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History on the 30th of July

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30 Jul 1629 RELIGIOUS The Puritans of Salem, Mass. appointed Francis Higginson as their teacher andSamuel Skelton as their pastor. The church covenant, composed afterward by these two men,allowed into communion only those who could prove a sound doctrinal knowledge and anexperience of grace in their lives.
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30 Jul 1718 RELIGIOUS Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony ofPennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible withmonotheism and religious liberty.
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30 Jul 1822 RELIGIOUS Pioneer church founder James Varick, 72, was consecrated the first bishop of theAfrican Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
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30 Jul 1911 WW2 Omar Bradley departed Moberly, Missouri, United States by train. 
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30 Jul 1914 WW2 Russia, feeling that she had let Serbia down in the Bosnian crisis of 1908, began to mobilize. 
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30 Jul 1914 WW2 The French Covering Force (that part of the army kept on a permanent war footing) was ordered to deploy along the Franco-German frontier, but 10 kilometers short of it to avoid any incidents. 
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30 Jul 1914 WW2 USS Idaho was transferred to the Greek Navy and was renamed Lemnos. 
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30 Jul 1917 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed a flight commander of No. 112 Squadron of the British Royal Flying Corps. 
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30 Jul 1921 WW2 Annabelle Craft was born in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. 
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30 Jul 1929 WW2 Eizo Ishizuka was named the governor-general of Taiwan. 
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30 Jul 1934 WW2 A constitutional convention was convened in Manila, Philippine Islands to establish the Filipino constitution. 
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30 Jul 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln began operations off Spain. 
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30 Jul 1936 WW2 Submarine Iride was launched at La Spezia, Italy. 
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30 Jul 1937 WW2 Do 18 flying boat "Aeolus" was damaged during an ocean landing and was lost. 
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30 Jul 1937 WW2 Defending troops in Tianjin, China were ordered to withdraw from the city. 
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30 Jul 1939 WW2 British Prime Minister Chamberlain wrote in regards to the German oppression of Jews "o doubt Jews aren't a lovable people, I don't care about them myself. But that is not sufficient to explain the pogram." 
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30 Jul 1940 WW2 The Act of Havana was signed by the representatives from 21 nations in the Americas; it provided an emergency establishment of a regime of provisional administration "when islands or regions in the Americas now under the possession of non-American nations are in danger of becoming the subject of barter of territory or change of sovereignty". 
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30 Jul 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
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30 Jul 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler arrived at Innsbruck, Austria. 
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30 Jul 1940 WW2 USS Phoenix arrived at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. 
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30 Jul 1940 WW2 Low clouds and rain restricted both German and British flights all day. Five German raids targeted the northeastern British coast in the morning, while other waves of aircraft attacked convoys in the English Channel off Essex and Suffolk, England. A small number of German aircraft were shot down on this day at no cost to the British RAF. Overnight, German bombers conducted raids over southern and central England and southern Wales. 
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30 Jul 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt returned to Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC, United States via presidential yacht Potomac. 
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30 Jul 1941 WW2 A committee consisted of US Treasury, State, and Justice Department officials granted an exception of the rule to freeze Japanese national assets so that Tatsuta Maru's owners could withdraw enough funds to pay for fuel for a return trip to Japan. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 US Navy established the WAVES program. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 USS S-28 received orders to patrol the area surrounding Kiska, Aleutian Islands. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Hans-Günther Kuhlmann passed away. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-166 sank American freighter Robert E. Lee 50 kilometers southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States at 2230 hours; 25 were killed, 379 survived. Escorting patrol chaser USS PC-556 counterattacked with depth charges and sank the German submarine, although the sinking was not confirmed until after the war; all 52 aboard U-166 were lost. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yuzuki rescued survivors of sunken transport Kottoku Maru. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-132 attacked Allied convoy ON-113 100 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at 0110 hours, sinking British ship Pacific Pioneer; all 71 aboard survived. At 1958 hours, German submarine U-155 sank US ship Cranford 250 miles east of Barbados; 11 were killed, 36 survived. At 2048 hours, German submarine U-130 sank British ship Danmark 550 miles south of the Cape Verde Islands; all 46 aboard survived. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Grenadier attacked Japanese oiler San Clemente Maru with two torpedoes 40 miles southwest of Truk, Caroline Islands; both torpedoes hit the ship but both failed to detonate. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 German submarine U-77 fired three torpedoes at a British warship east of Cyprus at 1216 hours, missing with all three, but one of them would strike and sink Egyptian sail boat Fany; all 10 aboard survived. 110 miles south of Cyprus at about the same time, U-375 stopped Egyptian sail boats Amina and Ikbal, forced the crews to abandon ship, and sank them with the deck gun. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 George Kenney arrived at Seven Mile airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua by a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at 0700 hours. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed on Aru, Babar, Kai, and Tanimbar islands in the Moluccan Islands, Dutch East Indies; light Dutch resistance at Kai and Tanimbar opposed the landings, killing a small number of Japanese troops. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Saigon, Indochina. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan with 60 Allied internees including Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie and British embassy staff from Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kobe, Belgian Ambassador and Mrs. M. Fortholme, Greek Minister M. Politis, Egyptian Minister M. Samaika, Australian diplomat Keith Officer, Norwegian diplomat and Mrs. M. Kolstadt, Dutch diplomat and Mrs. M. Reuchlin, Czechoslovakian Minister Mr. Havlicek and consular officials from Yokohama and Kobe, and other British and foreign nationals. It was the first Japanese-British diplomatic exchange. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Nachi exited the drydock at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine S-7 sank German ship Kathe 1 mile off Pavilosta, Latvia. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 Soviet troops launched an offensive near Rzhev, Russia, aiming to surround six German divisions. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 German Armeegruppe B attacked the Soviet bridgehead at Kalach-na-Donu in southern Russia, west of Stalingrad. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Runner was commissioned into service with Commander Frank W. Fenno, Jr. in command. 
