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History on the 15th of September

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15 Sep 1648 RELIGIOUS The Larger and the Shorter Catechisms -- both prepared by the Westminster Assembly the previous year -- were approved by the British Parliament. These two documents have been in regular use among various Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists ever since.
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15 Sep 1770 RELIGIOUS English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'To use the grace given is the certain way to obtain more grace. To use all the faith you have will bring an increase of faith.'
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15 Sep 1853 RELIGIOUS In her home state of New York, Antoinette L. Brown, 28, became pastor of the Congregational church in South Butler -- making her the first woman to be formally ordained to the pastorate in the United States.
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15 Sep 1914 WW2 Creighton Abrams was born. 
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15 Sep 1914 WW2 Lieutenant General Akira Nakamura succeeded Lieutenant General Yasumasa Fukushima as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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15 Sep 1916 WW2 The French submarine Foucault was sunk by an Austrian Löhner flying-boat. 
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15 Sep 1916 WW1 Begin of Battle of Flers-Courcelette
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15 Sep 1920 RELIGIOUS Pope Benedict XV published the encyclical "Spiritus paraclitus," which restated the Catholic position on Scripture: '...the Bible, composed by men inspired of the Holy Ghost, has God himself as its principal author, the individual authors constituted as his live instruments. Their activity, however, ought not be described as automatic writing.'
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15 Sep 1922 WW2 Natori was commissioned into service. 
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15 Sep 1922 WW2 With the capture of Izmir in western Anatolia by Turkish troops, the British and French forces stationed at Chanak further north up the coast, guarding the Dardanelles neutral zone, were threatened with being attacked. The British Cabinet made a decision to hold firm against any Turkish act of aggression. 
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15 Sep 1923 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was made the commanding officer of 1st Expeditionary Fleet. 
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15 Sep 1929 WW2 Asama Maru was commissioned into service. 
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15 Sep 1931 WW2 The Invergordon Mutiny, a mutiny by men of the British Atlantic Fleet in protest against threatened pay cuts, began. 
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15 Sep 1931 WW2 Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Oberführer. 
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15 Sep 1932 WW2 Ambassador Nobuyoshi Muto and Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu signed the Japan-Manchukuo Protocol at the puppet state's capital Xinjing (Changchun, Jilin Province, China). 
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15 Sep 1934 WW2 Algérie was commissioned into service. 
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15 Sep 1935 WW2 The passing of the Nürnberg Laws, National Citizens Law, and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor collectively stripped German Jews of rights. 
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15 Sep 1935 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered the discontinued use of the black-white-red imperial tricolor; only the swastika flag of the Nazi Party was to be used as the national flag. 
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15 Sep 1935 WW2 Italian 1st Submarine Flotilla officially incorporated a unit trained in motored torpedo boat warfare; the new unit was based at La Spezia, Italy. 
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15 Sep 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt ordered the United States Post Office, employers, and labor unions to assist the United States Social Security Administration to distribution SS-4 employer and SS-5 employee application forms for establishing Social Security Numbers. 
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15 Sep 1936 WW2 Submarine Pollack was launched, sponsored by Miss Anne Carter Lauman. 
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15 Sep 1937 WW2 Japanese troops took the town of Luodian near Shanghai after four days of attacks. 
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15 Sep 1938 WW2 Neville Chamberlain visited Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in southern Germany to discuss German demands on Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain expressed his personal approval for Germany's previous demands for Sudetenland, but would need to discuss further with his cabinet and the French. Hitler expressed his appreciation and promised that no military action would be taken. 
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15 Sep 1939 WW2 The first Atlantic convoy set sail from Jamaica for Britain. 
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15 Sep 1939 WW2 Richard O'Connor was Mentioned in Despatches. 
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15 Sep 1939 WW2 Japanese 101st Division under Lieutenant General Masatoshi Saito engaged in Chinese troops near Mount Lianhua near Gao'an, Jiangxi Province, China, capturing the city shortly after. 
