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History on the 29th of June

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29 Jun 1757 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote ina letter: 'Whatever we may undertake with a sincere desire to promote His glory, we may comfortably pursue. Nothing is trivial that is done for Him.'
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29 Jun 1810 RELIGIOUS In Bradford, Massachusetts, the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
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29 Jun 1875 RELIGIOUS The first 'holiness' conference opened at Keswick, England. Keswick conferences stress a non- charismatic, 'crisis' form of sanctification, in contrast to the older traditional view of Christian sanctification as being a lifelong 'process.'
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29 Jun 1908 RELIGIOUS Birth of Cyrus H. Gordon, American Jewish archaeological scholar. Having taught Assyriology and Egyptology at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, his his technical writings include the 'Ugaritic Handbook' (1947).
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29 Jun 1917 WW2 Miles Browning graduated from the United States Naval Academy. 
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29 Jun 1921 WW2 In Britain, Lady Randolph Churchill died at her London home from gangrene that had set in following the amputation of a leg after a fall. 
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29 Jun 1931 RELIGIOUS The Unevangelized Fields Mission was founded, in England. UFM missionaries today work primarily in Latin America, Europe and Africa, as well as in Haiti and Indonesia.
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29 Jun 1934 WW2 Adolf Hitler visited Nazi Party camps in Westphalia, Germany. 
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29 Jun 1934 WW2 Generalleutnant Ewald von Kleis flew to Berlin, Germany to warn General Werner von Fritsch of the impending violence between the SS and SA organizations of the Nazi Party. When Fritsch informed Walther von Reichenau at the Defence Ministry the latter simply replied that it was "too late now". 
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29 Jun 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln completed operations off Spain. 
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29 Jun 1936 WW2 The US Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act (1936) which set in place the necessary legislation to create series-production facilities for mercantile hulls. This legislation would ultimately have important consequences for the wartime Battle of the Atlantic. 
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29 Jun 1936 WW2 Nachi completed her first reconstruction at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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29 Jun 1938 WW2 Repair ship Akashi was launched. 
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29 Jun 1938 WW2 British cruiser HMS Amphion was recommissioned as Australian cruiser HMAS Perth at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. 
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29 Jun 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler suddenly ordered a pause to Soviet-German trade talks for unknown reason. 
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29 Jun 1939 WW2 Roger Backhouse was promoted to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 Operation Catapult: The British Admiralty gave Vice Admiral Somerville explicit instructions to secure the transfer, surrender, or destruction of the French warships at Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria. Force H under his command consisted of battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution, battlecruiser HMS Hood, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, cruisers HMS Arethusa and HMS Enterprise, and 11 destroyers. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 was again subjected to friendly fire. Upon leaving Wilhelmshaven, Germany, she was attacked by a German aircraft with 3 bombs. She dove under the surface to avoid the bombs, but sustained minor damage when she hit the sea floor. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-51 sank British decoy ship HMS Edgehill with three torpedoes southwest of Ireland. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-47 torpedoed and sank British ship Empire Toucan southwest of Ireland, which broke in half; 3 were killed and 31 were rescued. Destroyer HMS Hurricane scuttled the aft portion of the ship which remained afloat. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-26 sank Greek steamer Frangoula B. Goulandris southwest of Ireland; 6 were killed and 32 were rescued. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 Destroyer USS O'Brien departed Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil for Santos, Brazil. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived at his headquarters at Tannenberg in southern Germany. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 HMS Hermes received orders to set sail toward Dakar, French West Africa. 
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29 Jun 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt departed Washington DC, United States aboard the yacht Potomac; the ship was accompanied by auxiliary vessel Cuyahoga. 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 The German Army 20.Gebirgsarmee began advancing on Murmansk in northern Russia. 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 Lord Beaverbrook became the British Minister of Supply. 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 Former US President Herbert Hoover warned against aiding the Soviet Union. "If we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for Stalin the grip of communism on Russia.... f we join the war and Stalin wins, we have aided him to impose more communism on Europe and the world." 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 A haggard and tense Stalin set up a Soviet Defence Committee consisted of Molotov, Voroshilov, Malenkov, Beria, and himself, and then retired to his dacha on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, staying there until the following day writing a speech to the Soviet people and drafting two important directives on the Soviet war effort. 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China; among the property damaged were the British Embassy in the city and American gunboat USS Tutuila at Lungmenhao lagoon. 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 Colonel General Vasily Kuznetsov was ordered by Semyon Timoshenko to maintain pressure on the German bridgehead on the Daugava River (Western Dvina) near Daugavpils, Latvia. Kuznetsov would use all his reserves to mount a counterattack that would be repulsed by the Germans. 