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30 Jul 1942 WW2 USS Whale began her shakedown training. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 German Armeegruppe A's attack along the Mius River in Ukraine came to a unsuccessful conclusion. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 The Swedish SAAB 21A aircraft made its maiden flight powered by a 1,475hp Daimler-Benz DB605B 12-cylinder inverted-vee engine connected to a pusher propeller. Deliveries commenced to the Flygvapnet in Jul 1945. The SAAB 21 was the world's second aircraft to be fitted with an ejector seat as standard operational equipment (the first was the Heinkel He-219). The J-51A suffered from heavy control forces and engine overheating which affected its speed and rate of climb, thus its role was soon changed from that of an interceptor to ground strike with provisions for various ordnance loads. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 Remy Van Lierde shot down a German Bf 109 fighter, which was his fourth kill. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 Fitted with new drop-tanks which enable the P-47 aircraft of US VIII Fighter Command to reach the Dutch-German border, eight squadrons of P-47 aircraft were despatched to escort home 186 B-17 bombers returning from a raid on Kassel, Germany. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 Orde Wingate departed Delhi, India. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 USS Finback sank a Japanese freighter in the South China Sea, hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 Hamburg, Germany was bombed again before dawn by 777 RAF bombers. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny's SS men arrived in Rome, Italy. 
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30 Jul 1943 WW2 In frantic air battles off Sardinia, Italy, American P-40 and P-38 aircraft claimed the destruction of 21 enemy transport aircraft and five fighters of German Luftwaffe's III/JG77 group. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 British troops attack Caumont, France, east of Saint-Lô. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 USS Mingo arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her fourth war patrol. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 The Japanese Navy ordered Mitsubishi to stop development of the A7M fighter design; Mitsubishi was able to secure permission to continue given that the company was to use existing engines rather than develop new ones. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 Günther von Kluge wrote to Adolf Hitler, warning that the entire western front was on the brink of collapse. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-304 struck a mine and sank off the coast of Normandy, France. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-378 struck a mine and was severely damaged, beyond repair, off the coast of Normandy, France. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 Leaders of US Navy ComAirSols (Commander Air Solomons) was given a demonstration of unmanned TDR drones. Four of them took flight and each released a 2,000-pound bomb on Yamazuki Maru which was beached at Guadalcanal. 3 of the bombs hit, although 1 of the failed to detonate. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of CASU-49 departed. 
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30 Jul 1944 WW2 The Soviet First Baltic Front reached Tukums, Latvia. 
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30 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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30 Jul 1945 WW2 American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts ended a two-day bombardment of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Meanwhile, carrier fighters attacked airfields, railroads, and tactical targets in the Kobe-Osaka region. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 American, British, and French troops entered Vienna, Austria. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 The Japanese government instructed its citizens on how to prepare acorns for food. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 HMS King George V completed the bombardment of Hamamatsu, Honshu, Japan which began on the previous date; it was to be her final combat action of the war. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred from Wiesbaden, Germany to the former Luftwaffe camp at Oberursel. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Bugara sank 3 small enemy craft with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea area during the day. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Song Ziwen stepped down as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze suffered minor damage by an US air attack in Miyatsu Bay, Japan; one was killed. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Sennet sank a Japanese transport in the Sea of Japan, hitting her with 2 of 3 torpedoes fired. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Prisoner of war Don Atkiss, 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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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Japanese beheaded 144 Dutch prisoners at Samarinda, Borneo, Dutch East Indies, but only after they had been forced to watch their wives being bayoneted or hacked to death with swords, and their children hurled down a mine shaft where all of the bodies were eventually dumped. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Cero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her eighth war patrol. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Honshu Island, Japan. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 USS Whale encountered a heavy storm east of Okino Shima, Japan. 
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30 Jul 1945 WW2 The assembly of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began at Manicani Bay, Samar, Philippine Islands. 
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30 Jul 1947 WW2 Chen Cheng was named the commander-in-chief of Nationalist forces in northeastern China. 
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30 Jul 1947 WW2 USS Boarfish became the flagship of Rear Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann of Task Group 17.3, which was to embark on the first expedition under the Polar Ice Cap in the Bering Strait. 
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30 Jul 1948 WW2 The upgraded M26 Pershing medium tanks were redesignated M26E2 Patton (later again redesignated M46). 
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30 Jul 1948 WW2 In Great Britain the Criminal Justice Act abolished Penal Servitude, Hard Labour, Prison Divisions and Whipping as a form of corporal punishment (except in the case of mutiny, incitement to mutiny or treason). 
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30 Jul 1956 RELIGIOUS By an act of Congress, signed by President Eisenhower, 'In God We Trust' becamethe official U.S. motto.
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30 Jul 1976 RELIGIOUS Death of Rudolf Bultmann, 92, German Bible scholar and one of the three majorpioneers of modern form 'criticism' (i.e., 'analysis') of the New Testament Gospels.
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