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History on the 22nd of July

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22 Jul 1620 RELIGIOUS A small congregation of English Separatists, led by John Robinson, began theiremigration to the New World. Today, this historic group of religious refugees has come tobe known as the 'Pilgrims.'
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22 Jul 1836 RELIGIOUS Birth of Emily E. S. Elliott, Anglican missions supporter and hymnwriter. Nieceof Charlotte Elliott (who wrote the hymn 'Just As I Am'), Emily penned the words to the hymn'Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne.'
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22 Jul 1847 RELIGIOUS The first large company of Mormon immigrants entered the Salt Lake Valley, in whatwas still Mexican territory. Soon after, Mormon leader Brigham Young founded Salt Lake City,Utah.
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22 Jul 1865 RELIGIOUS Birth of Peter P. Bilhorn, sacred composer. He produced over 1,400 hymns in hislife, including 'I Will Sing the Wondrous Story' and 'Sweet Peace, The Gift of God's Love.'
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22 Jul 1916 WW2 Boris Shaposhnikov was awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd Class with Swords and Bow. 
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22 Jul 1918 WW2 Danae was commissioned into service. 
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22 Jul 1921 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Callao, Peru to observe the Peruvian independence celebrations. 
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22 Jul 1926 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was awarded Order of the Sacred Treasure 2nd Class. 
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22 Jul 1933 WW2 HMS Hermes arrived at Sheerness in Kent, England, United Kingdom. 
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22 Jul 1934 WW2 The outlaw, John Dillinger, was slain in a murderous FBI ambush outside a cinema in Chicago, Illinois, United States. 
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22 Jul 1936 WW2 A German businessman from Spanish Morocco met Adolf Hitler in Bayreuth, Germany and handed the German leader a letter from Francisco Franco requesting German resistance in the Spanish Civil War. Meanwhile, Franco's Nationalist forces captured Alto de Leon to the north-west of Madrid, Spain. 
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22 Jul 1936 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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22 Jul 1936 WW2 The keel of submarine Skipjack was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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22 Jul 1939 WW2 Soviet newspapers announced that the Soviet Union and Germany had resumed trade agreement talks. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Clyde fired 6 torpedoes at another British submarine HMS Truant, off Fejeosen, Norway in an episode of mis-identification. All torpedoes missed their target. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was created by the United Kingdom to foment and support resistance in occupied Europe. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Halifax rejected Hitler's proposal for peace of 19 Jul 1940. "No one here wants the war to go on for a day longer than is necessary. But we shall not stop fighting until freedom, for ourselves and others, is secure." This was a departure from his previous stance, urging Churchill to negotiate a peace with Germany. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru departed Yokohama for Seattle. Aboard were 82 Jewish refugees originally from Germany. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 Hideki Tojo was appointed the Army Minister in Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe's new cabinet. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 USS Phoenix arrived at Callao, Peru. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 Prince Fumimaro Konoe became the 38th Prime Minister of Japan. This was his second time in this office. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 Wolfgang Falck received a call from Hermann Göring, who thanked him for the efforts to create an effective nightfighting unit within the Luftwaffe. 
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22 Jul 1940 WW2 During the day, German Luftwaffe flew only reconnaissance missions over the English Channel, launching no attacks despite of the good weather; British Hurricane fighters of No. 145 Squadron shot down a lone Do 17 bomber off Selsey Bill, West Sussex in southern England, United Kingdom. After sundown, many small German raids bombed coastal towns or lay naval mines off the coast; one Do 17 bomber was shot down during the night. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 Vichy France enacted a law that required Jews to register their businesses, which in effect excluded all Jews from commerce and industry. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 Remy Van Lierde arrived in Britain. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 Adolf Hitler sent an armored train equipped with anti-aircraft weapons to Benito Mussolini as a birthday present. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 Italian Count Galeazzo Ciano noted in his diary that Benito Mussolini had staged a mock air raid over Rome, Italy on this date, with anti-aircraft positions firing. The purpose of this production was to give the citizens the impression that a serious war was going on. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 The last Japanese ship departed the Panama Canal Zone. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 In captivity at the Lefortovo Prison in Moscow, Russia, General Dimitry Pavlov explained that out of the 600 artillery fortifications on the western border, only 169 of them actually had guns inside, and other similar facts explained why he could not counterattack the German forces as Joseph Stalin had ordered. Regardless, he was found guilty and was executed before the end of the day. His rank was stripped and his properties were confiscated by the state. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 The Soviet NKGB was merged into the NKVD. 
