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History on the 14th of July

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14 Jul 1773 RELIGIOUS The first annual conference of the Methodist Church in America convened at St.George's Church in Philadelphia, PA.
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14 Jul 1775 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The knowledgeof God cannot be attained by studious discussion on our parts; it must be by revelation onHis part.'
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14 Jul 1800 RELIGIOUS Birth of Anglican clergyman Matthew Bridges. In 1848 he converted to Catholicism,under the influence of the Oxford Movement in England. He is remembered today for authoringthe hymn, 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.'
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14 Jul 1833 RELIGIOUS Anglican clergyman John Keble preached his famous sermon on national religiousapostasy. It marked the beginning of the Oxford Movement, which sought to purify andrevitalize the Church of England.
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14 Jul 1892 RELIGIOUS The Baptist Young People's Union held its first national convention in Detroit.The founding of the BYP Union was inspired by the earlier work of Francis E. Clark, aCongregational pastor who founded the first 'modern' youth fellowship in 1881.
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14 Jul 1911 WW2 Yingrui was launched in Barrow-in-Furness, England, Unite Kingdom. 
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14 Jul 1913 WW2 Gerald Ford was born. 
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14 Jul 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of Bazentin Ridge
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14 Jul 1918 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was born in Salzburg, Austria. 
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14 Jul 1925 WW2 Prince Hironobu graduated from the Japanese Navy Academy. 
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14 Jul 1927 WW2 The city of Shanghai was given the status of a municipality directly controlled by the Chinese central government. 
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14 Jul 1933 WW2 The Nazi Party was officially declared the only legal political party in Germany. 
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14 Jul 1933 WW2 Germany passed laws that allowed revocation of citizenship for naturalized Jews. 
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14 Jul 1933 WW2 The constitution of the new unified Reich church was passed into law thus giving the National Socialists control over the German church. 
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14 Jul 1933 WW2 The idea of regular plebiscites was introduced into German law. Hitler explained this action in a speech as to ensure that the acts of the new government ultimately received their "lawful legalization" from the Volk in a more direct form than the medium of parliamentary elections permitted, ie. he was in effect by-passing the Reichstag. 
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14 Jul 1936 WW2 Hugh Dowding was appointed the first commander-in-chief of the British RAF Fighter Command. In this role, he was also in charge of the Anti-Aircraft Command, the Balloon Command, and the Observer Corps. 
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14 Jul 1936 WW2 The H6K flying boat took its first flight. 
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14 Jul 1936 WW2 RAF Fighter Command's Headquarters moved from RAF Uxbridge to Bentley Priory in England, United Kingdom. 
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14 Jul 1938 WW2 Léon Geismar was named the acting Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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14 Jul 1938 WW2 Japanese diplomats in Moscow, Russia demanded that Russian troops be removed from Bezymyannaya (Shachaofeng) and Zaozernaya (Changkufeng), west of Lake Khasan and Vladivostok in a contested region on the northeastern Chinese border. The Soviets rejected Japanese demands, citing Japanese violation of the First Convention of Peking of 1860 by occupying Chinese territory. 
