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History on the 14th of August

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14 Aug 1739 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Our extremity is God's opportunity.'
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14 Aug 1810 RELIGIOUS Birth of Samuel S. Wesley, grandson of Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley. Himself a sacred composer, Samuel Wesley penned over 130 original hymn tunes. The best remembered of these today is AURELIA, to which is sung "The Church's One Foundation."
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14 Aug 1814 RELIGIOUS During the American Revolution, American patriot Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) was held overnight as a British prisoner during their shelling of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. In the morning, Key penned what later became our national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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14 Aug 1848 RELIGIOUS Death of English devotional writer Sarah Flower Adams, 43. In 1845 she published The Flock at the Fountain, a catechism containing hymns for children. One of those hymns remains popular to this day: "Nearer, My God, To Thee."
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14 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Invasion of Lorraine
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14 Aug 1915 WW2 Remy Van Lierde was born in Overboelare, Belgium. 
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14 Aug 1916 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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14 Aug 1918 WW2 Joseph Rochefort applied for the transfer to the United States Naval Reserve Flying Corps; this request would soon be denied. 
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14 Aug 1921 WW2 Dr. William Keen diagnosed Franklin Roosevelt as having a blood clot in his spine. 
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14 Aug 1923 WW2 Duguay-Trouin was launched at Brest, France. 
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14 Aug 1926 WW2 Captain R. Elliot was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain C. P. Talbot. 
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14 Aug 1935 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law at 1530 hours, which aimed to provide protection against poverty related to old age, unemployment, and disability. 
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14 Aug 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist forces, drawn from the Army of Africa and led by Colonel Juan Yague, captured Badajoz, Spain. The two parts of Nationalist Spain were now linked. 
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14 Aug 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt made a speech at Chautauqua, New York, United States, in which he stated "I hate war". 
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14 Aug 1937 WW2 After capturing Bilbao the Spanish Nationalist forces in the north of Spain switched their offensive towards Santander. The Nationalists, who were led by General Fidel Dávila, advanced westward through the Cantabrian Mountains. Spanish Republican resistance was weak, despite the large number of troops General Mariano Gamir Ulibarri had under his command, because of poor training and a shortage of weapons. 
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14 Aug 1937 WW2 Henley was commissioned into service. 
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14 Aug 1937 WW2 18 Type 96 G3M bombers of the Japanese Kanoya Air Group took off from the Matsuyama Airfield in Taihoku (now Songshan Airport in Taipei), Taiwan to bomb Jianqiao Airfield at Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province and Guangde Airfield in Anhui Province in China. Fighters of the Chinese 4th Pursuit Group, led by Captain Gao Zhihang, rose to intercept from Jianqiao and shot down 3 bombers without any losses. Cheng Xiaoyu's 22nd Squadron, also of the Chinese 4th Pursuit Group, rose to meet the other group attacking Guangde Airfield, shooting down another. Anti-aircraft crews claimed a further two bombers destroyed. Gao's downing was the first Republic of China Air Force victory of WW2. In 1939, the Chinese Nationalist government would declare 14 Aug as a holiday, Air Force Day, as an instrument to raise morale. 
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14 Aug 1937 WW2 The Manchukuo Film Association Limited was established in the Japanese-sponsored puppet state of Manchukuo; it was a joint-venture between the government of Manchukuo and the South Manchurian Railway Company. 
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14 Aug 1937 WW2 Liu Cuigang, commanding officer of the 24th Pursuit Squadron of the Chinese 5th Pursuit Group flying a Hawk III fighter, claimed the squadron's first victory, an E8N seaplane, near Shanghai, China; Japanese records showed no E8N aircraft lost on that date. 
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14 Aug 1939 WW2 Germany sent a message to its embassy in Moscow, Russia, ordering the ambassador to push Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to make a quick decision on the future of Soviet-German relationship. In Russia, the British-French delegation negotiated with Kliment Voroshilov for a potential treaty to contain German aggression; Voroshilov wanted the western powers to convince Poland to agree to allow Soviet troops to move into Polish territory to counterattack a potential German invasion, but the British and the French knew it was something the Polish leadership was adamantly against. 
