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History on the 12th of September

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12 Sep 1771 RELIGIOUS Pioneer Methodist bishop Francis Asbury, 26, on his maiden voyage to America, wrote in his journal: 'Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No, I am going to live to God, and to bring others to do so.'
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12 Sep 1851 RELIGIOUS Birth of Francis E. Clark, American Congregationalist clergyman. In 1881, at age 29, Clark organized the world's first church "youth fellowship" in Portland, Maine. Clark's original name for this Christian group concept was "The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor."
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12 Sep 1908 RELIGIOUS The Bible-distributing mission agency known as the Pocket Testament League was incorporated in Birmingham, England. (The U.S. branch of this outreach is headquartered in Lititz, PA.)
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12 Sep 1911 WW2 Haiqi departed New York, New York, United States with US Navy officer George Cooper on board, arriving in Washington DC, United States later on this date. 
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12 Sep 1914 WW2 Australian troops captured the town of Rabaul, Bismarck Islands. 
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12 Sep 1914 WW1 Begin of First Battle of the Aisne
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12 Sep 1917 WW2 In Paris, Paul Painlevé replaced Alexandre Ribot as Prime Minister of France. 
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12 Sep 1918 WW1 Begin of Battle of Havrincourt
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12 Sep 1922 RELIGIOUS The House of Bishops of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church voted 36-27 to delete the word "obey" from the vows of their denomination's official marriage service.
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12 Sep 1932 WW2 A new session of the German Reichstag began with Hermann Göring as its president. German Chancellor Franz von Papen attempted to issue the order to dissolve the Reichstag, but Göring pretended to not see him, and instead conducted a vote that effectively made Papen's order to dissolve the Reichstag useless. 
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12 Sep 1933 WW2 Godfrey Huggins became the prime minister of British Southern Rhodesia. He would hold the position for twenty years making him the longest serving Prime Minister in Commonwealth history. 
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12 Sep 1934 WW2 The prototype of Gloster Gladiator (K5200), the RAFs last biplane fighter, took flight for the first time. 
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12 Sep 1935 WW2 HMS Hermes departed Weihai, Shandong Province, China, a British leased territory. 
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12 Sep 1936 WW2 The AT-2/Ki-34 aircraft took its first flight. 
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12 Sep 1937 WW2 China requested League of Nations intervention with Japanese invasion. 
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12 Sep 1938 WW2 On the closing date of the annual Nürnberg, Germany rally, Adolf Hitler spoke of striving for justice for Sudeten Germans. In France, General Maurice Gamelin reported to Prime Minister Édouard Daladier noting that the French military could easily overwhelm German defenses should France respond militarily to any German threats on Czechoslovakia. 
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12 Sep 1938 WW2 Germany forbade Jews from attending public cultural events. 
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12 Sep 1939 WW2 Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier convened an Anglo-French Supreme War Council, during which the French called off their offensive in the Saar region after an advance of only five miles. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 Hungary completed the occupation of Northern Transylvania, Maramures, and part of Crisana; these were territory Germany and Italy forced Romania to cede. Meanwhile, the Germans established a military mission in Bucharest, ostensibly to train the Romanian Army, but the intended goal was to safeguard the Romanian oil fields. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 After refueling at Casablanca overnight, three of the six French warships (the three cruisers) departed at 0400 hours, sailing full speed for Dakar in French West Africa. Behind them, HMS Renown's group, now with six destroyers in escort, chased in an attempt to intercept. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 The Italian 10th Army advanced slowly toward the Libyan-Egyptian border. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin intercepted British ship Benavon 330 miles east of Madagascar. Benavon resisted with her 4-inch gun, but her inexperienced gun crew failed to fit the shell with fuse caps, thus one of the shells that hit Pinguin right next to the magazine failed to detonate. Pinguin returned fire. After 24 deaths, the remaining 25 members of Benavon's crew surrendered. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 In a report to his superiors dated this day regarding German aerial attacks on Britain, Keith Park wrote "confidence is felt in our ability to hold the enemy by day and to prevent his attaining superiority in the air over our territory, unless he greatly increases the scale or intensity of his attacks." 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 The German Navy noted that British naval shelling and air bombing were significantly undermining the German efforts to gather naval forces for the planned invasion of Britain. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 Bad weather restricted German activity to small reconnaissance flights over Britain during the day. Overnight, 50 bombers attacked London, England, United Kingdom. St. Paul's Cathedral was hit by a bomb which failed to detonate; Royal Engineers Lieutenant R. Davies and Sapper J. Wylie were later awarded the George Cross for defusing this bomb. On this night when two of the German bombers were shot down, London searchlight and anti-aircraft gun crews attempted to improve their coordination. 
