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History on the 23rd of July

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23 Jul 1779 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I findit of more consequence to a preacher to know his Bible well, than all the languages or booksin the world -- for he is not to preach these, but the Word of God.'
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23 Jul 1846 RELIGIOUS Birth of William R. Featherstone, Canadian Methodist hymnwriter. He penned thewords to 'My Jesus, I Love Thee' before age 16.
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23 Jul 1860 RELIGIOUS Birth of William W. McConnell, missions pioneer. In 1891, he became the firstmissionary sent out by the Central American Mission, after its founding in 1890.
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23 Jul 1914 WW2 Austria delivered an ultimatum to Serbia which the Serbian government, desperate for peace, accepted. 
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23 Jul 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of Pozieres Ridge
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23 Jul 1918 WW2 Settsu was assigned to Battleship Division 1 of the First Fleet. 
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23 Jul 1918 RELIGIOUS Death of Joseph H. Gilmore, 84, American Baptist clergyman. He is remembered todayprimarily for the hymn, 'He Leadeth Me,' which he wrote at the age of 28.
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23 Jul 1920 WW2 A French army under Henri Gourmand defeated the army of King Faisal's Independent Kingdom of Syria at Maysalun Pass about 12 miles west of Damascus. 
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23 Jul 1923 WW2 Gustav Stresemann, the chairman of the Deutsche People's Party, wrote to Crown Prince Wilhelm suggesting that Germany's priority should be the removal of foreign occupation. Within a month Stresemann would be appointed as the new Chancellor. 
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23 Jul 1931 WW2 Song Ziwen survived an assassination attempt at the Shanghai North Railway Station in Shanghai, China. 
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23 Jul 1934 WW2 The keel of ShCh-317 was laid down at Shipyard 194 named after A. Marti in Leningrad, Russia. 
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23 Jul 1936 WW2 The Committee of National Defence, the Spanish Nationalist Government, met for the first time in Burgos. 
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23 Jul 1936 WW2 Tucker was commissioned into service. 
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23 Jul 1936 WW2 ShCh-313 was commissioned into service. 
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23 Jul 1938 WW2 The Namita Detachment of the Japanese 11th Army Group landed east of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. 
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23 Jul 1939 WW2 Alerted that Germany and the Soviet Union were engaged in talks once again, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain began preparations to engage with the Soviets as well. 
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23 Jul 1939 WW2 Japanese artillery bombarded Soviet positions at the Kawatama Bridge in Mongolia Area of China while infantry units launched small scale attacks. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 The British Secretary of War announced that 1,300,000-strong Local Defence Volunteers was to be renamed the Home Guard. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood announced the third War Budget, rise in various taxes, and the estimation that war expenditure would be about £3,470,000,000 in the following next year. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 8,077 Canadian troops bound for Britain departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia on troopships Batory, Antonia, Monarch Of Bermuda, Sobieski, Duchess Of York, and Samaria, escorted by Canadian destroyers HMCS Assiniboine and HMCS Saguenay and British cruiser HMS Emerald. The convoy would arrive safely in Scotland on 1 Aug 1940. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 The British third war budget raised Income Tax to 8 shillings and 6 pence per pound. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 German aircraft conducted raids on coastal cities in Britain and deployed naval mines overnight. A German Do 17 bomber of 1/KF1Gr 606 attacked British submarines HMS Narwhal and HMS Truant 125 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland, sinking the former. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 The British Minister of State for Air Sir Archibald Sinclair reported that the British bomber fleet was capable of dropping 65-70 tons of bombs on Berlin every night for one week. It was a goal to increase that number of 200 tons in the near future. 
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23 Jul 1940 WW2 Sydney Camm, Chief Designer at Hawker aviation, managed to get the Typhoon and Tornado programmes reinstated with reduced priority after the British Air Ministry had decided to throw all resources at the manufacture and repair of existing types. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 German troops captured Brest-Litovsk, Byelorussia after a month-long siege. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 A German Hudson aircraft, while on convoy escort duty, shot down a German aircraft 107 miles west-southwest of Achill Head, Achill Island, Ireland; the German crew was later rescued and interrogated. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 Scharnhorst was detected by British RAF Coastal Command aircraft at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France by the results of a photo reconnaissance flight at 0915 hours. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 HMS Manchester suffered an aerial torpedo hit on the port quarter in the Mediterranean Sea while escorting a convoy for Malta. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 Repair ship Akashi operated off Indochina. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 Douglas Bader shot down a German Bf 109 aircraft. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 A British No. 44 Squadron Hampden bomber, returning from to Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom from a minelaying sortie, crashed into the staff residence of Lincoln Girls High School on Lindum Hill in the nearby city of Lincoln. The crew of four were all killed immediately as was the senior French mistress who died trying to escape from the burning building. Four other members of staff were injured and exploding ammunition peppered the surrounding area, seriously hampering the work of the fire and rescue teams. 
