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History on the 22nd of June

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22 Jun 1559 RELIGIOUS In England, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book was issued. During her 45-year reign, Elizabeth I rejected the Catholic faith, adopting instead the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican Church.
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22 Jun 1745 RELIGIOUS Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I am often weary of this world, and want to leave it on that account; but it is more desirable to be drawn, rather than driven out of it.'
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22 Jun 1750 RELIGIOUS Clergyman Jonathan Edwards was dismissed from his Congregational pulpit in Northampton, MA, after serving there 23 years. Maintaining his ultra- conservative theology, Edwards had grown to become administratively too inflexible for his congregation.
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22 Jun 1865 RELIGIOUS The society known today as the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) was first organized. Its purpose is to provide information about the archaeology, the history and the people of the Holy Land.
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22 Jun 1870 RELIGIOUS Scholars began translation work on the English Revised Version of the Bible. Released in 1881, the ERV became the textual basis for the American Standard Version (ASV), first published in the United States in 1901.
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22 Jun 1911 WW2 King George V of the United Kingdom was crowned. 
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22 Jun 1911 WW2 Haiqi and her crew attended the coronation ceremony of King George V of the United Kingdom. 
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22 Jun 1933 WW2 Adolf Hitler issued orders to dissolve the Social Democratic Party. 
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22 Jun 1933 WW2 The French Army cavalry command issued a second order for 20 AMR 33 light tanks. 
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22 Jun 1934 WW2 Ferdinand Porsche agreed to embark on Hitler's Volkswagen project. 
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22 Jun 1938 WW2 McCall was commissioned into service. 
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22 Jun 1938 WW2 Germany passed a labor conscription law that guaranteed employment but also removed job freedom. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 At Compiègne, France, in the very same rail carriage and at the same location as when the WW1 armistice was signed, French General Huntzinger and German General Keitel signed the armistice at 1830 hours to end the invasion of France. Meanwhile, France dispatched officials to go to Rome to negotiate peace with Italy. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarines sank two cargo ships and two tankers south of Ireland and in the Bay of Biscay. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-122 became missing in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere off of the British coast; the crew of 49 were never seen again. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 The US Congress adopted national defense tax measures designed to yield US$994,300,000 per year. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 Duguay-Trouin was interned by the British at Alexandria, Egypt. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 Yosuke Matsuoka was named the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Japanese Prime Minister Prince Fumimaro Konoe's new government. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS Dickerson arrived at Bilbao, Spain to safeguard American interests. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 In Britain, the second evacuation plan by the London County council resulted in over 100,000 children being evacuated to the west. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 Charles de Gaulle broadcast a speech from London, England, United Kingdom on the BBC; in this broadcast, he used the term Free French for the first time, while declaring himself the French leader in exile. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 British Foreign Secretary Halifax had his undersecretary Richard Butler contact Swedish Minister in London, England, United Kindom Björn Prytz for a possible Anglo-German negotiations. Germans intercepted Prytz's report back to Stockholm and concluded that the war with Britain was likely to end by the end of the summer. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 The Communist Party of Great Britain published a manifesto calling for a "People's Government", claiming that "the same kind of leaders who brought France to defeat are in high places in Britain". Furthermore the manifesto called upon workers to oust their own ruling classes which would encourage German workers to bring down Adolf Hitler. 
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22 Jun 1940 WW2 Noor Inayat Khan arrived at Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom with her family. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 Churchill offered whatever aid possible to the Soviet Union. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 Jews from the Dorohoi district of Romania were branded as communists and spies and transported by cattle cars to concentration camps in Tirgu and Craiova. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 At about 0300 hours, Benito Mussolini was awaken as an urgent message was received from Adolf Hitler's office, informing Mussolini of the invasion of the Soviet Union; though annoyed by not having been notified earlier, he dutifully declared war on the Soviet Union. Romania would also make a declaration of war on the Soviet Union on this date. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 Werner Mölders shot down three Soviet bombers and one fighter; he was awarded Swords of his Knight's Cross, to be presented to him by Adolf Hitler on 3 Jul. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-141 sank Swedish ship Calabria 100 miles north of Ireland at 0329 hours; 3 were killed, 21 survived. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 German submarine U-77 sank British weather ship Arakara 550 miles east of St. Johns, Newfoundland at 2236 hours; all 33 aboard were killed. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 After dark and into the next date, a British fleet of two cruiser and six destroyers attacked French destroyer Guepard off Syria; Guepard was able to flee under the cover of darkness. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 General Dmitry Pavlov ordered, belatedly as the German invasion had already begun, his troops to man the fortified regions in his sector in Byelorussia at 0300 hrs. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 At about 0100 hours, the Red Army was ordered to assume defensive posture, but it was too late to improve defenses significantly as Germany tore up the non-aggression pact and launched Operation Barbarossa. At 0325 hours, Georgy Zhukov woke Joseph Stalin by phone to inform him of the news of the invasion; initially, Stalin refused to give Zhukov the permission to strike back at the Germans, believing it to be a German provocation. At 0630 hours, Stalin finally realized it was a full scale invasion and gave his authorization for the Red Army to fire back. At a strength of 3.5 million men, Operation Barbarossa was the largest military operation in history, overwhelming Soviet defenses which were further disadvantaged by poor communications. In support, German aircraft destroyed 2,000 aircraft, many on the ground, allowing the Germans to gain air superiority across the entire front. 