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15 Sep 1939 WW2 German troops captured Gdynia, Poland. Meanwhile, Polish troops failed to break out of the Kutno Pocket. At Warsaw, with it surrounded by German troops, the Polish Army was ordered to the Romanian border to hold out until the Allies arrive; the Romanian government offered asylum to all Polish civilians who could make it across the border; Polish military personnel who crossed the border, however, would be interned. In Berlin, Germany, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop asked the Soviet Union for a definite date and time when Soviet forces would attack Poland. 
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15 Sep 1939 WW2 Soviet Union and Japan signed a ceasefire in Moscow, Russia, ending the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 attacked Canadian ship Kenordoc with the deck gun 200 miles northwest of Ireland just after midnight, killing 7 and wounding 13; heavily damaged, she would later be scuttled by Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent and British destroyer HMS Amazon after the destroyers took the survivors aboard. German submarine U-48 sank British sloop HMS Dundee northwest of Ireland at 0025 hours; 12 were killed and 83 were rescued. At 0123 hours, U-48 attacked Greek ship Alexandros with a torpedo, killing 5; 23 survivors were rescued by destroyer HMS Wanderer. At 0300 hours, U-48 yet attacked again, sinking British ship Empire Volunteer; 6 were killed and 33 were rescued. 180 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom at 0605 hours, German submarine U-65 sank Norwegian ship Hird; the entire crew of 30 survived, rescued by Icelandic trawler Þórólfur. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 British Sergeant John Hannah, age 18, of RAF Scampton (today home to the Red Arrows display team) won the Victoria Cross for beating out flames with his bare hands to save his damaged Hampden bomber. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 British RAF attacked German launching points for the invasion of Britain. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft and damaged a Do 17 aircraft and a Ju 88 aircraft over southern England, United Kingdom. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 B5N bombers of Japanese 12th Naval Air Group based in Yichang, Hubei Province, China attacked Chongqing, China. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 Battleship Bismarck departed Hamburg, Germany for the first time. At 1658 hours, while steaming down the Elbe River, she collided with bow tug Atlantik without damage. At 1902, she anchored in Brunsbüttel roads. During the night, she fired 13 10.5cm, 136 3.7 cm, and 191 2cm shells during a British air raid, without any hits. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille scored his fourth kill, a British Hurricane fighter, over southeastern London, England, United Kingdom. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 At 1130 hours, 250 German bombers with fighter escort crossed the English Channel, with 100 of them targeting London, England, United Kingdom. At 1430 hours, another 250 bombers arrived in 2 waves, with 70 of them reaching London. At 1600 and 1800 hours, the aircraft factory at Woolston in Southampton, building Spitfire fighters, was bombed, but with little damage. On this day, 56 German aircraft and 29 British aircraft were shot down; 136 German airmen were killed or captured and 12 British pilots were killed. Overnight, the German Luftwaffe conducted heavy bombing raids over Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Southampton. 
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15 Sep 1940 WW2 James Lacey shot down a German He 111 bomber and three Bf 109 fighters over Britain. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 The 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment was established. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Hirota Tachibana was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Soviet 8th and 42nd Armies clashed with the German XXXXI Armeekorps (mot) southwest of Leningrad Russia on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-94 sank British ship Newbury at 0816 hours (all 45 aboard survived but were never seen again), Greek ship Pegasus at 2038 hours (16 killed after lifeboat capsized, 13 survived), and British ship Empire Eland at 2348 hours (all 38 survived but were never seen again) 800 miles west of Ireland; all three ships were members of Allied convoy ON-14. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 After sundown, British destroyers HMS Napier, HMS Nizam, and HMS Havock set sail from Alexandria, Egypt to the besieged city of Tobruk, Libya with supplies; they would all return to Alexandria in the morning of the next day. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Soviet troops outside of Odessa, Ukraine withdrew southeast toward the city. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was awarded the Ehrenpokal der Luftwaffe goblet. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Jürgen Stroop was transferred out of the infantry regiment of German 3rd SS Division Totenkopf. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Shanghai, China. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 German soldiers were attacked by resistance fighters in Paris, France. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 British bombers attacked the rail station at Hamburg, Germany. 