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29 Jun 1941 WW2 Romanian troops conducted a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 Manchukuo transferred destroyer Haiwei to Japan. The ship was reclassified as an auxiliary escort and was renamed Kari. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-67 sank British tanker Empire Mica southwest of Cape St. George, Florida, United States at 0750 hours; 33 were killed, 14 survived. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Thrasher sank Italian freighter Diana 100 miles north of Tobruk, Libya at 1445 hours; Italian motor torpedo boats counterattacked with 17 depth charges, causing no damage to Thrasher. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 German 4th Panzer Army threatened to surround the Soviet 40th Army as the Germans advanced toward Voronezh in southern Russia; 1,000 Soviet tanks were released from the reserves to reinforce the defense. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 George Marshall asked Douglas MacArthur for thoughts on replacing George Brett with Frank Andrews, not knowing that Andrews would reject a transfer to Australia. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 Allied convoy QP-13 was spotted by a German Fw 200 aircraft. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 USS S-35 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, ending her second war patrol. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-126 attacked Canadian sailing vessel Mona Marie 50 miles southwest of Barbados at 0125 hours, forcing the crew of 8 to abandon ship. At 0610 hours, U-754 sank British merchant ship Waiwera 400 miles northwest of the Azores islands; 8 were killed, 97 survived. U-153 sank American merchant vessel Ruth with a torpedo 320 miles northeast of Barbuda; 35 were killed, 4 survived. At 1355 hours, U-505 sank American merchant ship Thomas McKean with two torpedoes, 350 miles northeast of Puerto Rico. At 1745 hours, U-158 sank Latvian merchant ship Everalda 360 miles southwest of Bermuda; all 36 aboard survived.  
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki departed Truk, Caroline Islands, escorting a convoy transporting airfield construction crews to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 Repair ship Akashi provided repair work for destroyer Asashio at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 German 90th Light Division reached Sidi Abdel Rahman, Egypt. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 British cruiser HMS Dido, 7 destroyers, and submarine depot ship HMS Medway were evacuated out of Alexandria, Egypt as Axis troops advanced toward El Alamein, Egypt; the ships sailed for Haifa, Palestine. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 253 British bombers (108 Wellington, 64 Lancaster, 47 Stirling, and 34 Halifax) attacked Bremen, Germany, damaging the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory and the A. G. Weser submarine shipyard; 11 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Saratoga arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after ferrying aircraft to Midway Atoll. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 Benito Mussolini flew to Libya, with his white horse, to prepare for a victory parade through Cairo, Egypt. 
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29 Jun 1942 WW2 Troops of German 16th Infantry Regiment and 65th Infantry Regiment crossed Severnaya Bay north of Sevastopol, Russia in 130 rubber boats, landing behind Soviet defenses at 0100 hours, establishing a bridgehead. 
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29 Jun 1943 WW2 The US 158th Regimental Combat Team and the US 6th Engineer Combat Company landed unopposed at Kiriwini Island, Trobriand Islands. 
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29 Jun 1943 WW2 USS S-35's starboard engine was repaired while at sea in the Kurile Islands. 
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29 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Harder sank a Japanese transport and damaged an oiler off Japan, hitting them with 2 of 2 torpedoes. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Yamato departed for Kure, Japan to receive five new triple-mount 25mm AA guns; during the installation, the entire hinoki deck would also be replaced. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Bo Seng Lim passed away. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tang attacked the unescorted Japanese transport Nikkin Maru between Kyushu, Japan and Dalian, China with two torpedoes without success. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 The 70,000 remaining troops of German Armeegruppe Mitte, surrounded near Bobruisk, Byelorussia, surrendered. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 The last harbor fort at Cherbourg, France was captured by US troops. Meanwhile, a planned German offensive by the 2nd and 9th Panzer Divisions at Villers-Bocage, west of Caen, was abandoned when their armored columns were blasted by 260 RAF heavy bombers. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 A transport of 2,502 Hungarian Jews from Auschwitz Concentration Camp arrived at Stutthof Concentration Camp. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Konstantin Rokossovsky was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Martti Aho was wounded in battle at Tali-Ihantala, Finland. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol in the South China Sea. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Erwin Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt met with Adolf Hitler at Hitler's residence in Berchtesgaden, southern Germany. They urged Hitler to pursue peace, but Htiler rejected such a notion, saying that the V weapons would soon turn the tide of war. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Finnish troops repulsed the pursuing Soviet troops and re-established the Vakkila-Ihantalajärvi-Kokkoselkä-Noskuanselkä Line in Finland. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Out of about 1,100 prisoners at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany with valid entry certificates for Palestine, 221 Jews were allowed to go; they would arrive in Haifa at 1700 hours on 10 Jul. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Gabilan departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her second war patrol. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Camera Repair School (quonset hut) turned over to station. Parts of Air Group 21 on board. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Divisione Decima (10th Division) of Italian Navy was placed under the command of SS-General Karl Wolff. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Nachi departed Yokosuka, Japan. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 Richard Saul retired from the British Royal Air Force. 
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29 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 Japan offered the Soviet Union fishing rights in various areas of waters on the Japanese-Russian maritime border in exchange for oil and continued to request the Soviet Union to renew the 1941 neutrality pact. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Intensity arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, United States. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 Winston Churchill and Alan Brooke dismissed Oliver Leese and promoted William Slim to the rank of full general to succeed Leese as Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, South-East Asia. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Stephen Johnson was named the commanding officer of USS Segundo. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands attacked the oil refinery at Shinchiku (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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29 Jun 1945 WW2 USS R-1 arrived at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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29 Jun 1946 WW2 Biscayne was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Jun 1948 WW2 Ira Eaker was given the rank of lieutenant general in the retired list of the newly established United States Air Force. 
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29 Jun 1948 WW2 George Brett was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general while on the retired list. 
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