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History on the 15th of June

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15 Jun 1520 RELIGIOUS Leo X issued the papal encyclical 'Exsurge Domine,' which condemned German Reformer Martin Luther as a heretic on 41 counts and branded him an enemy of the Roman Catholic Church.
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15 Jun 1649 RELIGIOUS Margaret Jones of Charlestown became the first person tried and executed for witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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15 Jun 1686 RELIGIOUS In Boston, the King's Chapel was organized. It was the first Anglican church established in colonial New England.
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15 Jun 1910 WW2 Lieutenant General Shozo Sakakibara was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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15 Jun 1913 WW2 The US 1st Aero Squadron, leaving three officers and twenty-six enlisted men and two aircraft in Texas, United States, moved to San Diego, California, United States, where it was joined by most of the US Army's other aircraft. 
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15 Jun 1916 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto was born in Karafuto, Japan. 
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15 Jun 1918 WW1 Begin of Battle of the Piave River
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15 Jun 1919 WW2 USS Arizona departed Istanbul, Turkey. 
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15 Jun 1920 WW2 A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gave northern Schleswig to Denmark. 
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15 Jun 1921 WW2 Rear Admiral Yasuzo Torisaki was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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15 Jun 1921 WW2 USS Arizona departed New York City, New York, United States. 
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15 Jun 1922 WW2 S-33 was decommissioned from service. 
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15 Jun 1927 WW2 Nachi was launched at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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15 Jun 1935 WW2 China instituted the Order of the Cloud and Banner to award those who contributed to the cause of national security. 
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15 Jun 1935 WW2 Haiqi departed Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. 
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15 Jun 1936 WW2 HMAS Perth was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jun 1936 WW2 The Westland Lycander Army co-operation aircraft, originally ordered under British Air Ministry Specification A.39/34, took its first flight. 
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15 Jun 1938 WW2 The United States Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which was the country's first effort at establishing a minimum hourly wage (US$0.25) and a maximum number of weekly work hours (44 hours). 
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15 Jun 1938 WW2 The Spanish Republican gunboat Laya was sunk by Spanish Nationalist aircraft at Valencia, Spain. 
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15 Jun 1938 WW2 1,500 previously-convicted Jews, including minor offenses such as traffic violations, were sent to concentration camps in Germany. 
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15 Jun 1938 WW2 USS Enterprise conducted her first air operation. 
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15 Jun 1939 WW2 The German Army presented a plan to Adolf Hitler for the invasion of Poland, with much of the strategy focusing on concentrated surprise attacks to quickly eliminate Polish opposition. 
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15 Jun 1939 WW2 Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera declared the IRA (of which he and many of his cabinet had been members in former times) to be an unlawful organisation. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt approved a revised copy of the Naval Expansion Act which he had approved on the previous day; it increased naval aviation to a strength 10,000 aircraft instead of the previously lower quantity of 4,500. He also replied to the French Premier's "last appeal", saying that America would redouble her efforts if the Allies continue to resist the dictators. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-38 attacked Allied convoy HX-47 60 miles west of the Isles of Scilly off of southwestern England at 0100 hours, sinking Norwegian tanker Italia (killing 19, 16 were recsued) and Canadian ship Erik Boye (21 were rescued). British sloop HMS Fowley would bring the survivors to Plymouth, England on the following day. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the commanding officer of the No. 10 Group at the rank of acting air vice marshal. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 British Prime Minister Churchill sent a telegram to US President Roosevelt to again request destroyers, noting that the United Kingdom would carry on the struggle "whatever the odds... but it may well be beyond our resources unless we receive every reinforcement and particularly do we need this reinforcement on the sea". 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 Submarine tender USS Bushnell completed hydrographic surveys of an area of 2,200 square nautical miles off the coast of Venezuela between Cape San Roman and Bahia Vela de Coro, which began on 9 Apr 1940. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 Construction began on the new Führer Headquarters Wolfschlucht II in France; it would be halted within days, however, as the German campaign in France would soon end. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 The German 7th Army under General Friedrich Dollmann crossed the Rhine River into France about 40 to 50 miles north of the Swiss border and penetrated the Maginot Line. To the north, the city of Verdun was captured by German troops. On the coast of the English Channel, the Allies launched Operation Ariel to evacuate troops from Cherbourg and St Malo. In Berlin, Germany, Adolf Hitler gave the German Army the permission to demobilize some divisions once the French campaign drew closer to its end. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 US passenger liner Washington embarked an additional 852 American citizens and set sail from Galway, Ireland for New York, United States. She now carried a total of 1,872 passengers. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 Soviet troops engaged Latvian border guards at Maslenki, Latvia. 
