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History on the 29th of July

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29 Jul 1775 RELIGIOUS The U.S. Army Chaplaincy was founded, making it the second oldest branch of thatservice, after the Infantry.
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29 Jul 1776 RELIGIOUS Pioneer Methodist bishop Francis Asbury remarked in his journal: 'My present modeof conduct is...to read about 100 pages a day; usually to pray in public five times aday.... If it were in my power, I would do a thousand times as much for such a gracious andblessed Master.'
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29 Jul 1866 RELIGIOUS Birth of Thomas O. Chisholm, American Methodist pastor, teacher, editor and poet.Of the 1,200 sacred verses he penned, one later became the popular hymn: 'Great Is ThyFaithfulness.'
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29 Jul 1905 RELIGIOUS Birth of Dag Hammarskj
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29 Jul 1913 WW2 The independence of the Principality of Albania was recognized by the Conference of London. 
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29 Jul 1914 WW2 Two Austrian monitors steamed down stream from the Austrian frontier and opened fire on Belgrade. Serbian guns immediately returned fire and with the brief demonstration completed the Austrian monitors withdrew. 
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29 Jul 1914 WW2 The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei D. Sazonov received a telegram from the German Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg. It implied that "further progress of Russian mobilization measures" would compel Germany also to mobilize. 
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29 Jul 1918 WW2 Douglas MacArthur received his third Silver Star medal. 
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29 Jul 1921 WW2 Adolf Hitler formally became the head of the Nationalsozialistische Deutches Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP), or the Nazi Party. 
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29 Jul 1922 WW2 A secret clause was added to the Russo-German Treaty of Rapallo, allowing German troops to train with heavy weapons, something disallowed by the Versailles Treaty, in Soviet territory. 
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29 Jul 1927 WW2 In Russia, Metropolitan Sergei Stragorodsky, the most senior prelate, issued a public declaration that the church recognized the Soviet state as its "Civil Fatherland". Hundreds of clergy refused to accept the church coming under state control and by 1930 an estimated one fifth of all those imprisoned in the Solovki camp complex were clerical victims of persecution. 
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29 Jul 1931 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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29 Jul 1933 WW2 Takashi Hishikari was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. 
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29 Jul 1937 WW2 Troops of the Japanese Army 5th Division and Japanese naval troops separately attacked the Chinese city of Tianjin. In Tongzhou near Beiping, 5,000 Japanese-trained East Hebei Army soldiers mutinied against the Japanese. The rebellion soon became out of control. Japanese civilians were rounded up and massacred, and there were many incidences of rape committed against Japanese women. Much of the city was burned down by the time East Hebei Army officers regained control of their men. The militant factions in the Japanese government would use this incident as one of the justifications for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. 
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29 Jul 1938 WW2 Japanese and Russian troops clashed on the border region between Manchukuo and Russia, starting the Battle of Lake Khasan. 
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29 Jul 1939 WW2 Pavel Sukhoi was named the Chief Designer of aircraft factory number 135 in Kharkov, Ukraine. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 40 German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers attacked Dover Harbor in southern England, United Kingdom at 0730 hours, escorted by 40 Bf 109 fighters; British fighters from No. 41, No. 43, No. 56, and No. 64 Squadrons shot down 8 German dive bombers and 7 fighters and anti-aircraft guns shot down 2 German dive bombers, while 2 British Spitfire fighters and 1 British Hurricane fighter were shot down. At 1700 hours, destroyer HMS Delight left Portland in southern England; at about 1830 hours, she was hitting by a bomb from a German aircraft from Cherbourg, France, killing 18 and wounding 59, but she was able to return to Portland under her own power. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 British Air Ministry accused Germany of using rescue aircraft with Red Cross markings for reconnaissance purposes. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 At a conference held in a converted railway carriage, Colonel-General Alfred Jodl, Adolf Hitler's Chief of Operations, announced that the Führer had decided "once and for all" to rid the world of the Soviet menace. However, recognizing that the war against the United Kingdom took a higher priority at this point in time, Hitler pushed the invasion date to the spring of 1941. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Sealion detected German submarine U-62 on the surface 60 miles southwest of Stavanger, Norway and attacked with 3 torpedoes (which all missed) followed by shots from the deck gun. U-62 dove and escaped the area. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Clan Menzies 80 miles west of Ireland at 0215 hours; 5 were killed and 88 took to lifeboats. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and House Naval Affairs Committee chairman Carl Vinson arrived at Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, via presidential yacht Potomac, for an inspection. After the navy yard, they also visited US Army's Langley Field and the Newport News Ship Building and Drydock Company. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed Rio Grande du Sol, Brazil for Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 Sea Gladiator fighters from HMS Eagle shot down an Italian SM.79 bomber while escorting a convoy in the Mediterranean Sea. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 Portugal and Spain added a clause to the 1939 friendship treaty; it was later known as the Iberian Pact. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 German naval command (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine) issued a memo noting that the mid-Sep 1940 invasion date for Britain as demanded by Adolf Hitler was possible, but considering the present state of affairs, a postponement to May 1941 was suggested. Meanwhile, a special economic board was set up to oversee the looting of British industry upon conquest. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 The Japanese reported that Mr. Melville Cox, one of nine British residents arrested in Japan on the previous day, had "committed suicide" by throwing himself out of a police station window. 
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29 Jul 1940 WW2 The weapons firm Albright & Wilson of Oldbury, England, United Kingdom demonstrated to the British Royal Air Force a self-igniting explosive containing petrol and phosphorus. 
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29 Jul 1941 WW2 Marshal Georgy Zhukov resigned as Chief of Staff of the Soviet forces. 
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29 Jul 1941 WW2 Orion sank the ship Chaucer by gunfire in the South Atlantic. The entire crew of 48 was rescued by Orion. 
