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History on the 11th of June

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11 Jun 1739 RELIGIOUS English founder of Methodism John Wesley stated in his journal: 'I look upon all the world as my parish.'
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11 Jun 1799 RELIGIOUS Richard Allen (1760-1831), first African- American bishop in the U.S., was ordained a deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
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11 Jun 1850 RELIGIOUS Birth of David C. Cook, pioneer developer of Sunday School curriculum. In 1875, Cook founded the David C. Cook Publishing Co., headquartered today in Elgin, Illinois.
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11 Jun 1918 WW2 The British and French Governments asked the United States to send three battalions of infantry to North Russia. Although the US Government reluctantly agreed it would be three months before any American troops actually arrived. 
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11 Jun 1918 RELIGIOUS Brazil's first Pentecostal Church was established by missionaries Daniel Berg and Adolf Gunnar Vingren. The new congregation was registered as an 'Assembly of God' church.
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11 Jun 1924 WW2 Arthur Coningham was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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11 Jun 1930 WW2 The keel of cruiser Bolzano was laid down by Ansaldo Sestri Ponente at Genoa, Italy. 
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11 Jun 1930 WW2 Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was named the commanding officer of Kure Naval District, Japan. 
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11 Jun 1932 WW2 The Bank of Manchukuo Act was passed in the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo, establishing the Central Bank of Manchou in the capital of Xinjing (now Changchun, Jilin Province, China). It was to be formed by merging the existing Bank of the Three Eastern Provinces, the Bank of Jilin, the Bank of Heilongjiang, and the Frontier Bank. 
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11 Jun 1936 RELIGIOUS The Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) was organized in Philadelphia. In 1938 the denomination changed its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
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11 Jun 1937 WW2 Basque forces withdrew behind the "Ring of Iron" defences around Bilbao, Spain as Nationalist forces pressed on with their attacks, but these proved to be less than effective when subjected to heavy artillery bombardment. Under cover of the bombardment, the Nationalists were able to breach the outer defences and the "Ring of Iron" collapsed. 
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11 Jun 1937 WW2 Do 18F "Zyklon" flying boat took its maiden flight. 
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11 Jun 1937 WW2 Spitfire fighter designer Reginald J. Mitchell died of cancer, aged 42. 
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11 Jun 1937 WW2 Soviet Marshal Mikhail Nikolaievich Tukhachevsky and seven other Soviet military leaders were shot after "confessing", under NKVD torture, to a plot to overthrow Joseph Stalin. 
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11 Jun 1938 WW2 Japanese troops began to march for Wuhan, Hubei, China. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 German 7th Panzer Division under Rommel captured Le Havre, France, then turned back and drove 30 miles to the northeast to St-Valery-en-Caux, where the German troops succeeded in encircling 46,000 French and British troops. Elsewhere in northern France, troops under Guderian captured Rheims. In the south, Italian troops began crossing the Alps toward the French border. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden traveled to France for a Supreme War Council meeting at Chateau du Muguet near Briare. Churchill, detecting feelings of defeat, reminded the French that the 28 Mar agreement noted that none of the two countries could seek a separate peace with Germany without the other country's consent. During this meeting, French Navy Admiral François Darlan assured Churchill that the French fleet would not fall into German hands. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 British law dictated that all British citizens who owned an Anderson shelter must have it installed by this date. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 RAF aircraft attacked German vessels at Trondheim, Norway. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 Armored cars of the British 11th Hussars crossed into Libya and capture Italian prisoners who were unaware they were already at war. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 Norwegian trawler Borgund rescued 37 survivors of sunken HMS Glorious and 2 survivors of sunken HMS Acasta. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarines U-48 and U-101 sank Greek ships Violando N. Goulandris and Mount Hymettus off Cape Finisterre, Spain. Nearby, U-46 torpedoed British tanker Athelprince, but failed to sink her; Athelprince would be salvaged and returned to service by Jan 1941. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa declared war on Italy. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 Due to the Italian entry into the European War, US President Roosevelt declared the Mediterranean Sea and mouth of Red Sea to be combat zones for American ships in accordance with the Neutrality Act. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill sent a telegram to US President Roosevelt urging the US to send more destroyers to the United Kingdom especially in light of the Italian entry into the European War. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 US passenger liner Washington, en route from Lisbon, Portugal to Galway, Ireland with 1,020 Americans passengers aboard, was stopped by German submarine U-101 as the German submarine misidentified her as a Greek ship. After her identity became clear via blinker signals, U-101 allowed Washington to continue with her journey. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 The first Hurricane Mk II prototype aircraft, actually a converted production Mk I example, took its first flight. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 Luftwaffe bombers attacked Paris, France. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 RAF aircraft bombed Turin and Genoa in Italy. 
