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History on the 17th of June

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17 Jun 1703 RELIGIOUS Birth of John Wesley, English founder of Methodism. The systematic disciplines of the 'Holy Club,' which John and his brother Charles founded, elicited the nickname 'Methodies' from their critics.
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17 Jun 1822 RELIGIOUS In New York City, the first elders of the newly founded African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church were ordained.
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17 Jun 1846 RELIGIOUS Iowa College was chartered in Davenport under the joint sponsorship of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. The school changed location in 1859 and was later renamed Grinnell College.
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17 Jun 1859 RELIGIOUS Birth of J. Wilbur Chapman, Presbyterian pastor and evangelist who authored a number of hymns, including 'One Day When Heaven Was Filled with His Praises.'
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17 Jun 1917 WW2 Robert Saundby and two other pilots together shot down Zeppelin L48. 
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17 Jun 1919 WW2 Roderick Carr engaged in combat with Soviet aircraft over Puchega, Russia, shooting down one aircraft and destroying three aircraft on the ground. He would later receive a Distinguished Flying Cross medal for this action. 
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17 Jun 1921 WW2 Margaret Ray was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. 
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17 Jun 1925 WW2 HMS Hermes departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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17 Jun 1929 WW2 Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur received decree of divorce from Douglas MacArthur at Reno, Nevada, United States, on the grounds of "failure to provide". 
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17 Jun 1930 WW2 Houston was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jun 1932 WW2 About 1,000 American WW1 veterans, dubbed the "Bonus Army", gathered before the Capitol building in Washington DC, United States as the US Senate considered a bill that would give them certain benefits. 
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17 Jun 1934 WW2 Vice-Chancellor von Papen made a speech at Marburg University in Germany in which he protested about the Nazi control of the press and warning against further radicalism. The Nazi leaders meanwhile were spending that Sunday with the Führer, Hitler, at a conference in Thuringia, Germany, and to them Papen's speech sounded like a rallying call for counter-revolution. Publication of the speech was banned by Goebbels, who was a main target of much of Papen's criticism. 
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17 Jun 1937 WW2 The Spanish Republican battleship Jaime I blew up and sank at Cartagena, Spain. 
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17 Jun 1937 WW2 Red Army planner Valentin Trifonov wrote to Joseph Stalin, noting that Germany was the likely military enemy of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union should counter this by focusing on a defensive strategy rather than an offensive one (as the defensive strategy would be more cost-effective). 
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17 Jun 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Qianshan County, Anhui Province, China. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 Soviet troops entered Latvia and Lithuania without little resistance. In Estonia, although a Signal Battalion would resist in Tallinn until 21 Jun, the government, along with the Army and the Estonian Defence League militia organization, surrendered to Soviet occupation. NKO Commissar Semyon Timoshenko ordered the disbanding of the military organizations of the Baltic States, leaving the task of border protection to NKVD troops. In North America, the United States refused to recognize the Soviet occupation of the two Baltic countries. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 Winston Churchill announced to the British people that the United Kingdom would continue to fight until Adolf Hitler was removed from power. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 British unemployment figure decreased by 114,000 in May 1940 to a new low of 767,000. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-46 sank Greek ship Elpis 250 miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain; the entire crew of 28 survived. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 French Minister for Foreign Affairs Paul Baudouin privately informed Deputy US Ambassador to France Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., that the French fleet "would never be surrendered to Germany". 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark asked for US$4,000,000,000 to construct a "Two-Ocean Navy". 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 Heavy cruiser USS Quincy departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Montevideo, Uruguay. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 The deposed German Emperor Wilhelm II sent a congratulatory telegram to Adolf Hitler regarding the victory over France. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sent German Ambassador Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg a message of congratulations for the successful German conquest of France. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 Prime Minister Philippe Pétain ordered the French Army to stop fighting and sued for an honorable peace as the Germans crossed the Loire River near Orleans, France. Taking advantage of the initial demoralizing effect and confusion this caused, the German 7th Panzer Division under Erwin Rommel advanced 125 miles toward Cherbourg; to the east, tanks under Heinz Guderian reached the Swiss border at Pontalier, encircling 17 French divisions on the Maginot Line. Meanwhile, the Allied evacuation operation, Operation Ariel, continued in Cherbourg, Saint-Malo, Brest, and Saint-Nazaire. At Saint-Malo, private vessels of the Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club of Jersey arrived to assist with the evacuations. In the Loire estuary near Saint-Nazaire, British passenger liner Lancastria, with 4,000 to 9,000 British civilians and military personnel on board, was sunk by three bombs by Ju 88 aircraft, causing about 3,000 deaths; it was the worst maritime loss in British history. 
