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History on the 26th of July

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26 Jul 1603 RELIGIOUS James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England. He then 'authorized'an English translation of the Scriptures, first published in 1611 and known since as the'King James Version' of the Bible.
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26 Jul 1741 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Venture daily uponChrist, go out in His strength, and He will enable you to do wonders.'
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26 Jul 1869 RELIGIOUS In England, the Disestablishment Bill was passed, officially dissolving the Churchof Ireland. (Organized opposition to this legislation coined one of longest words in theEnglish language: antidisestablishmentarianism.)
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26 Jul 1914 WW2 Russia announced that she would pass to the "Period Preparatory to War." This unfortunately-phrased term, which in fact meant only that the army would prepare to mobilize rather than actually do so, laid itself wide open to misinterpretation. 
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26 Jul 1914 WW2 France canceled all military leave. 
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26 Jul 1924 WW2 HMS Hermes participated in a fleet review in Spithead in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Jul 1926 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was attached to the Naval General Staff. 
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26 Jul 1926 RELIGIOUS The sanctuary of Our Lady of Victory, in Lackawanna, NY, became the first RomanCatholic church in the U.S. to be consecrated a basilica.
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26 Jul 1927 WW2 Iwane Matsui was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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26 Jul 1927 WW2 Major General Nenosuke Sato was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army. 
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26 Jul 1929 WW2 Joseph Rochefort received orders to transfer to Japan to study the Japanese language. 
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26 Jul 1930 WW2 Douglas Bader was made a pilot officer of No. 23 Squadron RAF based at Kenley, England, United Kingdom. 
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26 Jul 1933 WW2 German de-naturalized its Jewish citizens. 
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26 Jul 1934 WW2 The SS became an independent organization of the Nazi Party; its chief, Heinrich Himmler, would report directly to Adolf Hitler. 
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26 Jul 1935 WW2 A group of anti-Nazi demonstrators boarded the German ship Bremen in New York harbour in eastern United States, tore down the Nazi flag and threw it in the Hudson river. A protest by the German consul was met by US officials declaring that the swastika flag was not the recognised national flag of Germany. 
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26 Jul 1935 RELIGIOUS The Open Bible Standard Churches was formed when two smaller revival movementswith similar objectives merged. OBSCI is headquartered today in Des Moines.
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26 Jul 1937 WW2 A Japanese brigade, supported by aircraft, attacked the Guanghua Gate of the Beiping, China city wall. 
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26 Jul 1937 WW2 Japanese women and children began evacuating from Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. 
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26 Jul 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China. 
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26 Jul 1939 WW2 Adolf Eichmann was placed in charge of the Prague branch office of the German National Central Office in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, responsible for deportation of Jews. 
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26 Jul 1939 WW2 Low level German and Soviet diplomats had a friendly dinner together in Berlin, Germany, their discussions lasting a little after midnight. They concluded that a treaty between Germany and Soviet would mean peace in Eastern Europe, and that the Soviet Union should be aware of the United Kingdom, whose aggressiveness would undoubtedly drag the Soviet Union into a war should the two countries sign any military agreement with each other. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 Joseph Avenol, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, resigned from his post. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Thames detected the convoy centered around German battleship Gneisenau 50 miles southwest of Stavanger, Norway; it was bound for Kiel, Germany. A torpedo was fired at Gneisenau, but it hit torpedo boat Luchs instead, sinking her immediately. Thames was never heard from again; it was not certain whether she was lost during this action or hit a naval mine shortly after. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-34 attacked convoy OB-188 with three torpedoes 320 miles west of Ireland at 1447 hours, sinking British passenger ship Accra (which was also carrying 1,700 tons of cargo on this trip), killing 24; 465 survivors were rescued by British ship Hollinside, Norwegian ship Loke, British sloop HMS Enchantress, and British corvette HMS Clarkia. British merchant ship Vinemoor was also hit but without any fatalities; she would remain afloat until the following day after her crew of 32 were rescued by HMS Clarkia. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 US President Roosevelt, using powers granted to his office by the Export Control Act, restricted the export of aviation gasoline and certain classes of iron and steel scrap to Japan without special license. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 USS Phoenix departed Callao, Peru. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 Joachim von Ribbentrop was updated by German agents in Spain and Portugal regarding the attempt to dissuade the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, from leaving for the Bahamas. 
