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History on the 26th of June

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26 Jun 1097 RELIGIOUS The armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) occupied the ancient Byzantine city of Nicea.
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26 Jun 1702 RELIGIOUS Birth of Philip Doddridge, an English Nonconformist clergyman. Doddridge authored 370 hymn- texts, of which 'O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice' is still sung today.
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26 Jun 1839 RELIGIOUS Scottish clergyman and missionary Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Joy is increased by spreading it to others.'
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26 Jun 1892 RELIGIOUS Birth of Pearl S. Buck, American Presbyterian missionary to China and author of the 1931 best-seller, 'The Good Earth.'
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26 Jun 1912 WW2 Henry Arnold crashed the US Army's first front-mounted propeller-and-engine aircraft on takeoff into the bay at Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. 
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26 Jun 1917 WW2 The US 1st Division (soon to be known as the "Big Red One") consisting of the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th Infantry regiments arrived in France. 
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26 Jun 1917 WW2 Furious was commissioned into service. 
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26 Jun 1918 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general, making him the youngest general in the American Expeditionary Force. 
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26 Jun 1919 WW2 Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the first time. 
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26 Jun 1922 WW2 Tenryu departed Inchon, Korea for Lushunkou, northeastern China. 
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26 Jun 1924 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech in support of Governor Alfred E. Smith during the Democratic Party National Convention in New York, New York, United States. 
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26 Jun 1933 WW2 The MB.200 bomber took its first flight. 
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26 Jun 1933 WW2 The keel of HMS Amphion was laid down at the Royal Dockyard in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Jun 1936 WW2 The German military began to exclude Jews from service. 
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26 Jun 1936 WW2 The Soviet Council on Labor and Defense presented a ten-year plan to the Politburo for a 1,360,000-ton navy. 
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26 Jun 1937 WW2 Moscow City Party Committee secretary Semyon Korytny was arrested for having family ties to Joseph Stalin's perceived political enemy Iona Yakir. 
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26 Jun 1938 WW2 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops landed behind Chinese lines at Madang, Jiangxi Province, China and captured the town. 
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26 Jun 1939 WW2 German Gestapo ordered all Czechs who were deemed unwilling to work, politically active, or deemed to have anti-German beliefs were to be placed in concentration camps. 
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26 Jun 1939 WW2 The British Royal Navy and the British Foreign Office reported that Britain could only break the Japanese blockade on the British concession in Tianjin, China by deploying warships to the area. However, given the current tensions with Germany, such a deployment would not be advisable. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 General de Gaulle created the French Volunteer Legion in United Kingdom. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 The United Kingdom extended the blockade to include the all of France. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 Norwegian merchant ship Crux was sunk 300 miles west of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal at 0228 hours by a German submarine; the crew of 30 took to lifeboats and would be rescued on the following day. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-29 stopped Greek ship Dimitris with a shot across her bow off Cape Finisterre, Spain at 1530 hours. After the crew abandoned ship, the Greek ship was sunk by gunfire. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 Soviet Union presented an ultimatum demanding territory in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania. Adolf Hitler suggested the Romanians government to give in and satisfy the Soviet demands as Hitler was fearful that Romanian resistance might lead to a Soviet occupation of the entire Romania, which would threaten the oil and fodder that the German military was dependent upon. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 Corvette Trillium was launched. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 The French Foreign Minister of the Bordeaux Government announced that the French Ambassador in London, M. Corbin, had resigned. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 Wolfgang Falck was officially named the commanding officer of the German nightfighters, Nachtjagdfliegerdienst. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 RMS Queen Mary, with 5,000 British troops aboard, set sail for the Middle East. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, Russia called for a 7-day work week and banned the quitting of jobs without official authorization. Also, being late to work for more than 20 minutes was now a criminal offense punishable by prison terms of two to six months. 