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23 Jul 1941 WW2 In Washington DC, United States, Senator Wendell Willkie (the defeated Republican candidate at the 1940 Presidential election) urged America to give unlimited aid to Britain. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 General Maximilian von Weichs was appointed to command Armeegruppe B, relieving General Fedor von Bock. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Adam Czerniaków passed away. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Indian troops launched an attack on Deir el Shein near El Alamein, Egypt in failure. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Martin Bormann relayed Adolf Hitler's orders to Alfred Rosenberg, noting that the Slavic population in occupied Eastern Europe were to be nothing more than laborers of Germany, thus they did not need to be fed more food than absolutely necessary, and they were not to be educated. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Italian transport Rosolino Pilo, escorted by two destroyers and two smaller vessels, safely arrived at Benghazi, Libya after a three-day trip from Brindisi, Italy. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-129 sank US ship Onondaga 5 miles north of Cayo Guillermo, Cuba at 2222 hours; 20 were killed, 14 survived. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-752 sank British ship Garmula 200 miles southwest of Freetown, British West Africa; 21 were killed, 67 survived. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Douglas MacArthur arrived at Brisbane, Australia. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa of the Japanese 8th Fleet based at Rabaul, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago repeated his 21 Jul 1942 request for more destroyers. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese troops engaged troops of the Papuan Infantry Battalion at Awala, Australian Papua on the Kokoda Trail. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: First movies for all personnel, in mess hall. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Treblinka Concentration Camp in Poland began mass extermination by gassing; 700,000 would be killed within the following one year. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Führer Directive Number 45 was issued, ordering Operation Brunswick, the capture of the Caucasus region; Armeegruppe A would move through Maikop and Grozny to the Black Sea and Armeegruppe B would take Stalingrad on the drive to Astrakhan. Meanwhile, in southern Russia, German 13th Panzer Division, German 22nd Panzer Division, and Czechoslovakian Mobile Slovak Division captured the Kommolomny Bridge over the Don River at Rostov-on-Don. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was named a representative of the Soviet Stavka at Stalingrad, Russia. 
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23 Jul 1942 WW2 The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) in Washington DC, United States, fearful that the completion of the Japanese airfield on Guadacanal in the Solomon Islands might signal a renewed enemy advance in the South Pacific that could threaten US aid to New Zealand and Australia, agreed to Marine deployments to secure the lines of communication (Operation Watchtower). 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 German leader Fritz Sauckel ordered improvements in the living conditions for Eastern European workers in Germany who performed their functions well. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 US Navy PBM Mariner aircraft attacked a German submarine in the Caribbean Sea, possibly U-759. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 Charles J. Badger was commissioned into service. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze led a troop transport run to Kolombangara, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Parachute building turned over to station. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 Italian Air Force established plans to re-establish the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" for possible use as guerrilla fighters in Sicily, Italy, but the plans would not come to fruition. 
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23 Jul 1943 WW2 Soviet forces launched the Belgorod-Bogodukhov Offensive Operation toward Belgorod, Russia. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 Hitler required that the Wehrmacht use the Hitler Gruß, the Nazi salute, in the aftermath of July Plot. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet troops captured Pskov, Byelorussia. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 After dark, a large group of British bombers attacked Kiel, Germany; the attack lasted through midnight into the next date. The German fighters summoned to intercept went after the decoy force rather than the main force. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Astoria arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 In response to the American request for Chiang Kaishek to accept communist forces in his army, Chiang expressed that he would accept the request only if the Nationalist reserve forces would be off-limits to Joseph Stilwell, and if American Lend-Lease supplies would be controlled by Chiang. This counteroffer was to be rejected in the following month. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 The 1st Canadian Army (General H. D. G. Crerar) became operational in Normandy, France. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 The German Gestapo arrested the head of German Abwehr Wilhelm Canaris. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 US 34th Division captured Pisa, Italy. 
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23 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet sank a small Japanese transport with three torpedoes (all missed) and her deck guns in the Pacific Ocean. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Blenny reported sinking two small Japanese craft with the deck gun in the South China Sea off Malaya. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 In Moscow, Russia, the Politburo approved the sentence of death by hanging of turncoat General Andrei Vlasov who had raised two divisions of Russian volunteers to fight for the Germans. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 American aviators reported the presence of barrage balloons 12,000 feet above Hitachi, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 Men landed by submarine USS Barb destroyed a train in Karafuto, Japan (Kurile Islands). 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sea Robin sank a small Japanese vessel with her deck gun in the East China Sea. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 The trial against Marshal Philippe Pétain began at Palais de Justice, Paris, France. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Group 10 departed. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho began preparations to depart Kure, Japan for Moji, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Springer completed her patrol of the Kii Channel between Honshu and Shikoku islands of Japan and set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 I-400 departed Mutsu, Japan. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 I-401 departed Mutsu, Japan. Shortly after, she was fired upon by friendly Japanese coastal artillery on the island of Hokkaido; she was able to submerge and escaped without damage. 
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23 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Parche arrived at Midway Atoll. 
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23 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Sargent Bay was placed in reserve. 
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23 Jul 1946 WW2 Polish destroyer Garland was decommissioned from service and was returned to Britain. 
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23 Jul 1976 RELIGIOUS The First National Southern Baptist Charismatic Conference closed. Baptist pastorand charismatic leader Howard Conatser (1926-78) was a speaker at this convention.
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