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26 Jul 1940 WW2 Several German raids launched against Britain were turned away by a combination of bad weather and timely RAF fighter arrivals. On this day, 3 German Bf 109 fighters and 1 British Hurricane fighter were shot down. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 US Army recalled Douglas MacArthur to active service as the commander of units in the Far East; Philippine troops already under MacArthur's command were integrated into the US Army. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 Three full Soviet armies were trapped and destroyed near Mogilev, Byelorussia. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt passed executive orders to freeze all Japanese and Chinese assets, forbade the export of oil, iron, and rubber to Japan, as well as marking the Panama Canal off-limits to Japanese shipping. UK and the Netherlands followed suit. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 Werner Mölders was presented Diamonds to his Knight's Cross by Adolf Hitler. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 German aircraft bombed Moscow, Russia. Many bombs fell near the Kremlin, and the images were captured on film by journalist Margaret Bourke-White. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 US Navy Admiral Husband Kimmel ordered long range air patrols to be conducted from various Pacific Ocean bases in case Japan reacted aggressively against US President Franklin Roosevelt's executive order to freeze Japanese assets. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 Commander Ernesto Forza took over command of 10th MAS Flotilla at La Spezia, Italy, which was in actuality a special forces unit for the Italian Navy. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 3,800 Lithuanian Jews were killed during a pogrom in Kovno. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 Six Italian E-boats escorted by MC.200 fighters attempted to attack shipping in Valletta's Grand Harbour at Malta. The Hurricane fighters of Nos. 126 and 185 Squadrons were scrambled and set about the E-boats, sinking four and causing the other two to surrender. 
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26 Jul 1941 WW2 Roderick Carr was named the commanding officer of No. 4 Group RAF. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Singapore. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack attacked a Japanese ship off the Philippine Islands; the torpedo missed. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-66 sank Brazilian ship Tamandaré 12 miles east of Tobago at 0815 hours; 4 were killed, 50 survived. At 0945 hours, U-171 sank Mexican ship Oaxaca off Corpus Christi, Texas, United States; 6 were killed, 39 survived. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarines U-607 and U-704 sank British ship Empire Rainbow of Allied convoy ON-113 475 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland at 0811 hours; all 37 aboard survived. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese troops attacked Oivi, Australian Papua at 1500 hours, capturing Captain Sam Templeton of the Papuan Infantry Battalion at about 1700 hours. The surviving forces at Oivi fell back into the jungle along the Kokoda Trail after dark. Earlier in the day, Japanese transports delivered 1,020 troops from Rabaul, New Britain to the northern coast of Australian Papua. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 After dark, Operation Manhood was launched by the British 8th Army in attempt to decisively defeat the Axis offensive in Egypt by striking at Miteirya Ridge. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 403 British bombers (181 Wellington, 77 Lancaster, 73 Halifax, 39 Stirling, and 33 Hampden) attacked Hamburg, Germany, destroying 823 houses, damaging 5,000 houses, killing 337, wounding 1,027, and making 14,000 homeless; 14 bombers were lost on this mission. 
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26 Jul 1942 WW2 German 6th Army broke through the lines held by Soviet 62nd Army and 64th Army west of Stalingrad, Russia. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Marshal Badoglio replaced the Fascist government in Italy and began negotiations with the Allies in secret. Upon his first actions as the head of state was to dissolve the Fascist Party. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered an operation to be commenced to rescue Mussolini from his arrest. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 USS S-31 arrived at Nouméa, New Caledonia, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Mingo fired four torpedoes at a Japanese tanker; all torpedoes missed. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Hubert Lanz stepped down as the commanding officer of XXXXIX Gebirgskorps. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman of Task Force 36 broke his flag aboard USS Saratoga. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Fighters of US 35th Fighter Group began to arrive at Tsili-Tsili Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler called for Otto Skorzeny to discuss the rescue of Benito Mussolini, but Skorzeny missed the initial call as he was drinking with a friend at Hotel Eden on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin, Germany. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 Joseph Goebbels traveled to Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany to coordinate some news regarding the capture of Benito Mussolini. In the evening, he noted in his diary the details of the devastation of Hamburg, Germany by Allied bombing. 
