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History on the 11th of July

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11 Jul 1533 RELIGIOUS Clement VII excommunicated Henry VIII for divorcing Catherine of Aragon, andafterward marrying Anne Boleyn. Two years later, Henry broke with Rome and established theAnglican communion as the national religion of England.
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11 Jul 1656 RELIGIOUS Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America
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11 Jul 1915 WW2 The German cruiser, SMS Königsberg, which had been blockaded in the Rufiji delta in East Africa by a squadron on twenty-five Allied vessels for half a year, was finally sunk by two shallow-draught monitors. Her crew and guns, dismounted from the ship, joined the forces of Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. 
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11 Jul 1929 WW2 A secret decree of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union established the Gulag system. 
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11 Jul 1936 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the Director of Repair and Maintenance of the RAF. 
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11 Jul 1936 WW2 Germany and Austria signed an agreement in which Germany promised to respect Austria's sovereignty and Austria agrees to be considered a state of the German people. In a secret clause of this agreement, Austria was to permit the Nazi Party. 
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11 Jul 1937 WW2 Units of the Japanese Chosen Army and Kwantung Army, previously ordered to march into China on the first day of the Second Sino-Japanese War, was recalled due to political reasons. 
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11 Jul 1937 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to Cruiser Division 10. 
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11 Jul 1938 WW2 HMAS Albatross was recommissioned into service at Sydney, Australia to take a crew to the United Kingdom to man the cruiser soon-to-be transferred to Australia as HMAS Hobart. Albatross would departed Sydney later on the same day. 
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11 Jul 1938 WW2 The Japanese Navy issued Order No. 261 to raise sunken Chinese light cruisers Ninghai and Pinghai at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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11 Jul 1939 WW2 27 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China; eight Chinese I-15bis fighters rose to intercept. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Marshal Philippe Pétain declared himself head of state of the French Republic. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 British Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook announced that there would be virtually no limit to expenditures on US aircraft, with costs working out to over £2 million per day on planes for the RAF. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank British ship City Of Baghdad 400 miles southeast of Ceylon. 2 men were killed and 81 were taken prisoner. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 sank Norwegian ship Janna 100 miles southwest of Ireland at 0700 hours. The entire crew of 25 took to lifeboats and would reach Mizen Head, Ireland 3 days later. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Italian submarine Tarantini sank Panamanian tanker Beme 60 miles south of Cyprus. The entire crew was rescued by Tarantini. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 US Army approached 135 American automotive manufacturers to submit designs to replace its existing, aging light motor vehicles. They were told that they must submit their first prototypes within 49 days and have 70 test vehicles prepared in 75 days. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Bernard Montgomery was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Frank Knox took office as the US Secretary of the Navy. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil for Santos, Brazil. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Captain Laurence Wild relieved Captain Edward W. Hanson as Governor of American Samoa and Commandant of Naval Station, Tutuila, Samoa. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler at Obersalzberg, München-Oberbayern, Germany to discuss the invasion of Britain and the establishment of navy bases in Norway. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop requested Spain to assist in the detaining of the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft off the coast of Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Richard Saul was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Richard O'Connor was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 Pierre Laval became the 120th Prime Minister of France with the title of the Vice President of the Council. 
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11 Jul 1940 WW2 German aircraft attacked the British Royal Navy Base at Portland in southern England, United Kingdom; 1 British Hurricane fighter, 2 British Spitfire fighters, 2 German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers, and 2 German Bf 109 fighters were shot down. Off the eastern coast of England Hurricane fighters of No. 66 Squadron RAF attacked a Do 17 bombers on a reconnaissance mission, shooting it down but they also one of their own. Off the coast of Kent in southern England, a German rescue seaplane escorted by 12 Bf 109 fighters was shot down by the British while en route to rescue downed German airmen; 2 of the 6 Spitfire fighters and 2 of the 12 Bf 109 fighters were also lost. 
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11 Jul 1941 WW2 Kaga arrived at Ariake Bay at Kyushu, Japan. 
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11 Jul 1941 WW2 As the German 1.Panzergruppe marched near Kiev, Ukraine, Stalin replaced Army commanders. Marshal Voroshilov was given responsibility in the north, Marshal Timoshenko in the center, and Marshal Budyonny in the south. 