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17 Jun 1940 WW2 Civilian contractors began working on the expansion of the US Navy airfield on Maui, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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17 Jun 1941 WW2 Finland began to secretly mobilize its military for Operation Silver Fox, the Finnish invasion of the Soviet Union in concert with the German Operation Barbarossa. 
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17 Jun 1941 WW2 A German counterattack launched at 0430 hours broke through the Allied lines in Libya, threatening to cut off the Allied forces attacking Halfaya Pass. In the afternoon, the Allied leadership decided to call off the Operation Battleaxe offensive. The British 7th Armoured Division tanks formed a rearguard against pursuing German tanks until 1600 hours to allow Allied troops to fall back. The failure of the operation, especially in regards to the heavy losses in tank strength, would soon cost Wavell his position as the British commander-in-chief in the region. 
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17 Jun 1941 WW2 The Guards Armoured Division was established by the British Army with Major General Sir Oliver Leese in command. 
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17 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-43 sank British ship Cathrine 250 miles southwest of Ireland at 0315 hours; 24 were killed, 3 survived. 
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17 Jun 1941 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down two Hurricane fighters over Halfaya Pass in Egypt while escorting Stuka dive bombers; they were his 12th and 13th kills. 
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17 Jun 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked a French destroyer, carrying ammunition which she had brought from France, in the port of Beirut in French Syria-Lebanon. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-202 delivered four German agents to Jacksonville, Florida. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Emidji. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 The US War Department advised the Army to discontinue the recruitment of Nisei, American citizens of Japanese parentage, all of whom were to be re-classified As "IV-C": unacceptable for service because of ancestry. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish damaged a Japanese tanker in the Pacific Ocean with 2 of 7 torpedoes fired. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 12 German Ju 88 bombers attacked British destroyer HMS Wild Swan and a group of Spanish trawlers 225 miles west of Land's End, England, United Kingdom; HMS Wild Swan shot down 6 aircraft, but sank after colliding with a Spanish trawler during the battle; 31 British sailers were killed in the sinking and 133 survived; 11 Spanish fishermen were killed. US ship Santore struck a mine and sank in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, United States; 3 were killed, 43 survived; the mine was laid by German submarine U-701 on 11 Jun 1942. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-161 stopped Dominican sailing boat Ciudad Trujillo in the Caribbean Sea, capturing her cargo of fruit, and released the boat along with 8 prisoners captured from sailing boat Nueva Altagracia on the previous day. In the Gulf of Mexico, 280 miles south of Galveston, Texas, United States, U-158 sank Panamanian ship San Blas at 0450 hours (30 were killed, 14 survived) and Norwegian tanker Moira at 1300 hours (1 was killed, 18 survived). At 2300 hours, U-129 sank US ship Millinocket 10 miles north of Cuba; 11 were killed, 24 survived. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 USS S-28 sighted Kiska, US Territory of Alaska 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 HMS Eagle arrived at Gibraltar. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis troops surrounded Tobruk, Libya; to the east, Axis troops pursued the Allied forces falling back toward Egypt. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 In Libya, Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down 3 Hurricane fighters and three P-40 fighters between 1202 and 1212 hours over Gambut, Libya, increasing his score to 101 kills. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 Soviet defense lines north of Sevastopol, Russia began to collapse as German troops captured Fort Maxim Gorky, Fort Molotov, Fort Schishkova, Fort Volga, and Fort Siberia. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 The US Navy Gulf Sea Frontier (GULFSEAFRON) headquarters was moved from Key West to Miami, both of which were in Florida, United States. 