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26 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Davao, Philippine Islands. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 US forces broke through near Saint-Lô, France, forcing a German withdrawal from the Normandy region. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 United States Army 5332nd Brigade (Provisional) was activated in India. Known as the Mars Task Force, the Brigade consisted of 475th Infantry Regiment (largely of Galahad and New Galahad veterans), 124th cavalry Regiment (Special) (formerly the Texas National Guard and now serving as infantry), and the 612th and 613th Artillery Battalions (Pack) with mule-borne 75mm Howitzers. The Galahad veterans appeared to have been extremely unwilling to return to the front but after their grievances were addressed went back into battle again. By the time the brigade was withdrawn (redeployed to China) in Feb 1945 it had suffered 122 dead, 938 wounded, and 1 missing. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Marlin collided with SC-642 while undergoing training, sustaining light damage. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 The US submarine Robalo struck a mine and sank whilst on patrol off the western coast of Palawan, Philippine Islands. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 Soviet forces captured Narva as they crossed the Estonian border. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 The head of German intelligence unit Abwehr II Colonel Wessel von Freytag-Loringhoven committed suicide just prior to his arrest by the German Gestapo. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 Leutnant Alfred Schreiber, flying a Me 262A-1a jet fighter, damaged a Mosquito aircraft crewed by Flight Lieutenant Albert Wall and navigator Albert Lobban No. 544 Squadron RAF. This was the first air-to-air combat involving a jet aircraft. Although the Mosquito aircraft would ultimately make an emergency landing at Fermo, Italy, Schreiber received a victory for the engagement because he had observed a large piece broken off from the British aircraft and was convinced that the aircraft could not be in flight for long; the piece he observed was actually just the outer hatch door. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz presented each of their plans to Franklin Roosevelt on how to approach Japan during the Pacific Strategy Conference in US Territory of Hawaii. MacArthur wanted to target the Philippine Islands to recover American territory, while Nimitz preferred to invade Taiwan which would serve as gateway to both Japan and China. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Twenty-two officers of D-1, IRON-74, arrived on board. 
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26 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Golet was officially presumed lost in the Pacific Ocean. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 Clement Attlee became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Indianapolis delivered components of the atomic bomb "Little Boy" to Tinian, Mariana Islands. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Charr arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her third war patrol. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 The Potsdam Ultimatum was issued, threatening Japan with "utter destruction" if it did not surrender unconditionally. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 5 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho departed Kure, Japan for Moji, Japan. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 Counter-flooding allowed Settsu, already grounded at Etajima, Japan, to settle at even keel. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale rescued downed aviators in the Pacific Ocean amidst floating naval mines. 
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26 Jul 1945 WW2 The results of the 5 Jul 1945 election in the United Kingdom was revealed, yielding a Labour Party victory over Winston Churchill's Conservative Party, 394 seats to 188 seats. As Churchill prepared to be replaced by Clement Attlee, many of his war time ministers had also lost their seats, including Air Minister (and later Prime Minister) Harold Macmillan. Throughout the world, there was much sympathy for the great wartime leader. The New York Daily News called him "The greatest Englishman of his time and one of the greatest of all time". 
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26 Jul 1946 WW2 The Japanese Mongolian Garrison Army effectively defunct since the end of WW2, was officially disbanded by the government of Japan. 
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26 Jul 1946 WW2 USS Sea Cat completed her overhaul work at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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26 Jul 1947 WW2 The Soviet MGB moved Finnish prisoners from labor camps to the Vladimir Prison in Vladimir, Russia to keep their whereabouts secret. 
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