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History on the 29th of August

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29 Aug 1792 RELIGIOUS Birth of Charles G. Finney, American revivalist and educator. Originally trained in law, he was converted to Christian faith at age 29, conducted revival services for eight years and, from 1835 until his death, maintained a close affiliation with Oberlin College in Ohio.
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29 Aug 1852 RELIGIOUS The Latter Day Saints first published their doctrine of "celestial marriage," popularly known as polygamy. The Mormon Church maintained this teaching until the Manifest of 1890 (and later Congressional legislation) outlawed the practice.
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29 Aug 1867 RELIGIOUS The Social Brethren were officially organized in Illinois. Today, there are about 1,000 total members of this small, evangelistic denomination, with most churches located in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Church doctrine is a blend of Methodist and Baptist polity.
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29 Aug 1908 RELIGIOUS Death of Lewis H. Redner, 78, American Episcopal organist. Maintaining a keen interest in music all his life, Redner composed ST. LOUIS, the tune to which today is most commonly sung Phillips Brooks' Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
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29 Aug 1914 WW2 General Aleksandr Samsonov, the commander of the Russian 2nd Army, committed suicide following his army's defeat in battle. 
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29 Aug 1914 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was assigned to the Japanese Naval General Staff. 
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29 Aug 1914 WW1 Begin of Battle of Guise
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29 Aug 1916 WW2 The US Navy ordered the construction of what was to be submarine R-1. 
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29 Aug 1916 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class medal. 
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29 Aug 1916 WW2 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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29 Aug 1916 WW2 The construction for future submarine R-5 was ordered. 
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29 Aug 1917 RELIGIOUS Death of Ernest W. Shurtleff, 55, American Congregational clergyman and author of the hymn, "Lead On, O King Eternal." Shurtleff died during World War I, while doing relief work along with his wife.
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29 Aug 1920 WW2 Tenryu departed Yokosuka, Japan for eastern Russia. 
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29 Aug 1922 WW2 Tenryu departed Kure, Japan for eastern Russia. 
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29 Aug 1923 WW2 Italy sent an ultimatum to Greece demanding an official apology for the murder of General Enrico Tellini, who was killed by Albanian bandits but in Greek territory. 
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29 Aug 1928 WW2 He Yingqin was made a member of the budget committee. 
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29 Aug 1935 WW2 The pregnant Queen Astrid of Belgium was killed in a motoring accident in Switzerland. 
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29 Aug 1935 WW2 Mikuma was commissioned into service. 
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29 Aug 1937 WW2 Japanese aircraft damaged Chinese gunboat Chuyou at Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China. 
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29 Aug 1937 WW2 Settsu, which had ferried a battalion of Sasebo 4th Special Naval Landing Force from Japan, disembarked the troops onto light cruiser Natori and destroyer Yakaze off Shanghai, China. 
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29 Aug 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Tianjia, Anhui, China. 
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29 Aug 1938 WW2 While Adolf Hitler toured the Westwall defenses in western Germany, German General Wilhelm Adam warned that Germany could not be able to defend against an invasion by France for more than three days should Germany deploy most of its forces for an invasion of Czechoslovakia. Adolf Hitler grew furious at Adam, who would retire from service at the end of the year. 
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29 Aug 1939 WW2 Through the Swedish businessman Birger Dahlerus, Germany expressed that Germany only desired Danzig and a small section of the Polish Corridor, while a plebiscite should be held in the near future to determine the fate of the remainder of the Polish Corridor. 
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29 Aug 1939 WW2 Adolf Hitler summoned the three leading representatives of the German armed forces, Walther von Brauchitsch, Hermann Göring, and Erich Raeder together with senior Army commanders to his mountain villa at Obersalzberg in southern Germany, where he announced the details of the recently-signed Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the plan to isolate and destroy Poland, and the formation of a buffer state in conquered Poland against the Soviet Union. 
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29 Aug 1939 WW2 A Polish destroyer squadron was evacuated to the United Kingdom as the invasion from Germany seemed imminent. 