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11 Jun 1940 WW2 Ten Italian Z.1007 Alcione bombers attacked Grand Harbour, RAF Hal Far, and Kalafrana in Malta, killing 1 civilian and 6 soldiers. RAF Hal Far was the first of the three major Malta airfields to be attacked during the war. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 The 15th Punjab Regiment of the Indian 3rd Battalion captured Assab, Eritrea, Italian East Africa, thus securing the Red Sea. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 German heavy cruiser Lützow departed Kiel, Germany for Norway, escorted by light cruisers Emden and Leipzig and six destroyers. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-79 sank Norwegian ship Havtor 150 miles west of Iceland at 2051 hours; 6 were killed, 14 survived. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 British Submarine HMS Torbay rammed and sank a Greek fishing boat being used as a German troop transport 15 miles south of the island of Lesbos, Greece. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Taku sank German ship Tilly LM Russ in Benghazi Harbor, Libya. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 Major General Douglas Wimberley took over command of British 51st Highland Division from Sir Neil Ritchie who moved to a staff appointment in British Eighth Army. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 After dark, British bombers conducted the first of 20 consecutive nightly raids on the Ruhr and Rhineland industrial areas in Germany. Several German port cities such as Hamburg and Bremen were also hit. 
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11 Jun 1941 WW2 USS Arizona departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for Long Beach, California, United States. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Troops of the 2nd Canadian Division conducted practice for the raid on Dieppe. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Several American PBY Catalina aircraft from seaplane tender Gillis in Nazan Bay, Atka Island began a two-day raid on Japanese ships and positions on Kiska, Aleutian Islands, but ultimately would fail to drive the Japanese from the island. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Adolf Eichmann met with representatives from France, Belgium, and Holland to coordinate the deportation of Jews. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Robert Saundby was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-159 attacked a small Allied convoy off Panama in the Caribbean Sea, sinking British ship Fort Good Hope; 2 were killed, 45 survived. U-504 sank Norwegian passenger liner Crijnssen (1 was killed, 92 survived) and US ship American (4 were killed, 34 survived) 50 miles southwest of Grand Cayman Island. To the north, in the Gulf of Mexico, U-158 sank Panamanian tanker Sheherazade south of Louisiana, United States; 1 was killed, 58 survived. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Armidale was commissioned into service. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 5 miles north of Cuba, German submarine U-157 sank US tanker Hagan 5 miles off northern Cuba at 1010 hours; 6 were killed, 38 survived. German submarines U-569 and U-94 sank British ship Pontypridd 500 miles east of Newfoundland; 2 were killed, 46 survived). U-455 sank British tanker Geo H Jones 500 miles northeast of the Azores islands; 2 were killed, 40 survived. German armed merchant cruiser Michel shelled British freighter Lylepark in the South Atlantic; 20 were killed, 21 survived and were captured, 4 survived and escaped capture. Also on this day, on the US coast, U-373 and U-701 laid mines just at the mouth of the Delaware Bay and off Virginia Beach, respectively, which would cause sinkings in the days to come. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Arthur Coningham was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Permit completed her fifth war patrol. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 USS S-35 received orders to return to Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska to replenish supplies. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 French troops evacuated Bir Hakeim, Libya after 16 days of stubborn defense that incurred 3,330 casualties on the Axis side; the French suffered 1,084 casualties while defending this fort; 500 seriously wounded troops were left behind in the fort. During the evacuation, heavy German artillery bombardment caused a panic and caused several French vehicles to drive off of the cleared path into surrounding minefields, detonating several in the process. The retreating forces made contact with British forces at 0400 hours. With Bir Hakeim secured, the Germans pushed toward El Adem later in the day and Knightsbridge in the evening. After 1900 hours, a few long range shots were exchanged between British and German tanks, but Erwin Rommel chose not to engaged in full combat that night. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 In the El Adem, Libya area, Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two British Hurricane fighters, Flight Sergeant Graves at 1625 hours and Australian Pilot Officer Charles William Parry Persse at 1635 hours. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 Two convoys trying to reach Malta were attacked by aircraft, warships and submarines. Twelve British warships and merchantmen were sunk and eleven were damaged. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 The German Luftwaffe flew 1,044 sorties over Sevastopol, Russia, dropping 954 tons of bombs. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California for a scheduled overhaul. 