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15 Sep 1941 WW2 Captain Jisaku Okada was named the commanding officer of Kaga. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-19 sank USS Wasp (3 torpedo hits; 194 were killed, 1,969 survived) in the Coral Sea at 1444 hours; USS North Carolina and USS O'Brien were also damaged in the attack. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Allied forces attacked Jalo, Libya after sun down; the Germans, who had learned of this attack, repulse the initial attack with ease. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese battleships bombarded American positions on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Pringle was commissioned into service. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Soviet destroyers Gremyashchy, Sokrushitelny, Uritsky, and Kuibyshev joined Allied convoy PQ-18. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-514 sank British ship Kioto near the coast of Tobago island at 1517 hours; 20 were killed, 54 survived. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 US bombers from the newly-completed airfield at Adak, Aleutian Islands attacked Japanese positions on Kiska. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-68 sank Dutch ship Breedijk 450 miles northeast of Ascension Island at 0058 hours; 2 were killed, 37 survived. At 0714 hours, U-515 sank Norwegian merchant ship Sørholt 100 miles east of Trinidad; 7 were killed, 31 survived. At 1833 hours, U-517 attacked Allied convoy SQ-36 with 4 torpedoes at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, Canada, sinking Norwegian ship Inger Elisabeth (3 were killed, 23 survived) and Dutch ship Saturnus (1 was killed, 35 survived. German submarine U-261 was attacked and sunk by a British Whitley bomber 100 miles southwest of the Faroe Islands; all aboard were killed. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 At 1130 hours, U-506, U-507, and Italian submarine Cappellini arrived in waters 290 miles northeast of Ascension Island to help U-156 in the rescue of survivors of British troopship Laconia. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain, causing little damage. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Both the Japanese and the Australians brought up reserve units in the engagement at Ioribaiwa Ridge along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua, 25 miles north of Port Moresby. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Helena rescued nearly 400 survivors of sunken USS Wasp in the Solomon Islands. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down four P-40 fighters and three Hurricane fighters between 1651 and 1702 hours southwest of El Alamein, Egypt, bringing his score up to 151 kills. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 12 British Boston bombers attacked Cherbourg, France, sinking whaling factory ship Solglint in the harbor. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Italian frogmen entered Gibraltar harbor and attached limpet mines on British ship Ravens Point, causing her to sink in shallow water shortly after. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 USS Flying Fish arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 General Order No. 4 issued at Ramgarh Training Center in India established a headquarters, a headquarters detachment, an infantry section, an artillery section, and a Chinese language section. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 Vice Admiral Eiji Goto was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 French submarine Junon landed 10 British commandos and 2 Norwegian soldiers at the village of Glomfjord, Norway at 2115 hours. 
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15 Sep 1942 WW2 German infantry made repeated assaults at the Mamayev Kurgan hill in Stalingrad, Russia without success; heavy fighting caused heavy casualties on both sides. Elsewhere in the city, German infantry advanced down the Tsaritsa River gorge toward the Volga River. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 USS S-28 suffered severe smoking and sparking from her port main motor, which took 14 hours to repair. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 Benito Mussolini arrived at Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany after his rescue. While there, he announced the establishment of a new Italian republic to continue the fight against the Allies. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny flew from Munich, Germany to East Prussia, Germany; on the same flight were Ambassador Dörnberg and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 Escort carrier Wake Island was launched, sponsored by the wife of Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 Submarine Pintado was launched, sponsored by Mrs. Antonio Prince. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 The veteran pilots of the German Luftwaffe's JG 51 "Mölders" fighter unit record their 7,000th combat kill. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 The Japanese abandoned Lae, Australian New Guinea. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 B-24 bombers, escorted by Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214, flew a photographic reconnaissance mission over Choiseul, Solomon Islands. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 To combat the growing strength of Allied bombing attacks the Luftwaffe reorganised its air defences into two territorial fighter commands; one in then Reich and the other in western occupied territories. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 A new marine railway for handling destroyers and submarines at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii was completed. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 US airborne troops (325th Glider Infantry Regiment and 3rd Battalion of 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment) arrived near Paestum, Italy by sea. Elsewhere, the German occupation administration of Italy announced the death penalty for any Italians seen with firearms. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Harder attacked a Japanese patrol craft in the Izu Islands, Japan; both torpedoes missed. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. 