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29 Aug 1939 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the first time and was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 The United Kingdom rejected Germany's proposal to use Red Cross ships to recover downed German airmen in the English Channel. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 The British Tizard Mission shared radar technology with the United States. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 Ribbentrop and Count Ciano met Romanian and Hungarian Ministers in Vienna, Austria. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 The French colonies of Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons declared support for Charles de Gaulle. Governor Georges Pierre Masson of Gabon, however, retracted the support after pressure from the French naval commander at Gabon, who sided with the Vichy government. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 German submarine U-100 hit five ships in Allied convoy OA-204 150 miles northwest of Ireland. British ship Hartismere was damaged at 0023 hours; British ship Dalblair was sunk also at 0023 hours (4 killed, 37 survived); British ship Astra II was sunk at 0140 hours (5 killed, 20 survived); Swedish ship Alida Gorton was sunk at 0336 hours (11 killed, 13 survived; 20 survivors of Dalblair were also killed); and British ship Empire Moose was sunk at 0427 hours (all 36 survived). 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (with Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens on board) and USS Quincy arrived at Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 Rear Admiral John Downes relieved Rear Admiral William C. Watts as the Commandant of the US Navy Ninth Naval District and as the commanding officer of the US Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois, United States. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 Red Army divisional commanding officer Grigoriy Fyodorovich was executed for deserting his unit in combat during the Winter War. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 Berlin formally apologized to Ireland for bombing Wexford. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 Low clouds and rain in the morning prevented Germans from launching attacks on Britain; reconnaissance flights were mostly left alone by the British. At 1500 hours and 1915 hours, the Germans launched large groups of fighters in an attempt to draw out British fighters, which was initially successfully, but very quickly Air Vice Marshal Keith Park saw through the German attempt and recalled the fighters; only 9 fighters were lost on either side. On this day, RAF leadership decided to stop using Defiant turret fighters as daylight intercepters as they were no match for German fighters. Overnight, German bombers attacked Portsmouth, Tyneside, Hartlepool, Swansea, Manchester, and Liverpool; decoy fires were lit in the countryside to lure German bombing, which were partially successful. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 James Lacey shot down a Bf 109 fighter of German Jagdgeschwader 3 wing over Britain. 
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29 Aug 1940 WW2 The first mass jump by American paratroopers was carried out at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States in front of a high ranking audience with complete success. 
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29 Aug 1941 WW2 Soviet troops evacuated the Karelian Isthmus as Finnish forces retook Viipuri in northern Russia. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 The Red Cross announced that the Japanese refused to allow safe passage for ships bearing supplies for Allied prisoners of war. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Hornet arrived in the South Pacific, replacing damaged USS Enterprise. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Saufley was commissioned into service. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 German submarine U-66 sank US ship Topa Topa 660 miles west of Trinidad at 0237 hours; 25 were killed, 35 survived. British ship City of Cardiff, damaged by German submarine U-566 on 28 Aug 1942, sank from her damage 390 miles west of Porto, Portugal. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine RO-33 damaged Australian troopship Marita in the Gulf of Papua south of Australian Papua at 1200 hours; Australian destroyer HMAS Arunta counterattacked and sank RO-33, killing all 42 aboard. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 8 US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked the Vunakanau airfield near Rabaul, New Britain. Later on the same day, troops of the Japanese 81st Naval Garrison executed six Australians at Rabaul. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 During the day, Japanese 144th Regiment attacked Australian troops at Isurava along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua. To the east, 769 Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops landed at Waga Waga on the coast of Milne Bay; the Japanese cruiser and nine destroyers that covered the landing bombarded the Australian airfield at Gili Gili before returning to Rabaul, New Britain, causing little damage. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Australian Private Bruce Kingsbury armed with a Bren-Gun and grenades, seeing Japanese troops were preparing a fresh attack on the Kokoda Trail in Australian Papua, charged through intensive machine-gun fire to eliminate the enemy's positions, but was then killed by a hidden Japanese sniper as the rest of his patrol (having gained 100 yards of track) were setting up a holding position. For his heroism Private Kingsbury would be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Milne Bay, Australian Papua. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish successfully escaped Japanese destroyers that had detected her presence on the previous day in Caroline Islands area. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 British destroyers HMS Eridge and HMS Aldenham attacked the Axis airfield at El Daba, Egypt. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 An Italian torpedo boat badly damaged British destroyer HMS Eridge 2 miles off the Egyptian coast, kiling 5. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 In Germany, 100 Soviet Pe-8, Il-4, and Yer-2 bombers attacked Berlin while 7 Pe-8 bombers attacked Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 German 4th Panzer Army broke through Soviet lines 15 miles south of Stalingrad, Russia. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Soviet 4th Guards Rifle Corps joined the Soviet 8th Army in the offensive near Leningrad, Russia. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 Before dawn, German bombers attacked the village of Blackhall Colliery in County Durham, England, United Kingdom. On the same day, Swindon and Brighton were also attacked. 