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11 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish completed refitting at Midway Atoll and departed for Japanese waters. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 German Major Werner Streib of 1./NJG 1 flying a Heinkel He 219 Uho night fighter shot down five Avro Lancaster bombers in a single sortie. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 The final liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland was ordered by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 The invasion of Pantelleria, Operation Corkscrew, was deemed successful. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 In Germany, 200 B-17 bombers of US 8th Air Force bomb Wilhelmshaven, while RAF aircraft bombed Münster and Düsseldorf. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Finback sank a Japanese cargo ship east of Philippine Islands, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Runner sank Japanese cargo ship Seinan Maru in Tsugaru Strait off Hokkaido, Japan. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 USS S-35 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 10 B-24 bombers of US 43rd Bomb Group attacked Vunakanau airfield at Rabaul, New Britain with 39,000 pounds of bombs between 0000 and 0500 hours, destroying some Japanese aircraft on the ground. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 George Kenney returned tactical control of the bombers at Port Moresby, Australian Papua to Ennis Whitehead, who had returned from Australia after receiving medical treatment for a badly infected toe. Kenney departed Port Moresby for Brisbane, Australia later in the day. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 In China, Chinese troops regained all territory in the Hubei and Hunan Provinces lost to the Japanese offensive launched on 5 May 1943. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 The unwatering of the nearly-completed Dock No. 4 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii began. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 13th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Hashirajima, Japan for Yokosuka, Japan to embark the air group of carrier Hiyo, which was damaged in action on the previous day. 
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11 Jun 1943 WW2 Roberts Dunstan flew his first mission as a rear gunner aboard a Lancaster bomber out of RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, attacking Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 Missouri was commissioned into service. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established the Administrative Command FMFPac (redesignated Supply Service FMFPac in Aug 1944) from the existing VAC Administrative Command to take responsibility for providing beach logistic supply on a hostile shore. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Seahorse departed Brisbane, Australia for her fifth war patrol. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 Richard O'Connor and his British VIII Corps arrived at Normandie, France. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-45 arrived on board. Part of ARGUS-22 arrived. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana Islands. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Cassin Young arrived at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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11 Jun 1944 WW2 While USS Harder reconnoitered the Tawi-Tawi anchorage in southern Philippine Islands, she detected Japanese cruisers and destroyers. She did not attack; instead, she sailed out to open sea to report the finding. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Crevalle sank Hakusan Maru. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tirante attacked a Japanese freighter and claimed a kill; this sinking was not confirmed. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Caiman sank two Japanese schooners by gunfire in the southern South China Sea. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 Czechoslovakian police and civilians continued to drive ethnic Germans out of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 James Franck and other Metallurgical Laboratory scientists issued the Franck Report, arguing for a demonstration of an atomic bomb before using it against an enemy target. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Segundo sank Fukui Maru with 3 of 7 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese transport off the coast of Korea in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 6 departed. 
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11 Jun 1945 WW2 US aircraft attacked neutral Portuguese Macau. 
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