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15 Sep 1943 WW2 The keel of Kanalku Bay was laid down by Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, United States. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Operation Paravane: 21 British Lancaster bombers based in Yagodnik, Russia attacked German battleship Tirpitz, scoring two hits on the forecastle and putting her out of action. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 US First Army engaged the Siegfried Line/Westwall east of Aachen, Germany and captured Nancy, France. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Allied troops captured Maastricht and Eysden, the Netherlands. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 US Army troops landed on Morotai, Maluku Islands. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 US Marines landed on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her sixth war patrol in the South China Sea. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Vice Admiral Eiji Goto was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 12th Air Fleet. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Soviet 6th Guard Tank Brigade, 33rd Guard Tank Brigade, and 63rd Guard Tank Brigade were assigned T-44 prototype medium tanks for training purposes. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed a secret agreement, granting Joseph Stalin's demands for Sakhalin Island, Kurile Islands, and a portion of Korea in return for a Soviet declaration of war on Japan. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Marcus Island launched aircraft to provide cover for the Peleliu, Palau Islands invasion. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Preston supported the invasion of Palau Islands. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wasp supported the Palau Islands invasion from the position 80 kilometers off Morotai, Maluku Islands. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 The firm Heinkel was given the contract to produce the simple, lightweight, and easy to operate jet fighters that the German Air Ministry requested seven days prior. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Indian 4th Division drove out German 98th Division and captured Gemmano, Italy. To the north, British 56th Division captured Corce. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Nachi received 2 twin-mount and 20 single-mount Type 96 25-millimeter anti-aircraft guns at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Miami operated off the Philippine Islands in indirect support of the Palau Islands campaign. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Prisoners Edward Galinski and Mala Zimetbaum were executed at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland for their attempted escape from Auschwitz II–Birkenau in Jun 1944. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 The GUKR SMERSH completed a list of Japanese intelligence personnel and Russian émigré living in northeastern China for arrests when Soviet troops invaded the region. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-60 departed Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. 
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15 Sep 1944 WW2 Soviet 17th Air Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front began a six-day campaign attacking railroad bridges near Niš, Skopje, Kruševo and other towns in southern Yugoslavia of transportation importance to isolate German troops in southern Yugoslavia and nothern Greece. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 General Hatazo Adachi surrendered the remnants of his 18th Army to the Australians near Wewak in New Guinea. Of his original force of 100,000 men, only 13,000 survived, sick and half starved after being abandoned without supplies for months. Adachi was so weak that he had to be carried to the surrender table. Later sentenced to death for war crimes against prisoners of war and natives, he cheated the hangman by committing suicide in 1947. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 The British published a captured Gestapo "death list" of 2,300 British and Allied figures should Germany had won the war. It included Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Neville Chamberlain, Lady Astor, Lord Baden-Powell, Noel Coward, Sigmund Freud, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Jacob Epstein, most newspaper proprietors and editors and the leaders of the French, Polish and Czech governments in exile. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 was removed from the Japanese Navy List. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 HMS Activity departed Singapore for Trincomalee, Ceylon with former prisoners of war on board. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 Elements of the USAAF 49th Fighter Group was assigned to Atsugi Airfield in Japan. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 American Manhattan Project physicist Harry Daghlian, Jr., after receiving a fatal dose of radiation during an accident on 21 Aug, died from radiation poisoning in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. 
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15 Sep 1945 WW2 Joseph Rochefort requested sea duty, listing service aboard a cruiser as his preference. 
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15 Sep 1966 RELIGIOUS The American Bible Society published the New Testament of its "Today's English Version" (TEV), otherwise known as "Good News for Modern Man." It marked the end of a two-year effort led by chief translator, Robert G. Bratcher. (The complete Good News Bible was published in 1976.)
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