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29 Aug 1942 WW2 HMS Howe was commissioned into service. 
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29 Aug 1943 WW2 The Danish Royal Family was "isolated for their protection" by the Germans as martial law was declared in Denmark. 
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29 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Hoe fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer escort; all torpedoes missed. 
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29 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Tunny completed temporary repairs at sea in the Palau Islands and set sail for home. 
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29 Aug 1943 WW2 Submarine Guitarro was launched, sponsored by the wife of chief of the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Ross T. McIntire. 
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29 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Seahorse attempted to attack a Japanese convoy in the Pacific Ocean, but was counterattacked prior to the launching of torpedoes. She suffered minor damage from depth charges. 
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29 Aug 1943 WW2 USS Wahoo arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Operation Goodwood IV: British carrier aircraft (26 Barracuda dive bombers, 2 Corsair fighters, 3 Hellcat fighters, 25 other fighters) from HMS Formidable and Indefatigable attacked German battleship Tirpitz, scoring several near misses. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Cassin Young screened carriers of Task Group 38.3 as their aircraft struck Palau and Philippine Islands. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 In northern France, British forces attacked Amiens, US forces captured Soissons, and Canadian troops captured Rouen. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 French troops captured Montélimar in southern France. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Slovakians began rising up against Dr. Jozef Tiso's pro-German government. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 11 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and 34 B-24 Liberator bombers attacked Helgoland, Germany, escorted by 169 P-38 Lightning and P-51 Mustang fighters; 3 Liberator bombers were damaged. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 13 P-40 fighters of the 3rd Fighter Group of the Chinese-American Composite Wing attacked Japanese shipping and dock facilities at Shayang, Hubei, China; in the return flight, 21 Japanese fighters intercepted the formation near Jiayu, Hubei, China; 1 Chinese fighter and 7 Japanese fighters were shot down in the engagement. On the same day, 13 Ki-84 fighters of Japanese 22nd Sentai and 16 Ki-43 fighters of Japanese 25th Sentai intercepted a formation of B-24 bombers escorted by P-40 and P-51 fighters of the US 14th Air Force near Yueyang, Hunan, China; 5 American fighters and 2 Japanese fighters were shot down in the engagement. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Slovakian Defense Minister Ferdinand Catlos announced over the radio that German troops had occupied the country. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Slovakian resistance leader Ján Golian ordered the launch of the planned general uprising. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Mios Woendi, Schouten Islands, Dutch East Indies for refueling. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Major General Curtis E. LeMay arrived in India as the newly appointed commander of the US Twentieth Air Force. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Allied forces entered the Foglia Valley on the eastern end of the German Gothic Line in Italy. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Preston departed Eniwetok, Marshall Islands with Task Force 38. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 As of this date, at Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the number of prisoners in the Sonderkommando, the work group created by the Germans to operate the gas chambers and crematoria, was 874. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured the Ploesti oilfields in Romania. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 Irako arrived at Takao (now Kaohsiung), Taiwan; later on the same day she moved to a mooring in the Zuoying District of Takao. 
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29 Aug 1944 WW2 USS Wake Island departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States for Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Carl Pfeifer became the commanding officer of USS Cassin Young. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 Douglas MacArthur was ordered to exercise authority through the Japanese government, thus giving him authority over Emperor Showa. In this capacity, he would oversee the drafting a new constitution, redistribution of land, disbanding monopolistic Zaibatsu firms, among other major initiatives. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 A US B-29 bomber was shot down by the Soviets as it attempted to drop supplies to former POWs. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 The United States stopped drafting citizens for the military. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Charr departed Fremantle, Australia. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 US Army Air Forces returned the control of Xinjin Airfield in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China to the Chinese Air Force. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Finback departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Sunfish departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 US troops made an administrative landing near Tokyo, Japan, starting the occupation. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Missouri entered Tokyo Bay, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 Gregory Boyington was liberated from the Omori Prison Camp in Tokyo, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 USS Segundo halted Japanese submarine I-401 less than 200 miles southeast of Honshu island, Japan and escorted her toward Sagami Wan, Japan. 
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29 Aug 1945 WW2 The Four Power Commission of Prosecutors in London, England, United Kingdom presented the first list of German war criminals to be tried at Nürnberg, Germany. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Nevada was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Pennsylvania was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 New York was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Ralph Talbot was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1946 WW2 Mugford was decommissioned from service. 
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29 Aug 1947 WW2 Salt Lake City was decommissioned from service. 
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