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14 Aug 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler announced to his top military commanders that Germany was to enter in a war with Poland at the end of Aug 1939, and that the United Kingdom and France would not enter the fray, especially if Poland could be decisively wiped out in a week or two. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 Roosevelt approved what later became the Two-Ocean Navy Act. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 The British Ministry of Home Security announced that parachutes had been found in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Scotland, though there were no evidence of German troops on British soil. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 British and Commonwealth troops engaged in heavy fighting with Italian forces near Berbera, British Somaliland; British commander in area Major General Godwin-Austen requested permission to fall back into Berbera and to prepare for evacuation. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 On his way to ignite a coup in the Irish Republic and an uprising against Ulster, IRA Chief of Staff, Sean Russell, died aboard a German U-boat of a perforated ulcer. Trained in sabotage by the Germans, he was buried at sea wrapped in a Swastika flag. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 Cloudy weather prevented Germans from launching large scale raids against Britain early in the day as planned. At 1200 hours, 300 German aircraft flew over the Dover Strait and attacked Dover and Folkestone in southern England, which drew out the No. 65 Squadron RAF for defense, leaving RAF Manston undefended during the attack that came shortly afterwards (though anti-aircraft gun crews were able to shoot down two Bf 110 fighters). At 1545 hours, RAF Middle Wallop in Hampshire was bombed by Ju 87 dive bombers and He 111 medium bombers, killing 3 airmen and 1 civilian. In Portland Harbour, British sloop HMS Kingfisher and tug Carbon were damaged by bombing. On this day, the Germans lost 30 aircraft while the British lost 3 Spitfire fighters and 5 Hurricane fighters. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-59 sank British ship Betty 15 miles north of Ireland at 2034 hours, killing 30. 4 survivors were later rescued by British anti-submarine trawler HMS Man o' War. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 British destroyer HMS Malcolm, destroyer HMS Verity, and three motor torpedo boats attacked a German convoy of 6 trawlers escorted by three motor torpedo boats off Texel Island, the Netherlands. One German motor torpedo boat and one German trawler were sunk. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 Orion spent most of this day looking for her Ar 196 floatplane which had been forced to make a water landing due to mechanical issues while conducting reconnaissance on Nouméa, New Caledonia. The aircraft was found and recovered. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for Bahia, Brazil. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler heard from Walther von Brauchitsch, who insisted that the German Army would like to attack Britain on a wide front with four or more main landing sites. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 Oberst Alois Stoeckl, the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing, was killed in action. 
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14 Aug 1940 WW2 US Navy Asiatic Fleet chief Admiral Thomas C. Hart arrived in Shanghai, China aboard USS Porpoise. Upon arrival, he transferred his flag to yacht Isabel. 
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14 Aug 1941 WW2 Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter. 
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14 Aug 1941 WW2 Overnight, British bombers attacked railway yards at Hanover, Germany. 
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14 Aug 1941 WW2 The Soviet transport ship Sibir, carrying 2,500 wounded soldiers from Estonia, was bombed by German aircraft. There were few survivors. 
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14 Aug 1941 WW2 Edmund Herring was promoted to the temporary rank of major general and was given command of Australian 6th Division in Egypt. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Singapore and departed later on the same day; she now carried almost 1,000 interned Allied personnel. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 The first P-38 Lightning kill in the European Theatre occurred when the 33rd Fighter Squadron flying from Iceland destroyed a marauding Fw 200 maritime patrol bomber. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was assigned to the Mobile Force Stand By Force. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 The Japanese Navy changed its radio code. It was suspected, but not proven, that the code was changed in response to suspicions that the Americans had broken the previous code scheme. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-598 attacked Allied convoy TAW-12 50 miles northeast of Pueto Padre, Cuba at 1155 hours, sinking British freighter Michael Jebsen (7 were killed, 40 survived), sinking British tanker Empire Corporal (6 were killed, 49 survived), and damaging British tanker Standella (6 were killed, 52 survived). At 1930 hours, Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani sank British ship Sylvia de Larrinaga 700 miles southwest of Cape Verde Islands; 3 were killed. South of Saint Helena island, German armed merchant cruiser Michel sank British freighter Arabistan with gunfire; 66 were killed. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Seawolf sank Japanese passenger-cargo ship Hachigen Maru in the Sibitu Passage between Borneo and Sulu, Philippine Islands. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 USS S-39 ran aground and became stuck off Rossel Island of the Louisiade Archipelago 200 kilometers southeast of Australian Papua. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese radio broadcast announced that Japanese air attacks had thus far sunk 29 Allied warships, 11 transports in the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands area at a mere cost of 21 aircraft; in actuality, the Allied had only lost 6 ships. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 Edmund Herring was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant general and was given command of Australian II Corps at Esk, Queensland, Australia. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 The B-17E Flying Fortress aircraft "Chief Seattle from the Pacific North West" was launched from Port Moresby, Australian Papua for a reconnaissance mission over Rabaul, New Britain, but the aircraft became missing shortly after launch and was never found. This aircraft was paid for by donations from civilians of the state of Washington in northwestern United States. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 Australian 39th Battalion fell back 4 miles from Deniki to Isurava in Australian Papua after learning Japanese troops had infiltrated its rear, which turned out to be faulty intelligence. To the north, 3,000 Japanese troops of the 14th Naval Construction Unit and 15th Naval Construction Unit arrived at Buna, tasked with building major naval facilities. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 7,000 "stateless" Jews were arrested in France by German authorities. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 British destroyer HMS Penn, destroyer HMS Bramham, destroyer HMS Ledbury, and minesweeper HMS Rye began towing the previously abandoned tanker Ohio of Allied convoy Pedestal, still carrying her cargo of fuel. Later on the same day, heavily damaged British freighter Brisbane Star reached Malta at 1615 hours. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 In the Caucasus region of southern Russia, German troops crossed the Kuban River near Krasnodar. 