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26 Jun 1940 WW2 Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States received the license from Rolls-Royce to build Merlin engines for the P-51 Mustang fighters. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 James Johnson shot down a German Bf 109 fighter. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 Finland issued declaration of war against the Soviet Union. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 Tomahawk fighters of No. 3 Squadron RAAF destroyed 5 French D.520 fighters and damaged a further six on the ground at Homs Airfield in Syria. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler officially named Hermann Göring his successor. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 U-576 was commissioned into service under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans-Dieter Heinicke. She was assigned to the 7th Submarine Flotilla. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 German 56th Panzer Corps reached Daugava River (Western Dvina); 8th Panzer Division and 3rd Motorized Division established bridgehead near Daugavpils, Latvia. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 German Panzer units closed the Bialystok pocket in Poland. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 Aircraft of the German Luftwaffe began to bomb Leningrad, Russia. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 In the Soviet capital of Moscow, Joseph Stalin visited the General Staff headquarters twice, voicing frustration at the heavy losses that the Red Army was suffering against the invading German forces. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 Spain officially began to organize a unit of volunteers to fight in Russia on the side of the Axis. 
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26 Jun 1941 WW2 The mixed Marine-Army I Corps (Provisional), which was attached to the US Navy Atlantic Fleet, was redesignated Task Force 18 of the Atlantic Fleet. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 German troops crossed the Oskel River to take Kupyansk in Ukraine, which was to be used as a jump-off point for their summer offensive. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian troops of Brescia Division and Trento Division reached Mersa Matruh, Egypt in the afternoon, engaging in fighting against the Indian 10th Infantry Division. To the south, German tanks and infantry moved toward Minqar Qaim. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 The Grumman XF6F-3 Hellcat prototype made its maiden flight. It went on to be, arguably, the most significant Allied carrier fighter of the war. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 US Marine Corps Major General Alexander Vandegrift received word that Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings in the Solomon Islands were being planned. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was named the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet armed forces. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Vichy French ship Quand Meme struck a mine and sank in the Bay of Biscay; the mine was deployed by Free French submarine Rubis on 5 Jun 1942 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-203 sank British ship Putney Hill with a torpedo and her deck gun 450 miles northeast of Puerto Rico at 0544 hours; 3 were killed, 35 survived. US ship Manuela, damaged by German submarine U-153 on the previous day, foundered and sank in the morning while under tow by US Coast Guard ship CG-252. At 0913 hours, U-107 damaged Dutch ship Jagersfontein with a torpedo 500 miles west of Bermuda; Jagersfontein would sink at 1215 hours; all 220 aboard survived. At 2317 hours, U-203 struck again, sinking Brazillian ship Pedrinhas with a torpedo and her deck gun 300 miles northeast of Puerto Rico; all 48 aboard survived. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Returning from a raid an Australian Catalina flying-boat of No. 11 Squadron RAAF was shot at by a US Navy Wildcat fighter whilst approaching Havannah Harbour at Efate, Espiritu Santo. The American pilot had been alerted to lookout for an unidentified aircraft and had mistaken the red centres of the RAAF roundels for the markings on Japanese aircraft. Fortunately the Catalina aircraft was not badly damaged in the attack and alighted safely. This incident led to the RAAF replainting their roundels with white centres on all aircraft. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Italian midget submarine CB-4 recorded attacking and sinking Soviet submarine ShCh-207 in the Black Sea off Yalta, Ukraine; Soviet records revealed that the only submarine lost in the region that day was ShCh-203. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 The Italians were able to step up their air attacks on Malta by transferring aircraft from Libya to Sicily, Italy. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kure, Japan for her fourth voyage for the Japanese Navy. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 I-168 arrived at Sasebo, Japan for repairs. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 Naka entered drydock at Maizuru, Japan. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 German troops reached the northern shore of Severnaya Bay near Sevastopol, Russia. To the east of the city, positions held by troops of Soviet 386th Rifle Division were bombarded by German aircraft. As defeat appeared to be imminent, Soviet submarines D-6 and A-1 were scuttled in the harbor of Sevastopol to prevent capture. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 German Ju 88 dive bombers sank Soviet destroyer Bezuprechny (320 were killed) and submarine S-32 (all 45 aboard were killed) 30 miles southeast of Sevastopol, Russia. 
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26 Jun 1942 WW2 German bombers attacked Norwich, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Tunny performed photographic reconnaissance at Saipan Harbor and Tinian Channel in the Mariana Islands. 