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12 Sep 1940 WW2 Lieutenant Robert Davies' company of the British Royal Engineers successfully removed an unexploded one-ton bomb from the southwestern corner of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England, United Kingdom and then brought it to the countryside to detonate it. Davies and fellow sapper George Wylie were awarded the George Cross medals. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 United States Coast Guard cutters intercepted and boarded Norwegian trawler Buskoe in Mackenzie Bay, Greenland; the trawler was operated by Germans, attempting to establish weather stations in the North Atlantic. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 German troops reported the first snowfall on the Russian front. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 The daily bread ration in Leningrad, Russia was cut to 500 grams for manual workers and 300 grams for office workers and children under 12. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 In Operation EGV2, British Albacore aircraft of carrier HMS Victorious damaged the Glomfjord hydroelectric power plant and the ships at anchor at Bodo in Norway. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 Three Allied corvettes (British HMS Gladiolus, Canadian HCMS Wetaskiwin, and Free French Mimosa) and eight destroyers (British HMS Douglas, British HMS Veteran, British HMS Leamington, British HMS Saladin, British HMS Skate, American USS Sims, American USS Russell, and American USS Charles F. Hughes) added to Allied convoy SC-42's escort force. In the air, British Catalina aircraft also appeared to provide protection during the day. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 Axis troops launched a renewed offensive against Odessa, Ukraine. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 993 adult male, 1,670 adult female, and 771 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 3,334 people. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 Nadejda Russo was awarded the Gold Cross of the Order of Aeronautical Virtue with Swords. 
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12 Sep 1941 WW2 British Air Vice-Marshal G. R. Bromet was appointed Air Officer Commanding, No. 19 Group RAF with the primary task of attacking surfaced German submarines in the Bay of Biscay. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Kavieng. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 The 7th Marine Regiment and elements of the 5th Defense Battalion arrived at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides from Samoa. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 German troops in the Caucasus region of southern Russia reported the first snow of the winter. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Captain Matsuro Eguchi was named the commanding officer of repair ship Akashi. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Major General Allan Adair assumed command of the British Guards Armoured Division, which he would command throughout the remainder of the war. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 German aircraft re-established contact with Allied convoy PQ-18 at 1320 hours. At 2100 hours, German submarine U-88 attacked PQ-18 400 miles north of Norway; U-18 was instead counterattacked and sunk by depth charges from British destroyer HMS Faulknor, killing all 46 aboard. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine S-13 sank Finnish ship Jussi in the southern end of the Gulf of Bothnia near the Åland Islands at 0348 hours; 6 survived. Also in the Gulf of Bothnia, Soviet submarine ShCh-309 sank Finnish ship Bonden. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 British submarine HMS Sahib sank Italian fishing boat Ina S. with gunfire 8 miles off Sardinia, Italy. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarines attacked Allied convoy ON-127 750 miles east of Newfoundland; U-211 damaged British whale factory ship Hektoria (1 was killed) and British ship Empire Moonbeam (3 were killed) at 0105 hours; U-608 sank Hektoria at 0351 hours and sank Empire Moonbeam at 0459 hours; U-404 damaged Norwegian tanker Daghild at 0617 hours; counterattacks by escorting vessels damaged U-218 and U-380, forcing them to return to France for repairs. In the South Atlantic, U-68 sank British merchant ship Trevilley 750 miles southwest of Gold Coast, British West Africa at 0332 hours; 2 were killed, 53 survived. U-515 sank Panamanian tanker Stanvac Melbourne (at 1000 hours; 1 was killed, 48 survived) and Dutch tanker Woensdrecht (at 1041 hours; 1 was killed, 73 survived) 40 miles east of Trinidad. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 At 2207 hours, U-156 sank British troopship Laconia 290 miles northeast of Ascension Island; U-156 surfaced and rescued 200 of the 2,741 aboard, most of whom were Italian prisoners of war, which was a surprise for U-156's commanding officer Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Matome Ugaki observed activities of the personnel of the headquarters of the Japanese 11th Air Fleet at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Rabaul, New Britain. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 During the day, USS Wasp delivered aircraft to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. After dark, the three-day Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal began as 6,200 Japanese troops attacked positions held by 12,500 Americans; faulty Japanese intelligence reported that the American strength was only about 2,000. The Japanese attack was supported in the air by aircraft and from the sea by cruiser Sentai and three destroyers. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise departed Tongatapu, Tonga for Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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12 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet 62nd Army at Stalingrad, Russia had been reduced to 90 tanks, 700 mortars and 20,000 men. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Cassin Young was launched. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler missed a chance to end the war in the Soviet Union when he refused to allow Ribbentrop to travel to Stockholm to meet with Soviet Minister Vladimir Dekanov who was willing to negotiate. On the same day, the last of the German armies which took part in the drive to the Caucasus retreated to the Crimea. In total 240,000 troops, 16,000 wounded and 27,000 civilians were evacuated along with 75,000 horses and vast numbers of vehicles and supplies. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Snook fired 6 torpedoes at a Japanese transport; all torpedoes missed. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Pompon departed Brisbane, Australia for her second war patrol. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established the 2nd Raider Regiment (Provisional) to control the 2nd and 3rd Raider Battalions during the Bougainville operation in the Solomon Islands. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 Irako departed Truk, Caroline Islands with minelayer Tsugaru and destroyer Hamakaze in escort. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka departed Truk, Caroline Islands, escorting oiler Shiretoko and damaged aircraft transport Fujikawa Maru. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Cabrilla departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Finback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her sixth war patrol. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Grayback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 German Luftwaffe and SS personnel rescued Mussolini from Gran Sasso, Italy. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 British X Corps near Salerno, Italy shifted into a defensive stance. Elsewhere in Italy, Bernard Montgomery's British XIII Corps reached Castrovillari and Belvedere, 130 kilometers south of Salerno. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 Several German troops were killed by resistance fighters in Naples, Italy while 4,000 Italians were deported from the Naples region (many of whom would become forced laborers). On the same day, Colonel Walter Schöll took command of the military occupation of Naples. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 Junio Valerio Borghese successfully negotiated with local German authority to avoid arrest; his Italian 10th MAS Flotilla was to be attached to the German Navy. Half of the flotilla, about 200 men, dissented and were sent on leave. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Permit attacked a Japanese convoy west of the Marshall Islands, sinking 2 transports and damaging an oiler; 10 torpedoes were expended during the attack. The pursuit would continue into the next day. 
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12 Sep 1943 WW2 Orde Wingate departed Lisbon, Portugal for Cairo, Egypt. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 The German garrison at Le Havre, France surrendered only after bitter fighting. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 German garrisons evacuated Greek islands in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Brisbane, Australia, ending her eleventh war patrol. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 The US coastal minesweeper YMS-409 foundered and sank off the east coast of the United States during a storm. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Edward Brooks was relieved as the commanding officer of the US 2nd Armored Division and was placed in charge on a temporary basis over the US V Corps. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island launched aircraft against Japanese positions on Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau Islands. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Two separate groups of the 5th Fighter Group of the Chinese-American Composite Wing engaged Japanese aircraft over Hunan Province, China. Several fighters on either side were lost. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Carl Spaatz ordered large raids on German synthetic oil plants, dispatching 888 aircraft; the German Luftwaffe lost heavily in air battles. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Yolande Beekman was transferred out of her prison in Karlsruhe, Germany. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Yolande Beekman arrived at Dauchau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 In the Apennine Mountains, US 5th Army launched a major offensive against the German Gothic Line in Italy. To the east, Canadian 5th Armoured Division and British 1st Armoured Division attacked Coriano, Italy. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Alabama escorted US carriers as carrier aircraft began attacking Japanese positions in the Philippine Islands. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Miami operated off the Philippine Islands in indirect support of the Palau Islands campaign. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions in central Philippine Islands. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 German and Hungarian troops launched an offensive towards Arad and Timisoara, Romania. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 An armistice was signed between Romania and the Soviet Union. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of Suvorov 1st Class for the second time. 
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12 Sep 1944 WW2 One of the four German V-2 rockets launched on this date hit Chrysler vehicle works in Mortlake Road, Kew, southwestern London, England, United Kingdom. 8 were killed, 14 were wounded, and property damage was significant. 
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12 Sep 1945 WW2 British rule was officially re-established in Singapore; British troops had already returned to the island on 5 Sep 1945. 
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12 Sep 1945 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki surrendered Japanese forces in Southeast Asia to British Admiral Louis Mountbatten in Singapore. 
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12 Sep 1945 WW2 Hajime Sugiyama committed suicide by shooting himself four times in the chest with a revolver in his office in Tokyo, Japan. His wife also killed herself. 
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12 Sep 1945 WW2 The personnel of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 held a reunion at Naval Air Station Alameda in California, United States, where the recently liberated prisoner of war Gregory Boyington would see his former squadron mates for the first time since he became captured. The Chance Vought corporation paid for the dinner at the nearby St. Francis Hotel. 
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12 Sep 1946 WW2 USS Brill departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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12 Sep 1958 RELIGIOUS In Canada, a two-day church convention closed in Winnipeg, Ontario. At this assembly the Lutheran Church of Canada (LCC) was organized.
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