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29 Jul 1941 WW2 British merchant seaman David Hay was awarded an Albert Medal for his daring rescue of a fellow sailor from shark infested waters during the journey between Liverpool, England, United Kingdom and Takoradi, British Gold Coast. 
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29 Jul 1941 WW2 Joseph Rochefort reported to US Navy Admiral Husband Kimmel that the Japanese fleet detected outside of Japanese home waters were heading back to Japan, thus there was no immediate threat of an aggressive Japanese response to Franklin Roosevelt's decision to freeze Japanese assets. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 Proletarskaya was captured by German troops as they formed a bridgehead over the Manych River in the Caucasus in southern Russia. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-160 sank Canadian ship Prescodoc 100 miles southeast of Trinidad at 1019 hours; 16 were killed, 5 survived. At 2000 hours, U-155 sank Norwegian ship Bill 400 miles east of Trinidad; 1 was killed, 24 survived but 1 of them would be taken prisoner. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 George Kenney met with George Brett (whom Kenney was replacing) and then with Douglas MacArthur in Brisbane, Australia. He spent the latter part of the day inspecting airfields in the region. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 200 Japanese troops supported by a Type 92 light howitzer attacked Kokoda airfield in Australian Papua at 0230 hours; after suffering 7 killed, the remaining 70 Australian defenders fell back toward Deniki; the Japanese suffered 12 killed and 26 wounded in this engagement. To the north, a Japanese convoy landed troops at Buna; at 1445 hours, 8 US Dauntless dive bombers escorted by P-39 fighters from Port Moresby attacked the convoy at Buna, damaging troop ship Kotoku Maru. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 291 British bombers attacked Saarbrücken, Germany, destroying 396 buildings, damaging 324 buildings, and killing 155 civilians; 9 bombers were lost on this attack. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 The Soviet Union established the Order of Suvorov for leading successful offensive campaigns, Order of Kutuzov for leading successful defensive campaigns, and Order of Nevsky for personal courage. 
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29 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Columbia was commission into service with Captain William A. Heard in command. 
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29 Jul 1943 WW2 The Italian submarine, Pietro Micca, was torpedoed and sunk by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Trooper in the Mediterranean Sea. Eighteen men were rescued but 54 went down with the boat. An Italian rescue vessel later lowered listening gear to the submarine to detect signs of life but heard only the sound of gunshots. It was believed that the survivors took their own lives rather than endure a terrible, lingering death. 
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29 Jul 1943 WW2 German Armeegruppe A attacked to improve its positions on the Mius River in Ukraine. 
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29 Jul 1943 WW2 The US ambassador in Madrid, Spain demanded that the Spanish government withdrew the division of Spanish volunteers fighting on the Eastern Front; Franco would largely comply with this demand by the end of Sep 1943, although still leaving behind a regiment-sized unit in Russia. 
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29 Jul 1943 WW2 Joseph Goebbels' diary entry of this date noted that Hamburg, Germany had been devastated and about 800,000 were made homeless. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Puffer attacked a Japanese freighter in the Dutch East Indies; all 6 torpedoes missed. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 Aleksandr Vasilevsky was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and was awarded his second Order of Lenin. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel started her sixth war patrol. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 B-29 Superfortress bombers of the 20th USAAF flying from advanced airfields near Chengdu in China attacked the Showa steel works at Anshan in Liaoning, northeastern China. During the raid B-29 bomber 42-5256 piloted by Captain Howard R. Jarrell was struck by a shell and badly damaged. Unable to make the 1,500 mile journey home, Captain Jarrell decided to try to reach Vladivostock in the USSR. Intercepted by Soviet Yak-9 fighters the crippled bomber was forced to land at the small strip at Tavrichanka where the aircraft and its crew were interned by the Soviet authorities. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 A Me 163 jet fighter attempted to disrupt a B-17 raid on Mersburg, Germany but was instead pursued by Captain Arthur Jeffrey in a P-38 fighter. Jeffrey chased the Me 163 jet fighter to a very low altitude and confidently reported a victory, but post war records indicated that there was no Me 163 lost on this particular date. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Becuna arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Marblehead arrived in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 German Armeegruppe Nord was cut off as the Red Army reached the Baltic coast west of Riga, Latvia. 
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29 Jul 1944 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 A special attack aircraft struck destroyer USS Cassin Young, killing 22 and injuring 45. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts began a two-day bombardment of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese submarine I-58 sank cruiser USS Indianapolis; USS Indianapolis' prior order to maintain radio silence resulted in a 2-day delay in realization of her loss. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 A special attack Japanese biplane trainer aircraft crashed into destroyer USS Callaghan off Okinawa, Japan; Callaghan was to be the last American warship to be sunk by special attack aircraft in the war. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 4 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cabrilla attacked a Japanese patrol vessel with an acoustic seeking torpedo in the South China Sea; the torpedo missed. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet attacked a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan; the single torpedo missed. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bluefish ended her ninth war patrol. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 Prisoner of war Dick Lanigan, who was injected with malaria-infected blood by Unit 731 doctor Captain Enosuke Hirano, died from the disease at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Spot arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 B-25 bombers of US 5th Air Force damaged Japanese escort carrier Kaiyo at Hiji, Japan. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 The order to abandon Setsu in place at Etajima, Japan was given. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Boarfish performed lifeguard duties off Singapore. 
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29 Jul 1945 WW2 Hans Fritzsche was transferred from the Friedrichshagen Prison in Berlin, Germany to Moscow, Russia. 
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29 Jul 1946 WW2 Chinese communist forces attacked an US Marines truck convoy. 
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29 Jul 1974 RELIGIOUS The first eleven women priests in the Episcopal Church were ordained inPhiladelphia's Church of the Advocate.
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