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17 Jun 1942 WW2 Winston Churchill and Alan Brooke arrived in Washington DC, United States to finalise the Anglo-American strategy for 1942-1943. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 In the last major air battle over Guadalcanal, Captain William D. Wells (US 8th Fighter Group) led his flight of P-39 Airacobra fighters into a formation of 30-35 Japanese Aichi Type 99 naval bombers and shot down four of them. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 Captain Teruhiko Miyoshi's body was recovered from the wreck of battleship Mutsu. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 Monterey was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 In a letter written to Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt expressed his conviction that General Charles de Gaulle was injuring the Allied war efforts and was "a very dangerous threat to us". 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 USS S-35 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her sixth war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 The US Marine Corps 9th Defense Battalion was relieved of its responsibility in the defense of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands and was ordered to begin training for the upcoming New Georgia invasion. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 Noor Inayat Khan landed in France via a Lysander aircraft before dawn. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 The Royal Navy battleships HMS Nelson (flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Algernon Willis) and HMS Rodney plus a large squadron sailed from Scapa Flow to join the largest invasion fleet yet mustered in World War II - 280 warships, 320 merchantmen, 2,125 landing craft and smaller vessels - for Operation Husky, the Sicilian landings. 
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17 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 Yamato refueled from oilers of the 1st Supply Force, then joined the Mobile Fleet. Later, the Mobile Fleet was sighted by USS Cavalla in the Philippine Sea. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 Alaska was commissioned into service. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 Adolf Hitler met with Erwin Rommel and Hans Speidel in France; Hitler agreed to visit the front lines in France, but ultimately this would not take place. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Parche began her second war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 Eighteen Lancaster bombers from British No. 617 Squadron attacked German V-1 launch sites on the coast of the English Channel. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 Iceland declared independence from Denmark, becoming a republic with Sveinn Björnsson as its first president. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 General de Lattre's Free French force landed on the island of Elba, Italy, starting a two-day campaign to secure the island from German forces. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 Wladyslaw Anders was made the Allied commander of the Adriatic sector of the Italian theater of war. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 British XIII Corps engaged in heavy fighting with German forces at Città della Pieve, Italy. 
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17 Jun 1944 WW2 USAAF First Lieutenant William "Swede" Anderson of the 356th Fighter Squadron, 354th Fighter Group, returning to base after a ground-strafing sortie over France in his P-51B "Swede's Steed II" spotted, at about 2000 hours, a V1 Flying bomb and promptly shot it down. In doing so he became the first USAAF pilot to record a V1 kill. After landing the 23-year-old Anderson excitedly asked "How many 'Doodlebugs' make an ace?" 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese Admiral Ota Minoru committed ritual suicide for failing to defend Okinawa, Japan. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Tunny was attacked by Japanese aircraft in the Sea of Japan. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 Trawler Anticosti was decommissioned from Canadian service and was returned to the British Royal Navy. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 Georg-Wolfgang Feller became the last recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross award, although the award was given more than one month after German President Karl Dönitz had officially ordered all awards to cease. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island received supplies at Kaika Harbor, Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Springer departed Saipan, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Bergall arrived at Subic Bay, Philippine Islands to receive emergency repairs for damage sustained four days prior by a friendly naval mine. This ended her fifth war patrol. 
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17 Jun 1946 WW2 Louisville was decommissioned from service. 
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17 Jun 1946 WW2 Hundreds of Mexican Baceros farm labourers in the United States went on strike for higher wages. Despite the intervention of the Mexican Consul the strike was broken within a fortnight without any increase in wages or repatriation back to Mexico. 
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17 Jun 1948 WW2 The trial by the Supreme National Tribunal against Josef Bühler began in Kraków, Poland. 
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17 Jun 1963 RELIGIOUS English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.'
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