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History on the 24th of June

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24 Jun 1519 RELIGIOUS Birth of Theodore Beza, French-born Swiss theological reformer. Beza became the acknowledged leader of the Swiss Calvinists, following John Calvin's death in 1564.
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24 Jun 1527 RELIGIOUS King Gustavus of Sweden assembled the Diet of Wester's, for the purpose of carrying through the Protestant Reformation in Sweden.
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24 Jun 1803 RELIGIOUS Birth of George J. Webb, American church organist. He compiled several collections of sacred music during his lifetime, and also composed the melody to the hymn, 'Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus.'
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24 Jun 1917 RELIGIOUS Death of Orville J. Nave (born 1841), U.S. Armed Services chaplain and compiler of the popular 'Nave's Topical Bible.'
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24 Jun 1919 WW2 The German Reichstag agreed to the Treaty of Versailles. 
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24 Jun 1933 WW2 The Catholic Christian trade unions in Germany were dissolved by Hitler's Government. Many Trade Union leaders were arrested and taken to camps and prisons. 
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24 Jun 1936 WW2 German Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg drew up Case Green as a hypothetical campaign against Czechoslovakia. 
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24 Jun 1936 WW2 U-27 was launched at Bremen, Germany. 
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24 Jun 1937 WW2 Gridley was commissioned into service. 
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24 Jun 1938 WW2 Japanese reached Madang, Jiangxi Province, China. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 British commandos launched an aborted raid on Le Touquet, France. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 As French warships scattered throughout Dakar, Casablanca, Algiers, and Mers-el-Kébir in French colonies in Africa, Alexandria in Egypt, and Plymouth and Portsmouth and Britain, French Admiral Darlan promised British Prime Minister Churchill that they would not fall into German hands. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-47 sank Panamanian ship Cathrine with the deck gun about 300 miles west of Land's End in southwestern England. As the entire crew of 19 escaped to lifeboats, they were given food and red wine by the crew of U-47 before being set adrift for their eventual rescue. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 British sloop HMS Falmouth sank Italian submarine Luigi Galvani in the Gulf of Oman. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 Japan requested Britain to close the Burma Road, a land supply route into China. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 Robert von Greim was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 The Franco-Italian armistice was signed at Villa Olgiata near Rome, Italy by French General Huntziger and Italian General Badoglio. Fighting would continue until the following day when the agreement would take effect. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 Malta received its first strike aircraft with the arrival and creation of No. 830 Squadron with Fairey Swordfish Mk.1 aircraft; they were left behind by HMS Argus when she departed the Mediterranean Sea. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 Charles Edison resigned as the Secretary of the Navy of the United States; Lewis Compton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 9 Feb 1940, took over as the acting secretary. 
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24 Jun 1940 WW2 Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely relieved Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees as the Commandant of the Eleventh Naval District and the Commandant of the Naval Operating Base in San Diego, California, United States. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 German Armeegruppe Nord moved into Lithuania and Byelorussia, seizing Vilnius and Kaunas. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Japan asserted pressure on France for Indochina. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Large demonstrations began in Madrid, Spain in support of the German invasion of the Soviet Union; demonstrations soon spread to other parts of Spain. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Hungary broke relations with the Soviet Union. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 British House of Commons voted for the second £1,000,000,000 war credit of the year as war expenditure now exceeded £10,250,000 per day. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 In Russia a Council of Evacuation was set up with emergency powers to oversee the evacuation of machinery, skilled workers and food stuffs on a large scale, away from the German advance. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 The German E-Boat S35 discovered the Soviet submarine S3 (N. A. Kostromityev) off Steinort, Germany and fired several torpedoes which all missed. S3 was then sunk by depth charges and hand grenades. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived at the Wolfsschanze headquarters in East Prussia, Germany. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China, damaging the British Consulate among other buildings. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Scirè launched manned torpedoes into Grand Harbour, Malta; they failed to damage any enemy vessels. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Soviet Air Force Directorate chief Pavel Rychagov, as well as his wife Maria Nesterenko, a famed aviatrix, were arrested during the purge of the Soviet Air Force. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Soviet Deputy Defense Commissar General Kirill Meretskov was arrested by agents of the 3rd NKO Directorate. He would later be cleared of suspicion in Sep 1941 and was given front line command once again. 
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24 Jun 1941 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan attempted to launch a counterattack against German advances in Ukraine, but it would fail to achieve much due to the unprepared state of his troops. 
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24 Jun 1941 RELIGIOUS The two-day Constitutional Assembly of the Nippon Kirisuto Kyodan opened, during which was formed the United Church of Christ in Japan.
