moving from Galatas, Crete, Greece toward Canea on the Suda Bay. After sundown, poor communications and conflicting orders caused 1,000 Allied troops at Canea to become surrounded. Also during the night, British minelayer HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Hero and HMS Nizam arrived at Suda Bay from Alexandria, Egypt and disembarked 750 British commandos under Colonel Robert Laycock; they evacuated personnel from the naval base as they departed. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 Japanese fighters intercepted 18 I-15 fighters of the Chinese 29th Pursuit Squadron while in transit in Gansu Province, China; nearly all Chinese fighters were destroyed. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with tank generals and tank designers at his residence Berghof in southern Germany. In a similar meeting three months prior he had asked for 75-millimeter guns for Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks. Because 75-millimeter guns relied on special tungsten shells, Hitler now asked for 88-millimeter guns to be used for future heavy tanks. He also demanded 100-millimeter frontal armor and 60-millimeter side armor. 
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26 May 1941 WW2 Iraqi forces received supplies by train from Vichy French forces in Syria, including 8 155mm guns, 6,000 shells, 30,000 grenades, and 32 trucks. By this date, all German fighters in Iraq had become unserviceable after 10 days of engagements with British fighters; the Germans then evacuated their main base at Mosul, Iraq before the Commonwealth forces could overrun it. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 US Navy Vice Admiral Halsey fell ill. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 US Navy Rear Admiral Spruance took over the responsibilities of Vice Admiral Halsey. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank US tanker Alcoa Carrier between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands at 0416 hours; all 35 aboard survived. At 1100 hours, U-106 sank US tanker Carrabulle 150 miles south of Louisiana, United States; 22 were killed, 18 survived. Beginning at 2000 hours, U-106 pursued US ship Atenas on the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, exchanging gunfire; Atenas would ultimately be able to escape, though suffering some damage. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 The Japanese Navy Carrier Striking Force, composed of four carriers and an escort of battleships and lesser ships, sortied from the Inland Sea of Japan for Midway Atoll. In the Aleutian Islands in northern Pacific Ocean, Japanese submarine I-9 launched her floatplane for a reconnaissance mission over Kiska. In Japan, the naval leadership instructed the various fleets and bases to prepare for a new radio encryption scheme that would be deployed very soon. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 German submarine U-703 attacked Allied convoy PQ-16 780 miles northeast of Iceland at 0259 hours, sinking US merchant ship Syros (two torpedo hits, detonating cargo of ammunition); 9 were killed, 30 survived (but 2 of the survivors would later die from exposure). 8 German He 111 and 3 Ju 88 aircraft also attacked PQ-16, but they failed to cause any damage. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 Japanese merchant ship Naruto Maru departed Rabaul, New Britain for Yokohama, Japan. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 US pilot Major Felix Hardison flew a lone B-17E bomber to attack Rabaul, New Britain at night time. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 Milton Miles and his group departed Chongqing, China by trucks toward the coast. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 USS Hornet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Sasebo, Japan. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan as the flagship of Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya, providing support for the convoy carrying troops of the Aleutian Islands invasion force. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 A feint was launched by German General Ludwig Crüwell at the center of the Gazala Line in Libya, drawing Allied troops away from the main offensive to be launched on the next day. All available Axis tanks were assigned to the main offensive, and Crüwell's men mounted unused aircraft engines on trucks to create dust clouds similar to those caused by tank movements. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 In Libya, Erwin Rommel released 620 Indian prisoners of war originally from the Indian 3rd Motor Brigade. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 Soviet troops in the pocket at Izium, Ukraine captured Lozovenka to the east during their breakout attempt, but overall German pressure caused the pocket to shrink to the size of about 15 square kilometers. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in London, England, United Kingdom, with terms including the agreement that neither party would seek a separate peace with Germany, a 20-year alliance, the refusal to join any treaty against one another, and the pledge not to interfere in each other's internal affairs. 
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26 May 1942 WW2 USS Kitty Hawk delivered to Midway Atoll the 3-inch anti-aircraft group of 3rd Defense Battalion, 5 light tanks of a light tank platoon for mobile reserve, 16 SBD-2 aircraft, and 7 F4F-3 aircraft, all of which were of the United States Marine Corps. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 The German government issued the order to stop assigning concentration camp victims sequantial identification numbers in order to hide the true number of deaths. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 759 British heavy bombers attacked Düsseldurf, Germany starting at about 0200 hours. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 Allied convoy SC 130 arrived in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom without losses despite German submarine attacks en route. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 At dawn, a 4,500-strong Japanese force attacked toward Pianyan, Hubei Province, China, but the force was quickly attacked and surrounded by elements of Chinese 5th and 18th Divisions; by the time the Japanese were able to extract themselves after dark, the force had suffered 3,000 casualties. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 At Peenemünde, Germany, before Hermann Göring, Erhard Milch, and other top German leaders, an A-4 rocket and a flying bomb were tested. The A-4 rocket flew perfectly, while the flying bomb crashed only after a mile or two of flight. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 USS Whale sank Japanese freighter Shoei Maru in the Mariana Islands, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedo fired. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 Soviet troops began an offensive against the German units isolated between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in the Kuban area of southern Russia. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 V. T. Shirmanov was named the Soviet counterintelligence agency GUKR SMERSH's chief within the Central Front. 
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26 May 1943 WW2 USS Sable arrived at Chicago, Illinois, United States. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 To the dismay of Roosevelt and Churchill, de Gaulle proclaimed the Free French movement to be the "Provisional Government of the French Republic"; de Gaulle received recognition from most Allied governments, but this caused him to be left out of the planning for Operation Overlord. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 Adolf Hitler delivered a speech at Der Platterhof hotel in Obersalzberg, Germany, justifying the continuation of the war. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 The first Australian-built Beaufighter Mk.21 aircraft (A9-1) made its maiden flight. 364 aircraft would be built by the Mascot and Fishermen's Bend factories by the end of 1945. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese convoy in the Dutch East Indies with six torpedoes; four of them struck and sank a transport. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 USS Harder departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Housing for gunairstructors, 3 quonset huts, turned over to station. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 After US 1st Armored Division had already been ordered north toward Rome, Italy, Mark Clark belatedly reported to Harold Alexander such a change in orders; he left only 1 division to attack the remaining German forces at Valmontone. In the area, US troops captured Cori. 
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26 May 1944 WW2 USS Permit claimed the sinking of a Japanese submarine off Truk, Carolin Islands, hitting her with 1 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 USS Ray sank 3 small Japanese vessels west of Japan with her deck gun. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 German Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner, previously captured by the Americans in southern Germany, was turned over to Soviet SMERSH agents. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. She would for the most part remain on lifeguard station off the island of Taiwan on the Chinese coast. 
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26 May 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Carrier Night Air Group 52 (CVGN-52) arrived on board. 
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26 May 1946 WW2 Josias became the head of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont upon the death of his father. 
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26 May 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces captured Faku County, Liaoning Province, China. 
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26 May 1948 WW2 Theodore Morell passed away. 
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26 May 1957 RELIGIOUS The religious program "The Fourth R" aired for the last time over NBC television. Produced by several different religious organizations, this short-lived series aired on Sunday mornings.
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