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15 Jun 1940 WW2 Soviet troops began the occupation of Lithuania; the United States refused to recognize the Soviet occupation. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 German units moved into their start positions for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Likewise, the Soviet Union moved the new conscript units into forward positions. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 The British launched the Operation Battleaxe offensive toward in Libya at 0200 hours, engaging Axis defenses by 0600 hours. On the first day of the offensive, British troops were able to besiege Halfaya Pass and capture Fort Capuzzo, but at the high price of about half of their tank strength. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 Galeazzo Ciano sent a message to his Hungarian counterpart, advising that Hungary should prepare to deal with a potential Soviet attack, which might be forthcoming due to suspected German aggression against the Soviet Union. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 Light cruiser Voroshilov began participation in a week-long exercise. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 Aircraft from HMS Eagle damaged German tanker Lothringen in the South Atlantic, allowing the ship to later become captured by the crew of HMS Dunedin. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 US government criticized the Japanese raids on civilian sections of Chongqing, China. Meanwhile, unrelated to the US complaint, the Japanese air raid on Chongqing damaged the US embassy. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 Indian and Free French troops attacked Kissoué in the French Mandate of Syria and the Lebanon at 0400 hours, capturing it by 0900 hours. 5 miles to the west, Vichy French troops threatened to capture Quneitra. At sea, British destroyers bombarded Sidon in the French Mandate of Syria and the Lebanon and was retaliated against by German Ju 88 aircraft; HMS Jackal, HMS Ilex, and HMS Isis were damaged and were ordered out of the area for repairs. In the evening, aircraft of French 4th Naval Air Group bombed British naval units off the Syrian coast. 
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15 Jun 1941 WW2 Japanese spies Itaru Tachibana and Toraichi Kono were arrested in the United States. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 USS S-28 crossed the International Date Line. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Copahee was commissioned into service at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington, United States with Commander J. G. Farrell in command. She was the first of 10 Bogue-class escort carriers converted from hulls of merchant ships. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 British Lieutenant General Sir Ronald Weeks was appointed Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-552 attacked Allied convoy HG-84 400 miles west of Brest, France between 0000 and 0500 hours, sinking four British freighters and Norwegian tanker Slemdal. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Allied convoy KN-109 sailed into a minefield 5 miles off Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, which was laid by U-701 four days prior; British anti-submarine trawler HMT Kingston Ceylonite (33 were killed, 18 survived) and US tanker Robert C. Tuttle (1 was killed, 46 survived) were sunk, US tanker Esso Augusta and destroyer USS Bainbridge were damaged. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-502 sank 2 US ships and 1 Panamanian ship 90 miles west of Grenada. On the same day, U-172 sank Norwegian ship Bennestvet 50 miles off Costa Rica. 20 miles off Colombia, U-68 sank Vichy French tanker Frimaire in a case of mis-identification; all 60 aboard were killed. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine M-95 struck and was damaged by a German naval mine in the Gulf of Finland near Hogland Island (Finnish: Suursaari Island); shortly after, she was spotted by Finnish aircraft, which sank her, killing all 19 aboard. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 The British 8th Army withdrew from Libya and fell back to Egypt. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian midget submarine CB-3 sank Soviet submarine S-32 in the Black Sea off Yalta, Ukraine. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Joseph Rochefort was made the temporary chief of the Intelligence Center of Pacific Ocean Areas, a new intelligence branch in the US Navy Pacific Fleet based in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Naka was named a special reserve vessel; she departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Tenryu departed Maizuru, Japan. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down four P-40 fighters over El Adem, Libya between 1801 and 1806 hours, increasing his score to 91 kills. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian cruisers attacked the Allied Harpoon convoy in the Strait of Sicily at 0539 hours, damaging British cruiser HMS Cairo (2 were killed), damaging destroyer HMS Partridge, and disabling destroyer HMS Bedouin (under the command of Commander B. G. Scurfield; 28 were killed, 213 captured; later sunk by Italian aircraft); British return fire damaged Italian destroyer Vivaldi. In concert, German aircraft attacked freighters of the Harpoon convoy, seriously damaging freighter Burdwan, freighter Chant, and tanker Kentucky (all three abandoned and later sunk by Italian warships). The Harpoon convoy reached Malta after sundown, but the ships ran into a new minefield in the Grand Harbour, sinking Polish destroyer Kujawiak (13 were killed, 20 were wounded), damaging British destroyer Badsworth (9 were killed), damaging destroyer HMS Matchless, and damaging freighter Orari. From the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, the Allied Vigorous convoy also sailed for Malta. At dawn, British Beaufort torpedo bombers from Malta attacked the Italian fleet moving to intercept the convoy, disabling Italian cruiser Trento at 0515 hours; she would be sunk by submarine HMS Umbra at 0910 hours, over 360 were killed. The detection of this Italian fleet turned back the entire Vigorous convoy. En route back to Alexandria, Egypt, Axis aircraft sank British destroyer HMS Airedale (44 were killed, 133 survived) and damaged British cruiser HMS Birmingham and Australian destroyer HMAS Nestor. In Germany, Adolf Hitler postponed Operation Herkules, the planned invasion of Malta. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru took on 500 wounded survivors from the Battle of Midway. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Nagara transferred 500 wounded survivors of the Battle of Midway to hospital ship Hikawa Maru. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Seawolf sank Japanese auxiliary gunboat Nampo Maru 10 miles north of Lubang Island and west of the opening of Manila Bay in the Philippine Islands. 