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11 Jul 1941 WW2 USS Astoria completed her refit at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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11 Jul 1941 WW2 William Donovan was made the Coordinator of Information. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Kupang, Timor and departed later on the same day. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 The US Marines headquarters unit arrived in New Zealand. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 US military personnel studied the "Akutan Zero", a Zero fighter that had crashed in the Aleutian Islands. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese leadership abandoned the plans to capture New Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-203 sank Panamanian tanker Stanvac Palembang 50 miles northeast of Trinidad at 0352 hours; 5 were killed, 45 survived. American pilots John Haggin and Wynant Farr of the Civil Air Patrol based in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States reported the sinking of an enemy submarine 25 miles east of Absecon, New Jersey; this sinking was not confirmed by the US Navy. 325 miles west of Madeira archipelago, Free French destroyer Léopard, British frigate HMS Spey, and sloop HMS Pelican sank German submarine U-136 with four depth charges (all 45 aboard were killed) as the three warships escorted Allied convoy OS-33. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Allied convoy PQ-17, after losing 24 of the 33 vessels, finally arrived in ports in northern Russia, delivering 64,000 tons of war goods; it was the worst convoy loss of the war, with some 430 tanks, 210 aircraft, 3,350 lorries and jeeps and 100,000 tons of materials lost at the hands of repeated German attacks. Joseph Stalin, suspicious of the western powers, believed that the British were unwilling to provide the Soviets with large amounts of goods and had made up the heavy losses. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine S-7 sank Swedish coastal freighter Luleå 10 miles off the eastern coast of Sweden. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-166 sank Dominican sailing vessel Carmen with the deck gun 8 miles off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic at 1900 hours; 1 was killed, 7 survived. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 German troops captured Soviet 2nd Shock Army commanding office Andrei Vlasov. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Finback conducted a reconnaissance mission in Vega Bay, Kiska, US Territory of Alaska. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Submarine S-7 sank Swedish transport Swedish transport Lulea east of Västervik, Sweden. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 24 British Lancaster bombers (of 44 launched for this mission) bombed the German submarine yards at Danzig, Germany, losing two aircraft in the attack; this was the longest mission by British bombers to date. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Australian 26th Brigade infantry and British tanks attacked Point 24 near El Alamein, Egypt, capturing it in the early afternoon, and then went on to successfully defend against Axis counterattacks. Meanwhile, a column of Allied tanks and motorized infantry raided Deir el Abyad, capturing about 1,000 Italian troops. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Yokosuka, Japan to escort transport Nankai Maru to Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Islands. 
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11 Jul 1942 WW2 South African armed whaler HMSAS Protea, South African armed whaler HMSAS Southern Maid, and a British Fleet Air Arm Walrus aircraft sank Italian submarine Ondina with depth charges 60 miles off Beirut, Syria-Lebanon. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 German forces in Operation Citadel ran out of momentum, even though there had been some objectives reached. Hitler refused to call off the operation, which could have saved many of the units. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Tunny refueled at Johnston Island, United States. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Flying Fish sank a Japanese sailing vessel with gunfire in the Western Pacific. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 19th Bomb Squadron (flying B-25 and B-26 aircraft) of USAAF 22nd Bomb Group was transferred to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 Admiral William Halsey issued a directive for an attack in the Bougainville area in the Solomon Islands; Lieutenant General Alexander Vandegrift was to be the head of the invasion force. Elsewhere, the 1st Marine War Dog Platoon arrived in the theater in preparation of the Bougainville operations with the 2nd Marine Raider Regiment. At New Georgia, the US airfield at Segi Point was now fully operational. After sundown, US cruisers and destroyers bombarded Japanese positions at Munda, New Georgia. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for armed merchant cruiser Aikoku at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Hoe arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her first war patrol. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 British 8th Army captured Syracuse, Sicily, Italy and its useful harbour. Also on Sicily, General Paul Conrath's Hermann Göring Panzer Division overran the American outposts at Ponte Dirillo and were only prevented from breaking through the Allied lines by an attack by James Gavin's paratroopers from the rear. Elsewhere, Conrath personally led a column which assaulted the weakly held Piano Lupo, to get within 2,000 yards of the beach before being stopped by the defenders. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 Omar Bradley arrived at Sicily, Italy while recovering from a recent hemorrhoidectomy. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 HMS Howe bombarded Trapani and Favignana, Sicily, Italy. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 Submarine Flier was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States. sponsored by the wife of A. S. Pierce. 
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11 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo began a period of trials and training off California, United States. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 US VII Corps met resistance attacking toward Saint-Lô, France. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 The last 35,000 men of German 4.Armee surrendered to Soviet troops at Minsk, Byelorussia. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg was summoned to see Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden, Germany regarding the situation of the Home Army. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 Japanese 18th Army under Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi launched a counterattack in the Aitape-New Hollandia area in New Guinea, placing pressure on American troops but sustaining heavy casualties. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 The full strength of Soviet 115th Corps was now located on the northern bank of the Vuoksi River in Finland. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho entered the drydocks at Kure, Japan. 
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11 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 More than 2,100 heavy bombers of the US 8th Air Force began redeployment from England, United Kingdom to the United States for onward movement to the Pacific Theatre. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed for her eighth and final war patrol. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Brill damaged a Japanese transport in the Gulf of Thailand, hitting her with 1 of 11 torpedoes fired. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 86 departed. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 I-13 departed Mutsu, Japan. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union Naotake Sato failed to convince Vyacheslav Molotov to engage their two nations in a formal peace treaty. 
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11 Jul 1945 WW2 US B-24 bombers based in the Philippine Islands struck Shinchiku Airfield (now Hsinchu), Taiwan. 
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11 Jul 1946 WW2 Escort carrier Makin Island was stricken from the US Naval Register. 
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11 Jul 1952 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Teach me, LordJesus,... not to be hungering for the "strange and peculiar" when the common, ordinary, andregular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.'
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11 Jul 1955 RELIGIOUS American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer observed in a letter: 'No priceis too high to have a free conscience before God.'
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11 Jul 1967 RELIGIOUS The Vatican reported that Albania had closed its last Roman Catholic church.(Albania is a tiny Balkan country with an area only the size of Maryland.
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