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22 Jun 1941 WW2 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov announced the German invasion to the Soviet people at 2300 hours. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarshall. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Norwegian tanker Nortind, damaged by German submarine U-67 in the Gulf of Mexico two days prior, arrived at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States for repairs. German submarine U-159 disabled US tanker E. J. Sadler with gunfire 175 miles south of Puerto Rico at 2035 hours; all 36 aboard escaped via 4 lifeboats. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-202 sank Argentinian ship Rio Tercero 120 miles southeast of New York, New York, United States at 1234 hours; 5 were killed, 37 survived. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 9 Beaufort aircraft of British No. 217 Squadron and 6 Beaufighter aircraft of No. 235 Squadron were launched from Malta to attack an Axis convoy sailing from Naples, Italy to Tripoli, Libya; German freighter Reichenfels was sunk while 3 Beaufort aircraft were shot down (7 were killed). 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Swordfish torpedo bombers of 830 Squadron of British Fleet Air Arm were launched from Malta to attack Italian destroyer Strale, forcing Strale to run aground near Cape Bon, Tunisia to prevent sinking. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 In a message to Admiral Ernest King, Vice Admiral Russell Wilson recommended against the proposal to award the Distinguished Service Medal to Joseph Rochefort; this fact was not known to Rochefort. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Grayback arrived at Fremantle, Australia. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Montevideo Maru boarded 845 prisoners of war (mostly Australian) and 208 civilian internees at Rabaul, New Britain and set sail for southern China without escort. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 227 British RAF aircraft (144 Wellington, 38 Stirling, 26 Halifax, 11 Lancaster, and 8 Hampden) attacked Emden, Germany, destroying 50 houses, damaging harbor facilities, and killing 6 civilians (further 40 were injured); 6 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Saratoga departed Pearl Harbor. US Territory of Hawaii to ferry aircraft to Midway Atoll. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis troops reached Bardia, Libya, 10 miles west of the border with Egypt. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Wotje, Marshall Islands. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Soviet lines east and south of Sevastopol, Russia began to falter. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine ShCh-317 sank Swedish ship Ada Thorthon 5 miles west of Gotland island in the Baltic Sea; 14 were killed, 8 survived. 
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22 Jun 1942 WW2 German forces launched Operation Fridericus II near Kharkov, Ukraine in preparation for Unternehmen Blau. A He 111 bomber of 9. Staffel of KG 55 scored a lucky hit with a 1,000-kg bomb on a bridge over the River Oskol at Kupiansk about 100 kilometers (about 50 miles) southeast of Kharkov, causing serious logistics problems for the Soviets. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 Stutthof Concentration Camp conducted its first gassing, killing many Polish and and Byelorussian prisoners. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 60 British Lancaster bombers attacked factories at Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. Planners of the attack though they were conducting a strike on a factory producing radar parts, but in actuality it was manufacturing parts for V-2 rockets. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 British RAF Coastal Command commenced anti-shipping missions with strike aircraft armed with rockets. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 US Army troops invaded Japanese-held Woodlark Island, Trobriand Islands. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Harder attacked a Japanese convoy off Japan, damaging seaplane transport Sagara Maru with 3 of 4 torpedoes. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 Roza Shanina was accepted into the Vsevobuch program for universal military training. 