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22 Jul 1941 WW2 For the second consecutive night, German bombers attacked Moscow, Russia. Of the 115 bombers dispatched, two failed to returned, one of which was a pathfinder aircraft while the other served in the traditional bomber role. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 Germans who attempted to liquidate the Nieswiez ghetto in western Byelorussia encountered armed resistance. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 Two transports with the final elements of the US 1st Marine Division departed from Pearl Harbor for New Zealand aboard 12 ships. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 In the western desert in Egypt, Australian Private Arthur Gurney won a posthumous Victoria Cross for taking two enemy positions despite being blown up by a grenade. During an attack on a third position he was cut down and killed. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 General der Artillerie Robert Martinek succeeded August Krakau as the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-505 sank Colombian sail boat Urious with her deck gun 100 miles east of Nicaragua at 1335 hours; 13 were killed. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-582 sank US ship Honolulan 500 miles west of Freetown, British West Africa at 2012 hours; all 39 aboard survived. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-11 torpedoed US Liberty Ship William Dawes 185 south of Sydney, Australia 5 miles from the coast line at 0530 hours, killing 5; William Dawes would finally sink at 1630 hours along with her full cargo of military vehicles and explosives. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-77 sank Greek sailboat Vassiliki with her deck gun in the eastern Mediterranean Sea at 0453 hours; all aboard survived. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 Deportation of Belgian Jews to Auschwitz Concentration Camp began. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 American B-17, B-25, and B-26 bombers attacked Japanese shipping off Buna, New Guinea, damaging transport Ayatosan Maru and killing 16 men aboard destroyer Uzuki. After dark, Australian Lieutenant John Chalk led a small contingent of natives in small engagements with Japanese soldiers before falling back. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Surabaya, Java. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 German tanks counterattacked the positions gained by the latest Allied offensive in Egypt, inflicting heavy losses among New Zealand troops. By the time the British 23rd Armoured Brigade arrived, it was bogged down by a minefield as it engaged in battle with German tanks; when the engagement ended, the brigade was practically wiped out. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 The Japanese Imperial General Headquarters agreed to the study of a follow-up to the conquest of Burma with an invasion of Assam, India to be called Operation 21. The plan involved two divisions moving through the Hukawng valley in northern Burma, two taking Imphal, and a fifth capturing Chittagong. The plan was dropped, however, after opposition from Generals Renya Mutaguchi (18th Division), Yanagida Motozo (33rd Division) and Shojiro Iidas (55th Division). 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 Jews of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland were deported to Belzec and Treblinka Concentration Camps; Treblinka had just been opened on this date. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 German 6th Army reached the great bend in the Don River near Stalingrad, Russia. 
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22 Jul 1942 WW2 German 1st Panzer Army and 17th Army attacked Rostov-on-Don, Russia; among the attacking division was the Czechoslovakian Mobile Slovak Division. 
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22 Jul 1943 WW2 US 2nd Armored Division captured Palermo, Sicily. 
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22 Jul 1943 WW2 Canfield was commissioned into service. 
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22 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Skipjack damaged a Japanese transport south of Japan, hitting her with one of four torpedoes fired. 
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22 Jul 1943 WW2 I-168 arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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22 Jul 1943 WW2 Lockheed and USAAF completed a three day evaluation of a full scale mock up of a XP-80 jet fighter. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 In Ukraine, the Brody Pocket was eliminated; Soviet forces captured 17,000 German prisoners of war. To the north, Soviet units captured Panevezys, Lithuania. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 Kuniaki Koiso was named the 41st Prime Minister of Japan. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 Rear Admiral D. B. Beary continued his inspection of USS Astoria at Virginia, United States. Later in the day, USS Astoria conducted a battle problem with USS Decatur and target ship Daniel A. Joy. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 British minesweeper HMS Chamois struck a mine in Baie de Seine north of Normandie, France and was damaged. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Cero fired six torpedoes at a Japanese transport north of Dutch New Guinea; all torpedoes missed. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 American aircraft raided Japanese positions in Shanghai, China. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 The German Gestapo arrested the head of German intelligence unit Abwehr I Colonel Georg Hansen. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 In Italy, American troops entered the outskirts of Pisa while troops of from both the 8th and 5th armies advanced to within 15 miles of Florence; the towns of Castelfiorentino and Tavernelle were occupied and Polish troops in the Adriatic area pressed northwards from Ancona. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Wasp set sail for the Caroline Islands. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga began her first overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Her flight deck was to be reconfigured to add 11 feet forward and 7 feet aft, and her anti-aircraft directors were to be repositioned. 
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22 Jul 1944 WW2 The keel of submarine Mero was laid down by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Caiman departed Fremantle, Australia for her fourth war patrol. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 The first of American troops with combat experience in Europe arrived in the Philippine Islands. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 23 American B-29 bombers based in Iwo Jima, Japan mined the Korean coast. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun in the East China Sea. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Pompon arrived at Guam, Mariana Islands, ending her ninth and final war patrol. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 I-400 arrived at Mutsu, Japan. 
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22 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 arrived at Mutsu, Japan. 
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22 Jul 1946 WW2 Zionist terrorist Menachem Begin blew up the British headquarters in Palestine. 
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22 Jul 1948 WW2 A referendum in Newfoundland showed 52% of the population in favor of a union with Canada. 
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22 Jul 1981 RELIGIOUS Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment for hisattempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in May of this year.
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