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14 Aug 1942 WW2 Troops of German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army set fire to wooded areas west of the Don River in southern Russia in an attempt to drive out the remnants of the surrounded Soviet 62nd Army. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 USS S-28 set a course for the Aleutian Islands. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 A Japanese reconnaissance aircraft discovered the new US airfield at Tsili-Tsili, Australian Papua. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 433rd Fighter Squadron (flying P-38 aicraft) and the headquarters unit of USAAF 475th Fighter Group was transferred to Dobodura Airfield, Australian Papua. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps Brigadier General Francis Mulcahy moved the headquarters of Aircraft, New Georgia from Rendova island to the Munda Point airfield on New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 US Marine Corps fighters at Munda, New Georgia were deemed operational. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 The Italian government declared Rome an open city. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo attacked three medium freighters in the Sea of Japan; the torpedo missed. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 The German troops at Belgorod, Russia broke out of the region after suffering 20,000 killed. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 Erich von Manstein placed General Otto Wöhler in charge of the defense of Kharkov, Ukraine. 
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14 Aug 1943 WW2 Joseph Rochefort received orders to go to Eureka, California, United States for the commissioning of the 5th section of floating drydock ABSD-2. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Cod sank the Japanese landing craft LSV-129. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Tang attacked a Japanese armed yacht with her deck gun. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Croaker sank a Japanese freighter with 2 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 British troops launched Operation Tractable towards Falaise, France, preceded by 800 bombers. 150 Polish soldiers were killed as the second of the three waves of RAF Lancaster bombers released their bombs too early. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 Soviet forces launched an assault from their Vistula bridgeheads in Poland. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Gar began her thirteenth war patrol. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Ray continued to attack a small Japanese convoy off Borneo, Dutch East Indies, sinking tanker Zuisho Maru (hitting her with 3 of 3 torpedoes fired) and damaged a transport (hitting her with 1 of 3 torpedoes fired). 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 HMS Mauritius sank German minesweeper Sperrbrecher 157 off France. 
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14 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Snook arrived at Midway Atoll, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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14 Aug 1944 RELIGIOUS German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill all His promises ... leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.'
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 More than 150 Burmese civilians held by the Japanese on Tarmugli in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal were shot or bayoneted by their captors. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 The US government ordered the resumption of civilian automobile production. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Carbonero sank a junk with her deck gun in the Gulf of Siam-South China Sea area. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 Song Ziwen and Vyacheslav Molotov signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance at Moscow, Russia, affirming that the Soviet Union recognized the Chinese Nationalist Party as the legitimate ruler of China (as opposed to the Chinese Communists), and that Outer Mongolia region of China was to become independence (ie. under Soviet control). 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Hackleback departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Tokyo, Japan. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 The last Japanese aircraft destroyed prior to Emperor Showa's radio address was a C6N1 Saiun aircraft, shot down about five minutes before the announcement. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 The Japanese Imperial Council accepted Emperor Showa's order to surrender to the Allies powers' surrender terms. In turn, Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki notified the Allies that Japan was accepting the Potsdam Declaration. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Whale arrived at Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 Seven aircraft of the Oita Detachment, 701st Air Group, Japanese Navy made the last operational suicide sortie of the war, led by Admiral Matome Ugaki, commander of the 5th Air fleet. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 In the evening, I-401 arrived at the rendezvous point south of Ulithi, Caroline Islands but did not find I-400; at this time, I-400 was actually at the incorrect location 1,000 miles to the east. 
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14 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Ray departed US Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. 
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14 Aug 1946 WW2 Sanborn was decommissioned from service. 
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14 Aug 1947 WW2 Pakistan was granted independence by the United Kingdom, forming the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 
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14 Aug 1947 WW2 Josias was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement with Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. 
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