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis air forces commenced an offensive against Yugoslavian partisans. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft conducted a raid on Birmingham, England. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Perch was struck from the Naval Vessel Register of the US Navy. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-156 sank British ship Willimantic with gunfire 700 miles southeast of Bermuda at 0904 hours; 6 were killed, 32 survived. At 0937 hours, 30 miles off Cape Fear, North Carolina, United States, U-404 sank Yugoslavian ship Ljubica Matkovic; all 30 aboard survived. At the mouth of the Delaware Bay on the US coast, US rescue tug vessel John R. Williams struck a mine and sank at 2005 hours; 14 were killed, 4 survived; the mine was laid by U-373 on 11 Jun. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Joseph Stilwell, with Song Meiling in his support, convinced Chiang Kaishek to agree to sending Chinese troops to India for training. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 A PBY Catalina piloted by Lieutenant (jg) Julius Raven discovered and rescued 15 survivors of USS S-27 off Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Australian 39th Battalion and the British colonial Papua Infantry Battalion were deployed to defend the Kokoda Track, a rough jungle path that linked northeastern coast of the island of New Guinea with Port Moresby. On the same day, other Australian units departed from Port Moresby aboard Dutch ship Karsik and Bontekoe to construct new airfields on the coast of Milne Bay to the east. 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Five German Ju 88 bombers attacked Allied shipping at anchor in the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia starting at 0908 hours, sinking British minesweeper HMS Gossamer at 0921 hours (23 were killed, 12 were wounded). 
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24 Jun 1942 WW2 Joseph Stalin signed the order that widened the range of crimes which would also result in the arrest of family members of the convicted. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 RAF bombers attacked Elberfeld in the Ruhr region of Germany. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 American submarine USS Tinosa fired 12 torpedoes at an enemy target. 11 of them failed to explode. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 At dawn, USS Snook attacked a six-ship Japanese convoy in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, damaging one tanker with 2 of 4 torpedoes fired. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein flew the Bf 110 nightfighter for the first time, discovered technical issues, and returned to flying his usual Ju 88 aircraft, in which he shot down four British Lancaster bombers. His victories now stood at 35. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Sunfish ended her third war patrol. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Harder damaged a Japanese transport off Japan, hitting her with 1 of 7 torpedoes. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 The Tamazato Prisoners of War Camp in eastern Taiwan was closed after less than three months in operation; on the same day, Taihoku Prisoners of War Camp No. 5 near Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was opened. 
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24 Jun 1943 WW2 Submarine Caiman was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tang attacked a Japanese convoy southwest of Kagoshima, Japan and reported sinking two ships. Post war Japanese records showed that four ships of that convoy, Tamahoko Maru, Tainan Maru, Nasusan Maru, and Kennichi Maru, were attacked and sunk on that date. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Hitler ordered all but one division of LIII Korps, encircled near Vitebsk, Byelorussia, to break out. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Chinese troops, supported by heavy artillery, attacked Mogaung, Burma in support of the British Chindit operation. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 British Lieutenant General Geoffrey Scoones, due to poor intelligence, failed to pursue retreating Japanese troops from northeastern India, thinking that the Japanese might be planning a counterattack from Tamu and Bishenpur. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Parche sank a Japanese patrol vessel with her deck gun. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Alexander Novikov was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Saburo Sakai mis-identified a group of 15 F6F Hellcat fighters as friendly, but he was able to escape from their attacks unscathed. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Flight Lieutenant David Hornell, on a routine patrol in a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Catalina aircraft, sighted a surfaced German U-Boat in the North Atlantic, but a hail of anti-aircraft fire came up to meet the Catalina as it made its bombing run. Although two large holes appeared in the starboard wing and oil was seen to be pouring from the burning starboard engine, Hornell managed to hold the blazing aircraft on course, and from low-level was able to straddle the enemy submarine with depth charges; which was then seen to thrust its bows abruptly into the air while the crew abandoned ship. The Catalina aircraft's engine tore itself away from the burning wing and Hornell needed all his skill to put the machine down on the heavy swell. Blazing furiously it began to sink immediately. The survivors had to wait 21 hours before they were picked up, by which time two men had already died of exposure and Hornell himself succumbed soon after being rescued. For his outstanding gallantry David Hornell would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 US Vice President Henry Wallace departed Chongqing, China. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 British No. 617 Squadron attacked the 20-foot thick concrete dome containing V-2 rockets at Wizernes, France with "Tallboy" bombs. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parts of ARGUS-15, ARGUS-17, and ARGUS-23 departed. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Troops of British XIII Corps linked up with Indian troops of British X Corps in Italy. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 The Mobile Fleet, including Yamato, arrived at Hashirajima island in Hiroshima Bay, Japan. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho arrived at Hashirajima, Japan. 
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24 Jun 1944 WW2 Prisoners Edward Galinski and Mala Zimetbaum escaped from Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland but they would be re-captured in Jul 1944. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 General Zhukov took the salute in the Victory Parade in Moscow, Russia. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese representatives in Moscow, Russia requested the Soviet Union to extend the neutrality pact originally signed in 1941 and due to expire in Apr 1946. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island arrived at Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands. Personnel of her air group were transferred to Naval Air Base Agana. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 A German Ar 234 aircraft surrendered to the British at Sola Airfield in Stavanger, Norway. This aircraft was later flown from Sola for Cherbourg, France, where it would be embarked onto a ship for transport to the United States. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 Konstantin Rokossovsky commanded a victory parade at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. 
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24 Jun 1945 WW2 Australian forces captured Sarawak. 
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24 Jun 1946 WW2 Nashville was decommissioned from service. 
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24 Jun 1946 WW2 Joseph Rochefort, not getting the sea command that he wanted, requested retirement. 
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24 Jun 1948 WW2 In Germany, the Berlin Blockade began. 
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24 Jun 1948 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the sixth time. 
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