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14 Jul 1939 WW2 Royal Romanian Air Force began operating the German-built He 112 fighters. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 Battleship Bismarck departed the drydock after completing the propeller and MES magnetic system installation. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 German aircraft attacked the Allied convoys in the English Channel, sinking or damaging only 5 ships despite the large number of aircraft sent. German bombers also attacked RAF airfield at Manston in Kent in southern England, United Kingdom and a destroyer in Swanage Harbor, Dorset, causing little damage. BBC reporter Charles Gardner provided the first eyewitness radio report of the Battle of Britain as he watched German aircraft attacking a convoy in the English Channel. Meanwhile, the British Royal Air Force leadership directed its pilots to ignore German aircraft with Red Cross markings, as such aircraft were suspected of conducting military reconnaissance missions in the English Channel. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 Vichy French bombers attacked Gibraltar, causing no damage. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 British RAF Bomber Command launched raids against two Luftwaffe bases in Germany, with 9 Whitley bombers of No. 102 Squadron hitting Paderborn and 12 Whitley bombers of No. 10 Squadron and No. 51 Squadron hitting Diepholz. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank British ship Gracefield 500 miles off the coast of Brazil. The crew of 36 was taken prisoner. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-A sank Norwegian tanker Sarita 100 miles west of Cape Verde at 1145 hours. The entire crew of 29 survived and was rescued by British ship Dunstan on 18 Jul. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-52 sank Greek ship Thetis A. off Brest, France at 1818 hours. 9 were killed and 20 survived. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 The British commando raid on Guernsey was met with little result. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 Free French leader Charles de Gaulle celebrated Bastille Day at the Cenotaph in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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14 Jul 1940 WW2 British armed merchant cruiser HMS Esperance Bay departed Plymouth, England, United Kingdom at 1250 hours with £10,000,000 in gold. She was intercepted and bombed by German aircraft 100 miles west of the port, killing 7, but she was able to return to Plymouth without losing her cargo. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 Observing the German forces reaching the River Luga thus expecting a rapid victory in northern Russia., Hitler ordered the arms industry to switch production from guns and tanks to aircraft and submarines. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 French High Commissioner for Syria and the Lebanon signed the Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre at Acre, British Mandate of Palestine, surrendering his command to the British. In exchange, he received the British agreement for the French soldiers to retain their personal arms and full honors. The agreement contained no reference to the Free French. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 Captain Robert Henry English, Jr. was named the commanding officer of USS Helena, relieving Captain Max Burke DeMott. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel appeared on the cover of the American news publication Time Magazine. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 Amon Göth was promoted to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 British Blenheim bombers of No. 2 Group attacked Le Havre, France, damaging dock facilities at a cost of two bombers shot down by German fighters. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 The keel of submarine Simoom was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 The British anti-submarine trawler HMS Quadrille was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 German Ju 88 bombers based in Crete, Greece attacked Suez, Egypt, damaging harbor facilities and ships in port. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 The keel of submarine Herring was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima informed German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that, in regards to the 10 Jul 1941 request for Japan to attack Vladivostok, Russia, Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka was in agreement with the proposal but the Japanese cabinet in general did not agree with such a suggestion. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter. 
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14 Jul 1941 WW2 Katyusha rocket launchers were used in combat for the first time at Rudnya, Smolensk, Russia. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Yamato remained in Battleship Division 1 while two others transferred to Battleship Division 2. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Nagato was transferred to Combined Fleet Battleship Division 2. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Mutsu was transferred to Combined Fleet Battleship Division 2. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Cruiser Köln began a minelaying operation in the North Sea. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of Japanese Navy Battleship Division 11. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Charles de Gaulle renamed the Free French to the Fighting French. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Flint and mooring vessel HMS Moorfly were launched. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 British sloop HMS Lulworth forced Italian submarine Pietro Calvi to surface south of the Azores islands with depth charges and proceeded to damage her with gunfire. The Italian crew scuttled the submarine. Elsewhere, German submarine U-562 fired four torpedoes at a small Allied convoy at the distance of 2,800 meters, but all torpedoes missed; she would continue to follow the convoy and conduct further attacks on the next day. In the North Sea, the survivors of American freighter Carlton, sunk on 5 Jul 1942, was discovered by German submarine U-376; he survivors refused German medical assistance, accepting only rations, blankets, and cigarettes. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 For the assassination of German Gestapo chief SS Major Helm, the Germans killed 700 people in reprisal in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-7 sank US freighter Arcata east of Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, and proceeded to machine gun survivors in lifeboats; despite the attacks, 25 of the 29 aboard survived. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to abandon major offensive operations in the Pacific Theater and instead direct planning efforts on the invasion of North Africa. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of destroyer Bearss was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The keel of destroyer escort Pope was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy after Brazilian ships were sunk by German submarines over the past several days. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The Marine Corps Air Station, Edenton, North Carolina, United States was designed the Marine Corps Glider Base, and it was placed under the control of the US Navy 5th Naval District. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The US Army Air Force established the China Air Task Force with Claire Chennault in command; it was to be a part of the 10th Air Force. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet was reorganized to contain four air flotillas, a destroyer division, and 3 transports. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the 3rd Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 10 of the 3rd Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 In Operation Pinpoint, HMS Eagle departed Gibraltar to deliver 32 Spitfire fighters to Malta; she was escorted by cruiser HMS Cairo, cruiser HMS Charybdis, and five destroyers. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the Third Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Italian submarine Calvi and German submarine U-130 attacked Allied convoy SL 115 at 2230 hours 575 miles west of Tenerife, Canary Islands; British sloop HMS Lulworth attacked Calvi and forced her crew to scuttle the submarine (42 were killed in the action, 35 survived). 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 German patrol boats damaged Soviet submarine ShCh-317 in the "Nashorn" minefield in the Baltic Sea; Finnish minelayer Ruotsinsalmi and patrol boat VMV-6 followed the oil slick from ShCh-317 and sank the damaged submarine with depth charges, killing all 38 aboard. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp began. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-35 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her third war patrol. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Submarine S-7 attacked a Swedish convoy north of Kalmar Strait in the Baltic Sea; both torpedoes missed. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Some German Jews were deported from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia to Minsk, Byelorussia and other locations in Eastern Europe. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The First Battle of Ruweisat Ridge began at 2300 hours, under cover of darkness. It began well with the Indian (5th Brigade) and New Zealand infantry (4th Brigade and 5th Brigade) overrunning two Italian divisions, but unbeknown to them had inadvertently bypassed a group of German tanks as well as a few German infantry positions. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Reinhard Gehlen and Heinz Herre presented to General Franz Halder intelligence on the Soviet difficulty in recruitment and the redirection of Lend-Lease war goods to Egypt. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 12 Italian frogmen attacked Gibraltar harbor in Operation GG1; they damaged four cargo ships. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 The Intelligence Center of Pacific Ocean Areas of the US Navy Pacific Fleet based in Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii officially began its operations; its first chief, in a temporary capacity, was Joseph Rochefort. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Shokaku was reassigned to Striking Force, 3rd Fleet, Carrier Division 1. In Hashirajima-Kure area in Japan. 
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14 Jul 1942 WW2 Nachi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan for refitting. She was assigned to Cruiser Division 21 of the 5th Fleet. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Before dawn, Allied Northwest African Strategic Air Force Wellington bombers attacked Palermo and Messina in Sicily, Italy while C-47 Skytrain transports dropped British airborne troops at the Simeto River at Primosole Bridge; the paratroopers attempted to establish a bridgehead, but they faced stiff opposition. During the day, British and American aircraft attacked Messina, Marsala, Enna, Palermo, Randazzo, Licata, and Lentini; in indirect support, American aircraft struck Naples on mainland Italy. Elsewhere in Sicily, US troops captured Niscemi and Biscari airfield while other British troops captured Vizzini. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The Soviet Voronezh Front joined in the offensive against German 4.Panzer Armee and Armeeabteilung Kempf south of Kursk, Russia. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Gar reported damaging a Japanese ship in daylight with her deck gun. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of British frigate Redmill was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 British frigate Anguilla was launched. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 British frigate HMS Usk and destroyer HMS Scourge were commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keels of German submarines U-1209 and U-1210 were laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-429 was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-549 was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-675 was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 At Krasnodar in southern Russia, the Soviets began a trial of 11 Germans accused of the murder of 7,000 civilians by gas vans, shootings, and hangings. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 German submarine U-178 attacked transport ship Robert Bacon with torpedoes in the Indian Ocean 35 miles off the Mozambique Light at 0236 hours. After the initial damage was brought under control, 52 survivors began a relatively orderly evacuation of the ship with the 3 surviving lifeboats and 3 surviving rafts. At 0314 and then again at 0443, U-178 fired additional torpedoes at the burning wreck, sinking her. U-178 would surface to point to the survivors toward land before departing. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 American troops occupied the Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu) and prepared for the contruction of airfields. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Pomfret was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Plaice was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer escort USS Frederick C. Davis was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated US$30,000 for the George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri, United States. This future monument would be the first national monument dedicated to an African-American and the first to a non-president. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Corvette Cobourg was launched at Midland, Ontario, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Frigate Stormont was launched at Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Aircraft from carrier USS Santee sank German submarine U-160 south of the Azores islands. Off Venezuela, German submarine U-572 sank sailing ship Harvard. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell departed China for India. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The Marine Corps Glider Base at Edenton, North Carolina, United States, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Zebulon C. Hopkins, was redesignated a USMC air station. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The US-controlled Woodlark Airfield in the Trobriand Islands east of New Guinea was declared operational. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson relieved Rear Admiral Richmond R. Turner as the commanding officer of the III Amphibious Force. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer USS Monaghan bombarded Japanese positions at Gertrude Cove, Kiska, US Territory of Alaska unopposed, firing 100 127mm rounds. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 US Army Major General Oscar W. Griswold became the commanding officer of the command of the New Georgia Occupation Force, relieving US Army Major General John H. Hester. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 US Marine tanks, units of US Army 9th Defense Battalion, and units of US Army 103rd Infantry Battalion arrived at Laiana Beach, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Takuichi Ohmura stepped down as the President of the South Manchuria Railway; he was succeeded by Naoto Kohiyama. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 USAAF Eighth Bomber Command attacked three targets in France, with 111 B-17 bombers and 5 YB-40 bombers launched against aircraft factories at Villacoublay (3 B-17 bombers lost), 64 B-17 bombers launched against Glisy Airfield at Amiens (1 B-17 bomber lost), and 84 B-17 bombers launched against LeBourget Airfield at Paris (4 B-17 bombers lost). 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her third war patrol. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: More of Air Group 9 on board. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 The keel of Sterlet was laid down at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, United States. 
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14 Jul 1943 WW2 Two of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began to be towed from Morgan City, Louisiana, United States for the South Pacific. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Pinsk, Byelorussia was captured by the Soviet forces. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 British rescue tug HMS Turmoil was launched. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Submarine HMS Selene was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Destroyer HMS Wrangler was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The minesweeping of the western section of Cherbourg harbour in France was completed. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 From the North Sea, British carrier task force under Admiral Moore unsuccessfully attacked German battleship Tirpitz in Kaafiord, Norway. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 German SS member Heinrich Boere took part in Operation Silbertanne during which 54 civilians were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Dutch Nazi leaders by Dutch resistance fighters. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-2334 was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of German submarine U-3506 was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet ambassador to Sweden Alexandra Kollontai announced that the Soviet Union was interested in peace discussions with Finland without any mention of the unconditional surrender that the Soviets had previously demanded. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 US bombers attacked the oil refineries at Budapest and Petfurdo, Hungary and the rail marshaling yard at Mantua, Italy, while in Italy US fighters and fighter-bombers attacked trains north of La Spazia and the airfield at Ghedi. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Nautilus delivered two men and 30 tons of supplies at Lagoma, Leyte, Philippine Islands. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The Japanese government announced the conscription of females between the ages of 12 and 40 for war-related work. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 In the Mariana Islands, US Seventh Air Force P-47 Thunderbolt fighters based on Saipan again struck Tinian Island. At Guam, US battleships joined in on the pre-invasion bombardment while transport USS Dickerson delivered US Navy underwater demolition specialists to survey landing beaches on the island. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Destroyer USS William C. Miller sank Japanese submarine I-6 off Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Corvette HMCS Petrolia was commissioned into service. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 German submarine U-415 struck a mine and sank off Brest, France at 0915 hours. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of destroyer Gurke was laid down. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Claus von Stauffenberg was summoned to see Adolf Hitler in Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany on the following day. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 In northern Burma, the Morris Force of the Chindits was now down to three platoons in strength. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Puffer departed Fremantle, Australia for her fifth war patrol. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 The US Eighth Air Force based in Britain flew several missions over France, with 319 B-17 bombers dropping 3,700 containers to supply Allied forces fighting in southern France, 131 B-24 bombers attacking Montdidier and Peronne airfields, and 94 P-38 fighter-bombers attacking targets near Paris (1 P-38 aircraft lost). Meanwhile, other Allied aircraft attacked targets in the French railway system in or near Bourth, Merey, Periers, Chateaudun, and other locations; some of these attacks were conducted using Oboe, a British aerial blind bombing targeting technology. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Prisoners in the Santé prison in Paris, France revolted, starting a fire in the prison compound. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Hitler departed his Berghof residence Berchtesgaden, Germany, never to return there again. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Iwo Jima, Chichi Jima, and Haha Jima were the targets of land-based aircraft for the first time as US Navy Bombing Squadron 109 PB4Y Liberator bombers based at Isley Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands dropped bombed on their airfields. In the United States, USAAF chief General Hap Arnold warned the Joint Planning Staff about the new Japanese Ki-84 fighters. As a precaution, he recommended seizing Iwo Jima to provide emergency airfields for bombers that might be damaged by new Japanese fighters such as the Ki-84. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Alabama, flagship of Rear Admiral E. W. Hanson, departed Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet troops under Rodion Malinovsky captured Iasi, Romania. 
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14 Jul 1944 WW2 US Army ship FS-390 was commissioned into service at Los Angeles, California, United States under the command of US Coast Guard Lieutenant G. E. Oliver. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Trepang rescued down US Navy airman Lieutenant (junior grade) Bill Kingston from the water. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 The French celebrated Bastille Day for the first time since 1940. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 The US Seventh Air Force was assigned under the Far East Air Forces. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish sank Japanese submarine I-351 in the South China Sea. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer HMCS St. Francis, while under tow to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sank off Sagonnet Point, Rhode Island, United States after colliding with transport Winding Gulf. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Corvettes HMCS Chilliwack and Fredericton were decommissioned at Sorel, Quebec, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Corvette HMCS Fergus was decommissioned at Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Escort carrier Rabaul was launched. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer USS Glennon was launched. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 US carrier aircraft struck the airfield at Misawa, Aomori in northern Japan, destroying the G4M bombers that were assigned to partake the planned Operation Ken, which sought to deliver 300 suicide commandos to the Mariana Islands. The mission was launched by the US Navy with knowledge of Operation Ken. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Missouri escorted carriers while the aircraft struck Japan. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho received orders to transit the Shimonoseki Strait for Moji, Japan, but the order was repeatedly delayed due to US air attacks. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 Eisenhower dissolved the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force at Königssee, Thüringen, Germany. 
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14 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts and escorting destroyers bombarded Kamaishi, Honshu, Japan; the primary target was the Kamaishi Works of the Japan Iron Company, but several destroyers shells overshot the target and hit the town, killing many civilians; battleship shells were more accurate, destroying about 65% of the industrial complex, but they also killed many civilians; this was the first time the Japanese home islands were subjected to naval bombardment. To the north, the sinking of 6 warships and 37 steamers on the ferry route between Honshu and Hokkaido effectively cut off the latter from the rest of the home islands. At Kure, aircraft of US Navy TF 38 damaged carrier Amagi, carrier Katsuragi, and battleship Haruna. Far to the south, the USAAF XXI Bomber Command canceled a long-range P-51 raid from Iwo Jima to attack Meiji and Kagamigahara near Nagoya due to poor weather. 
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14 Jul 1946 WW2 Arthur Greiser passed away. 
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14 Jul 1948 WW2 US General John Joseph Pershing died at the age of 88, honoured by most of the European nations as well as his own. His body rests at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. 
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14 Jul 1949 WW2 The Soviet Union successfully detonated an atomic bomb. 
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