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26 Jun 1943 WW2 The US submarine Runner failed to report in whilst on patrol off Northern Japan and would soon be presumed lost. Post-war records showed that she sank Japanese passenger-cargo ship Shinryu Maru off Kurile Islands, Japan on this date. 
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26 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fifth war patrol. 
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26 Jun 1943 WW2 11 B-17 bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain before dawn. A J1N nightfighter (pilot Senior Flight Petty Officer Shigetoshi Kudo, observer Warrant Officer Michitaro Ichikawa) shot down B-17F bomber "Taxpayer's Pride" and B-17E bomber "Naughty But Nice", which made Shigetoshi Kudo the first Japanese nightfighter ace. 
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26 Jun 1943 WW2 Robert Johnson's P-47 aircraft was badly damaged by German aircraft while flying patrol over France, but was able to return to base in Britain. 
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26 Jun 1943 WW2 USS S-35 transited Onekotan Strait in the Kurile Islands. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tang attacked a Japanese cargo ship with four torpedoes without success. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Red Army captured Vitebsk, Byelorussia. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 General von Schlieben, commander of the German garrison in Cherbourg, France, was captured by US troops. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Germans instituted a curfew in Copenhagen, Denmark in response to a wave of sabotage. In retaliation, the people of Copenhagen underwent a massive civil strike. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Gurkha troops of the Chindits captured Mogaung, Burma. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Cero departed Manus, Admiralty Islands for her fifth war patrol. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Brigadier-General Theodore F. Weasels took over command of the Myitkyina Task Force from the sick Brigadier-General Boatner following another bout of malaria. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Japanese troops reached Hengyang, Hunan Province, China, site of an important US air base, but were checked by the 15,000-strong Chinese 10th Army supported by US 14th Air Force's B-25 Mitchell and P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft which made constant attacks on the Japanese supply lines. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 A transport of 3,119 Jews from Szeged, Hungary crossed into Poland at Kosice, Czechoslovakia. The train was destined for Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Finnish troops counterattacked Soviet troops west of Lake Leitimojärvi near Tali (Paltsevo), Finland, destroying the Soviet 27th Tank Regiment and pushing the Soviets back to the line the Soviets held one day prior. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 Alexander Löhr was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Croaker arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Luce bombarded Paramushiru (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 The crematoria in Auschwitz-II Birkenau in occupied Poland received four sieves for sifting bones out of human ashes. Up above, Allied aircraft took photographs of the Auschwitz camps complex at the altitude of about 30,000 feet (about 10,000 meters). 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for Trinidad. 
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26 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Segundo departed New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Cod departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her seventh war patrol. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 Emil Hácha passed away in a prison hospital while awaiting trial. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 The Ohka Model 22 variant design saw its first drop test; it was a failure, with the aircraft exploding in an in-flight accident. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Pintado rescued a downed B-29 bomber crew south of Honshu, Japan. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweepers YMS-39 and YMS-365 were mined and sunk off Balikpapan, Borneo. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Springer rescued the eight survivors of a shot down B-29 bomber and one survivor of another south of Tokyo, Japan. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 The United Nations charter was signed at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, California, United States. 
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26 Jun 1945 WW2 As Jan Smuts affixed his signature to the United Nations Charter at San Francisco, California, United States, he became the only person to have signed the documents forming the League of Nations and the United Nations. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Yosuke Matsuoka passed away. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Sawfish was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Helm was decommissioned from service. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived in Shanghai, China and embarked Japanese personnel. 
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26 Jun 1946 WW2 Raizo Tanaka retired from military service. 
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26 Jun 1949 WW2 Captain Henry Richter was named the commanding officer of USS Saint Paul. 
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26 Jun 1949 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto departed Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. 
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26 Jun 1949 WW2 Kim Gu was assassinated by Ahn Doo-hee in Seoul, South Korea. 
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26 Jun 1955 RELIGIOUS The first Southern Baptist congregation was formally organized in Las Vegas, with 33 charter members. It was the second Southern Baptist church established in Nevada.
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