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22 Jun 1943 WW2 The riot fueled by racial tension was finally under control in Detroit, Michigan, United States after three days of violence committed by both whites and African-Americans. During this period, 34 were killed (9 whites, 25 African-Americans), about 500 were wounded (about 75% African-Americans), more than 1,800 were arrested (about 80% African-Americans), and US$2,000,000 worth of damage were done to property. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 The Mobile Fleet, including Yamato, arrived at Nakagusuku, Okinawa. The destroyers were refueled before the Mobile Fleet departed again. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 60 Luftwaffe aircraft made a night raid on the USAAF base in Poltava, Ukraine, destroying 44 bombers and large quantities of fuel. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Soviet forces launched Operation Bagration, a major offensive against German forces in Byelorussia, with 1.2 million men, 31,000 heavy guns, 5,200 tanks, and 6,000 aircraft. The plan was to smash through Warsaw, Poland and East Prussia, Germanny to the Baltic coast; in doing so, they would trap German and Finnish forces in the north and isolate the German, Romanian, and Bulgarian armies in the south. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 The Americans launched a major attack on Cherbourg, France. Allied aircraft dropped over 1,000 tons of bombs on the city during the attack. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 The Danish Civil Partisan group, BOPA, attacked the Riffelsyndikatet arms factory in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Prisoners of the Alderney Concentration Camp in the Channel Islands were deported to Sollstedt in Germany. They would arrive in Sep 1944, where they would be transferred to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Rock departed Majuro, Marshall Islands for her third war patrol. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt signed the G. I. Bill of Rights which provided education and other assistance to veterans of the US military. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tunny set sail for home from the Philippine Sea. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Japanese Emperor Showa, in conversation with his younger brother Prince Takamatsu, gave approval "in principle" to the use of special attacks. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Frank Merrill radioed Joseph Stilwell to warn him that Louis Mountbatten was intriguing to replace Stilwell with another American commander who was more likely to be subject to Mountbatten's authority. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Okinawa, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Flier gave pursuit to a large Japanese convoy in the South China Sea, scoring hits with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Floating drydock USS ABSD-2, in 10 separate sections, arrived at Manus, Admiralty Islands. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina, with the rest of female snipers in her platoon, received orders to be withdrawn from front line combat. She disobeyed her orders and continued to fight with an infantry unit in Byelorussia. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Soviet troops reached the villages of Tali (now Paltsevo) and village of Ihantala (now Petrovka) near Viipuri, Finland (now Vyborg, Russia). 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop visited Finland, offering German reinforcement against the recent Soviet offensive, but also demanding Finland to fight until the very end. Finnish President Risto Ryti agreed. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg met with representatives from the German communists in eastern Berlin, Germany, not knowing one of them was a Gestapo spy. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her seventh war patrol. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 In India, Indian 6th Brigade from Kohima made contact with Indian 9th Brigade from Imphal on the Imphal-Kohima Road that had been held by the Japanese. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 A group of Italian Navy commandos loyal to the co-belligerent government in the south raided La Spezia, Italy using British Chariot manned torpedoes; they succeeded in capsizing Italian cruiser Bolzano. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 He 111 bombers from various units of German Luftwaffe KG 4 (pathfinders), KG 53, and KG 55 were launched to attack US bombers at Poltava and Mirgorod (Myrhorod) Airfields in Ukraine; navigation errors led to all bombers attacking Poltava, starting from 2355 hours on the previous date into this date. 44 US B-17 bombers and 15 various other US and Soviet aircraft were destroyed; 26 US B-17 bombers were damaged. All German bombers returned to their bases safely. 
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22 Jun 1944 WW2 Nicholas Winton was promoted to the brevet rank of pilot officer. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 Mitsuru Ushijima committed ritual suicide at Okinawa, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 The Americans secured Okinawa, Japan. Three months of savage fighting had cost the Japanese 129,700 military and 42,000 civilian dead. Just over 10,000 were taken prisoner. The Japanese had also lost 7,800 aircraft and six capital ships. The Americans had lost 12,520 dead, 36,600 wounded, 763 aircraft destroyed and 40 warships sunk. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred from a makeshift prison cell to the city jail of Wiesbaden, Germany. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 The final Japanese Navy Ohka combat sortie was conducted with six G4M bombers; none hit. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden was commissioned into service, Commander David H. McClintock in command. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback rescued downed pilot Lieutenant Commander C. P. Smith off Sakishima Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 Viktor Abakumov wrote to Lavrentiy Beria complaining of Ivan Serov's interference with Soviet SMERSH business. Beria, with Joseph Stalin's approval, instead made Serov the plenipotentiary of all Soviet counterintelligence in Germany, thus expanding NKVD's control over SMERSH in the occupied country. Abakumov refused to allow his subordinates to follow Serov's command, however, thus Serov's authority would only be nominal. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Parche sank two small Japanese boats and damaged a third in the Tsugara Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale began patrolling waters between Japan and Wake Atoll. 
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22 Jun 1945 WW2 3 B-24 bombers of 65th Bomb Squadron, USAAF 43rd Bombardment Group attacked Japanese Navy Oil Refinery No. 6 (USAAF referred to this facility as the "Toshien Oil Refinery") at Takao (now Zuoying District, Kaohsiung), Taiwan with several 1,000-pound bombs. Smoke and cloud cover prevented the observation of bomb damage. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Cod was decommissioned from service. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 The trial against Arthur Greiser at the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland began. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 Sargo was decommissioned from service. 
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22 Jun 1946 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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22 Jun 1948 WW2 Sun Du became the chairman of Rehe Province, China. 
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