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15 Jun 1942 WW2 Soviet cruiser Molotov and destroyer Bezuprechny landed 3,855 troops at Sevastopol, Russia and then embarked 2,908 wounded personnel for evacuation; meanwhile, their guns bombarded German positions. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Hoe made a night time underwater torpedo attack, damaging a Japanese freighter with 1 out of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Finback fired three torpedoes at a Japanese ship east of Philippine Islands; all torpedoes missed. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 More than 20 B-17 and B-24 bombers attacked Lakunai airfield at Rabaul, New Britain before dawn. A J1N1 nightfighter (pilot Chief Flight Officer Satoru Ono, observer Lieutenant (jg) Kisaku Hamano) shot down one bomber, while two B-24 bombers fired on each other over Rabaul in confusion. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 B-17 bomber "R. F. D. Tojo" conducted a photographic reconnaissance mission over Buka in the Solomon Islands. It successfully made two passes over the Japanese base, but all film would turn out to be bad upon its return. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 The world's first turbojet reconnaissance bomber, the Arado Ar 234V-1 Blitz (GK-IV), made its maiden flight at Rheine, Germany with Flugkapitän Selle in the cockpit. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 Naka departed Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 returned to the front lines from a month of rest at Efate, New Hebrides, transferring to Turtle Bay fighter strip on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Gunnel sank Japanese cargo ship Kayo Maru in the East China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 7 torpedoes fired. 
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15 Jun 1943 WW2 HMS Cumberland arrived at Thurso, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 Yamato was sighted and reported by USS Seahorse east of Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Cassin Young provided support for the Mariana Islands invasion. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 Soviet forces battered the Finnish secondary defense lines on the Karelian Isthmus. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 American B-29 bombers based in China conducted a raid on Japan. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 American troops invaded Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 US Thirteenth Air Force established its headquarters at Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tunny sighted Luzon, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy formed the 2nd Air Fleet with 141st, 345th, and 762nd Air Groups with Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome in overall command and Rear Admiral Ushie Sugimoto as the chief of staff. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Guimaras, Philippine Islands to join what would become the Battle of the Philippine Sea. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish detected a Japanese carrier force and reported the information to fellow submarines; this would lead to the sinking of carrier Shokaku by USS Cavalla several days later. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 RAF bombers struck Boulogne and Le Havre, France. Meanwhile, US VIII Corps (Major General Troy Middleton) became operational with the 90th Infantry Division and both US Airborne Divisions under its command, and was tasked with protecting the rear of the imminent attack to capture Cherbourg. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 US Navy 142nd Construction Battalion relieved the 39th Construction Battalion in the construction of the Naval Air Station Kahului in US Territory of Hawaii. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parts of Air Group 20 on board. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Bluefish attacked a Japanese transport in the Celebes Sea; all 5 torpedoes missed., 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 Shokaku departed Guimaras, Philippine Islands with Mobile Fleet to counter the American invasion of the Mariana Islands. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Segundo arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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15 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed the naval base at Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippine Islands for her third war patrol. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) was founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 Rear Admiral Calvin Durgin visited USS Wake Island at Okinawa, Japan and presented awards to 16 of her pilots. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank ten small Japanese sail vessels with gunfire in the Sea of Japan and forced another two to beach to prevent sinking. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 Hurricane fighters of British No. 351 Squadron RAF were transferred to Yugoslavia. 
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15 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale departed for her eleventh war patrol. 
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15 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Croaker was decommissioned from service and was placed into the US Navy Atlantic Reserve Fleet. 
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15 Jun 1946 WW2 Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Demobilization Minister. 
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15 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Mero was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States and was assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. 
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15 Jun 1947 WW2 Chinese communist forces began an attack on Siping, Liaobei Province, China. 
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15 Jun 1950 RELIGIOUS American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'A man without Christ has his roots only in his own times, and his fruits as well.'
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15 Jun 1979 RELIGIOUS Greater Europe Mission moved its headquarters from Chicago to Wheaton, Illinois. Founded in 1949, GEM is an evangelical missionary agency involved in church planting and evangelism in over a dozen European countries.
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